Month: August 2017

This week has been exciting for Xbox One fans: with pre-orders for the Xbox One X officially available and several games receiving 4K resolution upgrades, now is a great time to be an Xbox One owner. During its Gamescom press conference yesterday, Microsoft announced that seven new games would be coming to its Netflix-style program next month. Additionally,
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Blizzard Entertainment revealed a plethora of new content that will be playable on the Gamescom show-floor in Cologne, Germany. For those who can’t travel to Germany for the massive games show, the popular game developer and publisher released a video showcasing the new content. Blizzard Entertainment’s player-friendly MOBA, Heroes of the Storm, will finally include
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment revealed a new trailer for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 showcasing the expansive Open Hub World Chronopolis. Chronopolis will feature a myriad of different locations found within Marvel’s comic book and cinematic universes. Players will be able to explore the futuristic city of Nueva York, the jungles of Wakanda, the mythical capital
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Back at E3 2016, EA revealed Fe, a beautiful looking independent game from Swedish developer Zoink Games — who you may recognize from Zombie Vikings or Flipping Death. Notably, the game was the first title announced apart of EA Originals, a new EA initiative of “finding great,” smaller games and working with the developers of said games, via providing
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Today, EA’s Gamescom Press Conference kicked off with a brand new gameplay trailer for FIFA 18. While it is a more cinematic feeling trailer, it does show demonstrate the skill moves, wonder goals, and atmosphere of the stadiums that are present in the game. For those who don’t know, the game’s cover star is Christiano Ronaldo of
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Today Electronic Arts is hosting the second big live show from Cologne, Germany, to celebrate the beginning of Gamescom, following Microsoft’s show that went down yesterday. The show es expected to feature the upcoming line-up of AAA blockbusters coming from the publisher, including Star Wars Battlefront II (of which we already saw a trailer featuring
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Today, Poland-based developer Reikon Games and publisher Devolver Digital announced that their upcoming game RUINER  is poised to release on September 26th for PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Linux. For those that don’t know: RUINER is a self-described “brutal” action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. You play as a wired sociopath
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The 33rd week of the US Sales chart is in, and for the 7th time this year, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is at the top. While the Vicarious Visions-developed title extends its lead of having the most number ones for a 2017-released game and the most number ones of any PS4 exclusive, it notably saw a
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Square Enix Collective announced today that developer Sushee has began development on Fear Effect Reinvented, a remake of the classic action-adventure title Fear Effect, coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC in 2018. For those who don’t know, indie developer Sushee is currently developing a new installment to the Fear Effect series, Fear Effect
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Today, Thailand-based developer Pixel Perfex released a new trailer showing off a variety of sea monsters you will encounter in its upcoming game: Earth Atlantis. For those that don’t know: Earth Atlantis takes place in an alternate world where “The Great Climate Shift” that struck at the end of the 21st century has left 96 percent of the earth’s
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ARK: Survival Evolved Co-Creative Director Jeremy Stielglitz confirmed a few new details about the Xbox One X version of the game as well as crossplay with the PS4. On Xbox One X, ARK runs at 1440p, 30 FPS, with settings approximately equivalent to “PC High” — Jeremy Stieglitz (@arkjeremy) August 18, 2017 The developer also confirmed that
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During the Pokémon World Championships, the official Pokémon Twitter announced that a demo for Pokkén Tournament DX would be “coming soon” to the Nintendo eShop. Can’t wait for #PokkenTournamentDX? Keep an eye out for a downloadable demo coming soon to Nintendo eShop! pic.twitter.com/awKkPIS21E — Pokémon (@Pokemon) August 20, 2017 No official release date for the
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Today Microsoft announced that three different family-oriented games will be remastered for Xbox One, Xbox One X and Windows 10 this fall, just in time for the holidays, and they followed up with a press kit including full details and plenty of screenshots. The games are Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection, Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure and Disneyland
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Today, during Microsoft’s Gamescom Conference, the company celebrated the ID@Xbox program’s fourth anniversary by releasing a new sizzle reel trailer showcasing a ton of upcoming indie titles. The following mix of fourteen large and small independent titles all get brief snippets of gameplay in the trailer: Unruly Heroes Hello Neighbor Path of Exile Raiders of
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Surviving Mars, the colony building simulator, received a brand new trailer at this years Gamescom 2017. The reveal trailer was unveiled during Microsoft’s conference in Cologne, Germany. The trailer shows off the technology and base-building process as well what life is like for colonists on Mars. The trailer also features some intense narration that is meant
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Today, during the Xbox pre-Gamescom livestream, Monolith Productions and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released a new trailer for the highly anticipated Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The new trailer for Shadow of War highlights the monsters that are featured in its world. Throughout the video, we see many iconic foes such as the fearsome Balrog and a variety of
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Revealed during Xbox’s Gamescom Press Event, Jurassic World Evolution will be releasing on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One next Summer 2018. According to the trailer, players will be able to build their own Jurassic Park style theme park, create dinosaurs, and deal with the very very real possibility that things are going to go horribly wrong — like
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Today, during Xbox’s pre-Gamescom live show from Cologne, Germany,  Microsoft and Ubisoft showcased a brand new cinematic trailer of Assassin’s Creed Origins. The trailer is made with CGI, and it looks absolutely fantastic. Of course the gameplay isn’t going to look this good, but we already saw that it looks really good. We also see plenty
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You probably know the name Cloudgine as the company behind the cloud technology that powers Crackdown 3 for Xbox One and PC. Yet the studio, led by original Crackdown Director Dave Jones and CEO Maurizio Sciglio, is looking beyond a single platform or two. They’re currently developing their cloud technology based on similar principles of the
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Following the reveal of the top-twenty sales chart on Wednesday, Media Create released its weekly analysis, providing  deeper look at the situation of the Japanese market last week. Last week marked the beginning of the Obon shopping period, that is normally particularly strong for gaming sales. This year there have been several elements that made
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The increasingly popular free-to-play MMO Dauntless entered its Founder’s alpha yesterday, granting early access to those who have supported the game ahead of its September 1 closed beta. To gain access today, players must purchase the game’s Founder Tier Pack to see what being a slayer is like, and what behemoths you can take down.
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BioWare just announced with a brief post on the official Mass Effect website that patching for the single player and story content of Mass Effect Andromeda has ended with the latest update, 1.10. In the message signed by the whole Mass Effect Andromeda team, we read that they they have worked hard to address community feedback, and to respond
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