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A possible leak on Amazon's storefront hints Ubisoft could continue its infamous stealth action series.

After five years, Ubisoft may be making another Splinter Cell game--at least that's what a now defunct listing on Amazon Canada leads us to believe. The listing specifically mentioned "E3 Splinter Cell" and called the game "Splinter Cell 2018" with Ubisoft's name attached.

This move makes a lot of sense for the French games-maker, especially considering the company is strongly focused on its wholly-owned IPs (ie Tom Clancy games/IPs). The company recently said it plans to ship 4 AAA games in the upcoming fiscal year so it's possible a new Splinter Cell is among these games.

Crash Banicoot N. Sane Trilogy is coming to the Nintendo Switch and PC, news from the developer has revealed that the PC version of the game will have keyboard and mouse support.

On the official Steam Store page of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Activision has released the PC requirements for the game, as well as letting gamers know that the PC version of the game will have keyboard and mouse support.

Keyboard and mouse support is being mentioned due to the fact that the developer Vicarious Visions will be going further than before with bringing Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy to PC, here is what they had to say.

Yesterday we saw that Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy for PC will be featuring a selection of control options for gamers to enjoy, today we have been gifted with a slew of new screenshots of the title.

The N. Sane Trilogy will be containing Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. The screenshots below show images from each of the respective games.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy will also be featuring optimized Steam controller support as well as mouse and keyboard support. The title will be coming to PC on July 10th and will also be debuting with 4K support.

Bandai Namco has unveiled some official screenshots of the upcoming Dark Souls Remastered for the Nintendo Switch. Now, 'Adrian Alucard' has taken screenshots in the exact same locations giving a great comparison between PC and the Switch.

From the below screenshots we can really see a distinctive difference between the Nintendo Switch version and the PC version of the game.

Bandai has also detailed the upcoming release, here is what they had to say: "Developed by FromSoftware Inc., DARK SOULS: REMASTERED allows players to explore the twisted ancient land of Lordran in the first title of the critically acclaimed action role-playing series like never before."

Last week Undead Labs released the official release date and price point for State of Decay 2. Now, the company has performed a livestream which they answered a series of questions, shining more light onto the zombie survival horror.

Undead Labs took to YouTube to perform a livestream lasting 1 hour. Throughout the livestream they answered a series of questions, one of them was if State of Decay 2 would feature microntransactions.

The livestream subsided everyones fear of the zombie survival horror featuring microtransactions, thankfully the developer has confirmed that the title will be 100% microtransaction free. This would mean that the game will not be featuring any lootboxes/crates that would provide cosmetic alterations.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 released on the 8th of March and to add to its launch, Fatshark have decided to release their roadmap for the upcoming three months.

So far the new title has been quite successful, pulling in a 83% rating from user reviews. Steamspy records a massive 343K owners already and to support those players the above roadmap was released by Fatshark.

From the roadmap we can see that there is quite a lot planned for the newly released title. The first three months will be dedicated to bringing new maps, mod support and dedicated servers.

The upcoming World of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth will be featuring a new Orc model which will be standing upright.

To tie World of Warcraft players over until the new expansion arrives, gamers can participate in Trails of Style the fashion contest mode. More importantly though, WoWhead has datamined the new Orc models which can be found above.

The video shows the new Orcs that are going to be featured in the upcoming expansion, it appears from the video that the Orcs are standing much more upright compared to their previous models. Images of the models can be found below.

Based on explosive sales of the Nintendo Switch and strong software attach rates, analyst firm IHS Markit predicts Nintendo will actually outpace Microsoft's Xbox division in terms of product sales and services.

With the Switch, Nintendo is back in the game, so to speak: the console has propelled the games-maker to its former glory with monumental sales and global acclaim. Before the Switch the console gaming space was dominated by the PS4 vs Xbox One battle--a battle which Microsoft was losing--but now Nintendo will push Xbox to the third spot...at least that's what IHS Markit predicts.

According to recent data released by the firm, Nintendo is expected to rake in about $11 billion in hardware, games, and services revenue in 2018, whereas Microsoft is predicted to pull in around $8 billion or so in combined gaming earnings.

Square Enix is currently hiring a level planner for its massive new Final Fantasy VII: Remake project.

Final Fantasy VII: Remake has been in development for a while now, and the game is actually taking shape quite nicely, but the Japanese games publisher Square Enix wants to make it absolutely incredible. That's why it's in a hiring phase for new devs in a bid to expand its team and bolster talent. It's also very likely that Final Fantasy XV's dev tools and procedures are bleeding into the project, as FFXV Game Director Hajime Tabata said his developers have become "tougher and faster" because of internal pressure.

"FF VII REMAKE has all functions and contents implemented," reads the job listing. "We are constantly examining the program within the development team, but while it is satisfying to say that the original is reproduced with high quality graphics, We have reached the conclusion that we should aim for a step further in quality so that can meet the expectations of fans."

Microsoft's new job listing suggests a game mod hosting service is coming to Xbox LIVE.

Mods have been proven to drive engagement across the board--not only do they considerably lengthen a game's life cycle, but in the case of Minecraft's community storefront, they can actually make money too. If it's one thing Microsoft loves, it's the billion dollar industry of engagement (Activision, EA, Ubisoft and Sony too).

A new Microsoft job listing affirms that the company is keen on building a mod service right into Xbox LIVE, which hints that future first-party Xbox games could have monetized mod storefronts baked into the online platform. Since most of Microsoft's first-party games have live services for maximum engagement, it's likely that this plan will mesh neatly with its current roadmap.

Drew Karpyshyn, who's best known for helping write some of BioWare's most beloved series such as Mass Effect, has left the studio once more to pursue other endeavors.

