Ninja Theory announced today that it will no longer be updating Bleeding Edge with new content, though the game will remain playable on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
Hawkeye was the first post-launch hero revealed for Marvel's Avengers, and Bishop's Operation saw her embark on a rescue mission for Clint "Hawkeye" Barton by using a bridge through time to save him.
Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics had planned on having the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S version ready earlier, but they were delayed "to ensure that we give our team the time to deliver a next-gen experience showcasing all that this game is meant to be."
Although a report came out last year that said Marvel's Avengers hadn't yet recouped its development costs, these updates, as well as the upcoming PlayStation exclusive Spider-Man DLC, will hopefully help make 2021 a successful one for the game.
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Dragon Quest Tact, the strategic mobile monster battler from Square Enix, is now available worldwide for Android and iOS devices after amassing over 10 million free downloads since its July 2020 debut in Japan.
Introducing a new form of grid-based combat to the long-running RPG franchise, Dragon Quest Tact challenges players to recruit, train, and customize a roster of iconic monsters from across the series’ many instalments. To celebrate the worldwide launch of this tactical RPG, Square Enix is offering a free King Slime for a limited time to bolster players’ starting line-up with a touch of regal class and power.
From the series’ signature adorable Slimes, Sabrecubs, and stalwart Golems to the fiercer Hybirds, Killing Machines, and fire-flinging Dragonlords every monster has a place as players battle to save the world of Orchesterra from the machinations of the dark lord.
[youtube clip_id="TS9tOk7Y00w"]With simple controls and a tactical grid-based battlefield view, players can orchestrate the movements and attacks of their team of monsters to outwit foes and overcome challenges. Assembling a team of monsters with complementary abilities is key, with a mix of single-target, area-of-effect, and status imbuing powers necessary to succeed.
Ninja Theory has confirmed that there will be no new updates for the 4v4 multiplayer game, Bleeding Edge. While the online title will still be playable on Xbox and PC, it will not be further supported with additional content.
The studio took to the game's official Twitter account to break the news and thank players for enjoying its online experience. "With the studio now focuses on our new projects (Senua's Saga, Project Mara and The Insight Project), we have decided that there will be no further content updates for Bleeding edge," reads the below tweet. The studio continued, saying "The game will still be playable on Xbox and PC. Thank you to the fans and keep teaming up and causing chaos!"
With the studio now focusing on our new projects (Senua’s Saga, Project Mara & The Insight Project) we have decided that there will be no further content updates for Bleeding Edge. The game is still playable on Xbox and PC. Thank you to the fans & keep teaming up & causing chaos!
UnderMine was one of 2020’s best hidden gems, and now Nintendo fans get to unearth its goodness when it comes to Switch on February 11. The game originally launched for Xbox One (via Game Pass) and PC last August.
Switch players can pick up UnderMine for $19.99. UnderMine comes from the two-man team at Thorium Entertainment, and puts players in the role of miners who must dig below the earth in search of riches, resources, and colorful characters, all in the name of serving your kingdom. The presentation and design evokes classic Legend of Zelda with a top-down perspective and dungeon-style layout for each floor. That includes bombing weak walls, finding keys, and solving puzzles.
Treasures and dangers increase as players get deeper, which includes facing challenging bosses. When players bite the dust, they return to the service with a new, randomly generated miner, and retain only a portion of their collected loot. Thus, the cycle becomes trying to gather as much valuables as possible each run in order to unlock permanent upgrades back on the surface to help make subsequent digs easier.
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Any gamers out there enjoy playing the hero but want to see how the other side lives? Evil Genius 2: World Domination will be sinking its evil teeth into your PC on March 30. You will be able to find the game on Steam, so get wishlisting today to make sure you can live out your evil intentions. If you so choose.
The new Evil Genius 2: World Domination trailer gives a focus on all the lair building you will be doing to give your specific brand of evil just the right look for the occasion. Lairs are important for when those ruinous do-gooders come to spoil a perfect plan for either World Domination (like the title, get it?) or just to make a little money (billions).
