In the wake of major releases from Oculus, HTC, and Sony this year in the form of the Rift, the Vive, and this week the PlayStation VR, Microsoft has announced their augmented reality headset dubbed Hololens is now available for pre-order in the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany through the Microsoft Store. Devices are expected to ship ...
Read More »Dual Universe Kickstarter Funded
Kickstarter is a platform that has garnered a rather mixed reputation. It has churned out both successes and failures, Shadowrun Returns for the former, Mighty No.9 for the latter. Just to name a few for both groups As a result, some people look on it with concern and are hesitant at the prospect of using it. It seems, however, that ...
Read More »Mass Effect: Andromeda official launch postponed to 2017
Though originally planned for release in 2016, Mass Effect: Andromeda was delayed until publisher EA’s fourth fiscal quarter 2017 – meaning we could expect the game to drop somewhere between January and March. Originally reported by Destructoid, comics publisher Dark Horse seems to have inadvertently narrowed the release window down to March 21, 2017. On the US Amazon listing of their ...
Read More »Code: Realize fandisc set for release in North America in 2017
After the reigning success of the riveting game, Code: Realize ~ Guardian of Rebirth~ among other otome titles, Aksys Games made a huge announcement at the 2016 Anime Expo regarding the release of the fandisc titled Code: Realize ~ Future of Blessings ~ in the year 2017. Otomate first released the original game titled Code: Realize ~ Guardian of Rebirth ...
Read More »New Battleborn Update Coming 10/13
Developer Gearbox Software has revealed the details of the latest update for Battleborn. The update will affect all platforms (PlayStation, PC, and Xbox), and will rollout on Thursday, 10/13. The update will include quite a few balance changes, some bug fixes, performance improvements, and what the developer refers to as “quality of life improvements.” One of the most notable changes ...
Read More »Mortal Kombat X gets its long awaited patch
Mortal Kombat X had quite the support after its release in 2015, the best selling game in the franchise has had up until now two DLC packs with more than 8 new characters to choose from. But if there was a criticism players had it was the lack of balance patches in 2016, many considered the game to have balance ...
Read More »Yooka Laylee gets physical, follows Shovel Knight’s footsteps
Waiting for Yooka Laylee is a struggle for anyone who grew up with a Nintendo 64, the kickstarted spiritual successor to Rare’s greatest works like Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie and Conker’s Bad Fur Day (you decide if you want to count Donkey Kong 64 in there or not) releases in Q1 2017 and it’s blatantly clear that the developers Playtonic Games are really ...
Read More »Lost Odyssey more expensive due to Backwards Compatibility
Lost Odyssey is remembered fondly by early Xbox 360 owners because its a reminder of the time when the console held a lot of promise, exclusive games like Mass Effect and Blue Dragon were being released constantly and it seemed like the console was unstoppable. When Lost Odyssey released, critics seemed to think that the game was good but not great, ...
Read More »Sunset Overdrive 2 is not an impossibility, according to Insomniac Games
Sunset Overdrive was quite an interesting experiment, the open world 3rd person shooter developed by Insomniac games was pretty well received and people who played it seem to have enjoyed it. However, since Microsoft was pretty silent about aditional content aside from two underwhelming DLC story expansions, it was a reasonable assumption that a sequel was completely out of the question. However things may ...
Read More »The beloved Stardew Valley gets gigantic update today!
Developed by the developer ConcernedApe and published by Chucklefish Games (The team that developed Starbound and published Risk of Rain), Stardew Valley was one of the biggest surprises of the year, a Harvest Moon-inspired farming simulator that silently released on February to positive critical reception but it was also completely embraced by the gaming community, with 400’000 copies sold in two weeks. Since ...
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