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The second DLC character to be released in Mortal Kombat 11 has made his entry, even though the character needs no introduction we have now been blessed by Nightwolf's ancestors.

Mortal Kombat 11 players who picked up the Kombat Pass will now be able to enjoy the likes of NetherRealm's newest returning character, Nightwolf. Nightwolf was last playable in a Mortal Kombat game back in 2011, and originally made his debut into the Mortal Kombat series back in 1995's Mortal Kombat 3.

From the trailer we can see that NetherRealm has kept most of what made Nightwolf awesome in the previous games. We can see that he still has his classic attacks with his hatchet, his trusty bow, the deadly shoulder charge and of course the spirit animal enhancements. There is also his projectile reflecting aura, machete, and ranged lighting attacks. For those that didn't pick up the Mortal Kombat 11 Kombat Pack, Nightwolf will be available to purchase separately sometime next week. Mortal Kombat 11 is currently available on PS4, PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.

If you have been following the news, Techland, the developers of the Dying Light franchise are gearing up for their biggest game release yet, Dying Light 2.

Firstly, Dying LIght 2 is one of my most anticipated games for 2020, I'm excited for the new improvements in the movement system, the build your own story adventure, interactive NPC's/environments and everything else that we have been introduced to. While all of that sounds fantastic, Techland are planning on giving fans just a bit more features to sink their teeth into closer to the end of the month.

According to the above Twitter post on the official Dying Light Twitter page, Techland plan on revealing Dying Light 2's official "extended gameplay" demo on August 26th. The gameplay trailer will be live-streamed at 8PM CEST / 11AM PDT. If you are a Dying Light fan and are excited for the sequel I would highly recommend tuning into this livestream as I would expect that Techland will be diving into some much more in-depth detail than what they have previously. Dying Light 2 is expected to launch in the first half of 2020.

Codemasters has just pushed out a new update to F1 2019 that improves the visuals to the cars in the game, live on both the PS4 and PC with the Xbox One update coming soon.

The update will spruce up the visuals not just cosmetically on the outside, but the covers, wing endplates, engine covers, and more. It is a nice visual overhaul in a patch for F1 2019, which will also see the '90 Years' logo on the Ferrari vehicles in the game.

I'm old enough to have been caught up in the huge hype train that was The Blair Witch Project, the original found footage movie from 1999 that went mega viral before going mega viral was even a thing. Now there's a new game coming to the PC and Xbox One, with a 4K trailer below:

The new game is simply called Blair Witch, with the new Tour Through the Woods trailer showing off the creepy woods and environment that I'm sure a few new pairs of underwear will be needed. There's not much known on the story, but the gameplay will be interesting since it's a psychological horror game that "studies your reactions to fear and stress".

Oh great, so the more scared and stressed out I get playing the Blair Witch, the game will only adapt and make more more scared and more stressed. Awesome. I swear, if I wake up to a bunch of sticks outside of my room in the morning, I'm walking out, setting my house on fire, and going off the grid.

DOOM Eternal is getting a little closer to release and just before Gamescom 2019, id Software and Bethesda have released a new multiplayer trailer detailing what to expect, and a bunch of BATTLEMODE goodness. Check it out:

The new BATTLEMODE in DOOM Eternal looks like a blast, seeing a 2-v-1 game of cat and mouse between a DOOM Slayer and demons. There will be 5 playable demons, and 6 different arenas to take battle on. Better yet, any future maps and demons will be free to DOOM Eternal players.

id Software details BATTLEMODE as: "Play as either a fully loaded DOOM Slayer, or on a team of two player-controlled demons. The Slayer and the demons' objective may be the same - destroy the other side - but their playstyles are entirely different".

Need for Speed Heat is now official, with EA and Ghost Games dropping a new trailer for the open-world arcade racer. It's shaping up really well, with the trailer for Heat below:

In the game you'll be customizing and racing through the fictional streets of Palm City, which looks like a Miami-esque city with money-focused daytime races blended with the underground scene at night that is all on your reputation.

