Headed to PC later in 2022 Publisher Phoenixx and independent studio Neetpia have revealed a brand new title set within...
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HEH-HEH-HEEEEEH WIPEOUT! Fans of anti-gravity racing games finally have a date to ring on their calendars — publisher Saber Interactive...
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Ahsoka Tano shows up, in Lego form It is May 4, the designated day for all things Star Wars. And on...
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Boards don’t hit back… Developer Sloclap has released the first major update to its knuckle-busting brawler RPG, Sifu. Now available...
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Fans of quality freebies (so basically everyone then, I assume) are in for a treat next week as Prey and Jotunn join the lengthening list of games to be given away on the Epic Store.
Prey, of course, is yet another winner from Arkane Studios, the developer behind the critically acclaimed likes of Dishonored and Deathloop. As with those series, Prey, which released back in 2017, falls squarely in the immersive sim genre, this time taking the studios' focus on open-ended traversal and player choice into outer space.
Here, players take on the role of Morgan Yu and, after a memorably orchestrated opening sequence, find themselves onboard the space station Talos I somewhere in the year 2032. It's a gorgeously luxuriant setting - Eurogamer called it "perhaps the grandest and most beautiful facility of its kind ever imagined for a game" in its Recommended review - but all is not right.
The Call of Duty machine can never stop. It must endlessly push forward, through lawsuits, controversies, and layoffs. To stop would mean…well, we don’t know, because it never has. And to help keep the machine going, Activision now has over 3,000 human souls working tirelessly on the publisher’s biggest and most…
The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly opening an inquiry into Sony's planned acquisition of Bungie, marking a notable ramp-up in federal oversight of gaming mergers during a period of major industry consolidation.
According to sources speaking with The Information, last week the FTC began seeking more information about the deal in an investigation that could potentially delay its closing by six months or even more. Though a closing date wasn't announced alongside the initial announcement, The Information reports it could be pushed into early 2023.
The FTC is reportedly focused on concerns that Sony might be motivated to prevent competing companies and services, such as Xbox, from accessing Bungie's games such as Destiny 2. That means examining how popular Destiny is, and whether a possible restriction would meaningfully harm Sony's competitors and create antitrust violations. While Sony has publicly committed to keeping Bungie games cross-platform, its ability to restrict both current titles and future releases in the future is a point of antitrust concern.
This investigation represents another sign of the FTC's recent, more aggressive approach toward potential antitrust issues in the gaming industry. While it is customary for the FTC to look into large deals, the spree of major gaming acquisition in recent years as well as the growing size of such deals appears to have prompted greater scrutiny, particularly under Biden-appointed FTC chair Lina Khan.
The Razer Naga Trinity is a rather brilliant mouse for MMO gamers, or anyone really that likes or needs to have plenty of buttons right under their thumb. The Naga Trinity's key feature is that it comes with three interchangeable side panels, each with a different amount of layout of buttons - so you can have a regular two-button side layout for FPS titles, a seven-button layout for more complex games (MOBAs?) and a 12-button calculator-style layout when things get properly exciting (MMOs). Or you can just figure out which one is your favourite, and keep it on forever more.
The Naga Trinity's UK RRP is £110, but it normally goes for about £70 or £80. Today, it's down to £55 - a nice discount!
The Cooler Master NR200P is, in my humble opinion, the best value Mini ITX case you can buy right now. For its street price of £110, you get a compact yet easy to build in design with a choice of mesh or glass side panels, plus a pair of low profile 120mm fans. Today however, you can pick up this brilliant little case for £76 in black or white, or £85 to £96 for colours like orange, purple, teal and pink. Either way you slice it, this is an incredible case for the money - and I should know, I've got two of them in my room right now.
Rootin' tootin' turn-based-strategin' Hard West 2 combines the shoot percentages of XCOM with a cowboy odyssey to retrieve your lost souls. If you like ponchos and silly hats, you can give it a go right now by signing up to its newly live open beta. It offers "a small slice of the game’s full campaign" and will run for a full month through until June 5th.
