While the last few days have been dominated by news from the top developers and console makers, some of the smaller studios have been making E3 announcements of their own.This included, surprisingly, physical copy distributor Limited Run Games as they released two game reels of their upcoming library (something they hinted at a few weeks
Month: June 2017
The dust has settled at E3 2017 after all of the press conferences and presentations have ended, and once again E3 brought out some of the biggest announcements, surprises, and reveals that gamers have to look forward to throughout this year, and the coming years. After EA, Bethesda, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Sony, and Nintendo all presented
Today, Media Create released its weekly sales chart of the Japanese video game market. For the week between June 5th and June 11th a familiar face has returned to the top of the software chart: Nintendo’s Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which has returned for its fourth week as the big ravioli. Meanwhile, last week’s No.1,
Nintendo has finally confirmed the longstanding rumors about the remake of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. This updated version is coming to the 3DS on October 6 of this year and will feature a brand new mode and updated visuals. The game was shown on the Nintendo Treehouse stream today and it looks like its
I hope you love your classic 2D series news, because we’ve got a bunch more for you courtesy of Nintendo. MercurySteam’s return to form with Metroid: Samus Returns unveiled today with a bunch of information given to us during a Treehouse presentation. But with a recent press kit release, the Big N gave us some
Today Square Enix released a batch of announcements about the future of the Final Fantasy XV universe. First of all, we get the confirmation that the game will get an update to support Xbox One X, as it was announced during Microsoft’s E3 press conference. Secondly, the new story DLC Episode Prompto got a release
Today, the Sony Interactive Entertainment launched a new North American PlayStation Store, “Best of E3,” sale, featuring a host of the discounts on prominent AAA releases and smaller, digital-only hidden gems. With sales across PS4, PS Vita, and PS3, some of the highlights include The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Firewatch, Titanfall 2, Star Wars Battlefront,
At the end of the detailed coverage of the newly announced remake, Metroid: Samus Returns, a few tidbits were dropped about extended features for the game. The first was all amiibo focused: two new figurines are coming out as a compliment to the adventure. Alongside that, the two Samus amiibo that are out there (Zero
NIS America is celebrating E3 2017, and released two trailers for two of its upcoming games from Japan Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana is the latest chapter of the popular Ys action JRPG series by Nihon Falcom. Up until now, localization was handled bu XSEED
Released alongside the debut of the Nintendo Switch in March, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has quickly drawn substantial critical acclaim and has kept new Switch owners occupied for hundreds of hours on end, with more of the game set to arrive later this year in our first look at its DLC
What a conference. From beginning (and I’m talking the Pre-Show) to the very end. So the question remains — is this just “a great Sony press conference” or “the greatest Sony press conference”? The Pre-Show was a wonder to behold, with game-after-game being announced. We saw an official date for Knack II, along with a
Call your bosses, call off work — PlayStation Experience is coming back in 2017 to Anaheim California. According to PlayStation’s E3 Press Conference Pre-Show, PlayStation Experience will be coming December 9-10. For those out of the loop, PlayStation Experience is Sony Interactive Entertainment’s home-grown conference for PlayStation superfans. PlayStation Experience is notorious breeding ground for
Today at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference in California, the company officially announced its new dancing game Just Dance 2018. The developer said that this year’s iteration will include 40 songs. The full tracklist has not been made available, however you check out the list of songs that were teased below: 24K Magic – Bruno Mars
Screw you guys, I’m going phone. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself — but you have to imagine Trey Parker and Matt Stone must be thinking along these lines with the recent announcement of South Park: Phone Destroyer. Debuting at Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference, the newly announced game is a real-time strategy title bringing all the
The 23rd week of the 2017 UK Sales Chart are in, and unlike last week, and the week before that, a fighting game is no longer the chart topper, but rather the newly released WipEout: Omega Collection from Sony Interactive Entertainment is. Notably, the series that first debuted along the launch of the PS1 in
