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Ce scenario pédagogique issu du dispositif Geodeclic sera présenté dans le cadre des Lab Numériques du Festival international de géographie de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges 2022. En lien avec le thème du festival, cet épisode intitulé "Existe-il des territoires oubliés ?" permettra d'identifier ce qui fait la vitalité des son espace de proximité ou bien ce qui peut expliquer que cela soit une désert rural par exemple. Attractivité ou manque d'attractivité, état de la démographie...Dans cet épisode les élèves vont mener des enquêtes de proximité qu'ils complèteront avec des données chiffrées issues par exemple du site de l'INSEE. Ensuite ils pourront comparer leur espace à d'autres dans le cadre du maillage mondial rendu possible par le dispositif GeoDeclic. Dans cet épisode, une autre question fera l'objet de la réfélxion des classes, la qualité des réseaux de communication des hommes, des biens et des idées autour de chez eux. Réseaux routiers, interconnexion avec l'air, la mer, qualité de l'internet et des réseaux 4G/5G. Ce second point amènera les élèves à lire des cartes à partir de trajets courants ou liés aux vacances pour identifier la qualité, la densité des réseaux de mobilité de proximité. En ce qui concerne la circulation des idées, des sites comme celui de https://www.arcep.fr/ leur permettront d'identifier dans quelle zone ils se trouvent et la qualité de la technologie présente à proximité. La période récente de la covid 19 et la nécessité du télétravail sera un support de réfélxion précieuse permettant un inventaire de situations vécues et l'analyse des conditions de réalisation de celles-ci.

Il s’agit ici de comprendre et d’étudier deux notions centrales, le désert dans une double acceptation : le désert en tant que milieu naturel et le désert démographique ou humain. Cette double acceptation est rendue possible par le thème central de géographie de 6ème qui est la notion "Habiter". Utiliser les séries tv comme entrée permet d'incarner des réalités diverses et de stimuler l'imagination des élèves. Les élèves produisent un GIF sur les déserts.

Les élèves font des recherches et créent une carte en ligne pour construire la notion de "désert médical". Ils étudient également l'image satellite et la légende de la ville de Tarbes pour créer le notule de la ville de manière collaborative. Enfin, ils enregistrent un podcast sous forme de dialogue pour s'entrainer au Grand Oral.

L’activité a pour objectif d’entraîner les élèves à manipuler les notions essentielles (ville mondiale; ville connectée, réseaux). En autonomie, ils vont mener une démarche de découverte et de construction de l’information en s’appuyant sur un article scientifique et des image satellites pour montrer que la ville de Dubaï est un « espace mondialisé par excellence ». La plus value de l’image satellite comme outil didactique au service du raisonnement géographique apparaît en filigrane dans cette activité : dimension multi scalaire, multi temporelle, multi spectrale.

La société allemande de l’époque - durement marquée par la Première Guerre Mondiale - est appréhendée au travers de ses profondes mutations : son nouvel art de vivre (danse, musique), ses rebellions au sein des milieux artistiques (peinture, littérature, psychanalyse), sa dimension émancipatrice (nouvelle image de la femme). Il s’agit de discuter de la portée de l’art et de sa capacité à changer la société.  Kann Kunst die Gesellschaft verändern ? Les deux séances décrites ici s’inscrivent dans une séquence accordant une place dominante à l’image : l’image fixe dans un 1er temps (documents iconographiques : tableaux, affiches de films) puis l’image animée (extraits de film, série télé). Les deux extraits de séries proposées ont respectivement une fonction illustrative et conclusive au regard de la thématique. Elles apportent un dynamisme intéressant dans le traitement de la problématique. Il est important de rappeler que ce travail s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une discipline linguistique.

Pour lancer un débat, il faut souvent trouver une question ou une affirmation clivante afin de favoriser les prises de position des élèves. L’usage des séries peut permettre de donner du concret pour soutenir l’affirmation et lancer les discussions. Les séances s'articulent autour du sujet de la bioéthique et de l'humain augmenté.

Dans le cadre d’une séquence sur la désinformation les élèves sont amenés à réaliser en deux séances d’une heure une « sketchnote » à partir d’un document écrit, audio ou vidéo.

Les élèves sont amenés à explorer des ressources numériques et des collections des musées départementaux, à pratiquer une démarche d’investigation sur le terrain autour de leur école et à produire des activités interactives (frises, mots croisés, textes collaboratifs) . L'objectif est de mieux comprendre les traces et les héritages de l’occupation ancienne du territoire et de construire de réels repères historiques.

Cette proposition permet d'aborder l'étude du "monde bipolaire au temps de la guerre froide" à partir de l'exemple de Berlin. L'objectif est de développer l'esprit critique des élèves. Ils vérifient et critiquent dans un premier temps les informations fournies dans un documentaire erroné à l'aide d'un diaporama (genial.ly). Ils produisent ensuite leur propre vidéo, en utilisant des images symboliques de la guerre froide. Un prolongement en EMC est proposé.

A partir d’un texte et d’une bande annonce de série tv ainsi que de leurs connaissances, les élèves transposent ces documents, écrit et audiovisuel, en croquis. Queen sono, sortie en 2020, est la première série tv de Netflix totalement africaine de la réalisation aux acteurs. Après avoir illustré la légende par des captures d’écran, les élèves lisent l’article et mettent en perspective les informations transmises par la série. L’idée consiste à développer l’esprit critique des élèves à partir des médias.

Cette séquence d'Enseignement moral et civique, prévue pour le niveau de 3e, a pour objet l'étude de l'engagement de la France et de ses citoyens dans la défense et la sécurité. Une étude de cas sur le rôle de la France dans la FINUL met en valeur la complexité des situations internationales, l'inscription de l'action de la France dans un cadre multilatéral et lié à l'ONU, la multiplicité des missions des forces armées. La présentation de la JDC permet aux élèves de relier leur expérience prochaine à un cadre plus général. Ce travail a été réalisé par Paul Airiau, professeur au collège La-Grange-aux-Belles (Xe arr.) et Anne Doustaly, professeure au lycée Charlemagne (IVe arr.), sous le pilotage de Rachid Azzouz, Véronique Grandpierre et Jacqueline Jalta, IA-IPR. Il a été présenté le mercredi 9 décembre 2015 au lycée Edgar-Quinet, lors de l'animation consacrée à l'Enseignement moral et civique au collège.

Processus non linéaire, la laïcité s'est affirmée en France dans des contextes politiques changeants depuis le XVIIIe siècle et au cours de luttes qui lui ont donné sa spécificité, elle est un élément majeur de l'identité républicaine mais s'ouvre à des interrogations permanentes dans une société en constante mutation. Les différentes parties de la séquence proposée ici associent l'actualité des débats et leur inscription dans un rapport spécifique de l'État et des religions liées à l'histoire de la France. Elle s'articule autour de trois étapes : 1. Une mobilisation des représentations des élèves qui débouche sur une étude de cas : la loi de 2004 2. Une inscription dans l'histoire soulignant les étapes de la sécularisation et de la laïcisation de notre société qui conduit l'actualité de la question à s'inscrire dans un héritage (le passage de l'Ancien Régime aux régimes nés de la Révolution française jusqu'au concordat de 1801, la laïcisation sous la IIIe République, la laïcité depuis son inscription dans la constitution de 1946 jusqu'à 2004 3. L'actualité des débats et de la législation en vigueur (charte de la laïcité, rôle de la jurisprudence…) tout en soulignant en quoi la laïcisation porte fondamentalement sur l'affirmation de valeurs qui restent au cœur du débat politique actuel. Ce travail a été réalisé par Claude Basuyau, professeur au lycée Buffon (XVe) et Guy Lagelée, professeur-formateur dans l'académie de Créteil.

Au cours de l'année scolaire 2016-2017, deux classes de sixième du collège Molière ont expérimenté une application conçue pour réaliser rapidement des bandes dessinées. La BD proposée dans cet article a été produite par les élèves dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du programme d'enseignement moral et civique.

Cette proposition pédagogique s’intègre dans une construction progressive de la notion de laïcité depuis la 6e et s’appuie sur les acquis antérieurs. Il s’agit de rappeler aux élèves de fin de cycle 4 ce qu’est la laïcité et de réfléchir sur ce qu’elle signifie dans la France d’aujourd’hui et au sein de leur établissement. La démarche s'articule autour de l'intervention d'un avocat d'Initiadroit (une association d’avocats bénévoles intervenant dans les établissements scolaires) centrée sur l'étude de deux affaires judiciaires.

Niveau Seconde. Thème "Égalité et discrimination" À partir de l'observation et de l'analyse d'une situation concrète, celle d'une candidature pour un entretien d'embauche, cette séquence pédagogique propose de comprendre les mécanismes discriminatoires mis en œuvre à partir de stéréotypes et de préjugés. Travail réalisé par Marie-Christine Marchal, professeure en Sciences économiques et sociales au lycée Hélène-Boucher, Paris 20e

Cette séquence s'inscrit dans le thème d'EMC de première (des séries générales et technologiques) « Exercer sa citoyenneté en France et en Europe », « Organisation et enjeux de la défense nationale » . L'exemple de situation et de mise en œuvre proposé ici est un « débat sur la légitimité et les enjeux des conflits en identifiant les principaux acteurs de la Défense nationale ». Conçue à l'origine pour les classes de 1ères STMG, cette séquence est adaptable à toutes les séries de 1ères. Proposition pédagogique élaborée par Dominique Gamache, professeur d'histoire-géographie au lycée Jean-de-La-fontaine (16e) et Gilles Boué, membre du GiPTiC et du groupe de pilotage du trinôme académique de Paris, professeur d'histoire et de géographie au lycée Hélène Boucher (20e).

Cette séquence, prévue pour le niveau de 4e, a pour objet de définir et de prévenir les conduites addictives et leurs conséquences, à partir de l'exemple nuancé de l'addiction aux écrans. Les élèves s'impliquent en rédigeant une charte de prévention destinée aux autres élèves de l'établissement et à leurs parents. Par Pierre Aulas, professeur TZR à Paris et Jean-Luc Kharitonnoff, professeur au collège Léon-Gambetta (XXe arr.)

Cette séquence, prévue pour le niveau de 4e, a pour objet d'enseigner le rôle, les principes et le fonctionnement de la justice et de faire comprendre les raisons de l'obéissance aux règles et à la loi dans une société démocratique. La démarche repose sur une étude comparative d'un duel et d'un procès. Ce travail a été réalisé par Marie-Laure De Bue et Gérard Martin, professeurs au collège François-Couperin (IVe arr.), sous le pilotage de Rachid Azzouz, Véronique Grandpierre et Jacqueline Jalta, IA-IPR. Il a été présenté le mercredi 9 décembre 2015 au lycée Edgar-Quinet, lors de l'animation consacrée à l'Enseignement moral et civique au collège.

Cette ressource a pour but de développer la culture civique de nos élèves par certaines actions qui les mettent au contact de la société. Elle permet d’enseigner la finalité "Respecter autrui", de s’approprier les principes et le fonctionnement de la règle et du droit et de les aider à transmettre les connaissances à leurs pairs par le travail coopératif de groupe.

Cette séquence a pour but de sensibiliser les élèves de 6e au harcèlement scolaire, dont sont victimes en moyenne 10 à 15 % des collégiens. Elle ne vise pas à résoudre une situation vécue au sein de la classe mais privilégie la mise en œuvre d'une information à destination des autres collégiens par la rédaction d'un guide diffusé dans l'établissement. Ce travail a été réalisé par Sandrine Besnard, professeure au collège Henri-Matisse (XXe arr.) et Nathalie De Vismes, professeure au collège Stéphane-Mallarmé (XVIIe arr.)

Aborder avec les élèves la question de l’identité numérique et des réseaux sociaux : données personnelles, usage des réseaux sociaux dans le respect du droit à l’image et du droit d’auteur. Ces notions sont traitées par le biais d’un jeu de société repensé et augmenté amenant les élèves à s'interroger sur l'hygiène numérique à adopter.

Séquence de 4h proposée en partenariat avec le dispositif « EMC partageons ! ». Ce dispositif inclusif, interactif et collaboratif permet de favoriser les productions des élèves en EMC tout en les formant à la citoyenneté numérique. Après une réflexion sur la notion de harcèlement à l'école, la carte mentale résumant les productions des élèves est partagée via un réseau social. Enfin un intervenant extérieur aborde la thématique du cyberharcèlement.

L’objectif de la séquence est de s’interroger sur la place d’internet et des réseaux sociaux dans notre quotidien à travers le phénomène du rating : les sites de notation ou les applications qui invitent à évaluer des services mais aussi des personnes dans leurs activités journalières, se multiplient. Après une évocation du « crédit social » expérimenté en Chine et une réflexion sur ce système, la tâche finale consiste en l’organisation d’un débat argumenté autour de l’expérience d’une adaptation du règlement intérieur de l’établissement sous la forme d’un « crédit lycéen ».

