This past April, Sony backed down from closing the PS3 and Vita digital storefronts amid a public outcry from fans and retro enthusiasts. Instead, Sony announced it would only move forward with its plan to end the sale of digital PSP games. Or so everyone thought. According to a notice recently posted on the…
Life as a Dragon Age fan is hard sometimes, but necessary. Today on Twitter, BioWare wrote that it won’t be showing off anything from Dragon Age or Mass Effect during the EA Play event later this month.
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Today during the SWTOR live stream, Bioware and Star Wars announced the next expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic, titled Legacy of the Sith. This new story is set to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the game by introducing plenty of new mechanics, features, and quality-of-life updates.
What exactly those new updates would be isn’t specifically mentioned, but there was a bit more clarification provided on what changes Star Wars fans should look out for on their official website. We’ve listed the statement for you below.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is turning 10 — and to the dark side.
BioWare announced today that it will begin a period of celebration for the 10th anniversary of SWTOR with Legacy of the Sith, a major expansion that will kick off an exciting new time for the critically-acclaimed MMORPG. Legacy of the Sith will continue the game’s storyline, sending players on a military campaign to secure the aquatic planet Manaan for their faction as they uncover the ultimate plan of Darth Malgus, the renegade Sith.
The expansion also introduces redesigned combat styles, a new feature that blends class abilities and an array of quality-of-life upgrades. Combat styles will allow players to independently choose a specific class story and combine it with ability sets from other related tech or Force-wielding classes. New and old players alike can look forward to revamped character-creation system, featuring greater customization than ever before. And several game elements have been overhauled, including global rebalancing of gameplay and enemy encounters, updates to itemization, and character loadouts.
Last month, four members of Faze Clan—Kay, Jarvis, Nikan and Teeqo—were in the Fuck Around stage of an incredibly shady cryptocurrency operation. Today, they are very much in the Find Out stage.
The PlayStation logo, as seen as part of the PS1's boot sequence, never moves. And so I have spent the last 25 years simply assuming it was never meant to.
The Wall Street Journal has published a glowing, lengthy feature on a 16 year-old kid who has spent the last 18 months buying then selling things on the internet, with particular focus on “elusive” video game consoles like the PlayStation 5.
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While Xbox’s upcoming sneaker collaboration with Adidas looks like shit, Microsoft have also worked with Nike to release something else, something a bit bigger that goes beyond sneakers to also include some rather nice video game hardware as well.
Today Mages released a new trailer of its upcoming visual novel SINce Memories: Seiten No Shita De, also announcing a small delay.
The game will release in Japan on September 16, 2021 as opposed to the previously announced date August 26, for PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
The trailer showcases the opening cutscene that also serves to introduce the cast. We also hear the theme song “Hita to Kage no Laplace” (Laplace of Light and Darkness) performed by Asaka and composed by Mages president Chiyomaru Shikura himself.
Below you can enjoy the trailer, the box art for both platform, a few screenshots, and the artwork that will be used on retailer-specific physical bonuses.
Hello! All this week Eurogamer has been celebrating Pride with a series of stories examining the confluence of LGBT+ communities and play in its many different forms, from video games and tabletop games through to live-action role-play. Today, for the last of this year's Pride Week features, Eli Cugini explores the way trans creators have embraced Twine interactive fiction.
Last summer, I read a tweet telling me that Ronald Reagan can use they/them pronouns for you while ordering you to do war crimes in the new Call of Duty. This was, of course, a boon for me, seeing as the only thing keeping me from a £59.99-with-microtransactions, time-to-shoot-some-commies FPS was the lack of gender-neutral options.
Jokes aside, as a gay who has played a lot of games by straight people, including straight people who think they can write convincing lesbians, I've been thinking a lot about this kind of surface-level representation. Honestly, Cyberpunk and COD can put in cosmetic trans options if they like, but I don't really care. If I want to play a triple-A game in a trans or lesbianiacal fashion, I can probably make up a better way to do so than the developers can.
BioWare will not be part of the upcoming EA Play Live, meaning no news on either the next Dragon Age or Mass Effect.
Instead, the 40-minute event will focus on Battlefield 2042, Apex Legends and Lost in Random (the next game from Fe developer Zoink), among others.
An earlier report suggested EA will announce its upcoming, under-wraps Dead Space revival there too.
Mario Kart Live Home Circuit, the curious and enjoyable AR-offshoot for Nintendo's much-loved racing series that first released in October last year, has just got a substantial new update that introduces a whole new cup and various other elements.
The 1.1.0 update, which went live yesterday, introduces the all-new Mario Cup, and upon its completion you're given access to new environments and gates to use in your course creations. There's also new kart elements, with 'Super Yoshi' and 'Yoshi Horn' up for grabs.
Mario Kart Live Home Circuit was the work of Velan Studios, who've gone on to find further success with this year's Knockout City. Home Circuit wasn't without its limitations, but it was still a fascinating and frequently charming thing. "A neatly crafted gizmo, and a fresh reminder that Nintendo remains a toymaker at heart," we wrote in our Mario Kart Live Home Circuit review.
Once upon a time, these houses used to be homes. Inside, jars and flatware line the open shelves, and books sit unopened on kitchen tables next to empty fireplaces. There are trunks and boxes and bundles of something - clothing, perhaps? - huddled together, as though someone was getting ready to leave. They wait for owners that will never return.
Today, these homes lie mostly in ruin. Walls have crumbled away and missing slates leave gaping holes in the roofs. Sometimes, but not often, you'll see a splash of something crimson thrown against the broken planks and know that something terrible happened here. What was once a warm, lively village is now damp and dark, and it echoes only with the endless patter of the rain outside and your light, speedy footfalls.
