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14 CommentsResident Evil 7 is making people sick, even without VR
Resident Evil 7 biohazard is one of the year’s first must-play games. The problem is that the first chapter left me in a sweaty, queasy state of panic.
The reason for that wasn’t Resident Evil 7’s copious scares, blood and gore. I’m no chicken; I can handle myself with a horror game just fine. Resident Evil 7 made me feel physically ill due to a strong case of motion sickness.
This wasn’t the PlayStation VR version, either, which is known to be more than a bit nauseating. This was the standard Resident Evil 7, played on a screen. The game’s constant camera movement and tiny field of view gave me an unbearable case of the shakes.
I’ve rarely experienced such a palpably uncomfortable sensation while gaming, but the few occasions that I have been overcome with seasickness were caused by...
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2 CommentsHere’s what you unlock when you finish Resident Evil 7
The Resident Evil series has always been known for having replayability in the form of many unlockables. Despite some changes to the franchise formula, Resident Evil 7 keeps this tradition going strong.
Before we let you know what you can look forward to unlocking and playing with after you complete RE7, a minor spoiler warning. Since we’re discussing some late-game stuff, there will be a few tiny bits of information that some players could consider to be spoilers. If you’re worried, don’t read on.
And just to show you we’re serious, here’s an image to break up the text before we get into the real information.
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Still with us? Great! There are two big unlockable bonuses you get for beating Resident Evil 7 on either the easy or normal difficulty settings.
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Final Fantasy 7: An oral history
30,000 words! 35 interviews! 4 videos! A trivia minigame! We take an in-depth look back at Square’s breakthrough role-playing game.
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14 CommentsWatch an hour of gameplay from Ghost Recon Wildlands
One of the most unexpected surprises from Ubisoft’s E3 2015 press conference was Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands. Set in a fictionalized version of Bolivia taken over by a drug cartel, Wildlands marks the first mainline Ghost Recon game in five years. Ubisoft says the game contains the largest action-adventure open world the company has ever created.
Above, check out 23 minutes of single-player PlayStation 4 Pro gameplay from the open world of Wildlands, and below, check out 37 minutes of four player co-op gameplay from another of the game’s 21 regions.
Ghost Recon Wildlands comes out March 7, 2017 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.
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18 CommentsPrey launching in early May, watch the new trailer
Prey, Arkane Studios’ reboot of the first-person shooter series, will be released May 5 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, publisher Bethesda Softworks announced today.
Bethesda also released the second gameplay trailer for Prey today, showing off more of the space station Talos I and the story in the game. We learn that Morgan Yu, the protagonist of Prey — who can be male or female, depending on the player’s choice — is the vice president and director of research for the TranStar Corporation.
It appears that Yu has been studying alien life forms known as Typhon onboard Talos I and doing research into “neuromods.” These mods, which are based on the Typhon creatures, confer alien powers to humans ... by being injected into an eye socket.
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6 CommentsHitman adds Professional Difficulty in next update
Hitman's next update, coming Jan. 31, will deliver a new difficulty level, Professional, Io Interactive announced this morning. The new content is free.
Intended for skilled players looking for a challenge on a replay, Professional Difficulty only becomes available after reaching Mastery Level 20 for a specific location. The difficulty setting introduces restrictions and enhancements regarding item availability and use, advanced AI in enemies and security cameras, limited saves and a new set of rewards.
Hitman's leaderboards will be segmented by difficulty level once Professional Difficulty is introduced. Professional Difficulty is available for all story missions in Season One, except for the prologue. However, live content such as Elusive Targets and Escalation Targets will only be...
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20 CommentsOverwatch’s Year of the Rooster event introduced a weird bug: skinny Mei
Overwatch’s Year of the Rooster event went live on Tuesday, bringing with it a new capture the flag gameplay mode and a bunch of new skins and other cosmetics themed around the Chinese New Year. It also introduced its share of minor bugs, including one that puzzled players: an unusually skinny Mei.
Mei’s new Lunar New Year skins — Luna and Chang’e — appeared to give her a much thinner, unnatural-looking waist, Overwatch players noticed shortly after the update went live. Compare Mei’s (contentious) Christmas-themed outfit to her new Year of the Rooster skins:
In profile, Mei’s tinier waist looked even more unusual, if not straight-up broken.
Blizzard says that slimmed-down Mei is a glitch, and it will require a patch to remedy.
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26 CommentsOverwatch’s capture the flag mode took years to figure out, but it may be here to stay
Overwatch’s Chinese New Year event adds more than just festive skins to the game. It adds a new game mode, called “Capture the Rooster,” a holiday-themed take on the classic playground game capture the flag. The popular game type’s inclusion may come as a surprise to longtime Overwatch fans, who recall Blizzard Entertainment’s repeated comments about how capture the flag just wouldn’t work for the hero shooter.
