After last year’s one-year anniversary in-game event which saw the addition of new emotes, skins, and more, many fans have been speculating about what Blizzard has planned for this year’s event. Well, today Blizzard started putting those rumors to rest as they have officially released the first details about Overwatch Anniversary 2018. Starting on May 22,
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Following the release of the reveal trailer of Rage 2, Bethesda Softworks also opened the official website of the game. While the trailer itself basically said nothing about the game and didn’t even hint at the platforms, the site reveals more. Rage 2 is coming for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. We also get a small blurb
Our WeebCast is a weekly podcast dedicated to all thing Japanese, and today you can listen to its sixth episode, focusing on the renaissance of Japanese games, many of which rose to critical and fan acclaim over the past few years after a period of semi-limbo. This discussion was inspired by Ebb and Flow – Conversations on the recent
Bandai Namco is continuing to reveal new characters for My Hero One’s Justice, which despite the weird western title, it’s actually a My Hero Academia game titled in Japan My Hero Academia: One’s Justice. Today we get the reveal of three more characters, Kyoka Jiro, Eijiro Kirishima, and Fumikage Tokoyami. In order to show them
DMM’s Muv-Luv mobile game Muv-Luv Alternative: Strike Frontier is celebrating Mother’s Day with another of its special events this week. The Muv-Luv series isn’t exactly full of mothers, but there are a few, and the developers found the best candidate for the role for two Power-type pilots in the gacha. The first is one of my personal favorites, 211st Tactical Armored Battalion Zhar commander
Valve has gotten in on the exploit-hunting trend according to recent public releases of documentation from HackerOne, a community of white-hat hackers who engage in vulnerability coordination and bug bounty. According to the statistics on Valve’s HackerOne page, $109,600 have been paid out in bounty rewards to individuals who are able to find and document loopholes,
Developer Eidos Montréal has been busy to say the very least. With Shadow of the Tomb Raider set to be released later this year on September 14th and co-developing an Avengers project with Crystal Dynamics, many fans of the Deus Ex series have been questioning whether or not there will be another addition to the cyberpunk series. Thankfully, Eidos Montréal’s Head of
There’s been a lot of Attack on Titan news in the past few months, including the announcement of the anime’s third season and the game’s new Expulsion Mode. Koei Tecmo has no intention of letting the ball drop on the Titan-hype train, so Attack on Titan 2 rips and roars its way into the limelight with the addition of
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege players should prepare themselves for the latest update to Year Three Season Two: Operation Para Bellum. While we won’t know much about what the new operation holds for players until the official full Twitch showcase on May 20, Ubisoft has released a trailer for the newest map called Villa. A quick
Rick and Morty is arguably one of the most entertaining shows on television right now. Whether you love it or hate it, there is no denying that the show’s popularity is apparent. So when Owlchemy Labs made a virtual reality game that is based on the titular show in 2017, it peaked my interest. Although the
Today, during a panel at Bitsummit hosted at the Miyako Messe venue in Kyoto, Nicalis presented some brand new gameplay of Studio Saizensen upcoming fighting game Blade Strangers. The game was played live on stage on Nintendo Switch in docked mode using pro controllers. The first match you’ll see below pitched Shovel Knight against Emiko from Umihara Kawase, while
If you’ve been impatiently waiting for Divinity: Original Sin II‘s August release on console, then you’re in luck. Yesterday, Microsoft accidentally announced that the game will be available Wednesday, May 16th on Xbox Game Preview. Yesterday, Microsoft’s in-home press site Xbox Wire included the popular roleplaying game on its list of games to be released this upcoming
Yesterday, game artist and animator Matt Petrak relaunched a Kickstarter campaign for Tala, a puzzle point-and-click game that combines traditional animation techniques with nature photography that Petrak took himself. In its first day, the game has already raised over $3,000 of its $11,3111 goal. Tala is about a forest spirit who hasn’t found her place in the
Today, Université Laval won the 2018 Heroes of the Dorm National Championship. Laval is the first Canadian college to win the Heroes of the Dorm tournament, each bringing the championship back to their school, as well as covering their tuition. They also swept the competition, not losing a single game in each of their series
Today, during a panel at Bitsummit held at the Miyako Messe venue in Kyoto, Deadly Premonition creator Hidetaka “SWERY65” Suehiro and Panzer Dragoon creator Yukio Futasugi talked about the crowdfunding campaign of their upcoming game The Good Life. Futasugi-san mentioned through a translator that the development team is finally able to stand at the start
