Co-op cooking chaos and a roguelite shooter Oh hey, it’s your not-quite-weekly-because-I-keep-forgetting-about-it Epic Games Store free game reminder. This week,...
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Marvel released a brand new trailer of the upcoming “AAA” open-world mobile game Marvel Future Revolution developed by Netmarble.
The trailer is, as usual, very brief, but it still showcases one of the game’s most touted features, customization. More precisely, we see the many costumes and colors Storm can wear.
You can check it out below.
At the moment, there is no relese date for Marvel Future Revolution, but we know that it’s coming for iOS and android.
If you’re unfamiliar with the game (which wouldn’t be surprising considering the year of silence) it’s a mobile multiplayer open-world RPG for iOS and Android.
The story is about the “Convergence,” a multiverse catastrophe in which universes collide, which means that we’ll be able to play plenty of versions of beloved superheroes.
The players become members of Omega Flight based in New Stark City, which is the universe’s last line of defense. Basically, it’s a group of heroes that came together from multiple realities to defend the universe.
The PS5 beta will let you try new features early Did you participate in Sony’s PlayStation 4 beta program? I...
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Scott Cawthon, best known as the creator of the indie breakout Five Nights at Freddy’s, has announced in a post on his website that he is retiring from his current role in the series. This announcement follows the recent surfacing and criticism of Cawthon’s monetary political contributions.
Cawthon starts the post by reminiscing about fans having sent him letters and fan art over the years. Five Nights at Freddy’s released almost seven years ago and, in that time, many fans of the series connected with the characters, games, and even Scott Cawthon himself. “I’ve had a blessed, fulfilling, and rich career. I’ve been shown great kindness and I’ve tried to show great kindness in return,” Cawthon writes in his retirement post.
Scott continues the post by talking about the passage of time and how creating games has transitioned from something he would do in his free time for fun and for his kids. Getting to the crux of the announcement Cawthon says, “All of this to say that I am retiring. I have been shown tremendous love and support over this last week, a lot of which has come from the LGBTQ community. The kindness shown to me has been surreal.”
Ah yes, Roguebook! That game about venturing across the pages of a book and-- No, wait, that was Trials Of Fire. Roguebook is instead the new game from the developers of Faeria, and it's a deckbuilder constructed with help from Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield. It's out now.
Today Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games released a new video about the growing space simulator.
The video focuses primarily on dynamic events including a “remaster” of Xenothreat and a the upcoming Ninetails Lockdown.
We also get to see upcoming content including hospitals of various sizes, HUDs, effects, the Orison landing zone, and ships under construction like the Aegis Redeemer and the Crusader Ares.
You can watch it below.
In other Star Citizen news, the crowdfunding total has just passed $374 million and it’s currently sitting on $374,217,798.
The number of registered accounts recently passed 3.1 million, and it’s at 3,152,592 at the moment of this writing.
As usual, you should keep in mind that it’s known that not all of them are paying players. The number includes free accounts created for a variety of reasons, including Free Fly events like the one that recently ended.
The best games of E3* (that we didn’t get to play) Even knowing that this would be a strange show...
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The Xbox Design Lab website is back, letting users officially create their own custom controllers that are then built and shipped by Microsoft. The Lab was first launched in 2016, but shut down for a bit during the Xbox Series X/S launch. Now, it’s back and supports the new Xbox controller too.
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A month ago, YouTube darling David Dobrik went on a YouTube hiatus following allegations that a former member of his vlogging group sexually assaulted a woman during the filming of a now-deleted video. Around the same time, news came out that a close friend of Dobrik’s was gravely injured in a stunt performed for a…
Moon Studios - award-winning creators of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps - are looking for Senior Game Designers. ...
Rats swarming in 4K If the recent announcement of A Plague Tale: Requiem had you thinking about playing the first game, there’s...
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Back for its second year, the Xbox Summer Game Fest Demo Event—which somehow didn’t get a more palatable name during its time off—puts up 40 demos of unreleased games, generally indies. Over the past few days, two of us—staff writer Ari Notis and weekend editor Zack Zweizen—have given a bunch of these demos a spin.…
There's a lot in Valorant that feels like Counter-Strike, but Counter-Strike could never do trailers where they introduce new robot killing machines. That's what Valorant's latest character is. Called KAY/O, his main ability is to suppress his enemy's abilities. He'll join the game alongside the beginning of Episode 3 on June 22nd, and the trailer is below.
