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- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
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- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Author: John Scalzo
Anarki is a “Transhuman Punk” in the latest Quake Champions trailer
We still don’t know when its Closed Beta will begin, but Bethesda and id Software recently deployed another Character Trailer for Quake Champions. This time around, fans will get a chance to meet “Anarki the Transhuman Punk,” a drug-addled lover of heavy metal and hoverboards:
Anarki (Transhuman Punk)
Anarki’s rebellion began with the usual self-vandalism, but he craved something greater, and found it in transhumanism. Addiction, injury, disease… Why tolerate flesh if he could replace it? Using family riches, he underwent increasingly extreme cybernetic surgeries. After a microelectrode pierced his pineal gland, Anarki perceived a surreal, alien reality breakthrough! He eagerly sought more procedures, ignoring the insomnia. Each strengthened his perception of the hidden realm. But only once he met a girl who saw it, too, was he sure he could reach it.Active Ability – Health Injection: Taking too much damage? Good thing for you Anarki is well-versed in various performance enhancing … treatments. Use the Health Injection Active Ability to give Anarki a quick heal mid-match. Juice it up, baby!
Passive Ability – Hoverboard Air Control: Anarki’s hoverboard is a brutal bonus. Anarki is already one of the fastest Champions in the game, but the hoverboard means he can actually gain speed as he strafe-jumps around the Arenas, reaching a ludicrous velocity. In addition, his hoverboard awards a special Passive Ability that allows players more control in mid-air to turn sharply and chase down enemies or escape those who dare follow him up a jump pad.
Three Champions have been revealed so far, and Anarki will join Nyx the Fathom Agent and Scalebearer the Galactic Warlord on the battlefield in Quake Champions when it launches later this year.
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Cities: Skylines will break new ground on the Xbox One on April 21
Paradox Interactive has announced that Cities: Skylines will be released for the Xbox One on April 21.
The console edition was developed by Tantalus Media, who rebuilt and optimized the city management sim with full controller support. In addition to adding a new control scheme to Cities: Skylines, the developer also bundled in After Dark, the game’s nightlife-focused expansion.
Cities: Skylines will be available for $39.99 as a retail disc release and as a digital download through the Xbox Games Store.
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Here’s the first trailer for Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Telltale Games promised to release the first full trailer from their adaptation of Guardians of the Galaxy today, and they delivered. The Guardians are up to their usual shenanigans in the 90-second clip, and it looks like Star-Lord’s team will tangle with Thanos in the first episode:
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series is a brand new story of the universe’s unlikeliest heroes: Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot. In the wake of an epic battle, the Guardians discover an artifact of unspeakable power. Each of them has a reason to desire this relic, as does a ruthless enemy who is the last of her kind, and who will stop at nothing to tear it from their hands.
From Earth to the Milano to Knowhere and beyond, and set to the beat of awesome music, you wear the rocket-powered boots of Star-Lord in an original Guardians adventure, where your decisions and actions drive the story you experience.
Guardians of the Galaxy – Episode 1: Tangled Up In Blue will be available to download for the PC, PS4, Xbox One, and mobile devices on April 18. The game’s debut on “additional platforms” (possibly the Switch) will be announced at a later date.
First trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront II will debut on April 15
After a seemingly neverending stream of commentary from their executive officers, Electronic Arts has finally announced that we’ll get our first look at Star Wars: Battlefront II during this year’s Star Wars Celebration.
Fans will converge on Orlando next month for Star Wars Celebration 2017, which begins on April 13th. The four-day festival will publicize the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi, as well as honor the 40th anniversary of the original Star Wars. And on April 15, at 2:30 PM (Eastern Time), Electronic Arts will host a panel for “The Galaxywide Premiere of Star Wars: Battlefront II.”
If you’re unable to attend this year’s Star Wars Celebration, you’ll still be able to view the trailer at StarWars.com (and eventually, on YouTube). And don’t forget, the publisher will deliver even more news about the shooter sequel at their EA Play event during this year’s E3 Expo.
