Two more fighters are joining the roster of Dead or Alive 6: Hitomi and Leifang. The pair can be seen knocking each other around a new stage, Forbidden Fortune, that features a curious new addition to the Dead or Alive universe: a giant, angry kraken. Apparently, Hitomi and Leifang — who debuted in Dead or Alive 3 and the original Dead or Alive, respectively — have found themselves in a Goonies-esque situation, battling on a treasure-filled pirate ship guarded by an angry cephalopod. Hitomi and

“The Little Mermaid,” you think to yourself. This summer’s Little Mermaid is not a Disney movie. (Molloy’s mother, Jessica Steinbrenner, is listed as an executive producer of The Little Mermaid.) That means the association of Disney, or the story of the Little Mermaid, could be more than enough to make a title appealing. The Little Mermaid opened over the weekend in 200 theaters thanks to a partnership with AMC.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the next game from former Castlevania designer Koji Igarashi, will now launch in 2019. Igarashi also announced that a planned version of Bloodstained for PlayStation Vita is no longer in the works. “It is extremely unfortunate, but as a result, we won’t be releasing the game on Vita. For the backers who have ordered the PS Vita version of the game, you will be able to choose another platform or request a refund.”Bloodstained’s delay to 2019 now means that the g

People didn’t just stumble upon Lee’s past Twitter behavior. What started as simple YouTube drama exploded into a demonstration of Stan Twitter’s power, and YouTube’s ongoing issue with problematic faves. Once I realized it was real racism, I realized I couldn’t be friends with him.”That’s when people started digging into Zamora, Lee and Dragun’s old tweets. Numerous tweets using blatantly racist and derogatory language, dating from around six years ago, surfaced. Zamora, Dragun and Lee posted l

According to the Dota 2 Prize Pool Tracker, a site run on Dota 2 data by Matt “CyborgMatt” Bailey, the prize hit the mark the evening of Sunday, August 19. The prize pool starts at $1.6 million provided by Valve. From there, fans purchase the Battle Pass starting at $9.99, which provides opportunities for games, in-game challenges, items and more. Twenty-five percent of all proceeds in this campaign go towards the prize pool, and the cutoff is the end of the tournament. Fans that contributed thr

Dying Light: Bad Blood, the standalone battle royale take on Techland’s zombie survival horror game, will debut with a Steam Early Access launch in September, the studio announced this morning. First announced back in March, Dying Light: Bad Blood is a 12-player “brutal royale” that will feature both player-versus-player and player-versus-environment combat. “We’ve always been keen to add more PvP multiplayer to Dying Light,” Maciej Laczny, Bad Blood’s executive producer, said in a statement. Pr

Forza Horizon 2 — offered on Xbox Live Games With Gold until Aug. 31 — has reached the end of its lifespan and will be removed from the Xbox Marketplace on Oct. 1, Turn 10 announced on Friday. Licensing may have something to do with it, as well as the Oct. 2 launch of Forza Horizon 4. The first Forza Horizon, which launched in 2012, was also retired four years after its launch, and around the time Forza Horizon 3 launched in fall 2016. Our 2014 review of Forza Horizon 2 was impressed with the dr

Overwatch will stage a four-day, free weekend beginning Thursday, Aug. 23. Blizzard staged a free weekend a month ago, but that one was only for PC, observing the inaugural Overwatch League Grand Finals. After that, free players will be able to transfer any progress they’ve made if they buy Overwatch Legendary Edition on the console they played, or any version of Overwatch on PC. PS4 players will find it in the PlayStation Store under “Overwatch Free Weekend.” Xbox One players should search for

This past week David Hayter, the original and longtime voice of Solid Snake, cut an endearing tribute to the Metal Gear franchise for its 31st anniversary in a short made by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the director working on a Metal Gear Solid adaptation. In the video (via Kotaku) Snake pops up in a codec screen to inveigh, with great idealism, against the present state of cinema. (“An endless series of proxy films, created by mercenaries and machines.”)A Metal Gear Solid adaptation has been discussed

The official Tomb Raider YouTube account dropped a new trailer for the game over the weekend. It features all sorts of enemies players will encounter when Shadow of the Tomb Raider launches on Sept. 14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is coming to PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One next month. It will tie off the reboot trilogy of the adventure franchise, which began with 2013’s Tomb Raider. As for how to pronounce “Lara Croft” I found this handy guide.

