Razer has a PC game store now, and this week it has a bunch of 2K and Rockstar games on sale for your frugal enjoyment. The discounted prices here tend to be a few bucks lower than the sale prices you'll find at other retailers, so it's definitely worth taking a look if you're in the market for a game. Just make sure to act in the next few days, because the sale ends on April 20.
First up is Grand Theft Auto V, which is on sale for $24. That's a great price, seeing as it usually only dips down to $30. If you're sure you're going to want some in-game currency for Grand Theft Auto Online, you can get the Great White Bundle for $49. It comes with GTA V (which contains GTA Online) as well as 1.25 million GTA dollars.
Other GTA games on sale include $9 for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy, which collects all three games that originally launched on PS2, and Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition, which includes the story DLC, also for $9. To sum it up, you can buy every GTA game since part 3 on for $42. Not a bad price for some of the most important games of the millennium.
Publisher 2K has many other games on sale, including BioShock: The Collection for $18. Mafia III is discounted to $16, or $21 if you want the season pass thrown in as well.
Fans of sports and sports entertainment may want to pick up NBA 2K18 for $36, or WWE 2K18 for $30. If tactics and strategy are more your speed, you can grab XCOM 2 for $18 or Civilization VI for $24.
Those are some of the highlights. To see the full list of games on sale, head to the Razer Game Store.
Things have been somewhat quiet from BioWare since the middle of last year, when changes were made to Mass Effect: Andromeda developer BioWare Montreal in the wake of that game's release. Now, with BioWare Edmonton's new game Anthem coming up, BioWare general manager Casey Hudson has provided the first in a series of "studio updates," which touches on the fact that Andromeda never got the story DLC many fans were hoping for.
Hudson served as a director on the original Mass Effect trilogy and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic before leaving BioWare. He then returned in 2017 as BioWare was facing some upheaval. "When I returned to BioWare last summer, Mass Effect: Andromeda had just been released, and there was a significant movement among players asking for a story DLC that would answer questions surrounding the fate of the quarians," he said in the new blog post. "As you know, we were not able to deliver story DLC for Andromeda--this was as frustrating for us as it was for players, and it was something we knew we had to solve in future games."
He doesn't offer much in the way of specifics, but he does suggest that the situation has had a direct impact on how BioWare approached Anthem, its new Destiny-esque open-world action game.
"That experience ultimately became a defining moment in refocusing BioWare's mission," he continued. "We need to delight players with new experiences and innovation, but we must stay focused on the importance of the world, character, and storytelling elements that players expect from our games. And our games must be designed to continue delivering new stories and experiences, in an ongoing relationship with players in the worlds we're evolving together.
"It's in that spirit that we are working through production on Anthem--a game designed to create a whole new world of story and character that you can experience with friends in an ongoing series of adventures. It will be unlike anything you've played, but if we do it right, it will feel very distinctly BioWare."
Hudson teased that his new blog post will share "more about how our updated studio mission is helping to focus our work on Anthem and the games that will follow."
Anthem had been scheduled for release this year, but back in January, EA announced it had been delayed (though it puzzlingly claimed it was not actually a delay). It still does not have a specific date but is due out sometime in early 2019.
PS4's highly anticipated God of War is only a few days away, with pre-loading even closer. Sony Santa Monica's reboot of the long-running action series releases on Friday, April 20, though some players will have a chance to play it a little before then depending on where you live.
If you're planning on picking the title up digitally, God of War will be available from the PlayStation Store right at 12 AM ET on April 20, meaning PS4 owners on the West Coast can start playing it at 9 PM PT on April 19. The Europe and Australia PlayStation Stores also list the game for April 19, although neither says the exact time that it will be available those regions yet. On PSN in the US, Sony says that pre-loading begins at some point on Tuesday, April 17.
Ahead of its release, you're still able to pre-order God of War digitally, which will get you a handful of bonus items. The standard edition comes with several God of War avatars that will be available immediately upon purchase. The game also comes in a Digital Deluxe edition, which contains an assortment of exclusive content, such as special armor and shield skins. You can see all of the bonus items in our God of War pre-order guide.
