In most games, how fast travel works is you open the map, click the point you want to go to, and suddenly appear there. Sometimes this is given flavour with city gates or subway stations, but often it’s just random points or a menu filled with a list of places you’ve been to before. Cyberpunk 2077 has travel terminals, and I’ve never really been sure if you’re basically getting the bus or if this is a teleportation device....
Giddy up, pardner, becauseMagic: The Gatheringis headed out to the Wild West for its second Standard set of 2024 in its first-ever cowboy and Western-themed set, Outlaws Of Thunder Junction. Described as an “action-packed, frontier fantasy”, Outlaws of Thunder Junction is scheduled to launch in Q2 2024, and should provide a radically new world for Magic, alongside potentially some big story development. RELATED:Post Malone Buying MTG’s The One Ring Was Always The Best Possible Outcome...
Summary Cost reduction cards inMarvel Snaphave always been incredibly powerful, so they always need limitations. Zabu only affects four cost cards, Sera comes out one turn before the end of the game, and so on. Ravonna comes out at turn three, but she can apply her cost reduction to a wide variety of cards. Ravonna Renslayer’s main drawback is the limited pool of cards she affects, but in there also lies her strength....
AMortal Kombat 1modder is adding a first-person mode to the game and it looks like you’re going to have a hard time keeping your lunch down if you use it. Depending on how strong your stomach is and how much you’ve been desensitized to violence in gaming, Mortal Kombat might make you feel rather sick when you play thanks to itsfrighteningly realistic Fatalities. If seeing Johnny Cage get his insides sucked out by a black hole somehow wasn’t bad enough for you, then you might want to check out what Mortal Kombat modder ermaccer is working on adding to the game....
Mortal Kombat 1’sHalloween event is here thanks tothe newest patch,adding aPit-themed version of Johnny Cage’s mansionwith a festive fatality coming on Friday. The only caveat is that it costs real money - you won’t be able to earn it through an event. This has sparked backlash among the community who are demanding other players voice their frustration by refusing to buy the fatality when it goes live. “Paid fatality is justabsurd,” EmotionalAide6932 said, garnering over 1,000 upvotes....
OldValvegames walked a fine line between being revolutionary and comically janky. Ragdolls clipped into the map and started shaking violently, headshots caused enemies to flop around weightlessly, and surprise attacks left you on the ground, glitching out of bounds as the insults dug into your side with each claw. Paydayalways felt like it was made by Valve, even if it wasn’t. It occupied the same niche, right alongsideKilling Floor, Fear, andDishonored....
Plankton has been revealed as one of the new fighters coming toNickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, which also confirms a roster leak that happened earlier in the week.Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 just had its big gameplay debut at EVO 2023 and, beyond revealing some of the new mechanics that are coming to the game, a brand-new fighter was also confirmed - Plankton from SpongeBob Squarepants. Plankton might seem like a strange pick considering his size, but he fittingly fights in a mech suit that’s decked out with a bunch of gadgets....
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2is getting a collector’s edition. That’s not terribly surprising, is it? However, howPlayStationUK has chosen to advertise it definitely is, as it welcomes gamers to open themselves up to “19-inches of Venom”. Ouch. This refers to a 19-inch collector’s edition statue, one that looks like it wouldn’t be particularly enjoyable in the way that the PlayStation Twitter account implies. It even gives you a few inches of Spider-Man (Spider-Men?...
There are a lot ofPokemonplushes out there, and new ones are released on what feels like a daily basis. We’ve already seenthe Sleeping Eevee plushhit shelves again this week, andthe Pikachu plush released in conjunction with Pokemon’s Van Gogh Museum collaborationled to a minor riot. If theDetective Pikachuplush coming to the US does the same thing, it might be able to talk down excited fans, or at least track down who was responsible for starting the chaos....
Just like Mario did when he ran into the Phantom in the firstMario + Rabbidsgame,Rayman’s encounter with the ghostly opera Rabbid in the Phantom Show DLC sees him getting brutally roasted, from being called an eggplant to getting called out for the Rabbids taking over his games. After a whole decade since his last appearance in a non-mobile game, today marks both the release of Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope’s Rayman in the Phantom Show DLC and hopefully the permanent return of the limbless king....
Resident Evil 4 Remakefinally has theSeparate Waysexpansion, launched earlier this week. As well as letting players take the role of Ada and follow her own story, it also gives dataminers a bunch of new files to glean over - and one discovery and piqued the fanbase’s interest. This new file is an unused character model for Wesker, different from the one used in the Separate Ways story. Here, we can see that he has an incredibly injured arm,matching some concept art that was leakedahead of Resident Evil 4 Remake even being announced....
Saints RowandRed Factionwill “live on”, despitedeveloper Volition shutting down after 30 years in the business. This comes from Volition’s publisher,Deep Silver, as it uses the studio’s goodbye message to remind fans that more games are possible, despite the loss of the original developer. This message has been met with pushback from fans, who feel that it’s in poor taste to focus on Saints Row and Red Faction games while so many developers lose their jobs....
Star Wars Jedi: SurvivorpublisherElectronic Artshas announced thatRespawnis working on a port for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One during an earnings call that took place earlier today. The game launched back in April earlier this year exclusive to the PS5 and Xbox Series X as Respawn wanted to make the title a “true new-gen experience”, but it now looks like the developer is making a port for those that don’t own current-gen hardware just yet....