Ce séquence s'inscrit dans le cadre du chapitre "Opinion publique, médias, démocratie", en classe de troisième, et a été réalisée dans la semaine qui a suivi les attentats de janvier contre Charlie Hebdo et l'HyperCacher de la Porte de Vincennes. Elle se veut une tentative de réponse aux diverses théories du complot que les événements ont fait naître, dans les heures qui ont suivi leur déroulement, relayées et amplifiées sur les réseaux sociaux. Cette séquence a trois objectifs : faire réfléchir les élèves sur la notion même de "théorie du complot" ; réaliser des chroniques radiophoniques ; mettre en œuvre une pédagogie différenciée.

La légende du football Ronaldinho, ancien international brésilien ayant évolué au Barça et au PSG, a assuré à ses admirateurs qu'il se sentait bien en dépit de son test positif au COVID-19.

La foi peut déplacer des montagnes. C'est la conviction de Li Fuqing, un alpiniste professionnel chinois de 44 ans qui avait été formé à devenir marcheur athlétique. Ayant gravi sans cesse des montagnes, il a réussi le sommet de sa carrière en conquérant trois fois le sommet du mont Qomolangma.

Le maire de Copenhague, Frank Jensen, a annoncé lundi que le Grand départ du Tour de France au Danemark serait officiellement reporté d'un an à 2022.

Le Cameroun a décidé de ne pas accueillir la finale de la Ligue africaine des champions à cause du COVID-19, a déclaré lundi le président de la Fédération camerounaise de football (Fecafoot), Seidou Mbombo Njoya.

Le Tour du lac Qinghai, initialement programmé du 26 juillet au 2 août, a été annulé pour cause de pandémie de coronavirus, ont annoncé lundi les organisateurs de l'événement.

Le site des épreuves de ski des Jeux olympiques d'hiver de Beijing 2022 à Chongli, dans la province chinoise du Hebei (nord), a formé une équipe de réponse d'urgence pour mieux servir l'événement.

Le gouvernement du Queensland, en Australie, a récemment suspendu sa candidature à l'organisation des Jeux olympiques 2032, alors que le gouvernement de l'Etat se concentre sur la reprise économique après la pandémie de COVID-19.

Le gouvernement malaisien a donné le feu vert aux athlètes pour qu'ils reprennent leur entraînement en vue des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques de Tokyo 2020, a annoncé mardi un haut responsable.

Les clubs de la ligue de football iranienne ont demandé à leurs joueurs étrangers de revenir en Iran dès que possible, les autorités ayant évoqué une reprise des compétitions après plus de deux mois d'interruption en raison de l'épidémie de COVID-19, a rapporté dimanche le quotidien Tehran Times.

Le Comité olympique international (IOC) et l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) ont signé samedi un nouvel accord de coopération visant à promouvoir une société en bonne santé grâce au sport, alors que l'épidémie de COVID-19 qui continue d'affecter la vie des personnes à travers le monde.

Le Comité international olympique (CIO) a discuté de la manière dont il pourrait aider les fédérations sportives internationales à surmonter les pertes financières liées à la pandémie de COVID-19, a annoncé l'organisation sur son site Internet.

Le directeur général du comité d'organisation des Jeux olympiques (JO) de Tokyo 2020, Toshiro Muto, a déclaré jeudi à Tokyo qu'ils n'avaient aucun plan de repli en faveur d'un nouveau report ou de l'annulation des Jeux olympiques s'ils ne peuvent pas être organisés en 2021.

Les organisateurs de la Coupe du monde de la FIFA au Qatar ont publié mardi un communiqué réfutant les allégations de corruption contenues dans les documents rendus publics aux Etats-Unis.

Les Jeux olympiques de Tokyo 2020, qui ont été reportés la semaine dernière en raison de la pandémie de COVID-19, se tiendront du 23 juillet au 8 août 2021, ont rapporté lundi les médias locaux.

La flamme olympique sera exposée à Fukushima (nord-est du Japon) pour un mois avant de rester à Tokyo, ont indiqué dimanche les médias locaux.

Le Premier ministre japonais, Shinzo Abe, et le président du Comité international olympique (CIO), Thomas Bach, sont d'accord pour reporter les Jeux olympiques de Tokyo à l'été 2021 au plus tard, a déclaré mardi le chef du gouvernement japonais.

Le Comité olympique et paralympique américain (USOPC) a estimé lundi que "la voie du report" des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo prévus cet été apparaissait à ses yeux comme "la plus propice", après avoir interrogé ses athlètes.

L'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) et la Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA) se sont associées officiellement lundi pour combattre le coronavirus COVID-19, lançant une nouvelle campagne de sensibilisation menée par des footballeurs de renommée mondiale en vue d'appeler tous les habitants de la planète à suivre cinq mesures pour éliminer le virus.

La commission exécutive du Comité international olympique (CIO) a annoncé dimanche que le CIO va intensifier sa planification de scénarios pour les Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo 2020 et qu'une discussion détaillée incluant le scénario de report sera terminée dans les quatre semaines.

Le Premier ministre japonais Shinzo Abe a déclaré lundi devant le Parlement que les Jeux Olympiques de Tokyo pourraient être reportés en raison de la propagation mondiale du nouveau coronavirus.

Le président du Comité international olympique (CIO), Thomas Bach, a souligné lors d'une réunion par téléconférence avec les représentants des athlètes mercredi qu'il était trop tôt pour décider du sort des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo 2020, selon des propos rapportés à Xinhua par l'ex-championne olympique Yang Yang.

Le championnat d'Europe masculin des nations de football, prévu du 12 juin au 12 juillet 2020, va être reporté en 2021, a annoncé mardi dans un communiqué l'Union des associations européennes de football (UEFA).

Le Comité international olympique (CIO) a affirmé mardi qu'il n'était "pas nécessaire de prendre des décisions radicales" à ce stade concernant l'organisation cette année des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques, malgré les préoccupations croissantes concernant l'impact de la pandémie de coronavirus COVID-19.

La Fédération mondiale de badminton (BWF) a annoncé vendredi la suspension de tous les tournois du BWF World Tour et des autres tournois sanctionnés par la BWF du 16 mars au 12 avril en raison de l'escalade de l'épidémie de COVID-19.

Le Premier ministre japonais Shinzo Abe et le président américain Donald Trump ont eu un entretien téléphonique vendredi consacré aux préparatifs du Japon pour accueillir cet été à Tokyo les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques, malgré l'épidémie de COVID-19.

La flamme des Jeux olympiques 2020 de Tokyo a été allumée jeudi sur le site antique d'Olympie en Grèce.

Zhangjiakou, la ville co-hôte des Jeux olympiques d'hiver 2022, compte augmenter sa capacité de production annuelle d'hydrogène à 10.000 tonnes avant l'événement.

La légende du football brésilien Pelé a décidé mercredi de dissiper les inquiétudes concernant sa santé après son transport dans un hôpital de Sao Paulo.

Le coup d'envoi de la Basketball Africa League (BAL), une nouvelle ligue professionnelle panafricaine, prévu le 13 mars près de Dakar est reporté à une date ultérieure par crainte de propagation du nouveau coronavirus (COVID-19), a-t-on appris mercredi de source officielle.

La ministre japonaise en charge des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques, Seiko Hashimoto, a déclaré mardi devant le Parlement que les Jeux de Tokyo 2020 pourraient être reportés en vertu de l'accord avec le Comité international olympique (CIO).

Dedicated devotees of grassroots game confident their hard work will reap rewards

World junior figure-skating champion Alina Zagitova on Saturday led a Russian one-two to capture her first Grand Prix Final crown, maintaining a superb performance in her senior debut season.

ST MORITZ, Switzerland - American Lindsey Vonn sustained an injury during the World Cup super-G race in St Moritz on Saturday as Switzerland's Lara Gut crashed halfway down the course.

ST MORITZ, Switzerland - American Lindsey Vonn sustained an injury during the World Cup super-G race in St Moritz on Saturday as Switzerland's Lara Gut crashed halfway down the course.

ST MORITZ, Switzerland - American Lindsey Vonn sustained an injury during the World Cup super-G race in St Moritz on Saturday as Switzerland's Lara Gut crashed halfway down the course.

Luis Suarez and Leo Messi both scored as FC Barcelona won 2-0 away to Villarreal to maintain their 5-point lead at the top of the Liga Santander at the end of matchday 15 of the season, which was played over this weekend.

Luis Suarez and Leo Messi both scored as FC Barcelona won 2-0 away to Villarreal to maintain their 5-point lead at the top of the Liga Santander at the end of matchday 15 of the season, which was played over this weekend.

Luis Suarez and Leo Messi both scored as FC Barcelona won 2-0 away to Villarreal to maintain their 5-point lead at the top of the Liga Santander at the end of matchday 15 of the season, which was played over this weekend.

Luis Suarez and Leo Messi both scored as FC Barcelona won 2-0 away to Villarreal to maintain their 5-point lead at the top of the Liga Santander at the end of matchday 15 of the season, which was played over this weekend.

Luis Suarez and Leo Messi both scored as FC Barcelona won 2-0 away to Villarreal to maintain their 5-point lead at the top of the Liga Santander at the end of matchday 15 of the season, which was played over this weekend.

Ronaldinho is planning a series of testimonial matches with his former clubs before officially announcing his retirement from football.

Ronaldinho is planning a series of testimonial matches with his former clubs before officially announcing his retirement from football.

Ronaldinho is planning a series of testimonial matches with his former clubs before officially announcing his retirement from football.

Ronaldinho is planning a series of testimonial matches with his former clubs before officially announcing his retirement from football.

Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Shaun Murphy 10-5 in the final of the UK Championship to win a record-equalling sixth UK Championship title at York's Barbican Center on Sunday.

Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Shaun Murphy 10-5 in the final of the UK Championship to win a record-equalling sixth UK Championship title at York's Barbican Center on Sunday.

Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Shaun Murphy 10-5 in the final of the UK Championship to win a record-equalling sixth UK Championship title at York's Barbican Center on Sunday.

Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Shaun Murphy 10-5 in the final of the UK Championship to win a record-equalling sixth UK Championship title at York's Barbican Center on Sunday.

The Chinese women's curling team became the first to gain a place at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games through a qualification event on Saturday.

The Chinese women's curling team became the first to gain a place at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games through a qualification event on Saturday.

The Chinese women's curling team became the first to gain a place at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games through a qualification event on Saturday.

The Chinese women's curling team became the first to gain a place at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games through a qualification event on Saturday.

The Chinese women's curling team became the first to gain a place at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games through a qualification event on Saturday.

The Chinese women's curling team became the first to gain a place at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games through a qualification event on Saturday.

River Plate secured their second consecutive Copa Argentina title by defeating Atletico Tucuman 2-1 in the final here on Saturday.

Colo-Colo secured their 32nd Chilean first division title by defeating Huachipato 3-0 away from home in their last match of the season on Saturday.

Renuka Suksukont captured her first international title on Saturday when the Thai completed a wire-to-wire victory at the ICTSI Philippine Ladies Masters in Laguna province.

Renuka Suksukont captured her first international title on Saturday when the Thai completed a wire-to-wire victory at the ICTSI Philippine Ladies Masters in Laguna province.

Real Madrid enjoyed a surprisingly easy win at home on Saturday, beating Sevilla 5-0 in their last game of La Liga before flying out to the World Club Championships.

Real Madrid enjoyed a surprisingly easy win at home on Saturday, beating Sevilla 5-0 in their last game of La Liga before flying out to the World Club Championships.

Real Madrid enjoyed a surprisingly easy win at home on Saturday, beating Sevilla 5-0 in their last game of La Liga before flying out to the World Club Championships.

Real Madrid enjoyed a surprisingly easy win at home on Saturday, beating Sevilla 5-0 in their last game of La Liga before flying out to the World Club Championships.

Athletics Kenya officials on Saturday protested against the cabinet secretary for sports over what they said was the minister's attempt to take over the running of athletics in the country.

Athletics Kenya officials on Saturday protested against the cabinet secretary for sports over what they said was the minister's attempt to take over the running of athletics in the country.

Brazil's Gremio have signed Peru under-18 captain Marco Saravia on a 12-month loan as they bolster their squad for the 2019 season.

Brazil's Gremio have signed Peru under-18 captain Marco Saravia on a 12-month loan as they bolster their squad for the 2019 season.

Five-time titlist Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the final of the UK Snooker Championship afte beating Stephen Maguire 6-4 in the semifinals at York on Saturday.

Five-time titlist Ronnie O'Sullivan reached the final of the UK Snooker Championship afte beating Stephen Maguire 6-4 in the semifinals at York on Saturday.

Marcello Lippi, head coach of China, reacts during the men's football match between South Korea and China at the EAFF E-1 football championship in Tokyo, Japan, Dec 9, 2017.

Marcello Lippi, head coach of China, reacts during the men's football match between South Korea and China at the EAFF E-1 football championship in Tokyo, Japan, Dec 9, 2017.

Marcello Lippi, head coach of China, reacts during the men's football match between South Korea and China at the EAFF E-1 football championship in Tokyo, Japan, Dec 9, 2017.

Marcello Lippi, head coach of China, reacts during the men's football match between South Korea and China at the EAFF E-1 football championship in Tokyo, Japan, Dec 9, 2017.

Marcello Lippi, head coach of China, reacts during the men's football match between South Korea and China at the EAFF E-1 football championship in Tokyo, Japan, Dec 9, 2017.

