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Recently, our own Andrew Jordan sat down with Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li. The two talked about a wide range of topics, including ASUS ROG’s recent “Art of the Duo” Competition where Li collaborated with the likes of T-Pain, Rafael Varona, and Kingdom of Something to make cool 30-second music videos that fans can vote on in an online contest. Additionally, Li talked about his Twitch presence, where like many artists, he plays guitar and games in equal measure....

Microsoft’s showing at E3 2015 has been impressive to say the least, and that’s mostly due in part to the slew of top-notch exclusives that they’ll be releasing for the Xbox One. With popular shooters like Halo 5: Guardians and Gears of War 4 leading the charge for console supremacy, Microsoft also has plans to take control of the racing game fan demographic with Forza Motorsports 6. While Microsoft certainly has competition in similar titles such as EA’s Need for Speed, the company has definitely proven that they have a respectable racing release of their own after revealing a fast-paced and ridiculously clean-looking trailer for Forza Motorsports 6 at E3 2015....

Less than one month after the release of UFC 4, a premium game with a $60 price tag, real advertisements have been added throughout the game. This move would be shocking for most developers, but is business as usual for EA. The ads appear frequently, between rounds, immediately prior to instant replays, and as combat starts up. The timing of the addition of ads to the game is also highly suspect....

Like the hapless humans in a monster movie, it’s easy to feel insignificant up against the might of a major publisher. Triple-A games development is after all a high stakes, multi-billion dollar business. So, while Electronic Arts’ Mecha-Godzilla may be all-too eager to tear into Activision’s own Mothra, neither side is particularly moved by the concerns of the screaming people below. Sure, there’s always petitions, negative Metacritic ratings, infamous consumer studies and more, but at the end of the day almost all decision-making power remains with these mammoth commercial entities....

E3’s conference day bonanza may have come and gone, but the industry still has plenty of secrets stashed up its sleeves. Speaking on Electronic Arts’ latest analyst’s call this week, EA Labels President Frank Gibeau confirmed the existence of up to six new publisher-owned IPs. Whilst no concrete identities were divulged during the fiscal summit itself, Gibeau did deign to add that each project’s future depended upon market shifts and stability....

More gaming companies are moving towards online shops, increasing the number of titles that are available digitally - as opposed to retail. While Valve’s Steam service is the most popular form of the model, other companies have decided to try their hand at the same method. EA is possibly the most direct competitor to Steam with their own online service, Origin, which was released in June of last year. Now, after a mostly lukewarm response, EA wants to know what gamers who use Origin think of it....

Epic Games is conducting a player survey to determine if it will introduce a monthly subscription to Fortnite. Leaked by Twitter user FireMonkey, the survey asks gamers if they would consider a monthly subscription for additional benefits as well as which benefits they would like to see. The subscription is expected to include the Battle Pass for current in-game seasonal events, early access to the monthly crew pack of free skins, and 1,000 V-Bucks, which can be spent each month on in-game items....

The Epic Games reveal of their demo for the upcoming Unreal Engine 5 was impressive, but surprising that the majority of gameplay was run on hardware for the Sony PlayStation 5 and not Microsoft’s Xbox Series X. Speaking with VentureBeat, Tim Sweeney was open about the long-standing relationship they had with Sony. Apparently, the new engine’s development on the PlayStation 5 had been active for an indeterminate, but long time. While the news does seem to favor one console over the other, Epic CTO Kim Libreri was quick to point out that “the future is very bright for gamers, and anybody using our engine for any application....

Yesterday, ESL and Dreamhack announced that they would be merging their esports organizations. The companies have been subsidiaries of Modern Times Group (MTG) since 2015 when the group bought both in separate transactions. ESL is the world’s largest esports company and the oldest that is still operational. The newly formed company will be known as ESL Gaming and will be headed by ESL co-CEOs Craig Levine and Ralf Reichert. Meanwhile, Dreamhack co-CEO Marcus Lindmark will join the ESL Gaming executive team....

