BioWare reveals the first three seasons of post-release content for its big new online-only game Anthem.

Any service game lives or dies by how well it engages players, and the best way to keep everyone playing is with new content. BioWare and EA have a strong post-release roadmap for their big new mech shooter Anthem devised for this particular purpose. The content is separated into three different Acts, which seem to be mini-expansions with lots of extras, that should stretch throughout 2019. All of these content drops are part of a campaign called Elder Content and will be free for all users. These post-launch additions funded by optional in-game cosmetic microtransactions.

Act 1: Echoes of Reality will kick off in March, and includes a whopping array of content like a level cap raise, a new stronghold (kind of like strikes from Destiny), addition of guilds and persistent online leaderboards to track your progress, fresh loot and gear drops, new missions that expand the story, and Anthem's most exciting addition of all: sky-breaking cataclysmic storms that alter the game world and summon huge bosses.

Ubisoft will be bringing the nostalgia back to players in the upcoming Assassin's Creed III remastered which is planned for release on March 29th.

A recent press release from Ubisoft has revealed the official release date for Assassin's Creed III remastered and the new upgraded features that will come with it. According to the press release, Assassin's Creed III remastered will come with 4K and HDR support on the PS4, Xbox One X and PC. There will also be upgrades to the games textures, an overhaul of the graphics engine, lighting, gameplay mechanics and numerous other graphical improvements.

Assassin's Creed III remastered will feature the full game alongside the single-player missions Benedict Arnold and Hidden Secrets. In the entirety of this post I have provided some dot points for what the game will feature. In other news about Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft have been rumored to bring Assassin's Creed III to the Nintendo Switch. Listings found on several European websites have shown the cover-art for the game, but no official announcement has come from Ubisoft as of yet, more on that story here.

90's kids would understand that The Simpson's was more than a formidable force on T.V during dinner time, and despite the show running for more 20 years now the classic T.V series is not done just yet.

The Simpson's are about to move into its 31st season and while it may be popular opinion that the more recent episodes in the later seasons may not stand up to the ones from the earlier seasons, the viewership is still quite high. According to GameSpot, each of the newer episodes that were released managed to pull in an audience of 7.5 million viewers across all platforms.

The announcement of The Simpson's being renewed for season 31 and 32 comes from the official Simpson's Twitter account. The post says "We've got some eeeeeexcellllent news... #TheSimpsons has been renewed for Seasons 31 and 32!". Deadline has reported that Fox secured the deal with the cast members of The Simpson's as they were more than happy to keep the show running and laughs coming. Side note - is that a Mr. Burns pun I spot in the Twitter post?

Many fans of Marvel, Fox and Disney have had their eyebrows raised to whether we are going to see any more R-rated movies coming out of Disney's movie conveyor belt. Recent news has suggested that Disney has no problems with future R-rated movies.

In a recent earnings call with Disney's chief, Bob Iger, questions were posed to their chairman regarding the ratings for future Disney movies and if we will be seeing new movies within the same R-rated calibre as Deadpool. Iger replied with "We do believe there is room for the Fox properties to exist without significant Disney influence over the nature of the content, meaning that we see that there is certainly popularity amongst Marvel fans for the R-rated Deadpool films, as a for instance. We're going to continue in that business, and there might be room for more of that."

Iger further explains the relationship between Marvel, Fox and Disney. He says that when a future movie is decided upon and the ratings are set that the companies will be "very carefully branding them and making sure that we're not in any way confusing the consumer with product that would be sort of either Disney product or the more traditional Marvel product." At the moment there is no known R-rated Disney produced movies in the pipeline, but with this now acceptance of a strong market for these types of films we will most likely see some in the near future.

The success of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate seems to just be getting more and more attention, now news has come out that the title managed to sell 300,000 units in just 1 month in Japan.

Nintendo's cross-over fighter bonanza is unparalleled to the previous instalments in the Smash Bros. franchise. The release of Smash Ultimate back in December of last year saw the franchise raised to new sales heights and even hitting the milestone of the best-selling/fastest-selling Super Smash Bros. game to date.

