Ubisoft releases a hype trailer for its forthcoming press conference at E3 2016, and confirms that Watch Dogs 2 gets a reveal during the company’s exhibition. Following yesterday’s leak of a Watch Dogs 2 gift box being posted online by a YouTuber thanking Ubisoft for a pair of Ray Bans bearing the title’s logo on the sunglasses’ case, many speculated as to whether or not the company would go on to publicly confirm the game’s existence....
Gato Salvaje Studio recently announced the latest update to its Celtic Era time travel RPG The Waylanders. The update adds in new quests, areas, scenarios, cinematics, UI/UX improvements, and more. But the most prominent new addition are three new unique companions who you can add to your party to accompany you on your Waylanders adventure. The addition of these three new companions - Khaldun, Mal, and Trasté - brings the total number of Waylanders companions to nine....
This review of The Orville: New Horizons contains spoilers. The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 3 “To many humans, a mystery is irresistible. It must be solved.” Wise words from arguably the wisest of Captains in modern television history, Jean-Luc Picard. A quotation that encapsulates not only human behavior, but one of the Roddenberry mottos that often serves as a driving force for these fictional travelers to explore strange new worlds....
Two of Nintendo’s best games in recent years include The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which both stand as exceptional installments in their respective series. And while it might not seem like Animal Crossing and The Legend of Zelda are connected on the surface, New Horizons and Breath of the Wild may have finally made that connection after all. At first glance, this sounds impossible....
Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues its maddening ascent to becoming the best game ever made with a brand new late-night talk show. You can do a lot in New Horizons. You can shape your island to become a perfect replica of various video game locales, or you can set up your own small business. Or, with the help of some slick editing, some celebrity guests, and the right DIY recipes, you can make your own late-night talk show in your basement....
Not so cat-like reflexes (overall winner) The overall winner for 2022 is this photo by Jennifer Hadley showing a less-than-graceful lion cub having a mishap. Classic misadventure. Misleading African viewpoints If you didn’t know better you’d be forgiven for thinking that this photo showed a heron in danger of being chomped. But hippos are herbivores. Say cheese In some of these wildlife photos, it seems like the animals are admiring or viewer or posing for the camera....
The world is slowing down thanks to social distancing, but the opposite is true in Final Fantasy XIV as patch 5.25 arrives. The main event lies in the new “Resistance Weapon” Enhancement Quest Series titled “Save the Queen: Blades of Gunnhidr.” Players will obtain weapons of great power and slowly uncover more details about the Hrothgar homeland, the Bozja Citidel in a new quest series that will be receiving regular updates in the future....
Tom Holland has squashed any hopes Marvel fans might have had that previous Spider-Men will be joining him in Spider-Man 3. Evidence and rumors continue to stack up pertaining to the introduction of a multiverse to the MCU. Whether it be the still unexplained phenomena taking place in WandaVision, or the rumored plans for Dr. Strange 2. There’s also talk that Spider-Men from the past will be joining Tom Holland in Spider-Man 3....
There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the inevitable return of Neptunia every console cycle. That’s right, folks - ol’ Nep’s coming to PlayStation 5. Compile Heart uploaded a trailer announcing the news to their YouTube channel. Not much is known about the game, but we do know the full title is Go! Go! 5 Jiden Game Neptune re★Verse. The developer promised more news on the game in the near future - in September, specifically....
The flickers of war crackle in the ether as Katarin of Kislev leads legions of stalwart soldiers into the god of blood and slaughter’s treacherous and putrescent domain. Alongside the vast imperial power of Grand Cathay, Kislev forms one of humanity’s last bastions as the Realm of Chaos encroaches on the world as we know it, threatening malevolence and mass destruction with each passing moment. As Katarin, I spearhead the charge towards Khorne’s first wall, manned by mindless grunts in such sheer force that the wall itself is invisible beyond the maelstrom....
Warning: contains spoilers for Battlestar Galactica, Chernobyl, Line of Duty, Ozark, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Knick, Lovecraft Country and Succession. Considering that most of us watch TV to relax, it’s remarkable how many shows leave us adrenalin-flooded, with hearts beating like hummingbird wings. It’s TV characters’ fault; those guys never know when to stop. They’re always attempting a hostile takeover of the family firm, escaping a race of murderous cyborgs or trying to dismantle a totalitarian regime....
