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Bloober team, the devs behind Layers of Fear, will have their mysterious new game published by Friday the 13th's Gun Media.

In terms of official details, next to nothing is known about Project Melies, which is Bloober Team's new game. But IGN made an apt connection to renowned 19th French movie-maker George Melies, who helped pioneer the art with thousands of short films during the era (you may remember Voyage dans la Lune, or A Trip to the Moon, Melies' most well-known film). After all the codename has Melies' name in it.

"We are thrilled to be working with Gun Media," added Piotr Babieno, CEO of Bloober Team. "The Gun team have seen the potential of our game from the very beginning. Based on their level of passion, knowledge and philosophy, we believe that together we can create a game that will be remembered years after its release."

Nintendo has just finished their Nintendo Direct livestream on YouTube, closing out the stream Nintendo teased that Super Smash Bros. is coming Nintendo Switch fans in 2018.

The teaser began with Splatoon characters duking it out against eachother, only for one of them to realize what was happening behind them. The area began to fade black and the Super Smash Bros. logo appears behind them, showing a group of characters at the base.

The video quickly pans up to Marios face and then quickly switches to Link, only to end with "Super Smash Bros. 2018." It could also be speculated that because the Splatoon characters are within the trailer that they are to be added into this new Super Smash Bros. Check out the screenshots below, or watch the above video to check out the teaser.

Black Ops 4 is indeed happening (go figure!) and Activision has secured a Fall release date for its big new Call of Duty shooter.

In a recent press release, Activision shows it's extremely confident in Treyarch's new Black Ops game. The publisher says Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (or Black Ops ]II[) will "revolutionize the top-selling Call of Duty series in history" with a "game-changing experience."

Treyarch will reveal full details about the game on Thursday, May 17 in a special showcase ahead of E3 2018, and Black Ops 4 will release Friday, October 12, 2018 on PS4, Xbox One and PC. This will secure Black Ops 4 ahead of the critical holiday sales period and coincide with Activision-Blizzard's fourth quarter earnings.

Today The Division devs at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft have confirmed a sequel to the gritty third-person shooter.

Ever-chasing live services, Ubisoft has had The Division 2 in the works for a bit now, and it may be the mystery AAA game it was supposed to launch this fiscal year (but most likely it isn't). Details about the sequel are sparse, but the team at Massive affirms it has learned tremendously from the last two years of upkeeping, updating, and engaging The Division players across the globe.

The Division 2 will be the culmination of a huge joint effort of Ubisoft studios, the company confirms. Six studios including Ubisoft Reflections, Red Storm Entertainment, Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Shanghai and Ubisoft Bucharest will work alongside Massive to make the game. This makes a lot of sense considering Massive Entertainment is also working on a huge sprawling multi-year series of games for the new Avatar movies.

After an anonymous source that tipped off that Bandai was to bringing Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy to the Nintendo Switch, we now have confirmation.

The Trilogy is made up of games Ultimate Ninja Storm, Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, and Ultimate Ninja Storm 3: Full Burst.

Bandai Namco commented on bringing Naruto: Ultimate Storm Triology to the Nintendo Switch, here is what they said: "Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy drops players into the Ninja World and gives them the chance to actively experience major battles and fan-favorite scenes with larger than life bosses, adrenaline-pumping quick time event sequences, fast-paced battles, and visuals that rival the anime series it is based on."

At the start of the year Nintendo announced that My Nintendo users will be able to use their Gold Points to purchase titles across the Wii U, 3DS and Switch eShop. This feature is now available!

Users that are interested in using their My Nintendo Gold Points will should know that 100 gold points is equivalent to $1. Players that decide to make purchases through the eShop will be rewarded back with 5% of their purchase value in Gold Points. Physical purchases will sadly only be rewarded with 1% of the value.

It should be noted that while games with DLC's on the Switch will grant players Gold Points, DLC's on the Wii U or 3DS will not. Additionally and probably most importantly, Gold Points have a one year expiration date on them, counting from the last day in the month from which they were earned.

State of Decay 2, the zombie-survival RPG from Undead Labs has been announced for a release on the 22nd of May, to go with the release date is also the set price point for the game.

According to the games head of marking Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft has decided to stick to long-term goal with the State of Decay community. This would mean widening the audience of the game by lowering the initial cost to only $30.

