It’s a new day for Bomberman Konamihave revealedthat WWE’s New Day member and passionate video game fan Xavier Woods is to make an appearance as a DLC character inSuper Bomberman R. YES HE IS! Art was released of the Bomber Woods character, sporting the trademark day-glo outfit of The New Day and wielding his famous trombone. Woods hosts his own YouTube channel,UpUpDownDown, where he and other WWE guys ‘n’ gals face-off on various video games, so he is no doubt completely stoked by this cameo appearance....

Overwatch League just completed its first quarter The Overwatch League just finished “Stage 1,” its first quarter of matches, and we can now clearly see how each team stacks up against one another. While no one necessarily towers over anyone else, the New York Excelsior, led by a well-rounded roster that includes Dong-guy “Mano” Kim and Do-hyeon “Pine” Kim are in the lead with a 9-1 record. Following them are the Houston Outlaws, London Spitfire, Los Angeles Valiant, and Seoul Dynasty with 7-3 records vying for the top spot....

Gentlemen! Ve are Nazis und ve vill have var! I’ve got kind of a thing forWolfenstein 3D, since it was one of the first PC games I ever played, but also World War II and alternate histories in general. So excuse me while I indulge in some inappropriate levels of excitement about “Nowhere to Run,” the latestWolfenstein: The New Ordertrailer. The trailer opens with Martha and the Vandellas’ “Nowhere to Run,” doing the whole juxtaposition of cheery pop song against dark imagery (Halloween IIdid this so well with “Knights in White Satin,” for real) and a soccer player getting shot in the face....

It WAS some new dude after all [Update:DotEmuhas released the new trailerforStreets of Rage 4, starring cybernetic new character Floyd Iraia. In addition to this reveal, the publisher announced the game will launch this spring and feature both online multiplayer for two players, or offline co-op for four.] DotEmu, the publisher for upcoming brawlerStreets of Rage 4, has announced its intention to drop a new update on the title this week....

Yearly sub removal from Xbox Store not an error Microsoft has removed the option to purchase a 12-month subscription to its Xbox Live Gold service. While both one-month and three-month subscriptions remain purchasable, the full year sub has been scrubbed from Xbox stores across all territories. When the removal was first discovered, some reports hypothesised that it was just an error on the Xbox store’s part, but Microsoft has since sent a statement toTrue Achievements, confirming that the change is indeed intentional....

Did you vote for it? Microsoft is introducing 12-person party chat to Xbox One from today — and you don’t have to be in the preview programme to use it. Major Nelsonconfirmed that the feature, whichreceived 2200 votes on Xbox Feedback, will roll out immediately, and won’t require a console update. Naturally, 12-person party chat is also available on the Xbox App on Windows 10, too. If you are in the New Xbox One Experience Preview, you’ll also be getting an update later today that adds a few new features....

I’m 50/50 As someone who used to make .wad maps ofDuke Nukem 3Dback in the day, I’m extremely thankful for mods. One of the most insane revolutions that I witnessed as an ’80s kid was watching entire online communities disappear as publishers refused to implement mod support and dedicated servers — a rare event now that used to be an expected feature. But the landscape has changed. Now developers have the technology to fully realize some of the open world dreams that they had in the early periods of game development, and I’ve slowly become more and more at ease with the lack of mods in certain games....

The team is ‘just on a very long vacation’ As a studio, DICE “love[s] theBad Companyseries,” but a new installmentisn’t a point of focusright now. Creative director Lars Gustavsson toldPolygonthat “My feeling is that I would love to do it. For me, when we started the company with1942, it was really a work of passion. And then we worked our way through the era of different wars, and I loved them all, like my little babies....

Cities: Skylines 2is a game that just keeps going no matterhow bad things may have beenon launch day. This is thanks to official updates and improvements, but also a thriving community of modders. Comprehensive modding supportwas one reason why the originalCities: Skylineswas as big of a success as it was.Official modding support forSkylines 2is not yet availableat the time of writing this article, but that’s never stopped the community from doing its thing....

As a fan of designer games, I had a lot of fun withBuild A Boat For Treasure. I loved crafting my ship and watching other players get creative with their designs. Of course, I needed more money rather soon, so I looked for some freebies. Thankfully, I did get some extra cash by redeemingBuild A Boat For Treasurecodes. Using codes is particularly helpful as you’ll receive gold, but also other items, including different parts for your boat....

‘We have entrusted Dambuster Studios’ The ballad ofJohn and YokoDead Island 2and Deep Silver continues. If you recall the game was actually announced in 2014, with two years of planning preceding it. Since then Techland jumped ship to the more lucrative and much more impressiveDying Lightseries, leaving Deep Silver holding the reins, trying to figure out who was actually going to make this thing they greenlit. Yager Development (ofSpec Ops: The Linefame) got the gig until they didn’t, and were dropped in mid-2015....

Battle your way to Duriel Diablo II‘s resurrection is close at hand, or at least, an alpha of it is. Blizzard is hosting a single-player-only technical alpha forDiablo II: Resurrectedon PC this weekend. A limited number of players who opted into the technical alpha will be chosen randomly to participate, and should receive emails about it soon. The alpha will go live on Friday, April 9, at 7 a.m. PT, concluding on April 12 at 10 a....

Watch for an extra scene they didn’t want to show during the conference A newMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Paintrailer dubbed the “Extended Director’s Cut” is out, and it’s not for the faint at heart. Just as I expected, the “mature” material Kojima was referring to in the past will involve child soldiers (who are actually viewable near the end of the trailer, and not just talked about like in previous games), and graphic torture — with tons of gore to boot in the first few minutes of this cut....