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Codemasters have taken to their Onrush Twitter page to say that "there's a stampede coming" for players, which could be in reference to the new trailer that was also just released.

Racing games are not necessarily my cup of tea but that doesn't mean I won't be recognizing a potential rivalry between releases. Burnout Paradise remaster is heading to gamers on March 16th this year, and now we have more recent news that Onrush a Codemasters creation will be debuting on June 5th.

It could be assumed that Burnout might be taking the cake on this one but don't discourage Onrush just as of yet. Onrush might just slot itself very well into the arcade racer genre, the game appears to feature a "Rush" meter which would suggest that once tricks are performed the meter grows granting boost or other perks. It might not be Grand Turismo racing or even Forza, but if you are a gamer that wants to smash into your opponents on the road and be rewarded for it Onrush might just be for you.

Awhile back I reported on a exclusive title coming to the Nintendo Switch called Caste of Heart, now the game has an official release date and to accompany the date a new trailer has also been released.

Caste of Heart is a action platformer that players will find challenging and quite unique. Players will be taking control of a knight that has been transformed into stone by an evil sorcerer, destined to prevail against all the odds players must use love to conquer the magic spell that has cursed the character.

Your 'rock solid' Knight will be required to beat all 20 levels that begin in a village and finish at the sorcerers castle. Players should note that there are 4 different biomes with their respective unique enemies, each require different gameplay mechanics to beat.

The sci-fi space adventure, The Station releases today and to go accompany the launch of the game a new trailer has also been released.

The Station is a sci-fi tale about a group of researchers that have broke down in space after spending some time researching a recently discovered alien race. Players are required to investigate what happened to the crew alone and to complete the mission the ships system cores need to be restored.

The title has been developed by former Radical Entertainment Studio Head Dave Fracchia, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning designer Les Nelkin and League of Legends composer Duncan Watt. The Station will launch on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on the 20th of February.

A collaboration between Rocket League developer Psyonix, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment have produced a brand new DLC pack, make way for the Batmobile!

This collaboration has created a great selection of DC comic themed skins that are soon to debut to Rocket League. An example of a skin is the Tumbler from Christoper Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises and also the Batmobile from the classic Tim Burton Batman from 1989.

For those that aren't all caught up on the new Batman skins don't be dis-hearted as of yet, there is more DC themed items to go around. Some examples include decals, wheels and player banners. For more information regarding what else is released in this DLC pack visit the official Rocket League website.

Sledgehammer Games founders Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield have resigned from their positions as founders of the studio, now they have decided to move onto pursue new roles within Activision.

In a statement from Activision, it was explained that both Condrey and Schofield leaving the Call of Duty studio resulted in a new role for Aaron Halon, a founding member of Sledgehammer Games. Halon is now the team leader and with his 20 years of industry experience Activision believe that the future of Sledgehammer Games is in good hands.

Here is the statement from Activision: "Following the incredible success of Call of Duty: WWII, Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey have decided to transition from their duties at Sledgehammer Games to new executive duties inside Activision. We thank Glen and Michael for their tremendous body of work on Call of Duty and look forward to continuing to collaborate with them in their new roles.

EA has confirmed they're working on Burnout Paradise Remastered, which will be released on both consoles and the PC and will include nearly all of the DLC from Burnout Paradise.

Burnout Paradise Remastered will be running at up to 4K on the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X, with EA warning in the trailer for the remastered arcade driving game that "native 4K resolution not available on all platforms", because consoles, I guess. EA has said that the game will run "natively" at 1080p on the PS4 and Xbox One, all at 60FPS. EA has said that Burnout Paradise Remastered won't include the Time Savers Pack, an add-on that unlocked every vehicle in the game.

As for the game itself, it will hit consoles first in digital and retail form on March 16 while PC gamers will have to wait a little while longer, as it'll launch on EA's digital service, Origin. EA hasn't confirmed whether or not Burnout Paradise Remastered will be released on the Nintendo Switch, but EA Access subscribers will get access to it early on March 9, something that is good for 10 hours of play time.

One of the biggest games on the market right now is Epic Games' free-to-play hit Fortnite, and one of the most beloved franchises might not have struck all of the chords in gamers' hearts, but Diablo 3 is still massive.

Now we have rumors floating around that Fortnite and Diablo 3 will be released on the Nintendo Switch, which would be huge. The insider said: "Diablo 3 is in development for the Nintendo Switch and should be out early 2019. They are wanting to implement Local play with multiple switches".

