Month: June 2018

The Nintendo Eshop is running a new set of deals this week, with select Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS games getting discounts big and small. We’ve combed through the sale to find the best prices on the best games below. Or, if you’d like to see the full list of discounts, you can do so here. The deals end on different dates depending on the game, so grab them quickly if you see games you want.

With the World Cup going on now, it’s a great time to pick up FIFA 18 for Switch; it’s on sale for $24, down from $60. In sports entertainment news, WWE 2K18 is on sale for $20, which is the best price we’ve seen so far.

JRPG fans may want to check out the melancholy-but-endearing I Am Setsuna now that it’s half off at $20, or the developer’s following game, Lost Sphear, available now for $25. The indie Metroidvania-style game Owlboy is down to $17, or if you’re looking to solve some murders (and who isn’t?), you’ll want to check out L.A. Noire, on sale for $37.

As on some other digital retailers, many games in the Sonic series are on sale on the Eshop right now. You can get Sonic Forces on Switch for $24, or a bunch of Sonic games on 3DS, including Sonic Generations, for $15 or $20. Speaking of 3DS, Final Fantasy Explorers is also on sale for $20.

Nintendo Switch Games On Sale

Nintendo 3DS Games On Sale

The indie gaming hub Itch.io is having its Summer Sale right now–but today is the last day. Between June 19-26, you can pick up a whole heap of independent PC games at discounted rates. Nearly all genres are accounted for in the sale, plus a bunch of games that don’t fit neatly into any genre.

What games might be worth a look? Necrosphere is on sale for $2.50. It’s billed as a super-challenging Metroidvania with only two buttons: left and right. Before you buy, you can play a web version here to see if you like it. The vampire-hunting game Slayer Shock puts you in a college coffee shop in Nebraska and has you run missions save humans and hunt bloodthirsty enemies. It’s on sale for $6, down from $20.

The quirky Twine game Arc Symphony is on sale for $2, as is the retro-style arcade shooter R-Coil. If ancient horrors are more your speed, you can grab the Lovecraftian game Eldritch for $1.50 as well. Or there’s always the “first-person destructive cat simulator” Catlateral Damage, on sale for $2.50.

As you can probably tell, there’s a lot of variety on offer here, so no matter what kind of games you’re into, you can find something worth trying. You can see the full list of games on sale here or check out some of the ones that caught our eye below.

The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is something fans are dying to know more about following the devastating ending of Avengers: Infinity War. After all, how can this massive franchise continue without more than half of its characters? With so many turned to dust–and a couple more dispatches of in other ways–the roster is looking a little thin.

Naturally, chances are at least some of the deaths in Infinity War will be undone in Avengers 4–if not all of them. Still, as Marvel Studios looks toward shaping the future of its universe, the question of evolution becomes paramount. How important is it to evolve these movies and the characters that populate them as the MCU moves into Phase 4?

“It is perhaps the most important thing,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige tells Gamespot, while promoting Ant-Man and the Wasp. “That is the most important thing, and that’s what you’ve seen happen over the past 20 films, different genres, different heroes, heroes maybe you’ve heard of if you’d read comics, heroes you might not have ever heard of even if you did read comics, and now moving forward, hopefully the next 10 years, and eventually, we’ll reveal what we’re working on for the next handful of years, and it’ll be similar.”

What does that evolution look like, though? According to Feige, it’s “brand new heroes, new types of heroes, continuing what we see in Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Black Panther, and Captain Marvel. Who a hero can be, and should be, and seeing all different types of heroes.”

The idea of “seeing all types of heroes” is something Marvel is seemingly committed to. After Black Panther gave the studio its first black superhero standalone movie, Captain Marvel will be its first female-led film in early 2019.

“We want people from any background to be able to look at that screen and see themselves reflected, and just as importantly to have different types of people be inspired by people who don’t look like them, or people who have different backgrounds than them, and let them inspire them going forward,” Feige says. “To me, that’s the most important thing that we can do, and we’ve started it, and we’re going to continue it.”

So when it comes to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what it will continue evolving into inclusivity is key. Given what’s already been announced–a third third Guardians of the Galaxy movie, a Spider-Man sequel, and, of course, Captain Marvel–the studio is clearly continuing to take big swings when it comes to expanding its roster of heroes beyond the standard Avengers that drove much of its first 10 years.

When it comes to “all types of heroes,” though, it’s Feige’s tease of a potential Ms. Marvel movie, about a young Muslim superhero inspired by Captain Marvel, that may be the biggest clue about what the MCU’s evolution looks like over the next 10 years. In the meantime, there’s plenty to look forward to. Ant-Man and the Wasp is in theaters on July 6. It’s followed by Captain Marvel on March 8, 2019 and Avengers 4 on May 3, 2019.

Blizzard has been teasing something new for Overwatch lately, while staying ambiguous about what it actually is. The latest teaser does little to clear up whether we’re getting a new hero, map, or something else entirely, but is interesting nevertheless. Taking place in the same back street (believed to be in the King’s Row map) as the previous teaser, the six second video shows a large boulder rolling by very briefly.

However, on closer inspection it seems there’s more to this boulder than initially meets the eye. It’s clearly not your standard issue Raiders of the Lost Ark rock boulder, as there are small lights on it and it looks to be armoured. This boulder could be an ability that the prospective new hero has, or actually be the new hero.

Thus far the speculation has been that the new hero may turn out to be Hammond, another animal that was experimented on alongside Winston. In the Horizon Lunar Colony map his whereabouts are listed as unknown, so he’s out there somewhere. As for the rolling part of it, it could be a different take on Reinhardt’s Charge, which is used for targeting single enemies and pinning them. A giant rolling hero would be pretty useful for breaking defences and scattering enemies.

Overwatch currently has 27 characters, the most recent being Brigitte, a Support hero that is capable of healing teammates, equipping a barrier shield, and stunning enemies. So far, Blizzard hasn’t given any indication of what to expect from the next character or when we’ll be able to play it.

Discussing the future of the game, Blizzard has said it isn’t looking at moving on to an Overwatch 2. “What people might not realize is the team now is significantly bigger than what it was when we shipped the game, and we have put all of that into working on the live game and the new maps, heroes, and events like Anniversary,” the studio said recently. “At least for the time being, [supporting Overwatch] is our focus right now, and we’re excited to work on this game.”