Yesterday we posted the teaser of the Berserk Map that is included in the Descent DLC pack for Black Ops 3. Today, Activision released the teaser for the map “Cryogen”. As the name states, the map takes place in a Crygoentic lab in the middle of nowhere.
You can catch the teaser above.
With Summer upon us, it means one thing for the Smite community: The yearly Summer Of Smite event is near and this year’s is set to be the biggest one yet.
Starting with the 3.12 patch, the Summer of Smite event is set to kickoff alongside some big changes to the game such as the removal of Golden Bow and the inclusion of the latest god, Erlang Shen. Much like any event, there’s going to be some exclusive skins tied to it, including the limited Mermaid Medusa skin that you’ll receive for purchasing all items during the event.
View the video above to see what Hi-Rez has in store.
In addition to some new exclusive skins being added, the game will get a few new features like a re-skinned arena map and a special new quest that will allow you to earn free gems.
Smite is a free to play MOBA for the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Activision released a teaser of the new Berserk map from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s upcoming Descent DLC, and it definitely looks like it will be a cold one.
You can catch the video above. The DLC is set to release on the PlayStation 4 July 12th, 2016 while the Xbox One and PC have yet to get a release date.
If you haven’t gotten a chance to pick up Rocket League, now would be the perfect time to do so. Today, the Collector’s Edition has hit store shelves and will retail for a suggested MSRP of $29.99 USD.
“Originally published on Windows PC via Steam and Sony’s PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system via PlayStation™Network in July 2015, Rocket League® most recently released a digital Xbox One version in February 2016. The easy-to-understand controls and high-octane interpretation of association football has become a critical and commercial phenomenon; having won a slew of respected awards, while selling more than five million digital units and amassing a community of over 18 million players worldwide.”
The Collector’s Edition combines all the fun and fervor of the original base game, plus all the cars and content found in the highly-popular “Supersonic Fury,” “Revenge of the Battle-Cars,” and “Chaos Run” DLC packs, plus a “Collector’s Edition Limited Art Print.” The retail version also debuts four brand new vehicles: the anime-inspired, “Esper” and “Masmune,” and the modern re-imaginings of Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars vehicles, “Aftershock” and “Marauder.”
You can catch the launch trailer above.
Gearbox Software is hitting fans with details on when to expect Battleborn‘s first story DLC campaign, as well as the next DLC character, Pendles.
Recently, the studio finally revealed their DLC roadmap, which will deliver all five story DLC campaigns by Winter. You can check out the release schedule for their Premium/Season Pass DLC in full below:
Premium DLC Timeline:
Additionally, new details are out on the first DLC story-operation, titled “Attikus and the Thrall Rebellion.” In it, Attikus recounts what exactly happened when he overthrew his Jennerit oppressors. As an added twist, Gearbox will also implement a new mechanic where every play-through of the missions will be different. The story, enemies, and objectives will refresh, offering better loot. It should also be noted that you’ll earn new skins and taunts upon completing the story-operation.
Gearbox Software also plans to add new modes some time this Fall for Battleborn’s PVP portion, as well as one new map for each of the currently featured game modes in the upcoming weeks.
Battleborn is available for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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After weeks of waiting, both PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One versions of Blizzard’s new hero-shooter, Overwatch, are set to receive the much anticipated Competitive Play mode in the very near future.
According to the studio, the update is set to go live on July 5th alongside a new patch that will tweak some of the heroes such as McCree and Widowmaker. Before you decide to jump into competitive play, however, it should be noted that you’ll have to be at least rank 25 to enter its queue.
For the full patch notes, read on:
HERO BALANCE CHANGES
McCree
Widowmaker
GENERAL UPDATES
Gamepad Controls
Miscellaneous
BUG FIXES
General
Maps
Heroes
Overwatch is available for the PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox one platforms.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s third multiplayer map pack arrives on July 12, developer Treyarch announced today.