“Over the years, when we were iterating and testing various versions of capture the flag, we actually gave up on the mode for awhile,” director Jeff Kaplan explained in his latest “Developer Update” video, above. “We felt like what we didn’t want to do was add a bunch of rules that no longer made Overwatch heroes feel like Overwatch heroes.”
The problem that Blizzard frequently...
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4 CommentsMusou Stars’ gameplay videos are super effing weird
There's probably a reason Musou Stars, the next game out of Koei Tecmo's Warriors series, doesn't yet have a launch date in the west, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
I mean, cats. We have cats here, too, right? Who doesn't get cats?
And gambling! C'mon, Americans loooove to gamble. Three sevens on a slot machine is jackpot, that's kind of a universal language.
OK, alright, I will say I was a little flummoxed by the choo-choo train that sucks up people and ejects them from its smokestacks. But again, as a citizen of the country that invented Amtrak, I know a train is capable of wrecking shit, so I interpreted its combat prowess contextually.
In all seriousness, these are three combat gameplay shorts for Musou Stars featuring (in order)
Nobu Oda from Samurai Cats, a 2011,...
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9 CommentsSpiritual successor to Descent, Sublevel Zero, is headed to PS4 and Xbox One
Sublevel Zero Redux, a game inspired by the 1996 classic Descent, is coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Developer SigTrap says that it’s the first time that a six-degrees-of-freedom shooter will be available on a console in over a decade.
Sublevel Zero is a roguelike game that puts players in the role of a lonely scavenger inside a gunship. Players are able to fly that ship like a spaceplane, but also hover and strafe to the sides and up and down. It creates a tense atmosphere, where every move is fraught with peril. Every session is different, thanks to procedurally generated levels and random loot drops. There’s also a crafting system for making new items on the fly.
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Developer SigTrap Games said in a press...
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8 CommentsHow does Resident Evil 7 tie in to the rest of the series?
Today’s release of Resident Evil 7 marks a major shift for Capcom’s biggest franchise. In addition to changing to first-person, the game’s plot is distinct from the rest of the series, shifting from global zombie outbreaks to the horror of a single psychotic family. With the developer unwilling to give any clues, fans have wondered if or how the scenario in Resident Evil 7 ties in to the wider RE universe that has been growing for 20 years now.
It goes without saying, but this post contains major spoilers for Resident Evil 7. If you’re planning to play the game and don’t want plot elements ruined for you, please do not read any further. If you’d prefer to read some spoiler-free words about the game, consider checking out our review instead.
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11 CommentsOverwatch’s Chinese New Year event is live
Blizzard Entertainment’s newest seasonal event for Overwatch, Year of the Rooster, is now live, bringing a new batch of cosmetic items and a new gameplay mode, Capture the Rooster, to the game.
Overwatch’s take on capture the flag takes place on Lijiang Tower. Players must secure the enemy flag while the opposing team tries to do the same. “In this fast-paced brawl, players will need to get creative with their team compositions as they attempt construct a lineup that’s simultaneously built for offensive speed and defensive stability,” Blizzard said of the limited-time game mode.
Today’s update also brings more than 100 new cosmetic items — character skins, sprays, voice lines, emotes and more — to Overwatch. These include Journey to the West-inspired skins for characters like Zenyatta,...
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16 CommentsResident Evil 7’s first DLC adds new mode next week
Resident Evil 7 biohazard is now available, and Capcom celebrated the hotly anticipated horror game’s launch by announcing details about its upcoming downloadable content. Two packs of DLC will arrive beginning Jan. 31, and they’ll add new modes to play, as well as some new — and terrifying — playable episodes.
Banned Footage Vol. 1 will hit PlayStation 4 first on Jan. 31, according to the Capcom Unity blog; it will then come to Windows PC and Xbox One on Feb. 21. Included in the $9.99 set are two new pieces of videotape, which contain scenes that players actually interact with throughout Resident Evil 7, not just watch. These are “Bedroom” and “Nightmare,” which players should expect to be pretty dang horrifying.
Also scary: a mode called “Ethan Must Die,” which is not compatible with...
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20 CommentsOverwatch Chinese New Year event skins, details leak out early (update)
A trailer for Overwatch’s next seasonal event based on the upcoming Chinese New Year, has made its way online. A member of the Chinese social network Weibo uploaded a low-res version of a teaser for the Year of the Rooster promotion, which is set for Jan. 24.
