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All the fun of bird watching without white ladies calling the cops on you Developer ustwo Games today dropped a gameplay trailer for its upcoming titleAlba: A Wildlife Adventure. The game features young, precocious child Alba who’s on vacation visiting her grandparents on an island in the Mediterranean. As an animal lover, she wants to document all of the island’s fauna with her smartphone, but when she sees critters in distress, she’ll have to reach out to the town folk to help save them....

‘November at the absolute earliest’ Responding to fan concerns about the frame rate and performance ofDead Cellson Nintendo Switch, developer Motion Twinhas said thatthose types of improvements are its “main priority as of now.” In a lengthy and candid response posted to reddit this week, the studio said it faced a choice: either launchDead Cellsin a less-than-perfect state on Switch (which many players seemperfectly happy with, mind you) or push back the release (which “seemed more damaging for Switch owners”)....

It’s a shame this couldn’t become the definitive WWII game DICE’s final content update forBattlefield Vis rolling out tomorrow, June 4,right one cue. The Summer Update adds two maps – one of which, Al Marj Encampment, is all-new – plus nine weapons, six vehicles, five gadgets, and three grenades. The other map, Provence, “has been extended to include the farm land, and areas around the outskirts of town, bringing tanks into this battlefield on 64-player Conquest, and Breakthrough,” according toBattlefieldcommunity manager Freeman....

Start sharpening those broadswords Vanillaware’s remaster of RPG brawlerDragon’s Crown Prois finally available on PS4 in Japan. Those of us in the West won’t have too much longer to wait, as Atlus have announced that the epic adventure title will be hitting Europe and America on May 15. Dragon’s Crown Prois a multiplayer brawler which encourages tactical play and stat-building. Players choose from a variety of highly-stylised characters and do battle with hundreds of monsters, undead warriors and gigantic bosses, all while greedily snatching up as much loot as possible....

There’s a new owl boy in town I’ve been followingEagle Islandfor a while after seeing some awesome looking GIFs of it onTwitter. It’s a procedurally generated Metroidvania and/or roguelike about a boy and his pet owl that he has trained to attack at his will. I know some of you just groaned at the buzzwords of Metroidvania and roguelike. I too am getting sick of every indie game under the sun billing themselves as such (add survival to that list)....

Now you can chase Ralph Macchio on your BMX Epic Games has released details on the latest update to hit global battle royale phenomenonFortnite. Update 6.02 goes live tonight and brings a fun new mode and other bits of content to help you enjoy your next bout of last man or woman standing action. The biggest new addition is the sillyDisco Domination mode, which will see two teams of 50 players racing to capture five dance floors, situated across the map....

Shoot’em up, bang, bang In any other year, we’d be finished with E3 by now and all the new game announcements. But nothing is that easy in 2020 So instead of wrapping up our coverage of the biggest show in games, we’re jumping around from stream to stream finding the best reveals to share with y’all. And this is one hell of a reveal. As revealed during the Guerrilla Collective Day 1 Showcase,GONNER2has been announced and it’s coming to Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC....

While exploring the world inWuthering Waves, you may find some hidden quests. One such quest, Lost History, requires you to find and repair five lighthouses. The trouble is, none of these lighthouses are marked on the map and you won’t unlock the quest until you find your first lighthouse. Like I said, you may find these lighthouses in no particular order and the basic premise is always the same: repair the lighthouse, hack the console, then find the nearby treasure....

In May ’19 This year was a pretty killer year for Spider-Man as the world was introduced (in many cases, for the first time) to many different incarnations of the character through the fantasticInto the Spider-Verse. But it’s also the PS4 incarnation’s time to shine. As announced by Bill Rosemann over Twitter (Marvel Games’ VP and Creative Director), Insomniac’s creation is getting his own 10-inch tall statue that will arrive in May 2019 from Diamond Select Toys....

It’s a win/win either way though [Just Sayin’ is a series where Jonathan Holmes is just says whatever. Don’t even worry about it.] For some people, new is very good, old is definitely bad, and the latest is always greatest. These people sometimes get annoyed when good games are newly released on old hardware. They feel forced to drag out old hardware that, mind you, they absolutely adored three years ago, but now look at as though it’s a naggy, saggy, draggy, ex-sex partner that they just want to ignore....

Souls-like games seem to be more popular than ever. One of the newest additions to the genre,Lies of P, had a very successful launch back in September—and now, the project’s director has confirmed aLies of Psequel is on the way. Game director Ji Won Choi broke the news in a newly released director’s letter video. He began by thanking fans for their enthusiasm and reiterated that the gamebroke the million copies sold markfollowing its September 19 launch....

PlayStation and Xbox editions to follow Here’s some fun news to kick off the week, (well, for me at least), as Forever Entertainment has announced a release date for the returning franchiseMagical Drop— The sixth installment in the fast-paced puzzle series will launch on PC and Nintendo Switch on April 25. As we have previously reported,Magical Dropis a long-running series of tile-based puzzlers that was birthed in the arcade marketway back in 1995....

Spirits of the radio A spooky summertime adventure is in store for July. Night School Studio’sOxenfree II: Lost Signalsis scheduled to launch on June 21, 2025. The follow-up to 2016’sOxenfreesees protagonistRiley Poverlyreturn to her hometown in Camena. As a newly hired research assistant, she’s investigating the local phenomena that’s been interfering with electronics and radios. Her job is to set up radio transmitters around certain areas and report the data. Should be easy, right?...