China held South Korea to a 2-2 draw in the 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship on Saturday:

China held South Korea to a 2-2 draw in the 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship on Saturday:

Former Bayer Leverkusen and Roma center back Juan has signed a new one-year contract with Brazilian club Flamengo, extending his professional career to the 23rd season.

Former Bayer Leverkusen and Roma center back Juan has signed a new one-year contract with Brazilian club Flamengo, extending his professional career to the 23rd season.

Brazil under-20 right back Dodo has joined Shakhtar Donetsk from Brazilian Serie A side Coritiba, the Ukrainian champions said on Friday.

Brazil under-20 right back Dodo has joined Shakhtar Donetsk from Brazilian Serie A side Coritiba, the Ukrainian champions said on Friday.

The German Football Association (DFB) named Philipp Lahm as the honorary captain of the national team in Frankfurt on Friday.

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said on Friday that he believed Cristiano Ronaldo would end his career at the club.

PARIS - A decade of dominance by the world's two best soccer players has left Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi tied with five Ballon d'Or awards each.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - James Harden and the Houston Rockets are defined by their explosive offense, and it got the best of the Utah Jazz on Thursday night.

PHILADELPHIA - When LaVar Ball started taunting Philly fans in the fourth quarter, it only turned up the volume on an already raucous atmosphere on Thursday night.

Golf's revival in China has gained a major boost with a 300 million yuan ($45 million) investment to drive the once-suspended PGA Tour China series to new heights.

Jurgen Klopp urged his Liverpool players not to succumb to the hype generated by their own scintillating performances after they crushed Spartak Moscow to reach the Champions League knockout rounds in emphatic fashion.

Jurgen Klopp urged his Liverpool players not to succumb to the hype generated by their own scintillating performances after they crushed Spartak Moscow to reach the Champions League knockout rounds in emphatic fashion.

Jurgen Klopp urged his Liverpool players not to succumb to the hype generated by their own scintillating performances after they crushed Spartak Moscow to reach the Champions League knockout rounds in emphatic fashion.

Jurgen Klopp urged his Liverpool players not to succumb to the hype generated by their own scintillating performances after they crushed Spartak Moscow to reach the Champions League knockout rounds in emphatic fashion.

As this year's international skiing festival kicked off in Chongli district of Zhangjiakou, North China's Hebei province, many entrepreneurs from the Untied States have come here in groups to make business deals with local governments to develop the winter sports industry.

A China youth ice hockey development initiative was launched Thursday in Beijing, calling for further popularity of the sport in China in response to the “300 million people on ice" national campaign in the run-up to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

A China youth ice hockey development initiative was launched Thursday in Beijing, calling for further popularity of the sport in China in response to the “300 million people on ice" national campaign in the run-up to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

LONDON - Washing away the pain of last year's botched Champions League campaign, Tottenham completed this group stage as Europe's leading team.

LONDON - Washing away the pain of last year's botched Champions League campaign, Tottenham completed this group stage as Europe's leading team.

LONDON - Washing away the pain of last year's botched Champions League campaign, Tottenham completed this group stage as Europe's leading team.

LONDON - Washing away the pain of last year's botched Champions League campaign, Tottenham completed this group stage as Europe's leading team.

MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo set yet another Champions League record on Wednesday, scoring in Real Madrid's 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund to become the first player to find the net in all six group-stage matches.

MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo set yet another Champions League record on Wednesday, scoring in Real Madrid's 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund to become the first player to find the net in all six group-stage matches.

MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo set yet another Champions League record on Wednesday, scoring in Real Madrid's 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund to become the first player to find the net in all six group-stage matches.

MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo set yet another Champions League record on Wednesday, scoring in Real Madrid's 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund to become the first player to find the net in all six group-stage matches.

Chinese Super League clubs have been warned to tighten their purse strings or risk hamstringing the nation's soccer push.

Chinese Super League clubs have been warned to tighten their purse strings or risk hamstringing the nation's soccer push.

Chinese Super League clubs have been warned to tighten their purse strings or risk hamstringing the nation's soccer push.

Chinese Super League clubs have been warned to tighten their purse strings or risk hamstringing the nation's soccer push.

Chinese skiers practice at a ski resort in Beijing's Yanqing district on Dec 7. The skiing team, composed of 18 members from all walks of life, was set up in July to promote winter sports in the capital.

Chinese skiers practice at a ski resort in Beijing's Yanqing district on Dec 7. The skiing team, composed of 18 members from all walks of life, was set up in July to promote winter sports in the capital.

Chinese skiers practice at a ski resort in Beijing's Yanqing district on Dec 7. The skiing team, composed of 18 members from all walks of life, was set up in July to promote winter sports in the capital.

Chinese skiers practice at a ski resort in Beijing's Yanqing district on Dec 7. The skiing team, composed of 18 members from all walks of life, was set up in July to promote winter sports in the capital.

Chinese skiers practice at a ski resort in Beijing's Yanqing district on Dec 7. The skiing team, composed of 18 members from all walks of life, was set up in July to promote winter sports in the capital.

KUALA LUMPUR - Two-time champion Guangzhou Evergrande has been handed a potentially bumpy ride to the knockout stages of the 2018 Asian Champions League after the draw for the group phase of next year's competition was made on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR - Two-time champion Guangzhou Evergrande has been handed a potentially bumpy ride to the knockout stages of the 2018 Asian Champions League after the draw for the group phase of next year's competition was made on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR - Two-time champion Guangzhou Evergrande has been handed a potentially bumpy ride to the knockout stages of the 2018 Asian Champions League after the draw for the group phase of next year's competition was made on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR - Two-time champion Guangzhou Evergrande has been handed a potentially bumpy ride to the knockout stages of the 2018 Asian Champions League after the draw for the group phase of next year's competition was made on Wednesday.

KHARKIV, Ukraine - Shakhtar Donetsk advanced to the knockout stage of the Champions League with a 2-1 victory over Manchester City on Wednesday, prompting the Ukrainian club's coach to attend his media conference dressed as Zorro.

KHARKIV, Ukraine - Shakhtar Donetsk advanced to the knockout stage of the Champions League with a 2-1 victory over Manchester City on Wednesday, prompting the Ukrainian club's coach to attend his media conference dressed as Zorro.

KHARKIV, Ukraine - Shakhtar Donetsk advanced to the knockout stage of the Champions League with a 2-1 victory over Manchester City on Wednesday, prompting the Ukrainian club's coach to attend his media conference dressed as Zorro.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday said it will make no more payments to the International Amateur Boxing federation (AIBA) until that body's problems over governance and finances are sorted out.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday said it will make no more payments to the International Amateur Boxing federation (AIBA) until that body's problems over governance and finances are sorted out.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday said it will make no more payments to the International Amateur Boxing federation (AIBA) until that body's problems over governance and finances are sorted out.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday said it will make no more payments to the International Amateur Boxing federation (AIBA) until that body's problems over governance and finances are sorted out.

Mailman, one of China's leading sports marketing platforms, and Sina Weibo, China's social media giant, on Wednesday announced strategic partnership to deliver the next generation of technology in China's sports digital market.

MANCHESTER, England - Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has aimed a subtle dig at Pep Guardiola and Arsene Wenger by declaring he would only tell "the truth" about the fitness of his players.

MANCHESTER, England - Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has aimed a subtle dig at Pep Guardiola and Arsene Wenger by declaring he would only tell "the truth" about the fitness of his players.

MANCHESTER, England - Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has aimed a subtle dig at Pep Guardiola and Arsene Wenger by declaring he would only tell "the truth" about the fitness of his players.

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　　2018年已经过了四分之三，你还不打算换一个发型吗？男生发型绝对不可乱，并且一定要帅！趁着春夏之际，赶紧换一个帅气的发型吧！它会帮你完美改变不一样的时尚感觉。 男生齐刘海短发 　　中学生的发型最适合短发造型，住校生也好走读生也好，梳短发造型配齐刘海，两边的头发自....

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Le corps sans vie d'un enfant de 12 ans a été repêché de l'eau du barrage n°1, côté ouest, à proximité de l'échangeur du Nord par les sapeurs-pompiers dans la soirée de ce jeudi 18 août 2022 à Tampouy.
Après l'intervention des soldats du feu à 16 heures, la police judicaire du commissariat du Sigh-nonghin et un médecin légiste se sont déportés sur les lieux pour la découverte du corps. A l'issue de leur observation, ils n'ont pas souhaité s'exprimer à notre micro pour des éventuelles explications.
Mais (...)

- Société

Via un communiqué sur la page officielle de l'État-Major général des armées, le service de communication de l'armée informe les populations de Ouagadougou et particulièrement celles riveraines de Gounghin de la tenue d'un exercice militaire. Cet exercice militaire se déroulera ce vendredi 19 août 2022, entre 08h et 14h, dans les environs de l'Institut supérieur d'études de protection civile.
Il pourrait occasionner des détonations et des coups de feu. Toutefois, le Chef d'État-Major Général des Armées (...)

- Société

A compter de ce vendredi 19 août 2022, les Burkinabè constateront une augmentation des prix des hydrocarbures. Ils devront désormais ajouter 35 francs CFA pour le litre du super, et 30 francs CFA pour le gasoil. Les nouveaux prix à la pompe du litre sont respectivement de 750 et 675 francs CFA.
Le DDO connaîtra également une hausse de 40 Francs CFA par litre sur le prix actuel. Ci-joint l'arrêté conjoint signé ce 18 août 2022 par le ministre du commerce et celui de l'économie et des (...)

- Société

A Ouagadougou les prix des produits de grande consommation connaissent une augmentation. Des vendeurs aux clients, la situation devient de plus en plus inquiétante. Nous avons parcouru certains marchés de la capitale burkinabè pour toucher du doigt cette réalité.
Abdoul Ouédraogo est celui que nous avons rencontré à notre arrivée au marché de Toécin à 9 heures. Le regard inquiet, posé sur les produits qu'il est venu chercher, il se demande s'il pourra retourner à la maison avec quelque chose au (...)

- Economie

Le mardi 16 août 2022, des hommes armés non identifiés (HANI) ont prêché dans la mosquée de Biba, un village de la commune de Yaba dans la province du Nayala, situé à 10 km de Toma. C'était dans l'après-midi, selon des sources locales et sécuritaires.
Ils seraient arrivés dans le village en binômes sur des motos aux environs de 10 h. Ils se promenaient dans les lieux de rassemblement pour dire aux hommes de se rassembler dans la mosquée.
« Ils avaient des armes à feu et des couteaux. C'est dans la peur (...)

- Attaques terroristes

Selon les responsables, ce sont une soixantaine d'organisations de la société civile qui font ainsi bloc à travers le Front de libération nationale (FLN) « pour ne pas se laisser berner par des personnes aux intérêts égoïstes ».
Le lancement de cette faîtière, qui a eu lieu ce jeudi 18 août 2022 à Ouagadougou, a été une occasion pour ses leaders pour marquer leur soutien à la transition et mettre en garde contre toutes velléités de remise en cause de la transition.
Face à la floraison des mouvements ces (...)

- Politique

Dans une lettre adressée au Conseil de sécurité de l'Organisation des Nations unies (ONU), le ministre malien des Affaires étrangères, Abdoulaye Diop, a accusé l'armée française d'être de connivence avec les groupes armés terroristes.
Pour le nouveau commandant de la force Barkhane, le général Bruno Baratz, les accusations sont infondées et insultantes.
« C'est un petit peu insultant de leur part, parce qu'effectivement, nous avons tout fait pour nous battre jusqu'au bout. Même au moment du désengagement, (...)

- International

Elsie Laurence-Chounoune a pris fonction le 16 août 2022 comme Représentante Résidente du Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (PNUD) au Burkina Faso.
Avec plus de trente-trois ans d'expérience dans le développement et les opérations, Dr. Laurence-Chounoune a un parcours professionnel très riche au sein du Système des Nations Unies.
Avant d'être nommée dans ses nouvelles fonctions, Dr. Laurence-Chounoune était Représentante Résidente du PNUD à Malabo, en Guinée Equatoriale.
Dr. (...)

- Diplomatie - Coopération

La grande famille Zoungrana à Koudougou (Kassoun), Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso ;
La grande famille Yameogo à Koudougou, Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Vavoua(Côte Ivoire) ,
Les familles alliées Oubda, Ouédraogo, Ky, Nanema, Yaméogo, Sanou ;
Les enfants : Hélène, Amos, Edwige, Géraldine, Rosine et Benjamin.
Le corps pastoral de l'église des assemblées de Dieu de Colma, son comité,
L'Association des Servantes de Christ (ASC), le MHEB, la JAD, Le DENAD, Toutes les structures de l'église des assemblées (...)

- Nécrologie

Le président de l'Assemblée législative de transition (ALT), Aboubacar Toguyeni a ouvert la première session extraordinaire du Parlement, ce mercredi 17 août 2022 à Ouagadougou. Cette session va permettre de relire le règlement de l'ALT adopté au terme de son installation, dans la perspective de la mise en place de la Haute cour de justice.
La mise en place de la Haute cour de justice, voici le principal objet de la première session extraordinaire de l'ALT, en cette année 2022. Un sujet d'un enjeu (...)

