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Who is the new character in Mortal Kombat 11’s New Year’s teaser?

Posted on January 1, 2019 by John Scalzo

Mortal Kombat fans have been speculating about the possibility of time travel shenanigans in Mortal Kombat 11 ever since the fighter’s Announcement Trailer at the 2018 Game Awards featured a pair of Scorpions and a brief glimpse at a mysterious woman standing in front of a giant hourglass. Ed Boon and company gave us a closer look at this new character yesterday as they were counting down to New Year’s Day on Twitter:

Is she a playable character? If so, who is she? And if not, what role will she play in Mortal Kombat 11’s storyline and the stalemate between “Evil” Liu Kang and “Evil” Raiden?

Thankfully, we won’t have much longer to wait for answers to these questions as NetherRealm Studios is planning a “Community Reveal Event” for Mortal Kombat 11 on January 17. And the fighting game will launch shortly after that on April 23 for the PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.

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From Software has two unannounced games in the works

Posted on December 29, 2018 by John Scalzo

The developers at From Software always manage to keep themselves busy, and the team is currently hard at work on Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which is currently slated to launch on March 22. But you might not know that they’ve also got two unannounced projects currently in development.

Speaking to 4Gamer, From Software’s Hidetaka Miyazaki elaborated a tiny bit about these two mystery games:

Mr. Miyazaki: It is not the right time to talk about details, but I think both of them are like [titles From Software has created in the past]. We still need some more time, but we will be able to tell you what shape they’ll become in the future.

So there you have it. Do you think From Software is going back to the Dark Souls series? Or might the develper finally give fans the Bloodborne sequel they’ve been asking for since 2015? At this point, I have no idea. And neither does anyone else. With so few details to work with, baseless speculation is really all we have to go on.

That said, Miyazaki previously mentioned that From Software was working on Armored Core 6 in 2016. Could a sequel to the long-running mech franchise be in cards? Baseless speculation says… maybe.

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Insight Editions will release The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook in March 2019

Posted on December 26, 2018 by John Scalzo

It looks like Insight Editions will expand their line of game-themed cookbooks in March 2019 with the release of The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook.

The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook will be written by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, an author who previously cataloged the fictional cuisines from Hearthstone and World of Warcraft. Readers can expect to find more than 60 recipes from “Skyrim, Morrowind, and all of Tamriel” in the book:

Feast on all of the delicious dishes found in Skyrim, Morrowind, and all of Tamriel in this beautifully crafted cookbook based on the award-winning Elder Scrolls game series. Immerse yourself in the diverse cuisines of the Nords, Bosmer, Khajit, and beyond with these recipes inspired by food found in the Old Kingdom, across Tamriel, and more. With over sixty delicious recipes for fan-favorite recipes including Apple Cabbage Stew, Sunlight Souffle, Sweetrolls, and more, The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook will delight every hungry Dragonborn.

The Elder Scrolls: The Official Cookbook will be released on March 26, 2019.

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Bethesda will apologize for Fallout 76’s rough launch by gifting all players the Fallout Classic Collection

Posted on December 26, 2018 by John Scalzo

It’s no secret that Fallout 76 didn’t have a very smooth launch, and players have had to endure a wide variety of technical issues since the game’s release on November 14.

To apologize to fans for this less than ideal situation, Bethesda has announced that all players who login to Fallout 76 on any platform in 2018 will receive a free copy of the Fallout Classic Collection in 2019:

The Fallout Classic Collection includes the first three games in the franchise (1997’s Fallout, 1998’s Fallout 2, and 2001’s Fallout Tactics) and is currently available for the PC.

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20th Century Fox is teasing images from Alien: Isolation’s comic sequel

Posted on December 22, 2018 by John Scalzo

Alien: Isolation, Sega and Creative Assembly’s stealth-based interquel set between Alien and Aliens, was a huge hit with fans when it launched back in 2014. The developer even batted around a few sequel ideas, but sadly, nothing ever came to fruition.

However, that all changes in 2019… as long as you’re willing to pick up a comic book.

Dark Horse Comics will publish the first issue of Aliens: Resistance in January, and it reveals the next chapter in Amanda Ripley’s fight against Weyland-Yutani’s attempt to weaponize the Xenomorphs. Yesterday, we got a glimpse at the first images from this project as the Alien Anthology Instagram account began posting concept art from “A 6-Part Dossier Exposing the Secret History of Weyland-Yutani.”