The cops in Need for Speed: Heat will be after you during the day, but once the sun sets there is a "rogue police task force" that is hunting you down. Need for Speed: Heat is sound like old school Need for Speed games, with a huge injection of new school Need for Speed, with a blend of Fast and the Furious (new, and old movies).

Metro Exodus was enough of a hit that developer 4A Games is already into making the next one, and now the author of the Metro novels has taken to his personal Instagram to announce he's writing the story to a new Metro game.

Deep Silver and 4A Games went through some controversy with Metro Exodus and its exodus from the Steam Store over to the Epic Games Store as an exclusive, but it was successful on Epic's new platform. We should expect that the new Metro game will be an Epic Games Store exclusive, and at least 2-3 years away.

The new Metro game will most likely be the largest leap in graphics yet, as it should deploy on next-gen consoles in the Xbox Scarlett and PlayStation 5 as well as next-gen GPUs in 2021-2022 and beyond. Hell, by then Intel will be in the game and AMD will hopefully continue its momentum from the Navi GPU architecture, and whatever NVIDIA is cooking up next is going to be beast.

Respawn kicked off its new Iron Crown Collection event for Apex Legends recently, with a bunch of new in-game items and skins that are up for grabs... with one of the crown jewels being the Raven's Bite, which costs $170.

EA locks the Raven's Bite behind a huge paywall, because while the axe costs $35 on its own you can't just buy it outright. You have to have collected all 24 items in the Iron Crown Event, but once you have them all you gain access by the loot box gods to purchase the Heirloom.

In order to get all 24 cosmetic items you'll need to purchase 24 separate Iron Crown Event Packs (each of which includes an Epic or Legendary cosmetic in each pack, and you won't be hit with a duplicate -- EA isn't totally ripping you off here). If you complete the challenges that of 'Deal 25,000 Damage' and 'Complete 20 daily challenges' you're given two Iron Crown Event Packs... so even if you do that, you still need to purchase 22 packs.

We all know that you should have 100% of your concentration on the road and its surroundings when driving, and are all aware of the distractions of smartphones in the car. But I think we have a new winner for distracted driving, with a driver recently busted playing Pokemon GO on 8 separate smartphones.

A new tweet from Washington State Patrol Sergeant Kyle Smith, talking about a driver they recently caught playing Pokemon GO on 8 separate phones. The driver "agreed to put the phones in back seat and continued with commute with 8 less distractions".

I'm sure he put them in the back seat, and had them out soon enough -- this wasn't some random bust, this is a pro Pokemon GO addict. Even worse is that Washington state and its Driving Under the Influence of Electronics Act, which passed in 2017, and sees motorists that use their smartphone behind the wheel slapped with big fines. That obviously didn't scare this driver.

A new rumor has surfaced and sounds exciting for the PlayStation 5, with rumored power that will see it being a fast as NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card. Now that $1050 pre-order price on the PS5 doesn't seem so crazy.

Kimachi leaked the Oberon sample clocks, which is the APU being made for the PS5 -- where Gen2 has a 2GHz GPU clock. This would be quite the beast, pushing the GPU clock above the Navi 10-powered Radeon RX 5700 XT which sits at around 1900-1950MHz on custom cards that are now rolling in from MSI and SAPPHIRE.

Here, I have the purported PlayStation 5 with an RTX 2080-level GPU in Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 4K Ultra settings - if this is true, the world of 4K 60FPS opens up as I've been saying for a long time now. 4K 60FPS gaming is where next-gen consoles need to hit, and with RTX 2080 level graphics from a custom Navi GPU it'll happen in 2020.

Blizzard has just introduced yet another exciting hero into the Overwatch hero list, with the gravity-manipulating Sigma now available in the game versus only being playable in the PTR. Check out Sigma in the trailer below:

Included in the latest Overwatch update is also Role Queue -- a new system that will lock players into groups of three. This means there'll be two tanks, two supports, and two damage heroes in both Quick Play, and Competitive Play matches.

