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ReedPop and Penny Arcade plan to host the PAX East, PAX West, and PAX Unplugged gaming events in 2021. Given that show organizers are hopeful the COVID-19 pandemic will slowly subside, they’ve announced prospective dates later in the year for in-person events that follow official health protocols. PAX East is set for Thursday, June 3 through Sunday, June 6 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, and PAX West 2021 is scheduled from Friday, September 3 to Monday, September 6 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington....

The Mortal Kombat games are loved by its fans for a number of reasons, but some of its unique qualities that have always been regular talking points for players are its numerous, creative, and gruesome fatalities and brutalities. These are the match-ending combos that a player can perform to earn their victory. Once initiated, the character that won the match will execute their opponent in a bloody and graphic manner....

The upcoming Soulslike game Mortal Shell will be firing up its beta this July, according to an IGN interview held yesterday as part of the IGN Summer of Gaming Expo. Mortal Shell is a soulslike action-RPG that - as the description might suggest - draws heavily on the legendary Dark Souls as inspiration. Mortal Shell is apparently a soulslike made by people who love soulslikes (in this case, those people are the folks at Cold Symmetry)....

NASCAR greats Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch are among the professional drivers who will be taking their talents to the virtual racetrack in the new eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series. The multi-week esport series was announced amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has suspended NASCAR’s real-life season until May 3rd. Fans who are missing the thrills of live NASCAR events will be able to watch some of their favorite drivers in what is being billed as a “simulation-style showcase....

During the beta for the upcoming NBA 2K17, players discover a unique Easter Egg, with one of the character intros making fun of a six-year-old glitch from EA’s NBA Elite. Six years ago, and up-and-coming Electronic Arts basketball game title NBA Elite 11 was canceled shortly before the game was supposed to launch. Among the reasons it was shelved was a glitch that players discovered during the game’s beta. Apparently, Andrew Bynum’s character got stuck in a Jordan Wings pose at midcourt, spawning what many called the “Jesus Glitch”....

After months of teasing from co-creator Ed Boon, a new instalment in the long-running Mortal Kombat series was officially announced earlier this year. More recently, we learned that the game would receive a prequel comic — but it seems that’s not the only tie-in that’s in the works. An as-yet-untitled web series will be one of the first projects to be developed by a new digital production unit called ‘Blue Ribbon Content’....

One of the few major surprise announcements at E3 2012 came from Ubisoft’s press conference where they first unveiled gameplay for Watch Dogs, their upcoming open-world sci-fi action game. This isn’t your typical Grand Theft Auto however, and aside from driving cars and using bullet-time and cover mechanics during shootouts, the core features of the game have protagonist Aiden Pearce hacking into any electronic system tied to the Chicago’s central operating system (CTOS)....

We know that Cyberpunk will allow you to play as either a male or female V. We know that Cyberpunk will have an unparalleled level of character customization options, up to and including V’s genitals. What we don’t know is how all of this will work since CD Projekt Red hasn’t shown us the final character creation screen. Until now. A new German trailer shows us some never-before-seen footage of Cyberpunk 2077 in action, and it finally shows us what the game will look like after we select a new campaign for the very first time....

Grounded has given us all the bird in its first monthly update. Even though Grounded is still just in early access, it’s seeing quite a bit of success. With a million players in the first two days of release, Grounded has now grown to “millions” of players, which we take to at least mean two, maybe three million players. Either way, that’s a lot. To celebrate their success, Obsidian Entertainment just released Grounded’s first monthly update....

At today’s PlayStation Meeting, Electronic Arts shows off a tech video for Mass Effect Andromeda that highlights some of the new environments, character, and movement options in the game. Although much of the focus of Sony’s PlayStation Meeting was on the unveiling of the new PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro consoles, the event was not without a few game-related surprises. More specifically, the event played host to gamers’ first look at Mass Effect Andromeda via a brief, pre-Alpha gameplay segment....