God of War is the first new installment in the series since 2013's God of War Ascension for PS3. Unlike previous titles, the upcoming PS4 entry focuses on the story of Kratos and his son, Atreus. The game diverges from its predecessors in a number of other notable ways, drawing on Norse mythology as opposed to Greek and arming Kratos with the new Leviathan Axe.
Critics have had very good things to say about the new God of War. GameSpot's Peter Brown awarded it a 9/10 in our God of War review and called it "a spectacular action game with epic set pieces." He wrote, "Like Kratos, God of War recalls the past while acknowledging the need to improve. Everything new it does is for the better, and everything it holds onto benefits as a result. Kratos is no longer a predictable brute. God of War is no longer an old-fashioned action series. With this reboot, it confidently walks a new path that will hopefully lead to more exciting adventures to come."
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By Anonymous on Apr 16, 2018 11:20 pm Kingdom Hearts 3's release date is still up in the air, but we've got the latest news on its mini-games on today's GameSpot Daily.
At what point is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson no longer portraying characters at all, and just fully playing variations of himself? We may have reached this critical The Rock breaking point with Rampage, a video game adaptation nobody asked for, but which somehow mostly works as a big, fun, and really dumb action movie.
Johnson plays Davis Okoye, a primatologist and former soldier who's more comfortable around animals than humans. But he's still mostly The Rock, a fact that Dr. Doolittle levels of communication between him and his best gorilla friend George, the only thing unique to this latest iteration of the wrestler-turned-actor's persona, can't hope to disguise. There may be nothing that could, which becomes more apparent with every new Dwayne Johnson vehicle, from last year's better-than-it-should-have-been Jumanji to, probably, the upcoming Skyscraper, out in July. Johnson is like the anti-Gary Oldman, who famously disappears into his every role. The Rock can't be anything but The Rock.
But that's OK! People like seeing The Rock flex his giant arms and mutter inoffensive one-liners. I like it. And that's exactly what we get in Rampage--oh, and a trio of awesome, giant monsters who can't be stopped by tanks and fighter jets and RPGs. Only The Rock is powerful and sensitive enough to stop these beasts. Hell yes.
Okoye's monkey friend George starts to grow in size, appetite, and aggression after he breathes in a green gas that falls from a research station in space. That sure sounds like a plot from an '80s arcade game, but the movie actually puts a lot of work into making sense. Not that it succeeds, but a tacked-on opening scene in which an astronaut researcher clamors to get her samples into an escape pod as a giant rat chases her through an exploding zero-G space station contextualizes the insanity.
"There's a reason we were doing those experiments in space," Jake Lacy's hapless villain Brett Wyden later laments to his sister, the more capable, but still somewhat hapless, villain Claire Wyden (played by Malin Akerman). Well, sure, there probably was. Who knows or cares what it is though?
Rampage focuses mostly on The Rock and his monkey, who Okoye continues to vouch for even as he grows totally unmanageable. In the B-plot, a team of boilerplate mercenaries led by True Blood's Joe Manganiello don't last long against a giant wolf (the "pathogen" broke up and landed at three different points across the US). Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays a government agent known as Harvey Russell who, as a character, is entirely indistinguishable from his The Walking Dead villain Negan. Being alpha males, he and Okoye butt heads but eventually form a grudging respect for one another, because that's how that works in movies.
These characters are the core of Rampage's incredible stupidity. Not one of them acts like a real person with believable motivations or relatable thought processes. The Wydens smirk over their ingenious plan to set off a radio signal that will draw the ever-growing creatures right to their skyscraper headquarters in the middle of Chicago, then sit smugly in their 80th floor office for the rest of the movie like they're just dying to be eaten alive. When Okoye and Naomie Harris's Dr. Kate Caldwell figure out what the Wydens have done, they assume there must be an antidote and decide to hijack a military helicopter, fly to Chicago, and steal it, because they're apparently the only ones capable of doing so.