The way this works is that before you load into the game through matchmaking you choose which of the three classes you want to play, and then when you join the game you choose your specific hero. This works and makes sense, but the battles change so quickly in the game that you might need three DPS in one particular section, and can't switch out.

UPDATE: Subnautica dev Charlie Cleveland admits G2A isn't to blame for the stolen keys. "It does appear that G2A is right," Cleveland told Kotaku."They weren't the source of these original $30k keys. It doesn't LOOK like they were selling gray-market keys at the time we had all those chargebacks. But they've been doing it ever since."

A bit ago G2A promised to pay devs 10x the money they lost from fraudulent keys. Now they're being called out, and G2A is dodging culpability.

Under its own promise to compensate developers for lost cash due to fraudulent chargebacks, G2A apparently owes indie studio Unknown Worlds a whopping $300,000. According to studio director Charlie Cleveland, Unknown Worlds had to pay $30,000 out of pocket for thousands of Natural Selection 2 game keys that were purchased with stolen credit cards from G2A (thieves use stolen credit cards to buy keys, sell them on key resellers like G2A, and devs are held liable and have to reimburse those affected for the fraudulent purchases).

Going strong after 7 years, Blizzard hints Diablo III could have a long life ahead of it and possibly live alongside Diablo IV.

Right now the bulk of Blizzard's Diablo team is knee-deep in Diablo IV's development, but a core live team is still crafting tweaks and rotating seasonal content for Diablo III. A new blog post shows the studio isn't ready to give up on Diablo III just yet--nor should they be given the game's tremendous engagement levels--and we should see the game supported with maintenance-style content up to and possibly past Diablo IV's release.

Although Diablo III's seasons should continue well into 2020, we shouldn't expect any premium paid content. That ship has sailed. No more expansions or characters should come to Diablo III, and the game is essentially winding down for its mainline successor. Here's what Blizzard says: "Our crew is hard at work crafting additional Themed Seasons, a new set for each class, dozens of Legendary powers, and some class balance changes. Quality of life and the occasional gameplay system updates are also within scope, as we evaluate how we can keep bringing new magic to the world of Sanctuary. These updates won't arrive all at once, so if you don't see something for your class right away, don't worry; there's something coming for everyone."

THQ Nordic's parent company will soon be called...get ready...The Embracer Group.

THQ Nordic today announced it's changing its name to avoid conflict issues with its publishing arm. Right now there's two THQ Nordics--the publisher THQ Nordic GmbH and the parent company THQ Nordic AB--and it wants to avoid confusion.

It's new name will be The Embracer Group, and it pretty much reflects what the company does. I mean, the huge multi-faceted games-maker is known for embracing games, and it's constantly buying up developers (it just acquired three new ones today), whole branches like Koch Media (Deep Silver), and countless IPs. The company currently has a whopping 81 projects in development, of which only 34 have been revealed, including a new Saints Row game. It's legitimately one of the most interesting industry players right now simply because of its wide content portfolio.

According to THQ Nordic's new financials, Dead Island 2 could be out by 2021 on next-gen consoles.

After years of radio silence, THQ Nordic finally revealed new details about Dead Island 2. The game has been in development hell for the last five years, and has changed hands. First it went from Yager Interactive to Sumo Digital in 2017, and now the project's been handed off to Homefront: The Revolution developer Dambuster Studios. We have evidence Dambuster has been working on Dead Island since at least 2018, where THQ Nordic confirmed it was working on a "top-secret AAA project."

Not only that, but we have a potential release timeframe. In its latest earnings report, THQ Nordic says it'll release two major AAA games in its next fiscal year from April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021. One of these games will be the next Saints Row game. The other is likely Dead Island 2. In fact, we had reason to believe Dead Island could release as soon as 2019.

Volition is officially working on a new mainline Saints Row game, and it should release by 2021, THQ Nordic confirms.

