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Another website has released renders of the unannounced Nintendo Switch Mini console, while these images aren't necessarily the consoles final design they could certainly be guess at what is to maybe be on its way.

It was only a couple of days ago that I reported on a Chinese accessorries company listing accessories for the technically non-existent Nintendo Switch Mini console. Now, we have another accessories website listing a range of accessories for the Mini, the websites name is HonSon and they necessarily a small website either. HodSon has accessories for almost all consoles released and a plethora of spare parts and gadgets that go with them.

While this isn't in anyway a confirmation for a Nintendo Switch Mini console to be coming to the market, it is certainly an eyebrow raising moment. The question that should be asked is why are companies listing accessory products for a console that on paper doesn't exist. Is this a way for accessory companies to get more traffic through fake listings that journalist like myself pick up? Or do these companies have blueprints for a prototype console that gives them the ability to make early accessories and the website listings are simply a innocent mistake?

A bunch of new screenshots have been released for Perfect World Entertainments Remnant: From the Ashes. Are you prepared to take a step into the chaotic monster-filled world of Remnant: From the Ashes?

If you aren't familiar with the upcoming title from Perfect World Entertainment, here is quick synopsis of what is to come. Remnant: From the Ashes is an open-world post-apocalyptic third-person survival action shooter that puts players into teams of up to three allies which the group is tasked to eliminate dangerous monsters. The game will feature what has been promised as intense combat with over 100 monsters and 20 epic bosses to tangle with.

Players will also be able to create and modify new weapons to better their chances at the challenges ahead. To complement the weapon system, players will also have a gear progression system as well. The worlds will be randomized and be packed with unique challenges that once completed, will reward players with tools and gear to assist them in advancing to the next world. Perfect World Entertainments Remnant: From the Ashes is slated to release on August 20th, 2019.

In and interview with Kotaku, Nintendo's top producers for the upcoming Luigi's Mansion 3 have revealed many details regarding the titles development and game mechanics.

The interview with Kotaku was conducted at E3 2019 and producers Yoshihito Ikebata and his boss, Kensuke Tanabe sat down to discuss Luigi's Mansion 3. According to both of the games heads, Luigi's Mansion 3 will have more concentration on unique bosses than the second installment in the series. Here is what Idkebata said, "More than anything we really wanted to put those unique bosses in the second one and we couldn't. So that's why we've put so many of them in the third one."

The producers also touched on how the development for the title originated. According to Kotaku, Luigi's Mansion 3 development first began on the Wii U, and was then quickly converted over to the Nintendo Switch following the development completion of Next Level's 2016 3DS game Metroid Prime Federation Force. Next Level will be taking the reins in Luigi's Mansion 3 development, but that doesn't mean Nintendo won't have a say in the moves Luigi will be able to do in-game.

EA Sports has just announced NHL 20 during the NHL Awards in Las Vegas, with some gigantic changes taking place to the game throughout virtually all areas.

NHL 20 will feature celebratory commentary, with EA tapping huge Hollywood and industry giants like Snoop Dogg and Will Ferrell, with Ferrell delivering his commentary in his Ron Burgundy character from Anchorman. While EA hasn't named any names yet, GameSpot saw a slide for NHL 20 that included Snoop Dogg, Will Ferrell, Drake, and Wayne Gretzky.

EA surprised with the announcement of NHL 20 in that it will include a battle royale mode, and while you probably thought that headline was click bait, this is definitely real. The battle royale mode in NHL 20 is called "Eliminator", in which the developer explains is a competitive mode where it is a "winner-take-all competition inspired by battle royale".

The latest update to Quake II RTX is here with v1.1.0 delivering a bunch of things including inverted mouse support (the first thing I noticed when I played it in Taiwan at the NVIDIA HQ) as well as music playback, tweaks to the tone mapper, and more.

Lightspeed Studios is handling Quake II RTX, with the developer noting: "Quake II RTX supports music playback from OGG files, if they can be located. To enable music playback, copy the CD tracks into a music folder either next to the executable, or inside the game directory, such as baseq2/music"

The files should use one of these two naming schemes:

With Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt RED has one goal: to go bigger and better than ever before. This focus should also extend to post-launch expansions.

