Month: June 2018

Today Cloud Imperium Games released a brand new video focusing on Star Citizen‘s single-player campaign Squadron 42. The video is relatively brief, but showcases what the teams behind the game are doing to improve the technology being quite a few aspects of the game, including animations, destruction, some really spectacular junk clutter (yes, I know, it’s
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Today Blizzard announced Overwatch‘s new hero Hamtaro… Ahem, I meant Wrecking Ball. Following the announcement of the 28th hero of the game, the developer released two videos. The first is the now traditional cinematic origin story that shows what made the hamster Hammond into the Wrecking Ball he is today and the second is the
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There has been a recent surge, both in sales and popularity, for Japanese games in the West. For instance, games like Capcom’s Monster Hunter World and Bandai Namco’s Dragon Ball FighterZ were the top two best selling games in January of this year and reached critical acclaim from a bunch of outlets including ourselves. There
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For my money, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag and last year’s soft-relaunch Assassin’s Creed: Origins are the two best games in the now over a decade-long history of the AC franchise. Yes, there are plenty of other worthy contenders but these two, in particular, have always struck my fancy more than any of the others. So imagine my delight when I sat down
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Fighting EX Layer may lack the “Street Fighter” brand in the title, but it’s still developed by Arika, the team being the Street Fighter EX series. As such, the game — which was released worldwide today for PS4 — retains a lot of the familiar characters that Arika created for the Street Fighter spinoff. Today they also released a launch
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Some combinations are undeniably perfect. Spaghetti and meatballs, peanut butter and jelly, cats and role-playing games. If you’re a fan of the latter you’re in luck, as Gentlebros Games announced that they’re developing Cat Quest II. Announced through a teaser trailer from Gentlebros Games’ official YouTube channel, Cat Quest II looks to scratch the same
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A few days ago it was revealed that Fortnite would be receiving the previously teased mode Playground today, much to the excitement of fans. It seems, however, that things have gone off to a rough start, as Epic Games has officially removed the limited-time mode from the battle royale shooter. According to the developer’s official Twitter account, the
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As the two top-reigning competitors in the currently hot market of Battle Royale games, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer PUBG Corps brought things to a heat against Fortnite developer Epic Games by putting forth a lawsuit against the company for copyright infringement earlier this year, though the conclusion of that case seems to have fizzled out. According to a
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Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included an interview with Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida, who was asked to comment on whether this is going to be “the year of software” for PS4. Yoshida-san agreed with that statement and mentioned that games made in Japan since around last year were highly praised around
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For years, Remedy Entertainment has focused on narrative first and gameplay second. From the long monologues of Max Payne to the inner-workings of a writer in Alan Wake, and the episodic television experiment found in Quantum Break, it has been easy to see this emphasis on storytelling in almost every one of the studio’s titles. This focus on story over gameplay isn’t necessarily
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Since the debut of their first game in 2014, Stoic Studio — a team comprised of former developers from BioWare — have been telling a Norse-mythology inspired story in the form of The Banner Saga series. The strategy-RPG series debuted after a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign (followed two years after by its sequel, The Banner Saga 2),
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