Nintendo Switch sales are rare — first party Nintendo games are hardly ever discounted more than a few dollars and the occasional bundle is one of the few times you can find a deal on the console itself. This week, some of Nintendo’s biggest Switch games were discounted by 25 percent and Walmart announced two new bundles that save an extra $30 each. The first bundle, a Switch + Labo Kit is available now, and a Mario Tennis Aces bundle will be available on Sept. 5. VR games are having a big week

Reading them on paper before playing F1 2018, this year’s new additions to the game’s career mode didn’t sound like much to me. After three years of penance for a disastrous debut on the current generation that grossly shorted the mode, F1 2018’s career is as immersive as ever in the experience of an F1 season. Above all, the racing action is still as intense and rewarding as ever, particularly for perfectionists who don’t mind a grind. It’s also enormously demanding of one’s time in the career

Netflix is testing out promos that play between episodes of a series that viewers are streaming in succession, and those who have seen them aren’t going for it. “In this particular case, we are testing whether surfacing recommendations between episodes helps members discover stories they will enjoy faster,” Netflix told TechCrunch. “I pay money to Netflix to not have to watch ads,” wrote redditor WhyAllTheTrains in a post that was originally auto-moderated out of r/Netflix, another bad look for

The publisher of Grand Theft Auto 5 and Grand Theft Auto Online won a preliminary injunction stopping the sale of two mods said to allow GTA Online players to cheat and grief others in the PC version of the game. To use them in Grand Theft Auto Online, users had to pay. With the two hacks, users could spawn nearly unlimited in-game currency, which Grand Theft Auto Online sells for real money to players (and which has significantly driven Take-Two’s quarterly revenue figures since Grand Theft Aut

A 24-year-old Sega Genesis game by DICE — yes, that DICE — that was canceled on the doorstep of being published will see the light of day in 2019. “Hardcore,” (its working title) is even being developed on an original Genesis SDK. “Hardcore is being developed using original Sega Mega Drive development hardware,” the studio says on the game’s official page. Grid View Strictly Limited GamesStrictly Limited GamesStrictly Limited GamesStrictly Limited GamesStrictly Limited GamesStrictly Limited Game

Much like EA Sports did four years ago when FIFA 15 went all in on the Premier League, with all 20 of its stadiums, FIFA 19 will add 16 stadiums of La Liga, giving this year’s game all but one venue of Spain’s top football division. One of the last exclusive licenses still held by Pro Evolution Soccer — the Camp Nou, home pitch of FC Barcelona, which signed a three-year pact with Konami in 2016. FIFA 19 still has Barcelona in the game, of course. Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 launches Aug. 28 on Pla

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur Exotics on your highest level character. Sunshot’s first exotic perk is Sunburn, which causes the weapon to fire explosive rounds and highlight enemies that take damage. KARNSTEIN ARMLETSThe Karnstein Armlets are fun, powerful Warlock Exotics. The Exotic perk, Vampire’s Caress, will grant a large amount of health on a melee kill and als

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, the MMO’s latest expansion, brings the enduring conflict front and center for the first time in years. We recently spoke with Steve Danuser, Warcraft’s narrative producer, and Ely Cannon, Warcraft’s lead artist, to talk about the renewed conflict in Battle for Azeroth. In the weeks leading up to the expansion, the Sylvanas Warbringer cinematic left some Horde players feeling disenfranchised with their own faction. It’s been a bumpy few weeks for the Horde,

KSI’s long-awaited Logan Paul diss track has arrived and, sporting an impressive Infinity Gauntlet and an array of horror movie references, it’s one of the best diss tracks to date. This most recent diss track is just a last show of power — a hype track for fans in KSI’s camp — before they both go head-to-head. He was a major proponent of YouTube’s diss track culture in 2017 alongside his brother Jake, RiceGum and KSI. “It’s the new Logan Paul,” Paul said. He recently published his own diss trac

Despite being a fan favorite in Batman Returns (1992), Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman never got her own solo film. Although development began on a Catwoman project in 1993, and August pitched his spin-off in 1998, neither came to fruition. #ShareYourRejections — John August (@johnaugust) August 16, 2018UPDATE: I found my old pitch and I actually still love it. #catwoman #ShareYourRejections pic.twitter.com/Nfq0Czj8Go — John August (@johnaugust) August 16, 2018One more bite. #catwoman #ShareYouReje