Monster Hunter Stories coming September 8th; demo out next week

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Jason Nason

Nintendo announced today that upcoming adventure game Monster Hunter Stories for Nintendo 3DS family of systems launches on September 8th. And while there is no official word the accompanying amiibo will also likely be released at the same time. The game features turn-based battles, a departure for the series. Here’s the synopsis for the game:

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Watching Four People Speed Run Pokemon Red Simultaneously Is Oddly Captivating

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

Take a trip back in time with me, not too far, but to SGDQ 2016. Last year the folks at Summer Games Done Quick hosted a four way race between Gunnermaniac3, Keizaron, Extratricky and Exarionu to see who could complete Nintendo’s Pokemon Red with the fastest time. The Pokemon games have had a dedicated speed running community for some time and while I can’t profess to be anything other than a casual consumer of speed run content, I find these runs in particular absolutely fascinating. Perhaps it is the fact that the generation 1 Pokemon titles have been distilled down

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Steam’s Latest Free To Play Darling, Black Squad, Has Attracted Thousands of Concurrent Players

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

The world of free to play games can be daunting with the amount of sheer choice available and if you’re not careful you might end up choosing a game that is more advertisement for the in-game cash shop than a proper video game. Thousands of Steam users – almost 8,000 concurrently at the moment of the writing of this article – have decided to download and try out this previously under the radar free to play shooter. On a weekend where Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is free to play for everyone, what could this imported and 3-year-old FPS from

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Free DLC For Valkyria Revolution & Dark Rose Valkyrie To Help You Beat The Heat

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

What’s the best way to beat the summer heat? Surprisingly we’ve had two major RPG releases this season – Dark Rose Valkyrie and Valkyria Revolution and both games have a whole trove of free downloadable content on the PlayStation Store. When the thermometer breaks one of the best ways to pass the hot days is to immerse oneself in an RPG.  Fans of Idea Factory International’s recent RPG produced by development staff known for the ‘Tales of’ franchise, Dark Rose Valkyrie, can nab extra missions, a couple of costumes for party members and crafting resources. Available Free DLC (Dark Rose Valkyrie)  Founding Commemoration Set  Special Boot Camp Set (x 3)  Special Provisioning Set

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The Final Station | REVIEW

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Meghan Kass

The Final Station is the base game coming to you from development team Do Our Best games and publishers Tinybuild Games . This game is quickly gaining fans and it is easy to see why; with a story that is full of intrigue, interesting game play that challenges you and plenty of content it’s hard to not see why so many are enjoying this game and why it is starting to get add ons and DLC to add to the experience. Do Our Best has definitely delivered something special and the team is definitely passionate about this project. After watching

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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Multiplayer Free This Weekend

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

If you haven’t tried the latest Call of Duty – set in the futuristic wars of space, then perhaps it is time to hop in for free this weekend. Activision is giving Steam users the chance to download the game’s multiplayer client for free and frag their way to prestige until Sunday at 1PM PST. If you hurry it isn’t too late to get 36 hours of free game time in, as long as you don’t mind the substantial 62GB download (and that’s just for Multiplayer, the single player adds an additional 30+ GB). As of writing Call of Duty:

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Doomfist Arrives On Live Servers With New Overwatch Patch!

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

Overwatch’s 25th hero, Doomfist, has finished his testing phase on the PTR and is now live on the PC and console versions of the game. Alongside the release of Doomfist – who has been adjusted considerably since his initial reveal – this latest patch brings a number of changes to player mobility across a number of heroes and voice lines for both D.VA and Genji. Doomfist I’ve covered Doomfist in the past two weeks a couple of times. So to get a quick impression of what he is capable of, here is a summary of his abilities that I posted

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July 27th Nintendo Download

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Jason Nason

Miitopia – Since the dawn of ever, warriors have banded together to fight evil. Now … Mii characters based on your favorite people must unite to do turn-based battle and save Miitopia! Cast them in roles across the kingdom, manage friendships and give them jobs with distinct stats, abilities, gear and custom looks. The Miitopia game will be available on July 28. Hey! PIKMIN – Captain Olimar has crashed on an unknown planet inhabited by Pikmin. Get a new perspective on his adorably fierce partners as you fight to fuel his ship in his first 2D platformer. Hey! PIKMIN is also the first Pikmin game for the Nintendo

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Walking Dead: The Tell Tale Series- A New Frontier episode 5: From the Gallows review

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Meghan Kass

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier has finally concluded and closed out Season three of the Telltale Walking Dead series. The fifth episode, From The Gallows, closes the story of Javier and his time with Clementine. While the Walking Dead episodes have been mostly good so far, how will the end hold up? With this season end with a whimper, or a bang? And what could this ending mean for future seasons?   This episode does answer some questions for us regarding Javier’s past. We learn how his father got sick and with what. We learn that Javier had promised

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Quake Champions Will Be Live On Steam ‘Soon’

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

Sabre Interactive and id Software’s reimagining of the Quake franchise, Quake Champions will be pushed to Steam ‘soon’ according to a community post made by Community Manager Iker_A. Quake Champions has been in an all but in name only Open Beta since the announcement of beta keys on the games’ official website during E3. In a thread titled “ The thing that will kill this game” Iker_A gives the community an update on why matchmaking wait times are so long – low server populations. In addition, it has been revealed that major patches are coming down the pike and that

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Get Four Mega Stones for Fearsome Pokémon in Sun/Moon

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Jason Nason

This month’s Mega Stones will unlock the power of Mega Evolution for more powerful Pokémon in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. Using the following code you’ll receive Tyranitarite, Abomasite, Manectite, and Aggronite in the. These items will let your Tyranitar, Abomasnow, Manectric, and Aggron Mega Evolve during battle. These Pokémon aren’t available in the wild in Pokémon Sun or Pokémon Moon, but you can bring them into Pokémon Bank via Poké Transporter from earlier games. The Pokémon you transfer will lose their items in the process, however, so this distribution is currently the only way to get these Mega Stones

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Third Parascientific Escape game on the way for 3DS

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Jason Nason

Circle Entertainment has revealed that the third and final game in the Parascientific Escape is on the way with the upcoming release of Parascientific Escape – Crossing at the Farthest Horizon nearing release. In the game you’ll choose from the two previous protagonists: Kyosuke Ayana and Hitomi Akeneno, and proceed with the separated stories on the stage of Latoua City, escape from three prisoned rooms! Months after the luxury cruise ship explosion case, the girl with two psychic powers, Hitomi Akeneno, has engaged in saving people with the psychic research facility, ZENA, is struggling to strengthen her abilities.

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Report: Halo Live Action Series Still In Development

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

Remember that live action Halo TV series that Microsoft announced during the 2013 reveal of the Xbox One? They created an entire division of their company, Xbox Entertainment Studios, to handle the development of the Halo TV series and other series set for release on both Television and direct to streaming series based upon popular Microsoft properties. It wasn’t meant to be as that division of Microsoft was promptly folded less than six months after its’ debut – which resulted in 18,000 jobs being lost at MS between 2014 and 2015. Now a spokesperson for Microsoft says that not only

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A Look At The Development of Overwatch’s Doomfist

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Rae Michelle Richards

The next hero to join Overwatch, the much hyped Doomfist, will be making his way onto the live servers this coming Thursday, July 27th. Ahead of his debut in the live version of the game Blizzard hosted a panel yesterday at the San Diego Comic Con where they talked about the development behind one of Overwatch’s most mysterious heroes. Filming doesn’t appear to have been allowed at the panel, as every YouTube video discussing the panel is an original work rather than a recording of the panel itself. Luckily for those of us not in California right now GameSpot was

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