- Politique

La compagnie aérienne Qantas formera des pilotes dans un nouveau centre spécialement conçu à Sydney pour « toute sa flotte actuelle et future », y compris les Airbus A350-1000 qui opéreront des vols sans escale de la côte est de l’Australie vers Londres et New York dans le cadre du Project Sunrise. Une nouvelle installation de plusieurs […]

La compagnie aérienne Emirates Airlines a donné le coup d’envoi du programme de modernisation de l’ensemble des cabines intérieures de 120 Airbus A380 et Boeing 777, dans le cadre d’un investissement de plusieurs milliards d’euros afin d’améliorer toujours plus l’expérience client.  Annoncé en novembre dernier quand la compagnie émiratie basée à l’aéroport de Dubaï a […]

La compagnie aérienne low cost Air Arabia lancera en décembre une nouvelle liaison entre Sharjah et Milan-Bergame, sa cinquième vers l’aéroport italien. A partir du 7 décembre 2022, la spécialiste émiratie du vol pas cher proposera quatre vols par semaine entre sa base originelle à Sharjah et l’aéroport de Bergame-Orio al Serio, opérés en Airbus […]

La jeune compagnie aérienne low cost long-courrier Norse Atlantic Airways inaugure sa première liaison au départ de Berlin vers New York, avant de relier la capitale allemande à Los Angeles – et de lancer cet hiver une troisième nouvelle liaison, vers Fort Lauderdale. Après sa base à Oslo-Gardemoen et Londres-Gatwick, la spécialiste norvégienne du vol pas cher avait […]

Le NTSB a tranché : le copilote d’un petit avion ayant trouvé la mort avant son atterrissage à Raleigh-Durham avait bien sauté en plein vol, sans parachute et en priant son collègue de l’excuser. L’incident du 29 juillet 2022 avait vu le pilote d’un Casa C212 Aviocar appartenant à la société Spore Ltd (immatriculé N49TCA) demander […]

La compagnie aérienne low cost SkyUp Airlines a pris possession d’un douzième avion, un Boeing 737-800 pris en leasing, alors qu’elle n’a plus accès à sa base de Kiev depuis l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la Russie. La spécialiste ukrainienne du vol  normalement basée à l’aéroport de Kiev-Boryspil pas cher a annoncé le 16 aout 2022 […]

Les aéroports parisiens ont vu passer le mois dernier 9,092 millions de passagers, soit 5 millions de plus que durant le même mois l’année dernière. Pour l’ensemble du Groupe ADP, le trafic atteint 29,649 millions de clients (+11,9 millions), avec sur les six premiers mois de l’année une hausse globale de 116,8% En juillet 2022, […]

La compagnie aérienne low cost Wizz Air lancera cet hiver une nouvelle liaison entre Paris-Beauvais et Suceava, une nouvelle base qui deviendra sa sixième destination en Roumanie au départ de la capitale française. A partir du 15 décembre 2022, la spécialiste hongroise du vol pas cher proposera deux vols par semaine entre sa nouvelle base […]

Le syndicat de pilotes minoritaire Alter, présent dans la compagnie aérienne Air France et sa filiale low cost Transavia, dénonce de nouveau la fatigue « chronique et déraisonnable » dans les cockpits. Déjà à l’origine d’une grève en juin dernier, le problème de la fatigue des pilotes et de son influence sur la sécurité des vols a […]

Un syndicat de la compagnie aérienne Air Calédonie a appelé les salariés à une grève illimitée, dont les conséquences sur le programme de vols se fait déjà sentir. En Espagne, les PNC de la low cost Iberia Express se préparent à une grève de dix jours à partir de la fin du mois. A peine […]

Histoire de l’aviation – 18 août 1910. Quelque 48 heures, voilà le temps que va durer la pause imposée de l’aviateur de nationalité américaine John Moisant qui, en ce mois d’août 1910, s’est lancé dans un raid aérien qui doit le conduire de France jusqu’en Grande-Bretagne. Le pilote devant arrêter son voyage provisoirement en raison de problèmes mécaniques. […]

La compagnie aérienne Thai Airways a vu son trafic passager bondir de 570% au deuxième trimestre par rapport à l’année dernière, grâce à la levée des restrictions sanitaires liées à la pandémie de Covid-19. Le chiffre d’affaires a progressé de 280%, tandis que la perte opérationnelle a été divisée par plus de trois. Au deuxième […]

La compagnie aérienne South African Airways nie tout impact potentiel sur les opérations, après un avertissement du régulateur sur la possibilité de voir son AOC retirée suite à plusieurs manquements légaux liés à sa privatisation. La compagnie nationale sud-africaine a reconnu avoir reçu la lettre du Conseil des licences des services aériens (ASLC) citant « quelques […]

Un incident bizarre s’est déroulé la semaine sur un vol de la compagnie aérienne low cost Jet2 entre Larnaca et Manchester : une passagère s’est en partie déshabillée avant de tenter d’entrer dans le cockpit. L’avion s’est dérouté vers Paris pour se débarrasser de la femme, sans autre conséquence. Le 9 aout 2022, le vol LS944 […]

La compagnie aérienne Air Corsica offre des allers simples à partir de 59 euros TTC au départ de et vers Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi, Figari, Marseille, Nice, Lyon, Toulouse et Charleroi. L’offre exceptionnelle « été indien » de la compagnie corse est valable jusqu’au 30 aout 2022, pour des voyages entre le 1er octobre et le 25 mars […]

La société de leasing Air Lease Corp. (ALC) a annoncé avoir placé 17 A321neo et deux A320neo chez la compagnie aérienne Condor Flugdienst GmbH, qui en attend 41 au total. Le mois dernier, la compagnie loisirs allemande annonçait avoir choisi de rester chez Airbus pour le renouvellement de sa flotte-moyen-courrier, via des achats en direct et […]

La compagnie aérienne American Airlines a commandé 20 Boom Overture avec des options pour 40 autres, devenant le deuxième client déclaré du futur avion supersonique. Edelweiss Air poursuit de son côté le développement de sa flotte long-courrier en ajoutant un cinquième Airbus A340-300 livré en 2003 à sa sœur SWISS. Après United Airlines en juin […]

Le groupe IAG (International Airlines Group) a annoncé détenir désormais 20% du capital de la compagnie aérienne espagnole Air Europa. Qui restera pour l’instant indépendante de sa sœur Iberia. Après le feu vert du gouvernement espagnol en juin dernier, le groupe composé également de British Airways, Aer Lingus, Vueling et Level a confirmé le 16 aout 2022 […]

Quelque 16.000 employés de la compagnie aérienne British Airways verront leur salaires augmenter d’environ 13% d’ici l’automne, en compensation des baisses consenties depuis le début de la pandémie de Covid-19. Après la menace d’une grève brandie fin juin par ses employés à l’enregistrement à l’aéroport de Londres-Heathrow,  la compagnie nationale britannique avait trouvé un accord avec […]

La compagnie aérienne low cost easyJet lancera cet hiver une nouvelle liaison saisonnière entre Genève et Newcastle, sa treizième vers la Grande-Bretagne. Du 10 décembre 2022 au 25 mars 2023, la spécialiste britannique du vol pas cher proposera deux vols par semaine entre sa base à Genève-Cointrin et l’aéroport de Newcastle, opérés en monocouloir Airbus. […]

Les débuts du Boeing 777-300ER reconfiguré de la compagnie aérienne Air France entre Paris et New York, avec trois cabines renouvelées, ne devraient pas devenir réalité avant le 15 septembre au plus tôt. Selon les GDS consultés par Aeroroutes, la nouvelle classe Affaires long-courrier de la compagnie nationale française présentée en mai dernier ne sera pas déployée […]

Histoire de l’aviation – 17 août 1911. Après la chute dans la Manche du pilote de nationalité française Jules Védrines, le 16 août 1911, voilà qu’un autre aviateur est à son tour victime d’un accident d’aéroplane le lendemain, le 17 août 1911. L’infortuné n’est autre que Fernand Delétang, breveté pilote depuis le 5 avril 1910, ayant décroché le brevet […]

La compagnie aérienne SAS Scandinavian Airlines a annoncé avoir trouvé 700 millions de dollars via un crédit de financement de débiteur-exploitant (« DIP ») accordé par Apollo Global Management. Après avoir investi dans Air France-KLM puis s’être payé le géant du fret aérien Atlas Air, le fonds de capital-investissement américain vient au secours de la compagnie […]

La compagnie aérienne Emirates Airlines passera le mois prochain à 17 vols par semaine entre Dubaï et Moscou. Et elle enverra de nouveau ses Airbus A380 à Munich et à Perth, en plus de les utiliser pour la première fois vers Bangalore. A partir du 1er septembre 2022, la compagnie émiratie propose trois fréquences supplémentaires […]

La compagnie aérienne Turkish Airlines a identifié quatorze nouvelles destinations à lancer dans les prochains mois, dont Nantes en France. Lors de la présentation la semaine dernière des résultats financiers semestriels exceptionnel (chiffre d’affaires de 7,6 milliards de dollars au 30 juin 2022, une hausse de  27,5 % par rapport à la même période avant […]

La compagnie aérienne low cost Air Arabia affiche au S1 un bénéfice net de 451 millions d’AED (121 millions d’euros), sur un chiffre d’affaires ayant progressé de 125% grâce à la reprise soutenue de la demande. Entre janvier et juin 2022, le groupe composée de la spécialiste émiratie du vol pas cher basée à l’aéroport […]

Cinq lions ont voyagé la semaine dernière entre Amsterdam et Johannesburg à bord d’un Boeing 747BCF du groupe Air France-KLM opéré par Martinair, après avoir été secourus en Roumanie puis traités aux Pays-Bas. Le vol du 747 immatriculé PH-MPS, opéré par la filiale cargo du groupe franco-néerlandais, a quitté Amsterdam-Schiphol le 10 aout 2022,en direction […]

La compagnie aérienne Qantas va se procurer six Airbus A321 en vue d’une conversion au transport de fret, pour des livraisons entre 2024 et mi-2026. La compagnie nationale australienne a annoncé le 15 aout 2022 un renforcement de sa flotte cargo domestique « afin de répondre à la demande croissante de l’e-commerce ». Qantas se procurera « sur […]

La compagnie aérienne Ethiopian Airlines a obtenu des droits de trafic sur la liaison entre Genève et Manchester, deux destinations proposées conjointement au départ d’Addis Abeba. Elle a reçu trois Boeing 737 MAX depuis la reprise au printemps des vols en monocouloir remotorisé, trois ans après le crash du vol ET302 qui avait fait 157 […]

La compagnie aérienne low cost Ryanair va supprimer cet hiver huit routes à Budapest, dont celle vers Bordeaux, et réduire les fréquences de sept autres suite à l’annonce d’une nouvelle taxe passager par le gouvernement hongrois. Durant l’hiver 2022-2023, l’aéroport de Budapest-Ferenc Liszt ne sera plus relié par la spécialiste irlandaise du vol pas cher […]

L’aéroport de Londres-Heathrow a prolongé jusqu’au 29 octobre la limite de 100.000 passagers par jour au départ, imposée le mois dernier aux compagnies aériennes faute de personnel pour gérer l’affluence Mises en place mi-juillet, les limites de capacité dans le premier aéroport britannique seront prolongées au même niveau jusqu’au 29 octobre 2022, « pour permettre des trajets […]

La compagnie aérienne KLM Royal Dutch Airlines et le syndicat de pilotes VNV ont trouvé lundi un accord de principe sur une nouvelle convention collective, incluant deux augmentations successives d’ici mars prochain. Annoncé le 15 aout 2022 par la compagnie nationale néerlandaise, basée à l’aéroport d’Amsterdam-Schiphol, l’accord de principe avec le syndicat de pilotes inclut […]

Histoire de l’aviation – 16 août 1911. C’est dans la matinée de ce mercredi 16 août 1911 que l’aviateur de nationalité française Jules Védrines va quitter la ville d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, prenant ainsi la direction du ciel pour se rendre par voie aérienne en Normandie. Un raid au cours duquel le pilote aura malheureusement un accident d’aéroplane vers 12 h 30. […]

Les compagnies aériennes Emirates Airlines et Aegean Airlines ont annoncé un accord de partage de codes, portent pour la première sur huit destinations intérieures en Grèce et pour la seconde sur la ligne entre Athènes et Dubaï. La compagnie émiraties a « activé » ce 15 aout 2022 un nouveau partenariat en partage de code avec le […]

Annoncé le mois dernier pour ce 15 aout 2022, le lancement de la nouvelle compagnie aérienne loisirs a été reporté d’au moins deux semaines, en raison de « problèmes règlementaires ». Dévoilée en 2014 puis début 2019, la compagnie canadienne avait ouvert fin juillet les réservations pour ses premiers vols au départ de Toronto-Pearson, avec l’unique Airbus A320 de 180 […]

La compagnie aérienne Iberia a annoncé pour le début de la saison hivernale la relance de sa ligne entre Madrid et Rio de Janeiro, et le retour à 3 vols quotidiens vers Mexico – comme en 2019 avant la pandémie de Covid-19. Après avoir annoncé pour l’hiver prochain le retour à son réseau d’avant la […]

La compagnie aérienne Malaysia Airlines va acquérir 20 A330neo pour renouveler sa flotte de gros-porteurs, dont dix achetés directement chez Airbus. L’avionneur européen a confirmé ce 15 aout 2022 la rumeur de la semaine dernière : Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG), société mère de la compagnie nationale malaisienne basée à l’aéroport de Kuala Lumpur, a « sélectionné […]

