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Eli Roth (Hostel, Death Wish) is officially set to direct an upcoming film adaptation of the popular Borderlands video game franchise. “I’m so excited to dive into the world of Borderlands and I could not be doing it with a better script, producing team, and studio,” said Roth in a press release. “I have a
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The spaceship-stuffed game No Man’s Sky is continuing its trajectory from shaky launch to really interesting piece of work, with the latest update to the space-exploration experience adding funky biological spaceships into the mixer. The game’s previous big update, No Man’s Sky Beyond, launched in August 2019 and added a multiplayer mode. And now, going live
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Release Date: February 14, 2020 (Street Fighter V originally released on February 16, 2016)Platform: PS4 (reviewed), PCDeveloper: Capcom, DimpsPublisher: CapcomGenre: Fighting The Capcom release model for fighting games is simple. Release a game, then release a bigger version of it again and again until it’s time to move on. This has been Street Fighter’s bread and
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Larian is preparing to reveal the gameplay for Baldur’s Gate III, the long-awaited new installment in the iconic RPG franchise. The existence of this new entry in the Dungeons & Dragons-based video game series was announced with a cinematic trailer at E3 2019, but the public has yet to clap eyes on any fully-fledged gameplay
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Two of Blizzard’s biggest franchises, Overwatch and Diablo, could be getting the animated series treatment, according to information revealed by Nick Van Dyk, the president of Activision Blizzard Studios, on LinkedIn. On his resume, Dyk confirmed that he worked on both animated series — an Overwatch cartoon and a Diablo anime, the latter of which
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Remedy, the studio behind games such as Alan Wake, Max Payne, and Control, has confirmed that they are working on three new projects, one of which is described as a live service game.  We already know that the first game is a single-player campaign for CrossFireX. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, don’t be surprised. The
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The Nacelle Company, the studio responsible for the popular Netflix series The Toys That Made Us and The Movies That Made Us has announced a partnership with Cavegirl Productions and X-Ray Films which will see them produce a documentary about Magic: The Gathering.  “We’re honored to be producing this documentary, which is sure to introduce the iconic game to
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Video game host and personality Geoff Keighley has caused quite a stir by announcing that he will not be participating in E3 2020.  “For the past 25 years, I have attended every Electronic Entertainment Expo”, writes Keighley in a letter posted via Twitter. “I have made the difficult decision to decline to produce E3 Coliseum.
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First Umbrella Academy and now Umbrella Corporation – Netflix’s quest to dominate all pop culture umbrellas knows no limits. The streaming service is developing a TV series based on the long-running video game and film franchise, Resident Evil. Deadline first reported the news. The TV series will be a Netflix original and debut globally if picked
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It looks like Crash Bandicoot is about to enter the world of mobile gaming, with a new leak suggesting that an infinite runner game is in the works that will bring Activision’s iconic franchise onto phones round the globe. Of course, this is a tried and test route to turn a platforming character into a
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As previously rumored, BioWare is planning a major overhaul of Anthem which will see the studio reconsider some of Anthem‘s core concepts as part of an extensive process. They also commented on the relative failures of the game thus far and the negative reception it has garnered.   “One year ago, we were preparing to launch
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The developers from Arc System Works have announced a huge new collection of their classic games. Bringing together 18 fondly remembered titles, the Double Dragon & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle is set to launch on February 20th, 2020 for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. The bundle will include some games that have come to North America
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On the recently launched PS5 website, Sony promised that “the upcoming roster of PS5 launch games” will be revealed soon. At the time of this writing, there have been no launch title exclusives announced for the PlayStation 5. But the fact that Sony has been so tight-lipped about its next-gen console’s launch lineup has us
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Here’s a bit of news that we weren’t expecting: Dan Houser, one of the longest-serving members of staff at Rockstar, will be leaving the company next month. Rockstar’s parent company, Take-Two Interactive, broke the news in an official document with this statement: “After an extended break beginning in the spring of 2019, Dan Houser, Vice
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Release Date: January 28, 2020Platform: PCDeveloper: BlizzardPublisher: BlizzardGenre: Real-time Strategy There’s a question at the heart of every Warcraft 3: Reforged discussion that makes the seemingly simple process of reviewing it so much more complicated than it needs to be: “How much credit does Blizzard deserve in 2020 for releasing a truly great game in 2002?” At the time of Warcraft
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