New Characters Announced for Dragon Ball Z Kakarot

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Legendary stories are often filled with legendary characters and DRAGON BALL Zdefinitely has a legendary cast. Today, we’re excited to officially announce the inclusion of Vegeta, Piccolo and Gohan.

Additionally, we all know adventures are always better when shared with friends, and, as such, Goku will also be joined by his friends Krillin, Tien, Chiaotzu and Yamcha in DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT.

DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT, which is coming to the Americas for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via STEAM in 2020.

Bus Simulator Coming to Consoles this September

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Great news for simulation fans: astragon Entertainment and stillalive studios are happy to announce the release date of the console version of the popular PC game Bus Simulator 18 today! Bus Simulator for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will become available in the digital stores on September 17, 2019.

Just like the PC version, Bus Simulator for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will offer bus and simulation fans the opportunity to create their own bus company in the fictional European city of Seaside Valley and its surroundings – may it be in single-player or together with up to three additional players in multiplayer. Thanks to numerous officially licensed and carefully replicated buses of world-famous brands as well as countless challenging missions, players can look forward to long-lasting fun and plenty of variety.

Bus Simulator for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be released on September 17, 2019 for 39.99 EUR / 39.99 USD (RSP) as a digital download in the PlayStation Store and in the Xbox Games Store.

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New Overwatch Hero Revealed in New Trailer, Meet Sigma

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The latest hero to join the Overwatch roster has been revealed in a new story trailer. Peek inside the mind of an eccentric astrophysicist who hopes to unlock the secrets of the universe, unaware he’s been turning into a living weapon: Introducing Sigma.

Coming soon to Overwatch, available on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Mutant Year Zero New Hero ‘Big Khan’ Revealed in New Trailer

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With just a few more days go till the release of the expansion for critically acclaimed Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden,publisher Funcom and developer The Bearded Ladies today released a new video featuring the new playable character, Big Khan the Moose.

The smoking hot expansion Seed of Evil picks up where the original game left off and lets players continue their exploration of post-apocalyptic Sweden, this time with a new menace looming on the horizon. Powerful and ominous roots have emerged and seem to be taking control over the minds of friends and foes alike. Fortunately, a new hero has arrived, and he is probably the moost badass character ever to grace world of tactical adventure games.

Striding proudly in his Canada Moose jacket, Big Khan is not only skilled at landing critical hits, he comes with the unique mutations Ground Pound and Flame Puke, allowing him to set his foes ablaze.

The expansion and the retail release on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch is due July 30th. The expansion and the full game will also be available digitally on all platforms, including PC.

PC gamers can preorder the expansion on Steam for $ 14.99 / € 14.99 (pricing may differ across territories). A Digital Deluxe Edition will also be available, consisting of both the original game and the upcoming expansion. The Deluxe Edition will also be available in retail.

For more information about Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden visit www.mutantyearzero.com.

Oninaki Payable Demo Available Now

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The first playable demo of the action RPG ONINAKI is available right now to try the game out ahead of its August 22nd Release for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch.

The ONINAKI Demo includes a “Story Mode” that lets you experience the opening part of an epic tale about life, death and reincarnation, and “Battle Mode” where you can enjoy thrilling combat using an upgraded character possessed by four daemons that perform different job roles.

You can also carry your progress from Story Mode over to the full game.

New Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair Trailer Showcases Unique Alternate Level States

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Team17, a global games label, creative partner and developer of independent, premium video games in partnership with independent developer Playtonic Games are excited to release a new trailer for the forthcoming Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair.

In Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, players must rescue members of Queen Phoebee’s Royal Beettalion from Capital B in a quest to take on his most dastardly challenge yet – the Impossible Lair. Players will explore a charming 3D overworld to uncover 20 different 2.5D levels, each with a member of the Royal Beettalion to rescue.

However, there’s more! As the colourful duo traverse through the overworld, Yooka and Laylee will discover new secrets and puzzles which can dynamically transform each level, increasing the total number of levels to 40! Spark some change by hooking up electricity, flood chapters with running water or literally flip them upside down for radically altered challenges.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair will be heading to Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC in 2019. A boxed console version will also be available.

