Category: Gameinformer

A group of Fallout 76 players launched the first nuke of the game right at a fissure site. They triggered an event called Scorched Earth, which tasks the players to kill a level 95 scorchbeast queen in under thirty minutes. The crazy thing is, they did it, and you can watch the whole battle unfold. Just keep in mind that the video contains a lot of strong language and the audio seems to be a bit off in places.

If you want to launch your own nukes in the wasteland, be prepared for a challenge. You first have to discover a silo which will have a unique code to unlock the launch sequence. Finding the codes can be tricky, since they only drop after you defeat certain enemies in the world. After collecting the entire sequence, you can choose where on the map you want to detonate the bomb.

If you are interested in seeing a more typical vault-dweller experience, watch us play three hours of the beta here. Fallout 76 is out now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

[Source: Nickaroo93 on YouTube]

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Gaming Heads has unveiled its second Lara Croft statue in a lineup of six to-be-revealed replicas based on the classic Tomb Raider games. Fans of the teflon Lara Croft days, can now preorder a 12-inch statue of Lara Croft from Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft. This is the second limited edition statue to be revealed after the first replica was unveiled back in March based on the first Tomb Raider game.

Gaming Heads has also released the full lineup to come which spans the gamut from 1996 all the way up to the modern day with the final statue being based off Lara Croft in Rise of the Tomb Raider. 

The latest release comes in three different editions, each priced at $299.99. The regular statue has Lara wielding two Uzi pistols and is limited to 1,000 pieces worldwide. The exclusive version comes with an pair of interchangeable arms with Lara gripping a shotgun and is limited to 500 pieces. And the collective edition has both pairs of interchangeable arms but is left unpainted, for people to paint it to their own liking or optionally choose to have it painted like the first two editions. There are only 50 collective editions available worldwide.

These limited-edition statues celebrate the 20th anniversary of the iconic franchise. Fans preordering the Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft statue should expect the release around the second half of 2019. While the other four statues have yet to be unveiled, if you buy all six, each has been designed to fit with the others to act as “the ultimate tribute to Lara Croft.”

To preorder the statue, head here for the regular edition, here for the exclusive edition, and here for the collective edition.

[Source: Toyark]

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Bandai Namco Studios Vancouver has reportedly closed. The news comes from Tekken mobile game director and studio senior vice president Landon Nguyen on Twitter.

“I’m sad to announce that as of today Bandai Namco Studios Vancouver will be shutting down,” Nguyen said in a tweet. “I want to thank everyone who came with us on this journey. We shipped some awesome experiences together. Thank you to all the fans who supported our games and our studio.”

The studio worked on multiple titles including the popular Pac-Man 256. The team was also responsible for Tekken Mobile, Tap My Katamari, and Pac-Man Bounce.

We’ve reached out to Bandai Namco for confirmation and comment. We will update this story if a statement is received.

[Source: Landon Nguyen on Twitter]

Our Take
It’s always awful to learn about a studio closure, and this is no different. We hope those affected by the closure land on their feet and are able to find something new soon.

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 Although we knew Killer7 was coming to Steam right around now, we weren’t sure when, exactly, that would be. Turns out, it’s today.

As we mentioned in our recent New Gameplay Today of the game, the PC version is an up-res of the original that includes mouse and keyboard support for $20. You can also nab the game, its soundtrack (which is good if you like creepy ambient noises and club music alike), and digital artbook, for $30. You can grab it for a reduced price until November 22, however.

To see why at least one Game Informer editor thinks it’s the greatest game of all time, watch our entire Super Replay of the game, including a guest appearance by director Suda 51.

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You’ve likely noticed the recent trend of high-budget games from big publishers getting special editions that include getting access to a game a few days early. Well, if the publishers and the stores that help promote those editions are any indication, you can expect that trend to stick around, as those editions seem to be doing quite well.

