Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! It’s a beautiful day to share with a loved one, or to wait until tomorrow and buy discounted candy. Also, the Internet is full of adorably geeky cards today, which I’m getting a kick out of.
It’s also full of adorable sales! There’s a Valentine’s Sale happening right now at the Humble Store. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is $7.49, Gone Home is $6.79, Where Is My Heart? is $3.99, and Surgeon Simulator is $2.59, among lots of other great games!
Over at Steam, they’re celebrating with the Cozy Couch Co-op Bundle! Get some great games for $34.26, including BattleBlock Theater, Moon Hunters, and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. Their Daily Deal today is Victoria II for $4.99.
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One day after digging up Swamp Thing, NetherRealm Studios is back with another batch of character announcements for Injustice 2. But rather than limit themselves to just a single new character, the developer unveiled three fighters of the female persuasion in a brand new gameplay trailer titled “Here Come the Girls.”
“Here Come the Girls” puts the focus on Cheetah (a rival to Wonder Woman) and Catwoman (a master thief and foil to Batman), who will be joining the fight in Injustice 2. In addition to this pair of revealing announcements, the trailer also offers a first look at the previously-confirmed Poison Ivy (another Batman foe) in action.
Injustice 2 will be released for the PS4 and Xbox One on May 16.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will offer the largest world in the franchise’s history for players to explore when it launches early next month. But Nintendo also wants players to reach beyond Hyrule’s borders with bonus content they’re creating for the game’s Expansion Pass.
Priced at $19.99, the Expansion Pass will include two DLC Packs and a trio of “Day One” bonus items:
Expansion Pass Bonus (March 3)
3 Treasure Chests
Found in the Great Plateau
Contains Switch Logo In-Game Clothing + 2 Other Useful Items
DLC Pack 1 (Summer 2017)
Cave of Trials Challenge
Hard Mode
Additional Map Feature
DLC Pack 1 (Holiday 2017)
New Original Story
New Dungeon
Additional Challenges
“The world of Hyrule, which we created for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, is so large and vibrant that we wanted to offer more for players to experience within it,” said Eiji Aonuma, the Franchise Producer in charge of The Legend of Zelda. “With this new Expansion Pass, we hope that fans will play, explore and enjoy the game even more.”
Nintendo’s announcement of an Expansion Pass for Breath of the Wild is a first for a “mainline” Zelda game, but should feel familiar to fans who purchased the Season Pass for Hyrule Warriors.
And if you aren’t ready to upgrade to the Switch just yet, don’t worry, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Expansion Pass will be available for the Wii U as well.
The Nintendo Switch releases on March 3rd, less than three weeks from now. There’s hype, speculation, premature predictions of the console’s failure, and tons of confirmed launch games lists floating around. However, that’s not what’s concerning me most right now. I’m concerned about Nintendo’s marketing.
What’s wrong with Nintendo’s marketing, you might ask? Take a look at their first official trailer below, and then come back to me. Are you done…? Good. Now let me pose a question. Did you see any children in that trailer, any at all? No, you didn’t? Neither did I. But, I’ll tell you what I did see. I saw a bunch of millennials joyously playing with their shiny new Nintendo Switch consoles in the most unrealistic settings.
Now, of courses, this is just one trailer. If you’ve seen the Nintendo Switch Super Bowl commercial, then you’re aware that there were a few kids sprinkled throughout that one. But I digress. There are way too many millennials in sight.
Androids, swords, mech-suits, and platinum blonde hair abound in the latest Nier: Automata trailer.
The latest trailer for the PlatinumGames-developed RPG takes us to a post-apocalyptic, war-torn setting, in the extremely distant year of 11945 AD. 2B and 9S, members of an elite android squad, are tasked with saving the human race, and they’re fighting against the likes of other androids, titan-sized robots, and a host of other enemies during the 14th Machine War.
Nier: Automata is a sequel to 2010’s Nier, which was itself a somewhat polarizing spinoff of the Drakengard series. But if you’re unfamiliar with the action RPG, Square Enix is here to help with a quick primer of the game’s plot:
Invaders from another world attack without warning, unleashing their secret weapon: the machines. In the face of this insurmountable threat, the human race is driven from the earth and takes refuge on the moon.
The humans develop an army of android soldiers to fight back against the mechanical horde, but succeed only in slowing its advance. To break the deadlock, a new breed of android infantry is sent into the fray: the YoRHa squad.
In the forsaken wasteland below, the war between the machines and the androids rages on. A war that is soon to unveil the long-forgotten truth of this world…
Fans who have been anxiously awaiting Nier: Automata’s North American release for PlayStation 4 and Steam on March 7 can download and play a demo of the game right now. And for those of us who haven’t been eagerly awaiting for the latest arrival in the Nier franchise, the demo is still worth checking out. You never know, you might actually find that you like it.
All that being said, after seeing the above trailer (and a brand new 25-minute walkthrough from the PlayStation Blog, which is available after the break), it’s pretty clear that Nier: Automata is one to add to your wishlist. I mean, who doesn’t love swords and mech-suits?
I’m still sick! So I won’t even bother complaining. But I will say one wonderful thing: it’s gotten me back into Pokemon Moon! I can’t put it down, which is awesome. I needed to get back to it!
I do have some amazing news, though – the Humble Freedom Bundle is freaking amazing! 100% of the money goes to charities, specifically the American Civil Liberties Union, Doctors without Borders, and International Rescue Committee. Pay $30 or more to unlock an amazing lineup, including The Witness, Stardew Valley, Mushroom 11, Thirty Flights of Loving, and ROCKETSROCKETSROCKETS – and those are just the first games I saw that I wanted! There are tons more.
There are 593 new Weeklong Deals at Steam! Get Transformers: Devastation for $9.99, Deathsmiles for $7.99, Roguelands for $4.99, and Mount Your Friends for $1.99, among many others!
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From Software’s Hidetaka Miyazaki has said that Dark Souls III will be the final game in the Souls series, but the developer plans to extend the action RPG with a pair of downloadable expansions to close out the story. Ashes of Ariandel, the first expansions, was released in October. And the second, The Ringed City, is set to launch this Spring.
Late last week, publisher Bandai Namco gave fans a better look at The Ringed City with a new gameplay trailer that runs nearly four minutes. The video includes a look at several of the bosses found in the expansion, including a nasty-looking winged fire demon. Obviously, if you’re worried about spoilers, turn away now.
The Dark Souls: The Ringed City expansion will be available to download for the PC, PS4, and Xbox one on March 28 .
Swamp Thing is one of the stranger characters in DC’s stable of superheroes, but he’s had a surprisingly varied second life in movies, television, and video games. It looks like that legacy will continue this May, as NetherRealm Studios has announced the muck monster will appear as a playable character in Injustice 2.
Swamp Thing is a lumbering brawler, and the gameplay trailer embedded above gives us a glimpse at his superhuman strength. However, the creature also has the ability to teleport in and out of battle, stretch out his arms to grab opponents, and clone himself for double damage. Swamp Thing is the second nature-based character to be announced for Injustice 2, and it’ll be interesting to compare him to Poison Ivy once she’s unveiled.
Injustice 2 will be available for the PS4 and Xbox One on May 16.
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! It’s a beautiful day to share with a loved one, or to wait until tomorrow and buy discounted candy. Also, the Internet is full of adorably geeky cards today, which I’m getting a kick out of.
