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Every Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fan is gearing up for the next installment into the series, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It seems that the hype has rolled into new heights with the title new reaching the top of the Amazon best selling video games of 2018.

So far throughout 2018, gamers have been blessed with multiple massive title releases, some of which include: Sony Santa Monica's God of War, Capcom's 'Monster Hunter World and several other titles. Despite having all of these huge game releases, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has reached the top of Amazon's Best-Selling game of 2018 so far.

The fact that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has already reached the top of Amazon's Best-Sellers showcases the massive following the title has. Fans of the series have said that this new release by Nintendo could be the biggest game release in the franchise so far, and the fact that the title is sitting at the top of Amazon's Best Sellers for video games reinforces this statement. Super Smash Bros. UItimate will be released on the Nintendo Switch on December 7th. If you want to pre-order Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, check out the Amazon link here.

After the reveal of the famous Donkey Kong Country villain, King K. Rool debuting to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans of the DKC series have come together to thank Smash director Masahrio Sakurai.

At the start of this month during the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct, every fan of Donkey Kong Country and the Super Smash Bros. series was brought to their knees as their wishes for King K. Rool joining the fighting roster was fulfilled. King K. Rool began his iconic journey as one of Nintendo's most beloved villains back on the SNES with the original Donkey Kong Country. Since the release of Super Smash Bros., fans have been crying out for the master Kremlin to be added to the games fighting roster, and now that their wishes has been heard fans have come together to thank the game director.

It seems that all Donkey Kong Country fans and all Super Smash Bros. fans have collaborated in on a letter written to Masahrio Sakurai. The letter thanks the director on behalf of all fans for listening to the communities cries for wanting King K. Rool added to the roster. "On behalf of every Donkey Kong Country fan and King K. Rool supporter around the globe, thanks for listening to us, and thank for being such an amazing game director. Words alone cannot describe how happy we are. Thanks to his inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, K. Rool will be forever immortalized as a Nintendo all-star, looking better than we acould have ever imagined. This moment is, quite literally, a dream come true."

NVIDIA unveiled their next-gen GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards last week, with the new Turing GPU architecture capable of real-time ray tracing in games like Battlefield V, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Metro Exodus. But Battlefield V in particular looked gorgeous, as you can see in our exclusive video below.

Now we have Battlefield producer David Sirland taking to Twitter to handle some questions about the RTX side of things, with Sirland working on Battlefield 2, Battlefield 4, and Battlefield 1's Incursions mode. Sirland said that real-time ray tracing is "freaking cool", and that from a "gameplay standpoint it will change a lot of things, so I hope standardization happens fast. I normally could care less about how stuff looks, as it results in worse gameplay".

DICE will focus on Battlefield V's core development while another studio handles the game's battle royale mode, but this is just how EA dev studios work.

The news was confirmed in a six-day-old Reddit post by a key player at the FPS studio. "[Battlefield V's] Royale is being made by a different studio, not DICE," said Ben Walke, Global Manager, Community Engagement at DICE. The mode's development will be a collaborative effort, which is nothing new for EA game studios; many high-profile games are collaborative works whose pieces are carved up and handed to specific teams that specialize in certain fields. The industry is also rife with examples of multi-studio dev, including 343i's upcoming Halo 6 and nearly every big Ubisoft game (especially Assassin's Creed titles).

Since EA makes games with so many moving parts, it's only natural other key devs are brought in to ensure everything runs smoothly both at launch and in the months beyond. Battlefront II was also a collaborative effort at EA; DICE made the bulk of the game whereas EA Motive and Criterion handled vehicles and space combat.

Control, Remedy's new IP, should take more risks across the board--with its narrative, game mechanics, and overall tone--but that hasn't stopped the studio from making a new team for its next project.

When Remedy's new Control game was announced at E3 2018 I saw its past represented quite clearly. Control has a very Quantum Break-style aesthetic and also seems to match some of the former game's powers, but the studio affirms its new third-person action title will be a lot more adventurous than its previous slate. Control's key narrative elements and story flow will still have that Remedy feel, however.

"With Control, it's redefining Remedy again," Remedy's PR rep Thomas Puha told PCGamesInsider.biz. "We made two very linear story-driven game and again we're going to have the story but in a game that's a lot more adventurous. Hopefully, it's something we can keep building more in the years to come."

Activision and Treyarch have released a brand new trailer for Call of Duty Black Ops 4, this trailer is officially dedicated to the PC release of the game.

The new trailer reveals to us everything a PC gamer wants in a title: 4K resolution support, uncapped framerate, extensive control customizations and gameplay designed to be experienced on the PC.

From the trailer we can see different aspect ratio changes that confirm support for ultra-wide screens and multi monitors. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will be releasing on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on October 12th. For more information regarding the upcoming title visit the official website here.

At this years GamesCom, 12 minutes of gameplay footage has been revealed for the upcoming Devil's Hunt which is planned for release in Q3 of 2019.

