Paragon’s Newest Hero Is Quite The Pair – Introducing Iggy & Scorch

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Epic Games have revealed the latest hero for their early access 3D MOBA, Paragon, and this new playable character is a bit of a hot take, if you don’t mind the pun. Iggy & Scorch might sound like two characters but as their reveal trailer shows – it doesn’t look like the pair can be separated, with the reptilian Iggy always attached to the fire breathing Scorch whenever possible! This pair have the ability to launch missiles, Scorch is able to roast foes with fire breath and their ultimate move calls down hell-fire from the skies! The pair will be available in

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Enroll For Summer Classes With Megatagmension Blanc + Neptune Vs Zombies This May!

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

PlayStation Vita owners are going to put away the books and pull out their favorite weaponry when they return for summer classes with the release of Megatagmension Blanc + Neptune Vs Zombies on May 10th! Megatagmension Blanc + Neptune Vs Zombies is yet another spin-off game for IFI’s most popular franchise – this time seeing our two heroines take on hordes of the undead while attending the alternate universe school of Gamicademi. Unlike other games in the franchise, which have taken either a Strategy RPG or psuedo turn based RPG approach, Vs Zombies  is a purely action title where players are able

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Nintendo and Nickelodeon Bring the Next Splatfest to a Pineapple Under the Sea

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Jason Nason

On April 23rd, Nintendo is partnering with Nickelodeon to bring a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed Splatfest to Splatoon. Players will be asked to declare their allegiance to either the world’s most lovable sponge, SpongeBob SquarePants, or his starfish sidekick, Patrick Star, from Nickelodeon’s animated television show SpongeBob SquarePants. “Two international pop culture sensations meet when the SpongeBob SquarePants Splatfest comes to Splatoon,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing. “Fun partnerships like this take advantage of the crossover appeal that family-friendly franchises like Splatoon and SpongeBob provide. Personally, I’m team SpongeBob all the way.” Which side

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April 14th Nintendo Download

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Jason Nason

Bravely Second: End Layer – Steel yourself for the next evolution of the series that reinvented turn-based RPGs – the successor to SQUARE ENIX’s Bravely Default game. Agnés Oblige has been imprisoned, and as a knight in her service, it’s up to the hero, Yew, to save her! Form the ultimate team and strategy, then risk it all in this fast, fresh RPG. Bravely Second: End Layer will be available on April 15. Also New this Week Langrisser Re:Incarnation -TENSEI- (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS) – Available April 19 Super Strike Beach Volleyball (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS) Excave III:

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Weekend Steam Deals: Activision Publisher Sale

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

This weekend’s Steam deals include a number of deals on several Activision titles across a number of genres. Everything from several Call of Duty titles, multiple Transformers games and Platinum Game’s recent Legend of Kora title have been heavily discounted until Monday morning. If you’ve wanted to jump in on older Activision games like 2012’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, which seems to be several times better than last year’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 now is the time time to do so for less than $5! Here’s the some of the better deals in the Activision Publisher Sale (in Canadian Dollars): Call of Duty

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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter gets its first gameplay trailer

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

Bigben Interactive, the video game publisher and distributor, and the studio Frogwares are today pleased to reveal the first game play trailer for Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter. The game will be available June 10th on PlayStation®4, Xbox One and PC. The game features Sherlock and Watson on a never before seen adventure  where you will have to find out what led young Katelyn to 221B Baker Street. Could she have discovered the dark truth about her family? And who is the charming clairvoyant who has moved in to 221C? Is there room for séances and occult rituals in the

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Giveaway: Win A Halo Scarf For Watching Our LootCrate Gaming Reaction Video

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

So the first LootCrate Gaming boxes have now shipped out and I was lucky enough to receive mine in the mail today. Since there are already tons of unboxing videos out there on YouTube – blame Canada Post for my box being slightly late, they take forever – I decided to open up everything in advance and give you my opinions on each item. If you’re unaware of what LootCrate Gaming is a subscription box box that sends subscribers monthly boxes (or “crates”) full of nerd / anime / gaming related loot. They cost about $20 USD + shipping and

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Fantasy Grounds from a DM’s perspective, and a first time players.

