Freedom Planet, meanwhile, may have been something you’ve played before. Developer GalaxyTrail, which funded Freedom Planet through Kickstarter, originally built Freedom Planet as a more straightforward take on a classic Sega Genesis game: Sonic the Hedgehog. With pulls from the classic Treasure-developed shoot-em-ups as well, Freedom Planet felt like a refreshing return of a nostalgic era. Cut to 2017, however, when Sega released Sonic Mania, the first Sonic game in ages that captured the magic

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New footage from the long-awaited third season of Young Justice was released today, and sets the stakes for upcoming season. In this new clip, Dick Grayson’s Nightwing breaks into a metahuman trafficking facility. Weisman and Vietti confirmed that metahuman trafficking would be a pivotal plot point in the upcoming season. The clip ends with evidence leading the team to Markovia, home of new team member Geo-Force and his missing sister, Tara. The first episode of Young Justice: Outsiders will air

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Quantum Break and Onrush will join Halo: The Master Chief Collection in the library available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers in September, Microsoft announced today. Quantum Break, by Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment, launched as a series of four episodes for Xbox One in 2016. Last week, Microsoft announced that Halo: The Master Chief Collection would come to Xbox Game Pass, bringing with it support for 4K resolution and HDR color for Xbox One X owners. The series comprises the remasters

The team behind Subnautica, the popular exploration and survival game, announced the development of a new, stand-alone expansion. Called Subnautica: Below Zero, developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment says it will take place in a polar region of the game world and include massive glaciers and icebergs. Subnautica was released into Steam Early Access in 2014. Earlier this year, Subnautica exited early access. According to the announcement on Unknown Worlds’ official website, Below Zero will enter

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EA has announced a new initiative to support the victims of the Jacksonville Landing mass shooting, and unite the community following the tragedy. “First, we’re making a $1 million contribution to support the victims of last Sunday’s events,” the announcement reads. Contributions will go to the victims, including the families of Taylor Robertson, Elijah Clayton, and all those who were affected.”The livestream will take place on Sept. 6, according to EA. The company is reportedly already working

Battlefield 5 has a new release date: Nov. 20. Developer DICE issued a statement on publisher EA’s website today explaining the team’s reasoning behind the delay. “You’ve also spurred us to make some meaningful improvements to the core gameplay experience, including adjusting the gameplay tempo, improving soldier visibility and reducing player friction. “That’s why we’re moving our launch date,” Gabrielson said. We know moving the launch date means that we all have to wait a little longer.

After teasing information throughout the year, DC Entertainment has finally revealed when fans will get their hands on “DC Universe” streaming service — and the launch is right around the corner. Announced during a live-stream event previewing the many facets of the service, the company revealed that DC Universe would officially muscle into the space dominated by Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Marvel Unlimited on Saturday, Sept. 15. DC Universe is expected to launch on iOS, Android, Roku, Appl

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High-profile creators in the American comics industry have been slow to condemn the rise of Comicsgate, a campaign to “save” the comics industry by reducing the diversity of comics both behind the scenes and on the page. Meyer also hosts a YouTube channel on which he has made numerous racist and transphobic statements in regards to comics creators, including Ta-Nehisi Coates (Black Panther, Captain America) and Magdalene Visaggio (Eternity Girl). It capitalized on mainstream comics creators larg

Acer just unveiled its latest gaming laptop at IFA 2018, and it comes with a twist — literally. The newly announced Predator Triton 900 looks a lot like Acer’s other laptops, but with a convertible screen that flips around. Convertible nature aside, it’s a 4K UHD touchscreen with Nvidia’s G-Sync that’s all supported by the CNC-machined hinge. The Predator Triton 900 also features the latest fourth generation of Acer’s Aeroblade 3D fans, a full mechanical keyboard, and a switchable trackpad with

Fortnite, for all its pop culture success, remains a deeply strange game. The gravity field near the cube has also been lessened recently, allowing you to jump higher and further when you’re close to it. You may ask yourself: Can I jump even higher if I use a Shockwave Grenade after the mysterious cube blasts me into the air? Who doesn’t love playing a nice game with the giant, mysterious purple cube? The cube is massive, it’s strange, and it continues to slowly change its behavior and do strang

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a movie about awkward missteps and adorable, naive flirting that inevitably ends with two people falling in love. That’s what makes the new To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’s meme so incredible to watch play out on Twitter. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a Hollywood film about the rarities that occur to a few people when they’re young. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’s meme is a love letter to the rest of us, who dealt with a barrage of sad boys and

Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind Max Payne, Alan Wake and Quantum Break, is going to try something new: multiplayer games. Remedy Entertainment is mostly known for its narrative-driven single-player games, making this something of a shift for the studio. It’s currently working on Control, a supernatural third-person action-adventure game due out in 2019. Remedy’s also working on CrossFire HD and CrossFire 2, Smilegate’s online shooter series, but the studio’s focus is on the story mode fo

Fortnite may make for a good goal-scoring celebration, but some hockey prospects are being told to cool it with their ardor for the game, particularly on social media, as team management considers Fortnite a distraction in their development. The Sports Network’s Rick Westhead said yesterday that players on an Ontario Hockey League team have been advised to wipe any Fortnite references from their social media. That’s because big league clubs “consider the video game a major distraction/obsession.

The hit dad-dating simulator, Dream Daddy: A Daddy Dating Simulator, is getting a comic series — and the first issue is out today. The comic series, published by Oni Press, will focus on five of the datable characters, with each issue exploring a different potential love interest. Tangible copies can be purchased on Oni Press’s website. The last issue will focus on “teacher dad” Hugo and will release on Dec. 19. All issues will be available through the same digital platforms, with print versions

After a week-long saga involving late-night show host Conan O’Brien and the Detective Conan manga, O’Brien announced that he will be journeying to Japan next week to investigate his animated doppelgänger. Created by Gosho Aoyama, Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed) tells the story of an amateur detective who is turned into a child while investigating a mysterious organization. It is clear, according to O’Brien, that Detective Conan is a ripoff of his life. The Detective Conan manga is so

Nintendo will launch its first original mobile game, Dragalia Lost, on Sept. 27, the company announced this week. The company promises new details on Dragalia Lost in a new Mobile Direct — a mobile-focused version of its Nintendo Direct presentations — on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. You can watch today’s Mobile Direct in a YouTube livestream, which we’ve embedded above. Nintendo announced Dragalia Lost in April. Don’t miss out on all of the information for Nintendo’s next mob