Avowed is the upcoming first-person fantasy RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, developer of Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds. The game’s release trailer immediately drew attention from many fans of The Elder Scrolls, showing a first-person sword-and-sorcery viewpoint which raised hopes that Obsidian’s next title could be the “next” Skyrim. Few details have been released about Avowed since the trailer dropped earlier this year, but rumors and hints from the devs have been plentiful enough....

The original Evil Genius was developed by Elixir Studios back in the early 2000s and published by Vivendi Universal Games in September 2004. It was a great year for simulation games, which also gave us Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, Zoo Tycoon 2, and The Sims 2. Sixteen years later, Rebellion Developments, who acquired the franchise rights back in 2006, is almost ready to release a sequel into the world and attempt to conquer it once more....

Despite the F.E.A.R. series being dormant for years, fans of the horror series focused on the terrifying antagonist Alma recently went back to the games to see just how much death occurred. Unsurprisingly, it was a lot, with the various F.E.A.R. protagonists racking up over 2,000 total kills. Though F.E.A.R. 3 was reviewed fairly well, the mismanaged series has remained dormant for nearly a decade. Despite this, fans of the cult classic series have remained vocal about a potential reboot....

Mediatonic has partnered with Moose Toys to deliver the first official lineup of Fall Guys toys and plushies. Details around exact products are yet to be revealed, although the two companies did offer a sneak peek at a few of the plushies we can expect to see lining store shelves. As part of the deal, Moose Toys will produce a variety of Fall Guys toys, including figures, collectibles, premium plushies, and more....

A return to the post-apocalyptic wasteland of New Vegas might be in the cards, as Bethesda and Obsidian are now owned by the same company, which opens the door for a possible Fallout: New Vegas 2. Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks in 2010. The game was a spin-off of Fallout 3 that was heavily based on a canceled Fallout title that was being developed by Black Isle Studios, called Van Buren....

Fallout 4 is an astounding Western role-playing game that was received well critically, with its biggest criticism being a lack of true innovation. One could argue that they nailed the formula and it didn’t need fixing, while others felt it was holding the Fallout franchise back, only to be left in the dust by games like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Either way, the game featured an interesting world full of secrets and mysterious to uncover in the wasteland....

Developer Bethesda Softworks officially announces that gameplay footage for Fallout 4’s next expansion Nuka World will be on display in a livestream this week. As many Fallout 4 fans are surely aware, the release date for the post-apocalyptic RPG’s next expansion known as Nuka World is just around the corner, as it drops for the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One at the end of this month. With that being the case, now that Bethesda has already released a patch for all of the platforms under Update 1....

Prior to Bethesda’s bombshell reveal for Fallout 4, many expected the developer to set a new precedent for game announcements. Rather than let the usual marketing cycle run its course – that is: game announcement, a year or two of trailers and demos, and then release – many hoped Bethesda might announce Fallout 4 and then say it was bound for release a few months later. These theories were largely informed by prior rumors and the fact that Bethesda had yet to announce a new game in nearly four years....

Over the past few years, a few fans have managed to reverse engineer GTA 3 and Vice City. The fan-created source code was also available on GitHub, allowing anyone to play those games on PC. This also gave rise to Re3 (reverse-engineered GTA 3) and reVC (reverse-engineered Vice City), which have added tones of improvements to the original games. Unfortunately, it was hit with a DMCA takedown only a few days after Eurogamer put out a story about the fan project....

After receiving angry messages from players he’d just defeated in Trials of Osiris, one Destiny streamer chooses to be the bigger person and gives them a helping hand. Trolls and haters are a part of every online PvP game, but how a gamer chooses to handle them is another matter. One Destiny streamer dealing with haters decided to do something few do: he responded with kindness. Destiny streamer Luminosity was running the Trials of Osiris when he came under fire by the members of the team he’d just beaten....

What happens when you combine the creativity of city building with the challenges of uncertainty through dice rolling? Dice Legacy! French Publisher Firesquid and DESTINYbit are proud to reveal their upcoming title, which looks to shake up the city-building genre to its core when it launches on PC this summer and consoles at a later date. In this survival city-builder, players will roll dice to create their own miniature medieval town within a ring-shaped world....