But Rampage is a fun ride in spite of its stupidity. The monsters look pretty good, especially the transformed crocodile, who isn't fully revealed until late in the movie. Dr. Caldwell explains early on that her research sought to combine DNA from many different animals with growth hormones from sharks, so naturally, the 30-foot wolf has webbed wings like a flying squirrel and spines like a hedgehog, and it can shoot the spines out of its tail like giant spears. The CG is a little inconsistent, but it never gets bad enough to distract from explosive set pieces like George going berserk in the belly of a plane mid-flight or all three beasts ("The Wrecking Crew," as they're nicknamed in the games) climbing that skyscraper together in the climax, a la the Rampage games.
Speaking of the games, Rampage the movie tries halfheartedly to wink and nudge in their direction, with mixed results. Morgan's character notes dryly that "weirdos on the internet" have named the wolf Ralph, but the name "Lizzie" is never uttered in connection with the croc, as far as I noticed. In one early scene, a Rampage arcade machine appears out of focus in the background; if the game exists in this world, isn't it an incredibly weird coincidence that a giant monkey, reptile, and wolf team up in the "real world" and destroy a city? It's never noted again, and it doesn't matter.
Rampage does get points for some of its humor, especially in the interactions between Okoye and George, who routinely flips The Rock his middle finger and plays practical jokes on him (prior to his infection, at least). Unsurprisingly, their relationship stretches plausibility when it comes to just how smart gorillas really are. Like everything else in Rampage, it's heightened for dramatic, explosive, or comedic effect.
This movie is dumb as hell, but it's also pretty dang entertaining. It is, after all, an adaptation of the Rampage video games. If you've ever played one, what more could you have expected from this?
The digital PC game retailer GOG is running a PC game sale based on its "most wishlisted" games and DLC. It's called the Most Wanted Games sale, and it runs through April 23. You can find all of the items on sale on GOG's website but below we'll run down some of the best deals in the sale.
If you have a couple hundred hours you're looking to fill up, you can't go wrong buying The Witcher 3: Game of the Year Edition for $20. It comes with the enormous action-RPG, plus the two massive expansions that came out later. It's a killer deal on one of the best RPGs ever made.
Speaking of superb RPGs, Divinity: Original Sin 2 is on sale for $38. It's a fully modern isometric RPG that we loved. Fans of the genre may also want to check out the enhanced editions of these classics: Planescape Torment for $7 and Baldur's Gate 2 for $5.
Thoughtful types may enjoy the cryptic puzzles in The Witness for $16, while fans of intense action will be better suited with Superhot for $12 or Hotline Miami 2 for $4. Old-school gamers who haven't checked out Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove or Owlboy can give them a try at $20 each.
Horror game fans can save money on titles like Darkest Dungeon ($10), which tasks you with keeping your party sane in addition to keeping them alive. The freaky game Soma also got a steep price cut, landing it at $6.
Those are just a few of the many "most wishlisted" games on sale at GOG. Visit the front page of the site to see the full list.
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Capcom has confirmed that Falke, the next DLC fighter for Street Fighter V, will be available from April 24. Falke will be available for $6 or 100,000 Fight Money. International pricing hasn't been confirmed but is likely to be in line with previous characters. Falke also included in the Season 3 character pass, which also grants access to Sakura and Blanka (both available now), as well as Cody, G, and Sagat (coming in the future).
She's a brand new character to the series but, like Ed and M. Bison, utilizes Psycho Power in her fighting style. "Falke was built to be an alternative clone for M. Bison," explains Capcom. "She was heavily experimented on by Shadaloo and was forced to train day in, day out to achieve perfection.
"Falke has the unique ability to infuse Psycho Power into objects and release it through them, mainly through her staff, which she named Harmony," the official description continues. "Years of harsh training went by, causing Falke to spiral deep into despair, wishing for it all to end. Finally, Ed came to her rescue and they both were able to escape Shadaloo. Now, the two have a sibling-like bond and are searching for others like them in need of help."
