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Sea of Thieves, the swashbuckling booty-gathering multiplayer romp from developer Rare, will receive three major new expansions in 2018. The PC and Xbox One title has already received one major update in the form of The Hungering Deep, with Cursed Sails due to drop anchor this summer and Forsaken Shores docking in September. However, there’s more on the horizon, as confirmed by Rare’s Craig Duncan and Mike Chapman during a chinwag with IGN....

In its Q3 2020 fiscal results, Sega reported that it has moderated its fiscal forecast because packaged games are proving problematic (via GamesIndustry.biz). Persona 5 Royal, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, and New Sakura Wars were released into the wild in the three month period appraised by the report. These boosted nine month unit sales to 19.33 million, which easily eclipsed the nine month unit sales of 2019....

It’s hard to believe we’re already up to our third rebooted Shadow Warrior game, but life comes at you fast. After already granting us a previous mission reveal, publisher Devolver Digital has released a new trailer showing Shadow Warrior 3‘s That Damn Dam mission. Devolver is set to continue releasing trailers for additional levels as the game comes closer to release later this year. I’m not sure what Wang is doing near a dam, but all I can say is that it certainly can’t be any good....

Shenmue III developer Ys Net has shown off a moody image of Lan Di, the series’ Big Bad that hero Ryo Hazuki has been tracking since the original game. Check him out below. Definitely not the sort of bloke you’d want to meet down a dark alley, right? Lan Di (aka Longsun Zhao) was responsible for the murder of Iwao Hazuki, Ryo’s father, in the opening moments of Shenmue. He then made off with one of two mysterious mirrors in Hazuki-san’s possession, before making his way to Hong Kong....

Anyone who has been paying attention to gaming for the past few years knows that battle royale is all the rage. Games like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and PUBG regularly dominate Twitch viewership, and millions of players log in to play on every conceivable platform. (We’re also told people play Battlefield V Firestorm, but certain reports make us wonder.) Even if may gamers would spurn the genre as a passing fad, the fact that developers are ignoring single-player to work on battle royale says a lot....

Splash Damage’s much maligned 2011 team-based shooter meets parkour game, Brink, is now free on Steam. Following the game’s initially strong sales, its popularity quickly waned, mostly due to its continual lag issues (amongst other things). Now Bethesda has decided that the best price is no price, and is giving it away for free on Steam. When Brink came out it was well received and took a different and very interesting approach to traversal in a shooter....

Following the release of DOOM VFR and Fallout 4 VR, Bethesda is now ready to launch Skyrim VR on the PC after its PSVR launch last year. Skyrim fans will be able to enter the VR version on 3 April and it includes the complete game and all the official add-ons Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn. Whether Skyrim players will want to fork out for the game again remains to be seen but the real VR enthusiasts are likely to go for this in a big way....

PlatinumGames’ delayed Sol Cresta will release on 22nd February, 2022. Sol Cresta was delayed from its December launch date, with Platinum’s Hideki Kamiya announcing the news during an hour-long livestream titled “Sol Cresta: Hideki Kamiya’s Very Sorry Stream”. However, in a new livestream broadcast over the weekend, Platinum has now confirmed that the sequel to Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta will release at the end of next month on PC, Switch, and PS4, for £40/$40 (thanks, VGC)....

Over recent years, Microsoft and Sony have cozied up with various developers on different projects. For example, Sony seems to have gotten comfortable with Activision, where Microsoft seems to have gotten close to Bethesda. Recently, Video Games Chronicle reported that Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki indicated an interest in making developer acquisitions in the future. Mentioning the successful acquisition of Marvel’s Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games and how it will help lead to first-party growth, Totoki went on to say that, in the future, Sony “will continue to pursue growth investment opportunities that will enhance our own content IP....

Sony has every right to be upset about Goerge Hotz (GeoHot) jail-breaking the PS3. After all, this is the same man who jail-broke the iPhone and got away with it. In that case, the U.S. Copyright Office determined that the jail-breaking of mobile phones didn’t infringe on any copyrights, thanks in part to a request made by Electronics Frontier Foundation for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)....