During Microsoft’s E3 press conference, Mojang announced that they would be bringing cross-platform play to Minecraft for all consoles and devices. The trailer showed off new massive servers as well that will be able to host more players than Minecraft’s current console lobbies. Mojang also announced that Minecraft will be in 4K exclusively on Xbox
Back on June 5th — exactly five days ago — EA unveiled FIFA 18 and its cover star, recent Champions League winner, Christiano Ronaldo. Additionally, it revealed that the game will once again launch on September 29th, on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and Switch. At the time, EA also revealed — though
MixedBag Games announced today that its atmospheric Metroidvania game forma.8 will be coming to iOS and Apple TV as forma.8 GO on June 15. forma.8 GO only requires a single purchase in order for one to gain access to it on their iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. This version still features all of the content
A few weeks ago, we wrote a piece called “Casting The Witcher Netflix TV Series” and it went over really well with our community of readers. So naturally, we wanted to start a series! We brought together all of our ideas (and maturity) to compile a list of actors that we believe could play the
Today developer Niantic announced that a slew of brand new events will be hitting Pokémon GO in the coming months in order to celebrate the game’s one-year anniversary, as well the milestone of 750 million global downloads. These events will take place both in the real world, and in-game. First off we have the Solstice
Thomas Happ Games and BadLand Games officially announced a Nintendo Switch version of the popular indie Metroidvania Axiom Verge today. This port of the game will also get a physical release alongside the previously announced PS4, PS Vita, and Wii U versions called Axiom Verge: Multiverse Edition. Axiom Verge: Multiverse Edition contains the following items:
Today, Sony released the PlayStation Store’s top downloaded games for the month of May in North America and Europe. Last month, the North American PS4 charts were topped by Persona 5. This month they have been topped by NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Injustice 2. Behind Injustice 2, is Gun Media’s Friday the
Today Square Enix announced its livestream schedule for E3 2017, and there will be quite a lot of content to enjoy. The livestream will happen on the publisher’s own Twitch channel, and on its Square Enix Presents YouTube channel, and will include “developer interviews, announcements, gameplay sessions, and much more.” Featured are plenty of games
Rising Star Games released a time-lapsed gameplay video for Deadly Premonition: The Board Game today that squeezes a 35 minute game into one minute and forty eight seconds. This board game, which is based off SWERY’s cult classic PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 title Deadly Premonition, hit KickStarter May 9, and met its original goal
Today, PlatinumGames and SEGA released an accolades trailer for their sci-fi action shooter Vanquish, which made its way to PC for the first time just last month. For those who don’t know, Vanquish was Platinum Game’s fourth title; it was directed by Shinji Mikami of Resident Evil fame, and released on PS3 and Xbox 360
Today, Media Create released its weekly sales chart of the Japanese market. For the week between May 29th and June 4th, we have yet another new top-dog on the software charts. As you may know, last week, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was finally dethroned after being king for three straight weeks by Ys VIII: Lacrimosa
Warner Bros Interactive (WB Games) announced today that this year at E3 will mark their first ever WB Games Live! event, where they will broadcast directly from their booth on the show floor. The event will let people tune in for the usual interviews, gameplay demos, developer commentaries and more about some of their upcoming
During a masterclass lecture held at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, Red Dead Redemption Lead Game Designer and Co-Writer Christian Cantamessa talked about the difficult decision that led to the ending of the game that fans know and love. Keep in mind that what he mentioned includes heavy spoilers about the
As it announced it would yesterday, today, EA unveiled FIFA 18 and its cover star — and recent Champions League winner — Christiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid to the world. The reveal comes in the form of an announcement cinematic trailer that centers around the superstar going up against recent Premier League winners Chelsea. As
EA announced today on social media that fans will get their first look at FIFA 18 tomorrow, June 5, in a reveal trailer. EA posted on Twitter, updated their cover photo, and took to Facebook to announce the first look of “The World’s Game.” While no set time has been announced for the reveal trailer,