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- Battleborn features a TV-style story mode, open beta next month
- Slain looks sufficiently intimidating in this launch trailer
- Fans of Nuclear Throne and The Binding of Isaac will love Enter the Gungeon
- Don't Starve: Shipwrecked leaves Early Access next week
- Uncharted 4 video extols the power of the PS4
- Review: Fallout 4: Automatron
- Why the fuck would you call your service 'boondoggle'?
- Starr Mazer DSP was easily the highlight of my GDC
- Final Fantasy XV is first in the series with Spanish, Portuguese localization
- Pokken, Digimon dethrone The Division in this week's Japanese sales
- Let the inimitable Captain Qwark intro the new-old Ratchet & Clank
- Dark Souls III on Xbox One has already been put through the performance paces
- Destiny's Prison of Elders will be updated to endgame levels
- Space 'walking simulator' Adr1ft gets another trailer before lift off
- Dark Souls is now playable on Xbox One
- Impressive! 8-bit Castlevania-inspired Brave Earth looks legit
- Same tree
- Hot damn the 3DS has a lot of RPGs this year
- This supposed NX controller leak looks more believable
- 'The Climb' team muses on their journey to have the game hit 90 frames per second
- Hitman adds Contracts as Elusive Targets are pushed into April
- Fallout 4's enhanced survival mode updates coming to Steam soon in beta form
- Nintendo announces impending National StreetPass Weekend
- This last Dark Souls III trailer brings us closer to launch
- Transformers and Tamagotchi designer takes on Skylanders with Infinite Arms
- Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens has three improvements to the Lego formula
- Smite to receive 'life changing console change' soon
- Capcom celebrations continue with big Resident Evil discounts
- Tekken 7 could be heading to PC
- Acquisitions Inc. is coming to Neverwinter's newest event
| Battleborn features a TV-style story mode, open beta next month Posted: 23 Mar 2016 03:30 PM PDT New details have been revealed about Battleborn's story mode that will take place over eight "TV-style episodes." According to the official site, "the game's Story Mode is structured just like some of our favorite episodic television shows; from Star Trek and X-Files, to cartoon throwbacks like X-Men and Transformers. Collectively, the 'season' included with the game has one large over-arching story spanning eight episodes (plus a prologue), and each episode tells a self-contained story about the Battleborn's fight to save the last star, Solus." |
| Slain looks sufficiently intimidating in this launch trailer Posted: 23 Mar 2016 02:30 PM PDT After a round of delays, Wolf Brew Games is bringing its brutal hack-and-slash platformer Slain! to Steam tomorrow, March 24. The console versions are still coming, but not until later this year. The lighting, particle effects, and sometimes eye-melting color palettes in the game look dang cool in motion -- most of our coverage has used gifs, not screenshots, for that reason -- and what's shown in this launch trailer is no exception. I hope it's as engaging to play as it is to look at. Between this, Salt and Sanctuary, and Dark Souls III, I'm about to die a whole hell of a lot in games. |
| Fans of Nuclear Throne and The Binding of Isaac will love Enter the Gungeon Posted: 23 Mar 2016 01:30 PM PDT Since Nuclear Throne and The Binding of Isaac hit Steam, there have been numerous clones. To call Enter the Gungeon one would be unfair. While there are many similarities between them, it has enough variety to stand alongside those titles as a leader, instead of a follower. If you're the kind of person who loves long sessions across multiple runs of a game, you're going to love entering the Gungeon. |
| Don't Starve: Shipwrecked leaves Early Access next week Posted: 23 Mar 2016 01:00 PM PDT If you were waiting until Don't Starve's latest expansion worked its way through Steam Early Access before giving it any attention, much less paying $4.99 to play it, know that it's almost time to circle back. Shipwrecked launches for real next Thursday, March 31 on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I've skipped the prior DLC -- I'm just not very good at the game, y'know? -- but I'm so into the tropical setting and the new monsters that I'm willing to give this whole survival thing another serious attempt. I can all but guarantee I'll die young, probably at the hands of something lame. Remember: don't drink the salt water. |