The SteelSeries Rival 3, a well-reviewed budget gaming mouse, is even more budget than usual with a £9 price drop on Amazon over the past two months. The Rival 3 now costs just £21, a great price for a mouse with a modern optical sensor, 60 million click switches and three-zone RGB lighting.
Today Microsoft hosted a Q&A livestream with the developers of Microsoft Flight Simulator providing new information about upcoming updates.
We hear from head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann and executive producer Martial Bossard.
First of all, we learn that the next world update is Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
In the video below you can see quite a few landmarks created for the update, including castles, stadiums, and more.
As for airports, we’re getting Lübeck Airport (EDHL) and Klagenfurt (LOWK), and St. Gallen–Altenrhein Airport (LSZR).
There will be at least three new cities rendered in photogrammetry and Wien will be one of them. You can see plenty of images in the video below.
Incidentally, Neumann committed to also improve countries in the southern hemisphere and hopes to go around the world once by the end of next year (during another livestream today we heard that there are two World Updates left this year and six next year).
Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser explained to The Verge that a number of factors--including the expanding demographics of players--will drive Nintendo Switch sales post pandemic. ...
I have to wait how long? Look, it’s no secret that Breath of the Wild is up there as one of my...
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2019’s A Plague Tale: Innocence is getting an enhanced encore for current-gen consoles next month. The game is also coming to Switch via Nintendo’s cloud streaming service. If you missed out on Asobo Studios’ acclaimed narrative adventure, this sounds like the perfect time to hop in now that the sequel is on the way.
On July 6, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S owners can enjoy a new version A Plague Tale: Innocence with 4K UHD visuals, 60 frames-per-second performance, and 3D audio support. It’s unclear if this will be a digital-only release or if it will come to stores as well. There’s also no word on price either. Take a look at the improvements in action in the announcement trailer below.
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Overcooked 2 seemed to make less of a splash than its predecessor, maybe because both chaotic co-op cook 'em ups are fundamentally similar. It's still a great game though, and it's currently free to keep via the Epic Games Store.
Cyberpunk 2077 has received yet another round of fixes, in the RPG's grim march from a mess everyone was excited about to a functional game everyone has forgotten about. This one addresses bugs across several quests, and a handful of PC-specific bugs.
There’s a demo on Steam right now, too Boomerang X is an arena action game that’ll test your reflexes and...
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Game Builder Garage launched on the Switch last Friday. In less than a week, users have already used Nintendo’s visual programming tool to craft their own takes on Sonic the Hedgehog, Doom Eternal, and the obligatory remake of Kojima’s P.T. demo. And don’t even get me started on screaming event presenter Toad.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is made up of a bunch of stories within stories, as before there were the Avengers, we learned about individual characters like Tony Stark, Steve Rodgers, and Thor. To commemorate those big three, one artist has created some beautiful artwork dedicated to each of their MCU trilogies.
In a post to the Marvel Studios subreddit, NautilusD excitedly revealed that the three images you can see below were officially licensed by Marvel as of today.
Longtime Ubisoft dev and Ubisoft Massive managing director David Polfeldt is departing his role at Ubisoft Massive to start a new position at the company (after a 6-month sabbatical). ...
Tanks for the memories Inti Creates has announced that it will be bringing the first two Blaster Master Zero titles...
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On Wednesday, Amazon Australia uploaded a listing for the next big Lego Mario seemingly ahead of its official reveal. It’s a full Lego build of Bowser’s classic airship. While it has since been removed from Amazon, the internet never forgets. Lego fans quickly downloaded and shared images of the set online before it…
Call of Duty’s Season Four update has arrived for Black Ops Cold War and Warzone, bringing a new limited-time event, as well as more maps, modes, operators, and a little Black Ops magic.
Acclaimed third-party developer PMDG is preparing to release the Douglas DC-6 for Microsoft Flight Simulator, and today we get to see more screenshots and a video.
The video features PMDG founder Robert Randazzo as he teaches us how to land this beautiful vintage airliner. The technique is certainly very different compared to modern jets.
