NBA 2K16 is the latest game in the popular NBA 2K line that stretches all the way back to before the turn of the century with its first entry on the Dreamcast. The franchise’s developer, Visual Concepts, goes back over another two decades. Starting in 1988, they have churned out tons of games like Task Force, Clayfighters, and One. Despite the variety of different games, they found their greatest success with their Sports 2K line and since then, Visual Concepts has churned out consistently high quality sports games year in and year out. The NBA 2K franchise is no exception to this and has always found itself well received by fans and critics alike, can this year’s iteration continue the success?
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Skylanders is back this year and with another hook this time after the successful Trap Team gimmick introduced a year ago. With an increasingly crowded market of NFC toys and their associated games (see Disney Infinity, Lego Dimensions, and Amiibos), is Superchargers enough to maintain Activision’s foothold in the marketplace?

Superchargers refers to the new vehicle component of the game. That is to say, in order to play the game you now not only need a Skylander, but a vehicle along with it on your new portal. The starter pack includes one along with a couple Skylanders fortunately. The “supercharge” comes to play when you match a Skylander and vehicle of the same element, which adds a buff to each, both in appearance and stats.
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Sega has released a “Where are they now?” about the five Yakuza 5 protagonists and where they’re at in their respective stories with new in game screenshots as well!

Kazuma Kiryu
After the events of the previous Yakuza games, Kazuma Kiryu — the Dragon of Dojima — has retired from the Yakuza to be a common-place taxi driver in Nagasugai, Fukuoka, far away from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo. But when his junior (and more notably, the Sixth Chairman of the Tojo Clan) disappears, he is dragged back into the seedy underworld of Japan. Kiryu will once again need to rise as the legendary dragon in order to find his friend.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III is the ultimate 3-games-in-1 experience. In Campaign mode, you must navigate the hot spots of a new Cold War to find your missing brothers. Players can play the campaign cooperatively or solo and are now always connected to the intelligence grid and their fellow operatives during battle. Multiplayer features a new momentum-based chained movement system, allowing players to fluidly move through the environment with finesse, using controlled thrust jumps, slides, and mantling. Black Ops III multiplayer also introduces the new Specialist character system, which allows players to master 9 characters’ battle-hardened weapons and abilities through a challenge-based unlock progression system. No Treyarch title would be complete without its signature Zombies offering. “Shadows of Evil” has its own distinct storyline right out of the box, set in the fictional 1940s Morg City, where four particularly troubled individuals – the femme fatale, the magician, the detective, and the boxer – star in this film-noir inspired horror story.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III Launch Trailer:

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., the premier anime video game publisher, today announced that it has launched DRAGON BALL Z®: EXTREME BUTODEN in the Americas for the Nintendo 3DS™ handheld system. DRAGON BALL Z: EXTREME BUTODEN is now available at game retailers and the Nintendo eShop across the Americas. Dragon Ball Z fans in Brazil will be able to purchase the game on October 23, 2015.

Developed by famed fighting game designers at Arc System Works; DRAGON BALL Z: EXTREME BUTODEN delivers classic 2D fighting style gameplay to DRAGON BALL Z fans with more than 20 playable characters and 100 support characters to choose from. The game features easy-to-learn fighting mechanics with an extensive combo system for experienced players to explore. DRAGON BALL Z: EXTREME BUTODEN also includes multiple game modes; giving fans a great opportunity to create dream matchups with their favorite characters and battle against friends via local wireless connection.
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BioWare and Lucasfilm today debuted “Alliance”, the new trailer for the upcoming Digital Expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic – Knights of the Fallen Empire. Featuring a return to an emphasis on the interactive storytelling BioWare is renowned for, Knights of the Fallen Empire features new companions, new enemies and nine new chapters of an evolving, player-driven storyline where the choices you make will have consequences. Watch the new Knights of the Fallen Empire and watch the new “Alliance” trailer below.

In Star Wars: The Old Republic – Knights of the Fallen Empire, you will become the Outlander, a veteran of the Great Galactic War, travelling to the outer rim of the galaxy. There you will come face-to-face with a new threat, Emperor Valkorion and his Eternal Empire, only to discover that his dark destiny is tied to your own. You will lead the fight to save the galaxy but it is clear from your first encounter with the Eternal Empire that you will need help; you must recruit a powerful team of Companions – and build an Alliance.

Star Wars: The Old Republic – Knights of the Fallen Empire is available for Early Access today for Subscribers who were active between July and early October. The digital expansion will launch on October 27, 2015 and is free for all Subscribers.

To learn more visit http://StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com/fallen-empire/.

Another six months, another LEGO game. Instead of trying to further develop the engine used in LEGO City, Traveler’s Tales has gone right back to using its same old formula of linear and mediocre 3D action platforming. The twist is that it now uses a gimmick that will seek to send players to the poor house by exploiting their love of LEGO and multiple franchises from the past. At its core, it’s a cynical and shameless cash grab that cares to do nothing interesting.
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Today at New York Comic Con, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released the latest trailer for LEGO Marvel’s Avengers, showcasing key cinematic moments from Marvel’s The Avengers and Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, as well as content based on additional Marvel Studios blockbuster films, including Marvel’s Captain America: The First Avenger, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier — all of which will be available in game! This explosive new gameplay video was revealed in front of a packed house during today’s LEGO Marvel’s Avengers NYCC panel, where TT Games and Marvel Games gave fans an inside look at this upcoming Super Hero adventure, all told through the LEGO lens with a splash of classic LEGO humour.

LEGO Marvel’s Avengers New NY Comic Con Trailer:

Bricks will fly when LEGO Marvel’s Avengers is released on January 26, 2016, available for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Windows PC.

Have you always wanted to get into the rogue-like genre, but always have been turned off by the difficulty or base mechanics that are undesirable like leveling and losing all of your stuff? Well today is you lucky day, as Nova-111 is a rogue-lie, but it actually feels more like a puzzler. It’s been stripped of what makes the genre intimidating, while making the game more accessible and enjoyable to casual. The result is a fun little game.
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Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax is one of those games that was never going to make its way across the pond back in the day. After all, it’s a fighting game primarily targeted at fans of a very specific set of manga/anime characters, with a bit of SEGA nostalgia mixed in to boot as a nod towards its publisher. Normally, the size of the audience here never would have amounted to enough to justify the cost of localization. But fortunately we’re at a moment in gaming where content from Japan flows quite freely thanks to increased interest and reduced costs, so can it capitalize on this growing niche, and does it have a more broad appeal for fans of fighters in general?
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