Bandai Namco's has released details on a major patch for Dark Souls 2 , which both tweaks a bunch of game elements and tries to address a major flaw with the game's multiplayer. This patch also lays the groundwork for The Scholar of the First Sin, an expansion arriving in April.
I'm not into wrestling but, conceptually, I'm feeling WWE Immortals. It's a fighting game from Mortal Kombat studio NetherRealm and Phosphor Games that imagines real-world wrestlers in a fantastical alternate universe. Think Injustice: Gods Among Us, but with WWE personalities.
That all sounds cool until reality hits: WWE Immortals is a free-to-play game for iPhone, iPad, and Android, because of course it is. It'll make Warner Bros. a lot of money, I'm sure of it, but think what this might have been as a bigger-budget, fully-realized console game.
Sure, you could make eye contact with these official Minecraft renditions of the Simpsons, but I wouldn't recommend it. They're joining 19 other Springfield residents in a $1.99 DLC pack toward the end of February on Xbox One and Xbox 360, with other platforms to follow.
Reached for comment, Minecraft owner Microsoft had this to say:
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Another treasure from the mobile games space courtesy of former Destructoid editor Nick Chester.
This one's called Anna Giving Birth and while I ponder what kind of audience this iPhone/iPad game exists to serve, I'll let the official description set the stage: "Anna got married and she was pregnant in the spring. Now nine months had elapsed, and it's time to give birth to a baby. Anna needs a very experienced doctor to help her deliver her baby. Let's come to help her!"
And the user reviews! Haha, the user reviews. To think, I held off on posting about this for a couple hours. Each time I flipped back to my browser tab, the game's shiny baby icon made me laugh a bit more until finally I decided that, "Yes, writing about Anna Giving Birth is a good idea."
There's also a similar game, Frozen Anna Give Birth A Baby , for our web-browsing friends. You start by monitoring the baby's heartbeat while sexy baby-making music plays in the background.
Anna Giving Birth [Apple]
It's unclear when the next Battlefield Hardline beta will go live, but when it does, it'll be open to all players on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Cops and criminals will vie for control in the familiar Conquest mode, as well as engage in high-speed pursuits in Hotwire. The latter is what I imagined when "Battlefield with cops" was first thrown around. Looks promising. As for maps, we're getting two: Dust Bowl and Downtown.
The first beta didn't leave much of an impression, but I admittedly didn't give it sufficient time to do so. I'll give the game another chance, probably. The uncapped player progression is alluring.
This is the first preview for Dying Light I've seen in a good while that's actually got me curious. Games like this live and die by their worlds, after all. So if there are enough interesting nooks and crannies in Dying Light's city, it'd sure liven up all the zombie-killing within.
Today on Highlight Reel we have exploding Battlefield motorcycles, new ways to kill enemies in Far Cry 4, chill mountain hovering glitches in GTA V and grenade throws in Destiny and DayZ.
All fights on the internet are infuriating wastes of time. We know this. But we still try, and we're often stymied by this particular phenomenon. Learn about Loki's Wager, and why it makes the world a more frustrating place.
I feel like the developer's cribbin' from something, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Oh, well. Maybe the 2015 version will be a bit more forward.
Call of Dead: Modern Duty Hunter & Combat Trigger 14 [Windows Store via reddit]
