While it released over two years ago now, Blizzard’s Overwatch has evolved into one of the biggest multiplayer games on the planet alongside its very-popular eSports scene, and now those looking to jump into the game have a perfect opportunity starting next weekend. Developer Blizzard Entertainment has announced that a Free Weekend will be available for Overwatch
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As a follow-up to the cult hit fighting game, Nidhogg 2 debuted last summer with an increased level of insanity and complexity to its sword-fighting gameplay, and now Xbox One owners can duel to the death with the game’s release on the platform. Developer Mark Essen revealed that Nidhogg 2 has officially been released on Xbox One.
Today NIS America released a brand new trailer of the upcoming fighting game SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy. The trailer gives a brief look at the story before moving into a nice showcase of the title’s gameplay and features. If you’re unfamiliar with the title, it’s an “all-stars” fighting game featuring most of the beloved heroines
The bright lights of Los Santos are set to shine even brighter this month as Grand Theft Auto’s Gay Tony returns to the series in GTA Online’s After Hours. Rockstar games is ready to bring a massive update to GTA Online which will allow players to operate a top-shelf nightclub called Tony’s Fun House as
The long-awaited Advanced Gungeons & Draguns update to the 2016 roguelike Enter the Gungeon is now available on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. The free update includes a wide variety of new content, including, new enemies, weapons, and synergies. Additionally, the update makes the game more forgiving while including new difficulty options
In 2010, Bethesda Softworks published Fallout: New Vegas, a spin-off game in the Fallout series that was developed by Obsidian Entertainment rather than Bethesda Game Studios, the team that had created Fallout 3. Since this time, the company has never worked with an outside developer in this manner again and Bethesda’s Todd Howard doesn’t see that changing. In a
Overwatch’s support heroes are next in line for an array of alternations according to Blizzard. Posting on Blizzard’s official forums, Overwatch developer Geoff Goodman outlined the changes that we can expect to see across five of the game’s characters and the reasoning behind each tweak. The characters in question include Ana, Bridgette, Lúcio, Mercy, and Moira;
Today THQ Nordic announced its lineup of games that will be presented at Gamescom 2018. The publisher that took THQ’s mantle in semi-recent times will have a rather diverse range of titles, starting with the first publicly playable appearance of Darksiders III. More playable games will include Biomutant, Generation Zero and Fade to Silence. We’re also getting to
Today Sony Interactive Entertainment started to recruit beta testers for the next major system software update for the PlayStation 4. At the moment of this writing, registrations have started only for the Japanese PlayStation Network, but they’re likely to be extended to North America and Europe soon. Update: North American registration is now open and
Today .hack developer CyberConnect2 released a new trailer for its upcoming “trilogy of vengeance,” a trio of independently-developed games that the developer is creating for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. The three games will be released simultaneously worldwide in 2019, even if there is no firm release date for the moment. As announced
Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released a new small batch of screenshots of the upcoming anime game Tokyo Ghoul:re CALL to EXIST. This time around, the screenshots focus on battle scenes, showing how protagonist Kaneki can take care of his opponents. Besides Kaneki, the game will include a variety of characters from all the Tokyo Ghoul anime, including
There’s no denying that Fortnite is currently the most popular game around as its reach has become more than just another video game and is instead a cultural phenomenon. This success is bringing in loads of money for developer Epic Games but a new report reveals that profits might be higher than even anticipated. By way of
In 2015, Polish developer Techland launched its survival horror game, Dying Light, yet again bringing zombie-killing action to the current generation of consoles and PC. With the oversaturation of zombies in popular media, I never expected Dying Light to be one of the best games of the year. Bringing familiar mechanics from the Dead Island
We know that Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is going to appear at Gamescom where Bandai Namco is likely to announce a release date for the game. In preparation for the new reveal, the publisher opened a brand new official website for the game. The site includes the following message: After eleven years, the latest numbered
Sledgehammer Games has done a good job with updating Call of Duty: WWII on a regular basis in order to keep the game fresh, balanced, and most importantly, but bug-free. The developer is continuing this philosophy as a couple days ago they released a brand new hotfix for the game and it while it doesn’t do much, it
