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Last week, Rockstar Games announced that GTA Online’s biggest update yet would be coming later this year, bringing fresh heists and a brand new location to the game. Now, if recent leaks are correct, it sounds like that new location will be a remastered version of Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City. A Reddit user by the name of “markothemexicam” claims to have a roommate that was recently laid off by Rockstar North, and that roommate appears to be giving them information about the company’s upcoming plans for GTA Online....

Microsoft has been working diligently at enlarging its portfolio of first-party games by acquiring game studios from all over the world over the past few years. It has continued its push with services such as Xbox Game Pass and xCloud, and this holiday will be launching a brand new console, the Xbox Series X. As Microsoft continues to gain momentum, a recent rumor points to the possibility of Xbox and Sega working together for a joint announcement sometime in the near future....

It’s E3 time, and that means rumors are popping up everywhere. Microsoft’s E3 2018 press conference is set to take place later today, and surprisingly, not much has leaked ahead of time, at least compared to the other conferences. However, one rumor making the rounds on the internet today has potentially spoiled a bombshell Microsoft has planned for its press conference in the form of a new Halo game developed by franchise creator Bungie....

This morning brought about a new supposed Destiny 2 leak claiming to show details for the online multiplayer shooter’s upcoming second expansion. The leak is said to be taken from a now unpublished listing on the Microsoft Store, showing that the expansion’s title is “Gods of Mars.” Unfortunately, a close look at the leak points to it almost certainly being a fake. The leak is composed of a series of screenshots supposedly taken from the Microsoft Store, featuring a description for Gods of Mars and a list of content included therein....

Our quick take Samsung Galaxy S6 - 5.0 / 5 Design: Learning lessons Fingerprint fame Display Hardware and performance Battery life Sound and connectivity Camera class Sensitive software To recap The Samsung Galaxy S6 is a excellent smartphone. Samsung needed change and the S6 brings it by the bucketload. There’s performance at plenty of levels, with lots of power and a great camera, with a UI that’s more refined than ever....

We’ve been talking a lot more about Iron Harvest, the dieselpunk real-time strategy game that takes place in the same fictionalized alternate history as Scythe, but that’s just because Scythe: Digital Edition already came out in 2018 on Steam. It’s a faithful recreation of the board game for the digital world, but it’s a lot faster to play since you don’t have to worry about setting up a massive board and gathering a bunch of friends first....

Fumito Ueda, the creator of Shadow of the Colossus, and his young studio genDESIGN have a gift for his fans to celebrate the new year. The studio’s official website updated on New Year’s Day in Japan to feature an image that has already led to plenty of speculation. Visitors to the website will be able to scroll down through an image showing a column of light and several birds in flight....

In a spectacular Marvel twist, the first Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer confirms a rumor that the film’s director, Destin Daniel Cretton dropped last year: the Mandarin is Shang-Chi’s father. Typical for the MCU’s shared universe, this plays out well on multiple levels. In the original comics, Shang-Chi’s father was none other than Fu Manchu. Fu Manchu was created by Englishman Sax Rohmer with his pulp fiction book The Mystery of Doctor Fu-Manchu in 1913....

Crowdfunding has provided the video game development community with a whole new way to reach financial backing. Websites such as Kickstarter have allowed creators to reach out to gamers directly, asking for funding in return for a number of rewards. This has led to several successfully-backed titles hitting the market, including Obsidian’s CRPG Pillars of Eternity, with highly anticipated games such as Bloodstained: Symphony of the Night and Yooka-Laylee waiting patiently in the wings....

Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town and Harvest Moon: One World are two farming simulators stemming from the same original franchise. Now, these two franchises are goin head-to-head as they release in the same month. It looks like the two games are competing with one another for fan attention, especially fueled by Marvelous ending its work with Natsume back in 2014 by rebranding as Story of Seasons. When it comes to collector’s editions, both games even include animal plushes....

Sony’s recent PlayStation 5 reveal event has generally been met with enthusiasm from the community. Not only did Sony reveal a slew of PlayStation 5 games as promised, but it also went above and beyond, shocking the world by unveiling the PS5 console design itself. However, not everyone came away from the PS5 reveal event all that impressed, and that includes popular Mixer streamer Shroud, who described the PS5 reveal event as “average” in a recent stream....

