Posts

Today Bandai Namco revealed the release date and a trailer for the first DLC character coming to its anime fighting game JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R. We already knew that the new character is Risotto Nero leader of the “Squadra Esecuzioni.” Today we learn that he’ll join the roster on October 26 if you have the Season Pass or on October 28 for everyone else. On top of Risotto Nero, the Season Pass will include three more characters, who are still unannounced....

Kinsta vs. WP Engine Hosting: 6 Must-Know Facts Kinsta is powered exclusively by the Google Cloud Platform and Google’s Premium Tier network. Both Kinsta and WP Engine offer four types of backups: automatic, system-generated, manual, and downloadable.Kinsta is a managed WordPress hosting service that offers 34 data centers around the world and a guaranteed 99.9% uptime. Kinsta and WP Engine limit the number of visits your site can receive and how much bandwidth it can consume....

We already had a good feeling that Kitana was making a comeback for Mortal Kombat 11. We saw a flash of her in the recent “Old Skool vs. New Skool” trailer which landed nearly two weeks ago. Today, we finally have the confirmation, as the Edenian princess made a more official appearance in a TV spot for the game. Sadly, there’s not much to go on with the TV spot itself....

Square Enix has pulled a freshly-baked Left Alive launch trailer out of the oven just ahead of its Japanese debut tomorrow. Left Alive is set in the Front Mission universe, and takes the form of a mech shooter featuring art designed by Yoji Shinkawa, who is probably best known among games for his work on Metal Gear Solid and Zone of the Enders. The game is due out in the US and UK on March 5 for PlayStation 4 and PC....

Lies Beneath is a new horror VR game from Drifter Entertainment, and it aims to deliver a “living comic book” experience with influences from Resident Evil and Silent Hill (via VR Scout). It’s a heady mix of inspirations, and the pay-off looks nothing short of spectacular. Lies Beneath is set in Slumber, Alaska, in the mid-20th century. Mae must return to her hometown to save her father from the encroaching evil that grips the townsfolk....

Lucifer might be on the verge of pulling off yet another (we daresay) miraculous reprisal, this time from its long-planned imminent final season on Netflix. Yes, folks, Lucifer Season 6 appears to be a thing that might happen! While Lucifer has spent the last year touting – by way of social media – the bittersweet process of planning and filming what was to be a fifth and final season, it appears that the show’s current home, Netflix, is looking to make a literal deal with the devil for a prospective sixth season, with a report from TV Line revealing that talks are underway between the streaming giant and Warner Bros....

A few weeks ago we told you about the very sad news of the passing of Machinima founder and Left-Hand Path creator Hugh Hancock. His passing was a real shock that knocked me for six. Scottish newspaper The Herald has now posted Hugh’s Obituary online which looks back at his all too short career in the videogame industry. The article includes some comments from myself and also Gordon McDonald. Here’s a snip:...

In 1993, the first modern Trading Card Game (TCG) was released with Magic: The Gathering. It is one of the most complex games of its kind in existence and nears almost 20,000 unique cards in all sets. Now that Magic: The Gathering Arena has left its beta and formally released, players have access to one of the best online versions of the game, available for both veterans and new players alike....

This review contains spoilers for Manifest. Manifest Season 1 Episode 11 When last week’s previews showed us the first hints of the “dark lightning” we’d be seeing in this week’s episode of Manifest, the promise of some answers as to what caused Flight 828 to jump forward five years, however outlandish, found us giddy with anticipation. The focus on the callings has until now ignored the time travel aspect of the passengers’ experience, which only seemed to serve as a disruption of people’s families for dramatic reasons....

Season two promises even more intrigue, political wrangling, and clandestine passions. It also introduces us to a new character: Templar master, Talus. This grizzled warrior will be brought to life by a star you just might recognise, who’s joining the show straight from a certain galaxy far, far away. Mark Hamill, an actor with an impressive array of film, TV and stage credits, remains best known for embodying the legendary Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy and its sequels....