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Rally the Troops! Destiny 2 is officially coming to the PC, PS4, Xbox One on September 8
“There will be a ton of loot!”
With that totally unselfish sentiment, Nathan Fillion’s Cayde-6 rallies the troops to take back the Last City in Destiny 2. Humanity has paid the ultimate price at the start of the shooter sequel, which is officially scheduled to launch for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on September 8.
Bungie wants to take players players on an adventure “filled with new destinations around our solar system to explore.” New weapons and abilities, and a “fresh” story, will also greet veteran Guardians and newcomers on the battlefield:
In Destiny 2, the last safe city on Earth has fallen and lay in ruins, occupied by a powerful new enemy and his elite army, the Red Legion. Every player creates their own character called a “Guardian,” humanity’s chosen protectors. As a Guardian in Destiny 2, players must master new abilities and weapons to reunite the city’s forces, stand together and fight back to reclaim their home.
The official Destiny 2 reveal trailer, “Rally the Troops,” shows two of the Vanguard, leaders of the Guardians, inspiring the people of the Last City in an impassioned (and occasionally sarcastic) call to arms. In Destiny 2, players will answer this call, embarking on a fresh story filled with new destinations around our solar system to explore, and an expansive amount of activities to discover. There is something for almost every type of gamer in Destiny 2, including gameplay for solo, cooperative, and competitive players set within a vast, evolving and exciting universe.
Bungie also confirmed that we’ll get our first look at a gameplay reveal during a special livestream on May 18. The broadcast will showcase “a variety of fun, action-oriented activities within Destiny 2, and will highlight the brand-new, epic adventure waiting for players.”
Unfortunately, your characters from the original Destiny will not carry over to Destiny 2. The developer is promising that all players will get a “fresh start” with the sequel.
Players who pre-order Destiny 2 on any platform will receive access to a pre-release beta, and Bungie is planning to offer the game in multiple configurations including a Standard Edition ($59.99), a Standard Edition + Expansion Pass Bundle ($89.99), a Limited Edition ($99.99), and a Digital Deluxe Edition ($99.99) featuring premium digital content. There will also be a Collector’s Edition ($249.99) containing a fully-wearable Frontier Bag, the Expansion Pass, premium digital content, and a Cabal-themed Collector’s Box.
The supervillains are coming… The Scarecrow, Bane, Captain Cold, and Gorilla Grodd steal the show in the latest Injustice 2 trailer
We got a good look at Gorilla Grodd back when NetherRealm Studios first announced Injustice 2. But he’s also part of a parade of supervillains in the latest trailer for the one-on-one fighting game.
“It’s Good To Be Bad” is notable for giving fans their first glimpse at several new additions to the Injustice universe including Bane, Captain Cold, and the most-frightening version of Scarecrow that I’ve ever seen. Bane is a brawler in the Jax mold, and Captain Cold obviously shares a powerset with Sub-Zero, but you might be surprised to see Scarecrow using a chained sickle similar to Scorpion’s spear or Kabal’s hookswords.
Injustice 2 will be released for the PS4 and Xbox One on May 16.
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Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment will be released for the PC on April 5
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment was one of the best games released for the Nintendo Switch during its launch weekend, but we have good news if you’ve been waiting for it to make its way to other platforms.
Late last night, Yacht Club Games announced (via their official website) that Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment will be available to download for the PC on April 5. The game is also in development for more than a half-dozen other platforms (3DS, Fire TV, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, and Xbox One), and each one is currently scheduled to be released by the end of April.
Players who previously purchased Shovel Knight (which is now known as Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove) will receive the campaign as a free expansion. But PC, PS4, and Xbox One players who have never played Shovel Knight before will also have the option to purchase Specter of Torment as a standalone download.
Two additional expansions (King Knight’s Campaign and Battle Mode) are also in the works at Yacht Club Games. They’re expected to launch before the end of the year.