Good news for those wanting to see more of Star Wars Battlefront 2‘s space battles. EA has announced that it will be taking Star Wars Battlefront 2 on the road, featuring space battles at Gamescom later this month on August 21. The game’s Starfighter Assault mode will make its debut in a new trailer as well as a live gameplay reveal. That live reveal will streamed on August 21 at 9:30 a.m. Pacific, where two teams will face off in a space battle from the original trilogy era. EA says the match will take place on the Fondor: Imperial Shipyard map, which features an Imperial Star Destroyer that ships will have to weave around while dogfighting. While the space battles that were eventually added to the first Battlefront were lacking for many fans, it looks like EA and DICE are making Starfighter Assault a much richer experience in the sequel. Distinct hero ships are still in the mix, but EA also says that Battlefront 2‘s starfighter combat has been improved all around, … [Read more...]

Following the announcement that Shinji Mikami would not be directing The Evil Within 2, the director has spoken up about his part in the upcoming sequel, saying that while his role is smaller he is still nonetheless involved with the game’s development. In a new interview, Mikami stated that Tango Gameworks began development for The Evil Within 2 in March 2015, and the decision to hand the role of director to John Johanas this time around was because he wanted the studio to be a place where “young and talented creators are given the chance to succeed.”  While Mikami has been busy managing Tango Gameworks as a whole in the meantime, he is still creatively involved with the game’s development in a limited capacity. Compared to the original Evil Within, Mikami stated that the creation of The Evil Within 2‘s story can be attributed more to the project’s senior writer Hajime Ishimine, saying that Ishimine had the … [Read more...]

There’s a new event happening in League of Legends right now, and it’s looking very…videogame-y. The Arcade Boss World Event, which is now active, brings some retro charm to League of Legends. This trailer shows off the aesthetic experience they’re aiming for, but to get to the actual specifics of the event you’ll need to visit the League of Legends website, which goes into detail about the specifics of this two week event, complete with pictures. You’re currently able to play missions, earn tickets from those missions, and then use them to craft event-specific loot. There are daily missions to take on, as well as “five new mission lines”. There are two purchasable mission packs available as well. As per the site: “the Dungeon Pass and Mini-Dungeon Pass unlocks access to daily missions and three other mission lines: Game Start: Brand, Game Start: Ziggs, and Game Start: Malzahar.” The event runs until August 24, 23:59 PT. If … [Read more...]

Point the wheels of your Renault Magnum in the direction of the Amalfi Coast: Euro Truck Simulator 2 is heading for the curves of Italy in its next DLC, which is due before the end of the year.  You can already truck through parts of northern Italy in the game but the map expansion, called Italia, will open up the rest of the country. There's no price yet but the previous map expansion (in France) cost £13.50/$19. Alongside the DLC developer SCS Software will release a free update that gives "an extra layer of polish" to existing Italian locations, so even those not willing to shell out will benefit.  Judging by SCS's blog post announcing the DLC we can expect a map that's heavy on both industry and cities, with mountains, farmland and sea views between. "Our map designers have fallen in love with the new region right from the research stages. From tall mountains to the shores of the seas, from manicured farmland to wilder and more arid places, it was clear that we are … [Read more...]

Bandai Namco has updated the official Dragon Ball FighterZ website with ratings for the current confirmed roster’s Power, Speed, Technique, and several more attributes. The ratings are provided on a letter grading scale of F through A with exceptional ratings denoted by S or SS. For Dragon Ball Z fans, the list offers a change to debate one character’s strengths versus another, so it’ll be interesting to see how Dragon Ball FighterZ developer Arc System Works responds Nine different characters are currently confirmed for the Dragon Ball FighterZ roster, with Krillin and Piccolo the most recent additions. All nine characters have been ranked in six different categories: Power, Speed, Reach, Technique, Energy, and Ease of Use. Currently, no rankings go below a C and none go above an SS. Perhaps that means there’s room for more specialized characters to be revealed later, which also explains why all nine characters are ranked between A and SS for … [Read more...]

