EVO 2017 also proved to be full of surprises — some, not so much surprises, but confirmation of previously leaked announcements — in terms of news relating to fighting games. Most of these were delivered in between grand finals on Sunday. Here’s a rundown of all the news that came out of Las Vegas this weekend……
It was terrific weekend for videogame fans for sure. The curtains have closed, and Evolution 2017 is finally over. For three packed days, competitors from all over the globe duked it out, with only a few making it out for the grand finals that not took place yesterday over at the Mandalay Bay Arena, but…
At first glance, tossing zombies into a competitive shooter as a means of making it stand out is maybe not the most interesting idea. Dead Alliance seems to understand this, however, designing around them to make sure they’re more than a mindless addition. The hook of Dead Alliance lies in temporarily recruiting the undead to…
Saying that EVO is the world’s biggest fighting game tournament might be an understatement. What began as “Battle of the Bay” in Sunnyvale, CA in 1996 with a meager forty-person bracket for Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Street Fighter II Turbo eventually moved to much bigger venues in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it’s been held ever since,…
With so many multiplayer shooters available these days, developers have to work hard to make them stand out. Crytek’s latest project, Hunt: Showdown, looks to do just that. Set in the late Victorian-era, Hunt is a competitive monster hunting first-person shooter where up to five teams of two work to see who can track and…
THQ Nordic has been making a habit of reviving old franchises recently. With the announcement of Darksiders 3 in May, the release of older games in the THQ library like de Blob to Steam, and now picking up the Kickstarted revival of Aquanox, the company seems to have an interest in the past. I got…
Every year since 2014, the Media Indie Exchange has brought a litany of interesting indie games to showcase alongside E3. Every year we’ve attended has been an absolute delight, presenting a great opportunity to see games we might not have otherwise seen, as well as a chance to catch up with old friends and colleagues…
Warner Bros has just announced that there’s a new update out today for Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor that will allow players to import their biggest nemesis into the new game, Shadow of War. With the Nemesis Forge, as it’s called, you’ll be able to import aspects of your playthrough into the sequel, such as the uruk that evolved into…
The old saying, “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” is perhaps a more than fitting description for Diablo 3’s newest character focused expansion pack. First enjoyed in Diablo 2, the necromancer class quickly garnered the nickname, “The General”, due to his ability to summon a rather large army of undead soldiers…
Iron Galaxy is a name typically associated with fighting games. The company’s most notable for games like Divekick and Killer Instinct (which they took over from Double Helix), having mostly served as a port-house for most of its existence. Extinction is the company’s latest attempt at an original project and, based on the early look…
