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Don’t do coffee, kids. Put on your current events helmets, everyone, because Tuesday Newsday is here. Because it’d just be anEphant Monin the room if I didn’t address it, theStar Wars Episode VII casthas been revealed, following the bittersweet announcement that the entireStar Wars Expanded Universe has been gutted. On a more gameful note,Nintendois not doing a press conference at E3, but will instead be doing a livestream and aSmash Brostournament....

I hear you like to watch There seems to be no stopping the steamroller success of the internet’s premier live-streaming service, Twitch — indeed, across 2021, the site has seen a huge 45% year-on-year increase in viewership figures when compared to the previous year. Altogether this equates to some 24billionhours spent watching other people gaming, painting, bathing, and…sleeping. The new figures, (tabulated by the number-crunchers over atRainmaker.gg),namecheck three specific titles as having achieved over one billion hours in viewing figures....

1300 players kicked this week alone Earlier this year, the developers ofRainbow Six Siegedeclared their intentionsto clamp down on both hate speech and cheating in their popular military shooter. It seems that so far their efforts are not in vain, particularly the latter as Ubisoft Montreal handed outfour figures worth of suspensionsjust this week alone. Some 1300 players were put on probation for the use of various hacks which enable all sorts of chicanery, from XP boosting to allowing bombs to be defused from any location on the map....

Did you keep the receipt? Oh, it IS a receipt… In a story far too believable to be untrue, Ubisoft has gifted some of the publisher’s employees, concerned at the studio’s direction, with in-game NFTs to celebrate the anniversary of theTom Clancy’s Ghost Reconfranchise. Thanks, you shouldn’t have… You really shouldn’t. According to a report from Kotaku, the gifts of in-game hats for rubbish shooterGhost Recon Breakpointwere handed out, in all places, at a workshop specifically designed for employees to voice their concerns about Ubisoft’s direction....

Along with its fancy, limited editionStreet Fightershirts it was giving toNapoleon Dynamite, Capcom had another on hand – a fancy, limited editionDark Voidt-shirt. Limited to a printing of 300 shirts, it depicts a sketch and (entirely imaginary) patent information for the jet pack worn byDark Void’s protagonist, Will. Apparently designed by Nikola Tesla (the real-life inventor who actually appears in the fictional game), the “Method of and Apparatus for Moving Human Body Through Air in Rapid, Balletic Motion” looks less complicated on cloth than I’m sure it actually is....

Latest footage of the Burtonesque multiplayer PC game It’s been quite some time since we talked aboutJeklynn Heights, but longtime readers will know I do enjoy talking about it. For those not in the know, it’s an indie multiplayer PC game set in a world dripping with dark fairytale design, in which poor and rich people battle it out for supremacy. The studio behind it recently released new footage — still no hard gameplay, but the video shows off the environments and one of the player characters....

Mike Ross and Combofiend throw down in SFV Closing out the incredibly tense Capcom Cup, Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono surprised the audience with a live demo ofStreet Fighter V. With the audience giving them their full attention, Mike Ross and Combofiend, both legendary players within the fighting game community, took the stage to compete in the world’s first public match inStreet Fighter V. In person,SFVlooked very sharp and very colorful. The new visuals show a lot more action and detail during matches, and it runs at a very solid pace....

Pretty rad Xenoblade Chronicleswas released on May 28, 2025 in Japan. It would arrive in Europe a little over a year later and in North America in April of 2012. Although a lot of folks might not recall thatXenobladeis a decade old, it technically is! To celebrate this landmark of an anniversary for a series that doesn’t seem like it’s going to stop anytime soon, Monolith Soft and Nintendo have released new artwork for it....

Ret-2-Go as soon as next week? [Update:Atweet fromShantaeco-creator Matt Bozonconfirms thatShantae and the Pirate’s Curselaunches on Switch eShop March 20. It will include a HD rumble feature and a new “Super Shantae Nab” mini-game] Various sites are reporting that a listing, which popped up on Nintendo Switch’s Australian eShop today, appears to show WayForward’s platform-adventureShantae and the Pirate’s Curseis set to drop anchor on the console next week. Pirate’s Curse, the third game in the belovedShantaeseries, sees the then no-genie-hero team up with her arch enemy, notorious pirate Risky Boots, in order to take down the evil-er Pirate Master, who has returned to envelop Sequin Land in Dark Magic....

As you play more ofCatan, you will soon start to venture into the world of extra scenarios, which all add extra content and change the game. Whether you want a dramatically different experience or just a slight change of pace, the many extra scenario packs you may buy will provide you with what you need. Note that we have done our best to gather all the currently availableCatanscenarios that you can buy, either from the publishers themselves or by other means....

Solo Levelingstarted as a light novel, which was then adapted into a manhwa. It’s now one of the more popular anime series out there. To get a clear picture of just how massive this story is, here are all theSolo Levelingarcs listed in order. Table of contents All Solo Leveling arcs in chronological order TheSolo Levelingmanhwa and light novel are done and dusted, and I’ve listed all the major arcs below, along with the relevant manhwa and novel chapters and the anime episodes....

Cataclysm is in the PTS BioWare has been teasingAnthem‘s Cataclysm content, the closest currently revealed thing to raids, since even before launch. They had to push it back to you know…fix the rest of the game, but now they’re ready to continue to take things slow. How slow? Like, public test server (PTS) slow for now. BioWare just opened up their proving grounds for testing, and anyone who can playAnthemon PC (or has Origin Access Premiere) can join in for free....

gamescom blew our expectations away and showed us exactly why it’s one of the most popular videogame conventions in the world last week. We sawa ton of great games, andnominated loads of titlesin 12 different categories, including Best of Show. We’ve already revealed ourCommunity Choice Awardwhich you had a say in. Now it’s time for you to find out what we picked for the best showings at gamescom. And the winners are …...