All Articles: PAX West 2018

Diablo III: Eternal Collection officially announced for Nintendo Switch

Posted on August 16, 2018 by John Scalzo

A day after it was accidentally leaked by Forbes, Blizzard and Nintendo confirmed that Diablo III: Eternal Collection will be coming to the Nintendo Switch this Fall.

Diablo III has been everywhere since its launch on the PC in 2012, with additional stops on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2013, before also coming to the PS4 and Xbox One a year after that in 2014. The Action RPG’s Switch debut will include the original game, as well as the Reaper of Souls expansion, the Rise of the Necromancer add-on, and a variety of Switch-exclusive content like the “Legend of Ganondorf” cosmetic armor set.

Naturally, Diablo III will feature a number of multiplayer options on the Switch. Four players will be able to team up on a single console, but if you’re on the go, players can link their systems together wirelessly for multi-screen multiplayer play. Online multiplayer, through the Nintendo Online Service, will also be available, and any combination of local, wireless, and online players is possible.

“The Eternal Collection is the definitive version of Diablo III, and we’re thrilled to team up with Nintendo to unleash it for Nintendo Switch gamers around the world later this year,” said Mike Morhaime, the CEO and Co-Founder of Blizzard Entertainment. “Bringing the world together through epic entertainment is core to our mission at Blizzard—we can’t wait to welcome a new generation of demon-slayers to Sanctuary.”

Blizzard will be taking the Switch version of Diablo III on a whirlwind worldwide tour later this month, and players will be able to try it out soon at Gamescom in Cologne (August 21-25), Fan Expo in Toronto (August 30 – September 2), and PAX West (August 31 – September 3) in Seattle.

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Indie Megabooth’s PAX West 2018 installation will include 78 games from 17 countries

Posted on August 10, 2018 by John Scalzo

The Indie Megabooth is slimming down slightly for their PAX West 2018 installation, but they’ve scoured the globe to bring playable demos for 78 games from 17 different countries to the Seattle-based show.

Among the highlights this time around are a handful of games we’ve had our eye on including Chainsawesome Games’s Aftercharge, Lab Zero Games’s Indivisible, and Wonderful Lasers’s Super Impossible Road (which will be part of the Minibooth). The Indie Megabooth’s Minibooth will also be home to Vertex Pop’s super-colorful Super Crush KO, which was announced earlier today.

You can find the Indie Megabooth’s complete PAX West 2018 lineup after the break. (more…)

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Vertex Pop will bring Super Crush KO to the PC and Switch in 2019

Posted on August 10, 2018 by John Scalzo

Super Crush KO is a hyper-colorful side-scrolling brawler, and it’s the next game from Vertex Pop, the indie developer behind We Are Doomed and Graceful Explosion Machine.

With it’s first two games, Vertex Pop employed a graphical style that very closely resembled paper cutouts, and they plan to continue using this approach to worldbuilding in Super Crush KO. Fully on display in the Announcement Trailer embedded above, players will take control of a “stylish-as-heck hero” and fight back against these origami-like creations to quell a robot uprising:

Super Crush KO is a fast-paced brawler / shoot-em-up hybrid set in a vibrant, near-future city. Take control of a neon-wearing, robot-stomping, stylish-as-heck hero and save humanity from an AI apocalypse!

Punch your way through waves of bots, launch them into the air and blast them out of the sky, all chained together in massive, awesome combos.

Super Crush KO will be released for the PC and Switch sometime in 2019, but fans will get the chance to try it out later this month in the Indie Megabooth at PAX West.

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