Category: Gameinformer

Funcom has announced that it, including some former Command & Conquer developers, are working a new strategy game set in the Conan the Barbarian universe.

The label of “strategy game” may be a bit misleading, however. The official press release says “Wave after wave of increasingly more difficult enemies will rush at your gates and you will need to manage resources, research new technologies to advance your defenses, and recruit an ever-growing army if you are to save survive utter destruction,” which means it’s more of tower-defense game than StarCraft. The game moves in real-time, but lets you pause to issue orders and create buildings. You’ll also be fortifying your buildings between rounds with defensive walls and the like, as well as unlock new heroes to play as. It also lets you fend off the randomly generated hordes in co-op with one other player.

You can check out the CGI trailer below.

 

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If you’re fiending for some early Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competition, this weekend hosts New Game Plus, a well-attended Chicago Smash tournament. It’s too early to know which characters might be good, but if you’re interested in learning the game, this is a good place to start. (Stream / Schedule)

Meanwhile, Dota 2‘s Megafon tournament has a small-but-elite roster of teams (including International champions Team Liquid) competing for $300,000. (Stream / Schedule)

Mountain Dew is sponsoring this week’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major, which has the four remaining teams fighting in the playoffs for their share of $50,000. (Stream / Schedule)

Rocket League  is having the championships for its collegiate league today. The action starts at 2pm central. (Stream)

You can also catch some PUBG action from the MPL Season 2 Finals, which has several teams of four competing for both cash and a spot in the upcoming Asia Invitational. (Stream)

That’s it for this weekend! Let us know if we missed an event, or if there’s a scene you’d like us to cover, in the comments.

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At last night’s Game Awards, Monster Hunter: World developers were asked by host Geoff Keighley if they had anything to announce. They demurred and instead said there will be something big within the next couple of days, but they couldn’t say it there on stage. Today, Capcom announced there will be a special Monster Hunter stream for fans on Monday, December 10, likely to introduce whatever it was they were hinting at.

Even the PlayStation account is trying to pique player interest.

It’s been slightly under a year since the game’s late January release, meaning that plans for things like a G-Rank or additional monsters usually get revealed to the public. In the past, Monster Hunter games used to issue entirely new titles for those revisions, which is something Capcom has said they did not want to do this time around, especially as they have the ability to issue them digitally. Could it be a paid DLC expansion, perhaps? What if it’s not an expansion at all? We’ll find out for sure on December 10.

Monster Hunter: World is currently available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

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This morning Limited Run Games – known for their limited physical releases of classic games – announced that they were partnering with Naughty Dog and Sony to release the entire collection of Jak and Daxter games on hardcopy for the PS4. This morning in a tweet, the company announced that the first title of the iconic series, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy will be made available today.

Fans can scoop up the game itself for $24.99 but should hurry while supplies last as there are only 5,000 copies being distributed worldwide. If you’re an avid collector, you can also grab the collector’s edition for $74.99. The package includes a decorative metal precursor orb, a unique poster, and a soundtrack which marks the first time a Jak And Daxter soundtrack has ever been released. There will only be 2,500 collector’s editions made worldwide.

Fans who purchase either the collector’s edition or the standard game should expect it to arrive by February 28. The entire series including physical releases of Jak II, Jak 3, and Jak X: Combat Racing will be made available by June 30.

If fan’s purchase all four game discs, whether standard or collector’s edition, they’ll also receive a mock Jak 4 game case, which was never released, after June 30. The mock case includes a code for a unique Jak 4 PS4 system theme.

To snag your copy, dive into the eco on their website before time runs out. 

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The Beyond Good and Evil 2 team at Ubisoft has been mostly quiet since the game’s reveal at E3 2017 with occasional outbursts of information. This past year, we’ve seen a small snippet of the game’s fighting system and a story trailer at E3, but not a whole lot beyond that. With the next Space Monkey Report, Ubisoft’s name for Beyond Good and Evil 2 developer updates, we will hopefully see something more significant.

“As promised, we will be back with another Space Monkey Report Live Stream on December 10 at 6:00 p.m. CET / 12:00 p.m. EST,” the game’s website says. “We will be live on Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook. We’re excited to reveal some pre-alpha gameplay, so make sure you tune in for this report! You won’t want to miss it!”

The term “pre-alpha” can vary from developer to developer, with some studios using it to mean development states where the mechanics aren’t even nailed down yet and others using it to refer to any time before the game is playable on a consumer level with demos and pre-release alphas. It’s hard to gauge by their use of the term exactly how far the Beyond Good and Evil sequel is right now, but we should be able to gleam something from it.

