Down 74% in two months The strong momentum ofApex Legendsseems to be slowing down significantly. For the second month in a row, EA’s popular battle royale title has dropped its profit earnings. According to a report frommarket research firm SuperData,Apex Legendshas gone from earning $92 million in February to around $24 million in April. That’s a drop of roughly 74%, which is a huge drop from being the “strongest start for a free-to-play title” as SuperData said months ago....

And ‘irreparable psychological trauma’ Gearbox showed off the trailer for the upcomingBorderlands: The Pre-Sequeldownloadable content to a select group of fansduring its panel at PAX East, but it is now available for anybody to watch. Maybe even you? Yes, if you want. Finishing off the four-pieceSeason Pass,Claptastic Voyageis the first piece of DLC for thePre-Sequelthat includes a significant story portion, where two others were the new playable charactersJack the DoppelgangerandAurelia the Baroness, and the third was anarena combat mode....

Operator, one video game please It’s Cyber Monday, and that means its time to blow some cold hard cash on games you’ll play two years from now when you’re bored enough to remember that it’s in your Steam library. Backlog joke aside, thousands of PC games are on sale across multiple retailers. Below, you’ll find the cheapest price we’ve found from each major publishers including Bethesda, 2K Games, Ubisoft, Bandai Namco, WB Games, Square Enix, and more....

Here’s the dialogue tree you need WhenCyberpunk 2077came out, folks tried their hardest to suss out the rumored “secret ending.” As sites started to post their guides, all they had to go on was secondhand information from the official guide, which noted several ways that you “might” get the secret ending: it was inconclusive at best. It turns out there’s a reason for that: CD Project Red actually changed the entire process late in development, and the details never really changed hands....

Less jiggle physics, more broken jaws In an interview with Japanese publicationFamistuthis week,Dead or Aliveproducer Yohei Shimbori spoke about some of the upcoming changes to the recently revealedDead or Alive 6, particularly in terms of how they wish the game to be viewed by audiences. A new engine will be utilised, which allows for better lighting effects, skin textures and facial animation, but will move away from the game’s trademark “soft engine” which was essentially used to create player-defined boob-and-ass jiggle physics....

Vicarious Visions has joined the fight It takes a lot to make a stew. Bungie, the main developer behindDestiny, hasn’t been theonlydeveloper behindDestinyfor a while now. Last year, High Moon Studios (the team who madeTransformers) joined the effort. Now, a third developer has joined the effort. In a post onFacebook, Vicarious Visions revealed that it is now dedicated to helping expand theDestinyuniverse. This isn’t Vicarious Vision’s only project, though; it’s also currently working on the just-announcedCrash Bandicootremake....

Suffice to say,Silent Hill: Book of Memorieshas been met with a significant measure of cynicism by series fans. Seeing a beloved survival horror franchise become a dungeon-crawling RPG is a shock to the system, but afterDestructoid’s E3 interviewon the game, I personally felt quite confident. Having snuck a go of the game on the E3 showfloor, my confidence has solidified. I sliced nurse demons, picked up gold, solved puzzles, and did several things that run completely contrary to the idea of a Silent Hill game … and I liked it....

Naoki Yoshida is making his mark on this franchise Naoki “Yoshi P” Yoshida is a legend amongFinal Fantasy XIVplayers. Known for his humble demeanor (both in and outside of the game), Yoshi P turnedXIVaround withA Realm Rebornreboot and never looked back. The pivot was henceforth known as the “Realm Reborn Treatment,” and was nothing short of a miracle, forced into being by strong leadership. I even witnessed his kindness first-hand at aFinal Fantasy XIVFan Festival event, as Yoshida was out and about in the crowds, chatting with fans....

Ummm Now that the initial batch ofFinal Fantasy VII Remakesalesare in the rear-view window, director Tetsuya Nomura and producer Yoshinori Kitase are finally starting to open up about where the team could go from here, and it’s just as confusing as some of us expected. Despite the fact that the initial release covers far less than Disc 1 of the original (which is fine in theory), Square Enix has been mum on any sort of timeline for future installments, as well as how much ground those future episodes might cover....

Phew! That was a close one. When Square Enixrevealed their second go aroundforFinal Fantasy VIIon PC, fears were instilled among the masses that the new “Character Booster” tool would utilize a microtransaction based model. Thankfully, Square Enix told Kotaku yesterday that the tool would be completely free to use. The Square Enix rep clarified, “No, the Character Booster will not cost real money to use. We’ll have final pricing info on the game to share soon, but we can confirm that there will be no microtransactions for the upcoming re-release ofFinal Fantasy VIIon PC....

A true hell on earth In a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of Things Only ’90s Kids Will Remember (and perfectly attuned to my being on theSeinfeldanniversary arc ofCurb Your Enthusiasm), Jerry’s apartment fromSeinfeldhas been remade inDoom IIby oneDoug Keener. Mr. Keener was kind enough to even include “audio clips and death animations” for each sprite as part of this project, which took “over 100 hours of work.” A labor of love, I’m sure....

Going along with Fates Following in the footsteps ofFire Emblem Fates, the upcomingEchoes(a remake of the second game) will also only provide English voiceovers. It’s a tad different from theFatessituation, mind. For that game not only was the prospect of having dual audio massive (since it was basically three whole games in one), but they also ran into a major issue with one of the Japanese singing voiceovers, and found themselves unable to reach a licensing agreement overseas....

Since wrapping up theBit.Tripseries with the sublimeBit.Trip Flux, Gaijin Games has broadened its horizons, re-releasing some of their more popular titles for PC and iOS. Spending the last few years inducing smiles from Nintendo enthusiasts, the Santa Cruz-based indie studio shifted its focus to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, apparently drawing a bit of ire from their most fervent and loyal patrons in the process. Fear not, perturbed prospective Wii U owner — the developer has announced their next title,Bit....