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Marvel and Insomniac's Spider-Man is very close to launch and to keep that hype ball rolling, Insomniac's Creative Director, Bryan Intihar has sat down with PlayStation Access to reveal a further 20 minutes of gameplay footage.

From the video we are introduced to a more strategic Spider-Man, players will have the choice of approaching missions through either stealth take-downs, or more hand-to-hand open combat. The video showcases that Spidy is able to calmly approach enemies and take them down from behind, above, the sides and basically any other direction as long as he isn't spotted prior to the attack.

Inithar narrates over the gameplay footage which then leads to a battle between Kingpin and Spidy, during this fight Inithar reveals (15:10) that players will be battling the Sinister Six later in the game. Inithar also says that players will be able to experience what it is like play as Peter Parker, the same goes for M.J as well. It is not detailed how players will be able to play as them or what will specifically be done, but now it has been confirmed that it is possible. Marvel's Spider-Man will be releasing exclusively on the PlayStation 4 on September 7th.

A new set of screenshots have been released from Activisions Spyro Reignited Trilogy, the images are the first set of screenshots from the third Spyro game, Spyro Year of The Dragon.

From the images we can see that the remastered version is more than a considerable increase in graphical quality when compared to the original game. We can also see Spyro on the skateboard from these images, the skateboard provided for a massive role in Spyro 3 so hopefully as we move closer to the released of the Trilogy Activision showcase some gameplay of it in action.

If you missed out on the recent news about the Spyro Reignited Trilogy shipping on one disc and then requiring a further update to acquire both of the other Spyro titles, visit that story here. If you also happened to miss the 12 gorgeous minutes of Spyro gameplay footage showcasing Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, check that out here.

Activision and Treyarch are only days away from unleashing the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 PC beta, and now we know what we'll need to run it - and the answer is: not much.

The COD: Black Ops 4 beta kicks off on the PC on August 10 for those who pre-ordered the game, and on August 11 for those who didn't. It's exclusive to Blizzard Battle.net, so you'll need to jump on there to get into it.

At a minimum, you'll require:

Digital continues to drive quarterly earnings for Rockstar Games parent company Take-Two Interactive, in no small part thanks to GTA Online's continued success.

Every year Take-Two leverages its popular slate of IPs to rake in considerable earnings, but it's not all about raw game sales. Popularity is now typically measured in ARPU and MAUs, especially when premium games like GTA V have live service modes attached to them. The industry is pivoting more towards digital revenues and Take-Two is a major player in this regard.

In Q1 of its Fiscal Year 2019 timeline, Take-Two Interactive continued its long-running trend of digitally-focused revenues. Digital made $315 million in Q1, up 17.4% year-over-year, and accounting for a whopping 81% of the $388 million earned from total net revenues. What's even more indicative of Take-Two's strong engagement performance is how much of its digital revenues are made up of recurrent consumer spending (ie microtransactions, DLC, etc) hooks that are attached to most of its key games.

We might finally get to see Blue Team's legendary exploits in action thanks to Showtime's upcoming Halo TV series.

I love Halo. It's something that's always been near and dear to my heart, and I really love the idea of humanity being locked in a hopeless war with a indomitable, alien foe. What makes Halo so great to me isn't just the FPS action, or the story rooted in sheer desperation, but how humanity kept its hope alive even against impossible odds. The Spartans kept this flame alive--primarily the "demon" Spartan 117--and raised spirits as world after world fell to the Covenant. This deeply personal and dramatic story is something I've always wanted to see displayed in a Halo movie or TV show (Halo Legends definitely counts!) and it appears Showtime might be making my dream come true.

Not so long ago I gave Microsoft a bunch of ideas for the Halo TV show. Some ideas include chronicling the Innies vs UNSC war that led to the creation of Spartan-II's like Master Chief and even showing Kelly, Fred, and John wreak total havoc as Blue Team. Those ideas might actually manifest in some way in Showtime's new show.

As EVO 2018 comes to a close, we now learn from viewing statistics that the Dragon Ball FighterZ finale was the most watched part of the event. The live viewing pushed the EVO records to new heights through Twitch.

Over the course of EVO 2018, titles such as Street Fighter V, Super Smash Bros. 4 and Dragon Ball FighterZ were played. Dragon Ball FighterZ took the cake for the most watched game, during its Sunday night finals the livestream on Twitch hit an all time high of 257,000 concurrent viewers. This broke the record for the highest viewer count ever recorded for EVO.

