Blast Man Explodes In As Latest Robot Master
The Mega Man franchise is all about conquering difficult stages and besting the Robot Master at the end to acquire their abilities. While we already knew about Block Man and Fuse Man, we now know the third Robot Master: Blast Man.
As the name implies, Blast Man is a volatile adversary with an undying love of explosions. This is reflected in both his abilities as well as his stage design. Taking place in an abandoned amusement park/movie studio hybrid, the stage features plenty of explosive elements and a mid-boss themed around an out-of-control roller coaster.
Once you reach Blast Man, he hops around the room, tossing explosives Mega Man's way. If you defeat Blast Man, you unlock an ability that floats bombs across the screen that stick to enemies. You can also chain together bombs for multiple explosions, or use the Power Gear to detonate one massive explosion.
Capcom also detailed Mega Man 11's parts upgrade system. Using bolts you collect from defeating enemies, you can upgrade Mega Man's abilities and craft new items. One of the upgrades you can purchase from Dr. Light using bolts is the Auto-Charge ability, which causes Mega Man's mega buster to charge on its own. Several other upgrades will be available to purchase using these bolts.
Mega Man 11 also features different challenges outside of the main game. Time Attack puts players up against the clock as they race to complete the stages as quickly as possible. Balloon Attack presents a similar premise, but all the enemies are removed from the stages. Instead of simply making it through the stages, you must burst balloons by shooting or touching them. However, you're still up against the clock, and each blue balloon you miss or red balloon you pop adds to your time, creating a unique challenge within the traditional Mega Man formula.
Mega Man 11 is set to launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on October 2. For more on the development of Mega Man 11, check out our exclusive coverage hub.
[Source: Capcom Unity]
E3 2018 brought an August release date for We Happy Few, the upcoming title from Compulsion Games. However, the future of the game in Australia has remained up in the air since May, when the Australian Classification Review Board rejected the title for its incentivization of drug use. Upon the rejection, Compulsion Games immediately assured fans it was looking into ways it can release in Australia.
Today, Compulsion Games announced that its appeal to the Australian Classification Review Board was successful and the game will release unmodified under the R18+ rating.
In a blog post addressing the matter, Compulsion celebrated its successful appeal.
"We went to a great deal of effort to get this decision overturned. We Happy Few will be rated R18+ in Australia.
We are extremely pleased with the decision of the board and excited that our Australian fans and new players will be able to experience We Happy Few without modification.
We want to thank everybody who got involved in the discussion, contacted the board and sent us countless messages of support. Your involvement made a huge difference."
We Happy Few launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on August 10.
Twitch Prime is celebrating Amazon Prime Day all month by offering 21 free games to subscribers. The month will also see the streaming service offering exclusive in-game loot for Warframe and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
The various games on offer through this promotion are available throughout the month, so you need to log in on the correct days to claim the games you're interested in. You can see the full list of games and when they're available below.
Pillars of Eternity Definitive Edition (July 2 - July 4) Metal Slug 3 (July 3 - August 2) The Last Blade (July 3 - August 2) Twinkle Star Sprites (July 3 - August 2) QUBE2 (July 3 - July 9) Battle Chef Brigade (July 4 - July 11) Manual Samuel (July 5 - July 12) Gonner (July 6 - July 13) Next Up Hero (July 7 - July 14) Uurnong Uurnlimited (July 8 - July 14) Hue (July 9 - July 15) Deponia Doomsday (July 10 - July 16) Observer (July 11 - July 17) Tacoma (July 12 - July 18) The Bridge (July 13 - July 26) Brutal Legend (July 14 - July 27) The Red Strings Club (July 15 - July 21) Tyranny (July 16 - July 18) Broken Age (July 17 - July 31) The Framed Collection (July 18 - July 31) Serial Cleaner (July 18 - July 31)
Games claimed through the promotion are free of DRM and yours to keep regardless of any future subscription status. You can claim offers here, then you can download the games through the Twitch desktop app.