We've long-suspected Saints Row V was in development. Volition Entertainment has been pretty quiet since its Agents of Mayhem game failed, and a bit ago THQ Nordic said the studio was working on a "top-secret AAA project." Now the publisher outright says that yes, Volition's new game is a Saints Row sequel. "Volition is deep in development of a brand-new Saints Row game, the first full entry in this much loved series since Saints Row IV was released in 2013," THQ Nordic's Lars Wingefors said in a recent earnings report.

No exact details were revealed, but we did get a nebulous timeframe. THQ Nordic expects to ship two major AAA games in the fiscal year from April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021, and Saints Row V is assuredly one of them. So that puts Saints Row V firmly in next-gen console territory and we should see a reveal at E3 2020 or thereabouts, probably on Microsoft's press conference (since Sony has dipped out of the show).

GTA 6 should harness the raw power of next-gen console hardware to push insane visuals and graphics, Take-Two Interactive teases.

Speaking with Mad Money's Jim Cramer, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick says next-gen consoles have explosive potential to deliver amazing new gameplay experiences--especially with huge marquee blockbusters like Grand Theft Auto. Immersion will be a huge part of this, and GTA 6 could look so photorealistic that gamers can't distinguish it from reality.

"We have a new console generation coming, and that's going to allow us to do some things we haven't been able to do creatively. That's exciting," Mr. Zelnick said during the show. "But as I've said before, we're going to reach a point where you won't be able to tell the difference between what's created in the computer and what's real. That doesn't mean we'll do it for all our games. Borderlands, for example, is an animated universe--it's always going to be an animated universe. But this promise of taking certain titles, like basketball, and making it truly look like live-action--it's pretty close now, squint a little bit, it looks like live-action--that's really exciting. That gives our creative folks a new canvas on which to paint."

If you are a fan of open-world action-RPG games, then keep your eyes peeled on Experiment 101's Biomutant title. If you like what you see, you might want to check out the games Collector Editions.

Firstly, we have the most expensive edition the 'Atomic Edition' which includes the following: a mid-battle diorama that measures 23″ by 10″ by 12″, SteelBook case, oversize mousepad, t-shirt in L/XL, official game, artwork on fabric and a premium box. The Collectors Edition is the cheaper version, coming it at $109 and including: 7.8″ stature of the main character, the previously mentioned artwork, official game soundtrack, the game and a smaller premium box.

Biomutant is truly shaping up to be quite the adventure for open-world action-RPG fans, but if this is the first time you have heard of the title check out some kick ass gameplay here. While there is some great action scenes seen in that trailer, check out some awesome environments in this one here. At the moment neither THQ Nordic or Experiment 101 has revealed the release date for Biomutant, but the title is still expected to arrive in gamers hands sometime in 2019.

One of the best society-simulator and city-builder games is now planned to release on consoles, but will consoles gamers be able to survive the cold?

Developers of Frostpunk, 11 Bit Studios have announced that their critically acclaimed title will now be heading over to consoles this October. Players will assume the role of a ruler that is governing the last city on Earth, as the rest of the planets cities have been frozen over. Players will have to make difficult and well thought out decisions to ensure the survival of the remaining citizens, these decisions range in the forms of laws, health, work routines and your cities overall approval of your efforts.

Above is a trailer for the title and its just a mere taste of what Frostpunk can offer players. Frostpunk will be heading over to consoles on October 11th, for more information about the title check out the official website here.

Respawn Entertainment has just blessed Apex Legends players with a brand new update that adds some things that we didn't ask for, but are more than happy to have.

Respawn Entertainment has officially kicked off their Iron Crown Collection event where players will be able to jump into a limited-time solos mode, enjoy the Octane Town Takeover that has a skate park, double XP for top 5 and wins over the weekend and numerous cosmetic additions.

This update dropped out of nowhere and judging by players' reactions in the comment section of the above video, it has been more than welcomed. There is so many new skins for both weapons and legends, and they honestly look fantastic so props to Respawn for their efforts. Moving into the map change, Octane has "taken over part of Kings Canyon and done a bit of remodeling to better suit his adrenaline-seeking tendencies".