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ARK Survival Evolved FREE Expansion ‘Valguero’ Out Now on PS4 and Xbox One

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Studio Wildcard has announced that ‘Valguero,’ its new expansion map for ARK: Survival Evolved, is now available for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. This free downloadable update for ARK brings over 63 square kilometers of new land to explore and conquer, eight different Biomes with various climates and dangers, a brand new dinosaur, and more!

The ARK ‘Valguero’ Expansion Map Includes:

  • Expanded Exploration: Over 63 square kilometers of new land and sea to explore!
  • Peaks and Valleys: Eight Biomes with a vast array of climates and dangers – tread lightly through the hazards of Skeleton Gorge, see the vistas on top of the Twin Peaks or find remnants of the past at the Lost Temple.
  • Triple Threat Boss Challenges: A boss arena where players face an  epic battle against a Megapithecus, Manticore and Dragon in this heavy-hitting, triple threat encounter! Face familiar dangers in the End-Game Boss encounter in an entirely different way!
  • New Dinosaur – Deinonychus: Encounter the ill-natured Deinonychus! Similar to the raptor, it uses speed and agility to leap wall ledge to wall ledge as it seeks high vantage points to lie in wait for prey. This contentious beast is fearless and will hunt prey much larger than itself, latching onto a larger dinosaur’s back with its sickle-shaped claws as it starts to feed before its victim is even dead.
  • Into The Trenches: A large network of caves to spelunk as you delve into unexplored territory featuring different themes and varied perks, including the extensive Aberration Trench.
  • Secrets From the Ancient Age: Explore scattered ruins throughout the world of forgotten Valguero survivors.
The ARK: Survival Evolved ‘Valguero’ Expansion Map is a free downloadable update available now on Steam, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. For the latest updates follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, subscribe to us on YouTube, visit the Website at playark.com and watch us tame and train leviathan dinosaurs on Twitch.TV.

Game Accessibility Conference coming to the UK In October

The new edition of the Game Accessibility Conference, #GAconf, has been announced for October 22nd 2018, at Plexal, London, UK, with early bird tickets now on sale.

#GAconf is a one-day conference co-hosted by the IGDA’s game accessibility SIG, dedicated to making games more accessible to gamers with disabilities. The event features talks and networking for all disciplines of the games industry, exploring recent and future advances in game accessibility. After three editions in the USA and one in France, and many calls from the developer community to bring the format to the UK, the next event will be hosted in London.

 

Attendees can expect a wide range of topics from all sectors of the industry – indie to AAA, academia to accessibility specialists – and leave with inspiration, new contacts, and practical tips to ensure any game can reach as many people as possible, so no player is unnecessarily excluded from everything that games have to offer.

“It was an amazing day of inspiration and knowledge sharing. Just being in the room filled with empathy and warmth is such an invigorating dev experience!” – Reb Palacios, UI artist, Bethesda

“Being in a room of amazing people who share such passion for this was a wonderful experience” – Kaitlyn Jones, occupational therapist, Warfighter Engaged

“So happy to have first hand accounts from players about their gaming experiences” – Nikki Crenshaw, UX researcher, Blizzard

“Fantastic day at GAConf celebrating and getting tons of hot game accessibility tips!” – Jenny Lay-Flurrie, chief accessibility officer, Microsoft

 “Literally the most informative conference I’ve been to in a very long time!” – David Tisserand, Accessibility Project Manager, Ubisoft

Awareness of the importance of game accessibility has increased hugely in recent years, with ever growing numbers of developers seeing the benefits. Attendees will take home practical knowledge of how to ensure their vision can reach as wide a range of players as possible, allowing more of those players to benefit from the access to culture, recreation and socialising that gaming brings.

Speakers include Microsoft, Ubisoft, BBC, and renowned advocates and specialists Cherry “Cherryrae” Thompson and SightlessKombat. Many more still to come!

Tickets are now available at an early bird rate from www.gaconf.com.

Mortal Kombat 11 Signature Sub-Zero Themed Character Skin Revealed for International DJ Dimitri Vegas

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios today revealed a new Mortal Kombat 11 signature Sub-Zero themed character skin inspired by international DJ and actor Dimitri Vegas. Featuring Vegas’ likeness and incorporating updated voiceover work from the artist, the upcoming “Dimitri Vegas as Sub-Zero”character skin will be available as a free download for all Mortal Kombat 11 owners on 22 August for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch.