The trailer, which is an advertisement for the Chinese market, is grainy, but it gives fans a quick look at costumes for a variety of heroes. Symmetra is decked out in a red-and-gold dress, appropriate for the holiday. Roadhog, Reinhardt, Winston and Zenyatta resemble characters from the classic Chinese story Journey to the West, which boasts a cast full of animals that are also featured in the Zodiac.
The quartet’s skins are seen more clearly in another ad that made it online ahead of the trailer. A poster showing the four in...
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4 CommentsWhat does the Dirty Coin do in Resident Evil 7?
Ever since Resident Evil 7’s initial demo was released last summer, fans were obsessed with a bizarre puzzle that seemed to have no solution. Then, after a final update to the demo in December, players finally cracked the code. The reward for all of this trouble? An item called the Dirty Coin that players could take with them into the release version of Resident Evil 7.
Since then, fans have spent the last month speculating on what the Dirty Coin will accomplish in the full game. Now that we’ve played it, we can give you the big reveal, and it’s ... kind of disappointing, actually.
Throughout the course of Resident Evil 7, you can pick up special collectibles called Ancient Coins. At a few points throughout the game, you’ll encounter locked bird cages that can be opened by placing a set...
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8 CommentsFinal Fantasy 15 celebrates its greatest mammalian mascots, starting today
A new event is kicking off in Final Fantasy 15 later today: the Moogle Chocobo Carnival, a monthlong attraction that’s free for all players to check out. The lighthearted affair adds new side quests, outfits and various festive minigames for Prince Noctis to check out from Jan. 23 until Feb. 20.
The Carnival begins at 8 p.m. ET on Jan. 23, and those who downloaded their free passport will be able to enter. This item is included with the Final Fantasy 15 holiday-themed downloadable content pack, which Square Enix released in December.
The trailer above shows why fans on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One should hurry up and grab the free DLC set already, if they haven’t done so. That new outfit for Noctis? It’s pretty dang cute:
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8 CommentsDark Souls 3’s final DLC stops by The Ringed City this March
The last expansion for Dark Souls 3, The Ringed City, will launch on March 28. Bandai Namco Entertainment revealed the release date alongside a trailer for the downloadable content, showing off what awaits players in the apocalyptic cityscape at the world’s end.
The DLC is coming to PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, and will cost $14.99. Owners of the $24.99 season pass will receive the expansion — the game’s second after last fall’s Ashes of Ariandel — when it launches.
The Ringed City will introduce new characters to the game as players traverse the world of Dark Souls 3 in pursuit of the Slave Knight Gael. There will also be new armor, weapons and magic to check out along the way to and within the hellish Ringed City.
Although we weren’t as enamored of Dark Souls 3 as we were...
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2 CommentsTekken 7 finally hits consoles this June
Tekken 7 will launch on June 2, Bandai Namco Entertainment announced. The long-awaited fighting game arrives on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One after years in development and an at-times controversial stint in arcades.
Ahead of the June release, Bandai Namco announced both a season pass and several pre-order bonuses for Tekken fans. Players who reserve the game starting today will get a downloadable character: Eliza, a vampiric fighter who first joined the series in Tekken Revolution. For those playing Tekken 7 on Xbox One, they’ll also get free, backward-compatible copies of Tekken 6 for Xbox 360.
PlayStation 4 players, on the other hand, will get exclusive costumes and a jukebox mode when the game launches this June.
The game’s season pass will include three different content...
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21 CommentsThe Division's major new update detailed
Alongside the release of its third paid expansion, Last Stand, Ubisoft is also rolling out Update 1.6 to all players of its shooting game The Division. So what's new?
In a blog post this week, Ubi outlined the changes, which the company says are some of the most significant it's brought to the apocalyptic game since its launch in March last year.
Most important is the opening of a new area in the northern parts of the PvP and PvE Dark Zone where Dark Zone 7, 8 and 9 will now be available. Ubi describes the situations in these areas as "especially dire" with "a couple of surprises."
The company says these new spaces — including vertical and underground arenas — almost double the total size of the current Dark Zone. Players will now be able to insta-travel around the map.
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11 CommentsNostalgic shooter Strafe gets a March release date
Tongue-in-cheek throwback shooter Strafe is arriving on March 28 on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC, according to publisher Devolver Digital.
The game first garnered attention following the release of an absurdly '90s trailer back in 2015. Further examination revealed an unabashedly straightforward shooting game, that's right out of 1998. The game is being developed by indie team Pixel Titans.
"We’re seeing a generational shift of nostalgia from side-scrolling pixel art to primitive 3D," said developer Thom Glunt in a 2015 interview with Polygon. "We aimed for that 20-year-old aesthetic because I absolutely loved Quake and I loved Doom and I wanted more of it."
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