Author: dpugh007

When Shadow of the Tomb Raider released last month, fans were fairly split on the game. Our own review felt like the game wasn’t entirely fulfilling its potential, but user reviews on digital distribution service Steam were in the “positive” range, which means that 70% of reviewers were high on the game. Now that positive has fallen after the Steam community has become upset that a sale price for the game that owners feel is premature.

The game released on September 14 and got a 34% discount on Steam on October 16. Since that date, 66% of the game’s reviews have been negative, most not mentioning anything actually good or bad about the game. The reviews mention that the game released a month prior and people who pre-ordered paid more than people who waited a month.

“one month -34%!!! OMG” read one review. 

“just a month, and 50% off, what the hell?” reads another.

“Discount a month after the game, the normal course Square Enix :DDDDD Thank you, now your games will be bought only 99% discount,” says a review written on shortly after the sale went live. “As for the game itself, I can say that it is neither better nor worse than the previous parts. I liked it,” the reviewer writes before delving into spoiler territory.

Many of the negative reviews mention differing percentages for the price, though it is not clear why. Checking different regions does not appear to indicate that any SKU of the game exceeded the 34% discount advertised by Steam.

For its part, Steam filters reviews to designate between helpful and unhelpful, so clicking the actual text of a review is supposed to lead potential purchasers to conclude that the game is being reviewed en masse for reasons other than game quality. That said, it does not surface this until you click through to the reviews, so all most people will say is the brown-text “Mixed” reviews on the store page.

Of course, there are still people with legitimate complaints in the reviews, ranging from audio bugs to disagreement with where Eidos Montreal took the third game in the series after Crystal Dynamics worked on the previous two. These reviews are thrown in with the other negative reviews as Steam’s algorithm does not distinguish between the types of negative reviews.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s first DLC, the Forge, releases on November 13.

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Konami has revealed that a Pyramid Head costume, Silent Hill II’s primary corporeal antagonist, will be a part of Metal Gear Survive’s upcoming Halloween event. In further Konami crossing over, Castlevania music will also be coming to the game in the form of cassette tapes.

The mission is titled The Research’s Story, which runs from October 23 to way past Halloween on November 6, and lets players who have completed the game’s main story earn points in a special mission. Earn enough points to don the costume for Pyramid Head, but you can also earn cassette tapes for Castlevania games like Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood, which are conveniently coming out together on PS4 on October 26.

The Silent Hill main theme will also be available.

Metal Gear Survive released earlier this year with the absence of high acclaim. Konami has somewhat managed to rehabilitate their most recent release of Bomberman partly on the back of Konami crossovers, so maybe Metal Gear Survive can do the same.

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Persona 5’s Morgana has a bad habit of telling people when they are and aren’t sleep, and dictating their actions based on their assumptions. It’s kind of rude, honestly, and if I want to hang out with my friends or dive into someone’s psyche through an ethereal plane, that’s my damn business. But it seems Morgana is obsessed with the idea of sleepiness, so much so that they’ve taken to reading questionable children’s bedtime stories.

Well, not really. Morgana’s voice actress, Cassandra Lee Morris, has decided to user her powers as the voice of the character to read the humorous “Bedtime story” Go the F*** to Sleep, as the character, which involves as many expletives as you might expect. So while you might have cursed under your breath as Morgana prevented you from going out at night, know this: They can curse too.

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Tekken 7 has become one of the fighting game community’s biggest mainstays since its release last year, and it looks like that momentum, along with continual updates, guest characters, and a second season have translated into good sales numbers.

Series producer Katsuhiro Harada took to Twitter to announce some recent sales numbers. The highlight is that Tekken 7 has, over a year after launch, sold over three million copies, and impressive milestone for a fighting game. Harada also took the moment to mention that the series’ overall sales numbers have reached 47 million.

This bodes well for the future of Tekken 7 and continuing updates, which should make a solid fighting game even better with time. Hopefully Bandai Namco’s other recent original fighting game, Soulcalibur VI, can reach the same success.

For more on Tekken 7, check out our full review.

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Although the official Artifact Twitter page lists the date for the game’s beta period as “October,” that timeframe is no longer accurate.

Players who received access to the beta by going this year’s International Dota 2 tournament have had the game added to their accounts, although it’s not yet playable. The notice informing them they’ve received the game, however, indicates the beta is coming November 19 – nine days before the game is due to release, and nearly a month after the aforementioned “October” period. “We have a bit more work to do before letting everyone in,” the notice says. This likely also applies to those who received a beta access code by going to PAX West earlier this year.

For more on Artifact, check out our initial breakdown and impressions of its gameplay and real-money economy, an interview with its creators, and more recent impressions from PAX.

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