Month: November 2018

This last month has been a busy one for Spike Chunsoft and Bandai Namco Entertainment’s crossover 3D fighter Jump Force. Since its release date was revealed in late October, a ton of new characters have been announced from Shonen Jump franchises like Fist of the North Star, Dragon Ball, City Hunter, and Rurouni Kenshin. The game
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Nintendo published a new trailer for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, ahead of the game’s release in a bit more than two weeks now. The trailer goes over everything we know about the game, explaining how it works for newcomers and specialists alike. We’ve got 74 characters from different game franchises, the pokémons, the items, Classic
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On September 21st of this year, Telltale Games – acclaimed developers of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, and more – laid off a majority of its workforce with no severance package and closed its doors for good. For weeks after the announcement, information regarding the shutdown
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Marvel and Riot Games have today announced a new collaboration that will soon see one of League of Legends‘ most recognizable characters hitting a comic shelf near you. In May 2019, Marvel will begin publishing a new series of graphics novels in the League of Legends universe. This slate of stories is slated to kick off with League of
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Bandai Namco announced during a live stream two brand new Super Robot Wars games: Super Robot Wars T, standing for “Terra”, for Switch and PS4, and Super Robot Wars DD, standing for “Dimension Driver”, for iOS and Android. Both games will release in 2019. An “Asia version” of Super Robot Wars T with English subtitles will also release
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It’s the biggest time of the year for SMITE. Hi-Rez Expo features the game’s world championships on PC and console as well as cosplay and announcements for the Georgia-native developer’s 3rd-person MOBA.Hi-Rez Studios has combined its expo with DreamHack Atlanta this year to bring eSports together on an even larger scale. I got the chance
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Microsoft made more waves recently when they announced at X018 it would be acquiring two new studios in Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment. Following the acquisition announcement, inXile’s founder Brian Fargo recently spoke to Eurogamer about how the studio will be changing moving forward now that they belong to Microsoft. For the most part, Fargo
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It seems that classic 1990s’ platforming icon and all-round adorable dude Spyro is off to a hot start as the release of Spyro Reignited Trilogy has claimed the top spot in the UK’s retail charts effectively knocking the enormously successful Red Dead Redemption 2 into second place. According to GamesIndustry.biz Spyro: Reignited Trilogy is one
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It’s been a particularly busy weekend for eSports with a number of large tournaments taking place across the globe spanning from games such as Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition to Halo 5. Among this slew of high-level competitive gaming was Pokémon: Ultra Sun and Pokémon: Ultra Moon for the Latin America International Championships. Streamed live
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Remember when the internet was ablaze with people talking about Bohemia Interactive’s DayZ title? Well, recently it’s hit over four million units sold, finally launched into beta on the PC, and a major update is heading to the Xbox Game Preview version of the title this week. DayZ was in Early Access way back in
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The anime mobile game, Fate/Grand Order, made an approximate 9 Billion Yen (roughly $80 million USD) in the month of September according to Game-i. This is impressive compared to mobile game competitors like Pokémon GO which made $70 million in the month of October. Fortnite Mobile was reportedly earning “$1 million a day” according to Forbes, making it
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In the latest scan of V-Jump, Jump Force is bringing Dragon Ball Z favorites, Piccolo and Cell, to the roster as well as Himura Kenshin and Makoto Shishio from Rurouni Kenshin. The inclusion of Rurouni Kenshin was rumored not too long ago, though, was uncertain due to the controversy revolving around the manga’s creator. Kenshin and Shishio look almost exactly how they did
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