We are here at the 2018 Heroes of the Dorm National Championships where the Heroic Four teams — University of Kentucky, Université Laval, University at Buffalo, and California Polytechnic State University – Pomona — will face each other to win the cash prize of $500,000 to help them with their tuition. We had the opportunity
Yesterday, indie developer Auroch Digital released a trailer announcing Mars Horizon, their upcoming space strategy game. It will put players in charge of a major space agency from the start of the space age to humanity’s eventual journey to Mars. While responsible for their space agency, players will research new technology to expand their base and
Nicalis just released the full version of the cinematic opening to the indie-crossover arcade brawler Blade Strangers, which you can watch below. Set to a rockin’ generic pop anime track, the opening cinematic explores some of the characters both new and old. The game crosses titles from Studio Saizensen games (Code of Princess, Sayonara Umihara Kawase, etc.),
Eager followers of 2D action platformer Death’s Gambit will certainly be pleased by the game’s latest piece of news: a trailer with the anticipated release date of the game of August 14, 2018. Back in 2016, we got a trailer for the bosses of the game, and everyone would say that there is definitely a Dark
Earlier this morning, Inti Creates and Artplay announced Castleva… ahem… Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, an 8-bit spin-off game born from Koji Igarashi’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Following the announcement, the publisher released a large batch of screenshots providing another look at the nostalgic game. For those unfamiliar with the game, Bloodstained: Ritual of the
Today Frontier Developments released a brand new developer diary video of its upcoming park sim game Jurassic World Evolution. In the video, not only we see some spiffy gameplay footage of the dinosaur and park, but we also hear about the developers on many aspects of the game, from the missions we’ll receive from three
Today NIS America released a brand new trailer of the upcoming dungeon-crawling JRPG Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk. It’s been a little while since we heard of the game, but today we get to see the foxy witch Dronya as she deals with a shifty-eyed drunkard named Newt. Not only we get to see more of
This past week, PlayStation shared a new trailer for the upcoming racing game The Crew 2 featuring another vehicle that will be available for players. This is the fifth trailer in Ubisoft’s Motorsports Vehicle Series, and it features the Mercedes-Benz X-Class. While trailers for other vehicles have taken place in more of a city setting, this one
Get ready for some street-fighting action, except the street is an unforgiving jungle with a beautiful ecosystem full of amazing creatures that want to murder you. That’s right: it’s time for the Monster Hunter World x Street Fighter collaboration event, and with it, a chance to hadouken a goddamn Rathalos in the face. Yep. Ryu and Sakura
Ever since No Man’s Sky was announced, I’ve been incredibly interested in the idea of procedurally generated games. And even when the game didn’t end up being what was promised, I knew that the concept of procedurally generated games still had potential. My optimism mainly stemmed from the fact that it essentially allows for an unlimited amount of replayability
Crytek’s first-person shooter title Hunt: Showdown has received its first major update and includes addresses a substantial amount of changes and bug fixes, adds new equipment and gameplay features. Oh yeah, and it offers players $4000 of in-game money as a way to apologize to players for all the technical problems that plagued the game in the past.
Steam’s latest publisher sale is now live, and this weekend places the spotlight on Texas-based studio Devolver Digital. According to the Steam page, now until Monday, May 14 PC gamers can save up to 90% on titles published by Devolver Digital. Several highlights from this sale include Absolver ($14.99), Crossing Souls ($7.49), Minit ($8.99), The Red Strings Club ($10.04), and Ruiner ($9.99).
Today, during BitSummit 2018 in Japan, Inti Creates unveiled Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. It is an 8-bit spinoff title of the notable KickStarter game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and is releasing on PC, PS4, PS Vita, 3DS, Switch, and Xbox One later this month. This 8-bit title is reminiscent of the earliest Castlevania games, and
Today, during a panel at Bitsummit in Kyoto, Inti Creates and Artplay announced Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. During the Kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, an 8-bit game was promised as a stretch goal, and Curse of the Moon is exactly that game. Basically, it’s a nostalgic 8-bit Igavania that fans of
A few months back dataminers found perks from older Call of Duty games hidden in the code for Call of Duty: WWII, but at the time nobody knew when or even if they would ever be released. Now, we have our answer as developer Sledgehammer Games has announced a brand new playlist for the first-person shooter and it allows players