About bloody time Mortal Kombat Xon PC has been like an extremely tasty looking bowl of soup that iswaytoo hot to eat. Every time I try and take a sip, I get a mouthful of scalding molten pain (laggy, unplayable matches being the metaphorical equivalent of having the roof of your mouth burned raw, and I suppose the frustrating menu lock-ups would stand in for that disgusting bit of dangly skin you can’t help but play with)....

As an MMORPG fanatic, I try to dip my toes into still-running games in the genre at least once every couple of years to see how they’re doing in the rather tumultuous landscape that is MMORPGs. One of my more memorable experiences in the genre dates all the way back to 2013 and the release ofNeverwinter, a D&D 4th Edition action MMO set in, well, the world ofNeverwinter. Over a decade later,Neverwinteris still going strong, getting an all-new expansion module just last month titled Mountain of Flame....

He uses a drone! Following a tumultuous season 2, Respawn is poised to launchApex Legends‘ season 3 later this year: and as expected, it’ll come with a new Legend. Leaked by way of August’s GameStop Conference (which apparently is the easiest way to leak anything, as this ship is full of holes), the new Legend is none other than Crypto, who has been rumored for some time and is already incorporated into the story of King’s Canyon....

[New releases is your weekly look at all the hot new titles coming out this week.] This week finally sees the release ofBayonetta. We haven’t been able to stop talking about the game since we first heard about it and I’m sure most of you will be happy to see us finally shut up about it. That is untilBayonetta 2gets announced. The other major release for this week isDarksiders. You ride around on a crazy demon horse....

Also, Resident Evil Revelations and Project X Zone demo Europeans have a lot to look forward to today, asKirby’s Dream Course(one of my favoriteKirbygames) andKirby Super Star(one of the best platformers of all time) headline the Wii U Virtual Console. If you ownKirby’s Adventureon the Wii U eShop (which you should, as it was€0.30 / £0.30), you can net both games for the discounted price of €5.59 / £3.79 each until May 30th....

And lots of other balance changes With the PC patch already taken care of, Blizzard has now addedAna,Overwatch‘s new sniping support character, to the game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (though not without some bugs). The full list of changes should look familiar if youcaught the notesfor the equivalent PC patch, but there are some important console-specific tweaks to keep in mind. Notably, Torbjörn and Symmetra have both had their turret damage reduced by 30 percent....

Palworldplayers can seem a little obsessed with the idea ofbreedingthe perfect Pals; hundreds ofcakesresulting in hundreds ofEggsto pass down the perfectPassive Traitsfor a chosen purpose. For the most part, these desired Passive Traits are ones that boostmount speed. Jetragon is, by a mile, the fastest flying mount in the game at a basic level – boasting a speed stat of 3300 with no additional Passive Traits. That isn’t exactly a secret within thePalworldcommunity....

After a successful Early Access launch weekend,Path of Exile 2developer Grinding Gear Games hasposted an updateon the ARPG’s official forums highlighting an imminent update aimed at fixing a lot of the early frustrations players are having. As part of the update, thehotly debated topicof loot drops and plenty of QOL changes will be implemented. A successful Early Access launch Despite a rocky launch day where the servers forPath of Exile 2where the servers struggled to handle the hundreds of thousands of players all trying to login at once, the rest of the launch weekend has gone rather smoothly for the Early Access launch of the highly anticipated ARPG....

There isn’t enough cash to world to purchase all this plastic Yesterday,we reported on a new NendoroidofPersona 5’shacker Futaba Sakura. Because, apparently, we have an inexhaustible supply of cash, Good Smile Co. and Max Factory have also revealed new Figma and Nendoroids for The Phantom ThievesactualBest Girl, Makoto Niijima. Announced this weekend at China’s CCG Expo 2018, Both Makoto and Futaba will be getting finely crafted Figma releases, typified by their intricate detail and articulation....

There’s been a boatload of new announcements forPhantasy Star Online 2in the past few days, and I’m here to round them up for you. First off,as previously reported, the game is coming to both the PC and PlayStation Vita, but it will be completely free to play — even the base client will be free. The game will be supported by (wait for it) micro-transactions (I’m expecting limited edition $100 Mags!...

PSP will still close this summer Last month,Sony confirmed a reportthat it would be closing the online storefront for PlayStation 3, Vita, and PSP. Today, the company announced it would no longer be closing two of those stores. Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan said in a statement on thePlayStation Blogthat while Sony had recently planned to close the stores this summer, upon further reflection it was clear that it made the wrong decision....

The year that lasted a century Back in January, December 2020 felt like a lifetime away. Today, January seems like it was eons ago. Twenty-twenty was the year where time truly became a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. Hours felt like days, days felt like weeks, and something that happened just a few weeks prior felt like a lifetime ago. I mean, the election was less than a month ago....

A few of you may have caughtColette’s post yesterdayfeaturing a walkthrough of a level from Ubisoft’s upcoming current-genPrince of Persiagame, aptly titled…Prince of Persia. The video, from the 2008 Games Convention in Leipzig, was a shade under four minutes long, and it included a voiceover in German that explained the on-screen action for the (presumably mostly German) crowd. I don’t know about you, but since my name isn’tFana7ic, I don’t understand German, and frankly, I found the narration rather distracting (it didn’t help that the narrator took up the bottom left corner of the screen....