In a recent blog post, Karpyshyn says he left BioWare in order to focus on his own freelance work, which includes making games at a studio called Fogbank Games as well as continuing his novel series. This marks the second time the writer has left the Edmonton-based game dev; the first was in 2012 for many of the same reasons, but Karpyshyn came back in 2015 to help write Star Wars: The Old Republic and work on BioWare's massively ambitious new IP Anthem.

Anthem was recently moved to calendar Q1 2019 by Electronic Arts, and Karpyshyn's departure strongly hints that his role in the game has been wrapped up. Or, of course, BioWare is using a team of writers to make their huge new live service game (which is likely too).

Sony Bend's new zombie survival game Days Gone has been delayed into next year, Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed.

Speculation started when Days Gone's official game page was updated to a 2019 release, and now Sony verified the push back to various outlets. The company gave no reason behind the delay, ie that Sony Bend needed more time to optimize or polish, but it's not always as simple--Sony might've needed to fill a hole in its games lineup or the studio actually needed more time, or both.

Starting in FY2018, Sony says it will focus even more on strong first-party games in a bid to improve the PlayStation ecosystem's attractiveness to new and existing gamers. We may get specifics when the company outlines its new Mid-Year plan in the coming months, and maybe even some clues on the upcoming PlayStation 5 console to boot.

Microsoft recently confirmed FreeSync 2 support is coming to the current Xbox One consoles as a beta test next week.

During the newly brought back Xbox Insider show Major Nelson announced that FreeSync would arrive on both Xbox One S and Xbox One X consoles next week for members of the insider alpha program. We've known for quite some time that the Xbox One X supports FreeSync/FreeSync 2 and HDMI 2.1, but up until now the features, which help synchronize the display's and console's refresh rates for smoother gaming, haven't really been discussed too much. But now Microsoft breaks that silence.

"Starting next week users in the Xbox Insider alpha ring will be able to play on AMD Radeon FreeSync displays for variable refresh output on Xbox One X and Xbox One S," Xbox's Larry Hryb said during the broadcast.

The team behind the game This War of Mine has released a new trailer for their new upcoming title Frostpunk. Not only was a cool trailer released, the title also had its release date confirmed.

Director of Frostpunk, Grzegorz Miechowski originally wanted to release his new game in the first quarter of this year, but instead decided to delay the title to add the "final polishing required to deliver a game that, we believe, is the best 11 bit studios title so far."

Miechowski explains in detail why he decided to delay the title, here is what he had to say "We wanted to make it before end of Q1, but we ended up slightly moving the release further. The reason is simple - we needed this time for the final polishing required to deliver a game that, we believe, is the best 11 bit studios title so far."

Yesterday, Nintendo held their Nintendo Direct which revealed a slew of new content coming from the developer, taking the cake for the biggest reveal would have to be the Super Smash Bros teaser trailer.

Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed on Twitter that he is apart of the next Smash project, whether it is a port of the Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U or a completely new game.

Sakurai took to Twitter to announce "Right now, we're just at the stage where we revealed this game, but I've been working on this game in silence day after day. Please wait until we can release more information, or until release day!"

Bethesda's development studio expands outside of Maryland and Montreal with a new Austin-based sister branch.

We've known for a long time that Bethesda Game Studios is working on "two big and crazy projects" that are "totally different" than anything they've done before, and that The Elder Scrolls VI will indeed happen (just not for a long time). So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the developer is growing its ranks so it can fashion these ideas into actual tangible games.

"As the vision, scale and ambitions for our games continue to grow, so does Bethesda Game Studios," Todd Howard said in a press release. "We've had the pleasure to know the talented developers at BattleCry and knew we could do great things together."

So many cool games have been confirmed at the recent Nintendo Direct, one of them is Undertale which is making its way to the portable console.

Undertale is coming to the Nintendo Switch and from the above trailer we can see that the Nintendo is teasing everyone by not giving a release date for the game but instead just saying "eventually."

Undertale is now one of the most anticipated games coming to the Nintendo Switch, as Nintendo Switch fans on the /r/NintendoSwitch subreddit have said that there isn't a better platform for Undertale to come to.

Early February we reported on a European supplier saying that the Crash Bandicoot Trilogy was going to step out of exclusivity and come to the Nintendo Switch and PC, well now we have confirmation.

Originally a PlayStation 4 exclusive, Crash Bandicoot Trilogy will now be making its way to the Nintendo Switch and has been confirmed through Nintendo's latest Nintendo Direct.

The Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy will contain remastered versions of Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot: Warped. The N. Sane Trilogy will be releasing on the Nintendo Switch July 10.

Nintendo revealed quite a lot in the latest Nintendo Direct and one of those reveals was the first paid DLC making its way to Splatoon 2, the Octo Expansion.

This is the first paid DLC to come to Splatoon 2 and will allow for players to play as an Octoling for the very first time. From the above video we can see Agent 8, who awakes without her memories in a dark subway platform.

Players will have 80 missions available to play, as well as a special reward that once the DLC is complete and Agent 8 reaches the surface, will be the ability to play as an Octoling in multiplayer matches.

Valve is working on totally new games according to founder and PCMR figure Gabe Newell, with GabeN saying that Valve is getting back into making new games after its current fleet of multiplayer games.

Valve has been heavily focused on Steam and hardware over the last few years, stretching as far as getting knee deep in one of the best VR headsets on the market with the HTC Vive, but Gabe explained this as "an investment in the future". Newell added: "Artifact is the first of several games that are going to be coming from us. So that's sort of good news. Hooray! Valve's going to start shipping games again".

Artifact is a new Dota 2-themed card game that Valve has been working on, but it isn't the only new game the company has been developing. During the Reddit AMA back in January 2017, Newell said that Valve is working on at least one other fully-fledged singleplayer game.