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Epic Games has bought the game developer behind Rock Band and Guitar Hero, Harmonix. The two companies announced the acquisition separately. Harmonix’s team will be collaborating with Epic to create “musical journeys and gameplay” for Fortnite, per its announcement. The studio noted that it still plans to move forward with Rock Band releases slated for 2022 and that it will continue to support its older games. Epic attributed the acquisition to needing Harmonix’s expertise on music creation and distribution as it works on building out the metaverse. “Harmonix has always aspired to create the world’s most beloved interactive music experiences, and by joining Epic we will be able to do this at scale,” said Alex Rigopulos, Co-Founder and Chairman at Harmonix. “Together we will push the creati...

Before Xbox was created, Microsoft tried to acquire Nintendo. In celebration of the popular console’s 20th-anniversary, the tech and gaming giant has created a virtual museum for fans to look back on some of the most special moments of its history. Embedded within that treasure trove is a letter revealing that Microsoft actually tried to acquire Nintendo back in 1999 before it developed its own Xbox console. While the letter itself is largely blocked by a big chunk of text, you can still gather a few details from it. Microsoft ultimately met with Nintendo’s president at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi, along with the legendary game designer Genyo Takeda, and vowed to “make Dolphin the best video game [console],” also eventually known as the GameCube. “Steve [Ballmer, Microsoft’s former CEO] mad...

Mediatonic is just about to launch season six of Fall Guys, and as you’d expect there’s a whole roster of new content to come, including a special costume from Ghost of Tsushima. Launching November 30, the new season of the popular platformer will feature not just one but two outfits themed after Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima, as well as a Sackboy skin from the beloved LittleBigPlanet spin-off. Of course, there’ll also be a whole series of new obstacles and challenges for you and your friends to face, including vacuum tubes, a round version of the seesaw, a cannon shooting out water balloons, a platform that flips vertically at regular intervals, and trapezes to swing from. Riding off the new cross-play feature, Fall Guys will also be receiving cross-progression...

Despite launching less than a week ago, Battlefield 2042 has quickly become one of the worst-rated games on Steam, amassing almost 30,000 negative reviews in the span of just days. Now, hearing player feedback, EA and DICE have promised to bring a series of fixes to the game through two major updates coming in the near future. Scheduled for tomorrow, the second update to the game will introduce a series of important tweaks to existing gameplay. A new respawn protection system will fix the bug where downed players have stayed in that state for too long, while revives have been optimized so you won’t suffer from being too close to walls or objects. Balancing mechanisms will be introduced for both the LCAA Hovercraft as well as the MD540 Nightbird, and UAV-1 will also be adjusted in Port...

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Hideo Kojima‘s Kojima Productions has opened a new division focusing on film, television and music in Los Angeles, California. According to reports, Kojima Productions is looking to expand its slate of gaming titles into the three industries, with former PlayStation exec Riley Russell leading the wing. ”The new division will be tasked with working with creative and talented professionals in television, music and film, as well as the more familiar games industry,” he said. “The team has as its charter, the goal of expanding the reach and awareness of the properties now under development at Kojima Productions, and to make them even more a part of our popular culture. Although we are a global organization, the new business development team will be centred in Los Angeles, CA. We are truly...

Riot Games has released new gameplay footage for its upcoming League of Legends universe fighting game titled Project L. The video above is narrated by twins Tom and Tony Cannon, the executive producer and technical lead for the new game, who go over their ideation process and direction for the assist-based fighter. Following the breakout success of its Netflix Series Arcane, the Project L gameplay footage shows the series’ main characters Jinx and Ekko in action. The game is a tag team style fighter meaning players swap between teams of two during the fight. In the video we see Darius swapping in for Jinx mid-combat. We also get a quick glimpse at the controls, and Cannon describes the game as “easy to learn, but hard to master” to allow for fun casual play while maintaining a high skill ...

With Black Friday coming up soon, many companies are finding ways to make their products more attractive. Those in the gaming community know that Nintendo very rarely offers discounts but with Black Friday, fans can snag a deal if they purchase a Nintendo Switch console. This year, the Black Friday bundles see Nintendo offer a nearly identical one to last year’s. Packaged with the purchase of the Nintendo Switch, fans will receive a digital copy of the popular Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as well as three months of Nintendo Switch Online. It is important to note that this is only applicable for the regular Switch and not the OLED edition, which costs $50 USD more than the original. The two add-ons normally cost $68 USD, but with the Black Friday bundle, it is now included in the Switch console pric...

Two years ago, Chris Roberts’ spiritual successor — Star Citizen — for the groundbreaking game Freelancer was valued at close to $500 million USD. Fans were excited to hear movement in the project after a $46 million USD investment from billionaire record producer Clive Calder — leading to the proposed 2020 summer release for the single-player Squadron 42 campaign. The game has now hit new heights, and not in a good way. With Squadron 42 already missing its 2020 summer release date with “ways to go” before even reaching beta, a recent tally of all the funds raised for the full Star Citizen game has officially surpassed $400 million USD. This is quite a staggering number when you consider that it was announced close to ten years ago on Kickstarter with a three-year completion timeline and t...

Less than a month after concluding its 2021 Worlds event in Iceland where EDG took home the victory, Riot Games is now looking forward to the League of Legends 2022 World Championship, announcing that it’ll be the first-ever multi-city tournament. Spreading across four parts of North America, next year’s championship will take place in Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, New York’s Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, San Francisco’s Chase Center, and Mexico City’s Liga Latinoamerica arena. Aside from being the first of its kind to run concurrently at numerous cities, the 2022 occasion will also mark the first return to the North American region for the first time since 2016. “The momentum behind League of Legends Esports has only continued to grow since the last time we hosted Worlds in the U.S...