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The biggest week in the gaming calendar is here again, and our schedule will help you to keep track of every presentation.Summer Game Fest returns at the end of the week with another huge two-hour show featuring new game announcements.As ever, it’s flanked by a host of other presentations, ranging from indie game selections to large showcases held by major platform owners, including the Xbox Games Showcase and the PlayStation State of Play.At this point there may still be some presentations to be confirmed – sometimes publishers won’t announce showcases until nearer to their air date. We’ll update this list…
We’re still a ways away from Avengers: Doomsday, but directors Joe and Anthony Russo have posted yet another cryptic tease… this time with a location.Last week, The Russos posted the color green on Instagram… and nothing else (though this is likely a nod to Doctor Doom’s green costume). This time around, The Russo brothers have posted a Doctor Doom logo (with that same green in it, mind you) alongside the following caption: #DomLatveria 4b Holywell Ln London EC2A 3ET. Starts June 2nd at 10am BST. Surprise at 2pm BST.” You can check it out below.Firstly, Latveria is the fictional dictatorship…
Capcom director Kenji Oguro has been chatting to Very Gary Computing about new spin-off Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, which he describes as “the JRPG the team always wanted to make”. It’s an interesting chinwag, not least for how it maps out differences between expectations aimed at Capcom’s role-playing efforts and the older Final Fantasy series (short version: older fans are more set in their ways). There’s also a fun segment where Oguro bandies around the idea of a comparable spin-off for Resident Evil. He envisages it as something of a creature collector, like Monster Hunter Stories, but…
News on Riot’s upcoming League of Legends MMO has been thin on the ground, but things are definitely moving behind the scenes at the company, as former Lead Combat Designer for World of Warcraft Brian ‘Swolinka’ Holinka has joined up to become the Principal Game Designer of the project. It’s been over five years since Greg Street announced that Riot was working on an MMO game set in the League of Legends universe, back in December 2020. Since then, Street, who was Vice President of the project, has departed the company entirely, and Riot has reset development after deciding that…
As the Final Fantasy 14 community prepares for patch 7.51 tomorrow and, of course, the new expansion Evercold arriving in January, Square Enix is updating the Mog Station with emotes – including one that has folks roleplaying all sorts of cartoonish violence.The Mog Station, home to the MMO’s paid online store (in which I have spent far too much money), recently saw the arrival of two new emotes: Blown Away and Overreact. Although both are admittedly silly – and perfect for those of us obsessed with gpose – the former is making for some very humorous RP moments and clips…
Once upon a time, Minesweeper was a deceptively simple logic puzzler you’d find bundled on many Windows PCs, but “deceptive simplicity” ain’t enough for today’s Maximum Gamer, whose brain has been honed through years of multiple browser tab usage to operate in 10450302 dimensions at once. And so I give you Minesweeper: Next-Gen. It’s broadly the same process of trying to clear a board of hidden explosives, with numbers on cleared tiles indicating the number of bombs nearby. But these boards – they are decidedly eccentric.
While we all impatiently wait for Baldur’s Gate 4, it seems that Hasbro is looking to its past before steamrolling into the future. According to new reports, Wizards of the Coast is working on a remake of Baldur’s Gate 2, and there’s also a chance that a remaster of the original is in the works, too, with the co-lead designer of the second installment returning for the project. The incredible success of Baldur’s Gate 3 has made the franchise one of the biggest in gaming history, so it’s no surprise that Hasbro is looking to capitalize on the momentum it…
The Pokémon Company has announced its 30th anniversary Trading Card Game set, which will launch in September.Every 30th Celebration booster pack will also include one of 30 unique foil cards featuring Pikachu, each illustrated by a different artist. A new rarity will also debut in the set, Futuristic Rares. Mew and Mewtwo will be the first two Pokémon to feature the new rarity.Each of the new Futuristic Rare cards will feature new visuals illustrated by renowned Japanese artist Yoshirotten. “Each Futuristic rare card will depict Pokémon in striking artwork evocative of hope toward an unknown future,” according to The Pokémon…
If there’s one thing I remember about Baldur’s Gate 3, it’s the amusement I got out of reading item descriptions and notes – and it turns out that Larian Studios likely had just as much fun while writing them as players like me did going over them.There’s plenty to love about the ridiculous (in a positive way, of course) writing in Baldur’s Gate 3, from the creative Vicious Mockery insults to the item descriptions developers likely knew many folks would just glance over – not me, though. Not me. I still recall reading the note on Astarion’s underwear: “If you’re…
A remake of Baldur’s Gate 2 is reportedly in the works at Wizards of the Coast, potentially as part of efforts to remake both of the first two entries in the classic RPG series.