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If you have been following Super Smash Bros. Ultimate or just the Smash Bros. series in general, you no doubt know about the community outcry for the addition of Waluigi. Turns out Nintendo knows about the want for Waluigi, they just haven't done anything about it yet.

Waluigi coming to Smash Bros. has gotten to the point where it has become its own living meme. Jokes, puns and numerous other things have been created around Luigi's arch-rival addition and yet we still have no sign of him potentially joining the roster. This perplexes me, large portions of the community are clearly crying out for him to be added yet Nintendo hasn't budged at all, why?

According to Nintendo Canada's Andrew Collins, "I think it's great when something builds naturally because, you know, as a marketer, when you have something that goes viral like that it's brilliant. You can't buy that. You can't create it. And when the fans do something like that, it's amazing. But it's so good to see from a passionate side of things. And let's face it, it's funny. I've seen some of the photos. I've seen some of the artwork that people have created, and it's fantastic to see their passion."

Bethesda wants to make things right, and promises to replace the cheap crinkly nylon bags sent out with the Fallout 76 Power Armor Edition.

Right now Fallout 76 is a PR nightmare. The game has been lambasted left and right and has serious issues. Plus there's potential lawsuits surrounding the publisher's no refunds policy. But things got even worse when Bethesda was caught switching out a key part of the game's $200 Power Armor Edition: instead of the higher-end, durable canvas bag that was advertised, gamers who bought the expensive edition received a rather dodgy nylon sack. Originally citing a "lack of materials," things got worse when we found out Bethesda actually shipped the advertised canvas bags to Twitch and YouTubers for free.

Now Bethesda wants to fix things and solve this damning PR nightmare. The publisher today said it will replace all nylon bags with the stronger canvas West-Tek bags, but you'll have to send a support ticket by January 31, 2019 and verify your Power Armor Edition purchase.

Rockstar Games may not flip the reset switch during Red Dead Online's beta test, but a wipe could still happen after the mode's official launch.

Red Dead Redemption 2's online beta is quite popular and it seems like nearly everyone who's bought a copy is playing it. Although Rockstar warned gamers that their Red Dead Online data--including character progression, weapons, and content--could get reset at some point, the developer doesn't think it necessary.

"We appreciate all the continued feedback we are receiving on the Red Dead Online Beta. For players concerned about the potential for progress and stat resets, we currently do not have any plans to reset them as part of the Beta's rollout," Rockstar said today on Twitter.

BioWare is set to show off its new Dragon Age game at The Game Awards 2018, but the game won't be out until 2021 at the earliest.

Everything we've heard about BioWare's new Dragon Age game makes us believe it'll carry mainline sequel status and officially be referred to as Dragon Age 4. Although BioWare teased it back in 2016, we know the project is still in early stages of development based on how high-level execs talked about it. Now sources have corroborated our belief that Dragon Age 4 won't be out for a long time.

Sources familiar with BioWare's plans tell VentureBeat that Dragon Age 4 is at least three years away, which aligns with our predictions. The reason is simple: BioWare is focusing strongly on its big new IP Anthem, which represents a massive turning point and lucrative revenue opportunity for the company. Anthem is a live service shooter aimed at tapping EA's engagement model, which sees millions of gamers generating billions every year via microtransactions, subscriptions, and digital purchases.

Payday publisher Starbreeze Studios has filed for Sweden's version of bankruptcy after worrisome financial issues.

Starbreeze today filed it and its entire web of subsidiaries for a protective process called reconstruction after realizing it wouldn't meet its quarterly earnings targets. Starbreeze CEO Bo Andersson has resigned as a result of the money issues.

The company appears to have over-relied on Overkill's The Walking Dead to help buffer sales revenue (or at the very least offset the marketing spend for the game) for its fourth quarter, but the game under-delivered and forced the publisher to tighten its development belt. But this new spending plan wasn't enough and it became clear that insolvency was the answer.

Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018 - Qualcomm has just kicked off its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit here in Maui, Hawaii with the big announcement of its new Snapdragon 855 flagship processor.

