One of the major stories in the games industry recently has been loot boxes. Games such as Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Forza Motorsport 7 have come under fire for their loot boxes and microtransactions, as players say that the games unfairly force them to grind or are even pay to win. However, games industry tracker NPD says that the loot box controversy is not affecting video game sales, in the United States at least....
La generación Xbox One se encuentra en su ocaso, gracias a la llegada de las Xbox Series X y S, pero eso solo significa que existe un enorme catálogo de juegos para las consolas más antiguas que puedes disfrutar cuando quieras. Aquí tienes nuestra selección de juegos que deberías probar. Algunos están mejorados para Xbox One X y muchos de ellos incluso están disponibles en Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, un servicio de suscripción para descargar y jugar a juegos completos tantas veces como quieras....
After Johnny Depp honored Warner Bros.’ request for him to step down from the role of Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts films, Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen was tapped to replace him as the antagonistic Dark Wizard. Now, Mikkelsen has opened up about his response to being cast as the villain of the Harry Potter prequels and what challenges he expects to face in accepting the role. Warner Bros. had requested Depp’s resignation after the actor lost a libel case against The Sun....
Mario has ironed and pressed his best Hakama and combed out that hat hair to celebrate Mario Kart Tour’s 1st Anniversary Tour. The commemorative event is now underway and will run until October 20, featuring Anniversary Challenges and the return of five popular city courses. The 1st Anniversary Tour will be the mobile game’s 28th tour since its release on September 25, 2019, that’s hot on the heels of the Los Angeles Tour; an event which celebrated the release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars that concluded yesterday....
Crystal Dynamics has given Marvel’s Avengers players a new look at War For Wakanda through some brand new concept art. As reported by Twitter user avengers_acy, the developers took to Twitch to take part in the thirteenth “Updates with the Devs” stream. These streams are separate from the War Tables and weekly blogs, and have the developers sharing more in-depth looks at Marvel’s Avengers development. The latest update provided a new look at the upcoming War for Wakanda expansion pack, which should be hitting Marvel’s Avengers next month....
As a way to commemorate International Women’s Day, Mass Effect’s Twitter account has been sharing fanart of the game’s female characters. So far, the account has shared two illustrations with different takes on the female version of Commander Shepard, the main character in Mass Effect, and a third illustration of Tali’Zorah nar Rayya, a skilled Quarian Machinist. Mass Effect has been encouraging fans to share their artwork using the hashtag #MyShepard and some of it is been retweeted on the official Twitter account....
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition included a new-and-improved character creation for players to tweak their old models in (or create entirely new galaxy-savers). While much of the content will be familiar to fans who have played the original series, there are a few new tweaks worth noticing. There’s still an individual character creator for each Mass Effect game, but the hairstyles and Shepard’s appearance have been standardized (as much as possible) throughout....
The galaxy is falling apart in Mass Effect 3, with billions of people trying desperately to reconnect with loved ones in the face of an unprecedented invasion. Unless Commander Shepard can perform some sort of miracle in the coming days, everything we’ve come to know is doomed - and that includes the places and people we hold so dear. As a trilogy, Mass Effect can often overlook the little people, those caught up in the conflicts caused in the face of Shepard’s conquest to save the galaxy....
Board and card game creator studio Knapsack Games recently launched a Kickstarter drive to crowdfund the creation of Masters of Mutanite, a mutant and superpowers deck-building board game. As of this writing, the project has 20 days left remaining, and is close and getting closer to hitting the halfway mark of its $25,000 goal. The Masters of Mutanite (MoM) Kickstarter has only four reward tiers: a $1 Project Updates (only) tier, a $45 The Game tier, a $100 Knapsack Games Triple Play tier, and a $160 Retailer tier....
The Outsiders and Funcom announce Metal: Hellsinger, a game that looks like a musical version of DOOM. The game is part of the Summer of Gaming, an event that will also feature the Cyberpunk 2077 Night City Wire reveal. One of the surprise game announcements from IGN’s first Summer of Gaming stream was Metal: Hellsinger, a game where players shoot and enjoy music as they fight through eight levels of hell....
