And then it was promptly removed This morning, if you were to follow thislink, you would have landed on a page that looks like the above screencap for aMirror’s Edge 2help page on EA’s official site. The page has since been taken down, but come on we know what’s happening here. Mirror’s Edge 2is in all likelihood about to be announced at E3 in just a couple of weeks for at least next-gen consoles....
With so many key players leaving Infinity Ward following the studio’s co-founder’s dismissal — along with a bevy of related lawsuits — things aren’t looking good for the developer. According to analyst Mike Hickey of Janco Partners, Infinity Ward as we know it may not be around for much longer. “We expect Infinity Ward studio will be essentially closed after their next map pack released,” he says, “with development work onModern Warfare 3spread between two studios not historically tied to the franchise....
The only 4-star Fusion DPS inWuthering Waves, Chixia is capable of dealing great amounts of single target Fusion DMG by performing both her Resonance Skill and her enhanced shots while in DAKA DAKA!, as well as a massive amount of AoE DMG by performing her Liberation. But even if the above allows her to work as both a main DPS and a Liberation-focused sub-DPS, Jinzhou’s star patroller still needs the right weapon and team to light a fire on the battlefield....
Many gamers were surprised when Valve announced the newOLED Steam Deck. Especially since the company hadstated in the pastthat it wouldn’t be releasing a Steam Deck 2 anytime soon. While the new Steam Deck OLED isn’t a successor to the original console, that new screen certainly makes it feel like a Steam Deck 1.5. So, what are some of the best games to take advantage of that fancy new OLED display?...
Become one with nature…and then kill it Red Dead Online‘s frontiersmen are going to find new purpose next week. Rockstar has committed to a “massive new update” that seems to add a ton of new content. On July 28, Rockstar is rolling out aRed Dead Onlineupdate that adds a new Frontier Pursuit in the form of a new role. The role isn’t explicitly detailed, but Rockstar teases that it “introduce[s] players to the secrets of naturalism....
Everything comes to an end eventua- Dark Souls 3is all anyone is talking about on qtoid for the past few weeks and yet it may or may not be the last title in the long fabledSoulsseries. From Software has flip-flopped a little, but Miyazaki certainly wants to end his involvement in the series as per his vision of the game. Which got us community managers thinking where we’ll go ifDark Soulsas we know it ends withDS3....
Shake that money raker! Monetization. It’s an ugly word, especially to those aware of its implications. According to an Activision employee resume, it’s also coming to Bungie’s upcoming shooter,Destiny. You may be feeling a cold shudder running down your spine right now — that’s normal. TheLinkedIn profileof product manager director Ryan Wener, dug up bySuperannuation, makes note of “monetization modeling” as part of hisDestinywork. While vague, the general thought is that Bungie’s game will make inroads into the increasingly popularfee-to-paymarket, introducing microtransactions to the purchased experience....
Criterion Games have updated their official Web site with word that a major patch forBurnout Paradisethat will be coming to both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on April 23. Codenamed “Bogart” (because all patches need a codename now), the update is so serious that Criterion have created a countdown so that Burnout fans can plan accordingly. This secondBurnout Paradiseupdate fixes a whole bunch of issues, most of which I wasn’t even aware of....
Bit.Trip spin-off scores some hot guest stars Gaijin Games have announced a game-changing load of DLC for their latest masterpieceBit.Trip Presents: Runner2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alien. Seven “well-loved” videogame characters will make their way into the game this Thursday on Steam, and on consoles at a later date. More characters will be revealed throughout the week, but for today we have the revelation that Quote fromCave Storyand Razputin fromPsychonautsare now part of the Bit....
The plan: release music on cartridges We’ve seennew releasesfor the Sega Dreamcastcome to fruitionin the past few years, but a brand new Famicom cartridge is an even more potent throwback.8-Bit Music Poweris a chiptune music compilation from Japanese artist RIKI and games retailer Columbus Circle, featuring artists known for their work onDig Dug,Pac-Land,Ape Escape, and more. You can pre-order the cartridge from Amazon’s Japanese site for a cool $33 USD, but it currentlydoesn’t looklike it’ll ship to an address outside of Japan....
(For part two of my mission to rid Metropolis of crime, gohereand find threehere) DC Universe Onlinehas been around for less than a year. Despite the initial hype and excitement, the superhero MMO started to hemorrhage players as soon as the first month was over. A counter-intuitive chat system and limited end game did not engender any love towards it. You could easily reach the level cap in a week and even casual players had no difficulty getting their hero or villain to 30 by the end of the month....
Available for $6 via Steam Steel Strider, the sequel toGigantic Army, is now available onSteam, Nyu Media has announced. The new shooter comes from Astro Port, the Japanese indie team behind this summer’s Tokusatsu-inspired STGSupercharged Robot Vulkaiser, though this one is more of an homage to classic run-and-gun games likeTurricanandSuper Contrathan cheesy ’70s-era television. If romping around the galaxy in a manned combat robot and being an interstellar peace-keeper sounds like your idea of a good time, you can downloadSteel Stridernow for $5....
What do we know aboutAgent, Rockstar North’srecently announcedPlayStation 3 exclusive? 1. It’s an action game. 2. It’s an international spy thriller set in the 1970’s. And that’s about it. Pretty much no other details have surfaced since Jack Tretton revealed the above logo during Sony’s press conference. Even so, that hasn’t kept Take-Two CEO Ben Federfrom declaringAgentto be the best thing since virtual sliced bread: “The game, like anything from Rockstar North, is going to be very, very cool....