Beyond Good and Evil 2 currently has no publicly known target platforms or target date.

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Red Dead Redemption II is just the gift that keeps on giving and today YouTuber Gruppy has something really special. Set to one of the worst earworms of the 90s, Gruppy has recreated Friends‘ intro sequence in Red Dead Redemption II.

Watch all the horrors for yourself here and no worries, no spoilers:

For more on Red Dead, be sure to check out our thoughts on Red Dead Online here.

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All things end. The end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s current (and critically acclaimed) storyline is not an exception that regard. Today Marvel Entertainment released the trailer for Avengers: Endgame, the sequel to last year’s Infinity War.

You can watch all the somberness, including some poignant bits from Tony Stark himself, right here. Bring a tissue.

Avengers: Endgame is out in April. For more on Marvel, be sure to check out our resident comic book expert’s thoughts on the next batch of MCU flicks.

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The Game Awards have come along way in the last few years, now standing as one of the industry’s most impressive events of the year. But throughout all the glamour and glitz of the reveals and trailers, the actual awards seem to get a little lost in the shuffle. The show seems to have taken note of this and done their best to try and give them more due, which seems to have mostly worked, despite the fact that several awards were still only given passing mentions and some nominees were not even announced.

That said, here are the winners and nominees for all the awards at tonight’s event. Winners are in bold.

Game of the Year

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft)
Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

Best Ongoing Game

Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Overwatch (Blizzard)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)

Best Game Direction

A Way Out (Hazelight Studios / EA)
Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream / SIE)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

Best Art Direction

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Octopath Traveler (Square Enix / Acquire / Nintendo)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)
Return of Obra Din (3909 LLC)

Best Family Game

Mario Tennis Aces (Camelot Software Planning / Nintendo)
Nintendo Labo (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Overcooked 2 (Ghost Town Games / Team 17)
Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Ubisoft Toronto / Ubisoft)
Super Mario Party (NDCube / Nintendo)BEST SCORE/MUSIC

Best Music

Celeste (Lena Raine)
God of War (Bear McCreary)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Woody Jackson)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (John Paesano)
Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom (Joe Hisaishi)
Octopath Traveler (Yasunori Nishiki)

Best Audio Design

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch Studios / Activision)
Forza Horizon 4 (Playground Games / Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

Best Performance

Bryan Dechart as Connor, Detroit: Become Human
Christopher Judge as Kratos, God of War
Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan, Red Dead Redemption 2
Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker, Marvel’s Spider-Man

Games for Impact

11-11 Memories Retold (Digixart / Aardman Animations / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
Life is Strange 2: Episode 1 (Dontnod Entertainment / Square Enix)
The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories (White Owls / Arc System Works)

Best Independent Game

Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
Into the Breach (Subset Games)
Return of the Obra Dinn (3909 LLC)
The Messenger (Sabotage Studio)

Best Mobile Game

Donut County (Ben Esposito / Annapurna Interactive)
Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
PUBG Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum / Tencent Games)
Reigns: Game of Thrones (Nerial / Developer Digital)

Best Narrative

Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream / SIE)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Life is Strange 2: Episode 1 (Dontnod Entertainment / Square Enix)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

Best VR/AR Game

Astro Bot Rescue Mission (SIE Japan Studio / SIE)
Beat Saber (Beat Games)
Firewall Zero Hour (First Contact Entertainment / SIE)
Moss (Polyarc Games)
Tetris Effect (Resonair / Enhance, Inc)

Best Action Game

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch / Activision)
Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
Destiny 2: Forsaken (Bungie / Activision)
Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
Mega Man 11 (Capcom)

Best RPG

Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Square Enix / Square Enix)
Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom (Level 5 / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Octopath Traveler (Square Enix / Acquire / Nintendo)
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (Obsidian Entertainment / Versus Evil)

Best Fighting Game

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (Arc System Works)
Dragon Ball FighterZ (Arc System Works / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Soulcalibur 6 (Bandai Namco Studios / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Street Fighter 5 Arcade (Dimps / Capcom)

Best Strategy Game

Battletech (Harebrained Schemes / Paradox Interactive)
Frostpunk (11 bit studios)
Into the Breach (Subset Games)
The Banner Saga 3 (Stoic Studio / Versus Evil)
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Sega CS3 / Sega)

Best Sports/Racing

FIFA 19 (EA Vancouver / EA Sports)
Forza Horizon 4 (Playground Games / Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios)
Mario Tennis Aces (Camelot Software Planning / Nintendo)
NBA 2K19 (Visual Concepts / 2K Sports)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (PES Productions / Konami)

