Yuck Yesterday it almost seemed like we were in the clear whenTitanfallwas said topossiblyget a Season Pass, but almost immediately after deconfirming it, Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella reconfirmed the Pass. Zampella explains, “We’re going to do paid DLC, we’re also going to do free updates.There are things that we want in the game that we didn’t get to ship in the final game. So we’ll add private matches and things like that for free....
Eight songs over eight weeks for $13.50 About a year ago,Rock Bandleaned into the tendencies of its competitive players. TheRock Band Rivalsexpansion focused mostly on getting people to form crews, and then pitting those crews against one another in pursuit of high score supremacy. The week-to-week challenges seem to have worked for keeping dedicated players interested. These challenges serve an ulterior motive, though. Each new set of Spotlight Songs (half the criteria the challenges are graded upon) usually features two tracks that people already have access to and one newly-released DLC song....
Physical release planned I didn’t get around toVoid Bastards, a first-person roguelike withBioShockandSystem Shock 2roots, but that could change soon – it’s coming to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on July 28, 2025. That’s just where I play most of my games these days, you know? It’s comfy. Void Bastardsis a deadly ship-hopping journey across the Sargasso Nebula. You play as an oh-so-disposable prisoner hoping to salvage enough gear (and food and fuel) to survive another trek across the star map....
‘Designed exclusively for PS5’ Luminous Productions doesn’t have a lot of games under its belt, but that’s about to change. Founded a few years back with the Stadia version ofFinal Fantasy XValready out in the wild, the studio is going to really hit the ground running with their new title:Project Athia. There isn’t much known right now other than that it features a woman protagonist kicking all sorts of ass with magical powers, running across a fantasy-like zone full of idyllic mountains and ruins....
A little over a week after the release of thefirst two episodes ofStar Wars’The Acolyte, an attempt at negatively review-bombing the new series on Rotten Tomatoes has begun. Seeing anythingStar Wars-related requiring more than one second after its release to gather an avalanche of negative reactions nowadays is already pretty surprising, but this story gets even better. It turns out that the review bombing campaign pretty much ignored the actualStar WarsAcolyteTV series, and accidentally ended up hitting other works whose creators were unlucky enough to name after the word “Acolyte“....
Play slices of upcoming PC games from June 16–22 My inbox is unusually flooded with demos this afternoon thanks toSteam Game Festival: Summer Edition, a nearly week-long showcase of upcoming PC games. It’s a great problem to have. The Steam Game Festival landing page breaks things down by genre – action, RPG, simulation, horror, and several others, including VR – but it’s still an overwhelming sight unless you know exactly what you’re looking for....
Arcade Capcom are currently preparing for a new wave of location tests on the upcoming coin-op release of their flagship fighterStreet Fighter V: Arcade Edition. They have also finally named said release asStreet Fighter V: Type Arcade. The new wave of location tests are to be held next week at four locations in Japan. The last run featured some reported lag issues between cabinets, but hopefully Team Capcom have gotten said bugs ironed out and soon the JapaneseSFVcommunity will be headed out to the amusements with a pocketful of yen....
Tools, sounds, and effects unlock Every time I think I know what to expect out ofSuper Mario Maker, a new video shows up with a little more information. The video below was just released and I’m having trouble keeping the hype in check. Here’s what’s new to me: In addition to being able to place objects, level builders can also stick sounds and visual effects into the courses, set to different triggers....
AKA the Nintendo Switch mech game Marvelous and Nintendoare makinga mech action game that lets you zip around on the ground and in the air to dismantle giant killing machines, robbing them of their weaponry. It’s coming to Switch next year with involvement from Kenichiro Tsukuda (Armored Core). Would you like to know more? FollowingDaemon X Machina‘s unexpected reveal a couple months ago, Tsukuda and Nintendo brought a new demo to Germany for gamescom....
Grab it. Grab it nao! Pesky licensing deals! Capcom’s Christian Svensson has announced that the deal between them and Tatsunoko has “lapsed,” which basically means that they can’t print the Wii’sTatsunoko vs. Capcomanymore, or sell it digitally. If you haven’t nabbedTvCyet, now is the time, as very few places are still selling them new (Amazon has stopped selling it in an official capacity as of this morning). After readingthe lovely Jonathan Holmes’ review, how could you pass it up?...
Ready to raid? Ubisoft is preparing a free content update planned to hitThe Divisionon July 02, 2025 that will add the game’s first Incursion, “Falcon Lost,” for endgame players to tackle. If you want high-level loot, and I know you do, first you’ll have to face the Last Man Battalion in a water-treatment facility. “Falcon Lost has two difficulties: Hard mode, which is recommended for players whose gear score is equivalent to level 31; and challenge mode, which is even tougher,” says Ubisoft....
After a successful open beta earlier this year, TinyBuild has announced that a second open beta forDucksideis now live. More than 150,000 players jumped into the first beta and the developer is expecting many more to take up the call to arms now. Ducksideis a PvP, PvE base building and crafting title set in a persistent open world where players can form groups, create a base of operations, and then head out on missions to raid others, attack marked locations on the map, and cause all kinds of Mallard mayhem....
We’re quickly approaching the launch of thefirst DLC forPokemon Scarlet & Violet, and with it has come a dripfeed of new monster info. GameFreak seems happy to stir the pot so far, with revealslike a 19thTera Typewithout much context. Yet the recently released video for the Grass/Ghost-Type Pokémon Poltchageist is wild even by those standards. I’m going to spoil the heck out of it, so watch the short yourself if you want the blind experience....