Evil Genius 2: World Domination allows for the choice between four evil geniuses. Though seeing as one is a definite copy of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the choice sort of makes itself. Who doesn’t want to be the one dangling James Bond over a pit of crocodiles or trying to laser him in half?
You can take a look at all the evil and the genius in the trailer here and below:
It’s been a week since the Clear Skies event in Borderlands 3’s Arms Race started and it’s time for it to switch over. Hope the looting was good, as this event reverts back to the original Murdercane pattern. This new event is called Extra Extra Extraction.
During the Extra Extra Extraction mini-event, all extraction stations will have additional slots so you can extract more gear! In addition, Air Drops will have a greatly increased chance to drop DAHL chests, which are more likely to contain Arms Race-exclusive gear.
During the Clear Skies mini-event, all enemies will have a chance to drop better loot and the Murdercane’s circle will take longer to close in so you have precious extra time to scavenge and explore.
Arms Race, for those who might have already finished with Borderlands 3 by now without going back for all this additional DLC, is a whole new mode to the game.
In Arms Race, players are dropped into a map with no gear or character skills. You are simply whatever level you are with your appropriate amount of health. Players must kill enemies and loot chests to obtain gear to carry them to the final boss. Certain chests are locked behind gates that require clearing a couple waves of enemies, but the rest are randomly located.
The Murdercane works just like the storm in any popular Battle Royale you can name, it is a moving circle that shrinks the map’s playable area. This sounds daunting, but the biggest danger in Arms Race is not finding a shield fast enough.
Today Ninja Theory announced that content updates for its multiplayer combat game Bleeding Edge will cease.
The announcement was made on the game’s official Twitter account, with the caveat that the game will remain playable on Xbox and PC for the time being.
According to the announcement, the developer intends to focus on its new projects including Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Project Mara, and The Insight Project.
Following up on the announcement of its latest financial results, Capcom hosted a presentation and published its slides with more information.
First of all, we learn that the impact of COVID-19 on business and development is currently identified as “negligible.”
On top of that, Capcom also mentioned that currently there has been “limited impact” from the data security breach that happened back in November 2020 on the quarter’s business results, but the company is still investigating the scope of the damage. Internal systems have been largely restored.
We learn that shipments of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne have now passed 7.2 million units (as of Dec 31. 2020), while Resident EVil 3 is now at 3.6 million units.
Interestingly, Capcom is not shying away from its arcade operation as it plans to open a new store (reaching a total of 41) and closed none, despite expecting a 19% year-on-year drop in sales.
We also get updates for shipments of various franchises.
It’ll certainly be interesting to see how Monster Hunter Rise and Resident Evil Village will impact those sales over the next few months.
Kotobukiya's opened orders for its Pokemon Sword & Shield Gloria figure. She comes with Sobble! (We love you too, Grookey and Scorbunny.)
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Tokyo Ghoul creator Sui Ishida's shonen opera-themed otome game, Jack Jeanne, has a new demo on the Japanese Nintendo eShop.
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Support for Bleeding Edge is being pulled in favor of work on games like Hellblade 2: Senua’s Saga.
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Blazing Rangers is a new game from developer Karu_gamo for the NES and Famicom. Put out fires and save kids alone or with a friend.
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It's been just under a year since Hellblade developer Ninja Theory released its team-based multiplayer effort Bleeding Edge, but already the studio is calling time on development, announcing there'll no more content updates as of today.
Released last March on Xbox One and PC, Bleeding Edge was pitched as raucous blend of third-person melee action and class-based 4v4 multiplayer, and it successfully laid a solid, if rather bare-bones, foundation at launch. As Eurogamer's Wesley Yin-Poole put it in his review, "The combat is just about good enough to get away with it for now, but without some meaningful updates I'll probably lose interest sooner rather than later."
