It feels like it was just yesterday when Rocket League launched on PlayStation as a PlayStation Plus title. We were overwhelmed by the love (and number of players) who hit the field and played the high-octane hybrid of driving and soccer. Now, five years later, we’re ready to start the next chapter of Rocket League.
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It shouldn’t cost money to beat up strangers. At least, so reckons Fantasy Strike, a stripped back fighting game from the folks at Sirlin Games, ditched its pricetag in an update earlier today. All modes and all characters – including two new lads Quinn and Onimaru – are now free to beat up without spending
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin in the newest game from developer Edelweiss, the two-person team behind 2014’s Astebreed. In this action/simulation/RPG, players will tend to a farm, create a home in the wilderness, and battle demonic beasts (with farm tools, of course). Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin will be published by XSeed and is slated
After a successful Early Access launch back in January, Crema Games announced that Temtem would be getting a brand new island this summer. And guess what? It’s summer. Temtem is a popular indie catch ’em up founded upon the same kind of creature-taming from illustrious series such as Pokemon. However, its story at launch was
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. US video game spending surged over the past six months, driving $6.6B in sales thus far in 2020. The last time the video game industry made more money over the same period was 2010, when sales hit $7B. JUNE 2020
We’ve been hearing about a possible Nintendo Direct event taking place in the month of July, and now Nintendo has officially announced it will debut its “first” Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase. The showcase airs tomorrow in the US, and later today across Europe, and will run for about 10 minutes, according to a Nintendo
The latest UK physical software charts are now available and Paper Mario: The Origami King for the Nintendo Switch had a decent launch and arrived at No.2 this week. It was nabbed to the post by Ghosts of Tsushima for Sony’s PlayStation 4. Paper Mario: The Origami King sales were bigger than the last two
When we think of the horror genre we imagine the likes of Resident Evil, full of huge monsters charging at us and hordes of zombies biting and munching their way through the human race. But we may also imagine haunted houses, or ghost trains that never stop. Sometimes though it’s the madness of our own
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
Earlier this month, Metacritic users spotted a new user review system on the rating aggregator’s website that prevented players from leaving reviews for newly-released games right away. “Please spend some time playing the game,” read a note on Superluminal‘s Metacritic page, which users quickly realized stemmed from the high-profile review bombing of The Last of Us
Last week, we asked you to get up close and personal with your favorite characters from The Last of Us Part II and share intimate, detailed portraits using #PS4share and #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Ellie rages silently in this moody shot by FirescorpioG. Dina looks concerned in this share by BNNXP. Eve_Auditore shared
If you’re not so sure about the recently-announced, Worms Rumble battle royale game, you may be more excited to hear about today’s glow up for classic Worms Armageddon. Released today, version 3.8 adds all sorts of modern features to the old turn-based battlefield including more custom match options, windowed mode, and a few other neat
A giant, scathing piece on the U.S. Army using recruiting tactics on children as young as 13 ran in The Nation yesterday. The original piece is a lot to take in, but one aspect is the military allegedly using Twitch as a vessel to run bait-and-switch contests that send users to a link that purports to offer them a
By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:40 GMT The Beyond Light expansion to Destiny 2 has been delayed to November. Bungie has announced it had delayed the Beyond Light expansion to Destiny 2 from September 22 to November 10. According to the studio, it has been a bit of a challenge the past few
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you’re feeling nostalgic for a physical game release and you’re interested in Microsoft Flight Simulator, you’re in luck: Aerosoft has announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to offer a physical version of the game — on 10 DVDs.
This week sees the release of Paper Mario: The Origami King, the sixth game in the Paper Mario series and the first to arrive on Switch. As our review explains, it’s a thoroughly entertaining entry and one that’s well worth playing, even if the combat system is a bit questionable. The paper-like protagonist has mainly
News has emerged today that Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles will not offer players the choice of offline and local multiplayer. This information is sure to come as a blow to prospective owners. The reason behind the decision has not been revealed, other than the developers citing “development reasons.” Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles launches for the
It’s time for us to find out who EA Sports have selected for the FIFA 20 Team of the Week (TOTW) once more. They’ve picked the best players from those that have been performing to a high standard in the real world over the last seven days. Take a look at the official Team of
You didn’t enter the Rocket Arena Championship Tour to finish second. You’re here to lift the trophy! To help you rule the roost, we’ve compiled a few tricks and tips from the Final Strike Games team on how to blast your way to greatness (and keep from being blasted out of the arena). You can’t
In the era of COVID, when traditional sports have been all but canceled, esports have seen a healthy increase in interest and viewership as people tune in to get their competitive fix. Earlier this year, Call of Duty League was forced to cancel all of its in-person events as the COVID-19 pandemic shut the country
Howdy Rangers! Robert “RJ” James, also known as the Jungle Fury Wolf Ranger, makes his way into the grid today as the first of three characters included in our Season 3 DLC pass! With the release of RJ (and Samurai Megazord, which is obtainable for free with today’s 2.3 patch), the roster now boasts a
Social distancing simulator Death Stranding launches on PC tomorrow but Kojima Productions have delivered a launch trailer today. If you’ve been waiting to get your postman parkour on in full 4K resolutions, the time has nearly arrived. Bridge man Sam is all packed up and ready to cart that cargo all over post apocalyptic America
VJGamer Now that its Super Mario line is completely revealed and ready to launch, Lego is teasing another Nintendo collaboration. Posted today on its Twitter page, the silhouette appears to be an NES console with a retro television ripped straight from the ’80s. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait to see what the final product
Death Stranding is out now on PC, complete with graphical improvements and some PC exclusive content like wearable Half-Life headcrabs. You can read our original review below. Hideo Kojima has always been fascinated by attrition: Tapping Circle through the pain in Metal Gear Solid’s torture scene, Solid Snake gasping as he crawls through MGS 4’s
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. In the mid-1980s, Flight Simulator was one of the biggest PC titles in the business — and Microsoft is gearing up to launch the beta for Flight Simulator 2020, a game that surprised pretty much everyone by existing when Microsoft
Welcome to Box Art Brawl, our weekly contest that pits three box art variants from around the world against each other in a fight for your vote. Last week observed three versions of ActRaiser 2 locked in combat. While Japan trailed from the very beginning, it was an exceptionally close fight between North America and
We got a very quick glimpse at another look at No More Heroes 3 when Suda51 made a quick cameo on yesterday’s Devolver Direct. It was only a couple of seconds but the indie legend cropped up on the end credits, thumbs up, with the game playing on the screen behind him. We haven’t heard much about
Dead by Daylight takes the mantle that Evolve started, before making it its own. Billed as an “asymmetric survival horror game”, the basic idea is that a single killer has to take on a team of four survivors, with the objective of either sacrificing the victims or escaping from the level respectively. Is this a
Today, we’re super excited to announce that Carrion, our grisly reverse-horror experience will launch for Xbox One on July 23! Our little team of sci-fi fanatics has been working hard to create an experience we think you’ll love, especially if you’ve always dreamed of portraying an amorphous blob of gristle, teeth and tentacles! We can’t
There’s nothing desperately wrong with Torchlight 3, which just came out in Early Access form a week ago. It’s a flashy, bombastic, nicely-paced action-RPG with tons of enemies to slash, blast, and explode for the tasty loot inside. The problem is that it doesn’t really do much to effectively set itself above or apart from