You'll have both Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart 30fps and 60fps options available when the game comes out during the PS5 launch window.
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When Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix first showed off Marvel’s Avengers in all of its glory, I think most of us can admit that the faces of these well-known Marvel characters didn’t look quite right; Crystal Dynamics even remodeled the faces!
And it’s not that they don’t look like their MCU counterparts, but it’s the fact that they all look very similar to the big Hollywood stars that play Iron Man and Black Widow –it’s uncanny.
It would’ve been interesting to see how people would have felt if Robert Downey Jr. and the rest of the gang would have reprised their roles in a video game format.
But today we don’t have to imagine what that would look like, because someone has actually done it… sort of.
BabyZoneGaming on YouTube is known for creating videos using DeepFake technology, placing the likeness of these Hollywood actors over the video game faces.
For this latest video, they take Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo, and has plopped them into a Marvel’s Avengers trailer.
Does it make the game better? I can’t tell you.
Retro run-and-gun classic Turrican is back to celebrate its 30th anniversary with several anthology collections for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
Strictly Limited will release the series across two €34.99 volumes, each available separately or together as part of two pricier collections.
Turrican Anthology Vol. 1 will include the Amiga versions of Turrican and Turrican 2, the SNES Super Turrican and its Director's Cut, and the Mega Drive Mega Turrican Score Attack.
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InXile Entertainment’s latest adventure in the post-apocalyptic lands of the USA, Wasteland 3, came out today, bringing with it a big bizarre statue of a robo-Ronald Reagan. The RPG will have you fill the boots of a lone Ranger, tasked with reestablishing society in the wastes of Colorado. It’s a bit like old school Fallout, what with being a story-driven RPG full of turn-based tactical shoot-outs. It’s worth noting that the original Wasteland inspired the original Fallout games, which have in-turn inspired the new Wasteland games. Ah, the circle of life.
NBA 2K21’s launch is just a few short days away now. Thankfully, 2K has finally decided to unveil the brand new Neighborhood that’ll be appearing in NBA 2K21. This trailer also gives us a quick preview of the MyCareer storyline for this year’s 2K basketball sim.
A gameplay trailer was already released that hinted at players being able to join a college team again this year, and today’s video confirms that. You’ll be able to go through a full journey, from high school to the NBA, in this year’s game.
The new NBA 2K21 Neighborhood is called 2K Beach. It’s a bit reminiscent of the Sunset Beach Park from NBA 2K17, given its location and atmosphere.
When you finally get to enter that new Neighborhood, you’ll want to bring the best MyPlayer build that you can. We messed around and found some of the best ones, and you can check them out here.
Check out the NBA 2K21 trailer below to see some of the new Neighborhood and MyCareer storyline for yourself:
Sega's newest game is playing it coy, but trademark filings and some telltale hints suggest that this is the latest Sakura Wars franchise title to come down the pipe.
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There are good people out there. This isn't the most selfless act imaginable and it's not a grand sacrifice. But, it's a good reminder that some people will go out of their way to help a stranger in need.
We have a bean who doesn't yet know how to climb. That will change. Just watch.
The weekend is for realizing that holy shit, the summer is almost over, the new Madden is out, nothing feels like it’s really happening anymore. Hooray.
It's easy to forget there was life before No Man's Sky at Hello Games. The studio, which is still small now, started out tiny: "four people in a room" as co-founder Sean Murray puts it, somewhat wistfully, when the original team started work on the PS3's Joe Danger. Speaking to Murray and Steven Burgess, who's taking the lead on The Last Campfire, the curiously mournful puzzle-adventure that arrived via surprise release yesterday, the focus is very much on that kind of independent spirit.
There's some nostalgia there, when Murray talks over the studio's history, starting with the now-familiar story of the humble Joe Danger roots and how the team quickly ballooned to "15 or 16" people on No Man's Sky at the peak, before settling on the 25 that make up the internal Hello Games team now. But the core team's not the one working on The Last Campfire. Burgess, alongside Chris Symonds and James Chilcott, make up the entirety of The Last Campfire team. The main bulk of the Hello Games team is on something else entirely.
The setup now is all a bit full-circle. Burgess and Symonds were on "a smallish team" of about 18 people within a much larger one at Frontier Developments when their previous game, 2008's LostWinds, was in progress. After that, it was more or less solely Burgess that headed up the work on porting Hello Game's own small-team game Joe Danger to iOS ("We worked on that together, but Stevie did all the work," Murray half-jokes).
The Seattle Storm’s Breanna Stewart, as she appeared in NBA 2K20. | Image: Visual Concepts/2K Sports
They won’t be in NBA 2K21 on PS4 or Xbox One, but will when the PS5 and Series X launch
Destructive Creations revealed its upcoming new game titled “War Mongrels” which was teased earlier this month as “WM.”
