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Not to long ago we saw a developer diary for OVERKILL's The Walking Dead, now a new trailer has been released by Starbreeze Studios showcasing an awesome cinematic trailer for Maya.

OVERKILL's The Walking Dead will feature 4 playable characters, in this trailer we can see that we are getting an introduction to Maya, the doctor. The trailer was released through Microsoft's Inside Xbox series episode, I have linked the whole episode below if you are interested in viewing what else was presented.

Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead has seen the project that OVERKILL is working on and has said that this is the "co-op action game fans have been waiting for." Maya will be the healer in-game and as the weeks progress we will no doubt have some more cinematic trailers released from OVERKILL detailing the other characters.

Quantic Dream is one of my favorite game developers, as they try to push the boundaries of what the cinematic gaming experience should be, and bit by bit they've been unveiling their next game... Detroit: Become Human.

IGN has one of their IGN First videos that is between Quantic Dream, talking about Detroit and its push into being in a world of its own when it comes to cinematic gaming experiences. There are near unlimited choices in the game, with Detroit moving past the usual "left path or right path" that traditional games give you.

Quantic Dream boss and Heavy Rain and Detroit mastermind David Cage explains: "Depending on how you play, there are entire scenes you can see or miss. There are characters that can be with you for just one scene or until the very end of the game. In Detroit, all the three player characters can die at different points in the story, so you really have to be careful and think about your choices, and really care for them, because you might lose them. It's always surprising to see the permutations [when people play Detroit] - how did you get this? How did you do that? It's a real nightmare for the QA teams to be honest with you".

It was only yesterday I wrote news about Dell promoting cheats and hacks for Battlegrounds, but now there's new ransomware that holds your files hostage until... you play Battlegrounds. Yeah, you read that right.

A team of people on Twitter that call themselves the MalwareHunterTeam posted about the new ransomware, saying that instead of forcing you to pay to unlock your now-locked data, the new "PUBG Ransomware" wants you to play Battlegrounds for an hour, then your data is unlocked.

You could also do something else ot get your files back, where after the ransomware is finished encrypting all of your files with the .PUBG extension, all you need is the restore code. This is provided in the window of the program itself, where you need to simply type in "s2acxx56a2sae5fjh5k2gb5s2e", click Restore, and you're back to normal... without having to play PUBG.

At the start of the year I wrote about a Mega Man collection coming to the Nintendo Switch, now Nintendo and Capcom have gifted us with a trailer for the Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 & 2.

Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 will be containing Mega Man X games 1 - 4, Legacy Collection 2 will be containing the rest of the games 5 - 8. Both of the collections will be coming with "plethora of rare game art, nostalgic trailers, merchandise galleries, and more."

On the trailer released onto the Nintendo YouTube Channel, the description details that both of these collections will also be featuring a "All-new X Challenge mode, which features a series of challenges in which X faces off against two deadly Maverick bosses at once!"

Microsoft has announced that they will be bringing more original Xbox games to the Xbox One, 19 original Xbox games will debut with six Xbox 360 titles all of which will come with Xbox One X Enhancements.

Microsoft has taken to their website blog and has announced that fans of some of the classic games will receive Xbox One X Enhanced updates. These titles include: Darksiders, Gears of War 2, Portal 2, Red Dead Redemption, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

In the blog post Microsoft details that each of these titles will "take advantage of the power of Xbox One with up to 4X the pixel count on Xbox One and Xbox One S, and up to 16X the pixel count on Xbox One X."

The Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion was revealed in the most recent Nintendo Direct back in early March, now Nintendo Europe has taken to Twitter to reveal some screenshots of the upcoming DLC.

Nintendo Europe says that the Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion will begins in a huge, "underground test facility" that will require players to journey through to escape to Inkopolis. Nintendo Europe say that world feels stagnate, as if time itself has stopped. "The area is completely isolated from the outside world, as if time stopped long ago."

Players will jumping into a "full-on single-player adventure spans 80 missions starring Agent 8" who is a "new character who awakens without her memories on a dark subway platform." Check out the below screenshots to get a better look at what the new DLC content will be featuring.

Ubisoft has revealed Ghost Recon: Wildlands first Special Operations mission from their road-map that was recently released, the Special Operation is titled Splinter Cell.

Ubisofts first mission will be putting players in the midsts of a mission with Sam Fisher, the missions rewards consist of Sam Fisher's Night Vision Goggles with Splinter Cell Vision, Proximity Mines and also a Splinter Cell Patch. A new class will also be added through this patch and as you can imagine uses the SC-4000 Assault Rifle, Proximity Mines and a Sonar Pulse ability, the Splinter Cell class.

The new patch is going to be available on April 10th and will be available in co-op, four-player and solo. This update will also increase performance on AMD GPU's by 10%, to view to the full patch notes visit the official Ubisoft website here.