L’aéroport de Skiathos en Grèce permet des images d’atterrissages au plus près du bout de la piste, situé lui-aussi en bord de plage. Saint Martin-Princess Juliana a longtemps été la référence en termes d’atterrissages au ras des têtes, mais celui de Skiathos-Alexandros Papadiamantis n’a rien à lui envier – sauf la présence de gros porteurs. […]

La compagnie aérienne Virgin Atlantic a assisté vendredi au vol inaugural de son premier Airbus A330-900, dont l’entrée en service est prévue début octobre à Londres. L’A330neo de la compagnie britannique (MSN2018 immatriculé G-VEWR et baptisé “Liberty Belle”) a décollé pour la première fois le 12 aout 2022 à Toulouse, pour un vol d’une durée […]

Un homme de 18 ans a été placé sur « liste noire » pour cinq ans par la compagnie aérienne low cost Transavia Holland, pour avoir diffusé avant le décollage une image de crash à d’autres passagers. L’incident s’est passé le 10 aout 2022  l’aéroport de Rotterdam-La Haye, où la filiale néerlandaise spécialisée dans le vol pas […]

La compagnie aérienne British Airways lancera l’été prochain deux nouvelles liaisons transatlantiques au départ de Londres, vers Aruba et le Guyana. Il faudra d’autre part attendre janvier prochain au plus tôt pour la voir relancer sa ligne vers Shanghai. À partir de fin mars 2023, la compagnie nationale britannique proposera deux vols par semaine entre […]

La jeune compagnie aérienne low cost long-courrier Norse Atlantic Airways a inauguré une nouvelle liaison entre Oslo et Los Angeles, sa quatrième destination aux Etats-Unis. Elle a en outre lancé ses premiers vols entre Londres et New York. Depuis le 9 aout 2022, la spécialiste norvégienne du vol long-courrier pas cher propose trois vols par […]

Le groupe aérien Air France-KLM devrait atteindre cet hiver une capacité vers le Mexique supérieure de 13% à celle de 2019, avant la pandémie de Covid-19. Air France propose actuellement 12 vols par semaine entre sa base à Paris-CDG et l’aéroport de Mexico-Benito Juarez, et cinq autres en direction de Cancun, sa sœur KLM Royal […]

Histoire de l’aviation – 15 août 1911. L’hippodrome des Hauts-Blancs-Monts accueille en ce mardi 15 août 1911 une manifestation aéronautique. Une fête de l’aviation dont l’organisation a été confiée au comité des quartiers de la cité d’Arras. Les spectateurs attendant les premières virées aériennes à partir de 14 heures. Mais c’était sans compter le mauvais temps qui va […]

La forte reprise de Londres-Stansted se poursuit avec 2,5 millions de passagers transitant par l’aéroport en juillet 2022, ce qui représente 90 % du trafic pré-Covid. Utilisé principalement par les low cost easyJet, Jet2 et Ryanair, Londres-Stansted a connu une fréquentation fluide en juillet, tous les passagers passant les contrôles de sécurité en moins de […]

American Airlines a annoncé qu’elle va supprimer 30 949 sur quelque 184 577 vols en novembre prochain, soit environ 13 % de son programme. De leur côté, Delta Air Lines a également confirmé la suppression d’environ 4 400 vols de son programme de novembre, et United Airlines la suppression d’environ 15 000 vols le même […]

Air Canada a donné à un couple de passagers voyageant sur le même vol retardé deux motifs différents et deux indemnités différentes, raconte le Journal de Montréal. En juin, Manon et Mario Boisvert doivent se rendre à Las Vegas, mais leur vol d’Air Canada est retardé de plus de trois heures. De retour de leur […]

Le Premier ministre irakien, Moustafa al-Kazimi, a donné le 10 août le coup d’envoi pour la reconstruction de l’aéroport international de Mossoul, toujours désaffecté cinq ans après la défaite des djihadistes du groupe État islamique (EI). Les autorités irakiennes ont confié la réhabilitation de l’aéroport à deux entreprises turques, et les travaux devraient s’étaler sur […]

Un homme a tiré cinq coups de feu dans le hall des départs de l’aéroport de Canberra ce dimanche, provoquant la panique des passagers mais ne faisant pas de victime, selon la police australienne qui l’a arrêté. La police a évacué et fermé l’aéroport de la capitale australienne, menant à la suspension de nombreux vols. […]

Boeing a livré mercredi son premier 787 Dreamliner depuis mai 2021, ce qui constitue une étape importante pour l’avionneur américain après les problèmes de production de son gros-porteur. Boeing doit maintenant passer par des contrôles réglementaires minutieux imposés par le régulateur américain  pour obtenir la livraison d’autres Dreamliner, tout en réduisant un arriéré d’environ 120 […]

L’aéroport international Rome-Fiumicino a commencé l’installation de 30 nouveaux scanners de contrôle des bagages à main qui, selon leur fabricant Smiths Detection, amélioreront l’efficacité des opérations de sécurité aéroportuaire. Ces scanners HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX, à rayons X et dotés de la tomographie informatisée (CT), génèrent des images volumétriques 3D haute définition favorisant un contrôle plus […]

En Europe, quelque 66 millions de passagers ont déjà dû faire face à des retards ou des annulations depuis le début de l’année en raison des grèves et du manque de personnel, selon le site d’aide aux passagers AirHelp. En clair, un passager sur quatre a été affecté par des problèmes de vol entre janvier […]

Histoire de l’aviation – 14 août 1910. En ce 14 août 1910, l’aviateur de nationalité française Hubert Latham se lance dans un nouveau raid par la voie des airs qui devrait le mener en Normandie. Le pilote compte en effet rejoindre le Calvados, plus précisément Deauville avec son aéroplane. Depuis le début du mois d’août 1910, il a […]

L’aéroport Amsterdam-Schiphol va dédommager les passagers qui ont manqué leurs vols en raison des énormes files d’attente, a annoncé hier son gestionnaire Royal Schiphol Group dans un communiqué. Comme beaucoup d’autres aéroports en Europe, Amsterdam-Schiphol, l’un des plus fréquentés d’Europe et principal hub de la compagnie aérienne KLM, a connu d’importantes perturbations ces derniers mois […]

Le Venezuela proteste depuis des semaines contre l’immobilisation d’un Boeing 747-300 cargo appartenant à Emtrasur, filiale de la compagnie aérienne nationale vénézuélienne Conviasa, et la rétention d’une partie de son équipage à Buenos Aires, en Argentine. L’avion-cargo transportant des pièces détachées automobiles en provenance du Mexique est entré en Argentine le 6 juin. Dans l’impossibilité […]

La low cost islandaise PLAY a transporté 109 956 passagers en juillet 2022, soit une augmentation de 25 % par rapport au mois précédent. Le nombre de passagers transportés le mois dernier est également supérieur à celui de toute l’année 2021. En juillet, son coefficient d’occupation a été de 87,9 % contre 79,2 % en […]

TAP Air Portugal a transporté plus de 640 000 clients sur plus de 3 100 vols entre l’Europe et le Brésil au cours des six premiers mois de cette année, ce qui représente une hausse « massive » de 526 % par rapport à la même période de 2021. Selon TAP Air Portugal, son trafic […]

À 100 jours de la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA au Qatar, la compagnie aérienne Qatar Airways, qui est le transporteur officiel de l’évènement, lance sa tournée « The Journey Tour », à travers l’Europe. La tournée en bus interactif, « The Journey Tour », débute le 13 août 2022 à Londres puis passera […]

Emirates investit plus de 2 milliards de dollars pour renforcer l’expérience à bord de ses clients. Cet investissement inclut un vaste programme de modernisation de plus de 120 appareils et toute une série d’améliorations de services dans l’ensemble des classes, dès cette année. Les nouveaux services d’Emirates comprennent notamment une large gamme large de menus […]

La capacité mondiale est de 460,6 millions de sièges en août 2022, soit 2 % de plus qu’en juillet 2022 mais toujours 12 % de moins qu’en août 2019, avant la pandémie mondiale, selon les données d’OAG (Official Aviation Guide) publiées cette semaine. En tête, l’Amérique du Nord représente une capacité de 102,9 millions de […]

Les pilotes de la low cost britannique easyJet en Espagne ont entamé des arrêts de travail pendant des week-end en août pour réclamer le rétablissement des conditions de travail antérieures à la pandémie de Covid-19. La grève a lieu du vendredi 12 au dimanche 14 ainsi que du vendredi 19 au dimanche 21, puis du […]

Histoire de l’aviation – 13 août 1908. En ce 13 août 1908, les frères Wright, Orville et Wilbur, sont une nouvelle fois au cœur de l’actualité aéronautique, mais pas de vol record à consigner en ce jour, comme la veille, ces derniers voyant malheureusement leurs expérimentations dans le ciel français être arrêtées à cause d’un regrettable accident […]

Le nombre de passagers à l’aéroport Montréal-Trudeau s’est établi à 4 millions au deuxième trimestre 2022 en hausse de 739,8 % par rapport à l’année 2021, soit 79,7 % du trafic de la période correspondante pré-pandémique de 2019. La croissance aura été soutenue tout au long du trimestre, avec 72,1 % du niveau de trafic […]

La Nouvelle-Zélande, qui ouvre de nouveau ses frontières aux touristes, veut cibler des visiteurs “de haute qualité” et pas ceux qui dépensent “10 dollars par jour“. “Nous allons accueillir les routards“, mais “nous n’allons pas cibler les personnes qui expliquent sur Facebook comment elles peuvent voyager à travers notre pays avec 10 dollars par jour […]

A bord d’un vol de la compagnie aérienne sud-africaine Lift reliant Le Cap à Johannesburg, cinq chanteurs et chanteuses de l’Opéra du Cap ont improvisé une interprétation du célèbre Brindisi de La Traviata de Giuseppe Verdi. Comme le rapporte Radio Classique, Lift a conclu un accord de partenariat avec l’Opéra du Cap pour accompagner ses […]

Le géant du tourisme TUI a publié mercredi une perte d’exploitation de 27 millions d’euros au troisième trimestre de son exercice fiscal décalé, conséquence des coûts liés aux perturbations du transport aérien, pour un chiffre d’affaires de 4,43 milliards d’euros. La perte opérationnelle sous-jacente du groupe (Ebit) est ressortie à 27 millions d’euros sur le […]

Transavia a décidé de prolonger la liaison vers Porto, au Portugal, au départ de l’aéroport Brest-Bretagne, pendant la prochaine saison hivernale 2022-2023. La filiale low cost du groupe Air France-KLM exploite cette liaison avec deux vols par semaine, les vendredis et dimanches, pendant l’actuelle saison estivale, du 27 mars au le 28 octobre 2022. Opérés […]

Air Algérie renforce son réseau international en ajoutant à son programme estival une trentaine de vols supplémentaires sur les réseaux européen, africain et moyen-oriental, a annoncé cette semaine le ministère algérien des Transports. Sur les 34 vols supplémentaires prévus, quatorze au départ d’Alger desserviront Tunis et Istanbul (à raison de sept vers chacune de ces […]

LATAM, le premier groupe aérien d’Amérique latine, a annoncé une perte nette de 523,2 millions de dollars pour le deuxième trimestre, causée principalement par la forte augmentation des coûts du carburant. La perte est atténuée si l’on compare à une celle de 769,6 millions de dollars au cours de la même période de trois mois […]

WestJet a confirmé le retour de 17 routes du Canada vers des destinations soleil et de loisirs sur son réseau cet hiver. Des routes qui ont été suspendues pendant plus de deux ans en raison de la crise sanitaire. « La remise en service de ces routes est une autre étape positive dans le rétablissement […]

Plus de 6 millions de personnes ont transité en juillet par Londres-Heathrow, l’aéroport le plus fréquenté de Grande-Bretagne. Londres-Heathrow s’attend désormais à ce qu’environ 16 millions de passagers transitent par l’aéroport pendant la saison estivale, de juillet à septembre. L’ aéroport londonien, qui a plafonné en juillet le nombre de vols, et donc le nombre […]

En juillet 2022, Brussels Airport a accueilli plus de 2,2 millions de passagers, soit 81% des taux de fréquentation du mois de juillet pré-pandémique de 2019. L’aéroport de la capitale belge Bruxelles poursuit donc sur sa lancée et signe à nouveau le meilleur résultat mensuel depuis le début de la crise sanitaire en mars 2020. […]

Histoire de l’aviation – 12 août 1908. Démonstrations de vol et nouvelles expérimentations sont au programme de cet été 1908 pour les pionniers de l’air de nationalité américaine Orville et Wilbur Wright qui sont venus jusqu’en France à cette fin. Avec à la clé de belles performances, à l’image du vol qu’a réalisé Wilbur en ce […]

La Hongrie a infligé une amende de 764 000 euros à la low cost Ryanair, qui répercute sur ses billets d’avion le coût de la taxe exceptionnelle sur les entreprises mise en place contre l’inflation. «L’autorité de protection des consommateurs a constaté aujourd’hui une violation de la loi, la compagnie aérienne ayant trompé les consommateurs […]