For those that don't know, Devil's Hunt will be taking players through both heaven and hell in the shoes of a character Desmond. "Desmond, the one man with demonic powers who can decide the fate of our world by joining either side of the conflict."

The footage has been released onto the Punish YouTube Channel and showcases Desmond using his demonic powers to defeat enemies. Desmond can fight enemies using his fists and massive demon claws, he also can launch range attacks that appear to be fire. For more information regarding Devil's Hunt, visit the official Steam listing here.

The new NBA 2K19 trailer reveals that broadcasting crew that will be taking the reins throughout the upcoming release.

In the latest trailer released onto the NBA 2K YouTube Channel we can see the return of former MVP's stars Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett to the commentators box. The trailer also gives us another short look at the title and it does certainly look amazing.

Bill Simmons, former ESPN/Grantland employee and head of the sports website 'The Ringer' will also be joining play-by-play man Kevin Harlan. Throughout the trailer we can see some behind the scenes recording sessions of Bryant, Garnett, and Simmons. For more information regarding NBA 2K19, visit the website here.

Square Enix has released yet another trailer for the upcoming Shadow of the Tomb Raider, this time round we can see examples of Lara fully utilizing her intelligence of the jungles flora.

The above trailer reveals to players numerous ways of how they can be resourceful in the jungle. The more resourceful players are the more they can fully utilize each of the respective buffs, which in turn will help Lara defeat her enemies quicker, gather more resources and even locate items and objects that originally could not be seen.

Some of these buffs and boosts include: Eye of the Eagle which allows for players to see more resources in their surrounding environment. Scales of the Serpent which slows down time for a short period when aiming, Owl's Meal which gives Lara the ability to harvest poisons for darts. Viper's Lure and Viper's Venom gives players the ability to craft poisonous arrows and poisonous grenades respectively. For more information regarding Shadow of the Tomb Raider chcek out the website here.

Blizzard have decided to do everyone a solid and make Overwatch completely free-to-play for a four-day weekend.

In celebration of the Overwatch League Finals about a month ago now, Blizzard decided to make Overwatch completely free-to-play for PC players. This time round though, console gamers can join in on the fun, beginning at 11 a.m. PT on Thursday, Aug. 23 players on both PC and console can download Overwatch and enjoy it until Monday, Aug. 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

For anyone that downloads Overwatch throughout the course of the weekend, they will be glad to know that any progress made throughout the duration of playing will be carried over if they purchase the Overwatch Legendary Edition on consoles. The same principal can be applied to the PC version of the game. For further information regarding Overwatch visit the official site here.

World of Warcraft's latest expansion Battle for Azeroth has sold over 3 million copies worldwide, making Blizzard a mountain of gold in the process.

Battle for Azeroth has topped 3.4 million sales in its first day of availability, Activision-Blizzard today announced, making it one of the fastest-selling PC games in history according to company records.

"When the Battle for Azeroth erupted worldwide last week, champions of the Alliance and the Horde around the globe were called upon to fight for their faction. Heroes everywhere turned out in force, and Blizzard Entertainment today announced that as of Battle for Azeroth's first full day of launch on August 14, more than 3.4 million units of the latest World of Warcraft expansion had sold through worldwide-setting a new day-one sales record for the franchise and making it one of the fastest-selling PC games of all-time," reads the official press release.

Nintendo's future mobile games may have a fixed price, thus making them much less accessible than free-to-play games.

Mobile gaming thrives on free-to-play titles that are monetized with microtransactions. The games industry market is expected to make $170 billion 2018, analyst firm DigiCapital predicts, with mobile raking in a whopping $60 billion or the lion's share of 39% of total earnings. Much of this revenue is garnered by free-to-play mobile games, especially Tencent games in China.

But Nintendo isn't ready to go all-in on F2P just yet: despite pressure from investors, it will push its antiquate combination free-to-start and buy-to-play model in an effort to provide value to consumers.

Fans looking forward to Overkill's excellent-looking new The Walking Dead game will have to wait until early 2019, Starbreeze Studios confirms.

We're about due for a good The Walking Dead game that truly taps the series visceral and chaotic world. Thankfully Overkill has us covered with their upcoming game, which seems to do exactly that. The new project, which is being hailed across the board at Gamescom 2018, features online multiplayer that forces players to team up with class-based characters to survive and scavenge in the brutal zombie-ridden streets of Washington, D.C. Sadly, console gamers will have to wait until February 2019 to jump into the fray.

The delay, which was announced in Starbreeze Studios's quarterly earnings, is a tactical business decision from publisher 505 Games. The PC version is still on track for its November release.

Microsoft's new Xbox All Access program aims to bridge the cost gap preventing consumers from buying into the console ecosystem, thus making Xbox hardware and subscriptions more widely accessible.