Cartoon Networks release of Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion was mentioned last year as the title was going to be an open world-RPG that would be released early this year. Pre-alpha footage has been leaked suggesting the title is still in its infant stages.

The video has been uploaded to TheStephanFS YouTube channel and according to the description in the video the footage has been leaked by Amazon France. From the four and a half minute clip we can see that the game is still quite bare and while Fin is running around the world that is presented to us it doesn't really showcase lively content. This worries me as a hardcore Adventure Time fan waiting for this game, as I've always wanted to jump into a open-world RPG game based in Ooo as the lively randomness is something I definitely want to experience.

Even though in the footage we don't see that 'living world of Ooo' that is presented to us in the T.V show we do have to take into account that this is pre-alpha footage, essentially the bare bones of the game. Adventure Time is unfortunately coming to an end which makes me think that Cartoon Network will be going all out for their last chance at an awesome Adventure Time game. To me the world of Ooo and the stories behind each of the characters is just to much to pass up, right now the title seems a bit disappointing but that doesn't mean that it can't turn into something every Adventure Time fans wants to play.

I don't even know how to start this news off, so let's just get right into it - Dell has no idea what they're doing in China, with the company bragging about gamers using hacks in Battlegrounds... if they buy their new laptops.

David Hollingworth from PCPP reports that his colleague Ben Mansill was in Beijing last week for Intel's "big reveal" of its new 8th generation Core processors. Dell was on-hand, amongst other laptop and PC makers to show off their new 8th-gen Core-based offerings. Hollingworth reports that Dell "was a big part of the dog and pony show, and a big part of the company's spiel was how many more 'plug-ins' you could run".

What are plug-ins? Well, they're cheats, and this is something Dell spokesperson Sally Zhang drove home, wanting gamers to win more chicken dinners with Dell's new 8th-gen Core-based PCs and notebooks.

In the last 24 hours, headlines have been dominated - TweakTown included, of Grand Theft Auto V being the best-selling entertainment product of all time... but MarketWatch was wrong.

The best-selling entertainment product of all time goes to Space Invaders, which has generated a huge $13.93 billion, followed closely by Pac-Man with $12.81 billion. Not-so-surprisingly, Street Fighter 2 is in third position with $10.6 billion. GTA V in comparison has made $6 billion or so, while World of Warcraft has dragged in $10 billion for Blizzard.

Sure, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and Street Fighter 2 were all arcade games (and on other devices) but they still count as an entertainment product. It's pretty crazy to think Space Invaders made that much money, in the wake of tens of millions of consoles and hundreds of millions of PCs that are now used by consumers today.

Sony's new PlayStation 5 (or whatever the system will be called) isn't due to release anytime soon, according to industry analyst Michael Pachter.

Although the PlayStation 4 family of consoles has been around for about five years now, Sony shouldn't be in any rush to reset everything with a new console hardware cycle. After all, the PS4 Pro, which marks a new iterative cycle cadence that has served Sony (and Microsoft) tremendously well, is only two years old and the Japanese tech giant depends on the PlayStation brand quite a bit. But if not in 2018, when should Sony release the PS5? 2020 is a good bet, according to Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter.

In a recent interview with WCCFTech, Pachter expressed that it was quite unlikely Sony would release the PS5 anytime this year...and next year probably won't happen either. Sony's new PlayStation console's release has a probability of "25% next year and 75% in 2020," he said.

Panic Button, the guys behind the DOOM port to the Nintendo Switch are also porting over Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, gameplay footage of the title running on the Switch has been spotted and it looks quite decent for a port.

18 minutes of gameplay footage has been released of Wolfentstein II running on the Nintendo Switch and it looks quite smooth for a triple-A title port. The game is only running at 30FPS and it can obviously be seen that the resolution, textures and character models have taken quite a hefty downscale compared to the Xbox One and PS4 versions.

There is currently no specific release date for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus arriving on the Nintendo Switch but there is hopes that it will arrive sometime this year.

Capcom has posted a new press release onto their Capcom Investor Relations website celebrating the recent success of Resident Evil 7. Capcom celebrates their title winning the Best VR Audio at the 2018 Game Audio Network Guild Awards (G.A.N.G. Awards) and passing 5 million total units sold.

The press release discusses how Resident Evil 7 was awarded the Game Audio Network Guild Award, here is how the title was selected: "RESIDENT EVIL 7 was judged against other VR games before winning the award for Best VR Audio, garnering praise for blending creativity with technological prowess via its use of extended technique with string instruments, sound effects recorded at the company's Foley stage and by utilizing the Yamaha Corporation's ViReal™ stereophonic sound technology."

The press release also states that the games "overwhelming, deeply immersive horror experience" was due to the "game's system" undergoing a "dramatic shift from its previous third-person camera to a new first-person perspective." Capcom believe that this choice is a large contributing factor towards the sales of the title reaching "5.1 million units* worldwide."

Next week hungry gamers will be able to get their hands-on the new God of War, until then Sony has tied us over with a new developer video, this time we see Kratos' customization options.