Promising that “The Alien Universe Expands” in 2019, and written in an in-universe style, the “Dossier” depicts a Company plan to study the aftermath of a colony seeded with facehuggers:

A 6-Part Dossier Exposing the Secret History of Weyland-Yutani
Day 1: Arrived at the facility. Weyland-Yutani has poured massive resources into this orbital facility. I’ve come to investigate rumors about accidents in a secret research program. (1 of 6)

Day 2: The facility is hiding a terrible secret. Highly aggressive mega-parasites with corrosive blood. They’re breeding them, using them for research. (2 of 6)

Day 3: Breeding program is a house of horrors. They’re torturing and killing people, using them as hosts for the larvae. Where did these people come from? (3 of 6)

Day 4: The experiments aren’t just in the lab. Company is sending the larvae somewhere. They’re using their own private military to move them. (4 of 6)

Day 5: It’s worse than I thought. They are dropping these payloads on the planet below. What is the company’s aim? (5 of 6)

Day 6: It’s a nightmare. They have infested and destroyed the Weyland-Yutani colony below. Killing all of the facility’s personnel. We have to expose this. I know they’ll try to discredit me. Or worse. (6 of 6)

20th Century Fox’s FoxNext Games publishing label plans to release a new Alien shooter in 2019, but it’s unknown if it’ll link up with Aliens: Resistance in any way. Right now, about all we know is that the game is in development at Cold Iron Studios, and that it might be known as Alien: Blackout.

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Donut County, Sundered, Road Redemption, more coming to Xbox Store this week

Posted on December 19, 2018 by John Scalzo

With the end of the year almost upon us, a growing black hole is coming to suck up all your free time. Coincidentally, the black hole at the center of Donut County slid onto the Xbox One as part of this week’s Xbox Games Store update.

Xbox One owners will also be able to download Sundered, a Lovecraftian-themed MetroidVania, and Road Redemption, two-wheeled combat from Pixel Dash Studios and EQ Games.

You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the Xbox Games Store after the break. (more…)

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Red Dead Redemption 2 was the best-selling game of November 2018

Posted on December 19, 2018 by John Scalzo

It took an extra month, but Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally perched atop the NPD’s monthly best-seller list.

According to the tracking firm (as reported by GamesIndustry.biz), Rockstar’s open world epic was November’s best-selling game, topping such contenders as Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (#2), Battlefield V (#3), and Fallout 76 (#4). Other new releases in the top ten include Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu (#4), Pokemon: Let’s Go Eevee (#5), and Spyro Reignited Trilogy (#5).

But the most important statistic in the NPD’s November report was on the hardware side of things, as the PS4, Switch, and Xbox One all sold over 1.3 million consoles. It’s the first time ever that three console platforms each sold more than a million units in a calendar month. All told, US consumers purchased more than $3.9 billion worth of video game hardware in November.

A complete look at The NPD Group’s list of the best-selling games from last month can be found after the break. (more…)

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Fragile Equilibrium will be released for the PC and Xbox One on December 21

Posted on December 18, 2018 by John Scalzo

MAGIC Spell Studios, an indie publisher who distributes projects created by students at the Rochester Institute of Technology, has announced that Fragile Equilibrium will be available to download for the PC (through the Windows Store and Itch.io) and Xbox One this Friday, December 21.

Fragile Equilibrium is a side-scrolling shooter that also serves as a metaphor for a chaotic life, as players will need to rebuild the world around them in addition to moving forward against the enemies in front of them:

Fragile Equilibrium is a game about the imperfection and impermanence of life. It is a reflection on transience, a balancing act between progress and regrowth, a reminder to find beauty in decay and inevitable destruction. Using old-school ‘shmup’ mechanics and forms, Fragile Equilibrium invites the player to explore a world of quick actions, forced decisions, and subtle strategy: but with each decision, the player falls ever out of balance.

As a work of art, Fragile Equilibrium is a thinly veiled allegory for dealing with depression and anxiety: it is intended specifically to create in the player the sense of being ‘squeezed’, a slowly building pressure and feeling of being trapped, and to lead players to reflect on balancing their forward progress with a constant need to reconsider, rebuild, and refocus on internally facing (i.e. inward facing) issues and obstacles. It challenges players to find a Fragile Equilibrium in their own play, as a metaphor for conveying issues of instability.

Fragile Equilibrium will also be released through Steam in January, and it’ll be available as a free download on all platforms.

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