Descent, as it’s called, will hit PlayStation 4 owners first before making its way to Xbox One and PC owners one month later. It’ll deliver four new multiplayer maps — Empire, Cryogen, Rumble, and Berserk — and, of course, a brand new Zombies chapter called Gorod Krovi.
As fans suspected, the new Empire map is, in fact, a remake of the original Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 map, Raid, updated for current-gen visuals and Black Ops 3’s new movement system. Here’s what we know so far about the new locations:
Empire
Treyarch adapts its Black Ops III movement system to the Call of Duty®: Black Ops II fan favorite map Raid. The re-imagining of this classic, medium-sized map features an authentic Roman villa that has been “recreated by a modern-day eccentric billionaire,” where a classic map structure mixes with the new gameplay mechanics of Black Ops III.
Cryogen
Located far off the coast in the Dead Sea, an isolated compound holds some of the world’s most dangerous criminals in frozen isolation. Sentry towers keep watch over the small map’s circular design as frenetic combat is funneled around the prison’s cryogenic tubes, where opportunities for wall running attacks abound.
Berserk
Ancient sentinels from a lost civilization guard the entrance to Berserk, a Viking village frozen in time. Players will fight through blizzards, and control the center bridge as they navigate this medium-sized map’s wooden buildings, deadly rocky outcroppings, and tight chokepoints.
Rumble
Gamers battle amongst larger-than-life mechanized warriors in Rumble, a stadium where giant robots battle to the roar of the crowd. This medium-sized map funnels high-speed combat to the central arena, where players battle their way through fallen mechs and pyrotechnics.
Gorod Krovi
Descent also thrusts players to an alternate universe of Nikolai’s motherland, the 1940s Soviet Union, in the next highly-anticipated chapter of the Origins Zombies saga, Gorod Krovi. Players face-off against a swarm of mechanized zombie infantry and dodge hell-fire from aerial dragon assaults, all in the middle of a raging battle within the remnants of Stalingrad. Gorod Krovi delivers the most exciting Zombies experience yet, filled with horrifying new enemies, exciting new gameplay mechanics and an epic set of Zombie annihilating weapons.
Here’s the official trailer for the new zombies map, Gorod Krovi:
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DLC 3 will be included in the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’s Season Pass and sold separately for $14.99 USD.
Tomorrow — or later today if you’re reading this in the AM — marks the launch of Tom Clancy’s The Division‘s next major content update, as well as the delivery of the game’s first paid expansion.
Developer Ubisoft shared a new gameplay earlier today of the upcoming expansion called Underground, along with the full list of patch notes for Update 1.3. Both will hit Xbox One and PC on the 28th of June, but gamers on PlayStation 4 will have to wait a little while longer for Update 1.3 and hang tight until August 2 for the Underground expansion.
Here’s what you get that’s exclusive to owners of the Underground Expansion:
Underground
New Incursion: Dragon’s Nest
Added four new Gear Sets:
Added one new Weapon:
To get the full scoop on everything that’s included in Update 1.3, be sure to read up on the patch notes here.
Treyarch has news of its upcoming DLC launch for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. On Twitter, the studio teased a pair of images, hinting at a proper announcement of the game’s third map pack some time tomorrow, June 28.
The first, if you look closely, appears to be a remake of the popular Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 map, Raid. The section pictured can be compared to the central courtyard in the original.
It’s almost time. pic.twitter.com/kcq9sRA5Ur
— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) June 27, 2016
Then came this shot of what looks like the new zombies map that will undoubtedly be included in the new content update.
Tomorrow, the wait will be over. Nothing can prepare you for the destruction that awaits. pic.twitter.com/q1PAAupYVi
— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) June 27, 2016
If it turns out that Raid is indeed getting a facelift for Black Ops 3, what do you think of the new look?
Halo 5: Guardians’ biggest content update yet drops next Wednesday, July 29, developer 343 Industries announced today.
The launch of the Warzone Firefight update marks an exciting week for fans of Xbox One’s flagship shooter, as well as for those that have yet to join the party. The update itself, which is once again free for all Halo 5 players, introduces a brand new Warzone mode, new campaign features, new maps, and more. Following its release, Halo 5 will be free to download and play for all Xbox Live Gold members for one week, until June 5, during which time the the game’s asking price will also drop by 50%.