The new Snapdragon 855 succeeds the Snapdragon 845 which was announced this time last year at the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2017, but the new chip isn't just faster, it packs 5G connectivity. Qualcomm flew in both AT&T and Verizon to chat with the press and analysts here on location, and to have some demos that show off more real-world results from 5G.

Qualcomm has been light on details for the Snapdragon 855 but we do know that the company is making the new chip on the 7nm node, with previous-gen Snapdragon 845 being made on 10nm. We should expect improved power efficiency and performance, with more details on that arriving in the coming days at the Snapdragon Tech Summit.

Using the knowledge and lessons learned from Fortnite's massive success, Epic Games has now entered in the crowded ring of selling games.

Epic Games today announced the Epic Games Store, a new digital distribution platform that puts even more pressure on Steam. Epic plans to attract developers and publishers by letting them keep more revenues, likely thanks to Fortnite's billions: the Epic Games Store only keeps 12% of earnings versus Steam's 30%, meaning anyone who sells games on the platform keeps 88% of earnings.

Epic has ambitious plans for the service and could eventually take aim at Google Play, which is circumvented with Fortnite's mobile flavor. PC, Mac, and eventually Android games will be sold on the storefront in 2019 and beyond.

A new turn-based tactical game called 'Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden' launches tomorrow and ahead of the games release, developers 'The Bearded Ladies' have dived into some juicy details about the title.

WCCFtech was lucky enough to be able to get an interview with Haraldur Thormundsson, CEO of the development team. Thormundsson answered several questions regarding the games storyline and if it is linear, side content, how many mutants players would have to choose from, mod support, console enhancements and a Nintendo Switch port.

Glossing over the above mentioned questions, players will be immersed within a linear storyline that will provide some choices in side-missions. Players will have 5 mutants to choose from but only will be able to select 3 to play with, there will be not mod support as of yet but that could be subject to change in the future. Console enhancement wise; "Max resolution for Xbox One X: 3200×1800. For PlayStation 4 Pro, the UI resolution is rendered at 4K while the frame resolution is 80% of 4K (3072×1728)." Since Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden runs on Unreal Engine 4, a question was posed if we would see a Nintendo Switch port, Thormundsson answered with "That is something we will look into soon(TM)."

Koei Tecmo is bringing Samurai Warriors 4 DX to the Nintendo Switch and PS4 in Japan next year, the game will be arriving fully complete with a bunch of DLC content and some other goodies.

It can be assumed that Koei Tecmo will eventually be bringing this title over to the west sometime after it is released in Japan as the company does have tendencies to do that. Moving onto what is included within the package, Samurai Warriors 4 DX will be arriving with over 150 pieces of downloadable content fully ready for the player to enjoy.

For those that want to spend a little bit extra, there is the 'anniversary box' which includes an art book, four-disc soundtrack, four DVD set with music videos and 144-piece post card set with each of the games characters. The anniversary package is priced at 14,800 yen which is equivalent to about $130 USD. Samurai Warriors 4 DX is planned for release on March 14, 2019 and will be coming in at 5,800 yen or $51 USD.

Old-school gamers would no doubt remember the classic duo ToeJam & Earl, the old-boys are soon get a new game titled ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove and on December 9 will will be getting a new trailer and official release date.

We first heard about Back in the Groove in 2015 when the project was announced, sadly it was delayed until 2019 and since then we haven't heard a sniff of news about it. Its not like the game didn't have fan support either, as it has been reported by Destructoid that the Kickstarter featured $508,000 of crowd funding.

The announcemnet that we will be receiving a new trailer and an official release date comes from developer HumaNature Studios and more accurately on the ToeJam & Earls official Twitter page. We will be sure to update you with a trailer and an official release date once it is announced. ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove should arrive on PS4, Xbox One, PC and the Nintendo Switch.

Deadline has reported that Marvel Studios has in their scope an Asian lead for the coming movie Shang-Chi. It is believe that Marvel would like to replicate the success of Black Panther but this time with a different ethnic group.

