Illfonic’s Friday the 13th: The Game is being delisted from storefronts at the end of the year due to an expiring license. The developer shared a statement on Twitter revealing the asymmetric multiplayer slasher title will be removed from retail and digital storefronts once the license expires on December 31st. However, the game will still be playable for those who own it through at least the following year, meaning December 31, 2024. Until then, Illfonic is dropping the base price o...
Bandai Namco is inviting players to throwdown in Tekken 8 for the first time with a pair of closed network tests next month. The tests lets players duke it out with 16 fighters across five stages. You’ll have to register at the official website before June 27 to participate, and the tests take place over two weekends, with PlayStation 5 players getting first dibs. Week 1 - July 21 -24 (PlayStation 5) Week 2 - July 28-31 (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC) Tekken 8 still doesn’t ha...
Summer Game Fest 2023 opened its show with an impressive, unexpected announcement. The remake of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is still in development, but Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a wholly new title that feels a bit closer to Prince's original 2D roots. The gameplay showed an impressive mix of flashy combat and high-speed platforming – much faster then the methodical platforming that inspired it. The protagonist, who has historically always just been called the Prince, looks a bi...
The recently-released Street Fighter 6 and the soon-to-be-released Exoprimal are getting a crossover event in the fall, as announced today during Summer Games Fest. Details are a bit scarce right now, but in the trailer, we see mecha-inspired Ryu talking with Exoprimal's artificial intelligence, Leviathan, who welcomes the fighter to Bikitoa Island. We also catch a glimpse of Ryu fighting dinosaurs. Ostensibly, all of this takes place within Exorpimal. It's to be determined if any of the ...
After previously suffering a delay, the dark fantasy shooter Witchfire has a new early access launch date of September 20. The news comes alongside a new gameplay trailer that premiered during Summer Game Fest, which shows off even more of the game's occult-themed gunplay. Witchfire is being developed by The Astronauts, the team behind The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, and centers on an alternate universe war between powerful witches and the Vatican church, with the player working for ...
Today, over four years since the last entry in the series, we finally got a clear look at Mortal Kombat 1. Shown at Summer Game Fest, the trailer shows off a lot of gameplay, confirming a number of fighters: Scorpion, Sub Zero, Liu Kang, Kenshi, Kitana, Mileena, Raiden, and Kung Lao. You can watch the full reveal trailer below. The ending of Mortal Kombat 11 allowed NetherRealm to rework the series a little bit, so this newest entry serves as a reboot of sorts. Classic characters hav...
Lies of P, a game that is somehow inspired by Bloodborne and the 1883 Italian novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is getting a playable demo and it will be available today on all platforms the game is releasing for. Along with the news of the demo, the game also received a new trailer, a collection of new screenshots (seen below), and the reveal of a collector's edition for the game. The deluxe version of the game will include the Great Venigni’s Set, a unique mask, and three days early access...
Sega and Sonic Team have announced Sonic Superstars, a new 2D adventure starring the company's Blue Blur. Though Sonic is the star, as the name implies, there are plenty of supporting cast members. In this reveal trailer, we also see Tails, Knuckles, and Amy appear as playable characters, each with their own unique abilities. For the first time since Sonic Adventure, original Sonic the Hedgehog designer and artist Naoto Ohshima returns to the franchise. As the original designer of the Sonic th...
Today’s Summer Game Fest gave us a first look at Sand Land, the new game from Bandai Namco, based on a manga by celebrated artist, Akira Toriyama. The new game boasts a gorgeous art style that is unmistakably rooted in Toriyama’s style, and seems to mix action, vehicles, and fighting game mechanics together to tell a story set in a mysterious desert world. It’s unknown at this point if the game will follow the same thread as the original manga. If it does, the story will follow a former ge...
Set to the tune of "You Give Love a Bad Name" by Bon Jovi, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is a game about fighting zombies in, presumably, the apocalypse. The trailer showed a group of four characters in a car together shooting at zombies in the first-person perspective. The trailer also leaned heavily on vehicle gameplay. The characters are shown in the car together, driving through zombies, and even pulling other vehicles out of the mud. Little else is known about the game, but it will be av...