Mass Effect 3 ‘Rebellion’ multiplayer DLC detailed

Sony’s Hong Kong website put up a listing for newMass Effect 3downloadable content called “Rebellion” that hasn’t been announced by BioWare yet. As you might expect, it’s an expansion of the game’s rather enjoyablemultiplayer mode: more maps, classes, and gear. Like you do. The Rebellion Multiplayer Expansion opens two new fronts against the Reapers: Firebase Jade’s jungle reservoir and Firebase Goddess on Thessia. In-game reinforcement packs now include three new weapons as well as equipment, consumables, and six new classes: Quarian Engineer and Infiltrator, Vorcha Soldier and Sentinel, Phoenix Adept and Vanguard....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Nicholas Diaz

Metal Gear Online TGS footage breaks down modes, characters, classes

Playing as Ocelot explained Konami’swebsitehas added the newMetal Gear Onlinegameplay debuted at Tokyo Game Show. There’s even a breakdown of the things that Brett and I didn’t understand in ourearlier hands-on preview, like the Bounty Hunter mode. “Teams win if the number of enemy team tickets is reduced to zero. Killing or Fultoning an enemy reduces the enemy team tickets by one. Fultoning an enemy increases your team’s ticket total by the value of the Fultoned enemy’s bounty....

July 4, 2025 · 4 min · 677 words · Brenda Adams

Microsoft turned down Yakuza game

The diehardYakuzaseries fan in me wants to point a finger at Microsoft and say that they’re stupidheads, but I know that Yakuza isn’t some big time blockbuster franchise. As much as I love Yakuza, I know that it has a small (but dedicated!) following. Series director Toshihiro Nagoshi toldEurogamerthat Microsoft had passed on the first title back in the Xbox days. But so did Sony. “At the beginning of the project we spoke to all the platform holders including Sony and Microsoft,” he told Eurogamer....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 178 words · Patrick Carter

No Man’s Sky Patch 5.05 fixes bug preventing Liquidator Minotaur blueprints from showing up in main save

No Man’s Skypatch 5.05 has just dropped, bringing a ton of bug fixes to improve the stability and fix crashes in the game. Among the many fixes, one stands out which was a bug that was causing the Liquidators part blueprints from showing up in some player’s main saves. For context, finishing the Liquidators expedition, or any pastNo Man’s Skyexpedition, rewards players with different rewards, and players can take the upgrades, technology and resources they’ve gathered in the expedition save back to their main save to continue enjoying them....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 297 words · Timothy Russell

October’s Games with Gold break out a little earlier than usual

Quadruple play Breaking out. It’s a phrase with a couple of meanings that are relevant to next month’s free games on Xbox One. Someone who’s confined to a place might look to break out. Or, an athlete who suddenly performs above their regular skill level is also said to be breaking out. Baseball and prison are the two breakout themes for October’s Games with Gold. The Xbox One gets one of the better sports titles in recent memory inSuper Mega Baseball: Extra Inningson October 1....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Tiffany Butler

Operation Shifting Tides now live in Rainbow Six Siege

Magnets, how do they work? If you’re one of the multi-million members of theRainbow Six Siegeplayerbase, then you better start protecting your dome, as the final season of 2019,Operation Shifting Tides, is now live on all formats, bringing with it one of – if not the – most powerful single-shot weapon inSiegehistory. Shifting Tides sees the addition of private mercenary faction NIGHTHAVEN, specifically its captain, Kali, and her top agent, Wamai....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 301 words · James Jenkins

Pokemon, Assassin’s Creed, Street Fighter up for grabs for Free Comic Book Day

And other non-video game comics Tomorrow, May 7 is the 15th annualFree Comic Book Day, and there are a couple of freebies on offer this year that may appeal to gamers who don’t know a whole lot about comics (like me). Among thehefty list of 50 booksarePokémon: Pocket Comics,Assassin’s Creed, andStreet Fighter V. Not every comic shop or bookstore is participating, so verify youcheck first to seeif you can snag some free comics....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 153 words · Matthew Tanner

Preview: Six Days in Fallujah

One of the last games Konami showed during the opening presentation at their Gamer’s Night wasSix Days in Fallujah. The game has gained alotofattentionalready due to it being set during the early days of the invasion of Iraq, a battle that is still going on to this day. The presentation started with a Marine coming up on stage, describing one of his experiences from the the attack on Fallujah. He and his team had just arrived on the roof of a building that they were using to scan for enemies in the area....

July 4, 2025 · 4 min · 702 words · Jessica Avery

PSA: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Switch has a mumble mode, but you need to download it

Think of it like a free DLC pack Mumble mode [gibberish talk] is in withLEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, butyou need to manually grab it from the Nintendo storefronton Switch. Consider this a PSA, as I’ve seen multiple people bring this up in conversation asking if it exists on Switch: it does! Remember all those “dialogue packs” that 2010s games would be littered with as “optional downloads?” Well, it’s kind of like that....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · Martha Gilbert

RetroforceGO!: Episode 3: Everything’s coming up SEGA

Rise and shine retro friends! It’s time to tune into another episode ofRetroforceGO!, the best retro podcast Destructoid has to offer. Sorry that this episode is a little late this week, it seems that sometimes, just sometimes, there can be too many ninjas in the kitchen. But rest assured,RFGO!still brings its weekly recommended dose of awesome-sauce to the table. Along with giving you our verdict on last week’s DLC, we also decide to throw down on company that’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, with a soft enigma center: SEGA....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 124 words · Roberto Perez

Saturday Morning RPG coming to Nintendo Switch this Spring

Where’s Princess Lana? Indie nostalgia-festSaturday Morning RPGis coming to the Nintendo Switch. Theannouncementwas made by developer Mighty Rabbit Studios via Limited Run Games. Saturday Morning RPG, already available on other platforms, is an episodic, JRPG-inspired adventure which sees our hero, Marty, embark on a wild adventure after the hapless high-school kid is given special powers. The game is slathered in nostalgic overtones, packed to the brim with ’80s pop-culture references, including music by Vince DiCola, who also composed the score forTransformers: The Movie....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 194 words · Donald Miller

SDCC: These are our top ten games of Comic-Con

The gaming presence at San Diego Comic-Con is getting bigger each year. In fact, we’re seeing lots of new content from some of the biggest games coming out this year and next for the first time here at the convention. Like our PAX awards, we’ve picked our ten best games that are playable on or around the show floor. In no particular order: Note that we only picked titles that were playable, so games that only had a panel presence such asFortniteorThe Last of Usunfortunately don’t count....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Ann Williams

Sony updates us on the Vita TV: 1,300 titles at launch

TGS press conference Sony CEO Andrew House updated us on theVita TVtoday during their TGS press conference, responding to questions from users and press since the announcement. He says that the PS Vita TV is a very small box. It will fit in any living room. you may receive video services, books, karaoke, and others on your large TV screen. That’s the thinking for the device. From the first day of launch there will be over 1,300 titles available as well as Vita updates to the system....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 142 words · Amanda Horton