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It’s almost time for the next bigFortniteevent, and if you’ve booted up the game lately, you’d know it’s hard not to know something’s coming. When you go to the lobby, there’s an off-center countdown steadily ticking away, backdropped by an interstellar image of several black holes consuming everything. If you look at the news bulletins in the lobby, you’d see the countdown is corresponding with an event called “The Big Bang,” and it has something to do with the rapper Eminem....

Share your stories with the Dtoid community [All week long we’ll be asking for your thoughts on certain topics related to the year in gaming! Miss a previous post? Click here to sound off on yourfavoriteandleastfavoritenew characters!] Gaming is graced with some amazing original songs and scores every year, and 2013 was no exception. FromThe Last of UstoTomb Raider,Ni No KunitoSuper Mario 3D World, and everything in between, our ears were just as blessed as our eyes and fingers this year, and I’m not even sure I could pick my favorite if I tried!...

Working on it After a beta snafu,Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siegeis set to launch tomorrow on the PC, PS4, and Xbox One platforms. So where is our review? Well, we declined Ubisoft’s review eventas per our policy, so we’ll be getting our retail copy today. Servers will be online and I’ll be able to test out the game in some capacity, but I won’t really be able to really dig in until midnight....

Seeking a friend for the end of the world? Good idea. The Commonwealth is a nasty place. Even if you can handle super mutants and deathclaws, it’s best to bring a buddy along if for no other reason than to have someone help haul that growing stockpile of extra guns, armor pieces, and miscellaneous junk. There are around a dozen companions to find inFallout 4. While you’ll meet some of them without even trying, others aren’t quite so obvious....

It won like, every award in Europe This week at E3 board game publisher Asmodee’s digital arm, appropriately called Asmodee Digital, made it known that they’re aggressively porting more tabletop experiences to consoles — and next up on the docket isTicket to Ride. The 2004 Alan R. Moon-helmed board game that involves connecting train routes has become a staple of many tabletop groups, withstanding the test of time and expanding into many different versions — the best of which isTicket to Ride: Europe....

The music inFinal Fantasy XIII-2is awesome, but not in the way thatFinal Fantasy XIII‘s score was. It’s…different.Reallydifferent. Here are two examples that are sure to blow your mind. The Chocobo theme goes straight metal in “Crazy Chocobo,” as shown above. I…loveit.I LOVE IT. Gas him up with the greens and let ’em go! The other selection I have for you (after the jump) is called “Invisible Invaders,” or the “Lake Bresha Rap....

‘Late July 2014’ The PS4 alpha kicked off recently for PlayStation 4 owners, and Xbox players were basically left in the wind. Now, based on a trailer on the Xbox One dashboard, we know that the Xbox beta will hit the platform in July. Both the 360 and Xbox One platforms were specified in the announcement. On the PS4 side, you’ll see the beta on July 17th — so it stands to reason that “late July” for Xbox owners might be the second wave of the beta, after the PS4 has had a week or so under its belt....

With a fresh cast and combat style, it’s a fantastic entry point if you’re brand new or you’ve only finished Yakuza 0 so far Yakuza: Like a Dragonis the best and worst game to try and preview. On the one hand, there are questions – about the new protagonist, the shift to JRPG combat, and the English VO – that people want answered. On the other,Yakuzais a go-at-your-own-pace sorta series, the kind that lets you obsess over dramatic big-picture moments while also immersing yourself, for hours on end, in surprisingly in-depth management sim mini-games and silly one-off side stories....

We’ve already had one legendaryLegend of Zeldagame released in 2023, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more. Starting today,The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of AgesandThe Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasonsare now available for the Nintendo Switch Online service. Like with other classic Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles, you only need the standard NSO subscription to access these two bizarre and wonderful games. If you missed out on theOracletitles, the games are the product of a developer known as Flagship, which released several high-profile titles and ports between 1998 and 2006....

I know I’m not one to talk about PC stuff, but Iamone to talk aboutAliens vs. Predator. The PC version of Rebellions cross-species slaughterfest will be given a graphical boost thanks to DirectX11, Rebellion confirmed today. According to the marketing spiel, Rebellion will be “pushing some very important boundaries” with the inclusion of DirectX11. Rebellion CEO Chris Kingsley adds that “DirectX 11 provides opportunities never exploited before in 3D graphical terms, with features such as the Shader Model 5....

Ukampa > Westeros Believe it or not, there once was a time when many, many people thought thatCall of Duty: Advanced Warfarewas better thanAdvance Wars. Thankfully, those days are over now. According to my numbers, 89.6% of those who once suffered from the false belief that Kevin Spacey’s upcoming AAA blockbuster competitive murder-spree is better than Nintendo’s classic cartoon general simulator have been successfully converted to the truth. Though it’s hard to be sure just how responsible I am for this turn of events, it’s fair to guess that I’m largely responsible, because why not?...

Whereas some may be skeptical about Apple’s impact on the gaming world, Apple isnaturally confidentthat products like the iPod Touch are the future of this industry, even making a passive-aggressive swipe towards the DS and PSP by insinuating they are “the past.” “There are over 1,500 games and there’s a great affinity between the iPod Touch customer and those games,” explains Greg Joswiak, vice president of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing....

Drown out the sound around you Back when I used to ride the train to work every day, having a good set of small headphones could make or break my commute. They were the difference between enjoying my ride or having to listen to whatever music the dance tropes would blast between Embarcadero and West Oakland. Unfortunately, most of the earbuds I owned didn’t have enough bass to let me fully enjoy the full depth of the sound from my Switch or mobile phone....