Best Multiplayer Game

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch / Activision)
Destiny 2: Forsaken (Bungie / Activision)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
Sea of Thieves (Rare / Microsoft Studios)

Content Creator of the Year

Dr. Lupo
Myth
Ninja
Pokimane
Willyrex

Best Student Game

Combat 2018 (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences – Norway)
Dash Quasar (UC Santa Cruz)
JERA (Digipen Bilbao, Spain)
LIFF (ISTART Digital – France)
RE: Charge (MIT)

Best Debut Indie Game

Donut County (Ben Esposito / Annapurna Interactive)
Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
Moss (Polyarc Games)
The Messenger (Sabotage Studio)
Yoku’s Island Express (Villa Gorilla)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft)
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Marvel’s Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Eidos Montreal / Crystal Dynamics / Square Enix)

Best Esports Game

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
Fortnite
League of Legends
Overwatch

Best Esports Player

Dominique “SonicFox” McLean (Echo Fox)
Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi
Jian “Uzi” Zi-Hao (Royal Never Give Up)
Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev (Natus Vincere)
Sung-hyeon “JJoNak” Bang (New York Excelsior)

Best Esports Team

Astralis (CSGO)
Cloud9 (LOL)
Fnatic (LOL)
London Spitfire (Overwatch)
OG (Dota 2)

Best Esports Coach

Bok “Reapered” Han-gyu (Cloud9)
Cristian “ppasarel” Bănăseanu (OG)
Danny “zonic” Sørensen (Astralis)
Dylan Falco (Fnatic)
Jakob “YamatoCannon” Mebdi (Team Vitality)
Janko “YNk” Paunovic (MiBR)

Best Esports Event

ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018
Evo 2018
League of Legends World Championship
Overwatch League Grand Finals
The International 2018

Best Esports Host

Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez
Alex “Machine” Richardson
Anders Blume
Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere
Paul “RedEye” Chaloner

Best Esports Moment

 C9 Comeback Win In Triple OT vs FAZE (ELEAGUE)
KT vs IG Base Race (LOL Worlds)
G2 Beating RNG (LOL Worlds)
OG’s Massive Upset of LGD (DOTA 2 Finals)
SonicFox Side Switch Against Go1 in DBZ (EVO)

Which awards and winners do you most disagree with? Or think are most off?

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Update: The trailer is below.

On stage, Xbox chief Phil Spencer mentioned that the demo would be first on Xbox, which seems to imply that the demo will hit other platforms eventually. 

The original story follows:

Both Capcom and The Game Awards account had confirmed that new gameplay content for Devil May Cry 5 would appear at the show. Thanks to an accidental leak from the Xbox Portugal Facebook, the trailer released early, containing new information about the game.

The trailer shows all three playable characters, including the mysterious V. While his gameplay style has been kept under wraps, the new trailer shows that he fights using summoned demons and occasionally incorporating his cane in battle. He also appears to have a Devil Trigger, or at least some kind of mode that turns his hair stark white, and allows him to summon boss-caliber demons to fight alongside him.

In terms of story, V is seen offering Dante a job to help stop a powerful demon from resurrecting. It is hard to tell if the dissociated way he tells Dante about the job is meant to imply he’s hiding something or he’s just like that.

The footage also confirms that there will be a demo releasing tomorrow on Xbox One exclusively, there is no word on whether there is a PlayStation 4 demo in the works. This is not terribly surprising, as Capcom tends to offer exclusive demos to marketing partners, as they did with the Monster Hunter: World betas last year on PlayStation 4. It is not yet clear what the demo will contain or if it will have all three characters playable.

Also of note is that Bloody Palace, the arena-based ladder for players to test their skills against enemies, will be coming after launch in an update. Capcom says in the trailer that it will arrive in April, so within two months of the game’s release date.

We will update this post with the full high-quality trailer when it airs tonight at The Game Awards.

Devil May Cry 5 releases on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 8.

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Toward the end of The Game Awards tonight, a trailer was aired cutting out the lights to the theater. The Phantom Thieves of Persona 5 fame started talking about how Joker has been invited to steal a treasure, showing off the calling card, but then flipped it over to reveal a Super Smash Bros. logo.

Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, then revealed that Joker is going to be the first DLC character for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

The DLC for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is six characters, with the first, Piranha Plant, being free for purchasers before January 31. The remaining five, which includes Joker, are part of the game’s season pass. The game releases December 7 on Nintendo Switch.

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