Falke's fighting style leans heavily on a staff that uses to keep enemies at a distance. Her attackes are also infused with Psycho Power, which players can channel by holding down any punch button. Since her staff effectively acts as a conduit, these moves can be charged up and released in a number of ways. While standing a blast of Psycho Power can be shot out like a shotgun, in the air a projectile can be shot downwards diagonally, and while crouching Falke goes prone and shoots a projectile at an enemy's feet. This prone move, called Psycho Kanonen, can also be used to duck incoming projectiles, giving it both offensive and defensive applications.
"Like Ed, some of Falke's special moves only require either two punch or two kick buttons--no special inputs required," Capcom says. "Pressing two punches will result in Psycho Schneide, which is her version of an uppercut. Pressing two kicks is Katapult, which sees Falke pole vaulting towards the opponent in a kick motion."
Falke's V-Skill is called Psycho Trombe and during it she spins her staff in front of her. This move can then be cancelled by a "variety of normal moves and can also be used to absorb projectiles." Her V-Trigger, meanwhile, is called Staerken and "powers up her ability to infuse and release Psycho Power from her staff and will allow her to use additional versions of her special moves without needing to charge up in advance."
Her V-Trigger II, known as Psycho Angriff, lets her "twirl around hitting the opponent into the air, which she then follows up with a surge of Psycho Power." If you press hard punch and hard kick during this, Psycho Sturm will be activated to deliver a sweeping staff attack that can be cancelled for combo extensions. Down, hard punch, and hard kick, meanwhile, will make Falke jump into the air diagonally and slam her staff down onto her enemy.
Finally, Falke's Critical Art is called Psycho Fluegel and, on hit, will launch enemies into the air, make her pole vault up to them and then knock them about with her staff. As expected from a Critical Art, it's over the top and flashy.
While Wrestlemania 34is in our rear-view mirror, there's another major WWE event on the horizon: Greatest Royal Rumble. On Friday, April 27, Saudi Arabia will host this show, which will be streamed on the WWE Network. The main event will be the largest Royal Rumble match of all time.
The card for the show is starting to come together, with new matches being added to the event over the course of the next two weeks. If you're wondering why there aren't any women's matches on the card it's because of the country's extremely conservative views, and women can attend the show but cannot wrestle.
Because of the time difference, the show will air in North America at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT with a Kickoff show on the network starting one hour prior, as the show begins in Saudi Arabia at 5 PM BST / 7 PM AST. As of this writing, there's no clear indication of how long the show will be, but advertisements for it have said all the major WWE titles--minus the two women's ones--will be on the line, so expect this to be a longer event.
The main event of the evening will be the Greatest Royal Rumble match, a Royal Rumble consisting of 50 wrestlers. Prior to this event, the 2011 40-man Royal Rumble was the only Rumble to have more than 30 superstars involved. We'll keep you updated when new matches are added to the card. As of now, there are six confirmed matches for it.
Greatest Royal Rumble Match Card
Undertaker vs. Chris Jericho (Casket Match)
John Cena vs. Triple H
The Bludgeon Brothers (c) vs. The Usos (For the Smackdown Tag Team Championship)
The Miz vs. Seth Rollins (c) vs. Finn Balor vs. Samoa Joe (For the Intercontinental Championship)
Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns (For the Universal Championship)
50-Man Royal Rumble
If for some reason you can't watch Greatest Royal Rumble when it airs--because it's on in the early morning--don't worry because GameSpot will be covering it live.
Avengers: Infinity Warfinally arrives next week, and two new posters have been revealed. These follow the long line of trailers, TV spots, and featurettes that have been released in the build-up to the movie.
These latest posters are the best so far. Unlike the Infinity Stones-themed posters released a few weeks back, they feature all the movie's big heroes together. One poster is illustrated while the other uses photos of the stars, and both are incredibly stylish. Check them out below:
Avengers: Infinity War is directed by Joe and Anthony Russo who previously helmed Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War. In a recent interview, Anthony Russo spoke about the challenges of making a movie with so many characters. "This is one of the most complicated movies ever made in many ways," he said. "I think all of us appreciate what a special and unique opportunity this was. No one has ever seen a film like this. No one has ever seen this number of loved characters in a single film with this caliber of cast. And that's really what drove all of us."
