PlayStation Holiday Sale Week Two Deals: Battlefront, Guilty Gear & More

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Sony has updated the PlayStation Store yet again with some fantastic deals thanks to the second week of their Holiday Sale. Some really big titles are on sale this week including Square Enix’s Final Fantasy X / X-2  remaster collection, Star Wars Battlefront many others. If you’ve missed out on some of the bigger games from last year & this year, then this might be the time to save a few bucks. I’ve highlighted some of the games I think are worth checking out below: PlayStation 4 Games On Sale Divinity Original Sin – $47.99 USD Guilty Gear XRD Sign

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Everything Announced In The Final Smash Bros Direct

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

It’s time to say goodbye to the hype train that is Super Smash Bros directs for the time being. Nintendo aired the final prepared video presentation this afternoon which featured two surprise character announcements – In the form of the witching Bayonetta & the transforming Corrin as well as a ton of additional content. Previously Nintendo revealed that Cloud Strife will be joining the brawl –and you can download him right now for $5.99 USD (providing that the servers are stable). By purchasing Cloud you also gain access to the Midgard stage for either Wii-U, 3DS or both if you

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Final Fantasy VII Remake Details Revealed in Famitsu

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Broken Joysticks

Final Fantasy VII remake
The new issue of Famitsu, the famous Japanese gaming magazine, has revealed new info about the Final Fantasy VII remake. Most notably, the game will have more focus on Biggs, Wedge, and Jesse, as well as a fully explorable Midgar. Square has been slowly dripping out info regarding the remake of the classic game, and not all of it has been received positively. In recent gameplay footage, the new battle system was revealed which does away with much of the turn-based elements of the original game in favour of a system resembling that of the FF XIII series. There has

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The dress is back, this time in Just Cause 3

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

Just cause 3 has no shortage of easter eggs, so will come as no suprise to many people that a popular internet meme from the last year also slipped in. Some people may remember “the dress” which made the rounds on the internet causing many people to question their perception of color with its simple question, is it white and Gold?  or black and blue? Originating on steam from a user called Ricochet227  it seems that the developers of Just Cause too felt the needs to weigh in on the fight between yellow and black in their own way. Steam user Ricochet227 posted

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Guitar Hero Live adds Rivals Challengs

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

Guitar Hero Live is Finally getting skill based matchmaking. The team at FreeStyleGames are continuing to explore new ways to make GHTV an even more exciting experience for players. The studio has been listening to feedback from the community; most notably the desire for head-to-head competition to test your skills against other players. Rivals will pit similarly skilled players against each other a first for this new Guitar Hero. We absolutly loved Guitar Hero live, and you can read our review here, but needless to say it was a fantastic offering, and this will only make it better. Additional features are also

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Gravity Rush Remastered To Get Physical Release In North America

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

It seems like North American fans of Kat & Dusty’s adventures in Gravity Rush have won over executives at Sony Computer Entertainment America it seems as the president of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has announced that the physical version of Gravity Rush: Remastered will be available physically this February The announcement was made while Yoshida-san was appearing on the Dengeki PlayStation winter live-stream. Surprisingly Shuhei directly mentioned that this decision was directly related to pressure from fans on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to release the game in a physical format. Gravity Rush: Remastered was revealed this past

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Ghost In The Shell – First Assault Now Available on Steam Early Access

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Rae Michelle Richards

Nexon’s take on the Cyberpunk world of Ghost In Shell: Stand Alone Complex, titled Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – First Assault, is now available via Steam Early Access. Set in the year 2030 players are put into the role of Section 9 special forces member as the nation of Japan is under siege by members of a cyber terrorist organization. In order to combat this threat the player has been augmented with cybernetic enhancements that allow them to exceed current human limitations – deploy turrets, see in the dark with infra-red vision and more! The game will

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Dice Confirms Battlefield 5 is a go

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

In a move that probably surprises all of two people, there will be a Battlefield 5. Developer DICE’s Dan Vanderlind tweeted this weekend “Now that we’ve shipped Battlefront and a part of the team continues to work on it, I am moving on to another project, the next Battlefield..” Dices gritty realisitic modern military shooter seems to have become a fully annualized property at this point, joining the likes of Call of Duty and Madden on a release schedule that while it is a nightmare for developers, keeps studios quite happy. Those who disliked the last Battlefield title, Hardline, will be

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Consortium: The Tower — Crowdfunding January 18th, 2016

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

Consortium: the tower is launching a new crowdfunding effort on January the 18th. It is a sci-fi FPS built in unreal engine 4. The main premise is that you can control someone else in a parallel world. The shooter features fast paced action, a deep sci-fi story, line and exciting FPS elemnents. I expect we will see much more from this game as it enters Kick Starter on January 18th. [youtube id=PWTWJYXZvq8]

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Underrail leaves Early Access next week

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

Disappointed by Fallout 4? I cant imagine why, but if you are and your jonesing for something that resembles old school fall out you might want to check out Underrail. The isometric RPG feel extremely similar to early fallout titles, mixed in with the tough and gritty world of Metro 2033. The game has a bit of sordid history first appearing over three years ago and since then appearing and reappearing in and out of early access and the media. Now the game will officially leave early access on December the 18th. The game is currently on steam, and its

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DayZ to get predatory animals, including wolves

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

Wildly popular ARMA mod turned stand alone game DayZ is getting yet another content update. The newest update will include several predatory animals, such as wolves. In a Blog  the developers promise new and exciting mechanics with the predatory animals. Evidently these will include getting eviscerated by the wolves, and killing and cooking them. many people will remember DayZ as the ARMA mod that launched a thousand zombie and other survival games, but its developers banded together and created a stand alone, non-mod game, which they have provided frequent updates to since its initial launch. This update will also include bikes, both

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First Gameplay Footage of Yakuza 6 Released

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Broken Joysticks

Yakuza 6
Yakuza 6 has just had it’s very first gameplay footage revealed. Check it out below. [youtube id=sw6Oe1l51pQ] Yakuza is just one of those franchises I never got into, with me only owning a PS3 for about a year before it broke. Still, what people tell me about it sounds kind of neat. There’s very little to be said about the footage, since it’s mostly just fighting animations, but it looks pretty crisp. Apparently the Yakuza are also professional wrestlers, judging from the way they fight. I look forward to dispensing The People’s Elbow to gangsters across Tokyo. Yakuza 6 is

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EA announces esports league

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Fionna Schweit

It was only a matter of time. One of the the largest AAA publishers on the planet has decided to lumber in to E-sports. Led by Peter Moore (former COO of EA) it seems that EA will open up “a new Competitive Gaming Division” Moore said: “As the latest step in our journey to put our players first, [the Competitive Gaming Division] will enable global eSports competitions in our biggest franchises including FIFA, Madden NFL, Battlefield and more,” EA CEO Andrew Wilson said, in a statement provided to GamesIndustry.biz. “EA’s CGD will seek to build a best-in-class program to centralize our

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