It's always fun when our interests collide in fun and strange ways. One of my favorite things to watch almost any night of the week is pro wrestling. I've been a big fan of Stone Cold Steve Austin since he broke out as a mega-star in the 90's, and since I know him as a real outdoorsy kind of guy, I never thought he'd be keeping up with what's popular in the world of gaming. In a promo for an upcoming episode of The Broken Skull Sessions, where Steve Austin interviews wrestlers and those around the industry, he shocked me and his most recent guest, WWE's newest big acquisition, "The American Nightmare" Cody Rhodes.
30 seconds on the clock. Let's see how many questions @CodyRhodes can answer!
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Today Microsoft and third-party developers had news to share about Microsoft Flight Simulator and its upcoming add-ons.
First of all, Microsoft announced that a new patch is in the works to address some issues that cropped up with Sim Update 9. More details and patch notes will be shared “soon.”
In the weekly development update, we also hear that SimWorks Studios’ Van’s Aircraft RV-14 (portrayed above), Captainsim’s C-130 Hercules (not recommended since it’s just the external model, unless that’s what you want), and IndiaFoxtEcho’s Sukhoi Su-31 have been released on the official marketplace, but only for PC for the moment.
We also get a new reveal from Impulse Simulations, which has encountered issues with the development of Darwin International Airport (YPDN) but isn’t staying idle and is working on another relevant scenery in Australia, Canberra Airport (YSPD), serving the country’s often mistaken capital city.
Below you can see some of the models created so far.
TennoCon, Warframe's annual fan event, is officially returning this summer in digital-only form, with developer Digital Extremes having now confirmed that all-day proceedings will be getting underway on 16th July.
TennoCon has, of course, traditionally been a live, in-person event combining Warframe announcements, developer panels, and various community focused activities, but Digital Extremes made the decision to go online-only back in 2020 in reponse to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning this year's TennoCon will be its third fully digital show.
Unfortunately, beyond that 16th July date, Digital Extremes is yet to share much in the ways of details about this year's TennoCon, only saying that the all-day event will feature "exciting reveals" from the team, alongside a community art show.
If you're starting to tire of splicing up the same old animals into DNA hybrid monstrosities in park management sim Let's Build a Zoo, there's some potentially exciting news on the horizon: you'll soon be able to fancy up your adorably terrifying creations into something even more exotic when the game's newly announced Dinosaur Island DLC arrives on 23rd May.
Let's Build a Zoo, if you're unfamiliar, takes the familiar framework of classic zoo tycoons as its starting point, tasking players with importing and breeding animals, managing staff, and fashioning an appealing park using scenery items, shops, and amenities in order to keep guests happy and the money rolling in.
It offers two main twists on that familiar formula, however; there's a morality system - giving players the choice between keeping everything above board or taking a more exploitative path - plus the aforementioned DNA splicing angle, enabling players to create and exhibit the likes of crocoducks, giraffephants, and chickow.
The Metroid series took a little nap during the N64 era, with Nintendo unable or unwilling to release a single home console game for the franchise between the success of the SNES’s Super Metroid in 1994 and the GameCube’s Metroid Prime in 2002. So a fan is stepping in—and back in time—to make one for themselves.
Blizzard shared a lengthy list of Overwatch 2 patch notes today detailing changes it’s making to the first-person shooter a little more than a week into the player-versus-player mode’s closed beta.
In 2009, THQ pulled a publicity stunt by covering a Nintendo Wii in 24 karat gold and trying to get it delivered to Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty never actually got her hands on the console, but now, after over a year of auction hijinks, you might be able to.
Want to know what I thought of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Moon Knight? I weigh in on both of these Marvel Cinematic Universe juggernauts, and we also talk about a comic book that should be turned into a game because it reads and looks like one. This episode is jam-packed with reviews of comic books you should be reading, including Batman, Twig, Flashpoint Beyond, and more. We also discuss the new comic books that will be on store shelves shortly.
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Mario Strikers: Battle League, the upcoming five versus five soccer game from Next Level Games, is set to release next month, and Nintendo has just dropped a five minute long overview trailer for us to learn more about it.
The trailer is only out on the Japanese channels at the moment, but we can still get a good look at some gameplay and much that Mario Strikers: Battle League will have to offer. There is a lot to see in the five minutes of footage as things move pretty quickly.
You can see some extensive soccer gameplay in action, such as certain characters using special abilities and skills on the field. It looks like each character will have their own unique skills to master and use.