| Uncharted 4 video extols the power of the PS4 Posted: 23 Mar 2016 12:30 PM PDT I have to admit I was pretty jazzed about technical powering Uncharted: Drake's Fortune leading up to its PlayStation 3 release. Little details from water physics (and Drake's varying levels of dampness when submerged) to loads of variable cover animations helped Uncharted come alive and sell what was basically Tomb Raider, a long scuttled franchise (that, ironically, Uncharted's success must have had a hand in rebooting). So copping this second part behind the scenes video of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is a good bit of fun. I was just rose-tintedly remembering how many games tried to shoehorn in driving sequences and other things to break up monotony (most of the time they were awful!), and here's Naughty Dog talking about the crazy attention to detail paid to A Thief's End driving, down to how the tires interact with different parts of the world, just like how detailed Drake's climbing mechanics are. Pretty good. Uncharted 4 is done with delays and coming to PS4 May 10. I have a feeling it'll easily top Uncharted 3. Things like organic stealth (and being able to completely sidestep certain enemies, as opposed to stealth only being a different means of murder), the grappling rope, and the insistence on a more movement-focused cover-based shooting (cover degrades and environments are larger, a disincentive to "stop and pop" holing up behind one piece of cover) have me interested. |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2016 12:00 PM PDT I played a lot of Fallout 4 last year. Too much, too quickly, in retrospect. It was one of those games I loved in the moment, but whenever I stopped to think about the bigger picture, I couldn't get away from the nagging feeling that it wasn't the step up that it could have and probably should have been. It was just so similar. So... safe. Then I kept playing anyway. The first paid DLC, Automatron, attempts to inject new life into Fallout 4 with a short series of quests and a bunch of robots. Crazy, murderous, human-skull-wearing robots. You can even build your own, assuming you've stocked up on wasteland scraps and have the right character build. |
| Why the fuck would you call your service 'boondoggle'? Posted: 23 Mar 2016 11:30 AM PDT Here is what Google greets you with when you search "boondoggle:" "noun. 1. work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value." Which, I mean, is appropriate for Boondogl, the just-launched monthly subscription service in a long ass line of monthly subscription services billing themselves as "Netflix for video games." Oh, but there's a dog in a hat as the site's mascot, you say? Boon-dog-l? Get it? No I don't fucking get it and the elided "Boondogl" text on the official site is colored in such a way that it reads "Boondo-gl," so I especially don't get it. "For one low monthly fee," you "get unlimited access to every game on Boondogl, which includes indie, AAA, retro, and even VR games" over "any device/cross-platform?" No one has ever tried this. This has never ended badly. This fucking business venture certainly isn't "wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value." Look, I'm not a businessman (I'm a business, man) and on some level I appreciate you naming your business after what it is: a steaming load of shit. It'd be like if Coke was called "Dank Diabetes Water" or an airline was called "Crashes and Delays" or Sharper Image was called "Toys for Twats." But I'm pretty sure it's bad business to overtly telegraph that your company is highfalutin useless twaddle. |
| Starr Mazer DSP was easily the highlight of my GDC Posted: 23 Mar 2016 11:00 AM PDT GDC, like most gaming conventions, is a chaotic endeavor where there's virtually no chance that we'll cover every game that we want to. Steven, Brett, and I all walked an average of ten miles a day as we dashed across San Francisco from appointment to appointment. My dumb ass even decided to wear nice, uncomfortable boots so that I could be Maximum Impressive. So, when I was about to take public transit back to Steven's place to rest for a bit and he texted me, telling me to go to a Starr Mazer appointment, I briefly considered blowing it off and throwing one of my stupid boots through Steven's kitchen window. I'm glad I didn't vandalize Steven's house for a couple of reasons: 1) jail, and 2) because the Starr Mazer DSP appointment ended up being my favorite GDC moment. |
