All posts tagged "gamescom2019"

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  EA meets with gamers to help curb toxic behavior online

  The ideas included two-factor authentication for EA accounts, which may each enhance total safety and discourage banned gamers from rapidly creating new...

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  Yakuza’s many remasters are about to pay off big time

  At Gamescom 2019, Seta announced that three remastered Yakuza games — originally numbered 3, 4 and 5 — will be released in...

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  ‘El Hijo’ is a Spaghetti Western stealth game with heart

  El Hijo is an isometric stealth game starring this 6-year-old as he traverses the desert, searching for his mother. She left him...

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  Sega is becoming its weird and wonderful self again

  Even in its darkest years, though, Sega made some good calls. Intelligent mid-2000s acquisitions like Creative Assembly (Total War) and Sports Interactive...

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  ‘Dark Crystal: Tactics’ and the evolution of Netflix’s video game strategy

  Netflix has even bigger plans for the future, though its ambition remains largely tied to the Stranger Things franchise. It hired Telltale...

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  ‘Streets of Rage 4’ is shaping up to be a worthy sequel

  [embedded content] The gameplay teaser that followed half a year later showed a 2D game that seemed to play like the originals,...

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  ‘Windjammers 2’ is a stylish update to a Neo Geo classic

  First, a quick breakdown of the controls. As before, you move with the left analog stick and execute both a basic throw...

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  ‘Blair Witch’ expertly remixes horror gaming’s greatest hits

  Blair Witch, the video game, is terrifying. Developed by Bloober Team, the studio behind Layers of Fear, Blair Witch is a mosaic...

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  ‘Blacksad’ is a promising detective game based on a cult comic

  [embedded content] Blacksad is pure noir, filled with police and criminals, smoke and booze, and set against the backdrop of a first-person...

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  ‘Disintegration’ is a tactical shooter that questions transhumanism

  According to the director, Disintegration is set 150 to 200 years in the future. The robots in this imagined future aren’t controlled...

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  The Switch needs more Saturn games like ‘Panzer Dragoon’

  That’s why I was delighted to hear that the original Panzer Dragoon, released in 1995, is getting the remake treatment on Nintendo...

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  Tencent’s own battle royale game has hackable zombies

  Unlike popular battle royale games such as Fortnite or PUBG, there’s no shrinking map in Synced, and players start each round at...

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  ‘Need for Speed Heat’ isn’t anything like ‘Payback’

  Unsurprisingly, the new game is vastly different to Payback. You no longer need Speed Cards, for instance, to upgrade your ride. “Speed...

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  Playing Marvel’s Avengers, a living RPG with microtransactions

  In one scene, Black Widow leaps onto the back of Taskmaster, the big boss in this section, as he flies with a...

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  FIFA 20’s Volta mode is good enough to be its own game

  [embedded content] Within those game styles, though, is a variety of options. The biggest changes you can make are to the arena...

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  NVIDIA’s latest GPU drivers pack a speed boost for ‘Apex Legends’

  NVIDIA is quick to acknowledge that the benefits aren’t quite as dramatic at higher resolutions (where you run into bottlenecks), but you...