PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds isn’t the best-made game in the world, visually. It also doesn’t run particularly well — a fact that developers made light of in their recent Inside Xbox Live at Gamescom showcase. We are eight months past the official release of Version 1.0, and the battle royale game is still riddled with bugs on PC; that’s
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Bringing comic book characters to life in a fitting and accurate way has always been a rocky road for video game developers. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe™ seems to be perpetually knocking it out of the park, comic to game transitions oftentimes aren’t quite as on point. With Insomniac Games’ incarnation of Peter Parker’s alter
A Plague Tale: Innocence from developer Asobo Studio and publisher Focus Home Interactive, has released a swarm of rats upon us in their new gameplay footage, lucky us! The title was formally announced in January 2017 from the developers, who draw experience from working on games like Quantum Break and The Crew. During the gameplay sequence, you follow orphaned
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re smack in the middle of Gamescom 2018. There’s been a metric ton of news announcements in the past few days. You can read them all here on DualShockers thanks to a quick search. Once you’ve had your fill… you might want to start pre-ordering. Well in that case, we’ve
German developer Ubisoft Blue Byte put themselves on the map before their acquisition with The Settlers, a long-running real-time strategy game series. That being said, we haven’t seen a new mainline entry in the series since The Settlers 7: Paths to the Kingdom in 2010. That being said, Ubisoft Blue Byte finally announced that they plan
The next update for Psyonix’s Rocket League will launch next week on August 29, 2018, for all platforms. This time around, the tweaks made will focus on how you earn XP and playing online with friends. The aptly titled Progression Update makes quite a few changes to the game’s progression system. First, the level 75
Playground Games has been building up a second team to work on a brand new game (which according to unconfirmed rumors could be a new Fable title). At Gamescom in Cologne, DualShockers asked Xbox Games Marketing General Manager Aaron Greenberg for a bit more color on this. “I think if you look at Playground and their pedigree
At Gamescom, Bandai Namco revealed that its upcoming fighting game SoulCalibur VI will have a second story mode title Libra of Soul. In Libra of Soul, you are on a journey to stop the antagonist from garnering Soul Edge shards. To do so, you’ll travel across the world with a created character and fight anyone
The Bearded Ladies and Funcom recently announced the release date for their upcoming tactical RPG Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden and it’s going to make its way out before year’s end. Previously having been just announced to be released before the end of the year, you can now expect to play Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden on
We’ve come a long way from Wii Sports boxing, haven’t we? The long-standing tradition of punching people in video games continues as developer Survios announced Creed: Rise to Glory, a new virtual-reality boxing game coming to PlayStation VR and Windows this fall. Set in the Rocky universe, Creed: Rise to Glory puts players in control
Well, the Bandicoot did it again. For the 33rd week of the year, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy has once again taken home the top spot in the weekly UK sales chart making this the eighth consecutive week to hold such honors. As I said last week, if Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy would be able to accomplish this task
You’re on your own, out in the storm. No Jump Pad, no ATK or shopping cart. And that’s when you remember: Fortnite has portals that drop you from the sky. Today’s news is simply that Epic Games is making a version of the rift which can fit in your inventory. The Rift-To-Go was recently teased
It is a tradition at every major trade show for our DualShockers Awards to include a Reader’s Choice Award, voted by you, to honor the favorite game among our readers. Of course, Gamescom is no exception, so it’s time to express your preference After all, it isn’t very fun if we choose everything ourselves, and the undeniable fact is
There are a lot of card games you could get into. Magic The Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, hell, even the Final Fantasy TCG is pretty fun, but if you’re looking for sheer polish and attention to detail, Hearthstone is your game. In addition to the brand new 135-card expansion–The Boomsday Project–that was released at the
It was announced at Gamescom 2018 in Cologne, Germany, that Blue Mammoth Games‘ fast-paced fighter Brawlhalla would be making it’s way onto Xbox One and Nintendo Switch before the year is out. The brightly colored and gorgeously animated free-to-play title is already available on PlayStation 4 and PC. The latest trailer shows the frantic gameplay