| Final Fantasy XV is first in the series with Spanish, Portuguese localization Posted: 23 Mar 2016 10:30 AM PDT Two Brazilians I met last week joked about Portuguese being "a dead language," but that's not stopping Final Fantasy XV from doing what it can to win Latin American fans. Square Enix isn't alone here. Namco Bandai has been pushing its weaboo properties hard in South America, the region from which waifu bartending hails. Not unlike France, the region is big on Japanese stuffs. Director Hajime Tabata issued a statement thanking "all of our Final Fantasy fans in Latin America and Brazil for always supporting us" and reflecting on a trip to Mexico to promote Type-0 HD where, "through the Mexican media I could personally see the passion of the fans in Mexico and neighboring regions." To "compensate for the passionate fans in all of Latin America and Brazil," Square Enix plans to "release a new version of the game with voice and text localization in Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese." These join Japanese and English, of course, as well as French and German as having fully translated voice and text. Where the fuck is Italian, ya rats? My favorite part of The Division was playing it in Italian. "We think the story and one of the most important elements of the Final Fantasy games," Tabata said, "and would like players in Latin America and Brazil to be able to enjoy this story in their own language." I'm sure there will be a bunch of news from the Final Fantasy XV fan event in Los Angeles next week, too. Plus I get to hang out with Zack and play Resident Evil 4 on the projector in his backyard/forest. Who, Zack? Murder me? I'm sure you're being unreasonable. |
| Pokken, Digimon dethrone The Division in this week's Japanese sales Posted: 23 Mar 2016 10:00 AM PDT The PlayStation 3 (three) is outselling the Xbox One (uh, 1?) by 16 times in Japan last week (March 14 through 20). The PS3 sold 18 times as much as the Xbone the prior week. Still funny! Also, the Vita remains steady as heck in Japan. But we're here to talk Media Create software sales, by way of Gematsu. And, check it. Sure, last week's king, The Division, got bumped to the third spot by two new, Japanese releases, Pokken Tournament (the Pokemon fighting game) and Digimon World: Next Order, which moved about 69,000 and 64,000 units respectively. That's three times The Division's third-place number of 23,000. But! If you look at last week's sales, when The Division was new, it moved just over 100,000 units. And, of course, remember that these numbers are physical (not digital) sales in Japan only. Look at Splatoon keep on trucking, too. Pretty dope. Actually, I wish Pokken exploded out of the gate a bit better. Like Splatoon, it's a fairly original, idiosyncratic take on an existing genre (one-vs-one fighter) and I'd like to see more ingenuity like it in big game releases. |
| Let the inimitable Captain Qwark intro the new-old Ratchet & Clank Posted: 23 Mar 2016 09:30 AM PDT Ratchet & Clank is back with a retelling of the original game. And it's coming out April 12, my birthday, or as some of you may affectionately know it: Dark Souls III day. The lovable Captain Qwark has the skinny as unreliable narrator in this new trailer if you can't remember what happened 12 years ago when the first entry in the series released. The game is going to be accompanied by a feature film on April 29, which I recently learned includes a voice performance by Sly Stallone when I took an ill-advised sojourn to a movie theatre recently and renounced all aspects of humanity, because movie theatres are torture machines that blare the worst advertising in your face for 20 minutes before the picture starts after you've paid $12 to get into a building that reeks of popcorn and surreptitious finger-banging in the back row. |
| Dark Souls III on Xbox One has already been put through the performance paces Posted: 23 Mar 2016 08:30 AM PDT Dark Souls III is weeks away from a worldwide launch, but it just released in Japan. In fact, the Xbox One version actually hit the Xbox marketplace a little early, meaning that initial impressions are already surfacing. Digital Foundry, many people's go-to resource on video game performance, has already had a chance to run Dark Souls III through the usual tests. Its findings, which are eloquently laid out in the above-embedded video, aren't optimal but aren't damning either. With regard to resolution, it seems as if Xbox One isn't hitting the 1080p that the PS4 beta version was at. Instead, Xbox One has a native resolution of 900p and upscales. But, Digital Foundry remarks that it "still looks very solid." As far as frame rate goes, consoles are locked at 30 frames per second on consoles. On Xbox One, it seems to remain mostly constant, but the introduction sees dips to 25 because of volumetric fog. Boss battles can be worse, with drops to around 20 at times. Still, Digital Foundry comments that "it's only in isolated spots where Xbox One struggles, but when it does, it's very noticeable." These issues aren't ideal, but the game still seems to be plenty playable. Anyone overly concerned with things like this probably isn't playing on an Xbox One anyway, because these are the sort of things that pop up regularly on that platform. No, those folks are more than likely squared away with their PC version, excited that Dark Souls III is supposedly going to run at a solid 60 FPS. We shouldn't have to wait much longer to see if that's the case. |
