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22 is also the number of frames per second this game appears to be running at There were so many announcements in today’s Nintendo Direct that it’s easy to forget everything that was shown off. I mean, when you end withBayonetta 3, that’ll pretty much dominate all sectors of your brain for the next few hours. However, many other upcoming titles also got their moment in the spotlight during the presentation, and that includesRune Factory 5....

Promotion for DuckTales Remastered Starting on June 7th at the iam8bit Gallery in Los Angeles, you’ll have the opportunity to jump into a recreation of Scrooge McDuck’s money bin, to celebrate the release ofDuckTales Remasteredlater this year. It’ll be housed in a 10×10 structure, with foam coins (you didn’t expect real cash, did you?) and galvanized plated walls. The event runs from June 7th until the 30th, all the way through E3....

Jack Sparrow joins the seafaring adventure title During today’s Microsoft and Bethesda E3 conference, Xbox Game Studios revealed that its pirate adventureSea of Thieveswill be getting a brand new original story, featuring the characters of Disney’s cinematicPirates of the Caribbeanfranchise, including the head rogue himself, Captain Jack Sparrow. Incredibly, this brand new content — packed full of side-quests and new adventures — is already good-to-go and will arrive inSea of Thievesas soon as June 22, and even more surprisingly, it will be made available for free for all players....

The city builder works like the real world SimCityjust had it’sfirst closed betaevent and Norman Chanover at Testeddecided to see how the game responded to real world city planning systems. It turns out the game responds really well to how things actually work. Normman tried out the surburban-urban grid, radiating sprawl, and cul-de-sac plans for an hour each, and cities built up around the roads in a way that is similar to how real cities develop....

They’re $0.75 each Continuing with the paid costume DLC tradition, Sakurai unveiled two new collaborations forSmash Ultimate, and surprise, it’s Capcom at the helm again. The costumes includeMonster HunterandGhosts ‘n Goblinscrossovers, with Hunter Equipment (Swordfighter), Rathalos Equipment (Swordfighter), Felyne (hat), and Arthur (Swordfighter) DLC. Sakurai says that because ofMonster Hunter Riseand the fact that you can fight Rathalos in-game, the costumes make sense forSmash. The same goes forthe recent SwitchGoblinsgame....

STALKER 2was always going to be a conflicting release. I don’t think anybody expected it to be conflicting for the reasons that have since come to light, however, namelythe lack of A-Life proper. Still, there’s merit in this game, and the creator ofDishonoredthinks so as well. According to Raphael Colantonio,the founder and former CEO of Arkane Studios,STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobylis going to be his personal Game of the Year. Colantonio has been one of the lead developers on a great number of widely acclaimed games....

Abathur, for $4.99 StarCraft IIhas got to have worked out well from a monetary standpoint for Blizzard. I mean you have one core release plus two expansions, a whole new three-partNova campaign add-on, and now, premium co-op characters all spanning the same engine — there’s something for just about everyone to buy if they really wanted. So yeah, that latter bit actually launches today, and it kicks offwith Abathur, who is available for $4....

Sony revealed on the PlayStation Blog that the next PlayStation State of Play is set for tomorrow, September 24, at 6 pm EST. The presentation will be streamed on both YouTube and Twitch and will feature more than 20 upcoming PS5 and PS VR 2 titles from studios all over the world. Thelast State of Play occurred in Mayof this year and focused primarily on theill-fatedConcord, taking up over 10 minutes of the roughly half-hour presentation....

There really is nothing quite like a good old-fashioned action game. FromGod of WartoBujingai, they are the bread and butter of a lifelong gamer’s diet. A third-person mixture of combat and exploration, it is a genre absolutely packed full of amazing titles and generic rubbish that keeps us coming back for the inevitable sequels. In this, the latest edition of Ten Golden Rules, we crack open this noble, saturated form of game to bring you the code to which all action title developers stick....

VVVVVVery intriguing Terry Cavanagh is known for making some of the most brutally difficult, yet immensely satisfying games.VVVVVVshowcased some downright masochistic platforming, andSuper Hexagonprovided twitch gaming that evoked an almost religious experience when everything started to fall into place. With his new game, codenamedHalting Problem, Cavanagh hopes to produce a “proper, meaty puzzle game.” While I’m excited for it, I’m worried that the man who ruined my thumbs with his platformer will ruin my brain with his puzzle game....

Well, well. Look who’s come crawling back. ME. If you guys have been keeping track, The Destructoid Show came to an endtwo months ago,and I announced my departure from Revision3 aboutone month ago. And today, in an effort to further confuse my extended family who were never entirely sure what my job was to begin with, I’m proud to announce that I am back with Destructoid, full-time, as their head warlock of video-related crap — which will include, in some form, a resurrection of the Destructoid Show....

New trailer I’m good and ready to jump intoThe Evil Within. So ready. The game has gone gold across all platforms, says Bethesda. That means that we’re on track for the October 14 release of Shinji Mikami’s latest survival horror, bringing the game to PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC in a matter of weeks. The new trailer is more gameplay tips than freak out scenes, which kind of kills a bit of the buzz....

This month marks the end of the “Proto-Type” arc that follows the life of Blues before he became Proto Man. In thefirst part, we bore witness to his creation and his eventual choice to run away. With a damaged power core, Blues now tries to live his last days according to his own will. Meanwhile, Wily convinces Light that it’s time to move on and begin work on the Robot Masters....