He won’t roll over as easily as the Minnesota Vikings The newest DLC forPredator: Hunting Groundstakes inspiration fromGod of WarorAssassin’s Creed: Valhalla. Imagine pissing off a Viking Predator and knowing you’re about to get fucked all the way up. Predator: Hunting Groundsgets a new Predator class for its latest add-on. The Viking Predator is a Norse dude — honestly, he kinda looks like he’s doing some Kratos cosplay — with an ornate design....

‘Looks like a Jew trying to piddle on old small America’ TheBioShockseries has never been shy of offering political critique, andBioShock Infiniteis biting closer to home than previous installments. The game themes itself around nationalism, racism, and what can happen when the love of America can go too far. Ironically, the folks at Stormfront missed the point, and set about proving it instead. Stormfront is well known online for being a hub of racist tomfoolery, anda crazy old thread(discovered byPC Gamer) claims the objective ofInfiniteis to “Kill Whitey....

More like flown the coop The battle royale sub-genre is a harsh mistress. So many titles enter the ring, but it seems like only two big-wigs can remain popular. Once poised to be a direct competitor toPUBG, Hi-Rez Studio’sRealm Royaleisn’t looking so hot anymore. A spin-off of a game mode fromPaladins,Realm Royalereleased into Steam early-access in June and saw a pretty sizeable player base grow around it. Peaking at around 105,000 concurrent users, the game has now shed around 93% of that community....

Athena’s name is magic… The first of Hamster’s retro re-releases this week looks at the origins of one of SNK’s most popular heroines, goddess warrior Athena, often muddled withKoF’sAthena Asamiya, but we’ll get to that. Princess Athena is the heroine of 1986 arcade classicAthena, now made available on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. A basic but cute-and-colourful arcade adventure,Athenasees the bikini-clad young warrior battle through fantasy-themed stages, negotiating platforms and defeating enemies....

It’s better You gotta love Nintendo’s super vague patch notes. While they might think that “a more pleasant gaming experience” is just that — a pleasant description — most people want a little more. Digital Foundry just put the recent 1.1.1 patch forZelda: Breath of the Wildto the test though and found that yes, it is quite pleasant! Testing both the previous version and the new 1.11 update, they found that in key areas (read: mostly the starting zone and the infamous forest), there was a definite improvement....

Haha, clever Shadow Warriorisn’t a very long game, and odds are you’ve finished it by now. Thankfully, Flying Wild Hog and RuneStorm have you covered, with free “Viscera Cleanup Detail” DLC, offered up to anyone who bought the game. As a separate mini-game, Wang will be tasked with cleaning up the blood he spilled in the intro, as well as incinerating all of the spare body parts. I’m sure it won’t be as entertaining asslicing up dudes with a sword, but it’s a chuckle-worthy bit of free content, so it’s hard to complain....

There are still a lot of questions to answer, though One of the more controversial features of Steam is its Early Access program. On one hand, it’s great for allowing community input to shape the direction of a game; on the other, it opens the door for customers to buy something that never really gets finished. Sony’s taken note of Early Access and is considering launching something in the same vein for PlayStation....

Mobile? Square Enix mobile game maker Takehiro Ando revealed that his division will be working on SaGa and Mana series games this year. According toSiliconera, a recent interview had Ando bringing up that his team will be helping out with new games from both series. “It has been decided that the second mobile division will be helping out with [theSaGaandManaseries],” Ando said. He continued:“We will be doing our best to stay true to all your memories from the Super Famicom and PlayStation era, for those of you who are saying ‘I want to playRomancing SaGa 4’or ‘I want to playSeiken Densetsu 5!...

How’s your week been? Mine? Horrible. Worse than normal. So, it’s time for some self-care. Get in your pajamas, order some pizza, and let’s get into someSuper Smash T.V. Smash T.V.was originally released in arcades in 1990. It was designed by the legendary Eugene Jarvis, the guy behind 1981’sDefender. More importantly, he created 1982’sRobotron: 2084, which is the godfather of twin-stick shooters.Smash T.V.was built as a spiritual successor to that game, so it has all the features you’d expect, which is to say, it is also a twin-stick shooter....

Somebody is testing the currently non-existent PlayStation Portable digital game rental waters.Joystiqrecently found an interesting survey that asks people a variety of questions about a possible rental service — one that would perfectlycompliment a UMD-less PlayStation Portable, we think. The topics covered in the survey are subscription period, price per month, gamers per month, the number of games added monthly, and the recency of the games added each month. Not bad at all, actually....

WELCOME TO DIE X-MEN Okay, so just so you know, I’m anX-Menfan. I like the characters, love how nicely they tie into American culture and society (with focusing on the ostracizing of the way people were born, you’re able to almost literally apply their plight to every major social movement in US history), and for the most part, like how well they translate into different mediums.X-Menis both an entertaining property, and one that addresses both the good and bad parts of human nature....

I think the only reason I’ll ever end up playingDJ Heronow is because of Daft Punk. Nothing against the game, I’m just not good at rhythm games at all. We talked to the people behind localizingMario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, we brought you your first exclusive look atBomberman Live: Battlefest, Ashley Davis is checking out GDC Austin, a newModern Warfare 2Xbox 360 is on the way and more funk happened on 09/15/09....

A gentle slap on the wrist, very gentle Remember last Christmaswhen I gave you my heartwhen PlayStation Network and Xbox Live were down for days at a time? That was caused by a group known as Lizard Squad of which 17-year-old Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki was a member. Zeekill recently had his day in court and was found guilty of 50,700 charges — yes, you read that right. The punishment for committing thousands of crimes as a teenager in Finland is apparently quite elegant, as zeekill was only sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence — basically probation — and was ordered to fight against cybercrime....