Respawn Entertainment announces on the officialTitanfall 2website that players can expect a new, close-combat game mode called “Live Fire” to be added soon. Titanfall 2is one of the more curious game releases of the past year.Titanfall 2’s saleshave been so mediocre that publisher Electronic Arts felt the need to assure fans that the game’s financial success is about “the long run”, but those sales mask the fact thatTitanfall 2is a stunner of a game....
Niantic, the creator ofPokemon GOandIngress, is back with a new augmented reality game. InHarry Potter: Wizards Unite, players take on the role of a Statute of Secrecy Task Force recruit, using magic and spells to “contain a Calamity.” Niantic is ready to begin showingHarry Potter: Wizards Unitegameplay for the first time, which should be immediately recognizable toIngress fans. WhileHarry Potter: Wizards Uniteisn’t ready for arelease datejust yet, Niantic plans to launch it on iOS and Android devices in 2019....
Sonic the Hedgehogwill be making his feature film debut on Jul 18, 2025. Paramount Pictures this week confirmed the film’s release date, cementing the picture as a fall family contender. Sega first announcedSonic’sfeature film back in February 2016. Later that year, Neil H. Moritz signed on as producer andDeadpooldirector Tim Millerjoined in as executive producer. Jeff Fowler will be making his directorial debut with the picture, while the movie’s script comes from the creators of the Fox Animated showGolan the Insatiable, Pat Casey and Josh Miller....
Despite the admittedly gross nature of the festivities, the latestSplatoon 2Splatfest seemed to be a rousing success, with thousands of players tuning in to try their hand at battles that replaced the game’s standard ink with ketchup and mayonnaise. The fun quickly faded in the aftermath, though, whenSplatoon 2fans discovered a frustrating technicality: same-condiment battles don’t seem to have counted toward determining a winner. For context, Splatfest is aSplatoon 2event in which players choose a side between two options, venture out into the battlefield to represent their selected vote, and attempt to win matches for their team....
Considering the originalFinal Fantasy VIIis considered one of the greatest video games of all time, it makes sense Square Enix would be so apprehensive in remaking the RPG. Despite being released relatively early in the PS1’s life cycle (and it shows,)FFVIIhas an early hardware charm that gives it a timeless quality– especially in an era where video games on a whole are homogenized to an extent. RELATED:10 Games Square Enix Should Remake After Final Fantasy VII All the same, enough time has passed where Square Enix clearly felt technologically comfortable in remakingFinal Fantasy VII....
Whether it be thehighs ofBatman: Arkham Cityor thelows ofSuperman 64, video games based on characters from DC Comics have had a wildly different reception over the years. As well as this, there have been numerous games based on characters from the DC universe that have been cancelled halfway through development, with one notable example being that of an open world game ofThe Flash. Now, some more details from this cancelled game has appeared online....
There’s no question that 2019 is a big year for theStar Warsfranchise thanks to the success ofThe MandalorianandStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. And this weekend, arguably the biggestStar Warsrelease of the decade,Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker,hits theaters and seeks to bring closure to a story that has been 9 films in the making. But while there has been a debate about the quality ofStar Wars Episode 9, the general verdict around those other two properties has been fairly positive....
Without question, the survival horror genre has made some big leaps since the originalResident Evilreleased in 1996, and those advances will be put on display once again whenResident Evil 3remake’s release datecomes in April. Even still, there are numerous fans that pine for new games that look to recapture the feel of the classic survival horror titles, and they may find exactly that inDawn of Fear, a newly-announced PS4 exclusive that is releasing later this year....
The recentPokemon GOupdate reveals that Niantic is incorporating virtual reality elements into the game, leading some to speculate that VR support is coming soon. Even those living under a rock might not be forgiven if they don’t know aboutPokemon GO, the camera intensive GPS-based application that has taken the world by storm. The game allows everyone to fulfill their childhood dream of being a Pokemon trainer, and allows players to use their phone in order to actually look around and see Pokemon right in their own homes via augmented reality....
The Initiative is one of Xbox’s many game studios, and is by and large the most mysterious. After two years since it’s initial establishment in 2018, it seems The Initiative it seems the game will, at the very least, have something to do withPerfect Dark. Though it isn’t entirely clear whatPerfect Darkfans have in store. Perfect Darkis a cult classic first-person shooter series developed by Rareware in the year 2000 and is beloved by many in the gaming community....
Since the Switch’s initial release, a few games have trickled in here and there that are either ports or remasters of games that existed on previous consoles. Early ports includePokkén Tournament,Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, andMario Kart 8. Now, three classic Mario games have found their way to the Switch under the bundle titleSuper Mario 3D All Stars. RELATED:10 Nintendo 64 Games That Take The Longest To Beat With this new release, speculation is once again running wild over what else might be one day remastered or ported to the Switch....
The Make-A-Wish Foundation andNBA 2K20have teamed up to make dreams come true for a 15-year old kid from Georgia. William Floyd, an avid fan of2K20,can now be downloaded as a playable character in the game on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. At just 18 months old, William Floyd was diagnosed with a muscle and heart disorder, that among other things, doesn’t allow him to play sports. The Make-A-Wish Foundation got involved with William and he had one idea in mind: to be in a video game....
In this day and age, it has become somewhat rare for a desirable JRPG to not be localized. That’s not to say it never happens, but Japanese publishers have grown more confident when it comes to western markets. Back in the days of the SNES and PlayStation 1, it often felt like games were localized at random. RELATED:10 JRPGs With The Deepest Lore, Ranked While quite a few fantastic titles never officially made it out of Japan, some pretty questionable games somehow made the cut....