| Destiny's Prison of Elders will be updated to endgame levels Posted: 23 Mar 2016 08:00 AM PDT Bungie's latest Twitch stream just ended, and it let loose some key information about the upcoming free spring update to Destiny. Previously hinted with a single screenshot of Guardians in specific gear, the Prison of Elders activity -- first introduced during Year One with the House of Wolves expansion -- will be updated to be a viable endgame activity during Year Two. The horde mode-esque challenge will be able to award gear up to the new Light level cap of 335. The biggest change to the Prison of Elders is the introduction of a points system and an associated weekly challenge to hit a high score. In the demonstration shown, bonus points were awarded for precision kills this week, putting greater focus on single-shot weapons and less on grenades and super abilities. Along with the Prison of Elders update, two new story quest lines were shown. One is given by Variks and investigates a new Taken leader Malok (as in Grasp of Malok, I think) trying to curry power in Oryx's absence. The other story line is given by Petra Venj, and it will be a PlayStation exclusive. The Winter's Run Strike will finally be updated to Year Two with a Taken version, featuring a Taken Archon Priest as the final boss. There were a few more small details the community will appreciate, like the fact that the old Prison of Elders activities will still be available, and the new one will include checkpointing. For full details, Bungie will probably be posting a recording of the stream on its YouTube channel within a day or so. |
| Space 'walking simulator' Adr1ft gets another trailer before lift off Posted: 23 Mar 2016 07:30 AM PDT Adr1ft tells the story of an astronaut floating through a destroyed space station with no memory of what happened or how she got there. Adam Orth conceived the game in 2013 after he resigned from Microsoft, having made controversial comments about the Xbox One's always online DRM, a feature that was eventually dropped thankfully. Orth has compared the game to this moment in his life though I'd have to imagine he knows how he essentially was forced to resign. The zero gravity experience should last around four hours at the cost of $20, and launches alongside the Oculus Rift on March 28, but will also be playable on PC without VR (how 2000 and late) on the same day. I'm excited to be a spaceman, but I'm not sure I'll be able to #dealwithit. |
| Dark Souls is now playable on Xbox One Posted: 23 Mar 2016 07:00 AM PDT Dark Souls -- the first, not the third -- is the latest game to be added to Microsoft's ever-expanding list of backward compatible titles for the Xbox One. This is no surprise, as we've known for a month that this was the plan. But, the day is here for those who want to play the game that kicked off Souls-mania (Demon's being relatively overlooked) on a newer console. The main reason for the From Software classic being added to the program is the same reason that many games are being added: They're tools used to drive pre-order campaigns. Namco offers a free copy of Dark Souls for Dark Souls III pre-orders. It's the same with Quantum Break and Alan Wake, or Doom and the older Dooms, or Fallout 4 and Fallout 3. Ignoring the fact that pre-ordering never has been and still isn't a great idea, this particular practice serves a purpose. It allows newcomers to the franchise to feel as if they have an opportunity to catch up before diving into the next hot video game. In that sense, it's less about driving pre-orders, and more about convincing someone to take the plunge in the first place. Pre-orders are just the necessary means by which that happens. All that aside, Dark Souls is playable on Xbox One now. (Tekken Tag Tournament 2, too, although less newsworthy.) Go relive what possibly made you bash your head against this series in the first place. I'm still stuck at some spiderlady after Blight Town. I doubt that some new hardware and the Elite controller will make me care enough to try dealing with her again. @MajorNelson [Twitter] |
