PC is becoming an ever-more attractive platform for fighting games and Japanese devs, and where those overlap lurks Bandai Namco. A Bandai survey doing the rounds is reportedly gauging interest in a PC version of Tekken 7—yet to make its way to the West on any platform. If it does appear, it’ll be the first Tekken game on PC...
Fallout 4’s Boston wasteland isn’t pleasant. It’s full of malevolent, mutated wildlife, warring factions and lung-torching radiation. Still, that’s not a huge problem if you can save your progress every minute or so, as the more careful among us often do. That’s why Bethesda is releasing a Survival mode, which removes the ability to save...
Blizzard has announced some big changes coming to Heroes of the Storm in the next patch. Draft lobbies are being given an “epic visual overhaul” in the next patch, including new background art, animated hero models and portraits, and updated selection animations, and hero bans in ranked play and custom games are finally on the...
Telltale Games CEO Kevin Bruner said in a recent interview with Mashable that the third season of its Walking Dead adventure series will get underway sometime this year. The studio has a “really cool and unexpected” plan for dealing with all the possible endings to TWD season two, he added: “From a role-playing, interactive storytelling...
The Descendant does not start off on a happy note: After climate change wrecks the planet, humanity nukes itself into a state of near-extinction. A few thousand “descendants of humanity” are selected for cryogenic suspension in underground bunkers called Arks, where it’s hoped they’ll survive the devastation and eventually emerge, to begin the process of...
The fifth episode of Minecraft: Story Mode, entitled Order Up, will be out on March 29, and here’s a surprise: It will not mark the end of the game. Developer Telltale Games announced today that three more “post-season episodes” are on the way. That tracks with what Telltale said ahead of the release of the...
Payday 2 is now available for SteamOS, which will come as good news for those of you packing a Steam Machine, or who intend to pick one up in the relatively near future. To celebrate the happy day, Overkill has put the game on sale for 75 percent off its regular price, dropping it to...
Even if Rise of the Tomb Raider came to PC a few months late, at least the extras are in sync with console—despite those extras being served lukewarm. Rise of the Tomb Raider’s season pass has one last chance to fix itself in our memories, with the final instalment, Cold Darkness Awakened, releasing March 29. As is Tomb Raider tradition,...
Hitman’s first Elusive Target will be appearing later than planned, closer to the launch of Hitman’s second mission, Sapienza, in April. Elusive Targets are time-limited, challenging hits set in Hitman’s existing levels—in this case, the Parisian palace that hosts Showstopper. The targets don’t show up on the minimap or in Instinct mode, requiring visual identification. I expected...
Hyper Light Drifter, the gorgeous, enigmatic ARPG from Heart Machine, finally has a release date. On March 31, you can see exactly what Heart Machine has achieved with $650,000—from a Kickstarter target of $27,000. We’ve looked in on Hyper Light a few times during its development. It was originally pegged for June 2014, but when you...