Marvel are no doubt attempting to replicate the success they had with Black Panther on a culture level, having an almost all-black cast tied the movie perfectly into these category, the same goal is apparent with Shang-Chi. According to sources that have told Deadline, Marvel has set Chinese-American writer Dave Callaham to write the screenplay for Shang-Chi, while at the same time Marvel are searching for a similar Asian-American cast to fill the rest of the roles out.

Jumping into a bit of background on Shang-Chi, the character first appeared in the Special Marvel Edition #15 back in December of 1973. The character was designed by Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin and lets us experience the likes of being a son to a China-based globalist. Growing up in a China compound with no contact to the outside world, Shang-Chi spends his time learning martial arts and honing his skills until they are unmatchable by any opponent. It could be assumed that Shang-Chi will be apart of Marvels next phase of movies, since after next years Captain Marvel and Avengers 4 we will be moving forward with a new round of hero's.

We are only just a couple days out from this years Game Awards and just before everything is about to kick off we have an announcement for what music we will will be hearing throughout the show. Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe will be providing the sounds for the show!

The news comes from The Game Awards official Twitter account which says that Hans Zimmer will be performing alongside Lorne Balfe this Thursday night. For those that don't know who Hans Zimmer is, there is a high chance that you have already heard his music. Zimmer is renowned for his incredible work in movie soundtracks and even some very popular games. Some of Zimmers best work would be Christopher Nolans Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Man of Steel, Batman Vs Superman and many other movie titles. Game wise, Zimmer sprinkled his magic over the legendary Call of Duty title Modern Warfare 2.

Lorne Balfe is equally as incredible in his own regard, known for his work on the Assassin Creed series, The Lego Batman Movie, Skylanders, Terminator Genisys and of course the awesome Mission: Impossible - Fallout. This years Game Awards is truly going to be epic, with composers like these taking the reins for the shows sound all that are watching are going to be in for a treat. Tune in for this years Game Awards this Thursday night.

Red Dead Online's miserly in-game economy will soon change into something more forgiving.

Red Dead Redemption 2's online mode, Red Dead Online, is designed to do two things: keep people playing for as long as possible, and keep them paying as long as possible via microtransactions. But the latter completely depends on the former, and without proper rewarding, engaging activities the cash simply won't flow. With a dramatically disrupted in-game economy that required tons of investment to earn meager premium currency, the Red Dead Online beta painted a harsh, microtransaction-driven picture of the mode's future. While Rockstar doesn't sell the premium currency for real money yet, gamers are worried once the microtransaction switch is flipped that RDO will become immensely greed-driven.

But now Rockstar Games pledges to fix RDO's digital economy in a bid to make things more enjoyable for everyone. The developer says new updates are coming to Red Dead Online as early as this week and the economy will be a major focus.

Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment is making a new Star Wars game, and new details may have leaked out.

Now that Visceral Games is dead and its ambitious Star Wars RPG has been cannibalized, there's lots of pressure on Respawn to make its new game, Jedi: Fallen Order, pick up the slack. Although EA and Respawn have yet to show it off, we actually know a fair bit about Jedi: Fallen Order; it's a third-person action game with strong emphasis on characters and storytelling, takes place between Episodes III and IV, and will be out in 2019. Other reports say it could be like The Force Unleashed.

But now a purported leak may shed new light on the project. According to an anonymous source who says they attended a Star Wars marketing meeting, Jedi: Fallen Order tells the story of Cal, a padawan who escaped Starkiller's Jedi massacre, and features characters lifted from the comics. The game takes place five years after Revenge of the Sith, the source says, and will release in November 2019--in time for the holiday season.

Overkill's new The Walking Dead shooter isn't even a month old yet and just received a $30 starter edition.

Starbreeze wasn't too happy about The Walking Dead FPS' initial sales on PC. The publisher notes the game, which taps one of the most popular horror franchises of all time, didn't meet its internal targets. Despite it being quite early in the sales game (remember TWD is quite new) the devs at Overkill created a $30 base game to attract new users and fold them into the long-term monetization strategy. This is a move akin to dropping the price of, say, Destiny 2's base game on the heels of Forsaken's launch.