We considered Halo 5: Guardians’ multiplayer one of the best that the series has ever had to offer, so we definitely recommend checking it out if you haven’t yet.
Here are the specifics on the new Warzone Firefight update, according to Xbox.com.
New Game Mode – Warzone Firefight: Warzone Firefight is, by far, the biggest content release since the launch of Halo 5: Guardians! As a result of the beta in April, 343 Industries has taken player feedback to improve the game mode for launch, such as increasing the difficulty each round and adding brand new bosses and vehicles – including the hilarious (and deadly) Grunt Goblin boss and the powerful UNSC VTOL, AV-49 Wasp, deployable as a REQ vehicle in all Warzone modes and available to use in Forge.
New Campaign Feature – Score Attack: As detailed on Halo Waypoint, the Warzone Firefight content release will include a new way to play Halo 5: Guardians’ campaign – Score Attack! Campaign scoring makes a return to Halo 5: Guardians, enabling players to compete against their friends for points and medals in online co-op play or solo. Remember – in Score Attack, the points do matter so be sure to defeat enemies with style and flourish!
New Maps – Attack on Sanctum, Prospect and Molten: The free Warzone Firefight release brings three new maps across multiple game modes: Attack on Sanctum, Prospect and Molten. In the Attack on Sanctum map for Warzone, revisit the Covenant homeworld of Sanghelios, or take it to the rocky roads of Prospect for Warzone Assault. For Arena players, Molten will be a hot new Arena map – be sure not to fall into the stream of lava!
New Forge Canvas – Tidal: Since the release of a new super-charged Forge mode for Halo 5: Guardians in December, Forgers have been hard at work creating some of the most unique, creative and innovative maps ever seen in Halo. The Warzone Firefight release brings a fan-requested canvas, the ocean-themed Tidal. No longer will players have to struggle to find water to Forge on – it’s literally everywhere on Tidal!
New REQs Items: Warzone Firefight adds several new REQ items, including the Cinder and Cyclops armor sets, Covenant vehicle and weapon variants, HCS Pro League weapon skins and additional customization sets.
Get a load of the new REQs below:
Head to Twitch.tv/Halo on June 28 at 2PM PST / 5PM EST to get a live stream preview of the new update.
Soon, Battlefront fans will get to take part in epic battles amidst the backdrop of one of Star Wars’ most memorable locations.
Star Wars Battlefront Bespin DLC launches later this month for Season Pass owners, but developer DICE is giving fans a first look with an official launch trailer for the upcoming content update, as well as a gameplay live stream later on.
According to a brief description of the update, players will “take flight in a cloud car, journey through Cloud City, navigate carbon-freezing chambers, or hunt enemies with the X-8 Night Sniper and EE-4 blasters.” Players will also fill the boots of new heroes like Lando Calrissian and Dengar and make use of their new abilities.
Tune in to the live stream reveal tomorrow at 10AM PST / 1PM EST at twitch.tv/starwarshq to see Battlefront’s new Bespin DLC in action.
It’s no secret that Gearbox Software was going to eventually add some sort of micro-transactions to their hero-shooter, Battleborn, at some point after launch. It was just a matter of when.
According to Gearbox themselves, the new micro-DLC set to go live June 16 and will feature a number of different payment options to purchase the soon to be introduced “Platinum” currency. You can see all of the different payment options below:
Upon purchasing Platinum currency, you’ll be able to buy the Tier 2 skins that were spotted during the Open Beta for about 420 platinum each. Additionally, Gearbox is also making new taunts available for Ghalt, Oscar Mike, Benedict, Shayne & Aurox, El Dragon, Whiskey Foxtrot, Kleese, and Alani. Each taunt costs 230 Platinum.
It should be noted that these purchases are just purely cosmetic only and don’t have any real effect on Battleborn’s PvP game modes. Gearbox also still plans to release new heroes, multiplayer maps, and modes for free in the near future.
