As many gamers know, being an alpha and beta tester is often an unrewarding experience. While access to the game comes for free, most alpha and beta testers are essentially providing integral quality support checks and server checks on broken or potentially buggy games. And normally, after everything is said and done, testers are required
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Fortnite continues to build up steam in the gaming space with no hint of slowing down. According to a brand new reveal by the development team, Xbox One cross-platform play will be coming to consoles in the near future. News comes from Epic Games development blog, where they revealed the added benefits to Fortnite players. Not only will the
The Japanese statistics firm Media Create released its weekly analysis, giving us an even clearer picture of the Japanese market on top of what we saw with Wednesday’s top-twenty. We learned that the 28,430 copies sold by Dagon Quest Builders for Nintendo Switch were pretty much in line with Dragon Quest Heroes I-II, that debuted
There is no market more lucrative for the microtransaction space than the sports genre. No matter what series you are playing — FIFA, Madden, NBA 2K — nearly every sports title is based around an unabashedly exploitative market. In this sense, Sony’s MLB The Show 18 is looking to be the first major name in the genre to break from
If you can’t wait to learn more about Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 before its May 12, 2018, reveal event, then maybe this will hold you over. Developer Treyarch has officially revealed a brand new calling card for its last game, Black Ops III, and of course, it’s themed after the upcoming first-person shooter. The calling card is
Today, during an event in Akihabara, Tokyo, Compile Heart Announced Kamigokuto Mary Skelter 2, the sequel of the PS Vita dungeon JRPG Mary Skelter: Nightmares. The game will release for PS4 in Japan on June 28th. If you have not played the first game on PS Vita you should not worry, as a full remake
Taking place in the 1970’s, you are bound to the Canadian winter of Kona in this exploratory mystery game. Being released as an early-access game on Steam in 2015, the game rapidly picked up popularity and continues today to received high marks of ‘very positive’ ratings from gamers. Given the popularity of the game and the
It’s that time once again. Sony Interactive Entertainment is bringing a slew of game and movie deals during this month’s Flash Sale. Until March 12th at 8 a.m. PT, you’ll be able to save up to 60 percent on the PlayStation Store. The past few months have been filled with quality games with no indication
Anyone following gaming press should expect a lot of news about State of Decay 2 in the next few months. Not only is developer Undead Labs’ zombie game ramping up to a May 22 release date, but the game is part of publication IGN’s “IGN First” program — a form of marketing blitz via publication-exclusive news briefings.
Thought you were hyped about the Super Smash Bros. reveal at yesterday’s stellar Nintendo Direct? Think again. Just like always, crowds gathered at New York City’s Nintendo NY (previously Nintendo World Store) to watch the Nintendo Direct, and the atmosphere ran electric with anticipation of the potential reveal. Captured in multiple angles — but likely best by
Earlier this week, I reported that a new entry in the Casey Powell Lacrosse series would be released this year. That being said, today I received an email informing me that the release date for the upcoming sports game would be pushed back. According to the press release, the developer cited that the game’s delay was due to
What can out-ridiculize Rocket League’s rocket-powered soccer gameplay? How about a game that uses similar mechanics to bring Harry Potter‘s Quidditch to consoles. That’s exactly what developer Blue Isle Studios hopes to accomplish with their spin-off game mode Broomstick Leauge that is taking over Citadel: Forged with Fire. What exactly is the Broomstick League? According to Blue Isle, the games are up
1979 Revolution: Black Friday has a story based in truth — beginning with the historical events in 1978 Tehran, Iran’s Islamic Revolution. It gives players a lot of choices, and in turn, a lot of consequences. Will you maintain order through the path you choose to take, or will you fail in this world of
Coming to the PS4 and Xbox One for the first time and built in Unreal Engine 4, gameplay screenshots in the alpha stage of Insurgency: Sandstorm have been revealed. Developer New World Interactive is developing the sequel while Focus Home will publish it. Insurgency: Sandstorm will have a lot to live up to, as its
Bandai Namco announced today on One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 Deluxe Edition will available in the Americas on the Nintendo Switch and ready to download from the Nintendo eShop on May 10, 2018. A physical release for the game has not been announced yet at this time. The One Piece storyline in the game stretches