Les compagnies aériennes russes, dont la compagnie porte-drapeau Aeroflot, démantèlent des avions de ligne pour se procurer des pièces détachées qu’elles ne peuvent plus acheter à l’étranger en raison des sanctions occidentales, ont déclaré des sources du secteur à l’agence Reuters. En effet, les autorités russes ont recommandé en juin dernier aux compagnies aériennes russes, […]

Au cours des six premiers mois de 2022, près de 21 millions de passagers ont voyagé via Francfort, le premier aéroport d’Allemagne. Bien que ce chiffre soit encore inférieur de 38 % au volume de trafic atteint en 2019 avant la pandémie, il représente un taux de croissance de 220 % par rapport à la […]

Les billets en promotion à un euro et 10 euros, marques de fabrique de la low cost irlandaise Ryanair, disparaitront pendant “plusieurs années” en raison de la flambée des prix du carburant, selon son PDG Michael O’Leary. Dans une interview radio à la BBC, Michael O’Leary dit s’attendre à ce que le tarif moyen des […]

Malaysia Airlines devra annoncer la semaine prochaine une commande portant sur 20 Airbus A330neo, rapporte l’agence Reuters, citant des sources au sein du secteur aéronautique. Dans le cadre du remplacement de 15 long-courriers A330-300 et six A330-200, la compagnie aérienne malaisienne obtiendra environ la moitié des nouveaux A330neo commandés par le biais de leasing tandis […]

Cathay Pacific a réduit sa perte au premier semestre 2022 à 623 millions d’euros -contre 943 millions d’euros au premier semestre 2021. La compagnie de Hong Kong a bénéficié d’une forte demande de fret et de mesures de réduction des coûts, et espère une amélioration de sa capacité au deuxième semestre 2022 avec l’allègement des […]

American Airlines a confirmé hier avoir pris livraison d’un nouveau Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, le premier depuis mai 2021. Le Dreamliner immatriculé N880BJ a été livré de Charleston, en Caroline du Sud, et devrait entrer en service commercial dans les semaines à venir. En incluant cette livraison, la compagnie aérienne américaine compte actuellement 47 avions de […]

Dans une tribune, James Marshall, vice-président Air Account Management d’Expedia Group, analyse les nouvelles tendances de voyage post-Covid des Français, estimant que le secteur aérien doit se réadapter aux nouvelles attentes. L’envie de voyager est de retour ! Selon une étude menée par le groupe Expedia, en partenariat avec l’institut de recherche Wakefield en janvier […]

La compagnie aérienne Qatar Airways va relancer une liaison entre Doha et Gassim, sa cinquième destination en Arabie Saoudite où elle proposera alors plus de cent vols chaque semaine. A partir du 22 aout 2022, la compagnie nationale qatarie proposera trois puis quatre vols par semaine entre sa base à Doha-Hamad International et l’aéroport de […]

La nouvelle compagnie aérienne low cost Arajet, basée à Saint-Domingue, a ouvert les réservations sur 13 routes qui seront lancée à partir de la mi-septembre vers les Caraïbes et l’Amérique latine. Basée à l’aéroport de Santo Domingo-Las Americas, la première spécialiste dominicaine du vol pas cher débutera ses opérations le 15 septembre 2022 sous code […]

Histoire de l’aviation – 11 août 1909. En ce mercredi 11 août 1909, le camp d’aviation de Châlons voit arriver sur ses terres un véritable mastodonte des airs, venu par la route de Paris : à savoir un nouvel aéroplane de type triplan émanant des ateliers des frères Voisin et dont a passé commande auprès des constructeurs français […]

Après 13 ans d’absence, la compagnie aérienne Finnair a relancé une liaison entre Helsinki et Mumbai, sa deuxième destination en Inde après Delhi. Elle remet d’autre part en place une deuxième rotation hebdomadaire vers Hong Kong, où la quarantaine des passagers est désormais réduite à 3 jours, avant d’atteindre un rythme quotidien fin octobre. Depuis […]

Un policier a tiré ce mercredi sur un homme le menaçant d’un couteau à l’aéroport de Paris-CDG, l’homme identifié depuis comme un sans-abri décédant de ses blessures. Peu de détail pour l’instant sur l’incident survenu avant 9h00 ce 10 aout 2022 à l’aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle. Un membre de la Police aux frontières (PAF) aurait fait usage […]

La compagnie aérienne British Airways a récupéré son douzième Airbus A380, qui subit de derniers préparatifs à son retour en service chez Lufthansa Technik à Manille. Après avoir annoncé en juin que dix de ses superjumbos seraient en service cet été, la compagnie nationale britannique se prépare à remettre en service son douzième et dernier. L’A380 […]

La compagnie aérienne Air India veut louer six Boeing 777-300ER supplémentaires pour accélérer son retour à l’international, tandis que le troisième Airbus A321XLR a été photographié hors de sa FAL à Hambourg. Basée à l’aéroport de Delhi-Indira Gandhi, la compagnie nationale indienne désormais privatisée a annoncé la réactivation de l’ensemble de ses gros porteurs d’ici le […]

La compagnie aérienne Emirates Airlines proposera cet hiver un troisième vol quotidien entre Dubaï et l’île Maurice, les deux autres restant opérés en Airbus A380. Du 1er octobre 2022 au 31 janvier 2023, la compagnie émiratie ajoutera un vol en soirée entre sa base de Dubaï et l’aéroport de Port Louis-Sir Seewoosagur Rangoolam, opéré en […]

La compagnie aérienne low cost Ryanair a annoncé hier ne prévoir « aucune perturbation de ses 3000 vols quotidiens » en raison des grèves lancées en Espagne par deux « petits syndicats » d’hôtesses de l’air et stewards. Commencé en juin puis relancé fin juillet et devant durer jusqu’à janvier prochain, du lundi au jeudi uniquement, le […]

On this episode of From Panel to Podcast we dive into last week's books, giving you a rundown of the best stories that you should add to your pull list. We also highlight the comics that are releasing this week and provide insight into why you may want to pick them up.

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High On Life, the upcoming first-person shooter from Justin Roiland's Squanch Games, has been delayed. 

Originally due out this October, High On Life will now hit Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC on December 13, 2022. It joins various other games delayed this week like Planet of Lana and Evil West, and for a similar reason: the team needs more time to make this game the best it can be. 

Here's the studio's statement about the delay, in full: 

"We have good news and bad news. Feel free to choose the option you'd prefer to read first; we won't meddle with your free will. 

• The Good News: High On Life is still coming in 2022! The team at Squanch Games is working hard towards developing the best gaming experience to hit your screens, and a little extra time to squash some bugs never hurts. With that in mind, our new launch date is set to December 13, 2022. 

• The Bad News: It's a game delay, sorry! Because we're making you wait an additional 6-ish weeks, please accept the linked animation as an apology. 

"High On Life will be available via Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Windows PCs, Day One on Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, and through Xbox Cloud Gaming. Thank you for your continued patience and support." 

As for the linked animation mentioned in the statement above, it's what you can watch below: 

While you wait for High On Life, please find this 500 pound, diaper-wearing alien a wife. Please. He won't leave me alone.
https://t.co/CDfDGJ3m6A

— High On Life (@highonlifegame) August 18, 2022

As you can see, it's very Justin Roiland. Enjoy!

For more about High On Life, check out its reveal trailer from the June 2022 Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. 

Are you excited about High On Life? Let us know in the comments below!

Blizzard released the third Diablo IV Quarterly Update for 2022. Unlike the last one, which focused on the Necromancer class, today's is all about seasonal content and the team's post-launch plans. 

The studio says it's aware fans loved Seasons in Diablo II: Resurrected and Diablo III and have asked for even more seasonal support. Diablo IV will feature Seasons, and the first will be available soon after launch. Plus, Blizzard will have a team dedicated to Seasons that will bring players up to four seasons a year, each with major new features, questlines, enemies, legendary items, and more. 

"Diablo IV's Seasons are modeled after those of Diablo III," the blog reads. "When a new season begins, all the characters from the prior season are moved to the Eternal Realm, where you can keep playing, leveling up, and collecting loot. To play in the new season, you'll create a fresh character and experience seasonal features and content while leveling up alongside other players. 

"This, along with capping paragon points in Diablo IV, ensures that your effort and skill – measured by both dexterity and theorycrafting – determine how powerful your character becomes. It also allows players who missed the last season to participate. This season design requires that all sources of character power come from playing the game, so you will not be able to pay for power in Diablo IV."

Let's break down each section of the blog: 

New Content

Blizzard says each new season of Diablo IV will be released with a "fresh new gameplay feature and questline that introduces new challenges, mysteries, and possibilities into the level-up experience." Each questline will reveal more of the world of Sanctuary and your character's place in it. These questlines are also where Blizzard gets the opportunity to introduce new characters or revisit old ones. 

Refreshing The Meta

Blizzard says it "will always be evaluating the state of the game to regularly revitalize older stomping grounds." An example of this is the balance between classes, builds, and powers. 

"Diablo is a game that is about creating exciting, overpowered builds, and while we don't want to balance the fun out of the experience, we don't want to create situations in which imprecise tuning squashes creativity," the blog reads. "We will also be constantly adding new legendary and unique items, paragon boards, and glyphs, and more that will continually refresh the meta and create new build opportunities." 

Improving The Game

The team says it will identify quality-of-life features and polish work that can be done to improve the overall game experience, and it invites the community to vote upon their priority. Blizzard says the team can't always switch to tackle problems immediately, but that "you can rest asured that we will be active in improving the quality of the game experience for years to come." 

Live Events

New live events will crop up with each season of Diablo IV. One example of an event like this might be the warning of an impending invasion of the Drowned, and this may last an entire weekend. Or, maybe a strange peddler will arrive amidst the crags of the Dry Steppes. Blizzard says these live events "provide gateways to new adventures and unique rewards." 

Season Journey

"Alongside our major season releases, we see the return of the Season Journey," the blog reads. "Players are pushed to explore Sanctuary anew, earning limited-time rewards with each chapter of the Season Journey that is completed. Completing the Season Journey is quite a feat, with the final step demanding the character overcome an extremely difficult encounter with an especially deadly foe. 

"With future Season Journeys, we are regularly adding pinnacle-level difficulty challenges for players to complete, proving their worth and earning unique cosmetic rewards. Like Diablo III, the Season Journey is free for all players. Completing Season Journey objectives also grants progress toward the Season Pass, a battle pass-style progression system that advances the Season Journey, enabling players to earn even more rewards just by playing. The Season Pass has both free rewards (cosmetics, premium currency, and gameplay boosts) and paid rewards (cosmetics and premium currency only). 

Season Pass

Blizzard says the game's seasonal passes will recognize player dedication, with greater rewards unlocking as you play more throughout a given season. There will be a single track of rewards with the Free Tiers that are unlocked just for playing the game and leveling up, and there will be Premium Tiers, which provide no in-game power or advantage over other players. 

"The Free Tiers of the pass will provide gameplay boosts to all players – things which make the journey of leveling up fresh seasonal characters faster and more streamlined," the blog reads. "In contract, the Premium Tier rewards are focused on aesthetics, providing a huge value in the form of cosmetics and Premium Currency. Many of the rewards embody the season theme, helping players show off their participation in that Season." 

Here's more of what Blizzard has to say about the Season Pass: 

• The Season Pass has Free Tiers and Premium Tiers: Throughout the pass, players can earn a variety of rewards for free, just by playing. At any point during the Season, players can purchase the Premium Pass to unlock the ability to earn Premium rewards tiers containing seasonally themed cosmetics and premium currency. 
• The Season Pass awards cosmetics: Like the Shop, these don't affect gameplay. Additionally, certain cosmetic types are exclusive to the Season Pass. 
• The Season Pass awards Premium Currency: Players can spend this currency on cosmetics offered in the shop. 
• The Season Pass awards free Season Boosts: Boosts accelerate players' progress for the duration of the Season. For example, a Season Boost might accelerate XP earned to make leveling multiple characters within a season faster. Because they affect gameplay, Season Boosts are free rewards for all players. We want to be clear that players can't unlock Season Boosts more quickly through purchases –there is no way to unlock more boosts, or boosts at a faster pace, by spending money. 
• Players can purchase Tiers, but they won't speed up getting Season Boosts: Players cna't upgrade Season Boosts just by purchasing Tiers, because they'll also have to earn level milestones to apply them. All other Tier rewards can be unlocked instantly by purchasing Tiers. In other words, there's no way to shortcut getting Season Boosts by buying Tiers; they must be earned. 
• The Season Journey accelerates Season Pass progression: While any play style can progress through the Season Pass, min-maxers can focus on Season Journey objectives to advance more quickly. 

The Shop

Blizzard writes in the blog post that its primary design goal for the shop was making sure that buying items felt good, before, during, and after the purchase. It also wants purchases to feel like ones that players want to do rather than ones players need to do. The team wants players to know exactly what they're getting before they choose to buy, with no unpleasant surprises. 

"The Shop's cosmetics build on top of the foundation of a huge variety of transmogs from weapons and armors players will find in-game," the blog reads. "It's also important to us that the Shop is grounded within Diablo's world, so our cosmetics are holistic fantasies, the individual components of which can be mixed and matched with transmogs from armors acquired in-game for endless customization options." 

