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As expected, Bethesda saved its biggest game for the end of its E3 2019 press conference. Fans received a ton of new information for Doom Eternal including story details in a trailer as well as plenty of gory new gameplay. Surprisingly, the multiplayer mode was also featured though it’s quite different from what fans may be expecting this time around. Known as Battlemode, this Doom Eternal PvP element dumps the previous arena style shooting in favor of a much smaller affair....

First introduced in the book, Dragon Age: Asunder, Cole is a spirit of compassion that has separated itself from the Fade. In many ways, he is like a kid. He is experiencing the world through new eyes and does not understand a lot of its complexities. In other ways, he is quite supernatural. He can read people’s thoughts and emotions and even has the ability to make others forget he ever existed....

It’s been five years since the last entry in the Dragon Age franchise. Updates have been slow, with the only new information being from a teaser trailer and Tevinter Nights, which is a collection of short stories. Additionally, Trespasser opened the doors for the story to go in directions few would have guessed when Origins was released over ten years ago. While there hasn’t been much in the way of official announcements for the next Dragon Agegame, Inquisition and Tevinter Nights do a good job of setting up Dragon Age 4....

When Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot first released, fans praised its attention to detail and faithful retelling of the story of Dragon Ball Z. Early on, the question many fans were wondering was how much would they get to play as certain characters. Now of course fans know how much they can play as Ultimate Gohan, for example, but the way Kakarot handles fusion characters has been a point of contention among fans....

Dry Drowning, a psychological investigative thriller visual novel developed by Studio V and published by VLG Publishing and WhisperGames for Microsoft Windows on August 2, 2019, is being released for Nintendo Switch on February 22. According to the description on the platform, “Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative Visual Novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, an unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology....

Dungeons & Dragons gives players several tools that allow them to customize their characters and make them their own. Outside of one’s class, one of the most impactful choices a player can make when building their character is their choice of subclass. Subclasses provide a character with flavorful abilities (and in some cases spells) that they wouldn’t have otherwise, giving characters additional utility as well as differentiating two party members that may have picked the same class....

Announced on January 12th, 2021, Candlekeep Mysteries is the next book coming to the beloved Dungeons and Dragons franchise. The new book is an anthology of seventeen new adventures from more than a dozen designers both in-house and freelance. For many, it may come off as a surprise but a weclome one for players and dungeon masters looking to expand their campaign worlds. Set in the Forgotten Realms setting, Candlekeep Mysteries is an anthology highlighting seventeen new adventures designed to operate as one-shots or options to be plugged into existing campaigns....

Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam movie is finally becoming a reality. Having recently wrapped principal photography, the antihero driven movie about an ancient champion with the power of Shazam is due to open on July 29, 2022. It’s a movie that will fill out considerable chunks of DCEU history, from some ancient history hinted at in the first Shazam! movie to the fictional DC nation of Khandaq, to the introduction of the big screen version of the Justice Society of America....

Developer Techland releases a fresh trailer highlighting a newly explorable region in its forthcoming release of Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition. According to Techland’s newest trailer for Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition, a new area called Countryside is set to be included in the forthcoming DLC, and is touted as being “twice as big as the maps from the original game.” Dying Light’s new environments are quite diverse, including a granary, a lighthouse, a hermit’s cabin, a spooky ghost town, an even eerier old graveyard, as well as a dirt race track for fans of the survival-horror release to test out the forthcoming vehicle customization features....

EA chooses not to fight Ubisoft over their attempted trademark for the name of development studio Ghost Games, withdrawing their trademark application. A month ago, Ubisoft served a lawsuit against EA for their use of a Ghost logo and an attempt to trademark the term for one of the development studios under the general EA umbrella. While it may have seemed like a frivolous lawsuit to some, it would appear that EA has decided it’s not worth fighting over....

