No matter your stance on Sea of Thieves, it’s hard to argue that its art style is unique. As such, comic publisher Dark Horse has announced that they will be producing a comprehensive compendium of Rare’s concept art aptly named “The Art of Sea of Thieves.” The book will give fans who take the plunge “an unprecedented look at the ships, characters, and loot” of Sea of Thieves across “hundreds” of pieces of concept art. On top of the visuals, the book will feature exclusive developer commentary o

No matter your stance on Sea of Thieves, it’s hard to argue that its art style is unique. As such, comic publisher Dark Horse has announced that they will be producing a comprehensive compendium of Rare’s concept art aptly named “The Art of Sea of Thieves.” The book will give fans who take the plunge “an unprecedented look at the ships, characters, and loot” of Sea of Thieves across “hundreds” of pieces of concept art. On top of the visuals, the book will feature exclusive developer commentary o

The toys-to-life run appears to be nearing its end. Here’s the quote in full:”Thanks so much to everyone for making Dimensions possible. While it doesn’t explicitly state anything about the state of the game, sources close to the company told Eurogamer that development would cease after Year 2. Sales on LEGO Dimensions’ Year 2 content were not what the company was hoping for, and with the high cost of production for LEGO toys, profit margins were almost non-existent. With Disney Infinity biting

Like the main product itself, WWE’s video games have gone through similar ups and downs, like WWE No Mercy (up) and WWE Smackdown (down). This year, with WWE 2K18, the company is looking to be back on top, giving fans a game that offers the largest roster any wrestling game has ever seen, a brand new graphics engine and an online mode that co-exists with the WWE’s real-time schedule. I don’t know if this is considered a thing or event a marketing term, but WWE 2K18 features what I call, real-tim

At first, I wasn’t sure what she expected me to do, only to eventually drop my golf ball, and hit the ball right on the kids head. It’s not overly complicated and once you play one round of golf, you’ll get a pretty good grasp of its mechanics. By pressing the X button, you’ll enter Hit Point Mode, which will allow you to specify where on the golf ball you want to strike. For example, if you strike on the bottom of the ball, you’ll have a more arced shot, whereas hitting the ball on the top will

The story of Shadow of War is mostly a “Well, we don’t know it didn’t happen,” sort of play. Shadow of War has five different zones this time, as opposed to Shadow of Mordor’s two. But what they learned from it and applied to Shadow of War is nothing short of brilliant. With that elephant laughed right out of the room, how does the loot in Shadow of War work? Ultimately, Middle-earth: Shadow of War is pretty much exactly what a sequel should be.

Ubisoft has had a strange history with Assassin’s Creed merchandise. Back in the dark ages of Assassin’s Creed (we’re looking at you, Unity), Ubisoft got a bit too big for their breeches and slapped the Assassin’s Creed on anything that sat on store shelves. Ubisoft is partnering with the designer Yeezy to bring Assassin’s Creed Origin shoes. Now at first glance, the shoes look a bit strange; Atypical if you will, especially when compared to the recent Street Fighter sneakers. “It’s been so cool

Last month, Microsoft brought four Halo games to the Xbox One through backward compatibility, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST Campaign Edition, Halo 4, and Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary. At around the same time, Halo developer 343 Industries revealed that Halo 3 would be getting ‘awesome things.’ While 343 Industries hasn’t noted what those ‘awesome things’ are yet, they have detailed some other bits of exciting news. Halo: The Master Chief CollectionAccording to 343 Industries, Halo: The Master Chief C

Gran Turismo Sport launched this week, and while the game isn’t receiving any major negative response in terms of gameplay, there is some rumblings about the game’s always-online status. The game technically doesn’t force players to be always online, but the features are strangely limited when offline. One huge issue being that the game will not save your progress unless you maintain an online connection. Much of the online necessities were made public before the launch of Gran Turismo Sport, bu

We learned recently that the Detective Pikachu movie will begin filming in January, but the Gumshoe Pikachu has yet to have an announced voice actor. But there are a few big names on the shortlist for who the studio wants in the lead role. According to That Hashtag Show, big names such as Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson are allegedly wanted for the role. A game staring Detective Pikachu was released in Japan, with no plans mentioned to bring it to the west. Who coul