Here is what Greenberg had to say: "Our goal is to build a long-term relationship with the State of Decay community and to foster deeper experiences with the franchise. We believe State of Decay 2 accomplishes this goal by immersing fans in the ultimate zombie survival fantasy, and we want to give more players the opportunity to join in and experience this unique game."

To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo have decided to release a 5-disc box set of the soundtrack used in the Zelda: Breath Of The Wild.

Nintendo have gathered all of original songs found in Zelda: Breath of the Wild which also include songs from both of the games DLC packs, Champions' Ballad and The Master Trails.

The limited edition collection is unfortunately not available worldwide as of yet and is only available to those in Japan. The news originally being broken by GameSpot, they explain what will be featured with the 5-discs: "Play Button music player pre-loaded with 15 "field" tracks from the Legend of Zelda series, and special packaging with a clear file for Ã,Â¥7,000. Songs on the Play Button player cannot be added or removed. The standard edition will only include the five CDs for Ã,Â¥5,000."

The developers that are behind this incredible Skyrim mod have released their very first trailer for their upcoming Beyond Skyrim: Morrowind mod.

This mod is exactly what the title suggests, it will be bringing Morrowind into the world of Skyrim which has been all created from a hard working team of dedicated modders and hours upon hours of code fiddling.

Unfortunately there is no scheduled time for release of this mod as the team is currently looking for volunteers to speed up the process. There is a similar idea currently happening with Fallout 3 being built into Fallout 4, check that out here.

A new patent hints that Sony's new PlayStation console--presumably the PlayStation 5--could indeed be a full next-generation jump instead of another console refresh.

According to a Sony patent that's recently been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the Japanese games-maker is working on backward compatibility features for a new system. This heavily implies that the PS5 will be able to play PS4 games, which is something I said is 100% essential for the PlayStation brand's future. This also strongly suggests the PS5 is a hardware push above the current PS4 family of systems, and unlike the PS4 Pro or Microsoft's approach with the Xbox One X. However, the patent also suggests the PS5 won't be dramatically more powerful than the PS4 or PS4 Pro.

The patent is fairly involved but speaks mostly in plain language, explaining why certain tech is so important to ensure smooth backward compatibility. Essentially what it comes down to is CPU and GPU power and timing discrepancies; for instance, if the PS5's CPU is slower than the PS4's (won't happen), the games will have lots of issues and vice-versa. And yes, PS4 architect Mark Cerny helped invent the patent.

As is usually the case with ports crossing over late, a ratings board potential spoils Ninja Theory's surprise.

Months after launching on PlayStation 4, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is coming to the Xbox One, at least that's according to a listing on the Taiwanese Entertainment Software Registration website. A quick search shows that Hellblade is within the registry as an unlisted title, but anyone who visits the site can pull it up.

What's more interesting is the TESR says European video game ratings board PEGI has already certified Senua's Sacrifice on Xbox One, but no listing showed up on PEGI's website.

Keen on promoting its new dino movie and following the juggernaut that is Pokemon Go, Universal has announced an AR-based mobile game based on Jurassic World.

Jurassic World Alive is pretty much Pokemon GO with dinosaurs--at least that's what we've gathered from the brief teaser released by the dev team. However Ludia, the studio that's making the game, promises key differences from the pocket monster behemoth: gamers can actually pit their dinosaurs against other players'.

"Players discover dinosaurs by locating them on a map and deploying an in-game drone to collect DNA samples," the company told The Verge.

A surprise Nintendo Direct is coming tomorrow, and Switch owners are speculating what new games they'll get in 2018.

Nintendo today announced a Nintendo Direct showcase for tomorrow at 2PM PST/5PM EST that will reveal a number of new Switch games. Given all of the hubbub about a certain unholy monster rising to the handheld-console hybrid, we're betting one of those new games will be Diablo III's confirmation on the Switch. Mario Aces Tennis will also be highlighted in greater depth.

So what games could get revealed? Maybe the next Pokemon game? Probably not, Nintendo may save that for E3, and it's even possible Diablo III could be saved as well. We'll likely get a bunch of indies, a first party game or two (Mario Aces Tennis), and some other third-party games to boot.

