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Author: John Scalzo
The Games of November 2017
A complete look at the games scheduled to launch in November can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in Features
8-Bit Adventure Anthology: Volume 1, Spintires: MudRunner, Disneyland Adventures, more added to Xbox Store
Today’s Xbox Games Store update is hitting the nostalgia button hard.
First up, Abstraction Games will launch 8-Bit Adventure Anthology: Volume 1, a point and click compilation that includes Shadowgate, The Uninvited, and Deja Vu.
Microsoft will also re-release Disneyland Adventures and Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure, two games that originally made their way to the Xbox 360 a few years ago. These Xbox One updates will add full controller support and an Xbox Play Anywhere option for all purchasers.
Finally, Xbox One owners will be able to play in the mud today with Spintires: MudRunner. It’s not a re-release, but younger folks should ask their parents about “mud pies” someday.
You can learn more about all of today’s additions to the Xbox Games Store after the break. (more…)
Electronic Arts reiterates that Battlefield V and Anthem are coming in 2018
UPDATE: EA has announced that “Battlefield 6” will officially be known as Battlefield V.
ORIGINAL STORY: Electronic Arts delivered their quarterly financial report to investors last night, and Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen delivered some (not unexpected) news about the publisher’s 2018 slate of games.
Jorgensen reiterated that the currently untitled Battlefield 6 will be released in 2018, alongside a “full slate” of EA Sports titles (presumably FIFA 19, Madden NFL 19, NHL 19, and NBA Live 19), and BioWare’s Anthem. It looks like multiple in-game events for Star Wars: Battlefront II are also on tap for next year:
The core of our fiscal 2019 is in a full slate of sports titles and their associated live services, plus new live services from Star Wars: Battlefront II. We will add the next Battlefield game and moved into the action genre with Anthem. We expect our subscriber base to continue to grow and our new mobile titles to benefit from players looking for deeper experiences with higher production values.
Later in the presentation, CEO Andrew Wilson added that EA Sports is planning something connected to next year’s World Cup:
On World Cup, we don’t have any news to announce right now, but at EA Sports we have a long tradition of celebrating the World Cup and bringing it to life for fans, stretching back to the World Cup 1998. So as it gets closer, the world’s largest sporting event, we’ll announce more details on how we’ll continue this tradition.
Electronic Arts’s stock is down more than 4% in trading on the stock market so far today.
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One
Tagged Anthem, Battlefield V, Star Wars: Battlefront II
Call of Duty: WWII, Dot Hack G.U.: Last Recode, Spintires: MudRunner, more added to PS Store
Prepare to go to war in this week’s PlayStation Store update.
Activision is going back to the frontlines of World War II in the latest entry in the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: WWII. PS4 owners will also be able to download Dot Hack G.U.: Last Recode, an enhanced re-release of the entire Dot Hack G.U. trilogy. A different kind of war will take place in Spintires: MudRunner, as PS4 players will get in a truck and fight it out with the muck underneath their wheels.
And finally, retro game fans will be able to download 8-Bit Adventure Anthology: Volume 1 for the PS4, which includes three classic point and click adventures (Shadowgate, The Uninvited, and Deja Vu).
You can learn more about this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PS4, Vita
Tagged Call of Duty: WWII
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…)
Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 Episode 4 will be released on November 7… World of Final Fantasy coming to PC on November 21
Telltale Games will turn the page on a new episode from Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 next week, and Square Enxi will give Final Fantasy fans a chance to play World of Final Fantasy on a new platform in a few weeks.
You can read more about both news stories (and spy a pair of brand new trailers) after the break. (more…)
Posted in Mobile, News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2, World of Final Fantasy
The Last of Us Part II’s new trailer is absolutely brutal
Sony gave us another at The Last of Us Part II during their Paris Games Week presentation today, and it is just absolutely brutal. Multiple people are killed by a hammer, a woman is strung up from a tree with a noose, a poor guy gets an arrow through the throat… and that’s before the zombies show up.
Thankfully, Joel and Ellie are no where to be seen. And that’s by design. According to a post by Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann on the PlayStation Blog, this trailer is meant to introduce fans to some of the new characters in The Last of Us Part II:
At its core, The Last of Us is still very much about Ellie and Joel, but for this reveal, we wanted to showcase several new characters that are integral to their next journey. We’re sure you have many questions after watching this scene. We’re also pretty sure that we’re going to see all sorts of theories about whom these characters are, where and when this scene takes place, and how all of this fits into Ellie and Joel’s next story. For now we’re keeping mum, but we’re excited to see what y’all make of this piece of the puzzle.
The Last of Us Part II still doesn’t have a release date, but Druckmann had more to say in a new video interview. You can find it after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PS4
Tagged The Last of Us Part II
New trailer for Insomniac’s Spider-Man game… Shadow of the Colossus comes to PS4 on February 6
Spider-Man will do whatever a spider can on the PS4 in 2018, and so will a remake of Team Ico’s Shadow of the Colossus.
Today, we got another look at both games in new trailers, as well as an official release date for Shadow of the Colossus.
You can find it all after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PS4
Tagged Shadow of the Colossus, Spider-Man