Revealing the sequel to a successful game is always a cause for celebration, and Stockholm based developer Fatshark knows to include the players and is currently letting Steam users play Warhammer: Endtimes – Vermintide for free for a whole week. So to celebrate this reveal, and the give PC gamers a taste of what to expect, Fatshark is now hosting a more-than-a-week-long “free weekend”. I put “free weekend” in quotation marks because it started yesterday, Tuesday, October 17th, and will end on T

The developer behind Warhammer: Vermintide 2 have taken a stance in the heated loot box debate, and their upcoming game will NOT be containing a loot box market! It was during the official reveal of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 that Fatshark took their stance in this hot debate. Just to confirm, as there has been some panic – We will NOT be selling loot boxes, or selling keys to unlock loot boxes. Though it’s a bit sad that developers have to boast that they WON’T add the loot box system. Warhammer:

Japanese developers have taken note of this and spoken out on why consumers don’t see very many Japanese games on Xbox. “Honestly speaking, Microsoft’s approach to Japanese games hasn’t been very supportive,” said NIS America president and CEO Takuro Yamashita to MCV. “Microsoft, you know, for Japanese games, there’s still a very niche element to them, no matter what it might be. “Microsoft also has a minimum order quantity for their games, and their whole structure isn’t really geared toward ni

After having delayed the launch of the Leviathan Prestige Raid over an exploit, then deciding to set it live on the new date, despite the exploit not being resolved, the Prestige Raid officially went live in Destiny 2 around two hours ago. Within two hours of the Prestige Raid having launched it was beaten by Clan Redeem. The clan had a total of a four-minute margin before the next fireteam beat it. The Prestige Raid is a new mode for the Leviathan raid that ups the challenge with stronger and s

Rick and Morty co-creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland have partnered up with Omaze to create a charity lottery. This lottery will give participants a chance to meet the duo and be featured on Season 3’s DVD commentary alongside the two. Before we jump into the lottery details, Harmon noted something interesting about Mr. Poopybutthole in the campaign video for the lottery. According to Harmon, Mr. Poopybutthole and Meeseeks are more than related, they are one in the same (kind of). The starti

The Dark Knight is widely regarded as the best superhero movie for many reasons. It’s an incredible crime thriller, it breaks down the psyche of Batman/Bruce Wayne, it has so many awesome moments, and of course, Heath Ledger’s Joker is incredibly captivating. Ledger was so devoted to the character and spent countless hours finding the right laugh and various mannerisms but a story from Christian Bale reveals that Ledger went as far as to physically get hurt for the film. In the new book 100 Thin

Update: Activision confirmed that this system has not been implemented into any of their games at this time. If their strategy is successful, it’ll encourage the weaker player to purchase microtransactions to obtain more powerful gear. “For instance, the microtransaction engine may match a more expert/marquee player with a junior player to encourage the junior player to make game-related purchases of items possessed/used by the marquee player. A junior player may wish to emulate the marquee play

The new South Park game is very… butt-centric. To keep the jokes rolling, GameStop announced today that an officially licensed “Fart Pillow” will be released for the game. “When our discerning customers are in the market for a fart pillow, we know your run-of-the-mill fart pillow simply won’t suffice. We put extensive research behind our newest exclusive–the South Park Fractured But Whole Fart Pillow–to ensure this product provides an array of realistic flatulence. South Park The Fractured B

Warhammer: Endtimes – Vermintide was one of the surprise hits of 2015 and gave players a game they didn’t even know they wanted, a dark fantasy Left 4 Dead. After being teased back in August, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has now been properly revealed to the world, a reveal that even includes over two minutes of uncut gameplay. Vermintide 2 will also put players in an even stickier situation than in Vermintide 1, the forces of Chaos have teamed up with the Skaven! Warhammer Vermintide 2 is expected t

Last night the first real-life giant robot mech battle was streamed on Twitch, pitting America against Japan in a robo-duel. The battle came three years after the Japanese robotics manufacturer unveiled the Kuratas and two years after an American robotics company, MegaBots, challenged the Kuratas maker, Suidobashi, to a giant robot battle. Hate to say it about a giant robot battle but I feel like I’m watching a particularly poorly staged cable reality show #giantrobotduel — Dave@SKULLOMANIA (@sa