With the recent animation update for Mass Effect: Andromeda, facial and eye animations have been vastly improved. However, a new video has emerged from Bioware senior cinematic animator Tal Peleg showing what Mass Effect: Andromeda could have looked like. The video below shows early character animations for Mass Effect: Andromeda. As we’ve reported before, Most of Mass Effect: Andromeda’s facial animation was outsourced. With such a large scale project, facial animation was less prioritized than

It’s Star Wars celebration this weekend, and the world is dissecting anything and everything they can get their hands on. Even actor Josh Gad, who was selected to host The Last Jedi panel, naturally used his position to try and coax out a few spoilers. What wasn’t expected is that he (jokingly) tried to get them out of BB-8. That said, we’ll see for sure when Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi releases in theaters on December 15th, 2017. Source: [Twitter via Polygon]

Yesterday, we got our first look at Star Wars: The Last Jedi via a trailer. While it doesn’t reveal a ton, we hear and see Luke Skywalker but he doesn’t seem to be the same character we once knew. Clearly, he’s had a pretty dark couple years since Return of the Jedi but we aren’t exactly sure what happened. In an interview with Fandango, Mark Hamill revealed some stuff about what exactly is happening with Luke. Star Wars: The Last Jedi releases in theaters on December 15th, 2017.

It’s another Steam sale! This weekend the digital games distributor has discounted their entire library of LEGO Games, so if you are in the midst of a Star Wars high with all of the reveals going on, you can pick up LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens for a mere $16. If LEGO games aren’t your thing, you can still get your Sci-Fi on with Endless Space, a 4X Strategy game or the open world simulation of Elite Dangerous. As always, here’s a look at the highlights of what’s on sale this weekend on Ste

It’s time for another weekend look at what DRM-free digital games distributor, GOG.com has on its slate of sales. Strategy games and simulations make up the bulk of the offerings with the Tropico series being among the most notable. If running a tropical paradise isn’t your thing, you can go medieval with Grand Ages or High Fantasy with the Elven Legacy Collection. As always here are the highlights of what’s on sale this weekend on GOG.com. Source: [GOG.com]

No matter what platform you call home, Amazon.com has something for you this weekend, especially if you are a fan of Bethesda games. DOOM, Dishonored 2, Fallout 4, and Skyrim: Special Edition are all at least half off this weekend on (almost) all platforms with equal pricing. So if you are still a gamer that prefers physical copies to digital ones, you are in luck. The only notable exception is Skyrim: Special Edition on PC. Without further ado, here is a table with links pointing you to each on

Publisher Focus Home Interactive and Developer Deck13 have announced that their upcoming hardcore Action-RPG, The Surge has officially gone gold on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The game will get both a physical and digital release that will come out next month on May 16th, 2017 and is already available for pre-order. Focus Home Interactive also announced more details about the game’s PS4 Pro support, with the first update being ready at launch. There will be another update coming later that

In 2015, EA released the highly anticipated authentic Star Wars shooter, Star Wars: Battlefront. It felt like Star Wars but it wasn’t an amazing game for some especially after the first two Battlefront games in the early 2000s. EA has set out to make a bigger and better sequel with Battlefront 2 and we have all sorts of new pieces of information about the sequel via the Star Wars: Battlefront 2 panel at Star Wars Celebration. The game’s multiplayer will expand into all eras of Star Wars includin

After a teaser leak and reveal earlier this week, we finally have the first official trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront 2. The trailer comes on the heels of the first official trailer for Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, so suffice it to say; Star Wars fans could not have anything more to be excited about. Right from the stage of Star Wars Celebration Orlando, here’s the trailer. The first Star Wars: Battlefront by DICE was something of a mixed bag, with some modes that felt more half-hearted than o

Publisher Focus Home Interactive and Developer Deck13 have announced that their upcoming hardcore Action-RPG, The Surge has officially gone gold on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The game will get both a physical and digital release that will come out next month on May 16th, 2017 and is already available for pre-order. Focus Home Interactive also announced more details about the game’s PS4 Pro support, with the first update being ready at launch. There will be another update coming later that