Are you the type of gamer who loves the crisp clear sound that a nice pair of headphones deliver, but hate being unable to wear your headset for multiplayer chat? Well, Sony has just revealed a new peripheral that combines the functionality of both, and also connects with your PS3 for status updates on battery life and volume level. Unveiled today by Sony, this official PS3 Wireless Stereo Headset is the perfect peripheral for gamers who love the aural experience of a video game, but can’t find the room to install a home theater system....

Throughout your time playing Spelunky 2, you’ve likely come across at least one Kali Altar. These strange stone altars don’t exactly explain themselves well and without prior knowledge, it can be hard to figure out what they do. Of course, like the many other secrets of Spelunky 2, there’s great power in the unknown. How the Kali Altar works There are effectively two different interactions a player can have with a Kali Altar....

Around 1999, I discovered Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and James Cameron’s infamous “scriptment” for his Spider-Man movie. Being young, and with entirely too much time to think, I made some connections that didn’t necessarily need to be made. Well, all but one, which was that any Spider-Man movie should prominently feature at least one Ramones song. The James Cameron treatment for Spider-Man, despite the howls of early internet outrage that accompanied it, felt pretty revolutionary at the time, and not just because we had yet to actually get a big screen version of Spidey....

The rumors of a possible remake of the classic role-playing game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic are still very persistent. Now, a current one says that the new edition will be provided with a completely new combat system. In the past few months, there have been rumors that a remake of the role-playing game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic originally published in 2003 is in development. Shortly before the start of the weekend, we received another rumor about the not officially announced new edition....

Time flies, eh? It’s just under seven months until Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the third and final part of the new Star Wars trilogy, blasts its way into cinemas, and so far all we’ve had to really whet our appetite has been the recent teaser trailer. But now, thanks to Vanity Fair, we’ve got our first look at some of the new characters who are set to make their debut in Episode IX....

In 1977’s Star Wars, the Empire has finished building their ultimate weapon, the Death Star. It’s a very important part of the Star Wars universe, chiefly because without it the name “Star Wars” doesn’t make as much sense. The first Death Star was destroyed at the end of that film, due to the Rebel Alliance capitalizing on a structural weakness. It was replaced by a second Death Star, which was destroyed at the end of 1983’s Return Of The Jedi after the Rebel Alliance capitalized on a structural weakness....

It’ll probably come as no surprise that today’s Star Wars Battlefront 2 ‘AMA’ event on Reddit provided few meaningful answers. The three participants from DICE, executive producer John Wasilczyk, associate design director Dennis Brannvall, and producer Paul Keslin, all stuck to vague PR platitudes. They’re not exactly in a great position to do anything else. It’s possible that some or all of them had a direct hand in the Battlefront 2 progression system that’s drawing criticism from almost every quarter, but unlikely....

The Star Wars franchise has always been massively profitable in virtually every commercial endeavor it enters, and so it comes as no surprise that on the App Store and Google Play there has been more than $1 billion generated in global player spending in the last six years. These figures come from Sensor Tower Store Intelligence, a leading provider of market intelligence and insights for the global app economy. Most impressive still is that while there have been many games that have borrowed the Star Wars license, most of that revenue comes from a single title: Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes....

This Steven Universe Future article contains spoilers. There is also discussion of physical and mental abuse. Rose Quartz has been divisive amongst Steven Universe fans from the moment we started learning more about her backstory. While initially idolized by Steven and the Crystal Gems, over the course of the series we have learned Rose has lied about her origin, forced Pearl to keep her secrets, locked Bismuth away, left Spinel on her own (driving her mad with grief), and even gave up her form (i....

Street Fighter 5 has sold 1.4m units across PS4 and PC, Capcom has revealed. The figure covers sales up to the end of Capcom’s financial year on March 31, 2016. The figure is significantly fewer than what Capcom had hoped for, however, with the firm having targeted 2m sales before April. Despite the shortfall, however, the game remained “a perennial favourite” during its opening month, Capcom says, “and maintained steady sales mainly overseas”....