Nintendo’s mobile game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is introducing a crossover event between two of its popular franchises—starting today, players of the iOS and Android game can earn Splatoon 2-themed gear from completing in-game activities. The event will begin with the Blitz Clam Scavenger Hunt, based on the Splatoon 2 mode of the same name.
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Despite being hard at work on Dying Light 2, Techland still hasn’t stopped iterating upon the successful first game and has now launched their own take on the battle royale genre on Steam Early Access. Techland refers to Bad Blood as “brutal royale” rather than battle royale and instead of dropping 100 players into a certain area, it
Ahead of the launch of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in October, Ubisoft today took the opportunity to detail what those who purchase the season pass for the game will earn in the months after release. First and foremost, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Game Director Scott Phillips announced that all additional content for the game will be episodic. There will be two
A few days ago, Bandai Namco announced a new addition to the Tales of series that would be coming to mobile devices, Tales of Crestoria. In this week’s Famitsu, we’ve been given lots of new details about the game’s main character as well as how it’s world works. But first, if you missed it you should definitely check out
Today Koei Tecmo released a new gameplay video and information for its upcoming Musou game Warriors Orochi 4. The video shows the game’s producer Masaki Furusawa, and the director Tomohiko Aoki, playing the online Battle Arena Mode. The mode pits two teams of three players against each other. Each player can swap between two characters
Today Kadokawa Games announced that its upcoming love simulation LoveR will get its own virtual YouTuber. The girl is named Magical Yumina, and it’s the magical girl version of Yumina, the protagonist’s little sister and a first-year student in high school in the game. Quite obviously, she is affected by a serious brother complex, and
Square Enix is preparing to release update 4.4 “Prelude in Violet” for Final Fantasy XIV, and today they released a batch of new screenshots of what we can expect. The screenshots showcase the Omega: Alphascape raid dungeon, the Leap of Faith platforming minigame coming to the Gold Saucer, the gear that you can acquire with
Today Atlus released the box art and a small batch of new screenshots of the Catherine remake Catherine: Full Body. The box artwork by Shigenori Soejima showcases the three heroines of the game, Catherine, Katherine, and Rin, who is a completely new addition to the original cult classic. The game adds a new scenario to
As one of the biggest of Xbox’s franchises, Halo‘s history with the console platform goes back all the way to the original Xbox in 2001. However, while hopes were brought back up recently that the series’ most recent mainline entry would appear on PC, Microsoft has quelled rumors that Halo 5: Guardians could find a release on
Pokemon GO has been running around the world for over two years now, and the game has shown no signs of slowing down as a new PokeStop Nomination feature is on the horizon for players to expand on the number of PokeStops available. Developer Niantic has announced that rollout has begun for the PokeStop Nomination
Cross-platform parties were meant to be included in Rocket League as early as August, until a slight push to September—now, says developer Psyonix through a blog post, the implementation will come even later. Players across platforms will have to wait longer until they can party up in lobbies together. Psyonix implied that there was still
The team at Sloclap, creators of the unique melee multiplayer title Absolver, have taken to the PlayStation Blog to announce a new expansion for the game on PS4 and PC featuring challenges and an additional fighting style. Originally released last summer, Absolver is a multiplayer action role-playing title that sees players battle others online; it
Ahead of its launch in early October, Microsoft and Playground Games today released a new demo for Forza Horizon 4. This demo is a Play Anywhere title which means it’s available for download on both PC and Xbox One, the two platforms that Forza Horizon 4 will launch for. The page to download the demo is right here
Oddworld Inhabitants has announced on Twitter that Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath will be coming to the Nintendo Switch. While no release date was announced the game will be playable at EGX in Birmingham next week. There is also a Nintendo Direct scheduled for tomorrow to showcase upcoming 3DS and Switch games, so we may get a
The latest addition to State of Decay 2, Daybreak Pack, is now available on Xbox One and PC for $9.99 USD. This expansion adds a new re-playable co-operative “zombie siege” mode. Players and up to three other teammates control Red Talon soldiers with access to high-end weapons and must defend a fortified position while a