Recent news has come from this weeks latest installment of Famitsu, revealing the sales numbers between November 26th and December 30th for Japan. Within this time frame it has been reported that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold, 309,229 digital units, beating the likes of PUBG on PS4 (144,113 units), Super Mario Party PS4 (45,387) and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (29,219). Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is exclusively on the Nintendo Switch an is available right now.

NetherRealm Studios, the developers behind Mortal Kombat 11 have come out and shot down fans' petition to bring Scooby-Doo's 'Shaggy' to Mortal Kombat 11.

On the latest Kombat Kast video, Community Manager, Tyler Lansdown addressed the rumor that was floating around the Mortal Kombat community. Fans took to a petition to show their support for the one and only Norville Rogers, or more famously known as 'Shaggy'. Shaggy is from the classic cartoon show and movies 'Scooby-Doo' and it seems fans were more than excited for the possibility of the character being added to Mortal Kombat 11.

The petition which is still live at the time of writing this accumulated over 350,000 votes for the character to be added to the upcoming game. Despite fans support for the addition, Lansdown shot down the idea immediately saying; "Shaggy will not be in the game at all, ever. Sorry. Dead meme. No Shaggy in Mortal Kombat. That is your official first de-confirmation." It is a real shame to see that Shaggy isn't going to be coming to Mortal Kombat 11, but I can certainly see why.

We've all read the rumors of NVIDIA's purported GeForce GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti graphics card coming, a new Turing-based card that won't have real-time ray tracing abilities.

We have seen teases of both an MSI and GIGABYTE family of GTX 1660 Ti graphics cards, but after speaking with an AIB source of mine, it's confirmed: the GTX 1660 Ti is coming, and it isn't far away. I would dare say that NVIDIA will launch the new cards in the not too distant future, as it'll have to better compete with AMD's upcoming Navi-based graphics cards that should fall between $299-$599 in various SKUs.

To add to this news, VideoCardz is reporting that new listings have turned up for GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics cards on Russian retail websites with MSI and Palit custom GTX 1660 Ti cards teased. We are to expect the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to be launched on February 15 (which is right around the corner) and then the GTX 1660 in 'early March' for prices of $279, and $229 respectively.

With the release of Crackdown 3 around the corner, Microsoft has launched two new videos: a launch trailer, and the opening cinematic.

But that's not all - the company has made the original Crackdown FREE on the Xbox One, which is a huge deal for anyone wanting to get into Crackdown 3 and get a feel for the first, and loads-of-fun original Crackdown.

Crackdown originally launched on the Xbox 360 back in 2010, and while it might not feel like a great game by today's standards, you can't complain for something that doesn't cost you money. This is also not the first time Microsoft has offered Crackdown for free, with its XO18 fan festival in November 2018 where it also announced backwards compatibility support for the game on current-gen Xbox consoles.

Microsoft has just released the launch trailer for Crackdown 3, which sets the hype bar pretty high but then there's also the multiplayer technical test that the company kicks off tomorrow on the Xbox for the Xbox Insider Program.

If you want to participate in the technical test, all you;'ll need to do is download the Xbox Insider Hub, sign up for it, and then download the 'Wrecking Zone: Technical Test' from the Insider Content section. The technical test will begin downloading on February 7 at 9AM PST, with the first matches starting at 12PM PST. Microsoft hasn't said when it'll end, but I'm sure it won't be that long since the game launches the week after.

Another surprise video is the opening cinematic for Crackdown 3, which sets the tone for what to expect from its star, and fellow gamer Terry Crews.

EA has been providing a bunch of new details about its various games in development, riding off of the uber-success of its just-released Apex Legends. The company has also provided some sales estimates of BioWare's upcoming game; Anthem.

EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said that EA is aiming for 5-6 million units to be sold by the end of March, and given that Anthem launches on February 15 this gives the company just 6 weeks to hit that lofty goal. Jorgensen said that the recent success of the Anthem demo gives them confidence that the game will be a success (to the tune of 5-6 million units) during its important few weeks post-launch.

Anthem will also make even more money for EA from microtransactions, something the company refers to as "live services". We will see how Anthem sales go when it launches in just over a week from now, and through to the end of March.