Early this morning, Treyarch officially shut down the servers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s multiplayer beta, and although it did stay up for around 30 minutes more than expected, it left many fans sad. Of course, it’s not all doom and gloom though because the beta is coming back this weekend and the developer has
Month: August 2018
After spending the past few years in an early access state, the long-awaited We Happy Few will finally deliver its particular brand of dystopian “fun” (if that’s what you might call it) to players this week, though Compulsion Games has revealed that more in store for players after release in the form of post-release content. Developer
Fallout 76 is easily one of the most anticipated game releases of the fall, and while plenty of fans will be looking forward to enjoying all the game will have to offer come November, according to Bethesda, the game’s upcoming “B.E.T.A.” period will show fans virtually everything that can be experienced in Fallout 76 this fall.
Won’t somebody please stop that darned Bandicoot? For the 31st week of the year and for the sixth straight week in the UK, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy has topped the sales charts. Crash’s reign of terror has now carried over into the first week of August and without any other major releases arriving until early September, it
The upcoming Forsaken expansion for Destiny 2 is nearly upon us and recently Bungie and Activision have released a new trailer highlighting some of the goodies in store for those that pre-order. The bonus gear that will be available upon pre-ordering deal with character Cayde-6, who meets his untimely demise in Forsaken. Both the Last Hand Exotic Weapon Ornament and Cayde’s
With Gamescom quickly approaching at month’s end, today publisher Sega has revealed just which titles will be available for play in Cologne, Germany. Among Sega’s upcoming releases, they revealed that Creative Assembly’s Total War: Three Kingdoms, Sumo Digital’s Team Sonic Racing, and the much-anticipated release of Valkyria Chronicles 4 will all be available for demos at the show. Additionally, Fist of the North
EA Vancouver and EA Romania recently unveiled FIFA 19’s reworked Kick-Off and Ultimate Team modes, and today they gave us a first look at The Journey. This year’s story mode is titled The Journey: Champions, and sees Alex Hunter join Real Madrid. The official Alex Hunter Twitter account teased some exciting news yesterday, and it
While PvP trainer battles have always been a staple of the Pokémon franchise, the popular mobile game Pokémon Go has lagged behind its traditional counterparts in that feature. Pokémon Go only just added a friends system and trading in June of this year, roughly two years after the game’s launch. But according to developer Niantic,
It’s been another fast-paced year on the eSports circuit filled with upsets and turnarounds, but the main event on every fighting game professional’s calendar is the Evolution Championship Series. The annual event held in Las Vegas saw competitors from all over fighting gather to become the best in the world at their respective games. This
Each year, football (soccer in the USA) and gaming fans from around the world anticipate the newest entry in SEGA’s Football Manager series almost as much as FIFA. Today, developer Sports Interactive announced Football Manager 2019, which will release for PC on November 2, and it actually comes with quite a few interesting changes. Manager
Everyone’s favorite disc-throwing sports game Windjammers is due for a Nintendo Switch port. Publisher DotEmu made the announcement during fighting game tournament Evo 2018, in which Windjammers was featured as a side event. For the uninitiated, Windjammers is a fast and action-packed sports game, pitting two players against each other as they attempt to throw
WarioWare has always been one of the weirdest, most endearing corners of Nintendo’s wide breadth of IP. Its memorable and funny characters work well in tandem with the unique microgames in order to create minigame collections with a little more versatility than most in other games in its genre. That being said, we actually haven’t
Looks like Bandai Namco isn’t yet done announcing new playable characters for its upcoming anime game My Hero One’s Justice. If the title feels familiar but not really, that’s because it’s actually a My Hero Academia game, titled My Hero Academia: One Justice in Japan. Yet, in the west, Bandai Namco lost the “Academia” likely due to licensing reasons.