Ten years ago, Iron Man released to critical acclaim and ushered in a new age of cinematic fervor. Since then, we have gotten twenty films in the franchise all building up to a climactic showdown with the overarching antagonist, Thanos. While his story isn’t over quite yet, we did finally get to see what the MCU was building up to in Infinity War. Almost every single major character played a role in the film as Thanos utterly dominated our heroes, ultimately coming out the victor and Snapping away half of existence....

2018 was a great year for Marvel. Black Panther started us off with a tremendous hit, giving a culture some much-needed representation on the big screen. It was beautiful. I literally cried at the end. Not that the movie itself was sad, which it was at parts, but just the fact it was made was touching. Then we got into Avengers: Infinity War, which I wasn’t that big on. I liked it, but it was more of a spectacle than a movie in my opinion....

The new Marvel Snap season, Heroes for Hire, went live just yesterday, and Second Dinner certainly didn’t waste time in pushing out the next round of balances and updates for the current collection of cards. There are a couple of big things to take note of: first, Jane Foster is now available for free for all players. If you created your account after the patch, you’ll have a chance of getting her in the Pool 3 Collector’s Caches and Reserves....

There’s nothing more infuriating than playing a game of Marvel Snap and having Subterranea show up as the first location. It shuffles five rocks into your deck, and unless you already have Patriot in hand, those rocks are basically dead draws. Of course, Marvel Snap creator Ben Brode vehemently disagrees with me on that, and makes a compelling argument for why the more controversial locations are actually great. Anyway, this week’s Featured Location is Vibranium Mines....

Mass Effect 3 has six classes, which gives the player plenty of suitable options regarding combat. There are three pure classes that focus on a particular type of skill: Soldier (combat), Adept (biotics), and Engineer (tech). The Vanguard is a combination of the Soldier and Adept and represents one of the more rewarding classes to play in Mass Effect 3. The Vanguard focuses on combat and offensive biotics. As a soldier focused on close-range combat, the Vanguard is outfitted with powerful weapons and uses their class skill, Biotic Charge, to close in on their enemies and take them out with fast and brutal efficiency....

The planned remastered edition of the Mass Effect Trilogy, the Mass Effect Legendary Edition, is now released. It combines the launchers for Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3. Visual improvements include improved versions, shaders, effects, light, and depth of field, all including over 40 DLCs will be available across all three games. Knowing all this you must have pre-loaded the game. But later you realize that it would take anywhere from few minutes to multiple hours to unpack the game files....

Retro blast-’em-up bundle Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 & 2 will be hitting PlayStation 4, PC, Switch, and Xbox One on July 24. Much like the Mega Man Collection, the compilation is split into two volumes: The first includes Mega Man X, Mega Man X 2, Mega Man X 3, and Mega Man X 4, while the second completes the set with Mega Man X’s 5, 6, 7, and 8....

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Meta Quest VR headsets, has agreed to pay $725m to settle a class-action lawsuit which accused the company of allowing Cambridge Analytica to access personal user data without consent. The Cambridge Analytica scandal goes all the way back to 2018, when former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie disclosed to The Guardian and The New York Times that the UK-based company had scraped extensive data from Facebook without the explicit consent of users....

The trailer for Marvel’s Black Widow dropped just days ago and has given viewers a glimpse at what Marvel’s next movie will entail come 2020. The trailer is full of action, espionage, and references to past films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though the director of the upcoming Metal Gear Solid movie has pointed out that one detail is very reminiscent of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. To debut next May, Black Widow aims to show us part of Black Widow’s backstory and will contain Russia-related espionage along the way, if multiple accented characters in the trailer are of any indication....

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has received a new trailer at E3, and it delivers more questions than answers. The near-six-minutes of footage includes lots of cutscene action involving the lead characters, as well as some cryptic moments within the game that appear slightly fantastical, including what appear to be ghostly soldiers. The trailer ends with a bloodied Snake staring himself in the mirror, before breaking it. The camera then cuts to what looks like what could very well be twin infant Liquid Snakes clones, as Snake says “Les enfants terribles”, the name of the secret US government project used to create clones of Big Boss in Metal gear lore....