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If all goes to plan, Fortnite's massively popular and lucrative mobile version will come to Android this year.

In a recent blog post Epic Games confirmed that Fortnite on Android should drop in summer 2018, which could mean the battle royale flavor is just months away. "Fortnite is coming to Android. We are targeting this summer for the release. We know many of you are excited for this release, and we promise that when we have more information to share, you'll hear it from us first," the post reads.

Apart from absolutely smashing sales revenue marks on both PC and consoles, and attracting millions of viewers via eSports tournaments and streams, Fortnite's mobile port has done tremendously well. The iOS version managed to rake in $1 million in-game purchases in just three days, lending strong credence to Newzoo's projections that mobile gaming will pull in 51% of the global games market with $70.3 billion.

Black Ops 4 will ship without a traditional campaign mode, but this could just be temporary.

As we reported yesterday this year's big new Call of Duty game will be missing a big piece of the content pie: a fully-fledged story-driven campaign mode. I posited that this move was tactical on Activision's part as it allowed the publisher to cater to the strong multiplayer market with a huge engagement strategy. In lieu of campaign, Activision and Treyarch are infusing key narrative elements into the online modes like zombies and Blackout, the battle royale gametype. At the same time, however, it appears Treyarch might release Black Ops 4's campaign later down the road.

Since the rumors surrounding battle royale and the lack of a campaign mode have been true, perhaps the further rumors that Black Ops 4's troubled singleplayer are also true. A recent interview with Treyarch's senior producer Yale Miller strongly suggests this is the case, and that Black Ops 4 could get singleplayer campaign content after the game ships.

It was recently announced that the 4 million players playing Battlerite would be receiving their very own battle royale gamemode, now the concept artwork for the map has been revealed by Stunlock Studios.

Stunlock Studios took to their developers blog to announced their progress. The title of the island has been deemed Talon Island and many screenshots and images have been provided to shine some light on the islands features for players.

According to the blog post the "map is 30 times larger than the standard arena mode map" and will also be divided into several different areas "the town of Anvilfall, the Glimmering Woods, the Starlight Oasis, and the Ancient Tomb." Not only is Stunlock Studios concentrating on providing players with a unqiue map experience but they are also taking some time to make sure the lore of the title is very relative as well. "The lore has always been important to the team when creating new champions and creating the world of Battlerite and we are now working with talented lore writer Christopher Harrow to improve our universe building."

Rare has released a new short video on their YouTube channel, the video teases Sea of Thieves fans about the coming Hungering Deep content update.

The video begins with the scaly-wag Merrick hinting at what is to come for players, he does this in the form of a short story. Merrick begins by saying that ancient tribes used to worship "great terrors from the deep" and to sail the seas undisturbed they would "offer a sacrifice."

The video also showcases what seems to be a Megladon (prehistoric Great White shark) that topples the size of a normal shark. This clue is also reinforced by that tattoo that is seen on Merricks chest, it appears that the jaw tattoo we can see is very similar to that of a fossil found of the Megladon. The Hungering Deep content update is planned for release on May 29th.

No Man's Sky initially sold itself out with false promises before its release back in 2016, since then the developers Hello Games have been trying to implement what they advertised to fans and now the title will finally be receiving multiplayer support.

According to Sean Murray, the founder of Hello Games, No Man's Sky will be gifted with fully fledged PVP support that include dogfights, shared base building, races, team-based multiplayer and random encounters with other players.

Murray announced this news throughout a 'Inside Xbox' stream, he also announced that No Man's Sky will be debuting to the Xbox One at the exact same time as this update goes live. No Man's Sky will be arriving on the Xbox One on July 24 and the multiplayer content update titled 'Next' will be also debut on this date.

THQ Nordic recently held there financial presentation and during their conference Shenmue 3 had its in-engine trailer showcased, teasing the games updated graphics engine.