We also get to take a look at the iconic livery of Alaska-based Everts Air, which is the last airline operating scheduled DC-6 flights in the United States. Those were posted on PMDG’s official forum by cavaricooper.
The aircraft releases tomorrow, but pricing details are still unknown.
You can enjoy them all below.
There are a lot of retro first-person shooters around at the moment, but relatively straight recreations of Quake don't interest me. Boomerang X gets at the spirit of those games with a design that's its own.
It's also coming out on July 8th, and there's a new trailer below.
"...instead of a †blank state†character which is the preferred option for a lot of games, I like to create fully-formed characters, and let the players guide them through life-altering experiences," says Geoffroy Vincens, writer of Across the Grooves. ...
Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki recently sat down with Japanese gaming outlet Famitsu to discuss the upcoming From Software adventure following its stunning reintroduction at E3 2021. While their conversation treads similar ground to other interviews, Miyazaki also got into the ways his team is hoping to make…
Flight Simulator is primed to make its highly anticipated Xbox Series X/S debut in just over a month, but, before that, there's another huge World Update for PC players, arriving today and giving makeovers to the sim's rendition of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
Developer Asobo is promising pilots the chance to explore "vast fjords, riveting urban vistas, domineering peaks, and centuries-old iconic castles" in its new Nordic countries update, which also brings landscape enhancements, improved regional architecture, five new airports, improved data for 100 airports, and over 78 new points of interest.
Once the World Update is downloaded (first update the sim, then grab the World Update from the in-game Marketplace) players will also have the opportunity to tackle five new bush trips - one for each of the new Nordic countries - plus five new landing challenges, focussed on Denmark's Bornholm, Iceland's Ísafjörður, Sweden's Stockholm Arlanda, Norway's Svalbard, and Finland's Vaasa Airports.
Today, during the Xbox Games Showcase Extended livestream, Microsoft and Bandai Namco presented an extensive video about the upcoming JRPG Scarlet Nexus.
The video shows pretty much everything you may want to know about the game, from the setting to the characters, combat gameplay, progression, and much more.
You can check it all out below.
Amazon is taking after first-party mobile storefronts like Apple's App Store and Google Play by reducing the amount of money it takes from smaller developers and publishers. ...
After putting the service on hiatus prior to the arrival of the Xbox Series consoles, Microsoft is reopening the Xbox Design Lab and is selling user-created controllers again. This time, the newest version of the Xbox wireless controller is for sale and set for complete customization.
Those looking to customize a new set of sticks will have many of the choices available previously in the design studio. Ushering the new controller design into the Lab is the arrival of 3 new colors: electric volt, pulse red, and shock blue, all of which have been on stock controllers in the past. There are a total of 18 colors to choose from which can be used in any combination on the front, back, bumpers, analog sticks, triggers, and d-pad. The face buttons have their own options as well including the new black text on color the ABXY buttons, and black icons on a white background option for the view, menu, and share buttons. There seems to be a staggering amount of choices to make a unique controller.
It’s weird to think about, but there was a time less than a year ago when Among Us wasn’t a household name. When it first launched in 2018, it wasn’t a failure, exactly, but it seemed destined to live out its days as quietly as a good imposter—except without the killing. Then, last summer, it blew up thanks to a small…
Scott Cawthon, the creator of blockbuster indie horror series Five Nights At Freddy's, has announced he's retiring. He says he wants to focus his attention on his kids. This comes a few days after many fans were upset (particularly some LGBTQ fans) by the discovery that he had donated large amounts of money to politicians who have repeatedly opposed rights, protections, and support for queer and trans people. He and his family were also then doxed and threatened, which is obviously horrifying. But while he's retiring, the series will live on.
Though E3 2021 may have been a mixed bag in some regards, it wasn’t without its surprise reveals or unexpected appearances. Some were tied to long-dormant franchises, while others were fresh debuts by newly created IPs. Regardless, they all earned their place on our list of the 8 biggest surprises from E3 2021’s showcases.`
Elden Ring’s absences from gaming events has been a meme ever since it was first announced back in 2019. As such, it’s appearance at any of E3 2021’s events was sure to help them rocket to any ranking of the week’s best showcases.