We also get a look at the roster of characters that will be playable from the start, which includes Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Peach, Rosalina, Toad, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Wario, and Waluigi. You’ll be able to customize each character with equipment that affects their stats and performance while playing.
The trailer also showcases some of the online and multiplayer modes that will be available in the game. This includes club memberships to participate in regular-season matches with points accumulating throughout the season. It looks like there will be plenty of options to customize and personalize the settings to match your preferred gameplay style.
Mario Strikers: Battle League will release on the Nintendo Switch next month on June 10. You can watch the five minute long Japanese overview trailer below, and we’ll be sure to keep you updated if an English trailer is released as well.
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People are almost always conscious of where their hard-earned money is going, and as they watch their expenses, there might not always be room to upgrade things like computer software—even if it could help increase productivity and output.
Whether it be something simple like getting a newer version of Microsoft Office or upgrading your Windows operating system (OS,) not everyone can afford to buy from the source, which leaves them looking for alternatives—something that could land them on a dangerous website or risk putting their systems in danger.
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You may know Ikumi Nakamura for her sparkling presentation of Ghostwire Tokyo at E3 2019 before she left Tango Gameworks and her role as the game’s creative director, or her roles in the creation of games like Okami, Bayonetta, or The Evil Within, or the skins she has designed for Rainbow Six Siege. Yet, you may not know that she has recently formed her own studio based in Tokyo, named Unseen.
Today the studio released a video featuring Nakamura-san herself and showing the construction of the developer’s headquarters in Tokyo.
While at the moment we don’t know much about the studio’s future game, besides the fact that it’s in the field of “supernatural action-adventure,” we already know the names of some of the talents Nakamura-san has gathered.
Naoki Katakai (Tango Gameworks) as CDO & Environment Art Specialist; Liam Wong (Ubisoft) as Visual Director; Raúl Ibarra (Moon Studios) as Animation Director, Misuzu Watanabe (Capcom) as Game Director and NASS as concept artist & illustrator.
UNSEEN is also made up of the following members: David Steinberg – CTO, Futoshi Miyamoto – CIO, Aaron Packard – Senior Gameplay Engineer, Brian Wanamaker – Senior Development Manager, Eriko Nagasawa – Assistant Manager, Fumie Kishiwada – U.S. Manager, Gus Martin – Gameplay Engineer, Johnny Byrnes – Technical Game Designer, Justin Nesbit – Level Design Director, Kenan Alpay – Senior Game Designer, Mai Mattori – Concept Artist, Miho Nakagawa – Assistant Producer and Shane Canning – Senior Level Designer.
Netmarble released more English trailers of Level-5’s online JRPG Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds.
This time around, the trailers showcase a variety of mounts, including the giant cat Catarumpus, the giant bird Birby, and the Wing Glider.
It’s worth mentioning that the game has already been active in Japan for several months, while pre-registration is already available in the west for iOS and Android. You’ll receive an “Explorer Outfit” if you register and the game will also be playable on PC.
You can check out the trailers below.
For those that like their card games with a healthy dash of magical splendor, then the new Hearthstone Battlegrounds season should be right up your alley. Starting on May 10, players will welcome the Rise of the Naga, which brings a new hero into the mix, a reset of all player ratings, and a new minion type in the form of the magic-wielding naga.
Naga are spell-thirsty minions that are drawn to magic, and can give players spells or get more powerful when spells are played around them. Certain Naga also possesses the Spellcraft keyword, which grants a temporary spell each turn, which can be used to buff them until the start of the next Recruit phase.
As for the new hero, Queen Azshara will arrive in Hearthstone Battlegrounds, ready to lead her people to victory. Her passive, Azshara’s Ambition, allows her to begin her Naga Conquest when the player’s warband reaches 30 total attack, this, in turn, allows her to spend one mana to discover a Naga each turn.
If you need some help mastering the Naga, here are some tips from Blizzard:
Today Nexon and Arc System Works revealed a new trailer of their upcoming fighting game DNF Duel.
The trailer mostly focuses on showcasing some cool character art that may possibly appear in the game’s story mode, on top of a bit of gameplay.
We also get a tease mentioning that more news will come soon.
You can check it out below.
DNF Duel is coming for PS5, PS4, and PC on June 28, 2022. You can check out more videos showcasing the basics of the game.
