Nintendo Highlights 29 Games in Indie World Showcase
Nintendo's Indie World showcase, held just as Gamescom 2019 kicks off, featured over two dozen indie games, confirming release dates, revealing new games coming to the Nintendo Switch, and more.
Here's the full list of games highlighted during the showcase, as well as their respective release windows or dates (seasons are based on North American release windows):
- Risk of Rain 2 - Summer 2019
- Eastward - 2020
- Freedom Finger - Fall 2019
- Röki - Winter 2019
- Torchlight II - September 3
- Skater XL - 2020
- Youropa - Winter 2019
- Superhot - Available today
Ori and the Blind Forest Confirmed for Nintendo Switch
The Microsoft Studios-published platformer Ori and the Blind Forest is coming to the Nintendo Switch in its definitive edition.
As revealed during the Aug. 19 Indie World Nintendo Showcase of upcoming Nintendo Switch games, Nintendo revealed Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition will debut on the system on September 27. The Definitive Edition includes additional areas, abilities, story elements, music, and more on top of the original adventure.
Developed by Moon Studios, Ori originally debuted on the Xbox One in 2015, and rumors of Ori and the Blind Forest coming to Switch have persisted for months.
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Avengers: Endgame’s Hayley Atwell Praises Peggy Carter’s ‘Fitting End’
Hayley Atwell has discussed Peggy Carter's character arc within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying that she thinks her story with Steve Rogers had a "fitting end" in Avengers: Endgame.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress shared her feelings on Peggy Carter's prospective final scene to "end the whole franchise", as she revealed her character's concluding sequence was secretly filmed over the course of a single afternoon back in 2017.
"I think we shot that maybe two years ago," she told the outlet, adding, "I thought it was a fitting end to a story that has affected so many people. I thought it was very endearing, innocent and wholesome in the way that it keeps those characters in their time."
Pro Hearthstone Players on Why Luna’s Pocket Galaxy Needs to be Nerfed
As someone who pretty much exclusively played Cyclone Mage in the Rise of Shadows meta, and then swiftly moved on to Highlander Mage once Saviors of Uldum launched, I’ve won my fair share of games thanks to Luna’s Pocket Galaxy. For those that don’t follow Hearthstone closely, the card is a Legendary spell that drops the cost of all minions remaining in your deck to one mana. This means if you can find the space in a game to spend five mana doing nothing, you can then highroll into a series of big bombs that now cost one mana. It’s a ridiculous card, but funnily enough, when it was first introduced into the game it cost seven mana and saw next to no play. In the Rise of the Mechs event, however, its cost was reduced to five (alongside a bunch of other buffs) and it quickly made its presence felt.
Beyond a Steel Sky Returns to Adventure Gaming’s Classic Cyberpunk City
The barren, terrifying wastes of devastated Australia are the home for one of the most notable nostalgia-powered trips of recent history: 2015’s Mad Mad: Fury Road. Picking up the legacy of a series thought finished decades ago, original director George Miller blended old-school physical filmmaking with modern techniques to create one of the decade’s most memorable blockbusters.
But Mad Max isn’t the only Australian dystopia that lay dormant for years in wait of revival. Beneath a Steel Sky, released in 1994, is a cult favourite adventure game. Fans have hoped and dreamed of a second game for over two decades. And now, in 2019, the original developers have created a sequel - Beyond a Steel Sky - by combining old-school adventure game design with modern techniques.
Tencent Announces Brand New Sci-Fi Shooter SYNCED: Off-Planet
Global publishing giant Tencent has announced a brand new sci-fi shooter, SYNCED: Off-Planet, in partnership with NVIDIA.
Officially unveiled at NVIDIA's showcase at Gamescom, SYNCED: Off-Planet combines survival, crafting and base-building with a PvPvE experience with up to 50 players, and 1000 corrupted human cyborgs called Nanos. It is being developed by NExT Studios as part of Tencent.
SYNCED: Off-Planet is centered on personal and group survival. It tasks you with preparing your group and crafting gear, as well as escorting survivors to shuttles leaving earth. Players will compete against each other to get "off-planet", but also attempt to survive against swarms of Nanos, which are ex-humans turned marauding cyborgs.
Bones of Long Dead Pokemon Decorated This Year’s World Championships Stage
The Pokemon World Championships has a long-running tradition of theming its merchandise, stage, and key art on its host city. With 2019's event taking place in Washington, D.C. the theme was all about museums and monuments, which saw Pikachu and some of its Pokemon friends dressed up in explorer's gear so they could go find wondrous artifacts to bring back to the Pokemon museum. But while those designs are as cute as expected, what drew eyeballs at the event was the stage decorated with huge skeletons of the dinosaur-like Fossil Pokemon Tyrantrum and Bastiodon.
Take a look:
Netflix Orders He-Man Masters of the Universe Series From Kevin Smith
Netflix has ordered a He-Man anime series, Masters of the Universe: Revelation, and Kevin Smith will serve as showrunner and executive producer.
Smith revealed the news at the annual Power-Con convention in Anaheim, California and announced that this new series will be a "wholly original story set in the epic world of Mattel's over 35 year-old global He-Man toy franchise."
EUnited Wins the Call of Duty World League Championship
EUnited has won the Call of Duty World League 2019 Championship, dragging the competition out to its last possible round, winning 3-2 and defeating 100 Thieves. They will take home the $800,000 grand prize, leaving 100 Thieves with $260,000 to split between team members.
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