The game will be released next year for PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and it’s a “grisly real-time tactics game” set in World War II.
Below you can check out the first trailer and screenshots.
A new single debuts from League of Legends' official K-pop group, K/DA, along with a music video and a promise for more tracks later in 2020.
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I’m the kind of guy who, on a hike, will trip over a cactus because I wasn’t paying attention. I run my earbuds through the washing machine, scratch up my sunglasses, and drop my phone while jogging. And as someone who hates even the smallest signs of wear and tear, my clumsiness is often at odds with my ability to…
You're going for the gold in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare this weekend. That's a deviation from the norm, because usually you're just out for blood. It'll be nice to add some conventional trophies to your collection to go along with the creepy necklace you made from fingers of people you killed.
Modern Warfare's Games of Summer event kicks off today, and it's an Olympics-style challenge with a Call of Duty twist. Every day brings a new challenge where players try to earn gold medals. Here's the rundown of events:
GingerOfMods has transformed a number of retro consoles into nifty-looking portables, but the Wiiboy Color is on another level.
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted Face the Music. | Photo: United Artists Releasing
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves reprise their roles
Experienced simmers and newcomers have been flying in Microsoft Flight Simulator for over a week, but the house of Xbox is still very keen on advertising the beauty of its world.
Today we get a new trailer focusing on Asia and the Middle East, showcasing the beauty of the game’s simulated world in many famous cities and natural wonders of that part of the world.
We get to see just how crazy beautiful Microsoft Flight Simulator looks like from Turkey to Japan, passing by the Pakistan, India, China, South-East Asia, Mount Everest, and many more breathtaking locations like those we saw last week in the trailer dedicated to Oceania.
You can check it out below and see for yourself.
If you want to learn more about Microsoft Flight Simulator, you can check out our review that will tell you everything you need to know about Asobo Studio’s new and groundbreaking game.
The most challenging part of development. Let's explore the inner workings of Cities: Skylines citizen and traffic systems. ...
As the capstone finale to yesterday's gamescom: Opening Night Live, Insomniac Games shared an extended gameplay trailer of the PS5's Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. It was a delightful little look at all the nuts and bolts of this interdimensional mechanical shooter. Later, Insomniac confirmed that Rift Apart is squared away as a "PS5 launch window" title, assuring everyone it'll be one of the first(ish) games you can play on new hardware.
Today, through an interview with Japanese publication Famitsu, Insomniac revealed a new tech target for Ratchet & Clank. It'll have a dedicated performance mode that ups the framerate from 30fps to 60fps:
Hitman 3 is the latest upcoming game to detail how it will handle its next-gen upgrade.
IO Interactive's stealth shooter will offer a free upgrade on each corresponding next-gen console - but only for digital copies.
That means any PS4 downloadable copy will unlock a PS5 version for no additional cost, and any Xbox downloadable copy will provide you with the Series X version via Smart Delivery.
The Ys IX: Monstrum Nox PS4 version will launch outside Japan in February 2021, followed by Switch and PC versions later that year.
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Today NIS America announced the first western release details for Nihon Falcom’s Ys IX: Monstrum Nox.
First of all, we learn that the game will release for PS4 on February 2 in North America, February 5 in Europe, and February 12 in Oceania.
The Nintendo Switch and PC versions, which were never launched in Japan, will come in the summer of 2021.
We also get a new trailer, which you can watch below.
If you’re unfamiliar with Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, it’s the latest chapter of the Ys series, and it was released in Japan only for PS4 in September 2019.
It’ll come west with both English and Japanese audio and English and French subtitles.
Here’s how the publisher describes it.
Little Nightmares introduced us to a disturbing world inhabited by monstrous enemies - like the misshapen janitor with his elongated hands, or the corpulent twin chefs preparing a grotesque feast for their disgusting guests. Following a hands-on encounter with Little Nightmares 2’s first new adversary, I’m happy to say that the sequel is proving to be just as unnerving.
This particular tale puts you in control of Mono, a diminutive figure who adorns his head with a paper bag in an oddly cute fashion statement. Where the first installment had you navigating the tight confines of a ship, this sequel introduced me to foreboding and equally oppressive woods, filled with cages, traps, and viscera. It wasn’t long before I hesitantly explored the basement of an old shack to find an imprisoned child who turned out to be Six, the protagonist from the first story (minus her signature yellow raincoat, which immediately had me thinking about when exactly this story takes place).
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True to its predecessor, Little Nightmares 2 will have you navigating the side-scrolling world and interacting with the often oversized environment to overcome obstacles, uncover paths and dodge traps - or worse. The locations are as suitably haunting as they are engrossing, with every discarded item and object telling a story you aren’t quite sure you want to hear the ending to. Why are there so many abandoned shoes near these animal cages? Are those stuffed bags buzzing with flies full of dead animals - or something even more disturbing? I was also pleased to find Little Nightmares 2 made the subtle effort to warn you of danger, like a soft breeze rattling the bear traps hidden beneath the leaves, or a scavenging crow ready to squawk and draw attention to your location upon drawing close.
