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Microsoft has released the Aquatic Phase Two patch for Minecraft, adding a bunch of sea-life in all different forms. The update has already been rolled out to all platforms.

The new update will feature brand new dangerous dungeons, underwater zombies that arise at night, sea turtles, bubble columns that will damage players, new achievements and much more.

Microsoft have also not forgotten about Minecraft players that are using the Java version, Microsoft has said "the incredibly hard-working Java team are almost done putting together the Update Aquatic for your version" so hopefully it isn't to much longer before it is rolled out. Minecraft's Aquatic Phase Two has released on Windows 10, VR, mobile devices, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Currently there is no known information regarding a release on PlayStation 4 but we can expect that it will be released sometime after the update hits the other platforms. For further information regarding the new Aquatic update visit the official Minecraft website here.

A fan remake of DICE's The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth is in the works, it is titled The Battle for Middle-Earth: Reforged and has the goal of recreating the game in Unreal Engine 4.

The developers behind this fan-made project will have to rewrite all of the code back into Unreal Engine 4 to have a stable game. This could influence the titles performance/gameplay heavily and will give a very different feel compared the original title. From the video, we can see the player placing a location for the Balrog to spwan, when it does spawn the demon from the shadow emerges in all its glory, showcasing its fiery exterior.

Because The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth is owned by EA and Warner Bros. there could be a very big possibility that this project will be shut down due to copyright claims. The developers that are bringing the title to Unreal Engine 4 have said that "This is a non commercial project" and that "all rights belong to their respective owners." Hopefully this is enough for EA and Warner Bros. to let this project continue as I would really like to see the world of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth re-created in the Unreal Engine 4. For further information about the fan-remake, visit the official Battle for Middle-Earth here.

The most popular streamer on Twitch for PlayerUnknown's Battleground is no doubt Michael Grzesiek, better known as Shroud. Well, Shroud won't be at the top of Twitch streams for PUBG for at least a while, as he has sadly been banned from the game for an entire month.

Shroud was streaming with a fellow known streamer Wadu, both the players while working their way through a normal round of PUBG encountered a hacker. Both streamers decided to team-up with him, the hacker had the ability to make cars fly, wall-hack and cheats to allow him to see through structures.

Shroud later found out while half-way through a match that PUBG decided to ban him for an entire month. In response to this Shroud commented the following: "It really goes to show that [developer] PUBG [Corp.]-full offense to you guys-don't give a s-, because that guy should have been banned immediately" Shroud also said that he encountered the very same hacker three separate times and wondered how the player was not banned yet.

Microsoft has just unveiled a brand new controller for their Xbox One, this controller is specifically designed for all those sports games fans out there and comes with a bonus 14-day trail for Xbox Live Gold.

Microsoft has deemed this new controller as the 'Sport White Special Edition' and has been inspired by athletics and sports lifestyle gamers. The Sports White is just one of the first controllers of the upcoming 'Sport series' that Microsoft plan to roll out. According to Major Nelson, the controller features "mint accents, and grey and silver patterns", the "rubberized diamond grip on the back" is designed for comfort so players can stay attuned throughout long period gaming sessions.

Microsoft are also releasing a premium 'Sport White Special Edition Xbox Pro Charing Stand.' It is aimed to keep the controllers fully charged with the luxury and simplicity of seamlessly removing the controller from the stand when desired. Each of the charging stands comes with a battery cover, rechargeable battery and a 6-foot power cord. The controller itself comes in at $69.99 and will be available starting July 31st, shipping will begin on August 7th. The charging stand will cost $49.99 and will be available for retail on August 7th. If you are interested in any of Microsoft's new products visit the official Microsoft Store here.

EA showed its next big thing during E3 2018, but we've had no idea what was powering Anthem inside of the PCs during the show... until now.

Anthem was powered by not just one, but two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards in SLI in order to hit 4K 60FPS. Until now, EA and NVIDIA said that a single GTX 1080 Ti was used, but Anthem's executive producer Mark Darrah has come to the rescue on his Twitter with the real deal.