Previously, Vegas partnered with the Mortal Kombat 11 team to remix the iconic Mortal Kombat theme song, a cultural staple of the Mortal Kombat franchise since the 1995 film. The remix was prominently showcased in the Mortal Kombat 11 Launch Trailer, released this past April. He also created an original music track titled “You’re Next,” which was featured in the first Mortal Kombat 11 Gameplay Reveal Trailer back in January.

Mortal Kombat 11 is available now for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro, Xbox One, Xbox One X, PC and Nintendo Switch. The Kombat Pack is the best way to upgrade the Mortal Kombat 11 game experience with new downloadable content (DLC), featuring six characters – Shang Tsung (avail. now), NightwolfSindelSpawn and two fighters to be announced at a later date. The Mortal Kombat 11 Kombat Packalso includes numerous skin and gear sets and one-week early access for all content. Players can purchase the Kombat Pack as part of the Mortal Kombat 11 Premium Edition. All DLC characters and bonus character skin packs will be available for individual purchase after the one-week early access period.

To learn more about Mortal Kombat 11, please visit www.mortalkombat.com or join the community conversation on Facebook (MortalKombat), Instagram (@MortalKombat), Twitter (@MortalKombat), Twitch (NetherRealm), YouTube (Mortal Kombat), Discord (MortalKombat) or Reddit (MortalKombat).

HARLEY QUINN: The Animated Series SDCC 2019 Preview Trailer

The DC Universe Streaming service took the opportunity at SDCC 2019 to release a new preview trailer for the upcoming ‘HARLEY QUINN’ Animated show, and I must warn you….this is not a show for the kiddies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUl3z4NYBNA&t=0s

She’s ready to take on Gotham on her own! Kaley Cuoco stars as the voice of Gotham’s criminal queenpin Harley Quinn in a very aimed at adults animated show that will explore the DC universe through the eyes of Harleyy Quinn after she has split up with her ‘Pudding’ the Joker.

Kaley Cuoco will be joined on the cast by Lake Bell (Children’s Hospital) as Poison Ivy, Alan Tudyk (Firefly) as the Joker, and Tony Hale (Arrested Development) as Doctor Psycho. Wanda Sykes, Ron Funches, and Jason Alexander will also star but their roles have yet to be revealed.

I am already loving the tone and art style to the show, though it is still taking time to get used to Cuoco as Harleyy!

Supergirl Season 5 SDCC 2019 Sizzle Trailer

The Season 5 sizzle trailer for Supergirl was shown at SDCC 2019 and things are looking less than happy for Kara and her friends leading into Season 6:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_FBPbfkcrk

Season 5 of Supergirl will not only feature a brand new suit for Kara, but will see the fallout after Lena Luthor learned that Kara was Supergirl and Lena’s anger at being lied too not only by her best friend Kara but also everyone around her. A new threat called ‘Leviathan’ will rish to push Supergirl to her limits.

We also learned that series regular Mehcad Brooks who plays James Olsen will be leaving the show in the first half of the season but that former show regular Jeremy Jordan will return as fan favourite character Winn, for the three episodes following ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’ Crossover event. How James Olsen will be written out of the show is unknown at this point but the showrunners will no doubt leave their door open for future returns.

Supergirl premieres Sunday, October 6 on The CW.

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The Flash Season 6 SDCC 2019 Sizzle Trailer

The Season 6 trailer for The Flash has been shown during SDCC 2019 and things are looking rather sinister and dark for Team Flash!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RCKWBaiUS0&t=0s

Season 6 will continue only moments after the climatic end to Season 5 which saw Barry and Iris losing their daughter Nora. Trying to manage the grief of her loss, a new threat will rise up and will hit Barry on a very personal and emotion level as the format for the new season changes from previous thanks to a new show runner as well as the show preparing for the biggest ArrowVerse crossover event in ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’.

The Flash premieres Tuesday, October 8 on The CW.

