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New Releases breaks down the biggest games launching each week, and this episode is full of games from developers you might already love. Double Fine has the action-RPG Rad, Gunfire Games is launching Remnant: From the Ashes, and Tokyo RPG Factory is releasing Oninaki. Meanwhile, UnderMine comes to Steam Early Access and Nintendo Switch gets Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution.

Rad — August 20

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch

The “rad” in Double Fine’s newest adventure is short for “radiation,” because you’ll be exploring a post-apocalyptic irradiated world. The deeper you go, the more radiation you’ll absorb, developing crazy mutations that give you special powers. You’ll have to use a combination of mutant abilities and your trusty baseball bat to beat down the nuclear monsters in this world.

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Remnant: From The Ashes — August 20

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, Switch

Speaking of defeating monsters, Remnant: From the Ashes is a survival shooter that pits you against all manner of big beasts. The more you defeat, the more you’ll be able to upgrade your armor and weapons. Each of the game’s four worlds–Earth, Raesa, Rhom, and Corsus–is dynamically generated, so you’ll have new quests and events to experience each time you jump in.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution — August 20

Available on: Switch

For the uninitiated, Yu-Gi-Oh is played by dealing cards that either summon monsters, cast spells, or lay traps as you aim to reduce your opponent’s life force to zero. Link Evolution lets you build your deck from over 9,000 of those cards as you duel characters from the super-popular anime series. You can take on other players in online duels too.

UnderMine — August 20

Available on: PC

UnderMine is a roguelike, which means you’re going to lose lots of characters to the monsters and traps as you dig deeper into each new layer of the mine. Fortunately, new miners retain the upgrades from your previous runs. UnderMine is headed to Early Access on Steam first, with future releases planned on Xbox One and Switch as well.

Oninaki — August 22

Available on: PS4, PC, Switch

Oninaki might still be an RPG, but the team behind I Am Setsuna and Lost Sphear is changing things up this time. Most notably, there’s a lot more action thanks to a hack-and-slash battle system. As far as story goes, Oninaki is about the Watchers, who guide trapped souls into the afterlife.

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There’s one more episode of New Releases for the month of August, and it’s the most jam-packed episode yet. Next week, we’ll take a look at World of Warcraft Classic, Astral Cain, Blair Witch, and more.

Sniper Ghost Warrior will return in November, with the latest game in the series taking place across five regions within Siberia.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts will release on PC, PS4 and Xbox One on November 22, 2019. The news comes with a trailer, showing off a previously unseen area that you’ll get to explore called Black Gold. The trailer shows off some of the upcoming sequel’s stealthy gameplay, and a handful of new features added for this fourth game in the series.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts will feature a new ‘Dynamic Reticle’ system, which is designed so that players can better predict how their shot will go. We get a bit of a look at this in the trailer, with a trail indicating the path of the bullet when zoomed in. There are also Scout Drones in Contracts that players will be able to pilot, as well as an Augmented Reality Mask with integrated binoculars for stronger surveillance.

The game’s name comes from its new ‘contracts’ system, whereby you’ll talk to NPCs within each region who will give you your targets. There are 25 main contracts in the game, but there will be plenty of side objectives to complete as well.

The previous game in the series, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, was criticised for its sparse open world and general lack of sniping. In his 5/10 review, Richard Wakeling said that the game “falters whenever it veers away from its strengths, and the plethora of nagging glitches and technical problems are a persistent nuisance that make Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 difficult to recommend.”

Nintendo is preparing for Gamescom. The biggest video game convention in Europe will include presentations from Microsoft, Google, and of course, Nintendo. The house of Mario will be presenting new trailers for its 2019 Nintendo Switch lineup throughout the Gamescom festivities, but is devoting its livestream presentation to indie games coming to its digital Nintendo Eshop.

Nintendo says it will be debuting new footage throughout the week, including Luigi’s Mansion 3, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Astral Chain, Dragon Quest XI S, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, and The Witcher 3. A tweet from the Nintendo UK account says the livestream on Monday, August 19 will be focused on IndieWorld.

Host Geoff Keighley will formally kick off this year’s event with Gamescom: Opening Night Live. That will include announcements and new trailers from major publishers and special guests. Google and Microsoft also have their own presentations planned, with Stadia Connect and Inside Xbox presentations.

Check below for the Nintendo Indie World start time in your area, and bookmark this page to watch it live. Plus, be sure to look at our full schedule of Gamescom press conferences for more.