The Russos have also appealed for fans not to spoil any of the movie's big surprises via a note they posted on Twitter. They asked viewers not to "spoil it for others, the same way you wouldn't want it spoiled for you." Spider-Man actor Tom Holland released his own excellent response.
Square Enix has released a new trailer for Kingdom Hearts III showing off Classic Kingdom, a Game & Watch-style mini-game collection. The feature was revealed during a fan event where Kingdom Hearts III co-director Tai Yasue said Classic Kingdom is "inspired by Disney cartoons and 1980s LCD games."
In the trailer, which you can watch above, Sora, Donald, and Goofy are shown crowding around a portable games console, at which point tiny black and white versions of Sora and Mickey must use a platform to climb a construction site and rescue Minnie Mouse from Pete.
Classic Kingdom seems to be made up of multiple mini-games, including one where you whack enemies with a hammer as they approach you. Another requires you to deliver food, and a third that involves moving around a table as a giant stomps his fists and stamps his feet. It's all simple and charming in the way classic LCD games were.
Classic Kingdom will be available to play in both Kingdom Hearts III and Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross]. At the fan event it was also revealed that 300 Union χ[Cross] players will be selected to have their names appear in Kingdom Hearts III as part of the Make Your Mark campaign.
Kingdom Hearts III is expected to launch in 2018 but a specific release date hasn't been confirmed yet. Tetsuya Nomura, who is directing the game alongside working on the Final Fantasy VII Remake, explained the extremely long wait last year, saying there were numerous factors that contributed to it, one of which is a change in engines.
We're pretty excited for the game and have put together a list of 9 Things We Want From Kingdom Hearts III, which includes a cameo of a certain Final Fantasy prince, some tweaks to combat, and a certain famous aquatic paradise.
Sega is bringing a slate of its classic titles to Nintendo Switch. During the Sega Fes event in Japan, the publisher announced Sega Ages, a lineup of retro Sega games that are coming to North America, Europe, and Japan later this year.
The Sega Ages ports are being handled by M2, the studio behind the Sega 3D Classics series on 3DS. M2 was also responsible for the Game Boy Advance line of Virtual Console titles on Wii U.
Sega hasn't announced an exact release date or pricing details for the Sega Ages games, but the publisher shared a handful of screenshots of them, which you can take a look at above. During the event, Sega teased that it is planning to release more than 15 games under the Sega Ages banner.
In addition to the Sega Ages titles, Sega also unveiled a mini Sega Genesis during the Sega Fes event. More notably, the publisher announced Shenmue I & II, a collection of the beloved Dreamcast games coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC later this year.
The retro-style action platformer Shovel Knight has made it to nearly every modern gaming platform on the planet and, according to developer Yacht Club Games, has now sold 2 million copies. To celebrate, right now you can get Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove--which contains the core game, plus all of the expansions--for $20 / £15 on nearly every platform. The sale will end April 18.
The PlayStation Store has Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove for the sale price on PS4, PS3, and PS Vita. Xbox One owners can get it for the same price on the Xbox Store. On the Nintendo Eshop, you can get the discount on Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, and even the Wii U. And if you're a PC gamer, you can buy it on Steam, Humble Store, or GOG for--you guessed it--the same price.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove comes with the core game, plus all of the expansions. Shovel Knight originally came out in 2014 and contained only the titular character's campaign. Since then, Yacht Club has released two additional DLC expansions, starring Plague Knight and Specter Knight. A third and final expansion, starring King Knight, is expected to release sometime this year, free for Treasure Trove owners. Each of the knights has a unique set of moves and skills, making them play quite differently from one another.
In our Shovel Knight review, we said, "No matter which era it had been released in, Shovel Knight would have been embraced. Its inherent charms are timeless. Shovel Knight is a good reminder that game design does age but can never die and that simple mechanics can still be immensely satisfying."
So if you haven't played Shovel Knight before, or you're looking to play the expansions, you might as well get the whole package while it's on sale. Oh yeah, and there's a Shovel Knight Amiibo, too.
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