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Extended edition of the 2011 title will add considerable touch screen support We’ve already learned of thenext stage in theDeus Exfranchisebut Eidos Montreal isn’t forgetting aboutHuman Revolution. The Director’s cut of the game will hit current consoles and PC on October 22 in North America and October 25 in PAL regions. I hadhands-on time with the Wii U versionand found the second-screen functionality really useful and intuitive. In his blog post, Eidos Montreal head David Anfossi confirmed that second-screen experience would extend to the Xbox 360 SmartGlass app and the PS Vita....

Surprise, a cat with an attitude issue Bandai Namco have released another trailer showing off of one the roster members for the upcomingDragon Ball FighterZ, which is so close now you can almost taste it. Lord Beerus, antagonist of 2013Dragon BallmovieBattle of the Gods, is an anthropomorphic cat god and, as such, displays well-known feline traits such as laziness, selfish behaviour and a pissy attitude. Beerus’ video game incarnation reflects this lethargic approach to carnage, with a relatively relaxed fighting stance and puppet projectiles, similar toStreet Fighter V’sMenat....

ThePersonaseries is often regarded as containing some of the best games that the RPG genre has to offer. Now, though it may not be the most obvious direction, the characters fromPersona 4and evenPersona 3are about to throw down the gauntlet in a fighting game. Persona 4 Arenais being developed by Arc System Works, the same team behind theBlazBlueseries. As soon as that information was announced, I knew this was going to be a fighting game worth playing....

This guy are sick Experience Points is a series in which I highlight some of the most memorable things about a particular game. These can include anything from a specific scene or moment, a character, a weapon or item, a level or location, a part of the soundtrack, a gameplay mechanic, a line of dialogue, or anything else about the game that is particularly noteworthy and/or awesome. This series will no doubt contain spoilers for the games being discussed, so keep that in mind if you plan on playing the game for the first time....

Mario would be proud Winning a crown is great and all, but have you tried dropping an innocent penguin off a cliff? Fall GuysSeason 3 featured a penguin-carrying level calledPegwin Pursuitthat was all boxed in, but Season 3.5 will take things even further. The mid-season update is going to place “pegwins” in more levels – including stages like Tundra Run that have bottomless pits – and that sure sounds like a dare....

Red 5 Studios’ free-to-play shooterFirefallis essentially two games in one. There’s the MMO aspect of the game, where hundreds of players can work together in an open-world environment and take part in the overall meta game experience. Then you have the competitive multiplayer, where players will use their custom-designed classes to kill each other to death. Firefallhas seen players in the invite-only beta for almost a year now and in that time, the studio has been gathering fan feedback on how to improve the game....

Year of the Snake is the big new expansion I only just finished playingSleeping Dogsa few weeks ago but I’m excited to dip in for some more DLC in 2013. TheZodiac TournamentandNightmare in Northpointwere some fun additions to the main game, and theupcomingYear of the Snakelooks interesting. IfZodiac Tournamentwas inspired byEnter The DragonandNightmare in Northpointwas inspired by Chinese ghost stories, then I’m hopingYear of the Snakeis some classic era Jackie Chan inspired action....

It seems alright so far Toukiden 2arrived in Japan in July of 2016, but given its niche premise of fighting oni during the Meiji era of Japan, it makes perfect sense that it’s been held until “spring 2017” for the west. Koei Tecmo gave me the opportunity to test out a demo build of the game in advance, and for the most part, it’s more of the same. Depending on your experience with the original, that could be a good or a bad thing....

Wasted Over the weekend, Rockstar was forced to yankGrand Theft Auto 4off of Steam’s shelves. It’s not licensing issues or cease and desists — the usual legal holdups — that are to blame. It’s that Rockstar doesn’t have any more product to sell because of a technical problem stemming from the now-defunct Games for Windows Live. Rockstar issued a statement toPolygon, and it nicely sums up the scope of the situation: “Grand Theft Autowas originally created for the Games For Windows Live platform....

Raid, Hold, GTA, and Contend As of an update dropping tomorrow on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, there’s going to a GTA mode inGrand Theft Auto OnlineinGrand Theft Auto V. Huh? Rockstar is introducing 20 new Jobs inGTA Onlinebased on capture the flag, which will be playable in four different modes: Unnamed fixes and tweaks will also make it into this patch on PS3 and Xbox 360. As nice as this all sounds, it’s still not co-op heists and until those are available, nothing will seem good enough....

So it’s come to this 343 Industries has had enoughissueswithHalo: The Master Chief Collectionthat, two months after release, it’s come to this: public beta testing for an impending large-scale content update. Testers will be chosen from a pool of North American players with high levels of engagement who have also opted into the Xbox One Preview Program. The beta is happening Friday and, depending how everything goes, the public at large will presumably get the update not long after....

The fan-favorite mode makes a return Infinity Ward tried some new things with the release ofCall of Duty:Modern Warfare II— some of them stuck like semtex, and some of them didn’t. One change that many players are excited to see reverted is the game’s Hardcore mode, or more specifically, its return to the game withMWII‘s Season 2. The news came via the officialInfinity Ward Twitter account, where they announced the return of the mode that makes an already-difficult game even harder....

Listen to the music Whether I totally overthink the solution or I’m just not in the right frame of mind, I have this silly habit of getting tripped up by the simplest puzzles in horror games – the kind that make you go “oh duh!” Like clockwork, I got all the way to the final chapter ofLittle Nightmares IIbefore stumbling – and the puzzle that confused me ended up being dead simple in retrospect....