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Despite gathering over 4,000,000 dollars in its Kickstarter campaign Mighty No. 9 has become the poster-child for troubled development. It underwent numerous delays, the playable demos showed very little improvement between iterations, and the company's community interaction was nonexistent at best.
However, after surviving through all of that Mighty No. 9 has finally gone gold, and the release date has been nailed, stapled, and seared on the calendar for June 21st for North America and Asia, with the rest of the world getting it on June 24th. Here's one of the recent trailers, just ignore the whole 'totally releasing in February 9' business:
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If you're like me and somehow managed to avoid every single closed beta key for Overwatch, never fear as salvation will soon be here in the shape of an Open Beta that starts on May 5th.
In order to celebrate both the Open Beta, and the full release on May 24th, Blizzard has released a brand new cinematic teaser for Overwatch starring everyone's favorite simian scientist Winston. Check it out:
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After being in development for what feels like forever, Stadew Valley finally appeared on Steam in late February to both critical and fan acclaim, a reputation well earned as its quite possibly the very best example of its genre.
Ever since then Eric Barone, the solo developer behind the whole game, was focused on fixing bugs and glitches, with very time and effort going towards new content, but with the bugbears now mostly slain its time to look towards the future. As you might have guessed from the title, it is exactly this topic that the latest development blog talks about, with the most interesting bits being the expected features arriving with Update 1.1:
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After numerous rumors about the next Call of Duty heading into space we now have an official confirmation as Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has just been announced, and it features prominently a whole fleet of starships.
As you might expect from a Call of Duty game, there is a trailer filled with explosions, overly powerful and infinitely funded villains, starships explosions, and even a couple of mechs which unfortunately don't explode. Have a look:
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Much to the delight of all Warhammer 40k fans out there, Relic has posted a brand new teaser video to the official Dawn of War Youtube channel.
While its unfortunately one of those "announcement of an announcement" type of situations, the good news is that we will be getting more information tomorrow, May 3rd at 7am PST / 3pm GMT. Here's the video itself, in all of its completely static glory:
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In celebration of a rather mediocre joke that somehow became immensely popular EA will be offering a free trial for Star Wars Battlefront starting on Star Wars Day, May the fourth (be with you).
If you already own Star Wars Battlefront there's no need to worry about being left out as everyone who logs in on May 4 will receive a free bundle of 4,444 credits, as well as access to a brand new Hutt Contract that gives you the option to purchase bounties and acquire further rewards.
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While I usually don't like to spread panic by sending out warnings like this one, I've managed to encounter two cheaters in the last few days that have attempted to get me softbanned by either having me loot obscene amounts of hacked gear, or by simply 'donating' me a few million souls.
The issue seems to be fairly wide spread, as this Reddit post showcases the very same tricks I've already seen, but also a couple of different ones such as the cheaters having the ability to essentially make you 'use' a homeward bone just by touching you once. So what should you do to protect yourself against the couple of douchebags that seem to take pleasure in tormenting fellow players?
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Quantum Break, much like the majority of recent Windows 10 ports, released in a rather sorry state with plenty of bugs, annoying performance issues, constantly active film grain, and worst of all, surprisingly muddy graphics due to the game's engine essentially upscaling from 720p into 1080p.
Thankfully, with the most recent Update 1.7 the majority of these issues have finally been resolved, and from what I can gather on various forums Quantum Break is now a perfectly playable PC port... if you have the necessary hardware to run it given that disabling the game's upscaling comes with a significant hit to performance.
With that said, here are the full patch notes for Update 1.7:
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It was known for quite a while now that Dark Souls 3 would mark the end of the Dark Souls franchise and that FromSoftware are already working on a brand new game, though it was and still remains unknown if its going to be a new IP, or a resurrection of one of their older series.
The reason I'm bringing this up now is because a recruitment video got 'leaked' on Youtube recently, and it quite clearly shows that FromSoftware's new game is coming in 2017 to PC, Xbox One, PS4, and most interestingly, PlayStation VR! Here's the video, and you will find the relevant information near the end:
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Long War Studios, creators of the much acclaimed Long War mod for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, have joined forces with Firaxis once again in an effort to create 5 new mods for XCOM 2, none of which appear to be a Long War equivalent, much to my disappointment.
The first of the five planned mods has released today for free, and it features a bunch of new options with which you can tweak your playthrough, things such as messing around with the damage variation of weapons, squad size, soldier stats, and so forth. Beyond that you can look forward to new aliens, perks, and naturally, a whole bunch of new weapons to toy around with.