It's time to come together and begin the effort against those big, bug bugs in World of Warcraft Classic. One of most epic events that ever graced the original World of Warcraft, the server-uniting effort to collect goods, smash giant insects, and open the gates to Ahn’Qiraj raiding is a huge deal. Becoming one of the Scarab Lords was a lofty goal back in yesteryear, and it will still be a coveted achievement in WoW Classic.

While things have certainly changed from the old days as players have meticulously min-maxxed every aspect of the game and have adapted to much more difficult raid mechanics as the norm, the race to take on C'Thun is going to be a good one yet again. With today's MMORPG environment including elements we didn't really have way back when - like extremely high profile influencers and streamers with giant Discords and communities - the effort should be a lot more coordinated and controlled this time around, and will probably go quite smoothly. 

Looks like you can take your clown makeup off - for now - as Red Dead Online has finally released a significant update, one that introduces legendary animals, a new naturalist role, and a fresh Outlaw Pass.

As detailed in the extensive patch notes, the biggest addition provided by the update is the new naturalist specialist role, which opens a path around "tracking, studying and hunting animals". The role introduces two new free roam events, two naturalist role-related stores, a wilderness camp that lets players create a temporary campfire, a Gypsy Cob horse breed and various new clothing items.

Like the other frontier pursuits, you'll need to splash a bit of Red Dead Online's premium currency, Gold Bars, in order to buy the item required to unlock it. In the case of the naturalist role this will set you back 25 Gold Bars (the same as the moonshiner role added in a previous update). If the hippie life appeals to you, visit the Welcome Center in Strawberry and talk to Harriet Davenport to get started.

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Capcom confirmed a Street Fighter V Summer Update, with DLC character reveals, will arrive on August 5, 2020.

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We are half way through the inaugural season of The Sims Spark’d, a reality TV show based around being well good at The Sims. If you hadn’t heard, 12 Sim fanatics have been whisked away to… some studio, where they’re competing to win $100k by proving they are the bestest at The Sims 4. The first episode premiered last week on TBS, with the episode appearing on the BuzzFeed Multiplayer YouTube chennel the following Monday. Yesterday saw the second episode go up on YouTube as well. EA are as yet only dipping their toe in the murky sea that is reality TV, however, since Spark’d will only run for four episodes total.

Spark’d actually has all the ingredients that I love about terrible reality TV shows, plus it involves The Sims 4. On paper, it should be amazing. And indeed, there are already minor Twitter beefs between fans, and contestants complaining about the broadcast edit not showing the full truth. All classic stuff! But it’s clear that Spark’d will never achieve greatness unless EA loosens the apron strings enough to let their reality TV baby become a hot, hot mess.

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If there’s one thing we can all seem to agree on, it’s that human civilisation will make a beautiful corpse – A quiet reassurance to the idea that, even once we’ve all bitten the dust, life will find a way to carry on regardless of the concrete messes we leave behind. Announced today, Cloud Gardens wants you to tend to those spaces, helping life flourish from urban decay when it arrives on Steam next year.

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The summer keeps rolling, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons is pushing out a new update on July 30 to keep things hot. Fireworks! Cool hats! Bubble blowing! And those cool summer activities are just the start of it.

With this update, players can meet Luna, who can facilitate travel to dream islands. Whoa. Oh, and this update also adds Island Backup Restoration Service. Check out more details and take a dream trip in the new trailer below!

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The noms celebrate the best TV from a billion years ago

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Following the reveal of August’s PlayStation Plus free games for the month, Xbox has revealed the August 2020 Games With Gold titles, which are headlined by Portal Knights.

The full list of titles available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers throughout the month is:

Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Jurassic World spin-off series for Netflix. Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous stars six teens that attend an adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar (sounds super safe) but then get attacked by dangerous dinosaurs.

It’s an animated series that seems to appeal to the younger crowd while also pulling in longtime Jurassic Park/World fans. It’s being executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow, and Frank Marshall, according to Deadline, and the first season will only be eight-episodes long.

Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Amblin Entertainment are handling the upcoming Netflix cartoon and you can see the key art poster and first teaser trailer down below:

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous will premiere on Sep 18, exclusively on Netflix.