As the first quarter of the 2018 gaming year slowly comes to a close this month, several AAA titles are on the horizon for PC gamers to look forward to. From Microsoft’s Sea of Thieves to Ubisoft’s highly-anticipated open-world title Far Cry 5 there is indeed more than enough games this month that can make a PC owner smiling from
Sega released another video and artwirk of its upcoming strategy JRPGSenjou no Valkyria 4: Eastern Front, that will launch in the west as Valkyria Chronicles 4. The assets come from the official Twitter account “Nikola and Kiara’s Infiltration Diary.” We get to take a look at Berger, aristocrat and scientist, and head of the Imperial Research Institute. He
Almost everyone can agree that the best thing about both Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 is its villains. So when Far Cry 5 was originally announced, naturally, all eyes were on the game’s antagonist Joseph Seed, aka The Father. Now, just a few weeks from the game’s release, developer Ubisoft has released a brand new UbiBlog, and it’s completely
After the unexpected announcement a few weeks ago that we would be getting a remastered version of Burnout Paradise on current-gen hardware, we are only a few days away from its actual release. Now, developer Criterion Games and publisher Electronic Arts have released a brand new trailer for the game, and it’s certainly action-packed. The trailer, which is titled
In the middle of this fantastic slate of games releasing in the first half of 2018, the one upcoming title I cannot stop thinking about is Crackdown 3. By no means is it my most anticipated game of the year, but it’s one of the titles I’m most intrigued by after its notoriously lengthy development cycle has
Nintendo dropped a bombshell of an announcement during its Nintendo Direct yesterday with the reveal that, yes, Super Smash Bros. is coming to the Nintendo Switch sometime later this year, and luckily it appears that the series creator will be back in the fight once more. Following its announcement in this week’s Nintendo Direct, series creator
Coming off the release of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and the preparation for the upcoming The Last of Us: Part II, developer Naughty Dog has revealed that a few change-ups in the company leadership will be occurring heading into the studio’s future. Naughty Dog president Evan Wells announced through the company’s blog that Neil Druckmann, the longtime
For a long time, the Switch has been really hard to find in Japan, with the few units that were getting delivered pretty much flying off the shelves, not even close to satisfying demand. Back in October, I explored the popular geek neighborhood of Akihabara in Tokyo to show just how hard it was to
Back in July of last year, I wrote an editorial explaining why I was excited about Call of Duty: WWII‘s Nazi Zombies mode, and in the first paragraph I mentioned that Call of Duty: Black Ops II was the last Call of Duty game I had enjoyed, and that I fell off of the series after that point. The
There haven’t been too many great Tennis video games released over the past couple years, which is why many players, including myself, are looking forward to Tennis World Tour from developer Breakpoint and publisher Bigben Interactive. While the game just had a somewhat vague May 2018 release window before today, it has been announced that
One of the more surprising announcements to come out of yesterday’s Nintendo Direct was that Undertale would finally be making its way to a Nintendo console, specifically the Switch. This was a somewhat surprising announcement as the game’s engine, GameMaker Studio, didn’t have inherent Nintendo Switch support. Following the Direct, YoYo Games, the company behind the engine,
Square Enix has crushed everyone’s hopes and dreams many times by now. Yet, every time we keep hooping until all hope crashes and burns. Unfortunately, the same has to be said about the recently-teased Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth. The game isn’t a remaster or a remake, or even a reboot as some hoped. It’s simply a version
Nintendo hit hard this week with a packed Nintendo Direct, but the biggest announcement that hit the hardest was the surprising reveal of what appears to be a brand new Smash Bros. game for the Nintendo Switch. Like pretty much anyone else watching the Direct, you can bet that I was HYPED for the fact that
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues by RPG and MMORPG legend Richard Garriott (the creator of the Ultima series) is heading straight towards its release on PC, Mac, and Linux on March 27th, but is there hope for other platforms? DualShockers had a chat with Garriott himself, and we asked him whether the team at Portalarium is considering to
Asobo Studio’s upcoming game, A Plague Tale: Innocence, has garnered attention in the past for its highly-detailed and physically-striking rats. Today we received new screenshots that speak to both the game‘s protagonists, orphaned siblings Amicia and Hugo, and the corpse-ridden countryside of France. You can check out all of the new screenshots below. The corpses