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Launching on January 18th, 2020, in Japan, Yakuza: Like a Dragon is the latest entry to the Yakuza series. With some pretty massive changes to the series’ normal genre (going for turn-based combat instead of third-person brawler combat), all eyes were on the newest game to see how it would perform with said changes. Change

February’s loaded with not two, not three, but potentially up to five free PS Plus games! Bioshock: The Collection contains three legendary first-person adventures, The Sims 4 gives you creative control over reality itself, Firewall Zero Hour offers engaging, online multiplayer* for PS VR owners**. More on February’s free games: Bioshock: The Collection Play Video

Last night’s new Destiny 2 patch had the unintended consequence of deleting many players’ hard-ground cash and upgrade materials, causing Bungie to take the MMOFPS offline for nine hours while they fixed it. Their solution was to roll characters back to their state before the patch, which has the unfortunate side-effect of wiping out everything

Nintendo has announced details for Pokémon Home, including pricing and features for its two plans: Basic and Premium. Pokémon Home (via Switch and mobile versions) lets you store your Pokémon in the cloud so you can transfer them between compatible games*, trade them, and more. Pokémon Home is coming some time in February. The free Basic version of Pokémon Home

Pokemon Go players can start going up against one another in the Go Battle League. Niantic Labs has started rolling out a preseason trial of Go Battle League, which brings PvP to Pokemon Go. To make sure things go according to plan, the preseason will be rolled out based on Trainer level at the moment.

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft surprised everyone with a teaser announcement of its upcoming Xbox Series X late last year. We didn’t get much aside from the name and a render of the monolithic case, but now a Twitter user has posted what appear

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate players who also happen to have a subscription to the Nintendo Switch Online service can now download a new Spirit Training set from the eShop for free. This is a special offer for Nintendo Switch Online members. You can download the following items free of charge for use in Super Smash

Nintendo has shared the first look at the Doctor Doom character art in the upcoming downloadable content for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order. The DLC is titled Fantastic Four: Shadow of Doom and is due out this spring on the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo promises to share more details about the contents of the

Quite often I look back at my Xbox capture gallery and revisit past gaming moments I’ve loved. There have been exciting, visceral set pieces such as the intro to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, or moments of expertly crafted skill as I’ve destroyed a particularly hard boss in Dark Souls. Then there’s Dying Light, which

Hey Alpha ring users! Today’s Xbox Insider Release Notes highlight the latest fixes, known issues, and features coming to your console. Starting at 6:00 p.m. PT today, users will receive the latest 2002 Xbox One system update (build: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_200218363.9119.200123-2000). Keep reading for more details. System Update Details: OS version released: 19H1_RELEASE_XBOX_DEV_200218363.9119.200123-2000 Available: 6:00 p.m. PT

Hey all, Mitchell Saltzman here. I’m reviewing Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, and rather than do a traditional review-in-progress, we wanted to try something a little different this time. We asked the IGN community to send me your questions regarding Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, and through answering those questions, I’ll talk about my current thoughts while

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and The NPD Group have revealed that U.S. video game content generated $35.4 billion in revenue in 2019, a two percent year-on-year increase. For comparison purposes, the 2018 figures were adjusted to consider the same number of tracked weeks as 2019. The aforementioned figure includes full games, in-game purchases, and mobile

Buckle in for a journey quite unlike any you’ve taken before — Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition collects all five acts of the cult hit road trip into one tidy package launching Tuesday on PS4. I would tell you more about it, but I’m trying to go in blind! Other games to watch for next

You could’ve just called it Season 12. Instead, I have to report that – after being pushed back another two weeks – Fortnite Battle Royale: Chapter 2: Season 2 will finally launch on February 20th. As they say, though, good things come to those who wait. Those extra two weeks of Season 1 will come

Talking to villagers in Shenmue III can be a time consuming and sometimes confusing process. In patch 1.04, developer Ys Net is taking some of the bite out of these talks. Players can now skip the initial conversation with a villager. If you want to speed things up or talk to someone for a second

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 24 January 2020 19:52 GMT Studio Wildcard has announced a release date for the first of two drops for Ark: Genes. Ark: Genesis is the next chapter for Ark: Survival Evolved, and part one of the expansion will be released on February 25. The expansions contain new biomes and a new

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s two pieces of Half-Life related news today. First of all, the Half-Life: Alyx dev team has posted an AMA on Reddit, and they actually give some intriguing answers to what sorts of changes and design rules Valve has followed

[embedded content] Sonic the Hedgehog‘s big movie release date is just a handful of weeks away now, and a new music video has been released for one of the tracks set to appear in the film. Speed Me Up is a new song from American rapper/singer-songwriter Wiz Khalifa, featuring vocals from Ty Dolla $ign, Lil

The second multiplayer test for Mario Kart Tour is now running until January 28 at 9:59 p.m. PT. All players can participate this time around, and you can even race against nearby users using your device’s location data. To race your friends in the mobile game, tap Menu and then Multiplayer. For a summary, notes and

Mosaic from Krillbite and Raw Fury sells itself on the back of being a ‘modern adventure game’, one which will allow you the chance to discover that there is more to life than just working through the usual daily grind. And with launch on Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch, this world has just been

7th Sector has become a window into the dark fantasy world of the future, not only for the player, but also for me. This project was very interesting and challenging experiment in my practice of game development. Many of the elements and techniques that I used in previous projects were not applicable here, and it

With more than 30 games to its name, some dating back as early as the 1980s and most only available in Japan, Dragon Ball Z is no stranger to having its story adapted to video game form. But rarely has it been done in such a way that the story has been the star, as

On the heels of the latest Kingdom Hearts III update, a slew of new information about the future of the series has been revealed. Most notably, two new teams are working on Kingdom Hearts related projects at Square Enix, with one of them set to release a game “surprisingly soon.” There was also mention that

It’s so exciting to develop the first Fairy Tail video game to ever hit PlayStation 4. We’re working on it under the supervision of the brilliant Mashima-san, the creator of the popular anime and manga series, to deliver a truly spectacular experience that captures both the quirkiness and intensity of the characters — from Fairy

The Samsung T7 Touch is the latest member of Samsung’s portable SSD family. Like the Samsung T5 before it, this titchy drive has a lovely, sleek aluminium chassis that’s roughly the same size as a couple of stacked credit cards. Only now it has a fancy fingerprint reader for extra security and supports the nippier

Funko revealed the first wave of Cyberpunk 2077 Pops at this year’s London Toy Fair. Unlike McFarlane Toys’ recent announcement of Cyberpunk action figures which just consists of a male version of main character V, Funko is creating both male and female figures. You’ll also be able to purchase two different versions of Johnny Silverhand:

By Kirk McKeand, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 09:38 GMT You know those annoying tweets where someone asks a simple question and they’re just after loads of quote RTs but you still can’t help but answer them? I’ve seen a few that are the same over the past few weeks: “What video game series would you

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google’s Chrome OS started out as little more than a browser, but Google has slowly added more application support with Android and Linux modules. Chrome OS might be getting a lot more fun, too. According to a new report, Google

Blue Monday has arrived and, no, it’s not some new post-Christmas Black Friday-alike designed to keep the retail sector ticking over through the lean winter months. It’s the day of the year when people are statistically most downbeat and gloomy according to scientists, or something. To be fair, it’s understandable; the holidays are over, the

Nintendo has released a brand new update for Luigi’s Mansion 3. This brings the game to version 1.2.1. The update doesn’t add any new content, and there isn’t any official patch notes from Nintendo as of this article’s writing. However, it has been discovered that it does fix some bugs. The only bug fix that