Cyberpunk 2077 has been a monumental undertaking for CD Projekt RED. The company has shelled out millions and millions of R&D spending on the game, crafting a new next-gen engine and building high-powered tech for everything from motion capture to AI and everything in between. When the game launches in April, CDPR says it'll be a full and complete experience with a gripping choice-driven narrative. But when it's over it's not necessarily over, and Cyberpunk 2077 is likely to get expansions just like The Witcher 3.

In a recent interview with Prima Games, CD Projekt RED UI coordinator Alvin Liu says CDPR is tentatively plotting out Cyberpunk 2077's post-launch future. But right now the team is dedicated strongly in finishing the base game first. Liu echoes co-founder Marcin Iwinski's promises that CDPR won't carve out content from the base game to sell at a later date. When expansions happen, they will be huge sprawling affairs like Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. The studio is putting its all into Cyberpunk 2077's gritty, raunchy, and action-packed sci-fantasy shooter and won't compromise it to make a quick buck later.

EA and Epic Games tried to defend lootboxes, microtransactions, and their billion-dollar engagement practices to a recent UK government committee. They failed quite badly.

Key EA and Epic Games representatives recently attended a meeting discussing video game addiction with the UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee. The results are quite embarrassing for the titans of industry. Both EA and Epic reps floundered in their responses, and looked quite nervous. The companies tried re-defining lootboxes as "surprise mechanics" like a Hatchimal or Kinder Egg, and declined giving key information like user metrics and average revenues earned per user.

"Do you consider lootboxes to be an ethical feature of your games?" Scottish MP Brendan O'Hara asked EA's representative, Kerry Hopkins.

This summer Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 players will be able to get their hands-on a new DLC character, Super Saiyan Blue Evolved Vegeta.

According to the latest issue of Weekly Jump, Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Evolved Vegeta will be coming to Xenoverse 2 this summer as a paid DLC character. Vegeta will come with all of his classic moves such as; Final Flash, Final Blow, Final Galick Gun, Atomic Blast, Final Charge, Flash Strike and Final Explosion.

For players to unlock the Awoken Skill they must already have obtained the 'Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan' awoken skill, already be level 95 and finally max out their friendship with Vegeta in-game. Expect Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Evolved Vegeta sometime this summer. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC

Remember that title Agony and the development and publishing hell that it went through? (pun intended) Well, a spin-off game has been announced and it seems it will be taking a similar route.

The game is called Succubus, which in supernatural folklore means a demon who takes form as a female to seduce men into sexual activities. Once those activities are achieved, the man experiences a deterioration of health, mental cognition and sometimes even death. The title coming out of Madmind Studios seems to capture all of those elements and stir them into one game.

According to the press release, Succubus will continue to follow the story of Agony and concentrate in on now the main character Succubus Vydija. Here is the official description; "With the disappearance of the rightful rulers of hell, the remaining demons have chosen their new ruler - the only soul who could dominate the mind of the mighty Beast. Raising their new empire from the corpses of sinners helped the new king, Nimrod, and his queen Vydija, to control the chaos left by the former overlord."

Apex Legends players have been seeing dragon-like beats flying around the map while attempting to win games. The dragons are stealing loot boxes, but why?

Apex Legends players are quite confused with the latest addition to the game, as many players have been spotting dragons or 'flyers' circling around the map. These dragons must be a teaser for the games coming season 2 update, which seems will contain these dragons who are stealing dead players' loot boxes. In the above video by Kandyrew, we can see that players are able to shoot and damage the dragons which will then result in the beast dropping the loot box its holding. It should also be noted that whoever shoots the dragon first will make the lootbox's owner appear as someone on their Origin friends list.

The first question that comes to mind is 'where are these dragons taking the loot boxes? and why?' If I was to take a guess at the reasoning behind this teaser, I would say that Respawn is planning some kind of world event for the map. Consider the idea of these dragons stealing the loot boxes of players to return them to a larger dragons lair to guard. Players would have to work as a team to take on the larger dragon and its siblings, and after they are defeated they will be rewarded with whatever loot that has been stolen, plus bonus loot from the larger dragon.

