Month: November 2017

Your competitive edge should have a laser on it, and with this hardware aim-assist it can.

Halloween doesn’t have to be over! Here are 29 terrifying upcoming games to keep on your radar.

Netflix in November means Marvel’s The Punisher, Longmire’s sixth and final season, Lady Dynamite: Season 2, and a lot more.

Marvel’s Runaways is the latest Marvel TV series, this time coming to Hulu. How does it rank compared to the other Marvel shows? Read our spoiler-free review to find out.

With the latest Thor sequel debuting, we analyze the apocalypse called… Ragnarok!

In Season 2, episode 3, Dustin adopts a strange new pet, and Eleven grows increasingly impatient. A well-meaning Bob urges Will to stand up to his fears.

New and prospective Nintendo Switch owners who have yet to pick up the console’s acclaimed Zelda game will soon be able to get it with a few helpful extras. Nintendo has announced The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Explorer’s Edition, which will be available in stores in time for Black Friday.

The Explorer’s Edition doesn’t contain any additional in-game content; rather, it comes bundled with a beautiful 100-page guide book, as well as a two-sided map to help to help newer players find their way around the game’s massive world. You can take a look at it below.

The Explorer’s Edition retails for the same price as the standard game–$60–effectively giving you the guide book and map for free. However, it does not include Breath of the Wild’s $20 season pass, which consists of two DLC packs, neither of which can be purchased individually. The first, The Master Trials, rolled out in June and added a new hard mode, equipment sets, and a challenging new trial to the game.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s second DLC expansion, The Champions’ Ballad, releases later this year. It will add a new dungeon as well as an original story which will reveal more details about Princess Zelda. Four new Amiibo figures based on the Champions from Breath of the Wild release later this month and unlock a brand-new helmet based on each character’s respective Divine Beast. Nintendo is also releasing a Zelda-themed 2DS bundle in time for Black Friday.

Finnish studio Housemarque, maker of modern classic shoot ’em ups Resogun and Nex Machina, is moving away from developing arcade games due to poor sales.

Housemarque CEO and co-founder Ilari Kuittinen spoke about the decision to move away from the genre they love, regardless of their games’ quality, in a letter to fans.

“Despite critical success and numerous awards, our games just haven’t sold in significant numbers,” Kuittinen said. “While some of them have reached a massive audience due to free game offerings across various digital sales channels, this unfortunately doesn’t help pay for development, which gets costly for high production quality.”

So the studio is abandoning its arcade shooter roots to move onto new genres.

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Following the release of FIFA 18 on Switch, Electronic Arts is not in any rush to bring additional software to Nintendo’s platform.

EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen told the Wall Street Journal (via WSJ reporter Takashi Mochizuki‏ on Twitter) the publisher plans to wait until the console has been on the market a full year before deciding whether to make more games for it.

According to Jorgensen, it’s too early to judge the success of FIFA 18 on Nintendo Switch. As such, EA wants “to fully understand what the demand is” for the platform before committing more development resources to making new games for the platform.

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