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After years of fan requests, The Pokémon Company has confirmed that we’re finally getting a follow-up to the beloved N64 classic, Pokemon Snap. The appropriately titled New Pokemon Snap is an upcoming Nintendo Switch project that hopes to advance the legacy of one of the most notable spin-offs in the Pokemon franchise. While details are

The organizers of the PAX events have confirmed that PAX West and PAX Aus will not be held in their originally intended physical formats in 2020 due to the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, they will be combined into a virtual event known as PAX Online. “In our previous post, we explained that while we

The comics world is still disappointed at the necessary cancellation of an entire year of conventions due to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak in the United States. While more than half the fun of the comic con experience was being part of the joyful, sweaty mass of people wandering the floor and feeding off of each

Microsoft has released an expanded explanation of their Smart Delivery program which clarifies exactly how this new initiative will let you carry certain games between generations. “One of the most exciting of the technologies we’re introducing with Xbox Series X is Smart Delivery, which will ensure that you always play the best version of the

Evil Genius 2: World Domination is the much-anticipated sequel to the cult classic strategy title, Evil Genius. The original Evil Genius was developed by the now-defunct Elixir Studios and released in 2004. Actually it was the second and last game that the studio released prior to shutting down in 2005. It cast you in the

DayZ creator Dean Hall and his studio RocketWerkz have announced their next game, a co-op survival sci-fi game called Icarus, which is “set on an Earth-like alien world with persistent metagame progression.” The game was revealed during the 2020 PC Gaming Show. Icarus will build on the survival formula first established in DayZ and add

Dontnod Entertainment, the studio behind Life Is Strange and Vampyr, is developing a new game called Twin Mirror. The new game tells the story of a man named Sam who returns to his hometown of Basswood, West Virginia to attend his best friend’s funeral. But this visit becomes more than he ever bargained for when Sam

Developer Red Barrels is working on a new Outlast game called The Outlast Trials. It’s not quite what you’re expecting, either. “Whilst not a direct sequel to the other critically acclaimed Outlast titles in the series, The Outlast Trials will be set in the same thrilling universe: more precisely, right in the middle of the Cold

Ampere Analysis’ research director for games, Piers Harding-Rolls, has released a report (as covered by GamesIndustry.biz) which suggests that the PlayStation 5 will outsell the Xbox Series X by the year 2024. The full analytical report argues that the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X‘ sales figures will be relatively close upon their initial release.

One of the strangest games revealed during the recent PlayStation 5 game showcase was undoubtedly Capcom’s mystery sci-fi project known as Pragmata. Pragmata‘s mysterious trailer showcases what appears to be an astronaut wandering through the seemingly empty streets of what we believe is supposed to be Times Square. We see the lone figure utilize a

Ghostwire: Tokyo is the new first-person horror game from Tango Gameworks, the studio led by Resident Evil veteran Shinji Mikami which previously created The Evil Within series. At E3 2019, Mikami described the stylish and eerie Ghostwire: Tokyo, which takes place in the aftermath of a Rapture-like event, as an action-adventure game in which you will

Before Sega had Sonic the Hedgehog, it had Alex Kidd, the high-flying protagonist of several ’80s platformers on the Master System and Genesis consoles. While Alex has long been regarded as a relic of gaming’s 8-bt and 16-bit era, forgotten after the blue hedgehog took over as Sega‘s mascot in 1991, Merge Games and Jankenteam

The Dark Souls-like Mortal Shell may have managed to steal the show during the first day of IGN’s Summer Gaming Festival. “Awakening as an empty vessel, you will enter into a shattered and twisted world where the remains of humanity wither and rot,” reads a description of this upcoming Action-RPG. “Implored to do the bidding

Bungie has mapped out the future of Destiny 2 farther than anyone expected. During a Summer Game Fest reveal event, the developer announced not only Beyond Light as this year’s big expansion but also The Witch Queen and Lightfall, the Year 5 and 6 updates out in 2021 and 2022, respectively. In a blog post,