Xbox One's backward compatible library continues to grow. Today, Xbox One adds Assassin's Creed Liberation HD and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter to the collection of Xbox 360 titles available to play on Microsoft's current console.
Assassin's Creed Liberation started as a PlayStation Vita spin-off to Assassin's Creed III in 2012 before receiving the HD remaster treatment on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC in 2014. You control Aveline in 18th century New Orleans. You can read our review of the original Assassin's Creed Liberation here.
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter released shortly after the Xbox 360 launch and was thought to be one of the most visually impressive games at the time. The title received strong reviews upon release and spawned a sequel one year later.
Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter are coming to Xbox One Backward Compatibility today https://t.co/qPMRNs2ZLo pic.twitter.com/IeMqMNbx3Y
— Larry Hryb (@majornelson) July 3, 2018For the complete list of backward-compatible games on Xbox One, head here.
[Source: Major Nelson on Twitter]
If you subscribe to the computer, tablet, or mobile edition of Game Informer magazine, you can now learn all about the upcoming Destiny 2 expansion, Forsaken. Following today's cover reveal, our digital issue is now live on web browsers and will be coming to iPad/iPhone later in the day. You can download the apps to view the issue by following this link. All of these digital options are included in a standard subscription.
The issue launches later this week on our third-party subscription apps including Google Play, Kindle, and Nook.
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Click the banner below to visit our Forsaken coverage hub, and check back throughout the month for new stories and information.
As fans get ready to see the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, many of Marvel's video games are capitalizing on the release of Ant-Man and the Wasp by releasing themed content to players. Last week, Marvel Strike Force added the tiny hero to its roster of recruitable characters, and now Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 is launching a DLC pack inspired by the new film.
The Ant-Man and the Wasp Character and Level pack is priced at $2.99 and features one new level and eight unlockable characters from the comics. People who purchase the pack add Ant-Man, Wasp, Egghead, Crossfire, Stinger, The Human Fly, Giant-Man, and Ghost to their roster of superheroes and villains. The DLC also adds Hank Pym's research lab as a new stage.
The DLC pack is available as a part of the Season Pass, priced at $14.99. The Season Pass features six level packs and four characters packs featuring content inspired by Infinity War, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and more. For our review of Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, head here.
Destiny 2 has had more than its fair share of ups and downs since launch. Various blogs and roadmaps Bungie has released over the past year document how the developer has responded to fan feedback, improving the many loops and loot at play in its shooter. But while players continue to invest dozens of hours in this online shooter, many others find the experience lacking; after some communicative snafus (including an deceptive experience bar) and two expansions that added more activities but didn't do enough to make players' investment feel meaningful, the repetitive grind and lack of a long-term endgame continue to rear their ugly heads.
But this has happened before. The original Destiny launched with similar issues, but with The Taken King expansion, Bungie managed to turn the ship around; because of this narrative, the studio knows expectations are high for Forsaken to do the same for Destiny 2. Matt Miller recently had the chance to take an extensive, hours-long look at the nearly every aspect of the expansion, playing several hours of the campaign and getting hands-on time with Gambit and some of the other key changes hitting in September, including the new weapon slots, supers, and more. And while one can never be certain about the long tail of living game, what we've seen has us excited for Destiny 2's second year.
Online, we'll also have exclusive coverage throughout the month, detailing how, exactly, Bungie plans to round out Destiny 2’s rough edges while also building a more mysterious, enthralling world for players to explore. We'll have videos taking a look at how The Dreaming City will act as a hub for Destiny 2's endgame, the story behind Forsaken's new enemies and bosses, an extensive look at Gambit, another new multiplayer mode and, of course, a thorough inspection of a brand new exotic weapon.
Our August issue is also packed with info on tons of other games. E3 gave us lots to be excited about, and we break down how the console makers fared in their press conferences while also highlighting the 50 best games we saw at the show. For more on marquee titles like Cyberpunk 2077, The Last of Us Part II, and more, make sure to read the entire issue.
