The Batmobile will rocket into Rocket League on March 8

Posted on February 25, 2016 by John Scalzo

“It’s the car, right? Chicks love the car.”

I’m pretty sure I enjoy Batman Forever more than most people (even liking it at all puts me in pretty rare company), and Val Kilmer is a big reason why. He was actually a pretty decent Batman, and a not-too-shabby Bruce Wayne. Plus, Tommy Lee Jones acting completely insane will never not be fun.

Anyway, Batman’s favorite mode of transportation, the Batmobile, will soon find its way into everyone’s favorite car soccer sim, Rocket League, on the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Developer Psyonix has teamed up with Warner Bros. to add Ben Affleck’s Batmobile (from the upcoming Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice) to Rocket League’s slate of DLC offerings. Priced at $1.99, players who purchase the Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Car Pack will also receive a set of Antenna Flags featuring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.

Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice will open in theaters on March 25.

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Conan O’Brien and PewDiePie tame a badger in Far Cry: Primal

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Holly Scalzo

Professional Let’s Player and Swedish man PewDiePie joined Conan O’Brien last night to play Ubisoft’s Far Cry: Primal in the most recent “Clueless Gamer” segment. Prepare for the game yourself by time-traveling back to 10,000 BC with the guys, and see their adventures with giant woolly mammoths, rogue corpse-mutilating badgers, and mostly unsuccessful club-throwing and owl-being.

Far Cry: Primal was released yesterday and new episodes of Scare PewDiePie are currently being released every Wednesday on YouTube Red.

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Daily Scoop: February 24, 2016 – Last day for Humble Weekly Bundle

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Nicole Kline

You have less than a day left to get the Orbyt Play Humble Weekly Bundle, presented by the Indie Megabooth! For $1 or more, you’ll get Ink, early access to SpeedRunners, and Divekick. If you beat the average, you’ll unlock Grim Fandango Remastered and Dead State: Reanimated. Pay $8 or more to unlock Party Hard. And, finally, for $26, get a Humble Orbyt Play t-shirt.

The Midweek Madness at Steam is Orcs Must Die 2, which you can get for $1.49. You can also get a two pack for $3.99, the complete pack for $2.49, or the franchise pack (which includes both games) for $3.49. The Daily Deal is McPixel, which is on sale for $0.99.

Hit the jump for today’s awesome shirts!

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Xbox Store Today: Far Cry Primal, PvZ Garden Warfare 2, The Walking Dead Michonne, more

Posted on February 24, 2016 by John Scalzo

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Today’s Xbox Games Store update is all about scary things… cannibals, zombies, dying alone in the wilderness, and that thing on Gorbachev’s head.

The hero of Far Cry: Primal (Xbox One), Takkar, will have to spend his days dodging cannibals as he fights for survival in the game’s prehistoric locales. Thankfully, Takkar will be able to rely on his own tribe to help him out, and the wild animals that he tames including elephants, tigers, and wolves. In the Stone Age, it’s easy to show those cannibals who’s really on top of the food chain.

Zombies don’t usually munch on brains, but Telltale’s smart adaptation of The Walking Dead saga gets a new chapter today with the release of The Walking Dead: Michonne (Xbox One and Xbox 360). Players will take control of the character’s famed sword in a story that explores Michonne’s absence between issues #126 and #139 of the comic book… “and what brought her back.” A different sort of undead are at the center of EA’s Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 (Xbox One), but the team-based shooter includes a ton of new maps and modes for fans of the series.

Also available today is The Flame in the Flood (Xbox One), is “a wilderness survival game in which a girl and her dog travel by foot and by raft down a procedurally-generated river.”

Finally today, Reagan Gorbachev (Xbox One) will fight back against a group of extremists in a top-down shooter using “their fists and samurai swords and poison darts and pistols and shotguns and fully automatic assault rifles and grenade launchers and miniguns and bazookas and some other guns.” Sure… why not?

More information on all of these (along with a few other new releases) can be found after the break.

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Far Cry: Primal, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, Hitman Go, more added to PS Store

Posted on February 24, 2016 by John Scalzo

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It’s a big week for the PlayStation Store as more than a dozen new games have been added to the digital storefront.

Riding an elephant over the rest of this week’s new releases is Far Cry: Primal (PS4), Ubisoft’s prehistoric take on the first person shooter. Players will wield stone knives, spears, and bows, as they hunt wild animals and fend off attacks from other tribes. Oh, and in case you missed it the first time, they get to ride a rampaging elephant. Two other very different shooting games will also be released this week… We’ll get a chance to play EA’s colorful team-based competition, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 (PS4), along with the strategic shooting of Square Enix’s Hitman Go: Definitive Edition (PS4 + PS Vita Cross-Buy).

Finally this week, Telltale is back with another adaptation of the Walking Dead universe for the PS4 and PS3. The first episode for The Walking Dead: Michonne is now available to download with future episodes planned for release in March and April.

More information on all of these games (and a few other new releases) can be found after the break. And a complete rundown of this week’s new game add-ons and discounts can be found at the PlayStation Blog.

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Kickstart This! Need to Know, Essence: The Resurrection, A Place for the Unwilling

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Andrew Rainnie

I’ve survived Chinese New Year and a solitary Valentine’s Day (because my other half is currently in China), so I decided to spread the love further than one day by highlighting some of the fantastic games currently vying for funds on Kickstarter. And for the price of a romantic gourmet burger, you could help finance a cool game that you actually get to play. Thankfully, not all the projects I picked are lovey-dovey.

We start things off with the mass-surveillance thriller Need to Know from Monomyth Games. Next, there is the surreal first-person exploration adventure Essence: The Resurrection by ONEVISION. Finally, we have an interesting isometric sandbox sim called A Place for the Unwilling by MadeInSpain Games.

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Pre-order Doom 2016 on Xbox Games Store and get original Doom and Doom II for free

Posted on February 23, 2016 by John Scalzo

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Doom first delivered a shotgun blast of innovation to the game industry all the way back in 1993. Which means that many of today’s most voracious first person shooter fans weren’t even alive when John Carmack, John Romero, and the rest of id Software asked players to fight back against the denizens of Hell with a minigun and a whole lot of moxie.

Thankfully, anyone who was planning to pre-order the upcoming reboot through the Xbox Games Store will receive a Doom history lesson at no additional charge, as every Xbox One owners who pre-purchases Doom 2016 will receive a download code for the original Doom and Doom II: Hell On Earth for the Xbox Live Arcade. Best of all, both games will be backwards compatible on the Xbox One.

Players who pre-order Doom 2016 on the Xbox One (or any other platform) will also receive the “Demon Multiplayer Pack,” which includes a “unique Demon-themed armor set with three skin variations, six Hack Modules, six exclusive metallic paint colors, and three id logo patterns that can be applied to weapons and armor.”

Bethesda will digitally deliver the download codes for both games to your Xbox Live inbox roughly a week after Doom’s May 13th launch date.

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Daily Scoop: February 23, 2016 – So much great stuff today!

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Nicole Kline

The Humble Indie Bundle 16 is brand new at Humble! Pay what you want for Retro City Rampage DX, Outlast, and Never Alone with the Foxtales DLC. Beat the average to unlock Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power and Door Kickers. Beat the average by $2 or more to unlock Else Heart.Break() and Sunless Sea.

The Midweek Madness at Steam is on the Lost Planet franchise. Lost Planet 3 is $6.24, Lost Planet 2 is $4.99, and Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is $3.74. The Daily Deal is Tales of Maj’Eyal, which is $1.74. You can also get a four pack for $4.99, or the full package of volumes one through three for $8.79.

There are tons of great shirts today!

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