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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...

Fans of the Dragon Ball universe are finally getting their very own asymmetrical survival game. Dubbed Dragon Ball: The Breakers, the new Bandai Namco title brings together a group of seven players who’ll be transported into a mysterious land called the Temporal Seam. As Survivors, their goal is to survive the terrors of the eighth player, who’ll take on the role as Raider through one of the many notorious villains in Dragon Ball, including Cell, Buu and Frieza. The Raider will have to take out all seven Survivors before they’re able to find the Super Time Machine to escape the Temporal Seam. As the game goes on, the villain will become more and more powerful, and those trying to run away will have to scavenge weapons, vehicles, and power-ups to slow him down. For those...

The general release for Battlefield 2042 was only two days ago, but the new EA title has already become one of the worst-reviewed games on Steam. Amassing more than 35,000 reviews over the 48 hours, more than 29,000 of those are negative, making the latest Battlefield installment the eighth-lowest rated game in the entire Steam library. While the game built incredible anticipation during its development period and arguably even through its open beta testing, the ultimate release was met with widespread criticism. Sparse maps with little to no cover, imbalanced and overpowered vehicles, buggy performance, bullet accuracy issues, a high time-to-kill and problematic hitboxes are among some of the biggest flaws of the game. “When [Battlefield 3] came out, I thought to myself, imagine...

In light of the botched release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, Rockstar Games has now issued an official apology to fans, vowing to fix the technical issues plaguing the game. “Firstly, we want to sincerely apologize to everyone who has encountered issues playing these games,” an official statement from the company reads. “The Grand Theft Auto series — and the games that make up this iconic trilogy — are as special to us as we know they are to fans around the world. The updated versions of these classic games did not launch in a state that meets our own standards of quality, or the standards our fans have come to expect.” Rockstar continued: “We have ongoing plans to address the technical issues and to improve each game going forward. With each planned update, t...