The insider in question is Marcus Sellars, who also tweeted that Fortnite is headed to the Nintendo Switch sometime in August or September. Sellars added: "Wouldn't say fact as it's not confirmed by the developer but yeah it's happening".

Update: Intel has reached out to me with the following statement: "Last week at ISSCC, Intel Labs presented a research paper exploring new circuit techniques optimized for power management. The team used an existing Intel integrated GPU architecture (Gen 9 GPU) as a proof of concept for these circuit techniques. This is a test vehicle only, not a future product. While we intend to compete in graphics products in the future, this research paper is unrelated. Our goal with this research is to explore possible, future circuit techniques that may improve the power and performance of Intel products".

An interesting statement that shows the purported discrete GPU everyone is talking about isn't something new, as it's a prototype that Intel is working on - an existing product and "not a future product". Intel clarifies that it intends to "compete in graphics products in the future", though, which is so great to see.

All of that kerfuffle last year when AMD lost Radeon Technologies Group boss Raja Koduri wasn't for nothing, as he has jumped into Intel and now we're seeing the first tease of their new discrete GPU.

Nintendo's partnership with DeNA is becoming quite fruitful as smartphone games like Fire Emblem Heroes rakes in serious cash.

While it's not up there with Pokemon GO and Clash of Clans, Fire Emblem Heroes has made nearly $300 million in its first year earnings. According to data compiled by analyst firm SensorTower, the Fire Emblem mobile game has pulled in about $295 million in its first twelve-month period, dwarfing Super Mario Run and the more recent release of Animal Crossing.

Japan is the most interested in the game--not surprisingly since the Gacha business model is in full effect in the game--with the lion's share, or 59%, of earnings coming from the country. The U.S. made up about 29% of earnings, and other countries just sitting at about 12%.

Polish dev CI Games has shed lots of employees from its workforce.

Despite a profitable year, Sniper Ghost Warrior developer CI Games will dramatically downsize its current employee count to about just 30 people. The company announced that its internal studio will continue focusing on its next unannounced tactical shooter with the help of a large number of subcontractors. Interestingly enough this move was made despite Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 selling 1 million copies.

CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski had this to say about the business move: "The decision to downsize the studio was the toughest decision I have taken over the past years-it is never easy to let go of friends and colleagues with whom we've worked for years-however I truly believe that it was the best way to move forward. Quality is not only extremely important to our upcoming tactical shooter, but it is important to every game we will bring to the market.

Microsoft has taken to Twitch to show off the upcoming Minecraft Bedrock Edition, the developer streamed for almost a whole 2 hours.

The Minecraft Bedrock Edition for the Switch was said to be "mostly done" and the team is currently just making some overall quality of life improvements before they release the final copy.

Currently, the Bedrock Edition will be supporting local play for gamers that have taken their Switch to a remote location that cannot connect to Wi-Fi. To make sure this is all working perfectly on release the development team has said they will be "taking a lot of extra care with trying to make sure that this launch is really smooth, that the world conversion system works really well for people, and that migrating over from Editions is an easy transition for you to make"

SOMA the underwater horror adventure released a Safe Mode at the end of last year, now the developer is bringing the mode to PS4.

'Safe Mode' was brought to players by the developers as an easier option for players to progress through the game. Some sections in SOMA would provide to difficult or overwhelming, this resulted in the 'Safe Mode' being added as an optional mode.

The mode changed the games monsters into being curious of your presence around them instead of immediately attacking you on sight. Even though this mode may seem to ruin some immersion within the game, the atmosphere is said to of hardly been changed. On a more lighter note, players might now be able to take the game a bit slower to appreciate some of the intricacies.

Capcom has confirmed a release date for the Mega Man collections arriving on the Nintendo Switch, May 22 this year has been the confirmed debut date.

Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 will contain six 8-bit Mega Man classics but also a new rewind feature that will allow players to instantly retry harder sections of the games. The Mega Man Collection 1 will have Mega Man games 1 - 6, Legacy Collection 2 will continue on with the games with 7 - 10.

Legacy Collection 2 will display smoother graphics with the use of 16-bit and 32-bit. Three generations of gaming graphics will also be available to play as well 'extra modes' such as Challenge mode, Sound Mode and Mueseum Mode.

Scampering into the PSVR world on the 27th of February is Moss, a 3D platformer-like game that allows for players to feel as if they are assisting the main protagonist Quill on her epic adventure of small stature.

