Street Fighter’s most popular characters are crossing over with Ubisoft’s free-to-play fighting game Brawlhalla. Ryu, Chun-Li, and Akuma from the Capcom series have arrived in Brawlhalla as part of the game’s latest “epic crossovers” event. In addition to the famous fighters, Brawlhalla has introduced a new mode called Street Brawl, …
Read More »Kojima Productions Opens A Film And TV Business
Kojima Productions, the video game studio behind Death Stranding, has announced the formation of a new business division focused on film, TV, and music. The unit will be based in Los Angeles, and 28-year PlayStation veteran Riley Russell has been hired to lead the team. “The new division will be …
Read More »WoW Classic Season Of Mastery Speedrunner Loses 50 Hours Of Progress, Deletes Character
Players are racing to hit level 60 in World of Warcraft Classic’s Season of Mastery, and one of the game’s top speedrunners fell short while playing a “hardcore” character. After having played for dozens of hours, it just took one mistake for Jokerd’s character to be slain in battle, leading …
Read More »Datamined WoW Shadowlands Patch 9.2 Arbiter Moment Leaves Fans Asking "Who?"
World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion will culminate in the upcoming patch 9.2, where players will take on the Jailer as he seeks to put an end to all creation. Blizzard has described 9.2 as the final chapter of this particular book of the Warcraft saga, and as such it looks …
Read More »Diablo 2: Resurrected Is Getting An Action Bar And A PTR
Following an “outpouring of community feedback,” Diablo II: Resurrected on PC will receive an Active Skill bindings bar that makes the game play more like modern ARPGs. It will also gain a public-test-realm in the near future, where players can test upcoming changes. In a blog post, Blizzard writes that …
Read More »WoW Patch 9.2 Warlock Tier Set Looks Like KKK Robes, So Blizzard Is Changing It
Dataminers are combing through the latest public-test-realm build for World of Warcraft Shadowlands’ upcoming patch 9.2, which will see the return of class-based Tier sets for the first time in years. Unfortunately, one of those sets at certain angles looks awfully close to the robes and hood of the white …
Read More »You Can Finally Smell Like Sonic With Sega's New Cologne
Sega EU just announced an interesting new product: cologne! The company partnered with Numskull Designs to bring the wonderful smells of its most iconic franchises to fans. There are three colognes available on the Sega EU shop: Shenmue, Yakuza, and Sonic. The Shenmue one is called “Tobacco and Gold” and …
Read More »New Xbox Series S Bundle Comes With Fortnite, Rocket League Extras For $300
Ahead of Black Friday and the holiday shopping season, Microsoft has released its first official Xbox Series S bundle. The bundle comes with in-game content for the popular free-to-play games Rocket League and Fortnite. It’s available to purchase (if you can find it, of course) for the standard $300 price …
Read More »Modders Behind GTA Re3 Project Are Fighting Take-Two's Lawsuit
After landing on the receiving end of a lawsuit from game publishing giant Take-Two Interactive, a group of modders has decided to fight it out with the company in court. The modders were originally sued for their project, Re3, which reverse-engineered the source code for GTA III and GTA: Vice …
Read More »Yooka-Laylee Studio Playtonic Is Growing, Wants Franchise To Be Big Enough For Fast Food Toys
Yooka-Laylee creator Playtonic is getting quite a bit bigger, and Chinese conglomerate Tencent–an increasingly huge presence in the industry–now owns a minority stake in the company. It’s all part of Playtonic’s plans for continued growth and turning the Yooka-Laylee franchise into something big enough to warrant Happy Meal toys. Under …
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