Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire has been delayed slightly as Obsidian need more time to get it ready for consumption. They sent over the following message explaining the delay. The original date was 3 April in case you were wondering. With this in mind, we are taking just a few extra weeks to polish and put those finishing touches on the game. Our new launch date will be Tuesday, May 8th, 2018....
As the mobile gaming scene begins to change - hopefully for the better - Playond is aiming to bring indie developers into the subscription service fold. When video games first started to make a real impact on mobile platforms, it made for an exciting time. Since then, the landscape has been somewhat ruined by the “freemium” model, where companies offer games for free but then load them up with microtransactions. This “genre” has become so prevalent that even developers who despise it have no choice but to use it....
Often pokémon are discussed in terms of power or effectiveness, but rarely are they thought of by how cool they look. Water-types often take a backseat to fire when considering how cool they look, but there’s a fair amount of them who hold their own. For the sake of interest this list won’t include legendary pokémon, so don’t expect to see the likes of Kyogre. Let’s now look at and rank the 10 coolest water-type pokémon in existence....
In early 2020, Pokémon Go will introduce the GO Battle League, a new online ranked PvP battling system (via VG247). This will evolve the existing Trainer Battle feature into a competitive experience with match-making, and will require players to walk a certain distance to earn entry to the new League. Currently, Trainer Battles rely on the other player to accept the request to duel before the invitation expires, which is difficult owing to time zones and unreliable connection to the server....
It pays to keep an eye out on your surroundings when exploring Pokémon Scarlet and Violet‘s open world, as Pokémon could be hiding anywhere. During your travels, you will likely come across a Pokémon or two hiding in a tree just out of reach. Naturally, those aiming to catch ’em all will want to shake the Pokémon loose somehow so you can battle them. Fortunately, you do not have to go through much at all to accomplish this....
Niantic has announced that level 40 players of Pokemon Go can now begin exporting their captured monsters from the mobile game into Pokemon Sword and Shield via Pokemon Home. The functionality was first confirmed to be coming before the end of the year during a special broadcast back in September and, according to Eurogamer, allows you to send monsters into the games (but not back again) for the cost of Transporter Energy, with smaller ‘mon costing 10 energy and the prices increasing with the rarity of the Pokemon....
As of midnight last night the Pokemon Go Holiday 2019 event has begun, and will last until Wednesday, January 1st, 2020, when it will end at 11:59 p.m. This time is unique to each Pokemon GO trainer’s respective time zone, and if players want to complete each of these tasks, they’re gonna need some help. The new event features some goofy costumes on certain Pokemon, and challenges with their own rewards that range far and wide in their scope and difficulty....
The Pokemon Company has released a new video detailing what to expect from new mobile collaboration with Game Freak and Nintendo, Pokemon Masters. The game, which was announced alongisde a bunch of Pokemon mobile titles last month, will take place on the island of Pasio, and will see you form Sync Pairs with your specific Pokemon, before allowing you to team up with other Sync Pairs featuring trainers from across the Pokemon games’ entire history, including Red and his Charizard and their rivals Blue and Pidgeot from the very first game....
The cult classic Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series returns as Nintendo has announced Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX for the Nintendo Switch. Early information indicates that these games are actually remakes of previous Pokemon Mystery Dungeon titles Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team. First released in Japan in 2005 for the Nintendo DS, those titles were the first entries into the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series. As some fans may know, though, the Mystery Dungeon series existed quite a few years before the Pokemon license was added to the franchise....
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have revealed Pokemon Unite: a new MOBA-like Pokemon title developed by Tencent’s TiMi Studios. Described as a “strategic team-based battle game,” Pokemon Unite sees two teams of five players face off in order to attempt to control strategic locations spread across a map. The area of play also contains various wild Pokemon which you can battle in order to earn additional points. The team with the most points at the end of the match wins....