10 Weapons: Snake 9 Equipment: Sam 8 Body: Snake 7 Using Darkness: Sam 6 Field Support: Snake 5 Family: Sam Snake may be rich with allies ready to assist him in battle but are they really that close to him outside of work? Snake is always looking forward to his goal and doesn’t have much in terms of ideals. Sam does in that everything he pulls off is done for his daughter....
During the early days after the Metal Gear Solid 5 public reveal, hardcore fans were outraged when it was announced that Kiefer Sutherland will be voicing Snake. Ever since voice acting was introduced to the series, David Hayter has been the consistent voice behind Snake, and fans were understandably upset over this recasting. The controversy over Kiefer Sutherland voicing Snake in Metal Gear Solid 5 has died down quite considerably since then, partly due to much bigger problems brewing at Konami stealing its thunder....
Monster Hunter Rise is the latest installment in the Monster Hunter series. Those who want to play this game on the go can now do so since the game is available for the Nintendo Switch. It has all the beauty and intricacies of a Monster Hunter title. While the game may seem smaller in scale at first, it is later obvious just how massive and rich this world is. Monster Hunter Rise is an open-world RPG....
It’s been over a week since the crazy situation surrounding GameStop’s stocks began and people are still learning about the fallout that resulted from it. The GameStop stock situation is fairly dense to unpack in its entirety, but those who have some interest in the stock market and even video games could learn some interesting things from it. Now, it seems that another savvy business man has made a killing as a result of this absurd stock market event....
Purchasing a company’s entire mobile devices branch is no small feat - not when the deal costs over $7 billion. And that’s without factoring in the cost of running that new branch, bringing it under the company’s existing wing, and making it more profitable than its previous owner did. Yet that’s the job that Microsoft signed up for when they bought Nokia’s Devices and Services business earlier this year. Not only was that portion of the Finnish company business taken on, but Microsoft agreed to amass $600 million worth of annual savings - within 18 months - as part of the transaction....
Although modders have been consistently contributing custom content to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, which was released on August 18, Sergio Perea has taken it one step further by adding the King of the Monsters, aka Godzilla, to the sim game. Less aggressive than the fictional monster we’ve come to know, Godzilla for Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is based on the 2014 Legendary Pictures version of Godzilla, can be seen hanging out in San Francisco near the Bay Bridge, at coordinates 37....
As has been a recent trend in Hollywood, video game movie adaptations persist in trying to combine the live-action plausibility of ‘our world’ with some inter-dimensional ‘other world.’ Out of all of the gaming’s biggest global franchises, Monster Hunter is perhaps not the first one to jump to mind with this concept, but it’s happening. It’s concerning to many fans, even, and it’s up in the air how well this strategy will pay off....
Nintendo has been dominating the Japanese charts lately, and the latest figures from Famitsu are no different. For the week running from October 19 to October 25, the ten best-selling games in Japan all belong to the Nintendo Switch. Even more impressive – Nintendo is the publisher on almost all ten titles. Only Minecraft and Pokemon Sword and Shield were published by a third-party company. Here’s the top ten list in its entirety, followed by sales figures for the week (courtesy of Nintendo Life):...
Few games have taken the approach Red Dead Redemption 2 has. With the first game being a smash hit, it’s hard to follow up with a game that relates and continues to further the story. Yet that is exactly what Rockstar did here. John Marston was already one of the most complete characters in gaming history, and Red Dead Redemption 2 gave players so much more backstory and reasoning for the events of the first game....
Bithell Games has announced it will be bringing the rather excellent John Wick Hex to PS4 on May 5, 2020. Released last year shortly after John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, the game acted as a prequel to the film series and showed a period of the titular character’s life as a ruthless assassin. Mixing X-COM like gameplay with the finesse of the films, it created a sensation of actually being Keanu Reeves on the film set and performing those tactical maneuvers....