Dungeon Fighter Online, which inspired this title, is one of the most played games in the world if you look at actual revenue, so it was pretty much a matter of time for it to expand to other genres and markets.
The blue blur that is Sonic the Hedgehog is definitely making waves in the entertainment scene, with both a recent movie sequel, a new remastered collection, and even a Netflix series in the works. The big screen is where Sonic has definitely made the biggest impression, as the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie is now officially the most successful video game movie adaptation of all time, raking in $331.64 million at the global box office.
Based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega, the amount surpasses the first film’s $319.71 million box office take, smashing the record. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 debuted at No. 1 in 47 markets, including the U.K., France, Australia, and other countries, and also saw strong sales in Mexico and Brazil.
Of the $331.64 million box office take, the U.S. portion stands at $162.74 million, with the international box office sales at $168.9 million. Needless to say, this is excellent news for Sega as well as their partners at Paramount Pictures.
It remains to be seen if that box office success can be replicated for the other projects under the Sonic the Hedgehog umbrella, which includes the aforementioned animated show, future movies, music, and merchandise. Fans can look forward to the third movie in the trilogy most likely in 2024, with confirmation coming even before the second movie was released.
Today Atlus released not one, but two trailers for its upcoming JRPG Soul Hackers 2, showing one of its playable characters and a demon.
The first trailer goes in-depth in introducing Saizo, another among the party of playable characters we’ll use in the game. This one has English subtitles, so do make sure to activate them.
This time around, we take a look at Unicorn, another demon that has been part of the Shin Megami Tensei series for a long time but was skipped in Shin Megami Tensei V.
As usual, the trailer also includes the daily horoscope, which places Pisces at the top of the luck ranking and Cancer at the bottom.
Soul Hackers 2 releases for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC (Steam and Windows Store) on August 26, just one day after the Japanese launch on August 25.
Spike Chunsoft launched a new teaser site for a fictional organization named Sunaiku Foundation apparently dedicated to rescuing missing people.
A press release sent to Twinfinite simply says “We would like to invite you to become patrons of the Sunaiku Foundation.” and links to the website.
There we learn about the company’s efforts to help locate and rescue missing people, alongside news of the disappearance of two students, Aine Ichirai and Binato Sotobara, portrayed below.
“We want to eliminate the tragedy of disappearances. We want to erase the sorrow caused by disappearances. We want to eradicate the misfortune of disappearances completely from this world.
We at the Sunaiku Foundation are committed to being a beacon of light for those who are lost and those who have lost others. We are engaged day and night in search and support to bring missing persons cases to their resolutions.”
The site also includes a link to the organization’s “patrons” which includes a count down which is going to expire in exactly 48 hours and includes the video showcased under the portraits.
It’s very likely that another video will be unlocked in 24 hours before the final reveal.
At the moment, the exact nature of the game that will be revealed is unknown, but we will keep you posted as soon as an announcement is made.
Back in the early 2000s, surfing was one of several sports being well-served in the video game space. Treyarch’s Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer, published on Xbox, PS2, and GameCube under Activision’s long-defunct Activision O2 brand, is one high-profile example – but there were plenty of others. Krome produced Championship Surfer for PC, PlayStation, and Dreamcast in 2000, and also Sunny Garcia Surfing for PS2 in 2001. Angel Studios (which later became Rockstar San Diego) released Transworld Surf on Xbox, PS2, and GameCube between 2001 and 2003. The surf-obsessed may even remember Surfing H3O, although you might be better off forgetting that one.
And then, the tsunami of surfing games stopped. Waxheads were waiting for more, but the surfing sub-genre was sunk.
“Perhaps I need my head read,” jokes Bungarra Software CEO Andrew West when asked why he thinks it’s been effectively two decades since a sport-focused surfing game surfaced. Based in Fremantle, Western Australia, Bungarra is the developer of Barton Lynch Pro Surfing 2022 – an ambitious new surfing game bearing the name of 1988 ASP World Tour Champion and Australian Sporting Hall of Famer Barton Lynch, available now on Steam Early Access.
If there’s one thing to be said about Cobra Kai, it’s that the filming and production schedule is always on point. We just finished up season 4 at the start of the year, and season 5 has already been announced for a Sept. 9 release date on Netflix.