Print subscribers can expect their issues to begin arriving in the next few days. The digital edition of this issue launches today for PC/Mac, iOS, Android, and Google Play. You can also get the latest issue through third-party apps on Nook and Kindle starting tomorrow. To switch your print subscription to digital, click here, or to create a new subscription to the digital edition, click here.
Click the banner below to visit our Forsaken coverage hub, and check back throughout the month for new stories and information.
EA Sports has announced a new digital version of UFC 3 in hopes of enticing new players to jump into the Octagon. UFC 3 Icon Edition swaps out former featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor for current flyweight champ and pound-for-pound best fighter Demetrious Johnson as cover athlete, and grants a few bonuses for Ultimate Team players.
Players who pick up the Icon Edition will get one permanent champion fighter and move to add to their Ultimate Team. Players can choose between Johnson, McGregor, former strawweight champion Joanna Jędrzejczyk, former welterweight and middleweight champ Georges St-Pierre, and former middleweight champion Anderson Silva. Icon Edition owners will also receive additional content for the mode.
For those who already own UFC 3, EA Sports is delivering a free update that promises gameplay improvements, as well as the addition of five former UFC fighters. Tito Ortiz, Matt Serra, Wanderlei Silva, Mirko Cro Cop, and Kimbo Slice join the roster in the new update coming to all UFC 3 players for free.
UFC 3 creative director Brian Hayes says the Icon Edition gives the team an excuse to add these fighters they've been wanting to add to the roster. "I’m pumped about Icon Edition, everything about it is great," he says. "DJ totally deserves the cover, and the new fighters are guys we’ve been wanting to add to the game, or see make a comeback, for years. Now I’m gonna shred so many faces with Tito’s elbows."
Johnson, a Twitch partner and lifelong gamer, is excited to finally make it onto the cover of a video game. "It's fantastic," he says. "It's only the digital cover, so it's not like the retail cover you'd see at your local gaming store, but the digital cover... it'll have to do for now. I'm hoping next year or three years from now when they come out with UFC 4, hopefully they have me on the front cover with the many other champions. But it's awesome! I'm happy and grateful for EA choosing me to be the Icon for this release!"
UFC 3 Icon Edition is available for $39.99 through July 17. For our review of UFC 3, head here. To watch us play UFC 3 and talk life as a fighter with Icon Edition cover star Demetrious Johnson, head here.
Long-suffering Shenmue fans were disappointed by Shenmue III's no-show at E3 2018, but Sega's recent announcement that Shenmue I & II are being remastered for modern platforms took some of the sting out of the long wait for the third entry.
Now, Sega has released a pre-order trailer that officially confirms the release date. You can watch that trailer, which is sure to give any fans who played the original releases when they came out a strong sense of nostalgia, above.
Shenmue I & II hits PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on August 21. To watch us play through both games in their entirety, check out our Super Replays of Shenmue and Shenmue II.
Last month, Niantic announced that its monthly Community Day in July would focus on the water starter, Squirtle. Players knew this meant a high probability of a Shiny variant of the blue turtle, but Niantic has announced that players have a chance to encounter Squirtle sporting sunglasses in homage to the Squirtle Squad from the anime.
By completing special Research Tasks during Squirtle Community Day this Sunday, July 8, you can encounter Squirtle wearing sunglasses. No word on if this means you won't be able to find Shiny Squirtles in the wild as you've been able to with the featured Pokémon in each Community Day to this point. Either way, if you evolve a Wartortle into a Blastoise during the three-hour window of Community Day, it'll know the exclusive move Hydro Cannon.
Attention, Trainers: if you complete Field Research tasks during Community Day, you may have a chance to encounter Squirtle sporting sunglasses. 🕶️ Good luck! pic.twitter.com/hacoIvzOCD
— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) July 2, 2018The Squirtle Community Day happens this Sunday, July 8. To find the three-hour window the event is happening in your local area, head here. For more on Pokémon Go, check out our constantly updated guide.
[Source: Pokémon Go on Twitter]
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