Here's more on what Blizzard has to say about The Shop: 

• The Shop sells cosmetics for Premium Currency: Cosmetics give players even more options to customize the visual appearance of their characters. Nothing offered in The Shop grants a direct or indirect gameplay advantage. So, while many of these may look like powerful pieces of gear, they have no in-game states. 
• The Shop is optional: Players can experience all core and seasonal gameplay features without spending money. Our goal is for players to enjoy going to The Shop, buy something when it catches their fancy, and walk away happy with what they bought. 
• The Shop is transparent: It's important that players know exactly what to expect before making a purchase. We've built preview functionality that enables players to closely examine every detail of the cosmetic on their own characters before deciding to make a purchase.

• The best-looking cosmetics aren't exclusive to The Shop: Diablo IV will ship with hundreds of transmogs unlockable from in-game drops, including dozens of armor sets of the highest visual quality. There are incredible pieces – Unique and Legendary quality items – for players to find without ever going to The Shop. The Shop offers more diversity of choices, not systematically better choices. (Editor's Note: while we'll have to wait and see, cosmetics are subjective so you could end up thinking the best ones require that you spend money)
• Armor Transmogs in The Shop are usable on all characters of that class: Many of the cosmetics in the Shop are class-specific fantasies, which wouldn't necessarily make sense visually on other classes. Once you unlock a cosmetic from The Shop for a given class, you can use it on every character of that class on your account. There are special cosmetics exclusive to the Season Pass which celebrate the theme of the Season and look similar across all classes.

The gallery below shows screenshots of Legendary armors earned from playing the game (left) and armor cosmetics from The Shop (right):

 

"The most important guiding principle behind The Shop and Season Pass is to create something players love, look forward to, and appreciate being part of the game," the blog post reads. "Cosmetics in Diablo IV create new ways for players to express themselves and never provide advantages in-game. Players will experience all the fun of Season, whether they spend anything or not. We intend to continue our dialog with players about The Shop and Season Pass, and we'll always listen and seek out the community's feedback about it. It is our sincerest belief that we can work together with the community to keep Diablo IV a living, evolving world for many years to come." 

And that wraps up this Diablo IV Quarterly Update. 

What did you think of this Quarterly Update? Let us know in the comments below!

The Entropy Centre is an upcoming first-person sci-fi puzzle adventure game first revealed during the Future Games Showcase back in June. Set to hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC this year, this game quickly grabbed my attention when I first saw its reveal trailer. 

It features plenty of Portal vibes, which is always a plus, and a unique premise: turn back time on objects inside an abandoned space station to determine a way to stop Earth and everyone on it from going extinct. If you haven’t yet seen the reveal trailer, give that a watch here. If you’ve already seen that, you’re probably ready to see more gameplay and fortunately, there's plenty to see in this new five-minute gameplay trailer:

Here’s what developer Stubby Games has to say about the game: 

“Players join the game’s protagonist, Aria, as she awakens inside the bowels of a colossal space station – The Entropy Centre – in near-orbit of Earth. Two immediate problems face her: Earth has been set ablaze from an extinction-level event, and The Entropy Centre itself appears abandoned and on the brink of imminent collapse. With the aid of ASTRA – a talking gun capable of moving objects backwards in time – Aria can restore the facility’s collapsed bridges, reassemble destroyed pathways, and overcome ingeniously complex puzzles to progress to the core of The Entropy Centre in the hope of surviving this seemingly doomed space station, and, somehow, finding a way home.  “The truth behind The Entropy Centre’s imminent collapse, and the Earth’s demise, can be found at the heart of this sprawling facility. But will Aria accept the unfortunate truth that awaits her?"

 

Are you excited about The Entropy Centre? Let me know in the comments below!

Reviewed on: PlayStation 5
Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Publisher: Atlus
Developer: Atlus
Release: August 26, 2022
Rating: Mature

The group of bounty hunters gathers in their favorite bar once more. For the first time, protagonist Ringo pays attention to the lush cherry blossom decoration over the rooftop. Her friends say the real ones are even more beautiful and laugh at the idea of a bunch of Devil Summoners having a picnic and watching the flowers. The friendly mockery leads to a funny yet endearing message: “I think we oughta show Ringo the fun side of being human, don’t you?” Sadly, Soul Hackers 2 doesn’t seem to agree with the sentiment.

Soul Hackers 2 is the sequel to 1997’s Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, an RPG spun from the Shin Megami Tensei series. 25 years later, after games like Persona 5 put the SMT universe in the spotlight, the landscape couldn’t be more different.

Set in the 21st century, two clans of Devil Summoners fight for an ancient power. As a result, Aion, a highly developed artificial intelligence far closer to reality than I’m comfortable with, predicts that doomsday is forthcoming. The only ones capable of preventing it are Ringo and Figue, two personifications of Aion in the flesh. Both can hack people’s souls to bring them back to life and give them a second chance while serving as key pieces to prevent doom.

The premise is interesting, and although the villains don't carry enough weight to stand out, I was invested in the story. Naturally, the pasts of the three characters joining Ringo on her quest intertwine with the larger narrative. There are glimpses about the meaning of mortality around Ringo’s gift, as well as how the soul-hacked choose to act when allowed to settle a long-standing score or recover a bond with a partner. But the most interesting plot points feel rushed without enough room to create meaningful stakes or emotional tolls. As a result, the few moments that stand out feel unearned.

Gameplaywise, Soul Hackers 2 doesn’t offer an incentive to stray off the main path and spend more time in its otherwise interesting world. Side quests are unremarkable and based around revisiting areas that aren’t interesting to explore. The combat is more on par with Persona 5 than Shin Megami Tensei V, offering many upgrades and skills to tailor your experience. Only that it’s far more streamlined, lacking the enticing press-turn mechanic from the mainline games that add turns when you exploit an enemy’s weakness. Instead, doing so adds a stack to the Sabbath, which acts as an all-out-attack at the end of your turn. It makes for a pretty spectacle as the arena is slowly engulfed in a colorful aura the more attacks you can stack. But it also makes for unnecessarily long encounters without much risk. Enemies can’t exploit your party’s weaknesses, either, so you can always just heal up afterward.

 

Throughout the 30 hours it took to hit credits, I kept trying to latch onto the elements that work. Soul Hackers 2’s saving grace lies in its main characters, each with a distinct personality that often clashes with the rest. Witnessing the group’s growth by putting their differences aside and opening themselves up to camaraderie was a joy. I loved their conversations about freelancing as Devil Summoners as much as the tough chats about the people they lost over a meal or a drink. But there’s not a seat on the table for the player to take it all in.

During that night at the bar, the group wondered if they’d still be alive by the time the flowers bloomed again. And I know that they will because I put in the effort to make that happen. I just wish I was rewarded with a bit more humanity and meaning to my struggles by seeing them create that memory for themselves.

Score: 6.5

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Embracer Group is making massive moves. The conglomerate acquired the rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit IPs – more specifically, Middle-earth Enterprises, which owns an extensive collection of “motion pictures, video games, board games, merchandising, theme parks, stage productions,” and the literary works themselves. Moreover, seven studios – Limited Run Games, Singtrix, Tuxedo Labs, Tatsujin, Tripwire Interactive, Bitwave Games, and an undisclosed company within PC/Console gaming have also been acquired. Gioteck, known for its gaming accessories, joined Embracer Group, too. You can see everything in Wario64’s Twitter thread below. 

Embracer Group acquires Limited Run Games https://t.co/tZ0IuGeQR6 pic.twitter.com/qn4EpWprN1

— Wario64 (@Wario64) August 18, 2022

The acquired studios have shipped several games, including Shantae, Super Meat Boy, River City Girls, Teardown, Killing Floor, Maneater, Chivalry 2, Snow Bros, Flying Shark, and Gimmick! A lengthy section in the acquisition documents speaks to Embracer’s expanded catalog and reads as follows:   

“Strategically the Transactions further strengthen and diversify Embracer’s portfolio with profitable IPs & franchises. In particular The Lord of the Rings, one of the most iconic IPs on the globe, and the entire Middle-earth universe offers significant growth opportunity within PC/console, Mobile and Tabletop games. Middle-earth Enterprises also increases Embracer’s high margin licensing revenues from external partners and creates a platform to accelerate growth in this source of revenue from the group’s vast IP catalog. Tripwire Interactive and Tuxedo Labs, with high quality studios, strong franchises, such as Killing Floor and Teardown, and additional publishing capabilities in North America, solidifies Embracer’s leading position within the AA/A/Indie segment of the PC/Console market. Further, the group consolidates its efforts in asset care and retro gaming with the leading direct-to-consumer publishing brand Limited Run Games, with considerable potential for improved monetization of the group’s back catalog and IPs over time. The acquisition of Singtrix presents new opportunities for music and audio gaming products and Singtrix plans to expand its vocal technology platform into a broad range of new music games, streaming, and mobile franchises. In addition to the five communicated acquisitions today, Embracer has entered into agreement to acquire another company within PC/Console gaming that, for commercial reasons, is not disclosed today.” 

As for the undisclosed company within PC/Console gaming – who do you think it is? Let us know in the comments below. 

Dead Island 2 is arguably one of the most anticipated games locked behind the fiery gates of development hell. The first game dropped over a decade ago, and ever since, zombie-slaying fans have yearned for a sequel. Well, they're in luck. A Dead Island 2: Day One Edition positing was spotted on Amazon with box art, in-game photos, and a 2023 release date. The new info was taken down, but we made sure to grab the images and extra deets for you. 

According to the info on the Amazon page, Dead Island 2 will be available on both Xbox and PlayStation consoles. However, current-gen versions of the game don't have web pages yet. The story follows an elite squad that's immune to the infection, meaning we'll be seeing 8-player co-op when the game drops. The full summary reads as follows:

"Several months after the events on Banoi, the United States military has put the Golden State under full quarantine. Now a restricted zone, California has become a bloody paradise for those who refuse to leave their homes and an action-packed playground for renegades who seek adventure, glory and a fresh start. Combining the classic Dead Island elements of immersive close combat, action and role-playing, Dead Island 2 features crazy, never-before-seen handcrafted weapons and over-the-top characters in taking players from the iconic Golden Gate to the celebrated beachfront boardwalk of southern California’s Venice Beach."

Players must craft zany weapons like in the first game to defeat the seemingly never-ending hordes plaguing the West Coast. Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios' gory adventure allegedly launches on February 3, 2023 (or at least that's what appeared on the listings earlier today before suddenly disappearing). Hopefully, this date holds up/reemerges as we move into the new year. 

 

Are you enthusiastic about Dead Island 2? Are you skeptical of its existence? Let us know in the comments below!

Inkulinati is a imagiative strategy game first announced in 2020 that brings the distinct art of medieval manuscripts to life. The game unfolds within the parchment itself as players control humans, animals, and mythical creatures to battle it out in turn-based battles that are equal parts thoughtful and ridiculous. Inkulinati has looked promising every time it’s made an appearance, and we can finally see how it's shaping up thanks to an upcoming early access launch. 

This winter, players can dive into Inkulinati on Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview. The game puts you in the role of Inkulinati, a being capable of using the magical Living Ink to bring illustrations to life. The irreverent battles unfold within an open book as players command units to strategically slice, bludgeon, and even fart opponents into submission to clear the way and topple the opposing Inkulinati. 

In addition to recruiting humans, rabbits, cats, snails, and other critters, you can enlist the aid of real-life literary figures such as Dante Alighieri. Each unit sports its own unique traits with more team members unlocked by playing. Stages promote different playstyles, with some requiring a more tactical approach and others a more aggressive assault. The game features a single-player campaign, and you can challenge friends in 1-on-1 battles.

And for those wondering: yes, this is a different game than Pentiment, Obsidian Entertainment's recently announced narrative adventure game that shares the same artistic influences.  

Inkulinati will be available first on Xbox and PC, but a Switch version is also planned with other platforms in consideration. The game will be playable at the Xbox booth during Gamescom next week.

A new interview sheds light on Just Cause developer Avalanche Studio's canceled open-world Iron Man game, rumored to be in the works a decade ago before getting axed in 2012. 

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviewed Christofer Sundberg, co-founder of Avalance, who has since left the studio to start a new company, Liquid Sword. During the interview, Hansen asked Sundberg about the fate of the Iron Man project, which Sundberg revealed as being in development for a year and a half to two years before being canceled due to what he describes as "company politics."

Sundberg reveals that Disney wanted Avalanche to rapidly expand its staff to finish the game under a shortened development timeline. However, he refused, explaining that doing so would have put a massive strain on the studio.  

"It was, I was a mess by the end," says Sundberg. "Shortening development time, increasing budgets. We would have to hire 70-80 people to the team that I would have had the responsibility to find a new project for, but the development time was shortened down so much. It would have broken the studio completely if we agreed to that." 

He continues by saying, "At the end of a project, when the team is scaling down, that's when you find [a] new project. With one year of development time cut from the original plan, I had one year less to find a new project for a big development team which would have been impossible. And hiring all those developers would have been a nightmare. So it was for the best" 

As far as Sundberg remembers, the game was disassociated from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and not tied to Iron Man 3, which was in production at that time. He says the game would have allowed players to "just take off and fly anywhere" and that it had a big focus on melee combat where players could punch characters through walls using Iron Man's repulsors. 