The new $30 Starter Edition is quite limited, though, and only has access to Season 1 content (maps, characters, guns, etc). So you can't play the new content in Season 2 unless you're invited by a friend who owns the full versions (Standard and Deluxe). Everyone who paid $59.99 for the standard version gets Season 2 content up until June.

THQ Nordic has bought up many, many IPs from publishers and rights owners, but not all of these series will actually get sequels.

The THQ brand has been on quite the comeback spree. First the company amassed game franchises (Timesplitters and Kingdoms of Amalur, and it just bought the Carmageddon IP) like a dragon collecting piles of gold, then it bought Saint's Row and Metro game publisher Koch Media. While THQ has plans for a number of its trove of games including re-releases and even a resurgence of old Nickelodeon games, the publisher stipulates some guidelines for sequels.

THQ Nordic CEO Lars Wingefors affirms that only relevant games will see sequels, which makes sense from a marketing perspective. But what makes a game relevant? A few things like popularity, awareness, and general community interest...but there's also an internal timeline.

Thanks to frame rate drops, slowdowns, and jitters, Sony's $100 PlayStation Classic is something gamers should probably avoid.

The PlayStation Classic has more than a few problems, and the most damning of all are technical. The nostalgia box's games library isn't fantastic to start, but the problems compound thanks to Sony's decision to include PAL games (almost half of the PS Classic's games are PAL). This leads to slowdowns and other issues because of the frame rate disparity between PAL and NTSC games.

But just how bad are the frame rate dips? Pretty bad, at least according to DigitalFoundry's latest technical assessment. PAL games like Tekken 3 have obvious stutters and starts that mar one of the biggest reasons to buy the PS Classic to begin with.

If you are after another 2D platformer to enjoy look no further than Thunder Lotus Games' Sundered. Nintendo Switch owners will be able to pick up this great title on December 21st.

For those that don't know what Sundered is, the title is developed by Thunder Lotus Games who also developed the title Jotun. Just like Jotun, Sundered features beautiful hand-drawn art and animation and throws the player into a horrifying fight for survival and sanity. Players will take the reins of "Eshe, a wanderer in a ruined world, trapped in ever-­changing caverns filled with hordes of terrifying enemies."

With Eshe, players will "Harness the power of corrupted relics to defeat gigantic bosses, at the cost of your humanity." In the features section of the games description, it describes hundreds of upgrades and multiple character builds and 15+ hours of gameplay to enjoy. In the entirety of this post you will find a further breakdown on the game. Sundered will be arriving on the Nintendo Switch on December 21st.

As we are only a couple days out from the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Nintendo have decided to tease fans with crossover spirits between the Pokemon: Let's Go games and Ultimate.

The teaser comes from the Nintendo AU & NZ Twitter page and reveals images of two spirits. From the pictures we can see Partner Pikachu and Partner Eevee, we learn from the description on the post that players who have Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu or Eevee save data on their Switch will automatically unlock the respective spirit once Smash Ultimate is downloaded and opened.

For those wondering if this is the only way to unlock these two spirits, do not stress as both Partner Pikachu and Partner Eevee can be normally acquired by completing challenges. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is scheduled to release on December 7th for the Nintendo Switch. For more information regarding Smash Ultimate, visit the official website here.

Developer of Darksiders III, Gunfire Games has taken to their Twitter page to say the PC beta patch is accessible via Steams beta branch and that a console version of the patch will be following soon.

According to the above post, the above patch will be adding multiple improvements to the game. Starting off we improvements in performance and loading, "Performance improvements should also significantly reduce stuttering in high-density areas." Next we have updates to the story mode to be more forgiving for players and modifications to hit indicators for better readability.

Moving onto the fixes that will be arriving with the patch, we now have an "added FOV scaling to keep correct FOV on 21:9 monitors." Fixes to crashes widespread across the game, an option to force respawn has been added and much more. In the entirety of this post you will find the entire change log for this PC beta patch. For more information, visit the official blog post here.