Those updates did come, but only sporadically, with Bleeding Edge's last major addition arriving in the form of new character Azrael last July. A quick glance at SteamCharts shows concurrents tumbling since then, with player counts barely squeaking above 30 in the last few months. If that trend is reflected elsewhere, it's understandable why Ninja Theory would opt to pull the plug on further content updates.
CD Projekt RED promised a major patch for Cyberpunk 2077 in January and the studio duly delivered, with version 1.10 promising a slew of bug fixes, stability improvements and - for PlayStation 4 at least - the promise of actual performance upgrades. And this is crucial because we have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that crashes can be rectified and glitches removed, but the fundamental issue is this: does last-gen hardware have the horsepower to deliver a consistent level of performance that's much closer to the target 30fps? Performance analysis of version 1.10 gives us optimism in some respects, but there's still a mountain to climb.
Of course, version 1.10 has since been updated with patch 1.11, which essentially delivers a hotfix update to correct a couple of bugs, but the main optimisation and stability push introduced memory management improvements, and addressed a large array of bugs. What's curious are the platform-specific optimisations: there's talk of crowd optimisation for PS4 Pro and PlayStation 5, but surely the base PS4 should improve too? And why wouldn't these optimisations also improve the situation for Xbox One users. For its part, the Microsoft platform saw memory management changes, specifically around character creation, mirrors, camera scanning and much more.
UPDATE 29/01/21: Well, it's now official: Sega has waved goodbye to Roger Craig Smith, who voiced Sonic the Hedgehog for over 10 years.
In a farewell post on Twitter, Sega said Smith had been an "integral part of the Sega family".
"He brought the voice of Sonic to life, and we are forever grateful for his never-ending enthusiasm in helping the community and spreading joy," the publisher added.
In the latest leg of the GameStock saga, a number of apps used by the general public to trade stock in public companies have blocked the ability to buy some share ...
Publisher City Connection continues on its quest to bring developer Psikyo string of shmup classics to the PC platform. Next on the agenda is colorful hybrid title Gunbarich, which first launched in Japanese arcades back in 2001.
Combining the gameplay mechanics of a vertical shmup, a Breakout clone, and even a little bit of pinball, Gunbarich has players control one of cute selection of avatars, batting a day-glo pink puck back and forth against walls, enemies, and their projectiles. In fact, you can even reflect enemy bullets back at your oppressors for maximum damage. Turn the tables, yo.
As with all previous City Connection re-releases, Gunbarich will feature all of the arcade's original dipswitch options, along with a range of visual filters and orientation settings, allowing players to customize Gunbarich's speed, difficulty and visual design to their pleasure. Gunbarich will launch on PC February 11.
If you had told me Bleeding Edge would still be around in January 2021, I'm not sure I would've been able to picture it. Ninja Theory isn't delisting Bleeding Edge yet – a move that seems plausible given its failure to resonate with a big-enough audience – but the team is done releasing content updates for the game.
The only-a-matter-of-time news was shared today on Twitter.
With the studio now focusing on our new projects (Senuaâs Saga, Project Mara & The Insight Project) we have decided that there will be no further content updates for Bleeding Edge. The game is still playable on Xbox and PC. Thank you to the fans & keep teaming up & causing chaos!
— Bleeding Edge (@BleedingEdgeNT) January 28, 2021
Bleeding Edge has redeeming qualities – it's clear the developers genuinely tried – but better games have failed to make a splash in the tricky modern-day multiplayer space, and it doesn't make sense to fight this uphill battle. Not every game can turn it around post-launch, and not every game should.
I'm glad Ninja Theory is in a position to take the hit on Bleeding Edge and move on undeterred with a mix of familiar (Hellblade II) and new (Project Mara). I'd hate to lose this studio to a botched PvP game.
Dontnod Entertainment, the studio behind titles such as Life is Strange, Vampyr, and Twin Mirror, has announced that it has sold a minority stake to Chinese conglomerate Tencent.
