Desperados III will mark the return of the series that hasn’t been seen since 2006 when it launches later this year. Fans of the series will be able to pick up a Collector’s Edition of the stealth tactics game that will come with some nifty bonuses, including a music box and five interchangeable figurines to affix to it.
The Collector’s Edition, pictured below, comes with the following bonus items:
Five 6-inch figurines
A music box, playing a piece of the soundtrack
Official Artbook
Official Soundtrack on CD
The Desperados III Season Pass including three new missions, coming in 2020
Eight Postcards
The game itself
A large premium box
The game is not available to pre-order yet, but this edition is listed at GameStop for $120.
We haven’t seen a whole lot of Desperados III since its 2018 announcement, but fans of the series should expect the game this year on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Recently, scalpers have taken to buying up all the Switches in stores and selling them for upwards of $600 each, almost 200% the retail price. In response to both the scalpers and difficulty in finding a Switch in-store, Reddit user Sarbaaz37 has not only built their own Switch out of parts, but has also written a complete guide on how you can too.
The total cost for the build comes in just short of $200, not including assembly costs if you plan to try it yourself. As it turns out a Switch can be made with just 22 parts, all of which are fairly cheap, aside from the logic motherboard.
Guilty Gear Strive is coming to PS4, PC, and arcades this year, and Arc System Works wants to make sure that people can jump in and start getting good on day one. The game, which will soon run a closed beta, has unveiled some strategies for six of its characters with a series of “Starter Guide” videos.
The videos, below, show how to pull off each character’s special moves, and explain their uses in a fight. Some basic combos are also shown off.
If you’re in the Guilty Gear Strive beta, knowing these techniques in advance will give you an edge and let you rack up some wins.
Sol Badguy
Ky Kiske
May
Axl Low
Chipp Zanuff
Potempkin
Give these videos a watch and you’ll be well on your way to coming to grips with this technical fighter.
These are the six characters coming to the beta, but two others have been confirmed for the full game–Millia Rage and Zato-1.
We’re here to continue guiding you through Midgar in Final Fantasy 7 Remake with another installment of our spoiler-free walkthrough. We’re venturing into the Sector 7 Train Graveyard in Chapter 11, a section of the game that includes some especially useful weapons to find, but which are some of the easiest in the game to miss. Keep reading below for all the details.
Enter the train graveyard and pass through the first train car. You’ll exit out into a large area with a few enemies to kill. Go straight across to the east and pass through another train car, then head south behind a cargo container to find a chest with a Mythril Rod weapon for Aerith.
You’ll work your way through multiple additional trains and yards up ahead. When you reach the north end of the area, before crossing a bridge made out of scrap, slip between two train cars down a path to the west, where you’ll find an HP Up Materia.
Ahead is the Maintenance Facility. Once you can move through the train car on the west side, take the stairs up, but ignore the sign that directs you through the door. Instead, cross to the east and take the stairs down. You’ll find a treasure chest that contains a Gothic Bangle armor.
Keep moving until you get into the building on the west side of the area on the second floor. Head south and turn back east to find another door you can open, which leads to a chest with two mega-potions. At the north end of this side, take the stairs down, then turn back north for another chest with an ether.
Cross to the far side of the area and take the stairs back up. Check the blocked bridge just south of the staircase for a chest with 1,000 gil inside. Heading through the building south of you leads to another chest, which contains a Moogle Medal. Head up the stairs toward the central building when you’re done to buy the Let the Battles Begin Music Disc from the vending machine.
Ghoul Boss Fight
Beating the Ghoul requires you to keep an eye on it, because only certain attacks will work at certain times against the big ghost. When it’s solid, you can hit it with melee strikes, but magic will be pretty ineffective. When the Ghoul becomes ghostly and lit in red, melee attacks lose their potency, so switch to magic–landing any big spells will seriously drive up the Ghoul’s stagger bar, with Fire being the most effective. You’ll want to outfit Aerith with some strong spells, but scatter a few good materia to Tifa and Cloud as well, so they can also help out when the Ghoul shifts forms.
