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More than a year after the game’s original release, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is finally joining the team on Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics‘ Marvel’s Avengers. Unveiling its roadmap for the game over on Twitter, the developer revealed that a whole range of new updates will be dropping on November 30, including a special hero event that will introduce Spider-Man into the Avengers lineup — but only for those on the PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5. The addition shouldn’t come as a surprise to most fans of the game since Crystal Dynamics has teased his entrance for some time now, and was supposed to bring him into the title earlier this year. Unfortunately, there’s no first look at his character model yet, but fans should look out for more updates from the company. Spidey asi...

The premiere of Netflix and Riot Games‘ Arcane animated series is just around the corner, and now League of Legends is celebrating its launch by collaborating with Epic Games by creating a Jinx skin for the massively popular battle royale Fortnite. Aside from creating a screen-accurate character model of Jinx based on her look from Arcane, as usual the game is also offering a range of items based on her, including a Dream Monkey Back Bling, a Pow Pow Crusher Pickaxe, an instrumental Playground Lobby Track drawn from the animated series’ original soundtrack, a Jinxed Spray, and two different Loading Screens named Wreaking Havoc and Katchoo! For those interested, the Jinx Fortnite skin is now available over at the game’s Item Shop, with Arcane launching on Netflix Novembe...

Following the massive success of Netflix‘s Squid Game, it didn’t take long until gamers started making clones of the show’s iconic mini-games on other platforms like GTA Online, but for those who don’t have access to Rockstar‘s title, worry not: Steam has now come to the rescue with a free-to-play clone called Crab Game. Created by Norwegian developer Dani — who is also responsible for the summer blockbuster rogue-lite Muck — Crab Game is a completely free PC game mimicking many of the events on the massively popular Korean series. Donning a blue tracksuit instead of a green one, you and your friends will be able to participate in games such as Red Light, Green Light and Glass Stepping Stones on top of a range of other additions including King of the Hill, Hid...

After a turbulent year for video game developer and publisher Activision Blizzard, things are now getting worse as the company has announced that both Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 have now been delayed indefinitely. The revelation came during the company’s earnings call for the third quarter of 2021, where it said that its development teams will require more time in order to create a proper experience for fans given some of the ongoing changes within the company. “As we have worked with new leadership in Blizzard and within the franchises themselves, particularly in certain key creative roles, it has become apparent that some of the Blizzard content planned for next year will benefit from more development time to reach its full potential,” the company states. “While we are still pla...

With the Facebook rebranding to Meta and shifting focus onto creating the metaverse, Microsoft has also been quick to respond with its own intentions to build metaverses based around its popular console Xbox and its games. Right after announcing a Microsoft Teams metaverse to enable users to engage in meetings and calls within a virtual environment, the tech giant has now expressed an interest in creating metaverses for video games as well. Speaking to Bloomberg TV earlier this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the company has many plans for expanding into the gaming industry. “You can absolutely expect us to do things in gaming,” the executive explained. “If you take Halo as a game, it is a metaverse. Minecraft is a metaverse, and so is Flight Sim. In so...

Modiphius Entertainment has officially announced that it is working on a new Skyrim board game entitled The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim – The Adventure Game. Polygon reported that the board game can be played between one to four participants with each session lasting approximately 90-120 minutes long. Players will be able to choose between six races – Altmer, Dunmer, Imperial, Khajiit, Nord and Orismer – while choosing different types of equipment of choices that could affect how each hero may overcome their challenges and journey. The story is shaped by the decisions made during playthrough with the deck of about 700 story cards. The board game includes the story cards, a custom dice, detailed miniature figures of the playable races and game tokens. There will be two additional expa...

SEGA and Microsoft have plans to partner in creating a variety of global games for Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. The new partnership would feature a next-generation game development environment and allow SEGA to proceed with its “Super Game” initiative that will develop new titles focusing on global, online, community and IP utilization sectors. Additionally, the partnership enhances development processes while also bringing high-quality experiences to the Azure cloud platform. “By considering a strategic partnership with Microsoft, we seek to further advance our game development so that our titles can be enjoyed by fans all over the world,” said Yukio Sugino, president and chief operating officer of SEGA in a release. “We aim to build an alliance that utilizes both SEGA’s powerful gam...

Epic Games announced on Monday that it will shut down its server used for testing Fortnite in the Chinese market. The company said that testing for the popular mega-title will officially conclude on November 15, and new users are no longer being accepted on the server. Epic had created a specific version of Fortnite for its audience in China, mimicking the title that is highly popular across the rest of the world. The variation of the game included a multitude of differences, including gameplay and monetization alterations, as well as several character graphic changes to adhere to local laws, according to a gamer-created blog. Additionally, after a set amount of playing time, users were unable to earn experience points in the game. Epic’s decision to pull the plug on it...

Nintendo will be producing 20 percent fewer Switch consoles than originally planned, Nikkei Asia reported. The company’s production was impacted by a shortage of electric parts in tandem with an increased demand for the gaming console during the pandemic. As a result, Nintendo will only be able to produce about 24 million Switch units in the fiscal year through March, falling short of the 30 million it had expected to make, according to Nikkei. The news arrives amid the ongoing global chip shortage that has impacted production in industries across the board, especially in the electronics and automotive sectors.  Nintendo reportedly couldn’t obtain sufficient quantities of certain parts and had to revise its production targets. A spokesperson for Nintendo told the publication...