Like the MMO before it, Square Enix has put titanic effort into streamlining Final Fantasy XV on all platforms--least of all PC--and this process will be an asset for future games development.

With Final Fantasy XV the game's internal dev team was under tremendous pressure to get the game just right, especially since the higher-end PC tech used to make the game had to be scaled down quite a bit to run on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. But the team didn't stop there: they went all out with a PC version with native 4K (and even 8K support), HDR, UltaWide, and a number of tweaks and optimizations befit a true AAA PC game. This blistering pace will bleed over into other projects and has taught the developers massively important lessons along the way.

In a recent interview with Japanese publication Famitsu, key Final Fantasy XV developers including game director Hajime Tabata, designer Takefumi Terada, and Episode Ignis director Yoichi Kuroda underlined some key points about the process. "I had absolutely [made builds] once a month to eliminate bugs and bring them to the world with constant quality. So, what we got is technology to develop HD game at a tremendous speed. Everyone was tough, fast and tough," the devs said in the interview.

7 minutes of Mordhau gameplay has been released and the first-person melee game is looking quite good, the video showcases the true colors players should expect in the alpha.

Potential players that are considering picking up this game should know that this title is within a closed alpha so do not expect 100% smoothness. From the above video and also the comment section we can see a very positive response from the audience, some people even saying this title is better than the classic Chivalry.

Mordhau is powered by Unreal Engine 4 and will have a skill-based free-flowing combat system that according to the developers will be hard to master but easy to learn. Some other positive additions to the title is that the game will be coming with a field of view slider, as well as support for mods.

Blizzard have decided to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their beloved real-time strategy game StarCraft, the company has released a short video showing the progression of the game since its first release.

The video that was released by Blizzard shows how the classic RTS has aged since its release back in 1999, until the remastered edition was pushed out in 2017.

Blizzard are not only celebrating the anniversary with a short video but they are also releasing a slew of extra content across their other games to celebrate the occasion. For example, Overwatch players will be glad to know that they will have access to the special Sarah Kerrigan Ghost skin for Widowmaker, this skin will be available from March 6th until April 3rd.

To celebrate the launch of the new God of War game by Santa Monica Studios, Sony have decided to debut a limited edition God of War themed PS4 Pro.

The limited edition console will be launching the very same day as God of War and will also be coming with a physical copy of the game.

The console will be featuring 1 TB of storage and will be retailing for $399USD, meaning that the game included comes completely free.

Ubisoft have taken to their own blog to announce that Far Cry 5 will be featuring a custom level editor that will allow players to create and share their map designs.

The level editor has been titled Far Cry Arcade, this news was broken by lead level designer of the Arcade, Clark Davies. Davies has said that this will be most packed level designer so far.

"We've really pushed hard this time to make it a much more integral part of the Far Cry experience, and to really give it its own identity. We're going to make sure it's more visible than ever. Not just in our menus, but in the campaign itself. We're going to put arcade booths all around our campaign world in places where it makes sense. And then on top of that, there will be posters all over the game world, which will be simple portals to quick-launch you into our best featured maps."

Geralt of Rivia, the well-known character from the infamous Witcher series, has had CD Projekt RED's Community Manager Marcin Momot drop a teaser bomb for Geralt returning to the world of gaming, but this time not in his own game...

Momot took to Twitter to asking his audience "What if Geralt was going to step out of the The Witcher for the very first time to make an appearance in one of the upcoming games later this year?"

Reading some of the replies on the post, it was brought to my attention that we could be seeing Geralt featured in the upcoming Soulcalibur VI which recently had a main character reveal - Nightmare. The reason for this assumption of Geralt coming to the Soulcalibur universe is because of the great relationship between CD Projekt RED and Bandai Namco, who published the highly acclaimed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

A new update is on the way to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' test servers, which will post-update feature an in-game friend system, a vehicle and limb penetration system, and voice chat in the main menu.

The test servers will go live later this week according to PUBG community manager Andro Dars, who added: "Our test servers are going up this week! We are currently polishing and debugging the test build".

Dars continued: "We are going to be introducing an in-game friend system, voice chat in main menu and vehicle and limb penetration system. We are going to need your feedback on all the new features, especially the new penetration system, so please join our test servers later this week. Detailed patch notes will be posted in a couple of days".