Darrah said that the Anthem team will be optimizing game code right up until they ship it, but if EA were hitting 4K 60FPS on dual GTX 1080 Ti cards in SLI, then I expect out-of-the-box SLI support no questions asked. Alright, EA? Anything less is now a slap in the face.

Avalanche Studios is pushing the sandbox-style chaos to the max with Just Cause 4.

Just Cause 4 looks to be the definitive game in the series for many reasons, and the newly minted E3 footage shows how far Avalanche has come with its proprietary Apex engine. The game will once again chronicle Rico's explosive escapades across a veritable sandbox playground, and according to game director Francesco Antolini this one should be the best yet.

"[With Just Cause 4] we wanted to make the best open-world sandbox ever, to give the sandbox the biggest possibility of expression. We wanted to push our physics to their boundaries, and we wanted to get back to a feeling of variety and discovery that I feel we had lost a little bit in Just Cause 3," Just Cause 4 game director Francesco Antolini told Game Reactor.

In order to build up anticipation for the next Battlefield game, EA and DICE have launched an interesting promo that's specifically aimed at the publisher's cash crop: engagement.

Like the top publishers in the games industry, EA is all about engagement-driven revenues. Propelled by successful engagement strategies in its lineup of online games, EA's live services segment raked in a massive $2.96 billion last fiscal year, proving the company is quite adept at cashing in on its games' millions-strong playerbases. But like developers who are constantly iterating their games, EA is keen on finding new unique ways to not only build but retain engagement monetization...and it might've just found a new stride.

EA's new Road to Battlefield V promo seems to be a new method. The promotion has two main goals: to hype up Battlefield V and to keep gamers playing both Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 4 up until the WW2 shooter's big launch and potentially spending money. By giving out every single BF1 and BF4 expansion for free EA and DICE are strongly incentivizing users to not only return to each game, but also keep playing with rotating playlists and other rewards.

Monster Hunter: World will be playable on PC next month, Capcom today announced.

After months of careful development and tweaking, Capcom is keeping its promise to release Monster Hunter: World's PC port this year. The massively popular online game will be available on Steam on August 9, 2018--just six months after the console version's launch--but will have a somewhat staggered content rollout. The game's PC flavor won't have immediate access to extra content such as the Deviljho monster hunt but Capcom affirms the two versions will eventually be on equal footing.

Capcom has enjoyed incredible success with the online monster hunting game, and the company understands that optimizing the PC port is integral for the live title's long-term profitability.

Hand of Fate 2, the dungeon crawler/card game has been announced for the Nintendo Switch, the developer Defiant Development released a brand new gameplay trailer on their YouTube Channel.

Players will be able to enjoy having a living board-game wherever they choose now, as Hand of Fate 2 allows for players to create their own adventures through unlocking cards and building their own decks. The deck will include cards such as items, enemies, encounters and loot. Each scenario will be dictated by the card that the player draws, this then will result in the user being thrown into a real-time combat scenario with the respective disadvantages/advantages based on the card.

Above we have the official Nintendo Switch trailer which showcases the first gameplay footage for the dungeon crawler running on the Nintendo Switch. Morgan Jeffit, the Director at Defiant Development has spoken out about the port, here is what he had to say: "We've been careful not to tip our hand about this news until now, but our team is thrilled to finally announce Hand of Fate 2 is coming to Nintendo Switch. We are very much looking forward to seeing fans having the opportunity to take the game on the go with this exciting new platform." Hand of Fate 2 is already out on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The Nintendo Switch version is planned for release on July 17 this year, currently there is no set price.

From the demo's that we have seen of Insomniac Games' upcoming Spider-Man, there are some clear aspects included within the game that is a wink towards Marvel's Cinematic Universe. But what about what Insomniac Games decided to not include?

Passing over the E3 2018 coverage of the title, fans dissected the games hidden easter eggs found throughout the concrete jungle of New York City. Gamers were excited to see that the Avengers Tower is apart of the cities skyline, but couldn't help to notice that the Baxter Building, the home of The Fantastic Four was not included.