One of the most relevant announcements of E3 2o18 — while not exactly a surprise for many — was Devil May Cry 5, and today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included an interview to Director Hideaki Itsuno, Senior Producer Michiteru Okabe, and Producer Matthew Walker. We learn that the goal of the visuals of the game is
If you love Fortnite and you’ve been looking for new ways to show off that love, then the search will soon be over. Today, popular vinyl figure creators Funko announced that they have partnered with Epic Games to produce a slow of different Funko collectibles, in a variety of different product lines. While no specifics were given
If you’ve been wondering when you’d be able to get your hands on Call of Cthulhu then wonder no more. Today, developer Cyanide and publisher Focus Home Interactive announced that the investigative RPG will be hitting digital storefronts and retail stores in just a few months, on October 30, 2018, just in time for Halloween, which of course
Bandai Namco may have recently delayed its Souls-like action-JRPG Code Vein, but the publisher is certainly not done with promoting the game. Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included a brand new batch of screenshots and info for us to seek our teeth in. We get to take a new look at Jack and Eva. An especially interesting screenshot
With its release last year, Friday the 13th: The Game delivered a terrifying (but fun) multiplayer experience as players were mercilessly chased by its iconic killer, Jason Voorhees, with the game now offering PS4 and Xbox One owners new special editions to look forward to. Publisher Gun Media has announced that two new physical editions for Friday the
Today Sega released a new trailer of the upcoming JRPG Valkyria Chronicles 4. There is good news and bad news. The trailer features the opening cutscene of the game, and the good news is that it looks as awesome as it did in the Japanese version of the game. The bad news is that it
After Just Cause 3 struggled to run on Xbox One and PS4, Avalanche Studios decided to overhaul their game engine for the next installment Just Cause 4. Today, a new trailer has been released that shows off just what those drastic new changes are in the Apex Engine, the name of the engine utilized in Just Cause 4. As the
Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included a spread revealing Daedalus: The Awakening of Golden Jazz, that was previously teased with no information. The game is a prequel of the Tantei Jinguji Saburo series, known in the west as Jake Hunter Detective Story. The protagonist isn’t Saburo Jinguji/Jake Hunter, but his grandfather, Keisuke Jinguji, and it’ll be set in New
Originally released in 2016 on PC and mobile, the narrative adventure game 1979 Revolution: Black Friday showed players a unique story grounded in the historical setting of the Iranian Revolution as a photojournalist experiences the tragedies firsthand, with the game now set to come to consoles in the coming weeks. Developer iNK Stories has announced that 1979
With the series’ debut in 2012, fans of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead series experience a heartbreaking and intense story as we followed the trail of Clementine in her journey though a walker-infested America, and now a new trailer and images have released giving us more of the picture behind her story in The Walking Dead: The
Mega Man games are well known for being relentlessly difficult! Throwing players into hectic battles where they must learn complex enemy attack patterns while under heavy fire or ensure that their platforming accuracy is pixel perfect in order to proceed; this is all part of the series’ charm. However, there’s no denying that the difficulty
Today Arc System Works released the first screenshots and artwork of Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Prism of Eyes, the latest chapter of the series known in the west as Jake Hunter Detective Story. We get to see footage, screenshots, and illustrations related to two of the cases that will be included in the series’ current generation debut, which
Today the good folks at the YouTube channel Archipel released a mini-documentary on Atlus’ popular character designer and Artwork Team leader Shigenori Soejima. The video focuses mostly on the upcoming Catherine: Full Body, but it also delves deeper into Soejima-sensei’s inspiration and work. Interestingly, we learn about the genesis of Catherine, and how the initial idea did
If you’ve been wondering when you’ll be able to get your hands on the next DLC for South Park: The Fractured But Whole, then wonder no more. Today, developer and publisher Ubisoft announced that the Bring the Crunch DLC will be available in exactly two weeks, on July 31, 2018. For those that don’t know, the Bring the Crunch DLC adds
With the release of Enter the Gungeon‘s new Advanced Gungeons & Draguns update right around the corner, developer Dodge Roll Games took to Twitter to show off a sneak preview of one of the game’s updated weapons. Fans of a certain space bounty hunter may find this weapon familiar, as the updated weapon pays homage