The pandemic took all live events away from us, but that doesn’t mean that sports are over. To celebrate the return of basketball, Twitch and Foot Locker are teaming up this weekend to stream events that you’re not going to want to miss. Foot Locker is inviting fans to share their love of the game by using the hashtag #ForTheLove. If you want to be part of this unique digital experience, head over to Foot Locker’s Instagram or Twitter accounts and tell them why you love basketball for a chance to have your content projected onto the court in Downtown LA....
They spent so long wondering if they should, no one stopped to ask if they could - as in, could a hivemind community of gamers actually beat The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild? Communitycontroller, a Twitch channel that emulates the ‘Twitch Plays’ phenomenon with a focus on games for the Nintendo Switch, has recently beaten the main story of Super Mario Odyssey. It took them nearly an entire month; even after defeating Bowser, the group was stuck on the fast-paced escape from the crumbling center of the moon....
Several weeks ago, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot commented on the potential return of Sam Fisher and the Splinter Cell franchise, giving fans hope that they would see a new entry in the series at some point in the near future. Now, the publisher and developer’s Chief Creative Officer Serge Hascoet has made mention of the stealth-action brand, echoing the sentiments expressed by Guillemot. As explained by Hascoet, the Ubisoft CCO is a huge fan of Splinter Cell and “loves” the franchise, but it’s too early to officially proclaim that a fresh installment is close to being publicly announced just yet....
The official launch of Riot Games’ VALORANT is here and with that an eleventh agent has been released. Each agent has a unique set of special abilities that sets VALORANT apart from many titles in the tactical FPS genre. Reyna joins the fight as the newest agent to grace the game. Reyna comes loaded with an arsenal of powerful abilities that makes her the perfect duelist to take on the enemy team....
Valve’s newly-revealed Steam Deck is soon going to be available for pre-orders. Here’s when you can get them, what time they’ll be available and what you’ll have to do to ensure you can get one. Pre-orders for the Steam Deck are opening up at 10:00am PDT/ 06:00pm BST/ 01:00pm EST. There’s only one place where you can pre-order the Steam Deck at the moment, and that’s directly from Steam on the Steam Deck page....
John Loftis of Oklahoma is a collector of arcade video games from the 1970s and 1980s. Unfortunately, four of his old school arcade cabinets were stolen from his home by then-unknown thieves. It seemed as though Loftis would never get his arcade games back, but then he received a call from a man who was selling arcade games. Sure enough, they were the arcade games that were stolen from Loftis in the first place....
WarnerMedia’s continued efforts to restructure have unfortunately claimed one of the company’s game development studios. Big Pixel Studios is now confirmed to be closing as part of WarnerMedia’s larger cutbacks. The studio, which employed around 40 developers, is best known for its free-to-play mobile game Rick and Morty: Pocket Mortys, a Pokemon-style RPG where the player collects different types of Mortys from across the universe. The news broke this past Tuesday when Big Pixel Studios programmer Laurie James confirmed the bad news on social media....
The Overwatch League has become one of the most competitive esports events in gaming, and teams are continually looking for the best coaches out there to get their teams to number one in the world. Recently, the Washington DC Expansion team has brought two new people on board their team, and they are former Meta Bellum coach, Molly “AVALLA” Kim, and analyst Mikael “mkL” Skjønhaug from Last Night’s Leftovers. As AVALLA mentions in the tweet below, she is the first female coach to make it to the Overwatch League....
inXile Entertainment’s Wasteland 3 has just hit a big milestone. After releasing exactly two months ago, Wasteland 3 has continued to grow and now has reached 1 million players. Wasteland 3 reviewed very well when it launched, which has helped propel the franchise to a successful player count. Although Wasteland is nowhere near as big of an RPG as the likes of The Witcher or Elder Scrolls, it has quickly supplanted itself as one of the better RPGs of the year, and more players are jumping into the post-apocalyptic adventure....