From the producer of the legendary Castlevania series we finally have Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The title is launched and is available for purchase and download right now.

Back in 2015, we learned of a kickstarter campaign for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The campaign was more than successful, raising around 5.5 million from fans. The game which has been developed by Koji Igarashi, one of the producers of the Castlevania series and renowned godfathers of the side-scrolling vania genre. Unfortunately, the title experienced many development delays over the course of 4 years as Igarashi was searching for perfection, and now has finally launched out of nowhere.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a spiritual successor of the Castlevania series and will continue the legacy of franchise with its in-depth side-scrolling RPG action. Players will be able to experience "vast and deep gameplay" in the variety of unlocking spells, powers, character customization, crafting weapons and many upgradeables. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is available now on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. The Nintendo Switch version of the game will launch next week on June 25th. Here is the games Steam listing.

Nintendo informed us before E3 2019 that they would not be having any hardware announcements during their presentation, but that doesn't mean rumors aren't still kicking around about a Nintendo Switch Mini follow-up system.

According to Twitter user Daniel Ahmad, a Chinese gaming company has contacted him regarding Nintendo Switch Mini accessories. While Nintendo hasn't officially announced any new hardware, it is quite peculiar that a gaming accessories company would be making accessories for a console that technically doesn't exist yet.

In the above Tweet Ahmad says that this isn't a strange thing for Chinese companies to do, and has been done before. We can also see that the company has even gone ahead and created renders of not only the accessories they are creating but also the Nintendo Switch Mini system itself. To reiterate, this doesn't mean that Nintendo are officially launching a new system, this is merely a rumor at this stage and before any assumptions are made an official announcement will be needed before any confirming is done.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is very likely in development at Rockstar games for next-gen consoles, and the team could pare about singleplayer focus in favor of GTA Online expansion.

All evidence shows GTA 6 is being made right now. Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive strongly hinted as much in its recent financials, confirming the upcoming pipeline is "the strongest in our history." R&D spending is also up to $230 million, more than it's ever been in the last five years. Take-Two's cooking something up and Rockstar is probably in the kitchen.

So what can we expect from GTA 6? If GTA V is any indicator, we'll get served a larger-than-life campaign mode that leverages the full power of next-gen consoles like Sony's PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's new Project Scarlett. There should be a strong emphasis on graphics, NPC AI, absolute insane physics, open-world exploration, and shocking humor. But insofar as content, GTA 6 could actually be lacking compared to its predecessor, which also seemed to dial things back compared to GTA IV. The reason why? GTA Online.

Bethesda Game Studios like Fallout 4 take a long time to make. That's actually by design and it's not going to change any time soon.

Bethesda might be launching new games in 2019, but none of them are from its internal BGS studio. It's two new "big and crazy projects" Starfield, Bethesda's new space opera IP, and The Elder Scrolls VI are both still a ways off. This snail's pace is part of Bethesda's ethos and seems to follow Shigeru Miyamoto's legendary quote: "a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." So how does Bethesda explain Fallout 76?

Fallout 76's disastrous launch notwithstanding, studio director Todd Howard says he'd rather have a smaller team of talented devs take longer than cram too many people on a project and rush it out. In a recent interview with IGN, Howard discusses how BGS makes its games and what kinds of decisions go into the long and arduous journey that is making games like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls.

Capcom is beta testing Monster Hunter World's massive new Iceborne expansion, and PS Plus subscribers get first access.

Starting this Friday, June 21 at 6AM EST and ending on Monday, June 24 at 6AM EST, PlayStation Plus users can jump in and try out Iceborne's wintry wonderland of megalithic monsters for free. A second free beta test will be held for all PS4 gamers the following weekend on June 28 through July 1. Gamers won't need to own Monster Hunter World's base version to participate, and Capcom will open up pre-loading soon.