During the peak of the livestream EVO actually managed to sneak the top position on Twitch, beating other juggernaut titles such as Fortnite, League of Legends and PUBG. In other news about Dragon Ball FighterZ, Bandai Namco just revealed a new fighter throughout their EVO 2018 trailer, some would even say he is quite "cool." If you missed that news you can catch up on it here.

Motion Twin, the developers and publisher behind the roguelite-metroidvania action-platformer have finally brought their title to the Nintendo Switch.

Dead Cells has finally launhced and to celebrate the debuting of their title Motion Twin have released the above animated short film. The video gives new players an idea of what they will be jumping into if they decide to pick up the title. From the video we can see the main protagonist being created and then thrown out into the world to get from point A to point B, what lays in between those points is another story entirely.

The animated film displays that players will be dying a whole bunch from the numerous enemies attempting to stop them. What I find very amusing is that even the description for the video doesn't beat around the bush, it is honest and straight to the point "Kill. Die. Learn. Repeat. Dead Cells, the indie smash hit, crawls out to take over your Nintendo Switch, and a good three days straight of your life." Regardless of the difficulty the game may harbor, this title is absolutely perfect for your Nintendo Switch. So if you are interested in a title similar to that of Castlevania, and are up for a massive challenge and don't mind your spirits being crushed numerous times due to the amount of death you will experience, check out Dead Cells.

The publisher and developer for the upcoming Shadow of The Tomb Raider have been giving fans all different kinds of footage ahead of the launch in September. Now, the first 15 minutes of gameplay have been released onto the IGN YouTube Channel.

The footage that has been released showcases Lara and her partner Johna crashing landing into a jungle, the video then retraces its steps backwards to 2 days earlier where we see Lara stuck in a chasm. Lara climbs out of the chasm and begins to photograph the tomb she is in, she eventually triggers a trap which then causes the entire temple to collapse around them.

After leaving the tomb, Lara and her partner seem to be trying to locate a specific location based on star alignments. It should also be noted that the footage we are seeing is uploaded in 4K, allowing us to experience how good Shadow of The Tomb Raider will look once its released. In other news about Shadow of The Tomb Raider, if you missed the 40 seconds of 'Deadly Tombs' released check that out here. There was also a environmental trailer released so if you missed that, check it out here. Shadow of The Tomb Raider also just hit the final stage of development, the title has gone 'gold', visit that story here.

Ever wondered what it would be like to play The Lord of The Rings inside of Age of Empires II HD? Well, now you can as the Tales of Middle Earth mod brings to life all 18 realms of Middle-Earth.

The mod comes from the ToME-Team and allows for players to experience the full 18 realms of Middle-earth, this includes the following factions: Elves, Men of the West, the Rohirrim, Southrons, Easterlings and of course the evil forces of both Mordor and Angmar. The description of the mod adds "hundreds of new units, with over a hundred new building graphics and wonders from the Middle-earth."

The mod delves straight into the lore of The Lord of The Rings, players will be able to experience massive redesigning of structures such as temples, wonders, and other buildings which have then been converted into landmarks from J.R.R Tolkiens Legendarium. If you are interested in picking up the Tales of Middle-Earth mod, visit the official download link here.

The release of Fortnite on Android is going to be huge as the game has been mega successful on iOS already, but it looks like Samsung is going to be getting an exclusive, one way or another.

Previous rumors about the release of Fortnite on Android saw it being a timed exclusive to Samsung's impending Galaxy Note 9 smartphone, but fresh rumors suggest that Fortnite could be exclusive to Samsung's app store, locking it to Galaxy smartphones and tablets like the just-released Galaxy Tab S4, and upcoming Galaxy Note 9.

Just because Fortnite could be dropped exclusively on Samsung devices it doesn't mean other Android devices can't get it, as you could download the app from the Samsung app store and then sideloaded onto Android devices. But, I'm sure there will be something software-wise that will stop this from happening to keep Fortnite exclusive to the Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Tab S4.

Niantic exploded onto the scene with Pokemon GO but like everything these days, a couple of months passes and it disappears from everyday life - but that doesn't mean the playerbase disappears overnight. Pokemon GO is still played by millions, and it's getting a big update later this year.

