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Limited Edition loaded with goodies If we ever get Vita RPGThe Legend of Heroes: Trails of Blue Evolutionto come out here, it will just be the game, most likely. And that’s okay. I’ll take what I can get. I want those updated graphics and presentation. But look at what Japan gets! The Limited Edition release costs 10,584 yen (about $105) and comes with the Vita game, swimsuit figures of Elie, Randy, and KeA, a beach scene for them to be posed in, a soundtrack CD, and a drama CD....

June 7? It’s been a while since I’ve playedThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but a new DLC just might change that. Following upHearts of Stone, the second add-on,Blood & Wine, supposedly has a June 7 release date. The info comes from Polish site GRYOnline, who obtained a screen capture of the date before it was pulled. This falls inline with what CD Projekt Red has previously estimated as a the release window of “first half of 2016,” and it would be coming out right before E3....

“A haunting presence has been detected” Through a brief tweet, Bungie has announced the next raid forDestiny 2: The Root of Nightmares. It’ll take place within the confines of theLightfallexpansion, and will launch shortly afterward. Here is everything we know about this mysterious raid so far. Ferried from an unknown time and place, a haunting presence has been detected. We must now confront the ancient threat growing at our doorstep....

No Man’s Sky makes an impressive return There’s no stoppingCrash Bandicootit seems, as the crazy crate crasher dominates for a second Summer in a row, now five weeks into his return to the top of the UK sales charts. The not-greatLEGO The Incrediblesremains slotted in second place, despite Ubisoft’sThe Crew 2roaring into third position, from last week’s number eight slot. The release of updateAfter Hours, as well as aPlus-free offer, has helped perennial entryGrand Theft Auto Vreturn to the Top Five....

The ‘essential business’ GameStop Going to a GameStop, especially when my walking-distance-location closed, in 2021, is an incredibly annoying prospect for me. So much so that I’ll probably miss out on the shiny Zacian and Zamazenta distribution event. But somehow this one is more annoying than past ones. So that shiny Zacian and Zamazenta distribution run forPokemon Sword and Shieldthat was rumored last week is true, andit’s been officially unveiled by GameStop over the weekend....

A life simulator, understandably, should let you leave your home to experience the wide-open world. And that’s exactly what you can do inThe Sims 4: travel to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, in the fourth installment of the classicSimsseries, there’s not that much to see. The Sims 4has a bit of a world problem. If you were around for the original release of the game, you remember the disappointment when you first decided to leave your home....

PC release happening in Q3 2014 Here’s a mood-setting trailer for The Astronauts’ “weird fiction” horror game,The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. As withprior footage, this is looking quite nice. It’s the studio’s first real trailer not counting last year’steaser video, and I like it. I would’ve preferred gameplay by now, but I like it. There’s much we don’t know aboutEthan Carter, so let’s recap what is known: this is a first-person, combat-less game in which you play as a detective who possesses the ability to see the final moments of murder victims....

It’s all in the little details ConsideringAssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flagwill be a cross-generation game, I don’t know that any of us are expecting it to be a meaningful leap forward, visually. In this video, various developers at Ubisoft talk up the PlayStation 4 and say that for this version, it’s going to be the little details that matter. Personally, I just started daydreaming about how potentially cool the ship-to-ship battles are going to be....

Performance isn’t quite there yet Speaking to Kotaku at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards, Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell says the company was “working on gettingDota 2running on some tablets.” Wait, what? Given the nature of the game, wouldn’t that be … difficult to play effectively through touch controls alone? This is acompetitive title, after all. Perhaps, but Newell continued, explaining how “That ended up being kind of a disappointment....

It was only last month that I read Brett’sreviewofProject CARS, and now Slightly Mad Studios is out there talking up a sequel for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and SteamOS. Only thing that’s missing is a call for pre-orders but, worry not, there’s once again the opportunity tohelp funddevelopment. Unsurprisingly, players are upset that the company would announce a follow-up when there’s still work to be done on the current still-fairly-new game....

There is no official end date forModern Warfare 3andWarzoneSeason 3, but based on the battle pass and patterns from previous updates, it’s possible to estimate a time frame. MW3andWarzoneSeason 3delivered on all fronts. In multiplayer, the devs plan to introduce six 6v6 maps throughout the season, with various sizes and locations. Additionally, four new weapons enter the fray, including the MORS and BAL-27, first introduced in 2014 forCoD: Advanced Warfare. As forWarzone, battle royale fans finally get a chance to jump back into Rebirth Island, and the devs made sweeping weapon and equipment balancing changes....

Get your Wii controllers ready… During this morning’s special E3 Nintendo Direct, Iwata announced that the multiplayer for Platinum Games’The Wonderful 101will include up tofivepeople playing simultaneously. That’s one more than the usual four, for those of you with difficulty counting. Also mentioned this morning was an in-game shop where players can purchase upgrade skills. The game releases August 23rd, and it’s looking to be a fast-paced and fun superhero romp....

If you’ve followed PC strategy games for a while, you may recognize names like Jake Solomon, Will Miller, and Grant Rodiek. You’re certainly familiar with the games on their resumes; Solomon helmed theXCOMfranchise for years, and collaborated with Miller onMarvel’s Midnight Suns, while Rodiek hails fromThe Sims. These three, alongside COO/CFO Nelsie Birch, have founded Midsummer Studios, a new developer looking to break into the life sim genre. Yes, it’s some competition forThe Sims....