Lunar Ray Games has announced that their indie platformer Timespinner will be launching on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on September 25, 2018 for $19.99 USD. Inspired by classic 2D platformers from the 1990s, Timespinner follows Lunais, a young woman traveling through time to get revenge on an empire that killed her family. This game
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s release is quickly approaching which means it’s time for Ubisoft to begin pumping out even more promotional spots for the game. Today, the publisher released a new, brief TV spot for AC Odyssey that you’ll likely begin seeing in the coming weeks if you still happen to, you know, watch TV. There’s not a whole lot
Destiny 2: Forsaken finally launched last week and from what I’ve heard so far, it’s pretty good. What many have been waiting on to go live though since Forsaken’s launch is the new raid, which begins this Friday. Today, Bungie released a short new trailer for this raid, entitled Last Wish, and while it doesn’t show a whole lot, it
Just before E3 this year, Intellivision Entertainment announced that they were reviving the brand with a new family-friendly Intellivision console in the near future. More details were teased in July, but we were told that the console would not be fully unveiled until October 1. With less than a month to go until that date,
During today’s Apple Event from the Steve Jobs Theater, Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard appeared to show off some new footage of The Elder Scrolls: Blades running on the newly announced iPhone XS. The footage that we see of Blades isn’t all that different from what we saw of the game at E3, but we once again get to
Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included a large gallery of screenshots of Catherine: Full Body, the remake of the PS3 cult classic Catherine by Atlus. Besides taking a good look at the three Catherines (Catherine, Katherine, and the new entry, Rin), we get some more information about the game and we take a look at multiplayer.
Developers inXile Entertainment has released their latest The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep spotlight video focusing on the game’s soundtrack, which features Gaelic folk singers led by Ged Grimes of Simple Minds. With music always being at the forefront of the series, inXile Entertainment wanted to showcase this talent in exploring how their decision to
Focus Home Interactive and Saber Interactive have certainly been busy lately, as they had only announced the development of MudRunner 2 a few days ago, but here comes an expansion called the American Wilds expansion which is due out on PC, PS4, and Xbox One on October 23. The new expansion to Spintires: Mudrunner includes two
Developer Rebellion Entertainment is coming in hot and heavy with a heap of new content for their well-received shooter Strange Brigade, which released in August on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC. Players who bought the Season Pass have now the opportunely to play as Patrick ‘Bash’ Conaghan, an ex-rodeo rider who has a
Alan Wake is back! Well, sort of. Variety is reporting today that Remedy Entertainment is now in the works to create a new television series based off of the action-adventure game Alan Wake which launched back in 2010. Peter Calloway is currently signed on to be the showrunner and writer of the series while Remedy’s own Sam
Nintendo announced the release dates of the Nintendo Switch Online service. It will launch on September 18th in North America and September 19th in Europe. A seven-day free trial is also available, and you can find more info here if you’re in North America, and here if you’re in Europe. The service will cost $3.99/€3.99
Today Nintendo announced that its next Nintendo Direct broadcast is going to happen tomorrow, September 13th. The livestream will happen at 3:00 PM PDT, translating into 6:00 PM EDT, 11:00 PM BST, and midnight if you’re in Central Europe. It’s gonna be never for me since I’ll be on a flight to Tokyo. Luckily, our
Today is Wednesday, which means it’s time for the weekly Media Create numbers, and they’re indeed rather relevant, as they mark the debut of Marvel’s Spider-Man. Below you can check out the software chart from September 3rd to September 9th. As usual, the first number represents weekly sell-through, while the second indicates lifetime sales. Marvel’s
Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released a brand new trailer of its upcoming fighting game SoulCalibur VI. The trailer focuses on showing off all the modes included in the game, which appears to be very rich in features. For battle modes, we get arcade, versus, and training, while the story mode includes the classic Soul Chronicle
Today, Bandai Namco Entertainment released a new character trailer for its upcoming anime game, Black Clover: Quartet Knights, revealing mirror magic user Gauche. Gauche is a Shooter-type character. Using his beam-shooting mirrors, he can snipe careless enemies and has a special attack to hit multiples foes at once from safe places. He also possesses a short-range