Naughty Dog Creative director Neil Druckmann recently had a few things to say about Horizon Zero Dawn’s visuals. Mainly, he stated that they’re simply stunning and that Guerrilla Games has set the new “bar” that he wants to top with The Last of Us: Part II. Druckmann said this in a recent interview (below) with Hermen Hulst, managing director of Guerilla Games. Druckmann notes that while Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 4 is beautiful, the sheer density of Horizon Zero Dawn’s open world is impressive, to

March saw a lot of heavy hitters this year. Mass Effect Andromeda, Ghost Recon Wildlands and the star of this piece: Horizon: Zero Dawn. It just so happens that the PlayStation exclusive topped the charts for the PlayStation Store in March. Beyond Horizon: Zero Dawn, we also saw the new DLC for Dark Souls 3 and Battlefield 1 top the charts for DLC and Apollo 11 VR and PlayStation VR Worlds in the virtual reality category. Here’s the full chart of best sellers for the PlayStation Store in March:P

Today saw the long-awaited release of the first trailer for The Last Jedi; the eighth episode in the Skywalker Saga. Not much was revealed pertaining to the story in the teaser, but we did get one thread: Luke Skywalker no longer wishes for the Return of the Jedi. Therefore, it’s understandable that he would want the Jedi to end: for him, no good can come of it. Before Marvel’s current slate of Star Wars comics, Dark Horse was publishing content telling stories of a galaxy far, far away. Still,

Tonight’s Nintendo Direct was packed with tons of big announcements and reveals; namely ARMS and Splatoon 2. But tucked in between some of the bigger names are a couple of games you need to keep on your radar, courtesy of THQ Nordic. They are Sine Mora EX and Battle Chasers: Nightwar. We feel like both, Sine Mora EX and Battle Chasers: Nightwar, are perfect fits for Nintendo Switch in terms of gameplay, style and looks. Sine Mora EX is set to release this summer and will retail for $19.99 while

Steam’s Early Access program is chalked full of incredibly novel ideas and earlier this week; it got one more in the form of A Gummy’s Life. It probably goes without saying that A Gummy’s Life is best played with a group of your best friends as Local Multiplayer is the main mode of the package. But if you want to go solo, you can play A Gummy’s Life with up to 15 different bots for an added level of chaos. Here’s an official feature list for A Gummy’s Life:Different maps with very different tast

Stoic, the team behind The Banner Saga 3, which is planned to complete the trilogy, talks about what’s next for them after the third entry releases. Banner Saga 3 may not even have a release date yet, but Stoic seems to want people to know that they’re not done after their trilogy finishes. The Banner Saga has a strong cult following for its engaging story and gripping, difficult gameplay. He notes that the world of The Banner Saga is rich, with opportunities to tell parallel stories, prequels a

The ‘Self-Service Refund’ is not available to all users yet, only select Insider Members at the moment, but the return process being tested out is pretty simple. Self-service refunds on Xbox One and Windows 10 provide a quick, simple way of returning a digital product. DLC, season passes, and add-ons are not eligible for self-service refunds. Microsoft reserves the right to block access for users who abuse self-service refunds. The Xbox One and Windows 10 Self-Service Refund system will be relea

Microsoft is bringing their eight core deep, six teraflops heavy, 4K/VR gaming machine with full backward compatibility to E3 2017. Project Scorpio, which has been shown off to be extremely powerful, is going to get its full rundown at Microsoft’s E3 2017 conference on Sunday, June 11th. “We’re excited to unveil Project Scorpio and the amazing game experiences it powers at E3 this June,” wrote Phil Spencer in an Xbox Wire post. This announcement falls in like with previous remarks from the head

The first trailer for Star Wars Battlefront 2 leaked earlier this week, showing off Darth Maul preparing to engage Yoda in battle, as well as characters from The Force Awakens (Rey and Kylo Ren). EA and DICE have done their best to scrub the video from the internet, but what has been seen by the web cannot be forgotten. Even though the trailer leaked, EA and DICE will be revealing the trailer on April 15th. In addition to that, the Battlefront 2 website has officially gone live! Star Wars Battle

In the “making of” video series for Resident Evil 7, executive producer Jun Takeuchi states that the team at Capcom are already brainstorming Resident Evil 8. He says that “Plans for the next title are already in motion, and when you see that game you may find that it is very different from Resident Evil 7 in some ways.” He also refers to ‘the next Resident Evil game, and the one after that (etc.)” “As I worked on Resident Evil 7 I wanted it to be seen as a modern masterpiece in survival horror.