Devil May Cry 5, Blair Witch Project and More Coming to Xbox Game Pass
Devil May Cry 5 will be available today on Xbox Game Pass, announced as part of an 8-strong list of new additions to Microsoft's service.
During the Gamescom edition of Inside Xbox, Microsoft revealed the list of games, and the dates they'll join the Pass:
- Age of Empires: Definitive Edition - August 19
- Devil May Cry 5 - August 19
- Stellaris - August 19
- Ape Out - August 22
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance - August 22
- Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - August 27
- Blair Witch Project - August 30
- Dead Cells - September 5
All games on that list available on PC will also join the PC version of Game Pass.
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Prequel: The Second Age Explained
As the streaming wars heat up, Amazon is betting big on The Lord of the Rings. The company is spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing a prequel series set long before the events of the movies. This series will be set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, an important time that literally reshaped the face of the planet.
And now casting news is pouring in on the show, with Game of Thrones’ Benjen Stark, Joseph Mawle, hired to play -- it seems -- the series’ villain. Will Poulter, will play protagonist Beldor and Markella Kavenagh has been cast as Tyra.
Alienware Goes Full Sci-Fi with its Newly Redesigned Aurora Gaming Desktop
Alienware is upgrading it compact Aurora gaming desktop with a new look and cutting-edge internals at Gamescom 2019.
On the outside, the Alienware Aurora is finally getting the same Legend industrial design that the Alienware Area 51m gaming laptop debuted. With the new design, the Alienware’s compact gaming PC looks more like a space pod form a future NASA space program rather than one from another planet. It comes sporting new hexagonal-shaped cutouts on the left side for ventilation, a sort of wind tunnel opening on the front, and alien-inspired characters etched onto the left side.
Alienware’s 55-inch 4K OLED Gaming Monitor Costs $4K
We’ve gotten our second look at Alienware’s 55-inch OLED gaming monitor at Gamescom 2019 and it looks just as gorgeous as it did last time, but now we can actually tell you it’ll arrive on September 30th for $3,999.
That’s very, very expensive, but it’s pretty much the only gaming monitor of its kind and size. There really aren’t any other OLED gaming monitors out there right now, so we don’t have much of a benchmark for what they should cost—but OLED 4K TVs do start at $1,599. With the Alienware 55 OLED technical being classified as a big-screen gaming monitor, the only display that’s close in size is the $4,999 HP Omen X Emperium 65.
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.