Battleborn is available for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One
Call of Duty like you’ve never seen it and like you’ve always remembered it was on display at Sony’s E3 2016 media briefing.
Developer Infinity Ward brought both Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered to the table with a lengthy single player demo of the former and a few snippets of gameplay from the latter.
The Infinite Warfare demo really presented a new direction for Call of Duty, showing off never-before-seen dogfights amidst a large space battle, along with new ways to combat enemies in zero gravity. Meanwhile, the new footage from Modern Warfare Remastered was a real blast from the past. Captain Price never looked so good.
Check out the all-new footage above and be sure to share your thoughts with us.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on November 4. PlayStation 4 owners who pre-purchase either the Legacy, Legacy Pro, Digital Legacy, or Digital Deluxe Edition of the game through participating retailers will get 30-days early access to the Modern Warfare Remastered campaign on October 5.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildands got a hefty amount of attention during the company’s E3 2016 presentation with new trailers and long look at some new gameplay footage.
Fans also learned that open-world co-op shooter will launch on March 7.
Have a gander at all of the new footage below and be sure to drop your thoughts in the comments.
Cinematic Trailer
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Gameplay Walkthrough
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Gameplay Trailer
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Gears of War 4 creators The Coaltion took the stage during Microsoft’s E3 2016 press conference to show off a bit of co-op action from their upcoming third-person shooter.
The studio also announced that Gears of War 4 will be coming to both Xbox One and Windows 10 on October 11.
The new gameplay is above. If you’re a fan of the series, be sure to stay tuned to the end for a little surprise.
As announced during both Microsoft and Ubisoft’s E3 2016 conference, Developers behind The Division revealed that the first big DLC launch for the game will arrive lather this month, first on Xbox One.
In “Underground,” Division agents will journey through New York City’s underground system and take on randomly generated missions and layouts. You can check out the announcement trailer here:
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Additionally, during Ubisoft’s conference, developer Massive offered a first glimpse of the upcoming “Survival” DLC, which is the second of three major DLC launches that the studio has planned for The Division. Here’s the footage:
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At Xbox’s E3 2016 conference, Microsoft unveiled a new, slimmer version of the Xbox One called the Xbox One S, as well Project Scorpio, also known as the Xbox One 4K.
“With a fresh new design and ‘robot white’ color, the Xbox One S is 40 percent smaller than the original Xbox One, creating the most compact Xbox yet,” the company announced. “It also includes a built-in power supply, and in response to fan requests worldwide, can be placed horizontally or vertically with an optional stand.”
The Xbox One S will retail starting at $299 USD. You can catch the reveal video here:
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Meanwhile, Project Scorpio will feature an 8 core CPU, a graphics card with 6 teraflops of power, and 320GB/s of memory bandwidth. It is set to release in 2017, but no price was announced. Catch the teaser below:
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With Rash from Battletoads and Arbiter from the Halo series now playable characters in Killer Instinct, one is left to wonder who else can Iron Galaxy add to their already diverse character roster.
How about Gears of War? At this year’s E3 presentation, the studio announced that none other than General Raam from the Gears Of War franchise will also make an appearance as another iconic Xbox character. You can check out the reveal trailer above.
It appears you won’t have to wait long at all to get your hands on the latest roster addition as General Raam will be playable once the newest Killer Instinct update goes live sometime today.
Killer Instinct is available for both Windows 10 and Xbox One.
At Xbox’s E3 2016 conference this morning, Microsoft released another trailer for their upcoming Halo-themed strategy game, Halo Wars 2, in addition to announcing its official release date of February 21 for PC and Xbox One.
For those who can’t wait to get their hands on the sequel to the well-received original, Microsoft also announced a week-long beta starting on June 13 that you can sign up for by following this link.
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If you couldn’t get enough of the gameplay premiere trailer for Injustice 2 this past Saturday, NetherRealm Studios has you covered with even more gameplay from this year’s E3 presentation.
Check out the new footage above.
Injustice 2 is set to launch some time in 2017 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms.
