First 4 Figures has opened preorders for their newest statue addition – the Crystal Dragon in anticipation of the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.
The statue is available in three editions: Regular, Crystallized, and Exclusive. Each statue costs $475, or you can purchase a combo edition for $900. They were designed by artist Sanjeev Keisham and will be produced out of resin. Check out the figures below:
Validation for purchases are open for the next 24 hours, and preorders will be available until June 27. The statues are expected to ship in February 2019.
The Spyro Reignited Trilogy was announced back in April and will include the three originals fully remastered — Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage, and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. The Trilogy will be available on PS4 and Xbox One consoles on Sept. 21.
As the month of June draws to an end, so does your chance to download this month’s free PC games from Twitch–that is, assuming you’re an Amazon/Twitch Prime member. These freebies will be replaced on July 1 by a new batch of games, so this is your last week to grab them. To collect your free games for June, click the crown-shaped Prime Loot icon next to the search bar on Twitch. That opens a drop-down menu with links to the five free games.
Kicking off the freebies is Strafe, a gory first-person shooter that wouldn’t look out of place in 1996. It’s a fast-paced game with procedurally generated levels and tons of weapons that can spill buckets of blood. Next up are The Banner Saga and The Banner Saga 2, tactical RPGs about a Viking caravan trekking through a world inspired by Norse mythology. The third installment releases next month.
Also free for Twitch Prime subscribers this month is Tumblestone, a multiplayer puzzle game that involves clearing columns of colorful blocks. Last up is Treadnauts, a side-scrolling arena battle game in which you and your buddies control nimble tanks trying to blow each other up.
Twitch Prime is a perk for Amazon Prime subscribers. All you have to do to sign up is link your Amazon Prime account to your Twitch account. Once you do, you can download all five games for no cost between May 31 – July 1. They’re yours to keep forever, even if you cancel Amazon Prime down the line. The only catch is that you need the Twitch desktop app to install them.
Other Twitch Prime benefits include free monthly in-game loot for popular games like Fortnite and Call of Duty: WWII, ad-free viewing on Twitch, and a channel subscription every 30 days.
As for next month’s free games for Twitch Prime subscribers, we’ll probably hear what they are around July 1.
The Steam Summer Sale isn’t the only deal in town for PC gamers. Green Man Gaming is also running a sale, and if you enter promo code JUNE20 at checkout, you’ll get an extra 20% off most of the already-discounted games. That amounts to some serious savings on a number of worthy games. You can find the full list of games on sale here, or read on for the highlights.
That extra 20% off bumps many of these deals in to best-ever territory. PUBG, for instance, normally sells for $30, but it’s on sale for $20. Take 20% off of that, and you’re looking at a final price of $16. Not bad at all. Cuphead has a similar thing going on, landing it at $13.
You can get the intense multiplayer cooking game Overcooked for just $5, and you can pre-order Overcooked 2 for $20 instead of its usual $25. Ori and the Blind Forest is also getting a sequel this year, but you can grab the Definitive Edition of the original for just $8. Also $8 is Playdead’s dark puzzle-platformer Inside. For just a buck more, you can grab Rocket League to engage in some automotive soccer action. We have even more picks listed below.
Just remember to enter promo code JUNE20 at checkout, or you’ll miss out on the extra 20% savings. The code doesn’t work on all of the games–there are some exceptions–but it works on most of them. Happy deal hunting.
The Nintendo Eshop is running a new set of deals this week, with select Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS games getting discounts big and small. We’ve combed through the sale to find the best prices on the best games below. Or, if you’d like to see the full list of discounts, you can do so here. The deals end on different dates depending on the game, so grab them quickly if you see games you want.
With the World Cup going on now, it’s a great time to pick up FIFA 18 for Switch; it’s on sale for $24, down from $60. In sports entertainment news, WWE 2K18 is on sale for $20, which is the best price we’ve seen so far.
JRPG fans may want to check out the melancholy-but-endearing I Am Setsuna now that it’s half off at $20, or the developer’s following game, Lost Sphear, available now for $25. The indie Metroidvania-style game Owlboy is down to $17, or if you’re looking to solve some murders (and who isn’t?), you’ll want to check out L.A. Noire, on sale for $37.
One of the biggest little games shown during Microsoft’s E3 2018 conference caught me by total surprise. It’s called Tunic, a beautiful isometric action-adventure starring a cute fox as it ventures through a blocky, fantasy open-world full of mystery and secrets.
I was able to get my hands on a brief portion of Tunic — previously known as Secret Legend — and I can confirm it’s cute as heck, with an excellent atmosphere of exploration and discovery. But it’s also not just a really, really pretty adventure. There’s a current of difficulty and danger that runs below the surface.
When I spoke to Andrew Shouldice, the mostly one-man developer — who outsourced some of the game’s excellent sound design — of Tunic, he was very clear that Tunic is more than just a cute-fox simulator.