The above video shows God of War director Cory Barlog discuss what he wants players to feel a sense of freedom when they jump into the new game. Barlog says that players will experience tougher scenarios that will require them to rethink their strategy, "Oh, I've chosen a strength build, and I'm [fighting] a character who's knocking all of my health out in one hit. Okay, I have to rethink this."

The video also showcases that players will have numerous options when it comes to Kratos' gear and appearance, these options will range from crafting, skill trees and unique gear.

DualShockers got into contact with the Senior Vice President of Marketing Pete Hines and throughout the interview Hines was asked if Bethesda has plans on expanding more to other platforms.

Hines answered by saying that Bethesda works extremely hard at bringing their titles to as many platforms as possible. Hines gives an example of The Elder Scrolls: Legends coming to consoles and perhaps even the Nintendo Switch, Hines doesn't give any promises but does say that he "hope that happens, but we'll have to see."

Here is the full version of what Hines said throughout the interview when asked about the future of Bethesda games on different platforms: "Honestly I think everything is on the table. At the end of the day - and this is true for every game, not just Legends - we like to try and get our games to as many platforms as possible, so that as many people as possible have the option to play."

Recently we have been hearing about titles coming to the Nintendo Switch, big staple titles such as Super Smash Bros or even the speculation towards Spyro Reignited Trilogy coming to the Nintendo Switch suggests that 2018 will be a big year for Nintendo. Now the GameStop CEO says 2018 could be bigger than we expected.

Michael Mauler, GameStop CEO was asked via Express about the future of games coming to Nintendo's console, he replied with "I think this year when we look at the slate of titles, many of which haven't been announced yet, this year also looks very, very strong. So I think, at least, for 2018, we'll continue to see the strong software slate drive additional install base on the hardware.... We don't have really visibility for 2019 yet, but for 2018 it should play out that way."

If Mauler is correct and there is a bunch of unannounced Switch games that are due for release this year this could suggest that sometime soon we will be hearing another announcement for a triple-A title coming to the Switch. There is hopes that this could be a Pokemon title for the Switch but the recent listing for Spyro Reignited Trilogy seems more likely to be the case.

Thanks to PUBG and Fortnite, the battle royale craze is a billion-dollar rage in the games industry right now and everyone wants in--especially the Lawbreakers devs at Boss Key Productions.

Earlier today Boss Key, the studio founded by Unreal Tournament alum Cliffy B, made a surprise announcement of their new free-to-play battle royale game Radical Heights. The game in question is a massive mish-mash of 1980's tropes and nostalgia, incorporating a look that retro/vaporwave listeners will recognize right away: neon colors, embarrassing clothing and outfits, and outrageous carnage. Oh and arcades, too--don't forget those. In sooth Radical Heights looks like something on an Intergalactic Cable episode of Rick and Morty rather than anything I'd expect to actually see released on the games market (for both good and bad).

Radical Heights will launch in early access tomorrow, which also coincides with the huge new Retribution event in Overwatch (probably bad timing there). The game will of course be free-to-play, which was Lawbreakers' original plan, and has no publisher attached to the game this time.

For those that don't already know the beloved main character from CD Projekt RED's The Witcher series is coming to Soulcalibur VI, producer Motohiro Okubo commented on the success of The Witcher titles saying that they are "the best game featuring a Middle Age-style world."

Marcin Momot, the Community Coordinator at CDPR detailed how the idea of bringing Geralt to Soulcalibur was brought to light. Momot explains that he "always thought Geralt would be an awesome addition to Soulcalibur's fighter roster."

CD Projekt RED employees have also explained that they are working very hard to make sure that Geralt is ejected straight from The Witcher series and injected straight into the Soulcalibur universe while keeping the same feel and move-set.

Endnight Games, the developers behind the long-standing early access title 'The Forest' have finally announced the official release date title for the full release game debuting to PC.

At the moment The Forest is sitting on version 0.73 which will then be changed to version 1.0 when the game fully releases on the 30th of April. The price point for the game will also be increased, currently the early access version of the game is $14.99 but this will change to $19.99 at the end of the month.

For players that do not know anything about The Forest, the title is a survival-horror that requires resource gathering, building structures, enduring the environment and also zombie, and other monster slaying.

It appears that in the latest client update for Steam, Valve has provided support for the official Nintendo Switch Pro controller through Steam Link. A Redditor put it to the test and has confirmed its usability.

According to ShrewdHunter, as of the update on the 23rd of March Valve has added support for the Nintendo Switch Pro controller through Steam Link. ShrewdHunter explains that the controller works perfectly fine but currently doesn't have the 'rumble' feature.

ShrewdHunter also checked if the Joy Con controllers were supported through Steam Link but unfortunately this didn't work, Steam Link did recognize the controllers though as the screen displayed 'Joy Con L.' Check out the below image to see ShrewdHunters pairing.