Niantic EMEA producting marketing boss Anne Beuttenmuller says the developer is working on PvP for Pokemon GO, and the team hopes to have it available before the end of the year. The developer teased PvP in Pokemon GO during its announcement trailer, as well as various comments by members of the development team over the time the game has been released. Niantic even told IGN that PvP was "still on the roadmap" some 9 months ago now.

Fallout 76 on PC will be exclusive to Bethesda's own storefront and won't be sold or launched via Steam.

As soon as Bethesda.net was announced back in 2016, I pretty much saw what the publisher was trying to do: launch its own proprietary game launcher/storefront so it could not only control its own games via a unified framework, but keep all the revenue from game sales by locking key games behind its store. To be fair lots of publishers are doing this. Look at EA with Origin, Ubisoft with uPlay, and Activision-Blizzard with Battle.net (which is starting to peddle games like Call of Duty and Destiny). For the most part, Bethesda.net has done quite well. It's served as a host for Skyrim's and Fallout 4's console mods while laying the groundwork for the Creation Club...but on the PC side, both of these have wreaked havoc on mods by breaking scripts like FOSE and massively aggravating longtime fans.

Fast-forwarding to the present and we see Bethesda doing exactly what I predicted it would do. The company has confirmed that Fallout 76, its big new online-only live service Fallout multiplayer game, will be exclusively sold and made available digitally on PC via the Bethesda.net store.

Multiple outlets are reporting that the Final Fantasy VII Remake is "switching genres" from RPG to action, but this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. It's actually old news.

Readers who have paid attention to our dearth of Final Fantasy VII Remake articles will know that the massively anticipated project isn't an HD remaster, but a revamping of the classic 1997 RPG. And that means changes--lots of changes. Big changes include swapping out turn-based combat for a more open action-oriented system akin to Final Fantasy XV (more on that later).

Right from the start key players at Square Enix were clear that FFVII Remake will have heavy emphasis on action elements, and early footage from 2015 clearly showed as much (see above). "Battles are not command-based, they're action-based," game director Tetsuya Nomura said three years ago. Nomura and his team are focusing more on "flashy battles" and enthralling combat versus the kind of tactical, turn-based strategy found in Final Fantasy VII's original Active Time Battle system.

Tekken 7 is getting a second season pass that includes a bunch of familiar fighters...and for some reason The Walking Dead's Negan.

In a surprise move, Bandai Namco announced that baddie Negan from AMC's The Walking Dead will be joining Tekken 7 at some point in the future. Negan will arrive as part of Tekken 7's Season Pass 2, which will include both Tekken alums Anna Williams and Lei Wulong who were notoriously missing from the game's launch roster. This new pass is likely to cost $24.99 like the previous one and unlocks six new characters (three of which we know about).

"Introducing a brand new lineup of warriors stepping into the TEKKEN 7 ring! With Season 2 of the TEKKEN 7 Season Pass, fighters such as Anna Williams, Lei Wulong and Negan from AMC's The Walking Dead join the fight!"

Unlike most betas, Fallout 76's anticipated beta test will give access to the entire game when it rolls out in October.

Testing out a live service game is tricky. Bethesda Game Studios is quite new at online-only games and stand to glean a wealth of feedback from beta testers to help shape the in-game world. Not only are betas usually different than the final product, but live services games continually evolve, meaning months after launch Fallout 76 may not even resemble its launch flavor (case in point: see No Man's Sky Next).

To learn as much as possible about crafting, molding, and sustaining a live game with content and engagement strategies, BGS will allow players access to the entirety of Fallout 76's in-game world during the beta test. That means no gated areas, and possibly even means progression won't be capped...but we still expect certain restrictions despite this affirmation. But all participants will keep their beta progress and be able to play their character in the final game when it ships in November.

Riot Games, the developer behind one of the largest games in the world, League of Legends has spoken out about its plans on stepping into a brand new genre, will Riot make an MMO?

Variety held an exclusive interview with Riot Games' Co-founder Marc Merrill, the owner discussed the companies direction in the future and where we could see Riot Games' development. Merrill said "It's an exciting time for us as a company, we're emerging from being the 'League of Legends' company to whatever it will be in the future. We've been working for such a long period of time on so many things."