| Impressive! 8-bit Castlevania-inspired Brave Earth looks legit Posted: 23 Mar 2016 06:30 AM PDT Brave Earth: Prologue was announced in 2011 and we last wrote about it 4 years ago. The latest game from I Wanna Be The Guy developer Michael "Kayin" O'Reilly' has popped up on Steam Greenlight (where it needs your votes to land on the games portal) and damn does it look hot. Inspired by the likes of the original Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden (so, hey, not another metroidvania!), Brave Earth boasts a proper 8-bit aesthetic that would leave it looking right at home on the NES. And "a 2016 release is almost assured!" Brave Earth has four difficulty settings that go as far as fill some pitfalls with blocks on the easiest setting, a nice bit of hand-crafted adjustment. There are "three main playable characrers with diverse abilities," too: Naomi vos Cruz, Sinlen Rothschild, and Trevor vos Cruz. You can catch more details over on its Greenlight page. |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2016 06:22 AM PDT Intrigued by the latest round of supposed NX controller leaks? So is everyone else. Luckily, the NeoGAF sleuths are hot on the trail! User Endless has pinpointed the exact location of the leaker by way of arboreal awareness. According to Endless, this controller is definitely in Sweden, inside the Massive Entertainment offices. How could they tell? Same tree. Same tree. |
| Hot damn the 3DS has a lot of RPGs this year Posted: 23 Mar 2016 06:00 AM PDT Hardcore 3DS fans are no doubt aware of the fact that the portable has a ton of RPGs hitting the platform in 2016, but if you need a refresher, the video below is a good start. The UK Nintendo channel put out a sizzle reel showing off recently released or upcoming RPGs, including Yo-Kai Watch, Monster Hunter Generations, Fire Emblem Fates, Hyrule Warriors Legends, Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold, Bravely Second: End Layer, and Dragon Quest VII. Out of everything I've played so far Yo-Kai has impacted me the most, and I really hope we see more of it in the west as early as this year. |
| This supposed NX controller leak looks more believable Posted: 23 Mar 2016 05:30 AM PDT Nintendo can't unveil its NX system soon enough. Another rumored controller leak has surfaced, and it looks much more convincing than the last one. According to perkele37, the person who posted these shots on reddit:
The design resembles one of Nintendo's patents closely (too closely?), which has some people skeptical. We also don't know how far along this design is -- it's almost certainly not final -- or how it might fit into the larger context of the NX, which has been described as a console/mobile hybrid. Real or fake, I've learned from past Nintendo hardware leaks to reserve at least some judgment until we see the thing in action in an official capacity. The lack of physical face buttons is interesting, though, for sure. I'm not strictly opposed to that concept, but I understand why it can be cause for concern. |
| 'The Climb' team muses on their journey to have the game hit 90 frames per second Posted: 23 Mar 2016 05:00 AM PDT The Climb looks pretty rad, and I'm particularly jazzed up after reading Zack's recent preview from GDC. It sounds even cooler after watching this developer diary straight from the team, where they talk about the challenge of making a game 90fps for VR, and how they managed to actually create detailed assets. It's not exactly dense inside baseball per se, but it's still fairly dry. |
| Hitman adds Contracts as Elusive Targets are pushed into April Posted: 23 Mar 2016 04:30 AM PDT The new Hitman is a dope slapstick murder comedy and if you need any more proof, just read on the Hitman blog on adding "The Vampire Magician Challenge Pack," which"features ten new challenges inspired by community activity, all requiring you to wear the Vampire Magician disguise while taking down targets using a range of different methods." It's coming to all three systems along with a patch (full details on that later). As for the delay, the interesting "Elusive Targets" -- targets available for limited real-world time that you only get one chance to kill succesfully -- won't come until "closer to the planned release of the next episode, Sapienza, in April." To make up for it, IO has, "two Escalation Contracts coming each week until the release of Sapienza," if running through the bougie Paris fashion show is still enough to get you giggling. |