Xfinity Games will provide users with a number of EA-licensed games, including the likes of NBA Jam, Plants vs. Zombies, and Peggle Nights. The service will not provide players with any console releases, and instead only gives gamers the publisher’s mobile titles. A full list of games is available to view on the Xfinity Games website, although no online multiplayer is supported at present. The user’s smartphone or tablet acts as a controller for the system, with Xfinity Games offering support for devices for both iOS and Android....

Steam users can embrace a galaxy far, far away, or parkour the skylines of Mirror’s Edge for $4.99 a month starting today with EA Play. There is also a $29.99 a year option, which saves you 50% of the cost. The subscription service offers a bunch of titles from Electronic Arts’ back catalog, 10% off the publisher’s releases, and 10 hour free trials for new releases. FIFA 21 will have a free trial for EA Play subscribers on October 1, five days before the official release of the game....

The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest expansion, Elsweyr, is a new land full of the cat people called the Khajit and it’s every bit as strange, quirky, and charming as you’d expect. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Elsweyr is the introduction of a new powerful enemy in the world of Elder Scrolls Online, dragons. These dragons can yield some incredible loot, especially the golden dragon Nahviintaas, but only if you manage to kill them and survive the battle....

It’s no major secret to anyone that Fortnite is a revenue juggernaut in the game industry, with the wildly successful multiplayer sandbox survival title absolutely raking in money across its various platforms. For instance, $2 million is being generated on mobile microtransactions per day, while its PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One counterparts bring in huge profits as well. With this being the situation, it has now been revealed that the game’s creator, Epic Games, is currently worth between $5 billion and $8 billion thanks to the success of the online game....

Over the past few years, gamers have seen eSports evolve from a niche competition with a dedicated cult following into a bona fide phenomenon with an international audience. As prize pools and viewing figures continue to grow, it’s only to be expected that the community will see high profile events receive more media coverage. Earlier this year, ESPN ruffled some feathers by airing footage from a Heroes of the Storm tournament — a decision that left some viewers cold, but garnered a lot of attention on social media....

The latest State of Play showcased just over 16 minutes of gameplay from the upcoming Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Alongside showing off new planets and the mysterious new female Lombax Rivet, it also presented the game’s weapons vendor, as well as some of the weapons that Ratchet and Rivet will be able to use during their dimension-hopping adventure. Ms. Zurkon returns from Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus, and acts as Rift Apart’s weapon vendor....

Fans have been waiting patiently for Fallout 4 for years, and their pleas were heard at this year’s E3, as the fourth mainline installment of the popular post-apocalyptic role-playing series was officially unveiled. Already, many are eager to see more of the warped vision of Boston that we’ll all be exploring later in the year. The good news is, they won’t have to wait too long. Bethesda has confirmed that Fallout 4 will have a major presence at Gamescom 2015 in August, with presentations set for both the business and entertainment sections of the conference according to a PR email leaked via NeoGAF....

Fallout 76 is still a few weeks away from launching, but the game’s beta testing is officially live. Last night select players were able to explore the Appalachian wasteland for four full hours to test out the game’s character creation, combat, and everything else they could get their hands on. Game Rant participated in the Fallout 76 B.E.T.A. for the full four hours and tested out every system and feature we could find....

Fallout 76 is getting some new content, as we saw at QuakeCon 2020—which, of course, was run remotely. The Wendigo Colossus is going to give you and your squad some interesting problems to tackle, which should provide a challenge as well as entertainment. Along with the Wendigo Colossus, Bethseda are introducing a new fear system. What that means is, while your fighting the Colossus, your character can now be scared so much that they start running away....

A fan-made mockup of an Xbox handheld has gone viral on TikTok. Called the Xbox Series Z, the video showing off this potential device offers an intriguing glimpse at what a Microsoft handheld could look like. TikTok user ImKashama, who has made similar videos for other hypothetical devices, is responsible for the design. While this is not a real thing, the Series Z could be an exciting addition to the Xbox family alongside its recently released next-gen consoles, the Xbox Series X and S....