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Arrow Season 8 SDCC 2019 Sizzle Trailer

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We have had a lot of news from the ArrowVerse during SDCC 2019 but finally we have the very first trailers for the CW shows starting with the trailer for the final Season 8 of Arrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reAuYvej_7M&t=0s

After years of denying himself his own life as Oliver Queen in order to be The Arrow, Oliver left Starling City with Felicity and made a home in suburbia. But their peaceful new life is shattered when The Monitor appears to collect on his deal with Oliver, made during the ‘Elseworlds’ Crossover event when Oliver struck a deal with The Monitor in order to save the lives of The Flash and Supergirl. Season 8 will see Oliver taking on missions across the globe as he tries to prepare for ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’.

The final season of Arrow premieres Tuesday, October 15 on The CW.

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Disney Plus MARVEL TV Shows Unveiled During SDCC 2019 Panel

The MARVEL SDCC 2019 took place yesterday (Overnight for us non US fans) and not only were the first films of MCU Phase 4 announced but time was also given to the new Disney Plus streaming service shows which will all tie into the big screen MCU Universe. It was also confirmed that all the shows will be post ‘Avengers: End Game’ in terms of the characters we will see on screen.

 

The show that interests me the most which was also the biggest surprise when it was announced before End Game hit cinemas is “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” which finally has a logo that will make all the sense post End Game events. Hitting screens hits Fall 2020 and will see Sebastian Stan & Anthony Mackie reprising their roles. Daniel Bruhl was also confirmed to be returning as Baron Zemo and he will be much more in line with the comic book version of Zemo.

We know from End Game that Falcon will become the new Captain America after Steve Rogers passed his Shield to him and Mackie has confirmed that he has already had his first new suit fitting at his home. This show will be an interesting first look at how the Avengers might begin to take shape without Cap and Iron Man and the pressure that will no doubt be on Falcon to live up to the legacy of Steve Rogers.

 

“WandaVision” arrives in Spring 2021 starring Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda and Paul Bettany as  Bettany but we do not know exactly how Vision is coming back into play. We also know from the MCU Film reveal at the panel, that this series will also leading into the Doctor Strange sequel which Scarlet Witch will also star in. Teyonah Parris was also confirmed to play the adult Monica Rambeau, the grown up version of the character introduced in ‘Captain Marvel’.

 

Not much was revealed about the LOKI series other than the Loki we see will be the version that stole the Tesseract during End Game and not the Loki we lost at the very start of Infinity War. This Loki will be a more angry version similar to the one we saw in ‘Avengers: Assemble’ way back when which might make some fans rather unhappy to have a Loki who has not gone on his long redemption story arc we saw him take throughout the MCU so far.

 

Similarly to Loki, not much information was given about ‘Hawkeye’ other than we know the show will explain and show what Hawkeye was doing following the impact of the Thanos Snap where he lost his whole family. It should hopefully fill in the gaps during the five years where he went rogue and taking on the mantle of Ronin which is where Black Widow finds him during End Game. Jeremy Renner returns as Clint Barton and thought not yet cast, will feature Kate Bishop who Barton will pass the mantle of ‘Hawkeye’ on.

What If? will be the MCU’s first animated series and has cast Jeffrey Wright as the voice of The Watcher. The animated series will feature many actors from across the MCU,  reprising their roles as voice talent including Chris Hemsworth, Michael B. Jordan, Josh Brolin, Sebastian Stan, Mark Ruffalo, Hayley Atwell, Jeremy Renner, Karen Gillan, Michael Douglas, Jeff Goldblum and many more. “What if?” will showcase alternative events if different choices had been made throughout the MCU…

My Thoughts….

It is very interesting to see MARVEL continuing the small screen and big screen experiment that began with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the MCU years back but now look as though they are doubling down and really using the Disney Pus service (yes I know its all about using MARVEL to sell subscriptions to the streaming service) to tie both worlds together as we rush headfirst into Phase 4 of the MCU. I am very much intrigued to see how these shows not only carry on following the events of End Game but also still expanding events that happened during End Game such as Hawkeye and seeing what happened to him before we find him standing in the rain after cutting down multiple Yakuza.

I am hoping that with Falcon and the Winter Soldier kicking things off later in 2020 that we will discover how non US fans will get to watch these shows or if Disney Plus itself will launch for the UK and elsewhere, but I am even more excited for these shows than I was before knowing how much of a role they will all play in Phase 4, not to mention it is always awesome to have more Loki!