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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will launch on the Xbox One on December 12… Stranger Things Skin Pack now available in Minecraft
A hundred players parachute onto the island, but the game is almost ready to parachute onto the Xbox One. That’s right, PUBG Corp has announced a release date for the Xbox One launch of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds at Paris Games Week.
Also today, Mojang is adding the potent fanbase of Stranger Things to Minecraft with a new Skin Pack.
You can read more about both stories after the break. (more…)
New Retail Releases: Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein II, Assassin’s Creed Origins, More
Mario is back this week in his first fully 3D adventure in more than a decade. Super Mario Odyssey will make its Switch debut this Friday, but fans can dance along with its super-catchy theme song, “Jump Up Super Star,” right now.
Also returning to the dance floor this week is BJ Blazkowicz (in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus), Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise (in Assassin’s Creed Origins), and the latest entry in the Just Dance series (Just Dance 2018).
Finally this week, Destiny 2 will make its PC debut.
You can read all about the rest of this week’s new retail releases after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Vita, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged Assassin's Creed Origins, Destiny 2, Just Dance 2018, Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Fire Emblem Warriors, The Mummy Demastered, Jackbox Party Pack 4, more added to Nintendo eShop
Get the party started with today’s Nintendo eShop update.
Switch owners will be able to compete with friends and family in five-and-a-half new party games from Jackbox Games in The Jackbox Party Pack 4. And starting tomorrow, players will be able to recruit characters from across the Fire Emblem universe on both the Switch and New 3DS to do battle in Fire Emblem Warriors.
Beginning next week, Switch owners will be able to get nostalgic with WayForward’s MetroidVania-inspired The Mummy Demastered and they can keep the party going with Just Dance 2018
You can learn more about all of this week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Switch, Wii U
Tagged Fire Emblem Warriors, Jackbox Party Pack 4, Just Dance 2018, The Mummy Demastered
The Video Game Canon: Mega Man 2
Dig deeper into the Video Game Canon with a look at the the blockbuster success born out of the simple ambitions of Mega Man 2. Here’s a teaser…
The first Mega Man game is a bit of an odd duck, which has become even more pronounced as the years go by. The graphics are simplistic, the sound is tinny, there’s only six Robot Masters instead of the traditional eight, and there’s even a score counter (a feature that was jettisoned from the dozens of sequels that followed). There’s just a smoothness to subsequent games in the franchise that Capcom had yet to master with the first entry.
But like most Mega Man fans, I only learned all this after the fact. At the time, whatever memories I have of the first game were formed by guide writers who described it as an unfairly difficult game, old episodes of Captain N, and the fact that none of the local rental outlets owned a copy (unsurprisingly, Lee Trevino’s Fighting Golf was always available).
I finally got the chance to see what all the fuss was about with Mega Man 2, which was also the first game in the Mega Man franchise to be spearheaded by Capcom’s Keiji Inafune. With an expanded role in the sequel’s development, Inafune became known as the “Father” of Mega Man to plenty of fans, and codified many of the traditions and patterns the series is known for.
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Wulverblade, Etrian Odyssey V, Yono and the Celestial Elephants, more added to Nintendo eShop
The Nintendo Switch continues to roll through the Fall with another massive collection of new releases on the Nintendo eShop today.
Wulverblade is a side-scrolling beat ’em up about an early war between the Britons and the Roman army. Yono and the Celestial Elephants is an adventure game about a young elephant tasked with saving the world. And The Flame in The Flood: Complete Edition is a survival story about a young girl, her dog, and a raging river.
Over on the 3DS, RPG fans will be able to download Atlus’s Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth on Tuesday, October 17.
You can learn more about all of this week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Switch, Wii U
Tagged Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth, Wulverblade
Stardew Valley coming to Switch this week… Battle Princess Madelyn gets a new teaser trailer
ConcernedApe has announced that Switch owners will soon be able to take Stardew Valley on the go, and Casual Bit Games has unveiled the newest trailer for Battle Princess Madelyn.
You can read more about both after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Switch, Vita, Wii U, Xbox One
Tagged Battle Princess Madelyn, Stardew Valley
FIFA 18, Golf Story, Inversus Deluxe, more added to Nintendo eShop
It’s another big week for the Nintendo Switch… because dozens of new titles (and a few new 3DS games) are now available to download through the Nintendo eShop.
Later this week, EA Sports will bring their soccer simulation FIFA 18 to the Switch on September 29. But beginning today, Sidebar’s “Golf RPG,” Golf Story, will tee off on the Switch eShop. It’ll be joined by monochromatic shooter Inversus Deluxe, picture puzzler Picross S, and co-op spaceship manager Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (on October 3).
Over on the 3DS, Nintendo fans will be able Yo-Kai Watch 2: Psychic Specters on September 29 and Culdcept Revolt on October 3.
You can learn more about this week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop after the break. (more…)
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Tagged Culdcept Revolt, FIFA 18, Inversus, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Yo-Kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits/Fleshy Souls
SAG-AFTRA reaches agreement with game publishers to end voice actor strike
After nearly a year of intense negotiations, the “voice actor strike” between the SAG-AFTRA union and a group of 11 game publishers (including Activision, Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive, WB Games, and others) is over.
According to a spokesman for SAG-AFTRA, the tentative agreement to end the strike includes a pay raise for voice actors, more transparency in casting calls, and a commitment to further discuss the issue of “vocal stress”:
The terms of the tentative agreement, which was reached early Saturday morning, include a new bonus structure that provides an additional payment to performers. The bonus payment, which is due no later than the release date of the game, is based on the number of sessions worked on each game, beginning with a $75 payment on the first session and totaling $2,100 after 10 sessions worked.
“The new transparency provisions will enhance the bargaining power of our members’ representatives by requiring the companies to disclose the code name of project, its genre, whether the game is based on previously published intellectual property and whether the performer is reprising a prior role,” said Ray Rodriguez, SAG-AFTRA’s Chief Contracts Officer. “Members are also protected by the disclosure of whether they will be required to use unusual terminology, profanity or racial slurs, whether there will be content of a sexual or violent nature and whether stunts will be required.”
The deal also contains an employer commitment to continue working with SAG-AFTRA on the issue of vocal stress during the term of the agreement.
Though the two sides have reached a tentative agreement, the strike won’t officially end until a vote of the union membership is held during their October meeting.