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Xbox head Phil Spencer has indicated that Microsoft and the Xbox team have no plans on incorporating VR as they prepare for the release of Xbox Scarlett.  “I have some issues with VR,” said Spencer in an interview with Stevivor. “It’s isolating and I think of games as a communal, kind of together experience. We’re
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Release Date: November 15, 2019Platform: SwitchDeveloper: Game FreakPublisher: NintendoGenre: RPG When you replay Pokémon games, you realize just how formulaic they are: you’re always catching critters, battling rivals, and working your way to a clearly signposted prize at the end. With that in mind, it’s no small achievement that Pokémon Sword and Shield feel fresh and interesting as new games in
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Release Date: November 19, 2019Platform: PS4 (reviewed), PCDeveloper: Ys NetPublisher: Deep SilverGenre: Action-adventure What Yu Suzuki and his teams at Ys Net and Neilo have endeavored to do with Shenmue III is simple: create a new entry in the long-beloved series and stay faithful to the original games. Problem is, the original games are LONG-beloved.
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This Star Wars article contains spoilers for Jedi: Fallen Order. We’ve not gotten very far into Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order just yet, but it’s clear from our first few hours of exploring planets and slashing Stormtroopers that the team at Respawn Entertainment went to great lengths to prove its Star Wars credentials and cram
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Square Enix has confirmed that they are adding new bosses (and possibly other surprises) to Final Fantasy 7 Remake. “With regard to new characters, of whom I said during past interviews that there would be ‘none’,” says director Tetsuya Nomura via a blog post. “Though they aren’t main characters, their numbers ended up growing considerably in
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 Koch Media CEO Klemens Kundratitz has confirmed that a new Saints Row game will be revealed in 2020. “Saints Row is very close to our hearts, and we’ll talk about it next year,” Kundratitz says in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. “For the time being, we just wanted to get the word out that it’s coming and it’s
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New reports indicate that Capcom has indeed been developing a Resident Evil 3: Nemesis remake that is set to release in the near future.  This information seems to originate from the YouTube channel Spawn Wave, but Eurogamer has since confirmed that their sources have reported similar information. Regardless, the details are roughly the same. Capcom
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One thing I read online often enough when Mortal Kombat’s story is brought up is, “Wait, Mortal Kombat has a story?” Or more specifically, “Wait, people care about Mortal Kombat’s story?” Of course they do. Haven’t you been paying attention? Long before the games started featuring cinematic story modes (first seen in Mortal Kombat vs. DC
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Two World of Warcraft Classic Battlegrounds are being released ahead of schedule. “Warsong Gulch and Alterac Valley will open in WoW Classic simultaneously on all realms the week of December 10,” says Blizzard via a new forum post. “At the same time, Elemental Invasions will occur in Kalimdor, with Blazing, Thundering, Watery, and Whirling Invaders
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At Microsoft’s big X019 event in London, a dark new action game starring former Hellboy actor Ron Perlman was revealed. It’s called West of Dead and it comes to us from UK-based studio Upstream Arcade. The official press release describes the game thusly: “Thrown into the unknown procedurally generated hunting grounds of Purgatory, your skills will
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It’s been 12 years since the last Half-Life game was released in 2007, and just when fans of the iconic franchise seemed to have lost all hope that Valve would ever continue the series, the company took to Twitter to announce a new installment. Half-Life: Alyx has been revealed as the studio’s “flagship” virtual reality
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1998 was a much simpler time in the world of gaming, especially that of the FPS. Back then, gamers were more than happy with wave after wave of foes that were obliged to throw themselves in front of their sights, and the idea of a worthwhile narrative wasn’t considered all that essential. Games like Unreal, Quake II,
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