A fan posed this question to Bryan Intihar, the Creative Director at Insomniac Games, saying that "Brian I please beg you to put the Baxter Building in the game! The Fox ban is over and they're getting their comic relaunched soon! Marvel's First family needs some attention! If It wasnt for them Spider-Man would never be a success!" This is a very good point but Intihar decided shut down this possibility quite bluntly, saying "Sorry but it's not in the game."

THQ Nordic has taken to Sony's PlayStation blog to give details on the upcoming Darksiders III release. The blog showcases Fury, the third of the Four Horseman and also addressed the pre-order variants.

Reinhard Pollice, the Executive Producer for THQ Nordic posted onto the PlayStation blog explaining world design and some new details about Fury. Pollice mentions that Fury will be providing fans with a different combat experience, she will be able to transform herself throughout combat and that will allow her to possess new weapons, attacks and traversal abilities. Pollice says that "We think Fury in her Flame form and her flails will take players who thought they knew Fury a bit by surprise."

The PlayStation blog also address pre-orders and what players will be receiving when purchasing each of the respective options. There are four options, the standard edition is $59.99 and will give players a unique and exclusive Darksiders III theme for their PS4. The Deluxe Edition will be $71.99 and will include two downloadable content packs that will be released after the game is launched, THQ Nordic is also keeping these content packs a secret. The third is titled Blades & Whip and will give players the Darksiders Warmastered Edition that will include the Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition with PS4 enhancements and of course, Darksiders III. It should be noted that all of the pre-orders will be coming with a "unique, hand-crafted armor skin that can be worn at all times, if the player chooses."

The Nintendo Switch will soon be receiving yet another great third-party title with Nintendo America revealing Wasteland 2 for the Switch with a trailer on their YouTube Channel.

One of the original Fallout producers, Brain Fargo, is bringing his title Wasteland 2 to the Nintendo Switch through his development studio inXile Entertainment. Wasteland 2 on the Nintendo Switch will be coming in the form of the 'directors cut' which will feature a graphics overhaul and 8,000 lines of new voice-over dialog to enjoy.

Nintendo Switch players will be able to check out the new systems that have been included, an example is 'precision strikes' that allows for specific squares on the map to be targeted throughout combat. The option to humanize your squad further has also been provided, with new character quirks and perks. The game is planned for release sometime this Fall with Fargo saying on his Twitter page that "We are in final QA and will announce a specific day soon!"

Blizzard recently announced it was supporting the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) by releasing a new Mercy skin during the charity campaign. Gamers could buy it for $15, or a t-shirt for $30 with Blizzard donating all of the funds to the BCRF.

BCRF reports that the $12.7 raised through the Mercy skin and t-shirt were the single-largest donation by a corporate partner in their 25-year history. BCRF chief strategic alliances officer Stephanie Kauffman said in a statement: "Blizzard Entertainment's record-breaking commitment to activate change for women's health by mobilizing the gaming community worldwide will have a lasting impact".

The foundation will use the funds raised from the Mercy skin and t-shirt to help with "prevention strategies, improved treatments, survivorship, and quality of life for breast cancer patients worldwide".

Fortnite could soon be changing in a big way, with developer Epic Games teasing on Twitter that it's preparing for Season 5 in a big, big way.

Season 5 of the game begins in the next 72 hours, so Epic took to Twitter to tease a kabuki kitsune mask, and then infused it with the crack in the sky from the recent event during S4. There's nothing else here to dissect, but we know this is a huge S5 tease and it looks like either time travel or an expansion of the current superhero theme.

Both of which, would be awesome. Destructoid reports that it could be a "sort of spiritual tie-in to Japanese folklore", which would be great as well.

A leak has surfaced through a Chinese gaming platform called WeGame, the company held a listing of Monster Hunter: World revealing the PC requirements for the title.

WeGame is one of Tencent's gaming platforms and while the product page has now been removed off WeGame some people managed to copy down the PC requirements. The requirements revealed both the minimum and recommended specifications players will need to run Monster Hunter: World.

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Ubisoft has released a new content update for their swordplay dueling title For Honor. The content update adds 1 new 'Free Roam Emote' which has been displayed through a video released on their YouTube Channel.