According to Merrill, the tweet of him asking the community if the company should step into the MMO scene resulted in some controversy within Riot Games. "The tweet was a bit controversial internally, absolutely there was some risk, we may never deliver on that question, on the other hand, it is so validating and exciting to have players' minds focused on what could come." Merill also addresses that within Riot Games, there is many research and development teams working on what would be the next correct step outside of the hit MOBA League of Legends.

During EVO 2018, Bandai Namco decided they were going to showcase a brand new trailer for Dragon Ball FighterZ, the trailer consisted of three upcoming characters, Base Vegeta, Base Goku and now Cooler.

From a leak that started back on July 19th from Twitter user Blackkite, which then eventuated into Bandai officially releasing trailers for into both Base Goku and Base Vegeta. The developer has taken to EVO 2018 to showcase yet again another trailer for the characters, but has now also included Frieza's brother, Cooler.

The trailer reveals to us a much better look at both of the characters movesets, we can see Goku using kaio-ken, Kamehameha and many close up combos. The same goes for Base Vegeta, we see combo's and galick gun displayed to us in an epic battle with Goku's kamehameha wave. What is most interesting in this video is the last half, as a "mighty warrior" approaches we are introduced to Cooler. Cooler will be joining the other season 1 DLC characters which include Bardock, Broly, Fused Zamasu and Vegito.

During the EVO 2018 Super Smash Bros. 4 finals, fans in the crowd took quite a negative turn towards the fighters that were chosen to compete. The very last EVO event for Smash 4 could possibly have been the worst.

This debate has been raging on since February 3rd, 2016 when Bayonetta was released into Super Smash Bros. 4. Players and fans alike have constantly debated whether the quick attacks and follow-up combo's are too much to compete against. The constant fast attacks from not only close range but afar result in a all round amazing move-set, so good that of the Smash finals of this years EVO 2018 mostly consisted of Bayonetta players.

One of those players was 16-year old Zack Lauth or better known as "CaptainZack". Zack took the stage with Tamim Omary or "Lima" who also happens to be quite young as well at 17. Both players picked Bayonetta, and to the crowds disapproval a slew of booing was thrown at them the entirety of the match. Zack and Lima took the booing on the chin and displayed what seemed to be personal enjoyment between eachother, despite the angry cries from the crowd. At the start of the final reset, both players decided amongst themselves that they would waste time, each player didn't attack one another for over 2 minutes of the game, until a EVO 2018 official forced the rules upon them.

God of War, the critically acclaimed title from Santa Monica Studios has had a new announcement made, the rich storyline that fans absolutely loved will be formed into a book.

God of War follows Kratos and his son Atreus, players delve into a father-son relationship that builds character. Kratos is set on teaching his son to survive in the wild while also training him to defend himself from monsters and perhaps even future gods. The games storyline was very well received by players, so well received that now a novelization has occurred and will be available at the end of the month.

The novel has been written by J.M Barlog, the father of Cory Barlog, who directed the new God of War. According to the description on the Amazon website, the novel will be concentrating on: "His vengeance against the gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive ... and teach his son to do the same. This startling reimagining of God of War deconstructs the core elements that defined the series-satisfying combat, breathtaking scale, and a powerful narrative-and fuses them anew." God of War: The Official Novelization will be available for $14.95 and will be released on August 28th. If you want to pre-order the title, visit the official Amazon listing here.

Nintendo has taken to their 'Nintendo Versus' Twitter page to announce that there will be a Nintendo Direct featured around the upcoming next installment into the Super Smash Bros. franchise, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

The official Nintendo Versus account has revealed that on August 8th at 7AM PT, fans of the Super Smash Bros. series will have more details revealed to them regarding the upcoming release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It is possible that throughout this very unique Nintendo Direct we could have a new fighter revealed to us. The Nintendo Direct that was held in March this year teased Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the title was then officially revealed at E3 2018.

According to the Twitter post, the livestream will be hosted by none of then the Super Smash Bros. Director Masahiro Sakurai. Throughout this livestream we will most likely have the fundamental game mechanics explained to us and the rest of the changes that have been added to the new game. I'm assuming that Sakurai will be addressing the speed of the game as that has been a massive topic of discussion amongst the Smash community. The livesteam could also shed some light towards how many new characters will be included within the initial fighting roster, rumors have pointed towards the following possibilities: King K. Rool, Paper Mario, Simon Belmont and also Waluigi.