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Version 1.0 available now As part of Monday’s Inside Xbox presentation, held during the opening of Gamescom 2019, Bohemia Interactive (of DayZ fame) revealed that their online, open-world, shoot ‘n’ loot title Vigor was finally leaving Early Access/Game Preview. Version 1.0 ofVigoris now available to download on Xbox One and – like another Bohemia title, DayZ– sees players attempt to survive the harsh terrain and brutal atmosphere of a post-apocalyptic Norwegian locale....

Kept ya waiting, huh? You might remember that, back in 2016, agame calledLost Soul Asidewas making the rounds. It’s easy to see why; even today, the flashy action in its trailers is pretty dang impressive. Lost Soul Asidedisappeared from the public eye for a while, but yesterday it returned with 18 minutes of new gameplay. And guess what? It still looks rad. Originally asolo effort from creator Yang Bing, the developer was approached by Sony, which resulted in the creation of UltiZero Games, according to anIGNwriteup informed by Niko Partners Senior Analyst Daniel Ahmad....

Nintendo on top? In other news, grass is green and folks need oxygen to breathe Mario & Luigi: Dream Teamsold nearly 100,000 copies in its opening week, according to data obtained by market research firm Media Create. The Nintendo 3DS role-playing game topped Japanese software charts, dethroning last week’s best-seller,Pikmin 3, which came in at number three. The Wii U strategy title followed up its92,000 unit debutby finding its way to an additional 28,000 homes....

The case of the missing cassette TheMetal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroesside missionshown during Tokyo Game Show 2013is back, and now it’s narrated in English by co-producer Sean Eyestone. I was happy to sit through this footage a second time, especially in light of last night’sClassic Snake announcement. Whenever game developers give freedom to go about completing objectives in my own way, I always end up cracking under the pressure of trying to handle the situation like the (usually badass) character should....

Reportedly didn’t have ‘enough muscle to eventually stop Sony’ Former VP of Windows sales at Microsoft Joachim Kempin spoke withIGNabout Microsoft’s entrance into the videogame console market, prior to committing to the Xbox, saying: “There were three companies at that point in time, I think this was [Sony,] Sega and Nintendo. There was always talk maybe we buy Sega or something like that; that never materialized, but we were actually able to license them what they call Windows CE, the younger brother of Windows, to run on their system and make that their platform....

Super Mario Bros. 30th anniversary Yesterday was the30th anniversary ofSuper Mario Bros. Fine. But, also, the Internet keeps trying to convince me that it was also “8-bit Day,” one of those bullshit, made-up holidays from the folks that brought you the insufferable “Talk Like a Pirate Day” or “Cinco de Mayo Isn’t Obnoxious Enough, Let’s Make the Day Before it AboutStar Wars” (Mexico’s Independence Day is in two days, September 16, by the way)....

ZeniMax is after that Facebook money ZeniMax sued Oculus VR and founder Palmer Luckeyover trade secretsrelated to the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset, and now we have the defendants’ side of the story. A representative of Oculus shared the company’s court filing, viewable in full below. “ZeniMax’s Complaint falsely claims ownership in Oculus VR technology in a transparent attempt to take advantage of the [$2 billion] Oculus VR sale to Facebook,” it reads....

Abe baby “You know what?Oddworldwasn’t built on selling out.” That’s what series creator Lorne Lanninghad to sayaboutOddworld: New ‘n’ Tastycoming out on Xbox, prior to Microsoft’s self-publishing 180. Now that Microsoft allows self-publishing, we could at least seeNew ‘n’ Tasty— or perhaps futureOddworldgames — at least on the Xbox One. The 360 still doesn’t have self-publishing methods. Oddworld Inhabitants didn’t appear on theID@Xbox listof registered developers, but atweetfrom the developer offers a glint of hope: “We’re still talking to Xbox....

Featuring brand-new 30 year old discolored plastic Hello everyone, Nintendoannounced the SNES Classic on Monday, easily the biggest retro news of the year so far. Before the announcement though, our own Jonathan Holmesdid some investigative journalism and broke the story early. Was his article the reason the system was announced on Monday? Who can say? But he’ll be on Retroid tonight to talk about the miniature console this evening along with Topher, Alex, and special guest Stella Turvey....

You’ve actually heard ofRift: Planes of Telarabefore, it was just calledHeroes of Telaraat the time. The game, which is a fantasy MMO, is being developed by Trion Worlds. They’re taking a different approach to the whole MMO thing by having all the game’s content and updates handled on servers (cloud computing) while graphics and sound are handled by the player’s equipment. This means that the game world can be updated with minor or large details or events at any time without everyone having to get an update....

It’s so ridiculously funn I didn’t really know whatSamurai Gunnwas before today. It has one of those sort of cliché names that’s easy to pass over if you don’t have a particular reason to care. After playing it on the PAX show floor, I might not be able to stop thinking about it. Samurai Gunnis a two-to-four player brawler that’s stupidly easy to learn. The only moves in your arsenal are running, jumping, a melee attack, and fireballs to shoot....

It’s been way too long since we’ve last seenanything ofMetro: Last Light. So isn’t it great how THQ and developer 4AM Games have come out of hiding by trying to scare the ever living sh*t out of us?! This live-action short is called “Enter the Metro,” and details how the Moscow Metro’s dark secondary purpose was to serve as a fallout shelter during the Cold War. In theMetrouniverse, nuclear war does breakout, and here we see the final moments of Russian citizens all running for shelter before the bombs drop....

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, the second facelift for the classic run-pray-and-spray series, is now available as a PC download according to Croteam. Like the first revitalization,Second Encounterboasts new secrets to find, a new co-operative mode to explore, and 16-player hyper frag action. Of course the reason you’ll want to play is in an attempt to rediscover the reason why you loved the game way back in the 2001 — the same year Activision acquired Treyarch and Sega of America sued the hell out of a pre-Martha Stewart K-Mart....