Professor Oak is heading to Pokémon Masters, which should terrify everyone. Back in the day, Professor Oak was quite the young trainer and was even on track to take on the Kanto League, but then he fell into Pokémon research instead. No spoilers, but the plot of Pokémon Masters even has some of Oak’s back story on how he decided to enter into academia. After decades of research and helping young trainers decide whether they were a boy or a girl, he’s decided to come out of retirement for one more go at the title....
Square Enix has revealed the new Kingdom Hearts game arriving “surprisingly soon,” and it’s a mobile title with the codename Project Xehanort (via Gematsu). Project Xehanort—which I cannot spell so I’m just copying and pasting it each time—is the game that one of the new Kingdom Hearts teams has been beavering away on. “While a traditional Kingdom Hearts will take some time, the Kingdom Hearts Union χ team will first be making an unexpected announcement tomorrow....
Sony announced during its latest earnings call (via GamSpot) that PlayStation 4 has now sold 96.8 million units worldwide since its launch in 2013, with 17.8 million alone shipped during the financial year ended March 31. In addition, the hardware giant briefly mentioned PlayStation 5 again in the report, saying that its gaming sector recorded an ‘increase in development expensed for the next generation console.’ Sony spoke about its new home console for the first time during an interview with Wired just the other week, where it confirmed the system would be backwards compatible with PS4....
The developer behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has detailed its next step in fine-tuning the insanely popular battle royale romp, with PUBG Corp now setting its cross hairs on the game’s combat. As the meat and potatoes of any PUBG bout, the studio has been listening to feedback during the Early Access period and is keen to tweak things after learning the ‘pacing and distribution of combat encounters in a match could be more even and less chaotic....
During Ubisoft’s E3 2019 press conference we got our first look at Rainbow Six Quarantine in a very short teaser. The trailer for the next game in the Rainbow Six series began with a man holding a gun in front of him, and his veins were coursing with some weird dark fluid of some sort. The lead game designer Bio Jade said that the game builds on ’the foundations on one of the best shooters of the generation....
Rainbow Six Extraction has several Archaean enemies that you’ll need to take out. However, there’s one that’s truly special as it presents a boss encounter. Here’s our Rainbow Six Extraction guide to help you defeat the Protean boss in the Gateway mission objective. Note: We’ll have a Rainbow Six Extraction guides and features hub soon, so stay tuned. Rainbow Six Extraction guide – The Protean boss in the Gateway mission The Gateway mission in Rainbow Six Extraction will only appear as the third/final objective in a level....
Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 will both be included free with the Xbox One version of Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft has announced. The two games will both support Xbox 360 backwards compatibility on Xbox One, although it isn’t yet clear whether they’ll be given away digitally or on disc. Xbox 360 backwards compatibility was announced during Microsoft’s E3 press conference earlier today and is available now to Xbox One preview members....
10. Kraglin It’s not that Kraglin (Sean Gunn) is unlikeable (no member of GotG is truly unlikeable), but truth be told, we haven’t seen much of him as a member of the Guardians to make up our minds. What we know for sure is that Kraglin is very loyal. First, he was fully devout to Yondu as he followed him to hunt the Star-Lord and then when he decided to join with the Guardians....
When you are starting out Resident Evil Village, you will have to choose the difficulty options before you begin your gameplay. Now of course no one would want to mess up here since the entire game will be restructured accordingly. It would ruin the gameplay if you then figure out that the RE Village difficulty level you chose was too easy that you breezed through the game or too difficult that you could not progress, So to make things easier for you, here are the Resident Evil Village difficulty levels and what level should you choose....
[Update – June 11 @ 6 PM EST]: Capcom confirmed via Twitter that Resident Evil Village is coming to PC in 2021. I knew it. What was once a rumor is now reality. Resident Evil 8 is called Resident Evil Village, or RE VIII (age) if you’re being fancy. It was revealed during the Sony PlayStation 5 event earlier today, showing off eerie a small village in a snowy forest haunted by something....