This Destiny article contains spoilers. When the action MMO first launched in 2014, Destiny prided itself on mystery. Promising a different kind of sci-fi game from the console-defining FPS Halo, Bungie leaned into the “Ancient Aliens” trope as much as it subverted it. The game’s lore book, known as the Grimoire in the Destiny universe,

While E3 2020 may be canceled, there are still plenty of online gaming events happening this summer. Case in point: Summer Game Fest, a months-long online festival that will bring fans game reveals, new trailers, gameplay footage, and other surprise announcements. The event, which is the brainchild of The Game Awards creator and presenter Geoff

2020 marks the first year there hasn’t been an E3 event since the trade show first debuted in 1995. The reasons are clear: the coronavirus pandemic prevented the industry and its fans from gathering in mass at the Los Angeles Convention Center this year, forcing the Entertainment Software Association, E3’s organizer and video game lobby

Some Activision Blizzard shareholders are attempting to prevent company CEO Bobby Kotick from receiving a substantial payment which they believe is unjustified. “Despite repeated low approval votes from shareholders, Activision Blizzard maintains multiple, overlapping opportunities for its CEO to earn outsize equity awards, even when performance-related vesting thresholds have not been met,” reads a filing

When E3 2020 was canceled earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, it seemed at first like fans would be doomed to spend a whole summer without any big gaming news. But live streaming has made it easier than ever before for publishers to broadcast the latest and greatest they have to offer directly

At the end of the day, E3 is all about the big reveals. Nobody really cares all that much about what DLC studios are releasing for their dwindling games as a service title or how big the after-party is going to be. These announcements come and go as fans wait for the big moments. Everyone

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) will make history in 2020. This will be the first year since the very first E3 in 1995 that the annual video game trade show will not be held. E3 2020 was canceled in March, just four months before the show was set to take place, due to the coronavirus

When Street Fighter came out in 1987, there was no story to it. No more than your average sports game, really. There was a martial arts tournament, you could either play as the Japanese karate guy or the American karate guy, and the final boss was a tall dude with an eye patch. Even beating

E3 2020 may be canceled, but there are plenty of online gaming events that have taken its place, including IGN’s Summer of Gaming and Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, which are jam-packed with hours of big reveals, gameplay footage, developer interviews, and much more. You can find a full schedule of events here. This is

The World of Warcraft team has revealed a new realm called Ardenweald which will play a major role in the game’s upcoming Shadowlands expansion. “The ethereal umbral forests of Ardenweald are where wild spirits return after their time on the mortal plane come to an end so that they can again be reborn,” reads a

As we noted last year, a round of EA games has returned to Steam as part of an expanded partnership between the two companies which will include eventual EA Access support. Right now, you can not only download games such as Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Need for Speed Heat, and Dragon Age Inquisition from Steam, but

Konami has announced the formation of a new publishing branch which will focus more on third-party, Western developed titles. “The drive is towards publishing more titles from Western studios,” says Richard Jones, senior European brand and business development manager at Konami, in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. “So the focus for the European team is domestic

Yes, one of the greatest games of the previous console generation is getting a sequel. Fans hoped that Naughty Dog might find a way to return to the world of The Last of Us, but the nature of the original game’s ending left some to speculate whether the developers had said all there was to say

Hardspace: Shipbreaker, a new sci-fi puzzler from Canadian studio Blackbird Interactive, is the story of a worker, who, in order to escape a miserable existence on a resource-depleted Earth, applies to work at Lynx, a spaceship salvage mega-corporation. But the promise of a better life in space is a lie. In the opening moments of

In a post on Xbox Wire, Jason Ronald, Director of Program Management for Xbox Series X, shed some light on Microsoft’s ambitious next-gen backward compatibility plans. “With more than 100,000 hours of playtesting already completed, thousands of games are already playable on Xbox Series X today, from the biggest blockbusters to cult classics and fan

Just days after the company announced that it planned to unveil the games coming to the PlayStation 5 in a special digital showcase, Sony has decided to postpone the event to a later date in support of the protests against police brutality happening in many cities across the US. “We have decided to postpone the