| Fallout 4's enhanced survival mode updates coming to Steam soon in beta form Posted: 23 Mar 2016 04:00 AM PDT For those of you who feel like Fallout 4 was lacking, Bethesda is going to up their game in at least one department very soon. They're planning an enhanced survival mode update, which will reportedly (though not confirmed) allow characters to take and deal more damage, and will disable quicksaves, among other conveniences. It will come to PC sometime next week by way of the Steam beta program -- no word yet on consoles. In the meantime, you can text out the new Automatron DLC that just dropped. Jordan is actually working on it now, so stay tuned for his take on it! BethesdaGameStudios [Twitter] |
| Nintendo announces impending National StreetPass Weekend Posted: 23 Mar 2016 03:00 AM PDT How many of you crazy kids still StreetPass? I haven't done it in quite some time, despite the fact that I love just about every minigame on the plaza. It's mostly due to the fact that my friends kind of fell off with it, but Nintendo has something in mind to drag people back in. This week will host a National StreetPass Weekend, which will queue up six tags per Nintendo Zone visit. It's a small little thing, but I assume a lot of you fanatics will appreciate it. National StreetPass Weekend [Nintendo] |
| This last Dark Souls III trailer brings us closer to launch Posted: 23 Mar 2016 02:00 AM PDT I'm not your dad, but you should probably go into Dark Souls III completely blind. Don't watch this launch trailer, which has a ton of in-game footage on completely new areas. But if you don't watch it, you'll miss that thing at 1:13! Ok sorry, I won't tempt you. But really, that thing! These environments look great, I just hope they can keep things fresh after hitting nearly every theme since Demon's. Expect our review early in April. No chicken wings were harmed in our review process. |
| Transformers and Tamagotchi designer takes on Skylanders with Infinite Arms Posted: 23 Mar 2016 01:00 AM PDT I can't say for certain Activision knew it was stumbling onto a multi-billion dollar idea when it decided, "hey, let's do something with Spyro the Dragon." The 10th Spyro hit DS in 2005. In 2011, Activision introduced Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, which was the purple dragon's end and the start of amiibo, Disney Infinity, Lego Dimensions et al. It created an entire genre, "toys-to-life," where real world hunks of plastic interact with your games. People spend hundreds of dollars on these things, in an instance where 1 super fan trumps 10 others. Or where children fill Christmas lists with the things. Unlike Nintendo's amiibo or Disney Infinity, newly formed Jumo's toy-to-life game Infinite Arms doesn't trade on nostalgia-rich existing properties. There is a lot of familiar pedigree here, though. Jumo was founded by Keiichi Yano (Gitaroo Man, Elite Beat Agents, Lips), whom I met earlier this month to talk about Infinite Arms. In tow were Jumo's Chris Esaki (Gears of War, Mass Effect), formerly of Microsoft Studios, and writer Tom Abernathy (League of Legends, Halo: Reach, The Division). It's an eclectic mix that reminds you just how small the video game industry can be. The trio, with a combined near-lifetime of experience in the industry, are friends aiming to create the kind of toys they would've dug as kids. Making them, from design to manufacturing, is Yasuo Takahama, the toy industry veteran who helped bring us Tamagotchi and Transformers. |
| Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens has three improvements to the Lego formula Posted: 23 Mar 2016 01:00 AM PDT It's easy to forget that a fair amount of iteration has come to the Lego video game series over the past decade. All the titles -- there are upward of 20 now -- are similar in that they're whimsical, lighthearted takes on popular subject matter. In that sense, they're all alike. But, the franchise has grown considerably. For instance, the earliest games had moderately-sized yet functional hubs; now, the overworlds are massive and contain hours' worth of content on their own. Another good example is that Lego characters talk now, whereas they used to rely on exaggerated nonverbal movements to emote. Some sort of small improvement has come with almost every new game. In the case of Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it's actually three small improvements: Blaster battles, multi-builds, and new flight gameplay. |
| Smite to receive 'life changing console change' soon Posted: 22 Mar 2016 11:00 PM PDT Like Smite? Care about framerate stuff? Then hold onto your hats, friends, ‘cos it seems the MOBA will shortly be available in 60fps. Right now, Smite is locked in at 30fps on both PlayStation 4 beta and Xbox One. However, designer Scott Lussier dropped a Twitter tease stating that he had looked up the forecast and it “looks like 60 and breezy”.
