If there’s one thing that Terry Crews loves more than yogurt, it’s Overwatch

He wants to play Doomfist Recently, theOverwatchcommunity took notice of Terry Crews’ efforts to join the cast of the game as Doomfist — a character hinted at throughout the game’s lore (including its initial cinematic debut), that might one day make it into the roster. Well, this week the hilarious, hulking monstrosity of a man visited Blizzard’s Headquarters in Irvine, California, which may or may not be related to that request....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 189 words · Kimberly Winters

Infinity Ward is developing this year’s Call of Duty game

Shocking news, I know COD 2016. Now it’s official. Can’t wait to show you what we’ve been developing!#CallofDutypic.twitter.com/m28X79gC9v — Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard)July 02, 2025 Infinity Ward, the developer of theCall of Duty: Modern Warfareseries as well asCall of Duty: Ghosts, confirmed it is working on the next game in theCall of Dutyseries to be released this year, shocking absolutely no one. Considering the history of the series, it would be surprising if this doesn’t end up being a sequel toGhosts, even ifit wasn’t that well-reviewed....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 85 words · Mary Larson

Jet Set Radio to tag XBLA and PSN this summer

Earlier Sega teased, but now it’s official:Jet Set Radiowill be coming to Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Windows PC digital download later this summer. This cel-shaded, stylish Dreamcast classic will get an HD upgrade for this re-release, and these few new screenshots will give you some idea of what the game will look like. In related news, Sega will be hosting a contest that will let fans take a shot at designing 18 new pieces of graffiti art, all of which will be placed in the game....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 140 words · Aaron Brown

Jim and Larian are playing Divinity: Original Sin now!

Check us out on one of those live streaming things I’m online with Larian Studios right now, playingDivinity: Original Sin, the game that’s got less than a day to meet itsfinal stretch goal on Kickstarter. We’ve put this together as an unplanned last-minute thing and I’m looking forward to giving it a good ol’ look and maybe stabbing something with a sword. Enjoy!

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 63 words · Anne Anderson

Kiryu’s clan is best in this new Yakuza 6 video

Baka Mitai One of the new mini-games inYakuza 6is something called “Clan Creator.” If it wasn’t evident from the title, you take street punks and make a clan out of them. It looks kind of fun and is pretty reminiscent of a similar feature fromYakuza 4. It also makes Kiryu look like even more of a bad ass, since he can take literal trash and turn it into an ace fighter....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 124 words · Anthony Jones

Live show: Double Dragon Neon with Jake Kaufman

[Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you’re able to be as much a part of the show as anything else.] If you haven’t heard, I’m in love withDouble Dragon Neonat the moment, from its gameplay to its nods to ’80s culture, to its soundtrack, it has truly been an awesome surprise for me this year....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 192 words · Charles Baker

Low-poly Mass Effect CG models are massively adorable

Do you guys remember how, inFinal Fantasy VII, the character models during battles were tall, lean, and fairly well-proportioned, whereas the character models on the overworld map were short, plump, and super-deformed? It was almost like gettingThe Muppet Showone minute and thenMuppet Babiesthe next. I doubtFinal Fantasyor Muppets were running through Polycount forum user Nix’s head when he had the idea to take characters from across theMass Effectuniverse and render them with PS1-level geometry....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 176 words · April Mcneil

Mario Kart 8 gets Mercedes update, pre-orders now live for DLC

It’s $11.99 for the DLC bundle Mario Kart 8brings a small update today, and with it, the free Mercedes Benz DLC. Version 2.0 of the game is in tow, which comes with minor changes like an in-game DLC option. If you want the Mercedes DLC just head to the eShop and grab it. Additionally,pre-orders are now live for the mashup content. For $12 you can pre-buy both and gain “immediate” access to Yoshi and Shy-Guy colors, or buy the November and May packs piecemeal for $7....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 87 words · Melissa Ingram

Metal Wolf Chaos XD guide: five quick tips to help you blow stuff up

Always be investing Metal Wolf Chaos XDis out this week in the west after spending 15 years in the “Japan only” phantom zone, and the powers that be decided that they shouldn’t mess with greatness: keeping the spirit of the 2004 release alive. With that in mind there’s a lot of 2004 mechanics you’ll need to account for, so here’s some help. Basically you have two currencies to account for with cold hard cash and upgrade materials....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · William Armstrong

Neverwinter achieves platform parity by going to PS4

Took ’em a while Back when the news broke thatStar Trek Onlinewas heading over to both PS4 and Xbox One, a few folks were curious as to the status ofNeverwinter, another free-to-play MMO designed by Cryptic Studios that was already present on Xbox One. That question has officially been answered, as the game is now making its way to PS4 as well. Perfect World has announced that the PS4 edition ofNeverwinter, with nine expansions worth of content, will be appearing on PS4 this summer, and will also feature bespoke control adaptations to use the PS4’s touchpad and party chat integration, among other things....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 174 words · Lance Townsend

New Street Fighter V patch notes apparently not April Fool’s joke

Buffs for Cammy and Nerfs for Juri? Seemz legit During the Top Eight of yesterday’sStreet Fighter VNorCal Regionals, Capcom relayed to the stream’s commentary team that a balance update was coming to the flagship fighter this week. The commentators were instructed to specifically mention it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. Later that day, an entire list of patch notes forStreet Fighter VVer.3.5 dropped on official blogCapcom Unity, listing changes that have gotten many players thinking that it might be a joke....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 246 words · Amber Torres

Nintendo president tries to explain why they haven’t supported the Smash Ultimate esports scene

This game could be even bigger Take a look at the best-selling Switch games. I’ll wait. NoticeSuper Smash Bros. Ultimatepretty high up there? Yeah, well it’s the best selling fighting game of all time, and steadily approaching the 16 million sold mark. Depending on how long its legs are, it could unseatMario Kart 8and become the undisputed top Switch seller. From that perspective, it’s doing very well. But Nintendo is doing very little to actually promote/grow it in the professional scene, and have infamously dropped the ball on supporting pretty much any of their games outside of sparing events....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 340 words · Laura Henderson

Overkill’s The Walking Dead will not rise on consoles until 2019

More time to board up those windows, I guess Starbreeze has announced that co-op zombie-shooterOverkill’s The Walking Deadwill not be released on PS4 and Xbox One in November as expected. Instead, these console versions will arrive sometime in February 2019. A statement by Starbreezein their latest financial reportmentions that 505 Games, who will be publishing the console editions of the online multiplayer title, have made this decision “because they want to ensure a simultaneous release of the console version digitally and in stores to achieve optimal marketing impact and maximize sales”....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Eric Murphy