The indie gaming hub Itch.io is having its Summer Sale right now–but today is the last day. Between June 19-26, you can pick up a whole heap of independent PC games at discounted rates. Nearly all genres are accounted for in the sale, plus a bunch of games that don’t fit neatly into any genre.
What games might be worth a look? Necrosphere is on sale for $2.50. It’s billed as a super-challenging Metroidvania with only two buttons: left and right. Before you buy, you can play a web version here to see if you like it. The vampire-hunting game Slayer Shock puts you in a college coffee shop in Nebraska and has you run missions save humans and hunt bloodthirsty enemies. It’s on sale for $6, down from $20.
The quirky Twine game Arc Symphony is on sale for $2, as is the retro-style arcade shooter R-Coil. If ancient horrors are more your speed, you can grab the Lovecraftian game Eldritch for $1.50 as well. Or there’s always the “first-person destructive cat simulator” Catlateral Damage, on sale for $2.50.
As you can probably tell, there’s a lot of variety on offer here, so no matter what kind of games you’re into, you can find something worth trying. You can see the full list of games on sale here or check out some of the ones that caught our eye below.
The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is something fans are dying to know more about following the devastating ending of Avengers: Infinity War. After all, how can this massive franchise continue without more than half of its characters? With so many turned to dust–and a couple more dispatches of in other ways–the roster is looking a little thin.
Naturally, chances are at least some of the deaths in Infinity War will be undone in Avengers 4–if not all of them. Still, as Marvel Studios looks toward shaping the future of its universe, the question of evolution becomes paramount. How important is it to evolve these movies and the characters that populate them as the MCU moves into Phase 4?
“It is perhaps the most important thing,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige tells Gamespot, while promoting Ant-Man and the Wasp. “That is the most important thing, and that’s what you’ve seen happen over the past 20 films, different genres, different heroes, heroes maybe you’ve heard of if you’d read comics, heroes you might not have ever heard of even if you did read comics, and now moving forward, hopefully the next 10 years, and eventually, we’ll reveal what we’re working on for the next handful of years, and it’ll be similar.”
What does that evolution look like, though? According to Feige, it’s “brand new heroes, new types of heroes, continuing what we see in Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Black Panther, and Captain Marvel. Who a hero can be, and should be, and seeing all different types of heroes.”
The idea of “seeing all types of heroes” is something Marvel is seemingly committed to. After Black Panther gave the studio its first black superhero standalone movie, Captain Marvelwill be its first female-led film in early 2019.
“We want people from any background to be able to look at that screen and see themselves reflected, and just as importantly to have different types of people be inspired by people who don’t look like them, or people who have different backgrounds than them, and let them inspire them going forward,” Feige says. “To me, that’s the most important thing that we can do, and we’ve started it, and we’re going to continue it.”
So when it comes to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what it will continue evolving into inclusivity is key. Given what’s already been announced–a third third Guardians of the Galaxy movie, a Spider-Man sequel, and, of course, Captain Marvel–the studio is clearly continuing to take big swings when it comes to expanding its roster of heroes beyond the standard Avengers that drove much of its first 10 years.
When it comes to “all types of heroes,” though, it’s Feige’s tease of a potential Ms. Marvel movie, about a young Muslim superhero inspired by Captain Marvel, that may be the biggest clue about what the MCU’s evolution looks like over the next 10 years. In the meantime, there’s plenty to look forward to. Ant-Man and the Wasp is in theaters on July 6. It’s followed by Captain Marvel on March 8, 2019 and Avengers 4 on May 3, 2019.
Details around Death Stranding, the upcoming game from Hideo Kojima’s studio Kojima Productions, are sparse. We don’t know much beyond the information we can gather from its handful of teasers and trailers, and a bit of what Kojima himself has offered up – a character name here, a hint of lore there.
Despite, or perhaps thanks to the mystery, Death Stranding is already inspiring some… interesting rip-offs for mobile.
Overwatch’s latest patch has dramatically overhauled how support character Symmetra works, as well as added new social features that allows players to “endorse” others and seek out players of specific roles.
Symmetra’s photon projector no longer locks onto enemies, instead emitting in a straight beam, similar to Zarya’s primary weapon. Damage takes one second longer to ramp up, but its range is increased by 10 meters.
Symmetra’s secondary fire, those large orbs of energy, has also been retooled. Instead of phasing through enemies, they now explode on impact, damaging enemy teammates standing nearby.
Former Toys R Us CEO Jerry Storch has reportedly been meeting with potential investors to reboot the famous retail chain.
According to Bloomberg, Storch has been seeking out various investment groups in order to secure funding for a potential reboot of Toys R Us. This includes Fairfax Financial Holdings, which previously absorbed the Canadian branches of Toys R Us.
Though details are scarce due to the privacy of the meetings, the reboot is reportedly feasible. Storch will need to win a bankruptcy auction for the Toys R Us IP within a month, which is separate from the real estate sale of former Toys R Us locations that will be critical for the potential reboot.