The new season will pick up from where season 4 left off, as Silver has managed to put Kreese behind bars and proceeded to take over Cobra Kai, setting up dojos all over the Valley. You can check out the new trailer down below:
We get a glimpse of what our main characters will be up to, with LaRusso reuniting with Chozen as they plan to take down Silver, while Johnny goes on a roadtrip with Robby to Mexico to look for Miguel. And as always, there’s plenty of fun karate action to look forward to, from the looks of this trailer.
It’s unclear whether this will be the show’s final season, though personally, I lowkey hope this series never ends and we eventually get season 80 or something where Miguel becomes the new sensei of Cobra Kai. Season 5 is set to premiere on Netflix on Sept. 9.
For those that have been enjoying Hitman 3 since it launched in 2021, there has been plenty of post-launch DLC to keep players busy. That will continue this year, with even more content coming our way as laid out by IO Interactive’s roadmap. One of those happens to be the new Freelancer mode for Hitman 3, but the wait will now be longer as the mode is being delayed to the second half of the year.
“As we’ve said, we’re taking some extra time to tighten the mode up and improve several elements that we think will greatly improve the gameplay experience. Whilst we work on those improvements, we’re also preparing to dive deeper into the mode and share more of what you can expect,” said IO in a new blog post.
“With all of that in mind, we’re now aiming to release the Freelancer game mode to Hitman 3 in the second half of 2022. We think it will be worth the wait.”
In its place, IO Interactive is launching a new map in the month of July instead. Ambrose Island will have an intriguing narrative, taking place before the events of Hitman 3 and fills in a few gaps from the World of Assassination storyline. You can check out Ambrose Island in the screenshot below:
The action RPG that is Path of Exile is no stranger to expansions that can transform how players enjoy the game, such as Harvest, Echoes of the Atlas, and Siege of the Atlas. Maintaining that same spirit, the upcoming Sentinel expansion will do just the same, allowing players to up the ante in exchange for even more bonus loot.
The titular Sentinels will begin dropping as loot from slain monsters, and come in either red, blue, or yellow varieties. Like most things found in Path of Exile, there will be different modifiers and perks affixed on these Sentinels, and they can be deployed during combat to make things more hectic and rewarding.
Red Stalker Sentinels buffs any enemies within its visibility for a limited time, the blue Pandemonium Sentinels goes further by buffing every opponent on-screen and even beyond immediately, while the yellow Apex Sentinel will provide buffs to the most dangerous of rare, unique, or boss enemies. Each Sentinel can only be used once per area, so players will have to keep that in mind when looking to increase the challenge.
It’s been seven years of constant updates, but all good things must come to an end eventually. Techland has officially released the final update for Dying Light, and other than more DLC content together with bug fixes and tweaks, all owners of the game are being upgraded to the Enhanced Edition for free.
This will include The Following expansion, the Bozak Horde, the Crash Test Skin Bundle, the Ultimate Survivor Bundle, and Cuisine and Cargo content. All in all, players are looking at a new map, story, vehicle, and more game modes, weapons, and skins to sink their teeth into.
Great news!
Starting today, every player that owns the Standard Edition of Dying Light will be automatically upgraded to the Enhanced Edition.#DyingLight pic.twitter.com/jmSfQ3RkCd
We're finally seeing the LEGO Horizon Forbidden West Tallneck set back in the stock in the UK. It had previously sold out at most retailers, but you can now buy it immediately from GAME, or on back-order from Smyths. The LEGO set includes 1,222 pieces and costs £69.99 if you purchase it now (or $79.99 in the US). We're expecting this to sell out again before the end of the day.
LEGO and PlayStation teamed up to launch the Horizon: Forbidden West set featuring the Tallneck, alongside an Aloy Minifigure and Watcher figure. The LEGO Tallneck is intended as a display model and was initially released on May 1, 2022.
Living up to its name, the set is over 34cm tall, 23cm wide, and 17 cm deep, and was created in collaboration with Guerrilla Games, the developer of Horizon: Forbidden West.
It's been an incredibly popular item, with multiple retailers in the UK and US already selling out the set (including Amazon UK, Best Buy, Walmart, and LEGO UK+US). But, it is still available to back-order from Amazon US for those on that side of the Atlantic.
