ngmoco announces a new Transformers mobile game

Transformers Mobileis an upcoming card battle game in the same style as ngmoco’s current top hit,Rage of Bahamut. You’ll be able to play as Autobots or Decepticons and take on missions where you’ll be earning credits, recruiting new Transformers characters, and creating a collection of over 200 Transformers. Plus you’re able to take on others online in the multiplayer mode. The character art is more inspired by the original Generation 1 design, but giving it a 2012 reimagining....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 165 words · Robert Lopez

Praise be to RE Engine’s rendition of Juri in Street Fighter 6

Sole Sister Even I, adyed-in–the-woolJuriobsessive, wasnotexpecting her to debut this early. But I shoulda fucking better known better — Juri waits in line for nobody. And so it was, at the apex of this weekend’s Evo 2022 tournament,that Capcom announcedthat the alluring, manic, and incredibly violent spider was making her return to the ring inStreet Fighter 6. Something wicked this way comes… Hailing from Korea, and riding into town like a bat outta hell, Juri Han will be bringing her wild, unpredictable, and dangerous nature to SF6, bedecked in awesome new gear and rocking something of a more Casual Fridays attitude....

July 1, 2025 · 3 min · 634 words · Willie Torres

Pro League of Legends players can stream anything again

Riot changed its mind Earlier this weekRiot decided to blockany proLeague of Legendplayer from streaming any competing MOBA. Riot has now decided to reverse this decision, and players can stream any game they wish. Riot says that it originally decided to block what pro players could stream based, because competing games were trying to use popularLeague of Legendsplayers to promote their games by streaming them. Riot will be altering the complete ban to more accurately reflect the original intent, which is to control how players are used to market other games....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 130 words · Michael Vance

Rocket League’s next update is for those who want to master Rocket League

Practice makes perfect Rocket League, like any game of sport, is a situational one. More specifically, it’s manymanysituations stitched together to make up a five-minute match. It’s easy enough to train for isolated incidents, but it’s tough to prepare for what might actually happen in a game. Developer Psyonix is focused on alleviating that disconnect. The next update toRocket Leaguewill include custom training. Players will have the option to set up specific shots that they want to work on....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 229 words · Barbara Jackson

Rovio delists the original Angry Birds due to ‘impact’ on free-to-play variants

Grounded Mobile developer Rovio has announced that it is delisting the original edition of its smash hit mobile titleAngry Birds, due to the “wider impact” the legendary title has on the studio’s free-to-play portfolio. “We have reviewed the business case ofRovio Classics: Angry Birds, and due to the game’s impact on our wider games portfolio, we have decided thatRovio Classics: Angry Birdswill be unlisted from the Google Play Store on Thursday, 23rd February,”reads an official statement posted to by Rovio to Twitter....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Kenneth Sanders

San Francisco Dtoiders, check out these awesome parties!

A fun-filled weekend full of music and drinking [Update:We’ve just been given two pairs of tickets to the I Fight Dragons show on Sunday! First two people to ask for them get them!] Beginning tonight at 8 and lasting until well into Sunday morning, San Francisco will be party central for gamers this weekend! First up isThe Glowing Stars’ last show ever, beginning tonight at 8 at the DNA Lounge!...

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 185 words · April Brown

Sega lets you pick which Transformers Arcade stage to see

Vote on Facebook Earlier this year,Sega was caught quietly testing a new Transformers arcade game in China. The robo-cat is out of the bag now, so they’re asking fans on Facebook to vote on which bit of gameplay they’ll show first. Oh, and it’s a lightgun title. Neat, right? If you haven’t seen it yet, check our video after the jump. They’ll show either an England or Africa stage ofTransformers: Human Alliancebased on your FB votes....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 90 words · Brian Fuentes

Sony reveals PS5 specs before their ‘Road to PS5’ livestream

Here we go Sony sends it PS5 greetings via a livestream, andnotan in-person GDC talk! Today, before the “Road to PS5” online stream,Sony revealed specs for the PS5via a Eurogamer article. It’ll sport a 8x Zen 2 Cores at 3.5GHz CPU, 10.28 TFLOPs, 36 CUs at 2.23GHz GPU, 16GB GDDR6 memory, and a remarkably low 825GB SSD with an NVMe SSD Slot and a 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive. Cerny confirms that PS5 users can buy “certain M2 SSDs on the open market, which you’re able to install in the bay on the PS5....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 327 words · Ashlee Odom

Star Ocean devs alter costume in anticipation of ‘western criticism’

It’s not a Star Lake… In an interview with4Gamer(translated byNicheGamer), members of theStar Ocean 5team spoke about Western game critics and sexuality in Japanese games — specifically, how it relates toStar Oceancharacter Miki. Evenmorespecifically, how it relates to her underwear. “Recently, there’s been a lot of flak from overseas countries saying that if you put teens in ‘sexual’ underwear, it’s not good. So we increased the amount of clothing,” saidStar Ocean 5producer Shuichi Kobayashi....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Keith Evans

Team Fortress 2sdays: Dibs on the spycrab alien

Shooty, shooty, pow, pow Happy Tuesday! Well, it seems as thougheveryonehastheirpickin for thenewBorderlandsgame. Me? I think I’m going to skip this round, I’ve just about had my fill of Claptrap and the rest of the gang, Shadow however, has dibs on a new, not yet announced DLC character, here, let’s let Shadow explain: After being so late with calling dibs on a smash character that I had to resort to grabbingan actual brick, I decided to up my game and grab the inevitableTF2/Futurama Borderlands Pre-Sequelcross over character....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Brian Thomas

Team Ninja explains cut content on PS3/360 Dead or Alive

Laziness, which I’m okay with The (digital only) PS3 and Xbox 360 versions ofDead or Alive 5: Last Round, the final game in theDead or Alive 5series, are missing some things: new stages, hairstyles, and fight costume customization. Team Ninja pins lack of a retail box for last gen on the retailers saying, “The reason why we can not make last gen retail version is that retailers in the west can not take them and make them in stock....

July 1, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Evan Nguyen

The Wipeout-inspired Formula Fusion (now ‘Pacer’) is set for a 2019 release

Currently in Early Access Since mid-2017 a game calledFormula Fusionhas been running in Early Access on Steam, delighting fans ofWipeoutthroughout its growth process. But they’re finally nearing the finish line as the game is now set for a PC/PS4/Xbox One release later this year and even got a new name change to boot. The project is now called “Pacer,” and is gearing up for a launch “later this year/summer.” In the end it’ll have 14 tracks to choose from, five racers, 10 weapons and several custom loadouts....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 202 words · Ronald Fleming

There is another closed alpha for Evolve on the way

But you can get in it Did you miss out on the closed alpha forEvolvelast time it was around? Did you get to play it, but you want to play it more? If so, 2K and Turtle Rock are opening it up foranother round of testing, dubbing it the “Big Alpha,” with priority spots going to those who visit 2K’s booth at PAX Prime this weekend to play some of the asymmetric multiplayer shooter....

July 1, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Jamie Mays