It may feel a bit early to consider future SKUs for the PS5, or for Sony PlayStation consoles beyond even that. After all, most potential PS5 owners haven’t even decided between the all-digital diskless PS5 or the standard PS5. Nevertheless, a new patent registered by Sony Interactive Entertainment in the USA implies the company is already looking forward. The patent describes a “scalable game console” with unique hardware architecture, leading some to question if Sony’s already working on a PS5 Pro....

This Nightbooks article contains spoilers. Plenty of scares await Alex (Winslow Fegley) and Yazmin (Lidya Jewtt) when they become trapped in the haunted apartment of the evil witch Natacha (Krysten Ritter) in the Netflix horror movie Nightbooks. he only way they can hope to stay alive is to prove their usefulness to their captor — Yazmin as a house worker and Alex as a storyteller who must write a new scary story for Natacha every single night....

The Nintendo Switch is now capable of basic VR games thanks to the Labo VR Goggles, but the library of compatible software is currently very small. It’s now possible for developers to use Unity to create Labo VR games or to add existing support to existing games that can make them compatible with the Labo VR Goggles. Famitsu is reporting that Unity Technologies Japan has announced that Unity now supports the Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit, which means that it will be easier than ever for developers to create games that are compatible with the Labo VR Goggles and the other VR Toy-Cons....

Nioh 2, the prequel to Nioh, just came out on PC via Steam after 10 months on the PS4. And it’s doing really well compared to the original game, with an all-time player count of 41,325 as of yesterday–more than three times that of the original Nioh’s PC port. But after an initial run of stellar reviews, some thumbs-down posts are popping up in the comments section and have dropped Nioh 2: Complete Edition down to an overall “Mixed” on Steam....

James Bond has spent nearly sixty years on the big screen consistently overcoming elaborate, seemingly-insurmountable attempts on his life from an assorted array of ostentatiously megalomaniacal madmen. However, pandemic-era delays clearly have his number, having forced No Time to Die, the franchise’s long-heralded 25th official film, into over a year’s worth of release date retreats, now leaving it to finally face the music in October. Interestingly, the film’s new trailer seems to thematically parallel its potential box office plight, since our out-of-retirement MI6 agent seems perplexed against an invisible, intangibly-operating global threat....

Both Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and the Warcraft 2: Battle.net Edition battle chest featuring Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness and its expansion Beyond the Dark Portal are available to buy and download now on GOG. Starting today, Warcraft fans can visit the GOG storefront and purchase each game for $5.99 or $9.99 respectively, or a bundle of both of games together for $14.99. It’s the first time either game has been made available digitally....

Outriders has a new action-packed trailer out, focusing on the apocalyptic game’s “Mantras of Survival.” The Outriders trailer gives players rules to live by if they want to survive the hostile world of Enoch. Square Enix and People Can Fly’s hybrid shooter-RPG has been one of gamers’ most anticipated titles of the year. Unfortunately the game was pushed back until 2021, but some do see the Outriders delay as a good thing....

It is not uncommon to see eSports governing bodies or teams taking action against players for their behavior on public social media platforms. It seems that the latest eSports professionals to experience such action are four Overwatch League players. On Friday, the Overwatch League announced that the organization would be taking disciplinary action against four league players for a range of different offenses, including the use of discriminatory language on Twitch, posting offensive content on social media, and account sharing....

Though Overwatch 2 has already been announced and has rumors floating around, Overwatch is still one of the most popular online first-person shooters. Part of that is due to the newest additions to the game, the Hero Pools that were added in March 2020 and the Map Pools that were introduced in late 2019. Though these systems are still very new, Overwatch will already be making some important changes to these systems starting next week....

The 2018 Halloween Terror event for Overwatch will kick off next Tuesday, October 9, but while fans wait for the festivities to officially begin, they can check out some of the new legendary skins. Yesterday, Blizzard revealed the new Doomfist skin that will be added with next week’s Halloween Terror event, and now it has shown off Moira’s Banshee skin that will be available as part of the event. The Banshee Moira skin radically changes Moira’s look, giving the support character a decidedly evil vibe....