GamesIndustry.biz reports that both publishers and retailers say the early access perk has proved quite popular among buyers. UK and Spanish game retailer GAME, which often partners with game publishers to get exclusivity on early editions on some of their games, tells GamesIndustry.biz that it’s been a strong incentive for people to spend extra on certain games. “I don’t think it’s something that we want to see to widespread, because it creates uncertainty in terms of release dates,” GAME CEO Martyn Gibbs. “But the trials that we have done, and the ones that we’ve launched so far this year, have worked really well.”

Several games this year have offered early access with their special editions, including Forza Horizon 4, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Battlefield V, all of which involve paying extra.

[Source: GamesIndustry.biz]

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EA Sports is releasing a limited-time, digital version of NHL 19 (PS4/Xbox One) centering around The Great One, Wayne Gretzky called the 99 Edition.

This version lets players choose from one of five versions of Wayne Gretzky (Oilers, Kings, Blues, Rangers, or Team Canada) for use in the Hockey Ultimate Team mode as well as one of six other legends: Mark Messier, Guy Lafleur, Marcel Dionne, Mats Sundin, Peter Forsberg, or Brett Hull. The edition also comes with eight HUT gold packs.

The game’s 200+ legends can be used in HUT, Play Now, Online Versus, NHL Threes, and World of Chel Pro-Am but not Franchise mode. 

EA says The 99 Edition retails is being offered at 50 percent off – making it a great deal at $39.99 (down from $79.99), but it’s unknown at this time if this discount will last as long as the 99 Edition is on sale. The edition will appear in the PS4 marketplace later today and is already on the Xbox Marketplace.

This news comes at an interesting time for the fanbase, some of whom are angry that the title’s gameplay has changed since its well-received beta. For more on this issue, take a look at the recent Sports Desk column featuring a NHL 19 producer Ben Ross.

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A new and improved Ms. Splosion Man is releasing on Switch this Thanksgiving. Recalling the Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man naming formula, Ms. Splosion Man is a sequel to the 2009 hit Splosion Man. The game is set in the immediate aftermath of an accident that created a second being made entirely of explosive materials: Ms. Splosion Man. To win, players must “‘splode” to vault over obstacles, demolish traps, and defeat enemies. 

The game was originally released on the Xbox 360 in 2011, which is the same year the developers, Twisted Pixel Games, became part of Microsoft. Now that Twisted Pixel has struck out on its own, the critically acclaimed platformer is free to release on the Switch. This new Switch release will include 50 levels for single player as well as 50 levels for local and online co-op for up to four players. 

Ms. Splosion Man is set to launch November 22 on the Nintendo Switch. We had a lot of praise for the game back when it originally released and gave it an 8.75 in our review.

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Thronebreaker, the recently-released single-player expansion for Gwent, isn’t selling as well as developer/publisher CD Projekt Red had hoped, and part of that may be due to the storefront it chose to debut on.

The expansion, which takes the card-battling minigame from The Witcher 3 and builds a brand new game and storyline around it, didn’t release on Steam, as developer/publisher CD Projekt Red opted to make it exclusive to its own storefront, GoG. That may have caused it to underperform relative to expectations, according CD Projekt Red co-CEO Adam Kiciński.

“The initial period [of sales] may not have lived up to our initial expectations,” Kiciński told investors in a conference call yesterday. He then pivoted to talking to the main reason why that may have been the case: GoG simply is nowhere near as popular as Steam, the main PC storefront these days. “The game appeared on GoG first for fairly straightforward reasons,” he said. “GOG is our priority platform and we wanted to release the game there first to gamers who support us there. However, the reach of GOG is incomparably smaller than that of Steam.”

Kiciński then quickly mentioned that the game is now available on Steam, and will be hitting consoles next month. Because of this, and the continuing popularity of the Witcher brand, he expects it to sell “for many years to come.”

For our part, we thought Thronebreaker did a great job of combining the card game with the gritty storytelling fans have come to expect from the series, and you can find out why in our review.

[Source: CD Projekt Red via Gamesindustry.biz]

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