Players lucky enough to attend Gamescom 2018 this week in Cologne, Germany, were treated to the unique opportunity of test-driving one of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s new multiplayer maps. The new map Arsenal was detailed yesterday, but today Activision has released a 12-minute long gameplay video showcasing a battle taking place in the
Digital Uppercut has been busy so far at Gamescom this year with the announcement of Unto The End releasing on Switch, and they’ve now got another game heading in that direction also with the arrival of Valfaris. From the team behind Slain: Back From Hell, comes a heavy metal inspired platformer with amazing art from
Indie publisher Digital Uppercut and developer 2 Ton Studios announced that Unto The End, a 2D cinematic combat-adventure will join the Nintendo Switch. Unto The End has already been confirmed for PS4, Xbox One and PC, but release dates for all are under lock and key for the time being. Currently, the game is being
Last week, Activision revealed its Gamescom plans, which included showing off a brand new multiplayer map for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Now, on the first day of the gaming event, we finally have some new details about the map, which is titled Arsenal. Official gameplay or screenshots from the map has yet to be released, however,
It seems like everything is getting new details at Gamescom 2018, even titles we know little about like LEGO DC Super-Villains. Earlier today, developer Traveller’s Tales, publisher Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment and the LEGO Group revealed a brand new trailer for the game, a little more than a month after the previous one. This time around, fans
One Piece World Seeker is going to bring the open-world gameplay style to the popular anime series, and today I got to check out the game myself on PS4. To be honest, the world wasn’t very open in the demo, as everything besides a small area was locked out. On the other hand, i managed
Devil May Cry 5 is currently playable at Gamescom 2018 in Cologne, and today I got to go up close and personal with the Xbox One version of the game running on Xbox One X. I honestly have no words to describe how impressed I am with the game’s visuals. They look extremely detailed, and
If you love the Ace Combat series as much as I do, you probably know the big smile I had on my face when I got to play a mission of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown today at Gamescom in Cologne. The mission in question is the sixth of the campaign, titled “Long Day.” Our protagonist and
Overwatch and Lego have not only confirmed but teased a collaboration that will see some of the game’s heroes in mini-figure form. The tease comes from both Lego and Overwatch‘s Twitter with a short video showing silhouettes of six heroes. Five of the six seems obvious while the second from the left is a mystery to
Today, 2K Games gave us a first look for NBA 2K19‘s MyCareer mode The Way Back with a new trailer. NBA 2K19‘s foray into storytelling begins with your protagonist playing in the Chinese Basketball League. As you progress your career in China, an opportunity will arise, opening the door to the NBA with the G League. You
Following the release date announcement for Devil May Cry 5, Capcom released a ton of new screenshots for the game and they all look awesome. Like the game’s new trailer, most of the new images center around combat situations and show Nero using a variety of different moves at his disposal. Some of these include his
During the Inside Xbox live stream from Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Capcom revealed the release date for the upcoming Devil May Cry 5. Alongside a new trailer that showcased a ton of new gameplay, it was revealed that Devil May Cry 5 will launch in early 2019 on March 8. In addition to arriving on Xbox One, it’ll
Just before Gamescom, Bandai Namco Entertainment is releasing several new trailers and revealing a lot of information about their upcoming lineup. One of these games is One Piece: World Seeker, which received a story and character-based trailer today. The trailer begins with Luffy trapped on Prison Island at the whim of a yet-to-be-revealed character, though
Ubisoft announced the official release date for Trials Rising earlier this morning but now, we have a lengthy new gameplay session for you to view. At a recent Ubisoft pre-Gamescom event, I was able to check out the newest build of Trials Rising and test out a handful of the many levels that it offers. All in all, it’s more Trials like
Video games set in America’s wild west are few and far between. With Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption series ruling the roost in the open-world genre, Desperados has reared its head for the first time in over a decade to reclaim its place in the real-time tactics genre. Desperados III was announced by THQ Nordic