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

By: Espy Tryst I had the joy of getting to test out the Fantasy Grounds program on Steam, specifically being able to GM a mini campaign, and I knew this was going to be a blast. In the past I had GM’ed a decent number of games, from D&D 3.0 to Pathfinder, to Mutants & Masterminds, to oWoD, to… well you get the idea.. sadly when it came to online play, it normally ended up being IRC with dicebots and an updated every few minutes Paint .img (yeah, not as old school as mud’s, but still pretty old) I went in

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Wreckfest Dev Bugbear Files For Bankruptcy

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Broken Joysticks

Bugbear Entertainment, developers of the highly anticipated Next Car Game (later renamed Wreckfest) have filed for bankruptcy. The news surfaced from Finnish financial information website, asiakastieto.fi, when it published a list of all Finnish companies that had file for bankruptcy in March of this year. It appears that Bugbear has been forced into bankruptcy by their debtors. Bugbear have so far not informed their fans that they are in financial trouble, and it is thanks to Steam user Tibelius sharing their findings that Bugbear’s situation has come to light.

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Overwatch to have a “semi-open” beta weekend

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

So if you like me are still not in the Overwatch beta, and you haven’t given up on the game you might get your first chance at playing this weekend. Blizzard will expand the amount of players in the beta for 36 hours starting April 15th. Blizzard’s announcement stated “Since this is a stress test, we’re primarily interested in technical feedback, like how Overwatch runs on players’ systems, critical bug reports, and other game-impacting problems, One of our goals is to push our hardware to the limit, so players shouldn’t be surprised if they experience performance issues or run into

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The Division Patch 1.1 causes some characters to vanish

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Fionna Schweit

Patch 1.1 is live for Tom Clancys: The Division, the modern day Apocalypse ridden NYC is now full of more things to shoot, more gear to find, and much less crafting materials. I myself rushed home to play it last night (stream VOD here) the Vod actually starts right after the maintenance to fix the issue which was, some players found that their characters no longer existed.  Ubisoft first reported this in a forum post and it officially fixed: Named enemies in Challenge mode will now only guarantee one High-End item like all the other named enemies Incursion: Falcon Lost

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[Rumor] Smash 4, Splatoon, Zelda Wii U & Mario Maker All In Development For NX

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Yet another day means yet another round of supposed leaks for the Nintendo NX. As with anything related to the unannounced console, take these with a grain of salt because we all remember how that supposed controller leak went down last month. This last news comes by the way of multiple NeoGaf threads and a locked Twitter account belonging to a known industry insider. The Legend of Zelda For Wii U has long been rumored to be coming to both the Nintendo NX and Wii-U and this latest lengthy post by 10K adds another anonymous confirmation to that list. Other

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Nintendo Officially Joins List of Exhibitors for E3 2016

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Rae Michelle Richards

Nintendo has officially joined the list of exhibitors for this year’s E3 Expo.  Right now the company’s name appears in the list of companies attending the show. which you can view right here or search the official E3 site for yourself. No other details about what Nintendo might be showing have of course been announced. Nintendo isn’t known for leaks – with the recent NX leaks being the except and one of those turned out to be completely false.  The company still has some big games planned for 2016 including Star Fox Zero which ships later this month and The Legend of

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Further Oculus Rift Delays Due To Microsoft?

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Broken Joysticks

Today Oculus announced further delays on Rift shipments, potentially as long as two months for some customers, sparking outrage amongst VR fans. The company confirmed once again that the delay was due to a component shortage, and that they were shipping units as quickly as possible. Oculus still remains tight-lipped on what component exactly has caused the shortage, but that hasn’t stopped Reddit users from speculating. Multiple theories, ranging from issues with the camera used to track the headset, to a lack of wireless Xbox One dongles, were made. According to a post to Reddit by a supposed Oculus employee, under

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Rise From Your Grave! Can Arcades Come Back?

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Broken Joysticks

Ahh the 80’s… Slightly before my time as I was born in ‘91, but thanks to older relatives’ hand-me-downs of computers like the Commodore 64 & ZX Spectrum, being raised on reruns of classic cartoons (and the odd horror film courtesy of aforementioned relatives), and most importantly, spending my youth at the local arcades, I feel like I can almost remember that decade. Arcades were definitely in their peak around the 80’s and 90’s, being the best place to play the latest games with, for the time, mind-blowing graphics, and until relatively recently were the only place to really get

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