I’ve not read any of the words spilled about Halo Infinite‘s art style or graphics and I’m not going to. The wafting smell of all that chat did serve a purpose though: it pulled me back towards the work of Halo art director Nicolas “Sparth” Bouvier, like Jerry floating towards some delicious cheese laid by Tom.

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Riot have accidentally leaked footage and ability details about Killjoy, Valorant‘s upcoming twelfth agent. She’s a turret-loving engineer type looking to show up Brimstone, according to the enthusiasm with which she’s pitched her talents to the murder squad. Her reveal page briefly went live a few days ago, you see, and we got a peek at Killjoy’s portfolio.

She’s got area denial coming out the wazoo.

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Update: the official announcement of the Phantasy Star Online 2’s Steam release has been made by Sega. Including a release date and additional details. 

The game will launch on Valve’s platform on August 5 and rewards are coming with the release.

Players who log into the game from Steam and complete a set number of quests will receive Gordon Freeman’s outfit from Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance’s costume from Half-Life: Alyx (alongside her hairstyle), a Headcrab emote, Pyro’s Gas Mask from Team Fortress 2, and several weapon camos.

On top of that, we also learn that Episode 4 will launch on the same day, bringing the first large content update to the western version of the game. 

You can check out the trailer below.

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Today an official Steam page has been opened for Sega’s popular MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2.

The page is accessible on Valve’s portal (spotted by Twitter user Linoano), but for the moment it doesn’t have a release date. 

PlayStation 5 has a planned feature which lets you load a specific mode or mission within a game directly from your console's home screen, and today we've heard a little more about it.

A now-offline Gamereactor article named the feature as Activities, and said it would act like a deeplink to specific sections of a game.

Specifically, in WRC9, it will let you load individual races from your PS5 desktop, skipping the need to boot the game normally and then navigate its own menus.

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MX Unleashed and Override: Mech City Brawl also make an appearance

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• Portal Knights (August 1 to 31 on Xbox One)
• Override: Mech City Brawl (August 16 to September 15 on Xbox One)
• MX Unleashed (August 1 to 15 on Xbox One and Xbox 360)
• Red Faction II (August 16 to 31 on Xbox One and Xbox 360)

Maximum Games has announced that it will publish a physical release of nWay's tag-fighter Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid. A "Collector's Edition" will launch on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on October 8, priced at around $30.

Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid Collector's Edition will feature the base title updated with its single-player story mode and balance tweaks. This edition also comes bundled with Power Rangers Super Samurai character Lauren Shiba. It should be made clear that this is not a "GOTY" style edition and - while it does feature a 16-strong roster - it does not contain all DLC characters released to date.

Surprise! Announced this morning as part of Geoff Keighley’s Summer Games Fest, Studio MDHR’s lovable animated adventure Cuphead is finally coming to the PlayStation 4 today.

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Cuphead has a new home! The PS4 version will launch on July 28, 2020. However, everyone has to wait a little longer for the DLC.

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During today's Summer Games Fest stream, Studio MDHR revealed that its smash hit, Cuphead, is not only coming to PlayStation 4, but it's doing so today. The announcement came via a stop-motion trailer.

Additionally, Studio MDHR gave an update on the previously announced The Delicious Last Course expansion that was announced more than two years ago, saying that it's not quite ready, but we'll learn more about it in the coming months. The Xbox version will also receive a free special update that includes a digital art gallery, behind-the-scenes commentary, and a playable soundtrack. No release date was given for this update.

Cuphead launched on Xbox One and PC in 2017, then Switch in 2019. It is available for PS4 today. You can read our review here.

7/28 Update: The opening day of Eiyuden Chronicle's Kickstarter campaign was a huge success. Not only did the game reach its initial funding goal of $500,000 in three hours, it went on to reach several stretch goals. Due to this, Eiyuden Chronicle is officially coming to PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.  As of this writing, people have pledged close to $2 million. 

7/27 Update: The Kickstarter is now live. You can visit it here.