You can often see the history of an MMORPG by its seasonal events, especially when we’re talking about games with developers who are very keen on preserving tradition. The Moonfire Faire in Final Fantasy XIV is one of such events. It has gone on regularly every year since the first, massively unsuccessful, incarnation of the
Today Koei Tecmo released a new batch of screenshots and art of its upcoming Musou-style game Warriors Orochi 4. We get to see more of the new playable character Perseus, and of the deification form that will lift the powers of Guan Yinping to the same level as the gods. The images also show two new sacred treasures,
One of the reasons why the Yakuza series has become so popular is the minigames that enrich the content of every game. Yakuza 3, with its tropical paradise setting, is no exception. Today Sega released a gallery of screenshots featuring just that for the upcoming PS4 remaster. We get to see just a selection, as
Following the new reveal on Saturday, Atlus released a new trailer and a few pieces of information on Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. The new trailer focuses on the story and on the game’s character, which will come from Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5, with the addition of the female heroine of Persona
Before the Street Fighter V finals began at EVO 2018 Yoshinori Ono, the game’s executive producer, took the stage to reveal some new gameplay of two previously announced DLC characters. The first character we got a chance to look at is named G, a newcomer to the Street Fighter series. He’s the self-proclaimed “President of the World,” and is
Following the final match of the Dragon Ball FighterZ tournament at EVO 2018, Bandai Namco showed off a brand new trailer for three upcoming characters. Two of the characters that appear in the trailer were already revealed last month, Base Goku and Base Vegeta. We got a closer look at some of their supers and dialog, as well
Today, at the end of the EVO 2018 Grand Finals, Bandai Namco announced a new season for Tekken 7. Three new characters have been revealed, Anna Williams, Lei Wulong, and a rather big surprise: a collaboration with The Walking Dead will bring forth Negan. On top of them, three new characters will be revealed at
With the release date of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate so close, and yet so far way, fans have been eagerly awaiting any news about the game ever since it was announced back in March, and it looks they’re going to get some new information this week. Today, Nintendo announced at EVO 2018 that there will be a Super Smash
The galaxy od Chinese game development is still quite obscure and difficult to navigate for westerners. Beyond the projects presented with much fanfare as part of Sony’s China Hero Project, there are more that are worth taking a look at. The local branch of Sony Interactive Entertainment shared on its Weibo page a few more trailers
The second weapon from Nerf’s Overwatch collaboration has been revealed. D. Va’s Light Gun will join the lineup of Nerf Rival toys. I guess she was pretty serious when she said, “nerf this.” The blaster will hold up to three rounds and fire at 80 feet-per-second. As seen in the tweet from the official Overwatch
Today is the last day of EVO 2018, so it shouldn’t surprise that more fighting game news is coming, and there is one fresh out of the oven about Soul Calibur VI. Bandai Namco entertainment just revealed two returning characters for the upcoming fighting game, and they’re Astaroth and Seong Mi-Na. It’s certainly interesting to see the
If you’re still not over the masterpiece that is God of War, then you’re in luck. A novelization of the game will be available at the end of the month, but it is currently available for pre-order if you can’t wait. The book will follow the events of the game, and it was written by J.M.
AOne Games and Soedesco have revealed two more fighters for Omen of Sorrow. The upcoming horror fighting game got a trailer revealing the mummified man known as Imhotep as well as Victor Frankenstein’s Creation named Adam and some of the different skills that they will bring to the table. The mummified Imhotep, who claims that he
After announcing in July that Raiders of the Broken Planet will be relaunched as Spacelords later this month and free to play, developer MercurySteam shared a video discussing the free-to-play elements that players can expect. If you were looking for a quick overview of the changes being made for the relaunch, then this is it. MercurySteam also
Today, during a broadcast from ChinaJoy in Shanghai, the local arm of Sony Interactive Entertainment broadcasted quite a lot of gameplay of Capcom’s upcoming Mega Man 11. The gameplay, which was played live on the stream on PS4 (obviously, since it was a Sony event), showcased some lovely platforming and boss battle, which feel definitely familiar,
Today Koei Tecmo broadcasted a livestream from its Japanese headquarters and revealed the third new playable character for the game. Like Zeus and Athena, the new character also comes from Greek Mythology, and it’s Perseus. Son of Zeus himself and the mortal Danae, Perseus is known for having beheaded the Gorgon Medusa and a few
Today, following the Dead or Alive tournament at EVO 2018, Team Ninja had a tease to deliver via Twitter. The developer shared the silhouettes of two Dead or Alive 6 characters that are set to be revealed at Gamescom 2018 at the end of August. You can see it at the bottom of the post.