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Kingdom Hearts III Coming 2018, Has A Toy Story World

In 2012, longtime Kingdom Hearts director Tai Yasue told us his dream world would be Toy Story. Now it’s happening. Buzz Lightyear, meet Sora in Kingdom Hearts III, which finally has a release window: 2018. Of course, knowing series director Tetsuya Nomura, “2018″ could turn into 2024 pretty quickly. Kingdom Hearts III, the third mainline…

Surprise Character Pick Wins Evo 2017’s King Of Fighters XIV Tournament

This year’s Evolution Championship Series started with a bang last night as King of Fighters XIV wrapped up its one-day competition with an intense finals bracket. Spectators crowded the exhibition hall to see the weekend’s first champion crowned among the impressive mix of players from across Taiwan, China, Mexico, Pakistan, Japan, and the United States.…

Evo’s Catherine Tournament Is Off To A Dramatic Start

While the main event continues today, AnimEvo is going strong with its many side tournaments, including the puzzle game Catherine A 2011 game made by Atlus, the story-driven game’s competitive mode has a cult following that culminates each year at Evo. This year’s event is already off to a strong start, with Geordi (called the…

Duelyst‘s Latest Expansion Plays To The Card Game’s Unique Strengths 

Unearthed Prophecy, the game’s fourth expansion, came out earlier this week and after spending several hours fiddling around with the latest cards, I’m already in love with it. Duelyst is a collectible card game that deviates from other heavy-weights in the genre by borrowing the grid-based elements of a strategy RPG. Instead of dropping minions…

The Weekend In Esports: Evo 2017 and DreamHack Valencia

Evo 2017 is finally upon us. That means lots of triumphant victories and heartbreaking loses. Also a ton of anime You can check out our guide to the year’s biggest fighting game event for details on what games will be featured and what players to keep an eye on, but don’t worry, there’s also plenty…

Tracer Ultimate Fizzles Out In Overwatch World Cup Match

Some days, you just can’t get rid of a good pulse bomb, so the game does it for you. As group B matches continued this morning in the Overwatch World Cup 2017 Shanghai Qualifiers, one moment caught viewers by surprise. Thailand’s Sasalak “NzNr” Wannarak seemed to land a pulse bomb, Tracer’s sticky bomb ultimate, on…

This Week In The Business: Dizzying Days For VR

STAT | $400 – The current asking price of an Oculus Rift and Touch Controllers bundle. As recently as March, it was $800. QUOTE | “We used to invest $100K, $200K, but we don’t have to do that so much anymore because those people can get paid out [from the install base].” – Oculus VP…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for assembling IKEA furniture in your un-air conditioned apartment, but you live alone now, so at least you don’t have to wear clothes. Also, video games. I’ve recently gotten on a Spelunky kick, because it makes a nice break between unpacking boxes from my recent move. I wasn’t that good at it…

Glitch Creates Unintentional Extra Ending In Sci-Fi Steam Game

Event 0 is a science fiction game that came out last year. Since release, players have discovered four different endings to the game—which is strange, because according to the designer, it only has three. SPOILERS AHEAD The emotional core of Event 0 rest between the player and an AI called Kaizen-85. Throughout the game, players…

Battlegrounds Is Addictive Because There’s No Wrong Way To Play

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is amazingly fun and offers an exciting experience every time you play. But how is it so good? One little sentences from PlayerUnknown himself makes it clear. We take a look in this critical video. Transcript: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a giant battle royale game that’s simple in concept and exciting in execution, asking…

Final Fantasy XIV Besieged By DDoS Attacks

The biggest threat to Eorza isn’t the Garleans, or some other villain that I don’t want to look up because I haven’t even finished Heavensward yet. It’s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which have been hitting Final Fantasy XIV since June and show no sign of stopping, according to the developers at Square Enix.…

The Pac-12 Doesn’t Consider College Esports Sports For Now, Thank God

A.J. Dimick sees big things in the future for collegiate esports. “I think college esports has a limitless ceiling, I really do,” Dimick told me over the phone earlier this year. To that end, Dimick, esports director at the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering department, has facilitated the creation of the first varsity…