Apparently people didn’t quite get the hint, so he later added that a “life-changing Smite console change” is “coming soon”.
The video he points to is embedded below for your viewing pleasure. It sure does look purty. I'm not sure my life will be changed by 60fps, but it ain't a bad thing, right? Smite dev teases 60fps for PS4 and Xbox One [VG24/7] |
| Capcom celebrations continue with big Resident Evil discounts Posted: 22 Mar 2016 10:00 PM PDT To celebrate Resident Evil’s 20th anniversary, Capcom has discounted a buttload of new and classic Resi games across a range of platforms that aren’t owned by Sony (nope, I have no idea why, either, but I'll keep you posted if that changes). Tempted? You should be. But then I'm the only person on the planet who liked Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City, so don't listen to me. Here’s the list in full, courtesy of our friends in Capcom. |
| Tekken 7 could be heading to PC Posted: 22 Mar 2016 09:00 PM PDT In the last few years, PC’s become a pretty great platform for fighting games. Sure there’s your Mortal Kombat X trainwrecks, but then there’s also Skullgirls, Street Fighter V and BlazBlue to make up for it. If a survey being sent out by Bandai Namco is anything to go by, Tekken 7 could be joining that list too. The survey appears to be gaguing player interest on the platform, which, judging by the comments on every Tekken 7 article ever, is pretty high. While Tekken 7 was released in arcades in Japan last year, it still hasn’t been released on any platform in the West. That means there’s still totally enough time for Namco to get to work on a PC Port if players want it. Namco hasn’t released its main fighting games on PC before, so Tekken 7 could pave the way for future games in both the Tekken and Soul Calibur series on the platform. Here’s hoping! Tekken 7 survey hints at PC version [GameWatcher] |
| Acquisitions Inc. is coming to Neverwinter's newest event Posted: 22 Mar 2016 08:00 PM PDT Neverwinter’s newest event is uh… a tad strange. Portobello’s Campaign is a series of missions inspired by Acquisition Inc.’s live Dungeons & Dragons sessions at PAX Prime 2015. If you’ve never heard of Acquisition Inc. before today, it’s a live, annual one-shot D&D campaign run by Dungeons & Dragons story designer Chris Perkins at each PAX Prime event. You can watch last year’s game on YouTube, and it’s pretty dang entertaining. Portobello’s Campaign sees Perkins and his alter ego Portobello DaVinci rope players in for an incredibly meta series of missions set in the actual table-top game. Your characters, enemies, maps, and bosses all become pieces on a huge table, with a behemoth Portobello looming over you like something from Attack on Titan. As much as I love Neverwinter, it still took me a few watches of this trailer to get on board. The writing in the trailer isn’t exactly stellar, but it is incredibly camp, and reminiscent of what your average person thinks of when they hear ‘Dungeons & Dragons.' Neverwinter’s always been self-aware of how daft a lot of D&D stuff can sound, so seeing it delve completely into cheesy territory should be entertaining. While there is, unfortunately, no word of it coming to the Xbox One version, Portobello’s Campaign is a month-long event that will be starting on March 31 for PC. |
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