Scarlet Nexus is a stylish, flashy, and edgy action-RPG; and features some beautifully grotesque enemy designs in the form of "The Others." Though I didn't get to play it myself, I did get to see a 16-minute gameplay demo and presentation from the producer, director, and art director, and I came away thoroughly interested and a little hopeful.
So, first things first: Why the heck is it called Scarlet Nexus? Tales series veteran and Scarlet Nexus Director Kenji Anabuki, along with Producer Keita Iizuka, said Scarlet Nexus can be interpreted as "red connection," or "red bonds." Iizuka elaborated by saying "Objects or persons connected with red lines represent a big part in the visuals and key art of Scarlet Nexus."
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We see this obviously by the red tubes stuck into main character Yuito Sumeragi's back, which are applied in an early cutscene and appear whenever Yuito borrows power from his teammates. These red cables are actually "brain link cables" that connect the members of the Other Suppression Force, or O.S.F, together.
Scarlet Nexus’ world is set in the "near future... but in an alternative reality where people discovered substances in the brain and developed their society greatly on that,” Iizuka explained. These psionic brain hormones also grant humans extrasensory powers, which Yuito and the O.S.F. wield as a weapon.The world is technologically advanced compared to ours, but this technology is all centered on the brain’s development, and the characters also have special powers by using their brains. All of this is why the developers have dubbed Scarlet Nexus’ genre “brainpunk,” deriving the new term from “steampunk” and “dieselpunk.”
Any video game that lists Legend of Zelda as its main inspiration is sure to have big shoes to fill right off the bat. With that said, as soon Deep Silver unveiled its newest survival RPG, Windbound, it became clear that the potential to be successful and innovative for the genre with those high goals in mind was at least there.
As soon as you boot up Windbound, the art style and ambiance are on full display. The flurries of wind, deep blue raging sea, and the sheer size of the beast that pops up out of the water set up that a seemingly fantastic adventure is ahead.
Windbound’s story picks up right after Kara, the game’s protagonist, is separated from her fellow warriors after falling off her boat amidst a sea creature attack. While she eventually winds up on shore, it isn’t until after she passes through a mysterious portal-like gate.
This gate leads Kara to a land known as The Forbbiden Islands, an area spread across the open sea, harboring many strange and unique creatures, artifacts, and structures. To survive, Kara must use her warrior skills to hunt, craft, and explore.
The first chapter is all about finding your footing, as tutorials explain the basics to each aspect of gameplay, detailing everything from finding food to building a boat. While Kara starts out with a simple knife, it isn’t long until she is able to craft a bow and other more powerful weapons by finding recipes.
Scarlet Nexus is definitely a "brain punk" game and action RPG, but also seems like one where connections with allies like Hanabi matter too.
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Rogue Company is a difficult game to write about. When I sit down at my computer to type, its bland and basic world begins to fade from my mind, and I struggle to think of anything meaningful to say about it. Despite its diverse cast of characters, fast-paced shooting action, and sufficiently smooth gameplay on my Switch, it just doesn't leave a lasting impact. The experience scuttles from my mind, and the only thought I can muster about it amounts to no more than an admission that I did indeed just play an online shooter.
Maybe that's because nothing about Rogue Company is original. This is a checklist of a game, cribbing features and modes from other popular titles and stitching them together in this third-person, squad-based shooter. There are dancing emotes, the ping system from Apex Legends, sprays, characters with their own unique abilities, a between-match weapons upgrade system, and modes recycled from games that came before it. You've seen this all before, and chances are, you've seen it done better than it is here.
When it comes to strange enemy designs, things surely can't get much weirder than Bandai Namco's upcoming action RPG Scarlet Nexus. Flowers with ostrich legs and stilettos, a slinky with human hands - it's all rather disturbing stuff. Kind of like that horrible spider doll from Toy Story.
Thankfully, the game's developers are here with some answers as to why these look so darn odd, as discussed in a recent Scarlet Nexus preview viewed by Eurogamer.
For context, the game is set in a technologically advanced society called New Himika - a country "so big that the concept of 'overseas' doesn't even exist," as art director Kouta Ochiai explained. This civilisation has developed based on technology surrounding the brain, with the populace using a form of brain-internet called the Psynet, while some use advanced brain power in the form of various psykinetic abilities. It's not all glamorous, however, as this world is frequently visited by "the Others": alien creatures without a consciousness that feed on human brains. Those are the flower bouquet things, if you hadn't guessed.
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