Shenmue 3 is being developed by Yu Suzuki's independent company, Ys Net which is located in Tokyo, Japan. The team developing the third installment into the franchise is comprised of many original Shenmue team members from the early games.

The trailer is featured at about 2 minutes and displays the current updated graphics engine, keep in mind that this trailer is also pre-alpha footage which leads to suggest that the title will be much better looking when it is fully released. Shenmue 3 was recently delayed until 2019, this decision was made my THQ Nordic and Deep Silver as they both believed that the developers should have some more time to polish the game that so many fans are dying to get their hands-on.

The arcade basketball game NBA Playgrounds 2 was originally announced for release on May 22nd, but according to the developers Saber Interactive the title will not be arriving then.

We saw the first NBA Playgrounds 2 gameplay trailer about a week ago now and since then the title has been creeping towards its release date. Now the developer, Saber Interactive has taken to their Facebook page to release the bad news for fans, the post reads as follows "We've got some news to share, but we want to start by saying 'good things come to those who wait.' There are exciting things brewing with the NBA Playgrounds franchise that we think will take arcade basketball to new levels."

The post continues by saying that players need to be patient with development process as the plans that are in the pipeline for NBA Playgrounds 2 are striving to make the game better than ever."We can't tell you everything now, but we can tell you that this means our launch date of May 22nd will be moved out. Please be patient with us, we promise that NBA Playgrounds 2 will be better than ever. We'll have more details to share soon."

I'm still waiting for the Halo 6 announcement with a full 4K 60FPS experience on the Xbox One X, but in the meantime news has broken about a totally new Halo game, something no one expected.

Halo: Fireteam Raven is a new arcade-exclusive light-gun shooter that will hit Dave & Busters arcades across the US and Canada "this summer" while other arcades will have to wait until "later this year" for HFR. The game was announced during the Inside Xbox video presentation on Thursday night, and is a team up between Raw Thrills (one of the last arcade game producers in the US), Play Mechanix who were both "in close collaboration with 343 Industries". The game has taken "years" to develop according to Raw Thrills boss and arcade design legend Eugene Jarvis.

As for the cabinet itself, it rocks a huge 130-inch ultra-wide 4K monitor and four seated-turret controllers. You can play Halo: Fireteam Raven with four people in total as you fight alongside Master Chief during the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. You will have Needlers, Magnums, and Wathog-mounted turrets to kill your enemies with, which sounds freaking awesome.

Death Stranding is one of the most mysterious and hyped games of all time, from legendary Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, who has teased a new trailer that could be unveiled during E3 2018 next month.

The trailer might show off more about the world of Death Stranding, or not, we truly have no idea what to expect. A gameplay trailer feels like I'd be asking for too much, but it would also blow so many gamers' minds that I think it could be the best way to debut Death Stranding... with a brand new gameplay trailer at E3.

Kojima teased on his personal Twitter account that he was "trying to edit by installing 4K materials, my PC couldn't operate smoothly enough due to horsepower shortage. No change for linear editing. I shall edit with 2K for a while". We now also know Hideo runs a potato PC and needs an upgrade. If the creator of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding is unable to edit in 4K in real-time, things need to change... right?

Gran Turismo has cemented itself in history with the franchise selling over 80 million copies over the last 20 years, something that includes the 7 main releases, as well as the "Prologue" and "Online" versions, the 2006 HD remake, and the 2009 release on the Sony PSP.

Gran Turismo series creator Kazunori Yamauchi said: "It's hard to imagine that 80.4 million copies of Gran Turismo have been played during the 20-year history of the franchise. It makes me really happy to think of the immense amount of time that has been poured into playing our games! We would like to continue our efforts in achieving the best possible expression and creation of cars and scenery, as well as bringing the highest level of excitement and fun through racing in the years to come".

The only other racing franchise that has beaten Gran Turismo is Mario Kart, which has been cranking out game after game since 1992. This is the same year that Yamauchi began his work on the infamous GT series, too.

If you want to play Black Ops 4 digitally on PC you'll have to buy it right from Activision.

Following the big Black Ops 4 reveal, Activision today confirmed the new shooter will be exclusive to Blizzard's Battle.net platform on PC. "Black Ops 4 for the PC delivers a fully-optimized experience, which for the first time in Call of Duty's history will be available exclusively on Battle.net, Blizzard Entertainment's online gaming service," the publisher said in a press release.

The PC flavor is being co-developed by Beenox and will feature a number of optimizations that gamers expect including dedicated servers, uncapped frame rate, 4K support, HDR, ultra-wide monitor support and a "great scalability options" on PC. Battle.net integration means players can interact with existing friends on the platform, and will provide Activision a boon of wholly-recouped sales as well as stronger social engagement via the platform. Given publishers have to pay Valve a cut for every game sold on Steam, major games-makers are pushing towards their own storefronts a la Ubisoft with uPlay or EA with Origin (and of course Activision-Blizzard with Battle.net). This will likely be the norm for key Activision games moving forward.

This year's Call of Duty game will exclusively be a live service game without any sort of campaign mode, but it'll have a huge array of multiplayer content.

Although Black Ops 4 technically won't have a singleplayer campaign mode, Treyarch still asserts the game will tell a story. These stories will be told through multiple game modes such as Blops 4's zombies gametype, which sees campaign and co-op merged together as a "narrative-driven" experience. And zombies actually has interdimensional travel for some reason--the "IX" gametype even has you playing as gladiators against the undead in an ancient Roman colosseum (now I'm not joking). "Black Ops 4 marks the beginning of a brand new storyline. Separate and distinct, a new world with new characters and enemies. Drawing from history both real and mythical," the dev said on stage during the game's reveal.

The real crux of Black Ops 4 is Activision's most lucrative billion-dollar strategy: engagement. The game has been built from the ground up to keep players gaming online with their friends for months and months thanks to its smattering of modes, which of course taps the industry's massively popular battle royale. In very many ways Black Ops 4 looks like a mish-mash circus of online gametypes and experimental live-driven content and less like the more rigid and serious experiences the series can deliver.

Bigben Interactive has taken to their Facebook page to announce to fans that Tennis World Tour will have its release dates moved for both the Nintendo Switch and PC.

Breakpoint Studio, the developers for Tennis World Tour have also mentioned that the title will be receiving a day-one patch, here is what the side note said "Note that the game will come with a day one patch, so make sure to check for updates before you claim the court for yourself. "

Tennis World Tour is planned for release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on May 22nd, the Nintendo Switch and PC version of the game has sadly had its release date pushed back to the 12th of June. For further information regarding the release of Tennis World Tour visit the official Tennis World Tour website here.

Milestone has taken to their YouTube Channel to announce their next installment into the Ride series. Ride 3 has received an announcement trailer and five new screenshots.

From the above announcement trailer we can see a bunch of different bikes, terrains, environments, weather effects and amazing scenery. According to the description in the announcement video we are told that players should "Prepare to ride the most beautiful and powerful bikes ever crafted. Explore breath-taking scenery all around the world with your two wheels companion. Feel the adrenaline of true competition. Ride everything. Feel everything."

The announcement trailer also reveals the titles release date, currently Ride 3 is coming to players on November 8. For fans that want more information on the upcoming title check out the official Ride website here.

Platinum Games director Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba have commented on the upcoming Bayonetta 3 installment, players should should now expect the unexpected.

In a recent interview with Source Gaming at the BitSummit Vol. 6, Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba answered a few questions regarding the development of Bayonetta 3. When asked about the progress that has been made so far Inaba said "It's progressing steadily. It's difficult to say, but it is continuing. This time around, the development process is slightly different."

The interview continued and the developers were asked what players should expect that is different in Bayonetta 3, the reply that received was quite promising. Here is what Inaba said "There's not much we can say at all, but there's a lot of surprises left in store for the game. Things outside of expectations. Please look forward to it."

F.E.A.R. was one of the most hyped games in the years leading up to and its release in 2005, and now the horror FPS mixed with epic slow-mo is coming to the big screen.

Machinima has a new development deal with the screenwriter behind the recent Mortal Kombat movies with New Line Cinema, and Resident Evil movies with Screen Gems, with Greg Russo joining the fold. Russo's first project will be a movie adaption of F.E.A.R. A game where you played a person in a special forces team that hunted down supernatural phenomenon, which manifested itself into a little girl. It was freaky, and awesome at the time, especially with its slow-mo action.

Machinima General Manager, Russell Arons, said: "Greg is an inspired screenwriter who clearly loves gaming. To be able to bring his talents to Machinima Studios provides us an amazing opportunity to tackle action-packed series that are certain to appeal to our legions of millennial gamers and fans around the world".

Grand Theft Auto V is one of the best-selling games of all time, with Take-Two announcing during their earnings call that over 95 million copies shipped so far... ever so close to 100 million.

During the earnings call, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick discussed why he thinks GTA V has been so successful, he said: "I think what Rockstar Games has uniquely shown the ability to do is to make the title easy to approach and difficult to master".

He then added: "You can approach Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online in any number of ways. If you're a hardcore gamer, you can find it super compelling. If you're somewhat more casual, you can find the experience super compelling. There is so much there now that you can very much define your own experience and create that for many, many hours of wonderful entertainment".

Thanks to its strong emphasis on digital game sales, the PC platform is an important part of Take-Two's business...but console still reigns supreme.

As more and more publishers focus on recurrent consumer spending and long-term revenues via online-based games and fully recouping sales via wholly-owned storefronts like Origin and uPlay, digital is becoming increasingly important to the games industry. Now that PC has mostly moved towards online stores like Steam, it's fair to say the platform aligns with these trends quite well. In the company's recent fiscal year earnings call, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick recognized PC as a major component for the industry as a whole--especially since digital made up 63% of its total net revenues for the year.

When asked about the future of console gens and how they may affect Take-Two's games and future plans, Mr. Zelnick discussed how PC, a platform that continually evolves thanks to consistent hardware upgrades, is paving the way for the company's business. "I would observe that the PC platform has become a very very important part of what we do, driven by digital distribution. And that was not the case for so-called console titles 10 years ago, and it is the case now," he said.

Today Take-Two Interactive confirmed the publisher's big new 2K Games title has been delayed, and we're pretty sure it's Borderlands 3.

Up until this quarterly earnings call, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has teased that Fiscal Year 2019 would deliver record revenues thanks to Red Dead Redemption 2 and a "highly anticipated new title from one of 2K's biggest franchises." Now Mr. Zelnick says this game, which is almost certainly Borderlands 3, has been delayed to Fiscal Year 2020 so it can be polished, meaning it could launch anywhere from April 1, 2019 through March 31, 2020.

"The highly-anticipated title from one of 2K's biggest franchises, which had been planned for release during the current fiscal year, is now planned for launch during fiscal 2020 to allow for additional development time. We remain as excited as ever about this title, and expect it to enhance our results next fiscal year," the Take-Two CEO said.

On the heels of multiple rumors, EA and DICE have announced Battlefield V's existence...but official details are still sparse.

Battlefield V is one of the many games that will see a pre-E3 reveal this year. EA today confirmed Battlefield V will be the next game in the series and assured gamers that "Battlefield will never be the same." A full stream showcasing the game's mechanics, setting, and content will go live on Twitch, YouTube, and Mixer next Wednesday, May 23 at 4PM EST.

While sources say Battlefield V will take place in World War II, it'd be interesting if the "V" stood for "Vietnam." But given the leaked images came from the same sources as the WWII info this is probably not the case.