To gear up for the release, a new launch trailer has been released on the PlayStation YouTube Channel. The above video shows the audience that players will be bonding with Quill through activities such as puzzle solving, defeating enemies and more. She will be needing all the assistance she can get.

Moss could honestly have the potential to be ones of the best options for a unique gaming experience on PSVR. The 3D platformer-like feel to the game has been reported to be of one the best PSVR experiences, as the zoomed out field of view makes players really feel like they are there helping Quill on her adventure.

The upcoming open-world RPG from Experiment 101 and THQ Nordic, Biomutant has received a new gameplay teaser trailer.

Biomutant looks extremely unique in this trailer in terms of creative abilities that the main character can do. We can see that the protagonist can fire an arrow and launch himself to the desired location, control a glider, bounce on enemies and even be electrocuted.

Players should note that the gameplay within Biomutant is drastically affected by how the player decides to mutate/customize their main character. When looked at as individual clips Biomutant may not seem that unique when it comes to gameplay, but when addressed a whole experience we can see that the game has no problem traversing from one uniqueness to another in only a matter of seconds.

There are some competitors coming into the battle royale scene with Automation Games showing off its next-gen shooter Mavericks: Proving Grounds.

Mavericks: Proving Grounds is poised to become one of the biggest battle royale games in terms of players, where the 2018 version of the game supports up to 400 players, but the team will shift into a 1000-player world in 2019. The world of Mavericks will be filled with reactive wildlife, dynamic water, MUDDY TRACKS and even spreading wildfire, all in a huge 12x12km.

Eventually, the game would support battle royale and online MMO modes where it will battle on a different field than the usual Battlegrounds and Fortnite. Automation's CEO has teased that the game is powered by SpatialOS technology.

Microsoft's new build test for Xbox One consoles will allow gamers to preview 1440p resolution support.

We've known for a while now that Microsoft's new high-end $499 Xbox One X will support native 1440p resolution on appropriate monitors, along with FreeSync adaptive sync, FreeSync 2, and HDMI 2.1 support, but there's always been a question of when. Now the games-maker teases that 1440p support will launch in a new preview build coming soon.

According to Xbox's Kevin Gammill, both the Xbox One X and Xbox One S will receive 1440p support in the new Xbox insider update...however the lesser Xbox One S will most likely support light applications such as streaming and UI in 1440p, whereas gaming will likely be supersampled.

Ubisoft is eager to extend Rainbow Six: Siege's lifespan as far as possible--even for another 10 years.

Service games are all the rage these days, and every major publisher is embracing them in some form. Ubisoft, who has pushed a more digital-focused transformation, is a key player in the live service market with its slew of popular online games such as Rainbow Six: Siege. We've already highlighted why Ubisoft is on this path and why it won't change anytime soon, but just how long can the publisher expect its games to stay relevant? If it handles engagement properly, perhaps 10 years or more.

"We are saying extremely loudly here - there is no sequel planned. We will be here for the next 10 years. So expect more Rainbow 6 in your life for quite some time," R6 brand director Alexandre Remy said during the game's big 2018 Invitational esports event.

Original Diablo designer David Brevik weighs in on Blizzard's Diablo III, and how the game might've been if Blizzard North hadn't been dissolved.

At one point Blizzard North, who had made the original first two classic Diablo games, was making Diablo III...but ultimately its vision was scrapped and restarted. Blizzard eventually delivered a rampantly broken, weird, and jading mess in 2012 with the release of Diablo III on PC that ultimately betrayed the soul of its forebears. But despite its failures, Blizzard turned things around with Reaper of Souls and saved the game while introducing a long-term playtime that both Diablo and Diablo II significantly lacked. So what does David Brevik, who helped shape the franchise as we know it, have to say about Diablo III?

"I thought that they added a lot of really great stuff to it that fleshed it out and made it a much better game than I thought that it was at launch," Brevik said in a recent interview with IGN.

Remedy is making serious strides with its new Northlight engine, which will power its upcoming game projects including the new P7 IP.

It's no secret that Remedy is making a brand new third-person shooter IP called P7, and that they've signed a big multi-year deal with 505 Games to get it funded. But what's a bit more ambiguous is the lingo that's thrown around about the game, and how the developer wants to ensure P7 will deliver "longer-lasting game experiences." This is usually prime nomenclature for service games, and I even went so far as to predict the game would have monetized service elements thanks to a recent job listing.

Now in its latest fiscal earnings report, the game dev assures shareholders that its proprietary Northlight games engine is being fine-tuned and optimized for specific experiences outside of its usual focus, including multiplayer.