The buildings of Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights are a stark reminder of what Land's End used to be before the Rain of Death fell, decimating its earth, its flora, and its people. The folks that used to throng here are now twisted beyond all recognition, morphed into trolls and skeletons and pulsating beasties, intent on one thing and one thing only, it seems; stopping you.
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While it's not going to fool anyone, sometimes you just want to be dramatic for the sake of it.
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Sad news my fellow BioWare game-enjoyers: they don't have anything to show at EA Play Live this month. Truly, can EA even do a livestream without showing some rocks from Dragon Age 4? How could they just whack Liara in the trailer for the next Mass Effect and leave us hanging like that? Oh well. I had been holding out hope that they might announce Mass Effect 3's multiplayer for Legendary Edition, but I guess we'll just watch more Battlefield 2042 gameplay again. Sigh.
Star Wars: The Old Republic has been around for some time now - nearly 10 years, in fact - and to mark the occasion the game is getting another expansion.
The new expansion, titled Legacy of the Sith, was announced in a livestream last night. It's due to add a mixture of additional story content, player rewards and new gameplay features.
"The war between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire spreads to new worlds," the announcement post explains. "Dangerous fringe groups rise in the dark corners of the galaxy and Darth Malgus pursues an unknown plan... Unravel these mysteries and more as your choices continue to shape the galaxy."
Digital PSP games will continue to be sold via the PlayStation 3 and Vita even after today's PSP store shutdown.
PlayStation confirmed the situation in an update to its support page for discontinued apps and services this week, first noticed by ResetEra, and then confirmed by Kotaku.
So, while the PSP will still lose its purchasing functionality as planned, PSP games will still be available to play - a key concern among fans worried over Sony's perceived lack of care for game preservation.
One of the many highlights of Satoru Iwata's reign at Nintendo was his series of Iwata Asks interviews - intimate, insightful and always entertaining chats between the president and the developers that started in the Wii era and carried on until Iwata's untimely death in 2015, they're some of the finest pieces of games journalism online.
After an understandable hiatus, Nintendo has introduced a new similarly-themed series simply called 'Ask the Developer', with the first installment focussing on the recently released Game Builder Garage. It's a gentle, informative and enlightening read, even if it's short on any major revelations (although it's opened my eyes to the stylish lab coats all Nintendo developers seem to wear at the moment).
The interview comes as Game Builder Garage gets a free demo on Nintendo Switch, with the first of its seven lessons now available to download from the eShop.
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Consumers will have the opportunity to receive special anniversary merchandise until November.
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The opening theme of Lost Judgment will be revealed during the broadcast.
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Though the game is on the website, it is still as region-locked as the Steam version.
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New prices for some older (and newer) games.
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A Dead Space return has long been rumoured, with everything from a remaster of the first game to a new game being hinted at. It looks like it’ll be somewhere in between, with reports suggesting that EA Motive are working on a remake of the original game, and an expected reveal at July 22’s EA Play Live.
I joined Rock Paper Shotgun in 2013 with the vague mandate from Jim Rossignol to "do whatever needs doing." For the past eight years, it's been a pleasure to do just that.
Now my time has come. The corporate mother has chosen me and today is devouring day. I'm no longer the editor-in-chief of Rock Paper Shotgun, but I'm excited to introduce who is.
Back in April, Humble Bundle removed the sliders that let buyers determine how much money from their purchase went to a publisher, a charity, and Humble themselves, effectively capping the amount you could give to charity at 15%. It wasn't a great look for a charity-based storefront, and following a lot of backlash, they rolled back the change shortly after. Now, however, they've announced a new tweak to the system, making it so the minimum you can allocate to Humble will be between 15% and 30%.
After six months of silence, we’ve finally received a new update on Hytale’s progress. The ambitious, Minecraft-inspired RPG’s previous release date of 2021 has been obliterated, with developers Hypixel Studios saying: “We no longer expect to be ready to launch Hytale before 2023 at the earliest, and it could very well take longer.”
Launched in 2017, the Poké Ball Portable Battery Charger Anker 10000mAh was a mobile device charger aimed at Pokémon Go players in Japan.
As part of its Tokyo Olympics coverage, the BBC did a big, expensive-looking promo. It’s packed with fantasy-land Japan stuff (which is quite different from how the country actually is!), playing to different notions and expectations that visitors often have.
The Witcher: Monster Slayer, CD Projekt's attempt at a Pokémon Go-style free-to-play mobile AR game, will launch for iOS and Android on 21st July.
Monster Slayer is set long before the main Witcher games, meaning you need to step up and take on the fantasy world's many beasties yourself.
CD Projekt first announced Monster Slayer in August last year, and said that its mobile studio Spokko was on development duties. It promised "rich, story-driven quests" and first-person monster battles impacted by your local time of day and weather. So, rain.
Talks between Xbox and Hideo Kojima are reportedly underway, with the aim to secure a publishing agreement.
Venturebeat - which first reported on potential plans for a deal between the two back in April - say discussions have now progressed to the stage that a letter of intent has been signed while legal teams hash out the finer details.
This leaves development work to continue (and Xbox boss Phil Spencer to continue displaying a Kojima Productions figurine on his shelf) in the meantime.
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Become a Gang Star, punch a frog, and more at this JoJo's Bizarre Adventure exhibition.
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While its combat can occasionally be a bit frustrating, Weaving Tides' puzzles and world are both detailed, textured, and a lot of fun.
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Consumers are eligible for refunds.
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