Shudder is pulling out all the shivery stops to commemorate the startling fact that we are exactly halfway to the most beloved date on any horror fan’s calendar, Halloween. Yes, that’s right, this month (April) is the six-month mark and the world’s scariest streaming outlet is celebrating with “Halfway to Halloween,” a massive slate of programming that begins on April 1 and continues throughout the rest of the month. This is no April Fool’s joke (although we have some if you want)....

Today’s Indie World Direct came with a slew of announcements for indie games coming to the Switch, and among them was roguelite action platformer Skul: The Hero Slayer. Skul flips the script for the classic hero versus an army of villains story. Instead of playing the lone human taking on a castle full of evil monsters, you play as a lonely skeleton after humans eradicated the rest of your undead kind....

Sega’s blue blur has had some ups and downs over the years, and while fans endlessly argue over which are the best and which are the worst of the Sonic the Hedgehog games, most agree that there is a lot to celebrate as the dude with ’tude approaches his 30th anniversary. It’s likely Sega has a lot planned for the special occasion, and some early announcements have already been made, with the special Sonic the Hedgehog figure from JAKKS Pacific being among the most exciting....

Sony has detailed how Death Stranding multiplayer works. Players can expect to work with one another and provide help, as the development team at Kojima Productions decides not to offer classic player versus player (PvP) gameplay. On the Death Stranding listing on the UK version of the PlayStation website, there is a header that says “Assist other players” which explains how the game’s multiplayer works. The multiplayer description says that players can “Help other travelers without ever crossing paths via asynchronous online gameplay....

Our quick take Sony Xperia 10 - 3.5 / 5 Design Measures: 156 x 68 x 8.4mm / Weighs: 162g Colours: Black, Silver, Navy, Pink No IP65/68 waterproofing Display 6-inch LCD panel, 21:9 aspect ratio Full HD+ resolution (2520 x 1080 / 457ppi) No Mobile HDR (High Dynamic Range) brightness Camera Dual rear cameras: 13MP & 5MP 8MP front-facing selfie camera Bokeh effect via software Hardware Qualcomm Snapdragon 630, 3GB RAM 64GB storage and microSD expansion 2870mAh battery capacity Software Google Android Pie operating system Multi-Window UI dual app launcher Side Sense To recap The Sony Xperia 10’s elongated form-factor - it’s a 21:9 display - is really interesting, but only useful when watching compatible movie content - which looks excellent - otherwise it can be a drawback....

With the release of both the PS5 and Spider-Man: Miles Morales less than one week away, Insomniac Games has started to inform fans of what to expect in terms of the upcoming game. With a decent amount of content present within Spider-Man: Miles Morales, it’s important for potential consumers to know about some of the features included in the game ahead of its release, including accessibility options. Within the last couple of weeks especially, Insomniac has revealed quite a lot of varied information over on Twitter, such as screenshots and even a trophy list for Spider-Man: Miles Morales, purposely omitting any hidden trophies for less than obvious reasons....

Considering it is one of the most exciting PS4 exclusives of the year, fans of Spider-Man may very well be excited that it launches this coming September. Alongside the reveal date announcement, many other details also emerged about the web slinger’s upcoming game, including some concerning the hero’s longstanding love interest, Mary Jane Watson. For those unaware, Mary Jane has served as Peter Parker’s love interest and even his wife in various comic book runs and movies....

While later entries shifted towards action, Resident Evil’s earliest titles were incredible at instilling a sense of perpetual fear that something sinister lurked around every corner. 1998’s sequel ramped up the terror with the introduction of the T-00, a seemingly unstoppable Tyrant sent to Raccoon City to obtain a sample of the G-Virus and eliminate anyone who gets in its way. Once Mr. X picked up Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield’s metaphorical scents, the Tyrant was not going to stop hunting them until they were either dead or it was destroyed....

In 2019, Capcom released the highly-anticipated remake of Resident Evil 2, which has been in development for nearly four years before launching PC and consoles. Of course, it is no secret now that the Resident Evil 2 Remake is a smashing success for Capcom. Shortly after its release, players and critics immediately praised the game, and it even went on to move more copies than the original game. But why is Resident Evil 2 Remake so popular?...