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During Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest livestream today, he sat down with indie game studio, StudioMDHR, to talk about Cuphead’s ‘Delicious Last Course’ DLC, its upcoming Netflix series, and the news that the indie darling is now available digitally on the PS4.

The news was revealed via a short and entertaining stop-motion type video, which you can watch down below.

As for the long-awaited DLC for Cuphead, Delicious Last Course, it’s still being developed and will launch on all platforms day one.

For those that never played Cuphead, it’s a challenging 2D platformer developed and published by StudioMDHR that originally released on Xbox One and PC in 2017. A port later came to the Nintendo Switch in 2019.

Currently, there is an animated Cuphead series in the works over at Netflix, and the latest trailer gives us high hopes that it’ll be a great video game to TV adaptation.

Cuphead is now available on PC, Xbox One, Switch, and PS4.

You can watch the PS4 launch trailer for Cuphead down below:

The myriad Transformers continuities are united by many things—mostly robots that transform into vehicles (and or prehistoric creatures, depending), but also: war. War, specifically not just on Earth, but for their homeworld. We’re about to see the battle for Cybertron rage all over again in Netflix’s new …

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Red Dead Online's Frontier Pursuit has let you role play as a bounty hunter, collector, trader, and moonshiner. In today's update, you are invited to explore the animal kingdom as a naturalist that can track and study seven new species of animal.

UPDATE 4.10pm UK: As announced in the latest Geoff Keighley Summer of Gaming announcement stream, Cuphead is coming to PlayStation 4 today.

The game's upcoming The Delicious Last Course DLC is now expected to arrive at the same time on all of the game's platforms - including PS4 - but isn't quite ready yet.

Here's a new stop-motion trailer to celebrate:

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As if the upcoming Patch 5.3 launching on Final Fantasy XIV on August 11 wasn’t enough to keep us excited, this year’s seasonal Moonfire Faire event has been announced and will be commencing next month on August 12.

If you haven’t gotten into FFXIV yet or have not renewed your subscription in a while, it seems like now is the perfect time to jump into Eorzea. With over 20,000,000 accounts created so far, the community seems to be thriving more than ever and is likely to grow further with the coming update.

Get ready for some fireworks and fun at Costa Del Sol!

There are no requirements to participating aside from being level 30 in at least one class, meaning that the event’s fun Hula-inspired rewards are accessible to (nearly) all!

You can see them below.

“The Ultimate Skateboarding Game”, eh? That’s a bold claim you’re making there, Skater XL. While the park may have been empty when you started early access, even Tony Hawk is returning to ride some verts these days. Now, developers Easy Day Studios aim to pull off their sickest trick yet – taking the training wheels off Skater XL and launching its career proper with today’s 1.0 launch.

Yes, I know skateboards don’t have training wheels. Shhh.

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There’s a nice mix of genres in August’s Xbox Live Games with Gold. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription.

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Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One physical collector's editions will in October and include Lauren Shiba.

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DrinkBox Studios hasn't made a bad game yet. I'm starting to think it never will.

The makers of Guacamelee, Severed, and Mutant Blobs Attack have begun teasing their next project, and given that history, it could be a sequel, a new property, or anything, really, and I'd be stoked.

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— DrinkBox Studios (@DrinkBoxStudios) July 28, 2020

The zoomed-in gif appears to show blinking eyes – or maybe that's just what they want us to think.

I'm convinced we'll get another Guacamelee one day – it's such a distinct world that's worth exploring even further – but I'm ready to see this team branch out if something else sparked their interest.

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Ferrari is kickstarting its own sim racing series later this year, with the Ferrari Hublot Esports Series commencing this September, and with a place on the scuderia's own esports team up for grabs.

The move comes off the back of an unprecedented amount of activity in sim racing as teams and drivers took to the virtual world during the extended off-season, with Ferrari's own F1 superstar Charles Leclerc emerging as one of the stars of the action.

Leclerc will be keeping a watching brief on the series, offering his own advice and guidance in what's set to be a three-stage tournament. An open AM series will see qualifiers begin this September - with registration open to all European residents over the age of 18 from August 7th - with 24 successful drivers going on to the PRO rounds in October. The finals will have 12 drivers competing over three races for the ultimate prize in November.

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