The Xbox All Access initiative will combine both Xbox hardware and two different kinds of subscriptions--Xbox Game Pass and Xbox LIVE Gold--in one affordable package, sources have told Windows Central. Essentially Microsoft will lease consoles to users and allow them to pay the system's cost off over time, while also bundling in its online game services for two years.

Sources say pricing will be about $22/month for an Xbox One S, and $35/month for an Xbox One X across a period of 24 months. This would bring the total long-run cost of the Xbox One S option to $528 and the Xbox One X option to $840. A quick breakdown reveals some savings: the average cost of an Xbox One S is around $230, two years of Xbox LIVE Gold at $59.99/year nets around $240, and two years of Game Pass at $59.99 per six months nets $240 as well, bringing the total retail cost to ~$710 or so.

After the reveal of King K. Rool through the Smash direct, fans have been awaiting for some more gameplay of the new fighter in action. King K. Rool versus Snake, FIGHT!

For those that missed the Smash Direct, Nintendo revealed at the very end of the trailer one of the most anticipated villains to join the roster, King K. Rool. Now that he has been confirmed fans have been wanting to see some more gameplay of the heavy fighter in actions, now we have exactly that.

Nintendo has released onto their YouTube Channel a 2 minute video showcasing King K. Rool fighting Konami's Snake. From the gameplay we can obviously see that King K. Rool is a heavy and it really doesn't take much for him to knock out middle weighted fighters such as Snake. For more information regarding Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, check out all of our coverage on the title here.

As we move closer to the release of Bandai Namco's Soulcalibur VI, the publisher/developer has released quite a lot of information regarding the title. We now have the official PC requirements for Soulcalibur VI.

The official PC requirements have been revealed through the titles Steam listing which can be found here if you are interested. According to the Steam listing, players will have at least have to have the following:

Minimum:

Bandai Namco has revealed the singleplayer storymode for Soulcalibur VI, the publisher has also showcased the DLC character Tira.

Bandai has released a brand new trailer onto their YouTube Channel and it reveals the story mode for the upcoming Soulcalibur VI. The title of the campaign is "Libra of Soul" and showcases to players that they can create their own custom fighter and fight through the campaign "in a quest to stop a new evil mastermind at work to gather Soul Edge shards."

"Libra of Soul" is just one of two story mode campaigns in Soulcalibur 6, the other one is titled "Chronicle of Souls." In Chronicle of Souls, players will progress through the timeline of the Soulcalibur series, this storyline will display the Soulcalibur series to players through 2D art, conversations and of course battles.

Bandai Namco has released another trailer onto their YouTube Channel, this time they have revealed the upcoming DLC character for Soulcalibur VI. Introducing Tira, and he Ring Blade of doom.

For those that don't know Tira's history throughout the Soulcalibur series, Tira was first introduced to the franchise in 2005's Soulcalibur 3. This time round though, Soulcalibur VI will feature the character as a paid DLC option, she will be completely stand-alone in the DLC and is apart of the games fighting season pass.

Looking towards the comment section of the trailer, fans of the series seem outraged to know that Bandai are already looking towards paid DLC characters when the initial games' standard fighting roster has not been completed yet. This is a fair point, and personally as a massive fan of the Soulcalibur series this does sadden me to see the publisher/developer looking towards paid DLC's, hopefully Bandai will clear this up very soon as fans really do seem outraged at this decision.

A great graphical comparison has been made between the classic stages on Super Smash Bros. Melee and the upcoming stages in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

GameXplain has done everyone a huge favor by spending the time of going back through all of the upcoming reworked stages in Super Smash Bros. Melee and then giving a side-by-side comparison to the returning stages in the upcoming Smash for Nintendo Switch.

The above video showcases a head-to-head comparison of the following stages: Peach's Castle, Venom, Rainbow Cruise, Great Bay, Jungle Japes, Fountain of Dreams, Big Blue and many more. In other Super Smash Bros. news, if you happened to miss the announcement of Simon Belmont check that out here. Also, if you happened to miss the massive reveal of King K. Rool joining the fighting roster, check that out here.

Cyberpunk 2077's in-game Night City is alive, hungry, and has very sharp teeth. Players should beware.

CD Projekt RED is currently busily crafting its most ambitious project to date--we're of course talking about Cyberpunk 2077. During E3 2018 we got our first taste of Night City, the game's huge sprawling mayhem-infused metropolis, but now the devs are talking more about what to expect from the sci-fi haven of havoc. We've known for a while that the FPS RPG would feature a living, breathing city with dynamic AI, all powered by the studio's next-gen games engine. While we haven't exactly seen the game in action yet, CDPR promises one of the most active, alive, and compelling backdrops gaming has to offer.

"So when it comes to more densely packed areas in the city, like the city center, Watson, Heywood, you have community there. They have their routines, you can observe them and interact with them. When it comes to places where there aren't that many people because, well, it's either too violent in Pacifica or it's just not inhabited enough like Domingo, you still have this kind of city flair," CD Projekt RED producer Richard Borzymowski told Gamespot in a recent interview.