With Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days released (check out our review here), you can expect that IO Interactive will start rolling out the online content for it, and they will. Starting August 31, three multiplayer packs will become available for gamers to abuse: ‘Multiplayer Mask Pack’, ‘Alliance Weapon Pack", and ‘Doggie Bag Pack’. Unfortunately, there is no pricing information available yet, but I would venture they cost between $5 and $15....
Keanu Reeves has spoken about video games and the video games industry, in comparison with Hollywood, and he has said, ‘I don’t think they need legitimising.’ In an interview with BBC Newsbeat, Reeves was speaking about his recent appearencce at E3 and his role in Cyberpunk 2077. He was asked about games, especially their relation to the other art forms, and whether or not they need legitimising. He said: ‘I don’t think they need legitimizing....
It is hard to imagine a San Diego Comic-Con without Kevin Smith, but there was an era we’ll call BKS where Saturday nights at the event didn’t conclude with the Jerseyed One from Jersey taking the main stage. “That’s when I felt like I had arrived at Comic-Con,” he said in a recent interview. “The following year, ’97, we’d had Chasing Amy out there, and when I went back, I had a bigger room to do the Q&A, and they kept giving me bigger rooms every year subsequent to that....
Konami’s special E3 announcement was the unveiling of the TurboGrafx-16 mini, in similar fashion to the PlayStation Mini and SNES Classic Mini. The mini console comes in three variants: the TurboGrafx-16 mini for the US, the PC Engine mini for Japan, and the PC Engine CoreGrafx mini for Europe. The games announced for the console so far are R-Type, New Adventure Island, Ninja Spirit, Ys Book 1 & 2, Dungeon Explorer, and Alien Crush....
Epic has assured us that Fortnite Chapter 2: Season 2 is coming on February 20, 2020, and the first leak as to what the new season might bring has landed. Fortnite Chapter 2 arrived all the way back in October 2019, bringing with it a whole new map. We say “whole new map,” but some of the locations from the original island managed to survive the transition. Three months later, and the first season of Chapter 2 is still ongoing, making it one of the longest Fortnite seasons to date....
Drawings, paintings, photographs, found objects, and text: Leanne Shapton’s work crosses boundaries. So what brings it all together? This: she is a poet of absence. Her best stuff often seems to speak of people who are no longer present, and the empty chairs she places on the stage are perfect spaces to allow the reader in. This is why, although I doubt anybody would call Shapton a game designer, her work always feels gamelike to me....
Concept art of Left 4 Dead 3 has been leaked and it comes with the claim that Valve may be working on a VR version of the classic horror series (via PC Games N). Valve News Network—the same source that leaked Half-Life: Alyx screenshots—has published a new video that delves into Left 4 Dead. The YouTube content creator said that the third entry to the huge zombie shooter was in development “in late 2011 or early 2012,” before Valve canned the project in early 2017....
Pokémon has not been a difficult series since Generation I and Let’s Go is no exception. With every game, the series only gets easier and easier. For whatever reason, Game Freak seems intent on dumbing down the gameplay until anyone and everyone can power through the games without so much as sweating. This isn’t to say there isn’t hard content, however. Despite its rather easy main game, Let’s Go does get quite difficult near the end....
The mobile-only streaming service Quibi has had a rocky start, but its lack of success may not be due to the coronavirus or screencasting. “When Quibi initially launched last month, the company failed to read the writing on the wall for what lay ahead in a post-covid-19 world, opting to launch the service as a (mostly) mobile-only service in spite of social distancing and stay-at-home orders that were already underway.”...
Before their next movie, the Guardians of the Galaxy make brief appearances in Thor: Love and Thunder. This not only gives us something to tide us over while we wait for the next Guardians installment, but it also gives us a glimpse into what the team will look like at the beginning of said installment. Warning: Minor spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder, so if you’re averse to any kind of spoilers, now is the time to look away and come back once you have checked Thor: Love and Thunder out....
The opening of Europe’s first-ever Pokémon Center should have been celebrated, but instead, the whole thing has been a disaster since the day it opened, and now it’s running out of merch. European Pokémon fans can often feel a little left out when it comes to enjoying the perks of their favorite franchise. Japan is The Pokémon Company’s first stop for anything special, and rightly so since that’s where Pokémon was born....
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life released worldwide on the PlayStation 4 in April, receiving some high marks in the process. It currently stands at an impressive 83 percent rating at Metacritic. Naturally, this may leave some PC and Yakuza fans a little green with envy. Well, maybe not for long. Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza 0 will have to make some room, because it appears Yakuza 6 may find itself on PC after all....
Although the Magic: The Gathering sets for 2020 were announced months ago, that doesn’t mean Wizards of the Coast has revealed all of its Magic the Gathering secrets for the year. This week brought the surprise announcement of a brand new product called Jumpstart that aims to provide fast and exciting thematic battles without hours of deckbuilding. Deckbuilding is obviously a big part of the fun for many Magic: The Gathering players, but that’s not the case for everyone....
Two new trailers for Mario Kart Tour have revealed boatloads of new info about the game, including new tracks, racers, and items. Earlier this year, Nintendo revealed the first details about Mario Kart Tour. Shortly after that, it allowed a lucky few to try a beta version of the game. That’s when issues started to arise. It quickly became clear to those who had the chance to try out an early version of the game that, like other Mario titles on mobile, it’ll be free to start but pay to play shortly after....
It seems almost no matter what our favourite Italian plumber turns his hand to, he can do no wrong as Mario Tennis Aces has served up, well – an ace and gone straight into the number one spot of the UK games charts for all formats. The game which released on Friday knocks previous chart topper God of War down to third for the week ending 23rd June and with World Cup fever in full swing, FIFA 18 holds steady at number 2 according to UKIE....
Eidos Montréal’s Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is an action-adventure game in which you play as Peter Quill (Star-Lord) from a third-person perspective. Apart from Star-Lord, none of the titular characters can be controlled by the player; instead, they are controlled by AI. On the plus side, you may give them orders while in a battle. But that really doesn’t change the fact that it’s one of the most enjoyable single-player narrative games I’ve played this year....
Marvel’s Spider-Man for PS4 was such a hit that a comic book following the events of the game will be released later this year. One of the biggest games of the last year, or even the last few years if you ask us, was 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man. Spider-Man might well be Marvel’s most exposed superhero, but Insomniac did the web-slinger justice as no one has done before. The story was terrific, the graphics were spot on, and the gameplay was second to none....
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite has joined the ranks of Microsoft’s Play Anywhere program, as well as receiving a pretty heft price drop to boot. The latter might have something to do with the fact Infinite didn’t exactly set tills alight, with fans less than pleased with the direction of the crossover fighting game. The news also comes not long after it was confirmed the game would not be part of this year’s EVO lineup....
Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai has started a new YouTube channel on game development. Yesterday he posted his final screenshot from Super Smash Bros Ultimate, hinting that something new was on the way. Launching today is Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games, with a new video available now. Watch on YouTube Eurogamer Newscast: What does Embracer’s Lord of the Rings buyout mean for Middle-earth games? The videos will be uploaded in both Japanese and English and Sakurai aims to “help make games around the world a little more fun”....
Rumours continue to swirl about a potential Mass Effect trilogy remaster, with the latest evidence cropping up on a Portuguese retailer’s website. As spotted by gaming insider Nebellious on Twitter from the website GamingReplay.com, the (since removed) listings appear to show a Mass Effect Trilogy collection of the first three games for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. The presumably temporary boxart doesn’t show much, but it does have a logo which was initially thought to be new, but commenters did point out it’s the same logo used on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Mass Effect Trilogy collection release....