Capcom promises Iceborne will be quite titanic in size and scope. The DLC, which retails for $40, will rival the full game insofar as content, quests, and new additions. It's not just an update, but a fully-fledged expansion complete with new monsters like the frost dragon Velkhana (and some old ones like the Nargacuga), weapons, regions to explore.

PlatinumGames makes some of the best action games in the industry, so you'd think they'd be excited about the next-gen PS5 and Project Scarlett consoles. But studio boss Atsushi Inaba isn't that thrilled. The high-powered duo is just more of the same, he says.

Both Sony's next-gen PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Project Scarlett are powerhouses for next-gen gaming. Armed with custom AMD chips outfitted with Zen 2 CPUs and Navi GPUs, the consoles will leverage high-end processing power to push 4K (and even 8K), 120FPS, and dramatically boosted performance. But to developers like PlatinumGames, these specs are just numbers. There's really nothing unique to be found in either box.

PlatinumGames boss Atsushi Inaba admits next-gen consoles will be good for gamers (especially their super-fast SSDs likely enabled by PCI 4.0 tech). "It's OK. And by that I mean, I'm sure that things will move faster, graphics will be better and maybe it will be easier with less wait times... that's good for the consumer," Inaba told VideoGame Chronicle.

On the heels of its 1996 MS-DOS shooter SkyNet, Bethesda made a sequel that let you play through the perspective of the deadly T-800.

Earlier today I commented on the marked lack of new Terminator games. The titanium tyrant is finding its way into a bunch of new games including Gears of War 5, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and possibly even Mortal Kombat 11...but won't star in a game of its own. But back in the day anyone could make a game based off of John Cameron's epic duology--it was a Wild West for Terminator games--and Bethesda had something unique planned.

In a recent interview with IGN, Bethesda Games Studios' Todd Howard gave some history to the studio's short-lived run with the franchise. Bethesda made two Terminator games--Future Shock in 1995 and SkyNet in 1996--during a time when no one actually owned the rights to the franchise. It was incredibly advantageous for the team and gave them lots of freedom.

During Nintendo's E3 2019 presentation we learned that the rumors were true and that CD Projekt Red's Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be coming to the Nintendo Switch. Now some more information has been released regarding the port.

According Twitter user Wario64, the Nintendo Switch version of the game won't be having a day one download if the title is purchased in the physical format. The game will be shipping on a 32GB cartridge and contain the entirety of the game, including both the DLC's: Heart of Stone and Blood and Wine.

The physical package also contains a compendium, map and many stickers. The port for Wild Hunt will be played at 540p on the Nintendo Switch in hand held mode, and docked the game will be bumped up to 720p. The pre-order for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt can be found on Amazon for $60, a link is located here.

The next Alien video game won't be Alien: Isolation 2, but a MMO-style shooter from a small San Jose-based studio called Cold Iron.

A new Alien game is in the works but it could resemble something like Destiny instead of the ultra-creepy and clastrophobic horror of Alien Isolation. The game hasn't officially been announced, but was confirmed back in 2018 as a massively multiplayer online shooter for consoles and PC built with Unreal Engine 4. This year saw Alien: Blackout, a new mobile game that continued Ellen Ripley's story, and now Cold Iron's new MMO could deliver an action-packed survival power fantasy set around the 1986 Aliens film.

There's just one problem: the game probably isn't close to being finished. Cold Iron Studios is currently hiring for multiple key positions to help work on the game. At the time of writing, Cold Iron Studios has 22 job openings that were posted on June 13, eight of which are for lead and senior roles. As these jobs are filled we should see Cold Iron ramp up development on the project in earnest.

Nintendo has issued out the newest firmware update for their Nintendo Switch system. Don't worry, nothing major has been changed, in fact barely anything has been changed at all.

Nintendo has brought up the Nintendo Switch version to 8.1.0 and this time round The Big N hasn't added any new features, new additions or software to the system. Instead we just have "General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience" which is quite standard to say the least.

It isn't really surprising that this system update is a small one considering the version 8.0.0 was a massive update filled with a bunch of new features and improvements, more information on that here. If you want to read up on the previous system updates, visit the official Nintendo website here.