Ubisoft Montreal has recently had their community on For Honor turn against them after the developer decided to remove specific content from the title, breaking the promise that they made. Instead of addressing the communities concerns, Ubisoft Montreal has released what is called 'Free Roam Emote' that will be coming to players completely free. The above video reveals each of the classes performing the new emote, it is called 'Kill Card.'

For Honor will also be seeing more content on the way with what is called 'Marching Fire', the update will be adding a Castle Siege mode for players to delve into. The new content is planned for release sometime in October of this year. If you haven't already picked up For Honor it is available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, for further information regarding the titles coming updates visit Ubisoft's news section of their For Honor website here.

Everyone's favorite sneaky assassin from the medieval fantasy show Game of Thrones has completed her final days of filming for the highly anticipated 8th and final season. Yes, that's right, Maisie Williams has both metaphorically and physically hung up her shoes for Arya Stark.

Williams posted a new photo to her Instagram page Maisie_Williams, it revealed the news that she has completed her final shootings for the show. The caption reads as follows "goodbye belfast. goodbye arya. goodbye game of thrones. what a joy i've had. here's to the adventures to come." Most interesting though is the hastags that Williams decided to use, "#lastwomanstanding #barely" raises the question; is Ayra Stark the last character to survive after the final season and what was the price she paid to receive the hashtag "barely."

Season 8 will be directed by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik. It has been reported that the new season will only be six episodes long, but each of the episodes will be the length of a standard movie. After the final season of Game of Thrones, the franchise will continue forward with Entertainment Weekly reporting that a pilot has been ordered by HBO that is "taking place thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones."

From the porting company that brought Bethesda published titles Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and DOOM to the Nintendo Switch, Panic Button has revealed that their careful hands will be dealing with the port of Warframe to the hand-held console.

During this year's TennoCon event, Digital Extremes, the Canadian developer announced that their title Warframe is on the way to the Nintendo Switch. A new trailer has been released on the PlayWarframe YouTube Channel, it showcases what is called "Tenno, Warriors of blade and gun - masters of the Warframe armor. Those that survived the Old War were left drifting among the ruins. Now they are needed once more."

Warframe came to the PC back in 2013, its popularity caused the title to release again on consoles the same year starting with the PS4. Microsoft eventually released Warframe onto the Xbox One a year later. During its lifetime, Warframe has received expansions to keep players interested, 'Plains of Eidolon' released in 2017 and the newest expansion 'The Sacrifice' was just released on PC on June 14, 2018. For further information regarding Warframe visit the official website here.

Activision announced Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 not so long ago now but the company has been silent on its rumored Battle Royale mode, but we have no idea how many players will take place in the fight of Battle Royale, if it ships with BO4.

But now there is a new screenshot that has been leaked that teases Black Ops 4 will have between 2-60 players in Battle Royale mode. This isn't too bad, but it doesn't compete against the 100 players in other Battle Royale games like Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. We are just going by these rumors for now, and I'm sure once Activision fully detail COD: Black Ops 4 we'll find the full skinny on its purported Battle Royale mode.

On a side note, I think it's very interesting that the Quake III Arena engine powered game is able to handle 60 players at all. Activision need to move to a new engine, something that hasn't been hacked apart and back together again, as the Q3A engine was made before 1999... it's nearly 20 years old now and still being used in multi-billion-dollar franchises like Call of Duty.

Activision and Bungie have teamed up together to bring gamers Destiny 2 completely free. The MMOFPS will be available via the Battle.net client over the weekend.

The news originates from a Twitter post from the official Destiny Twitter account. It says that players will have the full luxury of experiencing every mode, the entire campaign and all gear and weapons. Essentially the whole game is free-to-play, nothing has been held back and is only available from July 6th to July 8th.

If you don't already have a Blizzard account and desire to give Destiny 2 the full rundown while you can for free. I have provided a link to the Blizzard website where you will be able to download Battle.net and get straight into the action. If you already have a Blizzard account and have Battle.net downloaded you can start the download now by just clicking install over the Destiny 2 icon within the client.