Nintendo Gamescom Indie World Showcase – August 19

• 6 AM PT
• 9 AM ET
• 1 PM GMT
• 11 PM AEST

Universal’s Good Boys opened to number 1 at the US box office this weekend, outperforming expectations and becoming one of the few original movies to secure the top spot in 2019. It’s the third weekend in a row where Universal has had the number one movie in the country, thanks to the success of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. Good Boys was a strong performer on a weekend where the other new releases disappointed.

According to Box Office Mojo, Good Boys debuted to an estimated $21 million, overtaking its $20 million budget. The film, which stars Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams and Brady Noon as a trio of preteens who ditch school and get caught up in a series of misadventures, beat out Hobbs & Shaw ($14.1 million) and The Lion King ($11.9 million) to claim the top spot. It’s the second completely original film to do so this year, after Jordan Peele’s Us debuted to $71,117,625 back in March (there’s an argument to be made that The Curse of La Llorona counts as well, but that movie is, technically, a spin-off of The Conjuring.)

Further down the list, The Angry Birds Movie 2 debuted at #4 with $10.5 million for the weekend. It actually opened on Tuesday, and has made $16.2 million in its opening week – well down on the $38.1 million the original movie earned in its first weekend, before ultimately making $107.5 million domestic and $352.3 million worldwide. But Columbia Pictures can, perhaps, take solace in the film’s 76% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it, by the site’s metrics, the best-reviewed videogame adaptation of all time (Pokemon: Detective Pikachu scored 68% positive reviews).

Further down the chart, shark horror sequel 47 Meters Down: Uncaged opened at $9 million, Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By the Light debuted at $4.45 million, and Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette only managed $3.45 million. All three opened wide. For those keeping track of the highest grossing film of all time, Avengers: Endgame – which is out now on home video – brought in an additional $98,000.

Top 10 Films for the weekend of August 16-18 (via Box Office Mojo):

1. Good Boys ($21,000,000)
2. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw ($14,140,000)
3. The Lion King ($11,900,000)
4. The Angry Birds Movie 2 ($10,500,000)
5. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ($10,050,000)
6. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged ($9,000,000)
7. Dora and the Lost City of Gold ($8,500,000)
8. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ($7,600,000)
9. Blinded By the Light ($4,450,000)
10. The Art of Racing in the Rain ($4,403,000)

The upcoming DC film Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has brought in Chad Stahelski, the director of all three John Wick movies, to help out with second unit photography, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie, directed by Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) is currently undergoing additional photography to add in more action scenes, which Stahelski will be designing. His stunt company, 87 Eleven, has been involved in the making of the movie since the beginning, so he’s a natural choice for the second unit role. It’s not yet clear what these additional shoots will entail. The film, which also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Ewan McGregor as Black Mask, and Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, is about a team of women who come together to save a young girl caught in a bad situation.

We got our first look at Birds of Prey back in January, but haven’t seen much since. It has a February 7, 2020 release date, and will be the first of two DC movies released next year. It’ll be followed by Wonder Woman 1984.

Stahelski is not currently officially attached to direct John Wick Chapter 4, but it’s anticipated that he will helm it.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will cover more of the anime than the footage we’ve seen so far has suggested. While all the trailers have shown familiar scenes up to the point of Goku’s iconic fight with Frieza, and the moment when Goku turns Super Saiyan for the first time on Namek, it’s now been confirmed that we’ll get events beyond this as well.

In the latest issue of Jump magazine published in Japan (as picked up by Ryokutya2089, and translated by Siliconera), it’s confirmed that the game will stretch to at least the Cell saga, which will feature Kid Gohan and Future Trunks as playable characters (alongside, presumably, Goku). The Androids will also feature, and there will be “original episodes” for both Gohan and Android 16, both of whom play a pivotal part in this saga. It’s not yet clear whether the events of the Boo saga will feature in the game.

It’s also been confirmed that the game will cover filler material from the original series, including the famous (or infamous, depending on who you’re talking to) episode where Goku and Piccolo learn how to drive on Chi-Chi’s insistence. This will involve taking part in a driving minigame as part of your adventure.

The same preview states that the game will include a new character, a former member of the Ginyu Force. Series creator Akira Toriyama has said that the game will feature new, previously untold side stories, and it sounds like this will be one of them. The new character is named Bonyo, and will be from the same planet as Jeice, another member of the squad. She’s a rare woman in the DBZ universe of fighters, who apparently left the Ginyu Force because she didn’t care for their poses.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot will release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in 2020.