The Ghoul primarily likes to use its Telekinesis attack to suck up objects from around the room and chuck them at you. When that happens, duck behind any other debris you can for cover. You’ll also want to watch out for the Ghoul’s slash attacks. When the Ghoul is corporeal, its slashes leave a blue line on the ground that’ll explode to deal big damage to your team, so be sure to dodge clear. When the Ghoul is ghostly, it can turn invisible to ambush your team with slash attacks, so watch for the red light that indicates where the ghost is.
The Ghoul likes to use a big scream attack that can stun your teammates if you’re too close, and it has additional attacks that can afflict characters with silence. Switch quickly to attack the ghost if it stuns one of your group to interrupt its follow-ups, and keep Echo Mist on hand in case you get silenced.
Do damage when you can with your melee team, but the time to capitalize is when the Ghoul is in ghost form and you can have a big effect on its stagger gauge. Hit the Ghoul with a couple of big spells and it should get pressured; close the distance with Cloud and Tifa and use moves like Focused Strike and Focused Thrust to try to stagger it.
Once you hurt the Ghoul enough, you’ll get into the second phase of the fight, in which the ghost will add additional attacks, with blue flames crossing through the room and more area attacks around itself that you’ll need to dodge away from, like Balefire. You should also watch out for the Ghoul to pick up all the objects in the room and swirl them around in the air; when that happens, stop attacking and get well clear.
The Ghoul will pick up a party member and hold them up in the air. However, this Ghoul is a lie! When this happens, remove your lock-on and look to the other side of the room to attack the real Ghoul. Wail on him enough, and he’ll be forced to free your party member.
The Ghoul isn’t too tough, so maintain spell pressure when it goes ghostly to put him back in the grave where he belongs.
The Trainyard
When you finally lower the train car with the crane, head through the first car and turn left to exit. You can fight through some Lesser Drakes here to reach a chest with three echo mists inside.
Continue outside and activate the turntable. Smash the crates for a moogle medal, then cross the turntable and head to the right to find a chest with a hi-potion inside.
Further up, you’ll use train engines to push other cars out of the way. The second time you do, check to the right of the engine to find a chest with 2 mega-potions.
Boss Fight: Eligor
First and foremost: Bring Steal Materia to this fight. Eligor carries the Bladed Staff weapon for Aerith, and you can only get it if you steal it off him. Steal attempts seem most effective when the boss is staggered, but keep up the attempts throughout the fight until you get your prize.
Eligor is a ghostly chariot who is particularly weak against Ice magic, but Fire and Lightning are also pretty effective at pressuring the boss and pushing its stagger meter, and you’ll want to stock Wind spells for later as well. Physical attacks, on the other hand, are tough to land against Eligor. The boss is highly mobile, which can be troublesome for Ice spells, since they take a moment to detonate, but Thunder spells can make up the difference in a pinch with their guaranteed hits. Watch Eligor’s movements so you can hit him with spells when he’s stationary. Aerith is the obvious choice for spell-slinging, but extra Ice Materia on Cloud and Tifa can help spread out that burden.
You’ll still want to bring melee attacks against the boss, they’re just tougher to land than usual. The wheels of Eligor’s chariot will bounce Cloud’s blade, so you generally want to circle around the back of the boss and hit it from there–since most of Eligor’s attacks go straight out in front of it, its back is also the safest place to be. You’ll be most effective if you can hit Eligor with magic, but barring that, your melee fighters should work to stay behind Eligor and hit him as constantly as they can manage. Boost Tifa with Unbridled Strength and pummel him with Cloud’s Deadly Dodge and Punisher Mode attacks.
In the first phase of the fight, Eligor is mostly a problem because he’ll try to run you over with Trample. It’s a move that can send you flying and do a lot of damage, but you can guard your way through it. That’s the advisable course, since it’s very tough to effectively dodge the huge chariot as it comes barreling toward you. The Sweeping Gaze attack is also a problem, but easily avoided: when you see Eligor getting ready to use it, disengage and move well back to keep out of its range.
Magic is great for staggering Eligor, allowing you to pummel it and move on to the second stage of the fight, which sees Eligor taking to the air a whole lot more, which often will put him out of range of physical melee attacks. Aerith’s regular attacks can help maintain damage when this happens, but you’ll probably want to use Pray and Healing Wind to top off your party’s HP while you’re not in direct danger. This is also when you want to use Wind magic, because if you can hit Eligor with Wind while it’s flying, you’ll give it a ton of stagger. And while melee attacks are tough, if you can get a jumping attack off and hit the boss, you can knock it out of the air, as well.
While Eligor is up there, he’ll use a Piercing Gaze laser attack that will stun your characters, then start throwing electric javelins at you. Dodge away and hide behind the cargo container in the room until it’s destroyed. If you can get around the side of or behind Eligor while it’s doing the javelin attack, hit it with Wind or melee strikes to get it out of the air.
The final phase of the fight highlights Eligor’s final weakness: his chariot’s wheels. Unfortunately, he’ll be moving very fast the whole time while swinging a blade, so you’ll want to try to stay in the center of the arena to avoid getting cut apart. Use magic on the wheels and be careful of the javelins that’ll occasionally fall out of the sky just above you. You’ll also want to be wary of the Wind of Gehenna attack–heal whoever gets pulled into it, or risk them getting knocked out in one big hit.
Go to town on the wheels while keeping your team healthy, and you should eventually stagger Eligor and finish it off. This party ain’t afraid of no ghosts!
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The latest update for League of Legends seeks to bring some new changes to the jungle position, evening out the weakness of the junglers in early game and nerfing the late game power these positions tend to bring. For a full rundown on 10.8, check out the developer’s blog.
Riot is seeking to restructure the jungle position, changing up the aggressive tactics that some junglers use during the start of the matches, instead offering bigger rewards for farming in early game. Extra sustain is also being added to allow those who fall to low health in the jungle, keeping a jungler alive in a tough position.
According to the developers, “Junglers are appropriately influential as a role, but we want to reduce the perception that they have to have an aggressive early presence to be effective. Instead, we’re giving them opportunities for more personal power through proper farming as the game progresses.”
“We also want to make sure the jungle is accessible to players who can’t kite perfectly or who don’t have proper setups for the cutthroat role, so we’re giving some extra sustain to people who fall critically low in the jungle, helping them stay alive when the going gets rough,” the post explains.
Jungle camp XP is being bumped up to 1.35x more at levels 9+, allowing for an additional 10-13 XP per camp. A range of jungle items have also been buffed:
Hunter’s Machete Unique Passive – Nail: Now heals for 50% more when below 30% max health.
Hunter’s Talisman Unique Passive – Tooth: Now heals for 50% more when below 30% max health.
Skirmisher’s Sabre Unique Passive – Tooth/Nail: Now heals for 50% more when below 30% max health.
Stalker’s Blade Unique Passive – Tooth/Nail: Now heals for 50% more when below 30% max health.
As always, some champions are being re-balanced to fit the current meta:
Aphelios
Aphelios will now receive 2/4/6/8/10/12 lethality instead of 3/6/9/12/15/18 percent bonus armor penetration.
Nerf: Weapon active’s base damage and cooldowns now scale over 13 levels, instead of 9. This is the same for moonshot, onslaught, binding eclipse, duskwave, and sentry.
Ash
Evelynn
Kalista
Master Yi
Orianna
Ryze
Buff: Ryze’s base stats have been increased. Health (575), armor (22), and attack damage (56) have all gone up by a small increment.
Buff: Ryze’s Overlord bonus movement speed has been increased to 28/32/36/40/44% when consuming 2 runes.
Seena
Sett
Soraka
Tristana
Urgot
Bugfix: The bug that caused Ugrot’s Disdain extra movement speed dash not occuring has been fixed.
Bugfix: Urgot now properly has a total CC duration of 1.5 seconds, including stun duration and time elapsed when enemy champion is flung, as intended from patch 10.6.
Buff: Urgot’s Fear Beyond Death cooldown has been decreased to 100/85/70 seconds.
Varus
Xayah
A number of bug fixes will be addressed in this update, along with some new skins being added to the in-game Riot Store.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a huge event for fans of Square Enix’s RPG series and anybody who got lost in the game’s world 23 years ago. If you missed the boat back in 1997 or if JRPGs like Final Fantasy aren’t your thing, though, you might be wondering what all the fuss is about. FF7’s world is a bit confusing to begin with, and that’s before you add all the additional caveats that come with the Remake–like the fact that it only covers a fraction of the original FF7 story.
If you’re bewildered by Final Fantasy 7 Remake and all the information swirling around it, the video above is for you. We’re laying out why you should care about FF7 Remake, how it relates to the original game, and what’s changed. Most importantly, though, is why you should care about FF7 Remake. Given that our review awarded the game one of GameSpot’s rare 10 out of 10s, we definitely think you should.
FF7 Remake is a good entry point for the Final Fantasy curious, whether you’re new to the franchise or just new to FF7. The original is a classic and the Remake is in a class of its own, but if you never experienced it for yourself, we’re here to tell you why.
Nifty Games has announced NFL Clash, which is described as a “mobile-first” football game that offers an “innovative take” on a sports game. Details are scant for now, but the California-based developer said the title will allow players “a new way to play an authentic head-to-head football game in just minutes.”
“To date, mobile sports games have been casual mini-games or simulations migrated from gaming consoles. Nifty Games is focused on delivering NFL fans fast, yet deep gameplay specifically designed for mobile,” the studio said.
NFL Clash is an officially licensed NFL game produced in partnership with the league and its players’ union, the NFLPA.
The announcement of NFL Clash came as part of Nifty’s wider announcement of a further $12 million in financing, bringing the start-up’s total to $15 million raised so far. The new investment was led by March Capital Partners, with previous investors aXiomatic Gaming and Defy Partners also adding more money in the new round of funding. Some of the new investors included Vulcan Capital, Courtside Ventures, Transcend Fund, Century Game, and OneTeam Ventures, as well as the NFLPA, MLBPA, MLSPA, USWNTPA, and WNBPA. These are players’ unions representing Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, the WNBA, and the United States Women’s National Team soccer club. The NHL invested in an earlier round of funding.
NFL Clash is Nifty’s first game, and it’s due for release later this year. The company is also working on an NBA video game, while the investment from other sports leagues suggests new games based on those sports might also be on the way.
“The NFL has always been keenly aware that a large portion of our fanbase loves to engage our sport through video games,” NFL gaming boss Rachel Hoagland said in a statement. “We’ve looked to bolster our offering on mobile devices and are thrilled at the built-for-mobile clash-style gaming that Nifty Games will deliver to our fans.”
Nifty Games co-founder and chief creative officer Pete Wanat added, “Sports games have yet to hit their stride on mobile, and Nifty Games is excited to team up with the NFL and NFLPA with a mobile-first take that opens up new audiences and engages fans everywhere.”
The new NFL games from Nifty and 2K will release alongside EA’s established Madden NFL series, which is continuing as the exclusive simulation-based NFL game.
The NFL’s Joe Ruggiero, who heads up the league’s consumer products division, said in a statement that the NFL is specifically looking to push further into the world of video games. “Reviving our partnership with 2K was a natural step in that effort,” he said, and this new deal with Nifty is also presumably related as well.
WWE has announced a series of roster cuts and will furlough a portion of its workforce, even after it was declared an essential business and allowed to continue operating amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
In a statement on its official website, WWE announced it has released several high-profile wrestlers including Kurt Angle, Rusev, Zack Ryder, Curt Hawkins, Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows, Drake Maverick, Heath Slater, Eric Young, Rowan, Sarah Logan, No Way Jose, Mike Chioda, Mike Kanellis, Maria Kanellis, Ec3, Aiden English, Lio Rish, Primo, and Epico.
According to ESPN, WWE also released a press release announcing a series of cuts and furloughs as part of a financial restructuring of the company. Along with temporary furloughs, executives will have their salaries reduced and the construction of a new headquarters has been paused.
Some big WWE stars were released in today’s cuts, including Hall of Famer Kurt Angle who retired in 2019 but stayed on as a producer backstage. Rusev, Gallows, and Anderson were also prominent mainstays on the show in the past decade.
Maverick released a video on his Twitter account talking about his cut from the roster. In an emotional video, Maverick revealed that while he’ll still be partaking in the NXT cruiserweight tournament, it will likely be the end of his wrestling career.
The state government of Florida declared WWE an “essential business” earlier this week, meaning the company was allowed to continue filming shows out of its Orlando training facility. Flordia’s governor Ron DeSantis said services declared essential are “critical to Florida’s economy.”