The International is the most exciting time of year for Dota 2 fans – a ten day-long odyssey that tests the strength of the game’s greatest players and squads that comes in early August each year. The tournament, which is almost entirely funded by the Dota 2 community, has seen many great stories over the years, including an Evil Geniuses win that proved North American organizations had a place in a scene often dominated by European and Chinese teams. Now, however, one of eSports’ most iconic franchises has claimed Dota 2‘s biggest prize, as Team Liquid emerged as the winning side of The International 7, taking home over $10 million USD in prize money for its victory. Team Liquid defeated China’s Newbee in the Grand Finals of The International 7 today, sweeping the second place finishers aside in a dominating 3-0 series victory. For as easy as Team Liquid might have made it look toward the end of The International 7, however, the journey to … [Read more...]

No Man’s Sky, the game that can’t quite seem to stay off of our minds for more than a month is currently seeing a major boost in sales on all available platforms thanks to the recently released Atlas Rises update and a sale price of $23.99 on all market places digital and physical. On Amazon in the United States, No Man’s Sky sales are currently ranked at #73 overall in all video games and accessories (why people still buy PSN cards on Amazon will never make sense to me) and trailing just behind the exceptional Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice at #27 in PlayStation 4 specific sales. Interestingly enough, No Mans Sky is currently sitting at #2 on the overall Global Top Sellers on Steam and is even reported to have sat at #1 for a short while taking the lead over new titles such as Lawbreakers, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, and the ever popular Rocket League. Its peak player count has also gone up, with over 14k players in … [Read more...]

Is this a common thing? During its panel at the ongoing Otakon, Sunrise dropped a surprise bombshell that Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and its sequel Seed Destiny will receive new English dubs for their HD remasters. The new dubs are being recorded at NYAV Post, which is where the second season of Gundam Thunderbolt is being recorded as well. This feels weird. I've never watched the dub of Seed or Seed Destiny, but this definitely feels like it shouldn't be a thing. The cast for the HD remasters, which is described as a mix of new and old, includes the following so far: In addition, Carrie Keranen will be the director for the dub. Carrie has been in the industry for a while, and is still active to this day. Some of her roles include Casca from the original Berserk anime, Caroline & Justine from Persona 5, and Satsuki Kiryuuin from Kill la Kill. I'd say it's in good hands for the time being. So why is the new dub happening? Well, according to what I can find, there is no clear reason … [Read more...]

Earlier today, developers from DICE, Criterion, and EA Motive discussed their collaboration and how three studios have been able to come together to work on Star Wars Battlefront II. Sitting down for Playstation Blog, Craig McLeod of DICE, Mark Thompson of Motive, and Matt Webster of Criterion discussed what they’ve learned from Battlefront 1 and what it means to be making an entry in the series that encapsulates the original trilogy, the sequel trilogy, and the prequels. “I think it’s first of all the opportunity. We want to bring the lot and I think it’s something Star Wars Battlefront, you need to bring these centers of excellency together. You’ve got the experts with decades worth of experience making multiplayer experiences, you’ve got these guys that have come forward and building a new studio with that expertise and narrative and character action and my home studio, Criterion, I mean we’ve had a little bit of the speeder bike in … [Read more...]

Before you get too excited, let me gently give you the bad news. While this mod does let you craft a Vertibird player-home hybrid, you can't literally fly your sweet chopper-house around the game and land wherever you want. When you travel in your Vertibird, it's handled a bit like fast-travel—the screen fades to black, your hear the rotors kick in, and you're basically teleported (with some time passage) to the new location. Let's back up though, because this thing is still really cool. The VTO (Vertical Takeoff Outpost) mod, created by modder PCDug, places a handful of new blueprints in the game, and once you've acquired one of them you can craft a very special Vertibird at a settlement workshop. This Vertibird has a small (or perhaps I should call it cozy) interior space you can use as a player home.  It's not a settlement—you can't recruit dirty randoms to come live in it with you—but it has its own multi-purpose workbench that you can use for storage, … [Read more...]

Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends, has lost a lawsuit in Dutch courts against former pro soccer player Edgar Davids. Davids sued Riot Games in his home country of the Netherlands for using his likeness in one of the MOBA’s premium skins. The Striker Lucian skin was part of a group of five soccer-themed skins Riot released in June 2014 to celebrate the year’s World Cup. According to the lawsuit, Riot claimed that the similarities between Davids and the Striker Lucian skin were not significant. In the USA, where Riot Games is based, such an argument may have proven successful, as it’s much more difficult to prove the use of a person’s likeness. For example, Lindsey Lohan’s lawsuit against Rockstar regarding a Grand Theft Auto 5 character ended in Rockstar’s favor. Dutch courts were less sympathetic, siding with Davids and asking Riot to provide revenue reports for the skin in order to decide on appropriate compensation. Davids started … [Read more...]

Nintendo is being sued over the design and functions of the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch lawsuit is being pushed forward by technology company Gamevice, known for their mobile gaming products and their Gaming Live service. Gamevice has claimed that the Switch’s design and functionality violate the terms of a patent for one of their products, the Wikipad. The Wikipad is touted as the portable gaming tablet for gamers and was originally released in 2013 by Gamevice. It originally touted as a 7-inch tablet with a $250 price tag. The lawsuit by Gamevice claims that Nintendo has violated their patent rights for the design of the Wikipad. Specifically mentioned is the shape of the Switch itself being too similar to the Wikipad slate, and the removable Joy-Con controllers are too close to Gamevice’s original vision of a detachable game controller.  Per the suit, “Defendants have directly infringed and are currently directly infringing the ‘119 … [Read more...]

A new animation has been released in Japan based on CoroCoro Comics’ Splatoon manga series. You follow a small squad of inklings on their way to Inkopolis Plaza. The animation is presented in tiny comic panels with some voice acting. It’s all entirely in Japanese but it’s still cool to view even if you can’t speak or read the language. Viz Media announced that they would be bringing the Splatoon manga over to the West sometime later this year. So fans of the game series won’t have to wait too long. You can check out the animation below, courtesy of Perfectly Nintendo. In other Splatoon news, dataminers recently discovered assets for potential maps and weapons that could be released in later updates for Splatoon 2. Also, the results for the game’s first Splatfest are in. Splatoon 2 has been doing very well sales-wise. The game shattered Japanese sales charts and pushed over 100,000 Switch units the week it … [Read more...]

Back in July 2015, Sony Interactive Entertainment made headlines by trademarking a game named “Gnomageddon.” There was a lot of speculation on what the game was about, and I even saw crazy articles alleging that it was Sucker Punch’s still unannounced new game. The game was in fact a much smaller project, as most probably imagined from the name. According to a new video by video game researcher and archivist Liam Robertson over at DidYouKnowGaming?, It was greenlighted at Sony San Diego together with its now discontinued action game Killstrain, and the studio allocated a very small team of developers (never more than eleven people) to work on it. Like Killstrain, Gnomageddon was planned to be a free to play game with microtransactions, to be released some time this year. It had three modes, a versus mode similar to a team deathmatch, “holdout” was a horde mode, while “raid” was another co-op mode, but saw the players on the offensive … [Read more...]

This can't end well Recently the Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream interviewed two prominent members of the development team for Fire Emblem Warriors: producer Yosuke Hayashi and director Hiroya Usuda. It's a rather lengthy interview, however it does help give an understanding into what's going on with the game, and the choices with the roster. You'd better have a seat before continuing. Some of this doesn't exactly instill confidence. Starting off, the team was asked about the twins, and why they went with swords for them. Originally, Rowan was going to have an axe, and Lianna would have a spear. However, the team felt it was going to be confusing for the tutorial, and wanted people to learn the weapon triangle starting from the sword. In a mind-boggling statement, they also cited them being Lords as a reason for why they should have swords, the same reason that was given for a smaller number of games being included. They also confirmed that no one will be changing weapons, meaning … [Read more...]