The French developer agreed to the Tencent investment as part of its ongoing efforts to becoming financially secure enough to self-publish its future releases. Tencent's stake equates to something in the region of €30 EUR (roughly $36 million USD) toward Dontnod's capital. In return, Tencent receives a chair on the studio's board of directors.
"We are delighted to welcome Tencent as a Dontnod investor," said Dontnod CEO Oskar Guilbert. "Through this partnership, Dontnod is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the various growth drivers in the video game industry, in particular in China and on mobile platforms[...] The capital increase announced today will enable us to step up and boost the roll-out of our development plan, which aims to capture more value from our original creations by self-publishing more games."
This is only the latest industry move by Tencent this week, as mere days ago it was announced that the multimedia corporation had purchased a majority stake in another relatively small studio, Klei Entertainment. It should be clarified that the two deals are very different in scale, with the Dontnod transaction more of a company investment, and not anything close to a studio purchase.
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A whole buncha people are about to enter a Kiryu state of mind, and that warms my heart like a toasty towel fresh out of the dryer. At last, Sega has released The Yakuza Remastered Collection on Steam and Xbox One – the three-game bundle costs $40, or you could stick with Xbox Game Pass if you have it.
You can also buy the 1080p/60fps remasters of Yakuza 3, Yakuza 4, and Yakuza 5 separately if you wish, but you'll lose out on some savings in the process. The games are $20 a pop if you go that route.
You may not be in a spot to play these three titles yet, but even just knowing you'll have the chance to check them out on your platform of choice is encouraging. It's important for the mainline series to be available all in one place (and I'm hoping some of the spin-off games will resurface in the future).
I have the PS4 edition of The Yakuza Remastered Collection, and I'm waiting for the right moment to feverishly play through them back-to-back. I bounce from hibernation to intense obsession.
Sega has announced that its excellent and addictive release Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 is headed to PC in the coming months. Following its recent release on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch platforms, the hybrid puzzle title will be available to purchase via Steam on March 23.
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, for those less inclined, combines the action of both the Puyo Puyo and Tetris franchise for a fast-moving, quick-changing, and breathless strategy experience. The sequel is packed out with features and modes for both single and multiplayer participants, including a character-driven story mode, new boss raids, and various challenges for even the most hardened Puyo Puyo Tetris fanatic.
The PC release will feature all of the content from the console version including the recent addition of Sega's own Sonic the Hedgehog as a playable character. If you're new to the franchise, don't sweat it, as Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 includes a deep tutorial and trial mode to get you in the brick and blob droppin' action. It's a great game, well worth checking out if you're yet to take the plunge.
Modern fighting games are often decried for what’s called “comeback mechanics,” which are thought to be absent from the more “honest” classic fighters. But those complaints ignore that the genre has always been (and I say this with all the love and respect in my heart) full of bullshit. Case in point: 1996’s Street…
My partner and I spent $1000 on a game yesterday. We didn’t spend it on Pokémon cards, or Fortnite V-bucks, or decide to become whales in Genshin Impact. But, at my insistence, we combined some funds, downloaded the Robinhood trading app, and bought some stock.
Crystal Dynamics announced that the next War Table video for Marvel’s Avengers goes live February 16. The event will be all about Hawkeye, more specifically Clint Barton. The studio also teased some sort of update about the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions of the game, which had previously been delayed.
America’s most popular sporting spectacle airs early next month. And while football fans everywhere will be preparing for the monumental clash between Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV, Rocket League players are getting their own chance to run (or, in this case, drive) to daylight.
The upcoming Super Bowl LV Celebration is an in-game event where Rocket League players can live out their football fantasies in small teams while still playing within the confines of the popular video game’s quirky ruleset and mechanics. The new game mode coming alongside the Celebration is called Gridiron. A recent post on the Official PlayStation Blog goes into detail on how Gridiron is played but you can also read the list of rules below:
