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God of War director Cory Barlog has taken to YouTube and posted a reaction video of his first time reading reviews for his newly released game. The video showcases Barlog showing true heart for what he and his team have created.

Barlog begins the video explaining that he is very nervous and has been stalling himself instead of looking at the reviews. This is mostly due to how long it has taken to create this new God of War game, Barlog details that 5 years of pure heart and soul creation from not only him, but his team as well have been poured into this game.

About 1 minute into the video Barlog forces himself to read the review, he is soon taken back and overwhelmed by emotion at what he sees from Metacritic. The video really is a tear jerker, Barlog shows his vulnerable side, removing the confidence of pre-release and showing true emotion for what he has created. Humbled at seeing the reviews, Barlog thanks his team and says that he is truly lucky to be able to work with people who believed in him when he didn't.

This Witcher 3 mod is honestly quite strange, as Geralt visually being the rugged life-beaten mutant that we all love and know is reversed back to a younger former self. Meet Geralt, the Benjamin Button version.

The mod created by 'Atherisz' allows for players to experience the world of The Witcher 3 from the perspective of a very young Geralt. Geralt being the main character in the story is portrayed as a battle-worn expert in his craft, he is tired after his long years, he has seen things and lived them, that can all be seen not only on his character model but the way that Geralt carries himself. This mod takes all of that away and gives us a young version of Geralt that is super weird to look at but also intriguing.

Geralt in the below images can be seen as a very young Witcher and I think players that are tempted to try The Witcher 3 all over again with this new character model will be surprised at how much it will be changing the feel of the game. Geralt is by far one of my most favorite characters in video game history, and I can say this mod is actually quite impressive and tempting, it certainly does Geralt justice. If you are interested in downloading it the link can be found here.

It looks like we can expect some truly next-gen technology inside of the next-gen Xbox consolef rom Microsoft, with the company expanding its team and looking for an engineer to lead their DRAM solutions for Xbox console hardware development for current, and future Xbox projects.

Microsoft has a new job opening for a senior electrical engineer/DRAM memory lead that has a "solid understanding of core engineering principles" and a "deep understanding of current DDR3 and GDDR5 technology". The company says that the lead candidate for this position would "will be the primary technical focal point for existing and leading-edge memory technologies on currently shipping and future Xbox design projects".

These memory solutions include DDR3, GDDR5, GDDR6, and even future DRAM technologies. Alright, my tech senses are tingling in all the right ways, guys.

Fortnite has tens of millions of players enjoying their Battle Royale goodness, but developer Epic Games sees no rush in making new maps.

During an interview with IGN, Fortnite Design Lead Eric Williamson said: "We've talked a bit about this internally. We just had the big map update and we learned a lot through that process. There's no urgency for us to create a new map right now. It's not a priority right now, whereas continuing to evolve and make the map feel fresh is something we're very excited and interested about. So stay tuned; we have some interesting ideas".

Fortnite is an exciting place to be, with the in-game meteor shower phenomenon continuing to pick up speed and get stronger, with the community believing that the Tilted Towers area of the Battle Royale map rumored to be destroyed by the meteors that will eventually strike.

Serious Sam is one of my fondest memories of LAN gaming back in the 90s, and now my excitement levels just skyrocketed with news from developer Croteam that they're working on Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass.

Croteam will have a full reveal during Devolver Digital's E3 2018 conference in June, with the developer teasing: "Featuring the world-renowned signature Serious Sam gameplay on a brutally bigger scale, and not a single desert level, Planet Badass will make its debut @ E3 2018".

We should expect a much larger game world for Serious Sam 4, a big change from the usual worlds that previous Serious Sam games have been set in. Better yet, Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass will feature co-op, split-screen, cross-platform multiplayer, a level editor, and Steam Workshop support as features.

Could Microsoft finally unwrap the next big Halo shooter at E3 2018? We don't know for sure, but a Halo 6 announcement would help elevate the games-maker's first-party profile to new heights.

343 Industries confirmed the Halo game has been in development as far back as 2015, and it's likely to have been in early stages even before Halo 5 shipped. Fast forwarding to nearly 3 years later and Microsoft has been quite mum on any future Halo games despite the launch of its Xbox One X console--which would've been a perfect time to release or at least announce Halo 6.

Now with E3 2018 just months away Microsoft is teasing its plans for the event. The company said that it will show off currently announced games as well as some titles that won't release in 2018. The latter probably includes Halo 6 given a recent job listing indicates the team still needs some time to optimize the game on the new Xbox system.

SNK celebrates 40 years of gaming with a new console that comes pre-loaded with Neo Geo games.

On the heels of Nintendo's massive success with its NES and SNES Classic Edition systems, other hardware-makers take aim at the nostalgia market: SEGA is releasing a Mega Drive Mini and now it appears SNK is making what very well could be a Neo Geo mini system. However it's possible the system will only be released in Japan.

SNK teased the announcement on their Twitter account and confirmed that Neo Geo games like The King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Samurai Showdown, and Metal Slug would come pre-loaded. The bulk of the Neo Geo's games library was fighting games but we did get some impressive titles like King of of the Monsters and of course the Metal Slug series of games.

Recent news broke that Nintendo was shockingly researching new and innovative ways to push its hardware ecosystem even further--just like every other console-maker on the market. Let's break down some of the data, shall we?

The Nintendo Switch represents the current top evolution of Nintendo's decades-long hardware strategy: first we had the blockbuster Wii, then the hugely successful 3DS, and finally the crash-and-burn Wii U. The Switch takes key elements from all of Nintendo's past successes (and failures) and combines them together. All of these previous systems were stepping stones to the unification of Nintendo's handheld and console business, and it's paid off extremely well insofar as hardware sales and company earnings. But what about the future?

"Nintendo constantly works on hardware, so we have been doing research and development and you may see the new system sometime in the future," Nintendo's Shinya Takahashi said to the BBC at the BAFTA awards. Pretty vague, huh?

Microsoft's first-party Halo dev team is ramping things up for Halo 6, which could hit 4K 60FPS on the Xbox One X.

We've known that 343i is working on the next Halo chapter for quite some time (presumably Halo 6), and now we know the devs are targeting the top echelon of performance at 4K 60FPS. The listing doesn't give any true specifics on the game itself, but considering a mainline Halo game has been missing from Microsoft's console lineup for over two years, the company is likely keeping things under wraps while development heats up.

"343 Industries, the studio developing Halo games, is looking for a Lead Graphics Engineer to join our team working on the next big Halo shooter experience," reads the job listing.

Nintendo has taken to their YouTube channel to announce that the popular Shonen Jump manga series is coming to life on the Nintendo Switch.

Players will be able to bring justice to their enemies and save humanity in My Hero One's Justice. In the description on Nintendo's video it is detailed that players will "experience the abilities of fan favorite characters such as Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, Tomura Shigaraki."

It is also mentioned that players will have a choice between being a hero or participating in the practices of being a villain. Either way, the arena brawler should be a bunch of fun on the Switch, especially for those that enjoy these types of games.

On the DOOM Twitter page it has been announced that id Software's rebooted DOOM will be receiving its very own physical deluxe soundtrack release.

Record company 'Laced Records' features a collection of the DOOM soundtrack, there is currently four options for purchasing the physical version of the soundtrack. The options go as follows: Deluxe Double CD (RRP: $15.00), Double LP (RRP: $35.00), Special Edition X4LP (RRP: $80.00) and a Special Limited Edition X4LP (RRP: $100.00).

Below I have compiled descriptions on each of the purchasing options that were released with the announcement from Laced Records. If you are interested in checking out more images of each of the packages visit the official Laced Records website here.

The newly released battle royale title Radical Heights has received its first patch from Boss Key Productions, the patch features massive performance improvements.

The patch notes released by Radical Heights details a ridiculous amount of improvements, I've pulled some of the important dot points from the patch notes: "*NEW WEAPON*: FAL Rifle, You can now dive through large glass windows, Added a quick melee option."

There is so much in this patch it is hard to deem what is worthy to mention. Something that is quite important though is that Boss Key Productions say that there will be "Performance improvements across the board!" which should result in "a good increase in FPS." If you are interested in reading the full patch notes, visit the offiical Radical Heights patch notes post here.

Rare released performance improvements in patch 1.0.2 and now they are at it again, patch 1.0.4 will bring optimization improvements across the board.

In this patch Rare will be fixing quite a lot of problems that Sea of Thieves was facing, these problems include: rain appearing in the Legend Hideout Tunnel, text bugs in the Reputation menu UI and ships unfortunately spawning with damage already taken.

Rare will also be adding performance and stability improvements in this patch, more specifically "Improved performance on high resolution PCs running at lower than native resolution." Rare has also added a "Increased quality of island rendering at a distance when using the spyglass on all quality settings on both platforms." Rare also addresses that there will be "Further improvements and optimisations for all platforms are ongoing." There is much more that has come with this patch so if you are interested in reading the full patch notes visit the official Sea of Thieves website patch notes post here.

A well known leaker called 'chinobi602' has taken to Twitter to leak a couple of screenshots of the upcoming Spider-Man title from Insomniac Games, the screenshots reveal two villains.

Usually leaks should be taken with a large tea-spoon of salt, as most of the time it is very hard to tell if the leak is authentic or just a publicity stunt. This time round though we can see from the below images that they are quite legit, so legit that some could even go as far to say that these villains are 100% confirmed based off the image quality.

Of course there is no official confirmation, so still take the leak with a tiny amount of salt. Even if the villains are not officially confirmed, that doesn't mean fans can't enjoy the idea of Spidy swinging down and kicking The Shocker and Norman Osborne's butt. Check out the below screenshots to see Norman Osborne and The Shocker.

The big fight this year is going to be in the realm of Battle Royale dominance, with Fortnite and Battlegrounds to soon be joined by the likes of Battlefield V and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Polygon is reporting that COD: Black Ops 4 will not feature a single-player campaign, with developer Treyarch working on the multiplayer side of things and their infamous zombie mode. Eurogamer has chimed in, reporting that Raven is working on a Battle Royale mode for Black Ops 4, which shouldn't surprise us at all.

What do you think of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 including a Battle Royale mode? Would you want to see Black Ops 4 or Battlefield V with a Battle Royale mode? Which developer do you think would do it better?

It looks like Treyarch and Activision might have done EA and DICE a big favor by reportedly throwing away the single-player campaign in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

VentureBeat is now reporting that Battlefield developer DICE are "ecstatic" over the news, with the team happy that Black Ops 4 won't feature a single-player campaign as it believes it will have an advantage over its competitor. It's all marketing at this point in the game, with EA DICE able to market Battlefield V as a more engrossing package with single and multiplayer, but who the hell buys these games for the single-player campaign?

Treyarch is marketing Black Ops 4 with the competitive multiplayer (hahaha) and cooperative zombies mode (ugh) which keeps the millions of Call of Duty players happy. Battlefield V will go down its usual path that DICE set with Battlefield 1 and their vignette-style storytelling that gamers seem to like.

Battlegrounds needs to keep the fight against Fortnite at crazy levels, with tens of millions of gamers playing both games the enticement of updates and new things in both games is going to be what keeps their user bases strong.

PUBG will be changing some things up in a big way with their new limited time Event Mode that is coming to their new Codename: Savage 4x4 map. The new mode is teasing gamers with an armored version of their UAZ off-road vehicle, something that has been confirmed by a PUBG Corp. representative on Reddit, where they said it was specifically designed for an unannounced Event Mode.

Not only that, but the developer has teased expansions to the Codename: Savage map that will still be a 4x4 affair, but it will rock an exciting new set of underground tunnel that are inspired by real-world cave networks that are found in Thailand. An underground cave system will be a game changer for PUBG, something that will provide players with a totally new feel to the game that is mostly fought outside.

The first screenshots for the Shenmue 1 & 2 Remaster have been released by SEGA, the screenshots showcase the classic title beautifully updated.

The remaster will be coming with everything that players remember from the original release on the Dreamcast, jujitsu combat, investigative encounters and an RPG immersive world. Thrown on-top of all those classic facts is now a fully scalable screen resolution, choices between controller layouts, PC graphics options and more.

Below you will find four more screenshots, we hope that this is just the first batch of screenshots from SEGA as I'm sure Shenmue fans would like to see as much as possible of the classic remaster.

Saber Interactive have announced that a new arcade title called NBA Playgrounds 2 will be on the way to NBA fans this year, the title will be arriving on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC in 2018.

According to Saber Interactive, the new game is going to be featuring over 200 current and retired NBA players, as well as a new worldwide ranked league system. The new system will introducing multiple solo and co-op division ladders that players can enjoy competing in.

The arcade baller will also have a new single-player mode, the mode is titled 'Season Mode' and will take players through a traditional NBA season, resulting in a battle for the NBA Championship. For more information regarding the upcoming NBA Playgrounds 2 check out the below Tweet where the official NBA Playgrounds Twitter answers some questions from some fans.

Epic Games has taken to Reddit to answer a few questions regarding the decision to implement the Guided Missile weapon, the developer has said the idea has been officially vaulted for the time being.

Epic Games' Reddit post on the Fortnite subreddit consisted of the developer throwing some clarity around the recent changes, topics that were discussed include: Peeking, Weapon Swapping and the Guided Missile.

On the post Epic Games addressed the Guided Missile and said "We've gotten a lot of feedback around the Guided Missile, in particular concerns over fairness and strength of the weapon. We share your concerns, so we've put the Guided Missile into the vault while we figure out the next steps for its future." This decision was probably for the best as there was quite a lot of concerns regarding the sheer power of being able to control a missile, if you are interested in everything Epic Games addressed in the post visit the official Fortnite subreddit thread here.