While Destiny 2 is set to have plenty of tie-in promotions like Bungie’s collaboration with Pop-Tarts to dole out XP boosts to Guardians willing to buy boxes of the confectionery pastry delights, as one should expect, the sequel will contain plenty of content all its own. As a matter of fact, the developer recently revealed that the forthcoming science fiction shooter will contain over 80 different missions and PvE activities for players to enjoy. This information comes from coverage in the latest issue of Edge Magazine (Issue #310), with Bungie declaring that each of the various missions and PvE activities in Destiny 2 are substantial in length, challenge, story, and reward. Not to mention, the developer said that there’s so much new content in the game that at one point in development they realized they had more content than progression, which is an aspect that they’ve subsequently fixed. Furthermore, it was revealed that players won’t be able to to take … [Read more...]

If you are eager to know more about the upcoming sci-fi shooter Destiny 2, the latest issue of EDGE magazine has you covered. According to user kapowaz from reddit, which seemed to snag an early copy of the latest issue, the magazine has some new interesting information about the game. The information goes like this: The beta did not contain the final implementation of how Energy weapons work against AI combatants with elemental shields; when the shield is depleted, it explodes, nuking any enemies that happen to be nearby Nightfall strikes now have a time limit (varying by Strike; one example was 13 minutes) so efficiency and settling on a strategy beforehand will be important There are over 80 missions and (PVE) activities, and each is substantial in length, challenge, story and reward There's so much new content that at one point in development they realised they had more content than progression (something they've subsequently fixed) Supers and … [Read more...]

It seems like it was just a matter of time before the seemingly mandatory "Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy might be coming to Xbox One" rumor would pop up. As of this writing, the hottest topic on the Xbox subreddit is that of a screenshot of a listing for Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy for Xbox One on yet another European retailer website. This time it's Base.com, and much like the Hungarian retailer listing, it too points to a release date of December 8th, 2017. Here's a screenshot: Activision still has not confirmed whether Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is even coming to other platforms, but given all of the hints and leaks as well as the incredible financial success the game has had since release, it wouldn't make sense not to. Here's a run down of all of those hints and leaks: PlayStation Ireland social media post Booth Rep slip at PAX East 2017 Listing from Hungarian retailer Footage of the game with Xbox UI … [Read more...]

GOG.com is featuring a three-pronged attack on their sales front this weekend, and there are a ton of games spread across a variety of genres for you to choose from. The headliner, much like this weekend's Steam sales is also No Man's Sky, which comes in at the exact same price point of $24, so if you are the type that needs their games DRM-free, this is the place to pick up the game. Other than that, GOG is also celebrating the return of the Sudden Strike series with a massive sale on War Strategy games with prices slashed up to 80% off. This is on top of the standard slate of weekend sales that the site normally rolls out, so there is definitely a lot here. As such, I've condensed most of the highlights into the table below. GAME DISCOUNT PERCENTAGE PRICE No Man's Sky 60% $23.99 The Dwarves 50% $19.99 This is the Police 50% $7.49 Delta … [Read more...]

Today, Bandai Namco revealed via its first quarter results for fiscal 2017 that the relatively newly released Tekken 7 has already sold 1.66 million copies, putting it in a great position to hit its 2.1 million copies sold by the end of the year expectations Bandai Namco has placed on it. Notable, Bandai Namco notes in the same results that the customers of the game were primarily either from the United States or Europe. Released on PS4 and Xbox One on June 2, 2017, Tekken 7 is the ninth installment in the iconic fighting game series and notably the first created within Unreal Engine. The name Tekken 7 first appeared via a limited arcade release in Japan in March 2015. Then an updated arcade version — dubbed Tekken 7: Fated Retribution — hit arcades once again in Japan only in July 2016. This release featured expanded content, including new characters, stages, costumes, and items. The same version of this updated arcade release was … [Read more...]