The clip is a nice bit of closure given that Hanson, formerly of Game Informer, previously asked Sundberg about the project during an interview for our Just Cause 3 cover story in 2014. At the time, Sundberg acknowledged the cancellation of an unannounced Marvel game but wouldn't confirm the rumors that it was Iron Man-related. So now we know. 

Be sure to watch MinnMax's full interview with Christofer Sundberg here, where he discusses his new studio's first project, creating the Mad Max game, and more.

Join host Wesley LeBlanc as he takes you through a demo of Betrayal At Club Low, an upcoming indie with a unique aesthetic and an even more unique gameplay loop. Wesley's enjoyed what he's played of the game so far, and he'll tell you why in today's New Gameplay Today.

Betrayal At Club Low is exclusive to PC and will launch on September 9 on Steam and Itch.io. Cosmo D Studios is the developer who is actually just one game designer: Cosmo D. He's the designer behind games like Off-Peak, The Norwood Suite, and Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1. In today's New Gameplay Today, Wesley shows off roughly 20 minutes of Betrayal At Club Low, explaining how its unique dice-rolling mechanic works while highlighting what's so interesting about this strange world and its accompanying aesthetic. 

Check it out for yourself below: 

For more previews of some of the biggest games of 2022 and beyond, be sure to head over to our YouTube page for early looks at Thymesia, You Suck At Parking, The DioField Chronicle, Recipe For Disaster, Saints Row, Overwatch 2, Diablo IV, and more. 

Another one bites the dust. If you haven't noticed, a number of high-profile delays have occurred in recent weeks, with many upcoming games pushed into next year. Unfortunately, the promising sci-fi platformer Planet of Lana joins that growing hit list.

Planet of Lana was first announced at E3 2021 with a 2022 launch window. The game stars Lana, a young girl, and her adorable cat-like companion Mui on a combat-free mission to preserve a serene planet occupied by robots and other creatures from corruption. Developer Wishfully Studios wants this cinematic puzzle platformer to make a big splash, announcing it’s pushing the release to spring 2023 to do so. 

As you might know, today we announced that the release of Planet of Lana will be postponed until spring 2023. It was an extremely tough decision to make, but unfortunately a necessary one to ensure that the game rises to the level that the players expect and at the same time ensure a sustainable workload for our team. We hope that you understand and want to thank you for your patience. Your support means everything to us. 

Planet of Lana will be playable at Gamescom next week, so attendees have the opportunity to see how the game is shaping up first-hand. The title is slated to launch on Xbox consoles (including Game Pass) and PC.

If you're losing track of every big game to slip into 2023, this handy list should serve as a nice reminder. 

The team behind Monster Train has been hard at work on their newest twist on the roguelike formula. The studio’s earlier project found players navigating a train on its way through hell, using deckbuilding card mechanics to fight one challenging battle after the next. In Inkbound, the team has held onto the roguelike formula, but almost everything else is going in a new direction.

Players each control a character making their way through a magical world called Atheneum, a place from which countless stories emerge and come to life. Players enter realms defined by books and help to shape and define the worlds and narratives within. Drawing inspiration from isometric RPGs and MOBAs, each player moves through the fictional lands and paints the ground with area-of-effect powers that aim to bring down the creatures encountered along the way.

Inkbound can be played solo or with up to four players simultaneously. In the turn-based tactical battles that ensue, Shiny Shoe is experimenting with an intriguing approach that allows multiple players to act simultaneously.

The focus is on character growth over the course of a given run through new powers and bonuses, but you can also collect glyphs that carry over between your runs; glyphs can be spent in any given session to open up new missions, paths, or other beneficial situations, but there’s also more to spend in a given run than glyphs you can earn, so it’s critical to save those glyphs for a run-through where they’ll make a difference.

 

Each player can specialize their efforts around a preferred playstyle or experience with an initial class selection, and the classes I learned about were surprising and unusual. The Magma Miner is a heavy melee-oriented brawler who sets enemies on fire. The Mosscloak is a fast-moving fighter specializing in critical hits or fast strikes. The Obelisk carries double shields and, unsurprisingly, helps to tank for the party; the more damage they take, the more this class can dish out. And the Weaver creates threads to enemies that damage and debuff, with a clear drive toward setting up elaborate combos.

Aesthetically, Inkbound’s isometric presentation is bright and inviting, with vibrant color and light usage, mildly cartoony visuals, and a frenetic pace to exploration and combat that keeps the action light and breezy. At certain moments, it reminded me of visual palettes I’ve seen in games like Torchlight and World of Warcraft. In the battles I witnessed during an early demo, characters would emerge into rounded arena spaces in which battles would unfold. Success often came down to a mix of good upgrade selection ahead of the fight and smart positioning while confronting the many monsters that show up.

Whether with card decks or isometric turn-based arena fights, strategy roguelikes live or die by tense decision points, challenging but balanced combat, and clever upgrades that let you overcome seemingly impossible odds. Shiny Shoe has already proven its ability to iterate and build a game of supreme depth and challenge with its last project. Inkbound is still early, but my glimpse suggests the team is applying the lessons it learned and shaping a new project that might be just as fascinating as its last, albeit with a completely different look and vibe.

Inkbound is aiming for release in 2023 on PC. 

Gamescom kicks off next week with Opening Night Live, the annual showcase of trailers, reveals, and announcements hosted by Geoff Keighley. The presentation is generally on par with E3 or Summer Game Fest when it comes to delivering significant news, and we now know a few of the major titles that will appear.

The Summer Game Fest Twitter account revealed that ONL will feature world premieres for Sonic Frontiers, Hogwarts Legacy, The Callisto Protocol, and Return to Monkey Island. That usually means we’ll get new trailers for each game, whether they be gameplay, story, or both. Of course, other titles will be shown as well including Dying Light 2’s Bloody Ties DLC and Telltale Games' The Expanse. 

Next Tuesday, @geoffkeighley hosts @gamescom Opening Night Live from Germany.

With world premieres of:
- Hogwarts Legacy
- The Callisto Protocol
- Sonic Frontiers
- Return to Monkey Island

and more to be announced.

Tune in live at https://t.co/OkSQIuOqPG pic.twitter.com/Mz0Gcux1X7

— Summer Game Fest - Returns June 2023 (@summergamefest) August 17, 2022

Hogwarts Legacy was recently delayed to February, and this will be our first look at it since its gameplay reveal in March. Sonic Frontiers and The Callisto Protocol both graced Game Informer’s cover the last couple of months, and this may be one of the last big marketing pushes before they arrive later this year. Return to Monkey Island, also slated to launch this year, may get a firm release date as well.  

Gamescom Opening Night Live will be streamed on August 23. The two-hour event begins at 11 a.m. Pacific/2 p.m. Eastern.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human was released earlier this year and since then, the team has continued to pump new content into the expansive parkour RPG. However, that content so far has been related to cosmetics, in-game parkour races, or other gameplay mechanics. Techland has yet to release anything new that pushes the story of Dying Light 2 forward. 

That could change soon as Dying Light 2's first story DLC, Bloody Ties, will get the full worldwide premiere treatment at Gamescom's Opening Night Live, which is hosted by Geoff Keighley and airs August 23. To tide fans over until then, the studio has released a teaser trailer that you can watch below: 

"What dangers await?" a press release reads. "How can you beat them? What will you get in return? One thing is certain...it will be brutal." 

As you can see, the DLC seems to hint at a brutal faction within the City, perhaps one interested in gladiator-style arena combat. Only time will tell what Bloody Ties entails, but fortunately, we don't have to wait too much longer now. 

For more, read Game Informer's Dying Light 2 review and then read our interview about the future of Dying Light 2. 

Are you excited about this DLC? Let us know in the comments below!

Death Stranding is one of 2019’s best games (in my personal opinion), and it’s one I hope everyone gets the chance to try. Sure, you might not like it, but if it hits, it hits hard. 

PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 players know that, as the game was PlayStation exclusive at launch. It hit PC in 2020, but you had to buy it outright like any other PC game. Now, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members might get the chance to try this Norman Reedus-led adventure across America with their subscription if a new, somewhat cryptic tweet from the official PC Game Pass account is anything to go by. 

Check it out for yourself below: 

sometimes we just like a good landscape picture #NewProfilePic

— PC Game Pass (@XboxGamePassPC) August 16, 2022

As you can see, PC Game Pass draws attention to the fact that it’s changed its profile pic to that of a familiar landscape. If you look at the profile pic, you’ll see what appears to be a landscape shot from Death Stranding. Now, it could be a different game but like, come on, that’s Death Stranding, right? 

All of this is to say that it seems like a formerly PlayStation-exclusive game – mind you, one developed by independent studio Kojima Productions that was funded by Sony Interactive Entertainment – is coming to PC Game Pass, a subscription service that’s a part of the Xbox ecosystem. 

Have you played Death Stranding, and if so, what did you think of it? Let me know in the comments below!

Kilter Films, Bethesda Game Studios, and Amazon Studios announced in 2020 that a Fallout television series was on the way.

Not much has been revealed about it since then, other than a report from 2021 that detailed the show as a “gonzo, crazy, funny adventure.” However, images from the production’s set have begun to leak online, as reported by Eurogamer, and the show looks true and accurate to the famed video game series. 

Check them out for yourself in the tweets below: 

My Fallout fanboy dreams are coming true with these set photos from the Fallout Amazon series 😭 pic.twitter.com/2YVubJ1fpH

— LoneVaultWanderer (@LoneVaultWander) August 16, 2022

4) The vault suits look spot-on plus a little bit extra. Notice the blue lines on the sides of the arm and legs. Also, the yellow appears more yellow and less gold, I prefer this. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/FfzDr20AIg

— Tom | Robots Radio Podcast Network (@robots_radio) August 16, 2022

The level of detail on this Amazon Fallout series 🔥 pic.twitter.com/fou1UL1vhs

— ☢️Fallout Films☀️ (@FilmsFallout) August 17, 2022

As you can see, the vault looks pretty spot-on, as do other details like the Vault-Tec logo. Even the vault suits look amazing, although, as the person who snapped that image mentioned, they are a little different from what we’re used to in the games. Nonetheless, my excitement for this series has grown considerably since seeing these images. Hopefully, this same attention to detail has been put into the writing. 

There is no release date for this series. 

[Source: Eurogamer]

What do you think of these images? Let us know in the comments below!

Evil West, the upcoming third-person wild west action game developed by Flying Wild Hog, has been delayed. 

Originally due out this September, the game has now been delayed to November 22, 2022. Fortunately for those excited about the rootin’ tootin’ action of slaying vampires and killing other various (terrifying) creatures, this delay only pushes the game back by about two months. As for why, publisher Focus Entertainment released a statement on Twitter explaining that it’s the result of the team wanting the game to be the best it can be at launch. 

Here’s the studio’s statement, in full: 

“Dear players, first of all, we would like to thank you for your continued support and patience for Evil West. We are overwhelmed by the incredible reception the game has gotten so far from our trailers and the demo some of you played at PAX East. We are working our very best to achieve our vision of Evil West and to meet your expectations. Evil West releases on five platforms, including multiple generations of consoles. Giving our game more polish is crucial to provide our players with not only good but also lasting memories. That’s something we’ve always pursued. “To ensure that the game reaches its full potential, we have made the decision to delay the worldwide launch of Evil West to November 22, 2022. We understand that game delays may be frustrating, but it’s a necessary step to deliver the best experience to everyone. Thank you again for your awesome support and dedication. It drives us forward and pushes us to create the weirdest, wildest western ride for all of you.” 

pic.twitter.com/OrgZq3Lk80

— Focus Entertainment (@Focus_entmt) August 16, 2022

Evil West first premiered at The Game Awards 2020, and it immediately caught my attention. It gave me big Darkwatch vibes, a game I loved on PlayStation 2, and the first gameplay we saw at The Game Awards 2021 last December confirmed those vibes. If you’re looking for more of the game, you’re in luck because, in June, the studio released more than 10 minutes of new gameplay. 

Are you excited about Evil West? Let me know in the comments below! Also, if you played Darkwatch, that game was dope, right?

Guild Wars 2 celebrates its 10th anniversary this month, and ArenaNet is celebrating by introducing the MMORPG to a new audience on Steam. 

On Tuesday, August 23, Guild Wars 2 will be available on a third-party platform for the first time ever. Since its launch in August 2012, the game has only been accessible through ArenaNet’s proprietary launcher. Guild Wars 2 on Steam will retain its subscription-less, free-to-play model. Additionally, Steam players and those on the original client will play together on the same servers. If you’re a newcomer wanting to catch up on a decade’s worth of content, a $99.97 Complete Edition of the game for Steam bundles Guild Wars 2’s three expansions and all five seasons.

ArenaNet is introducing Twitch Drops. Now you can earn exclusive in-game character outfits, experience boosters, and a special Glowing Purple Mask cosmetic by watching streamers play the game from August 23-28. 

“Guild Wars 2 has delighted over 16 million players for a decade with its subscription-free business model, epic collaborative open-world boss encounters, and revolutionary mount system,” said Kendall Boyd, Senior Vice President of Marketing at NCSOFT West. “By launching on Steam, a whole new audience of players who have never had the chance to adventure with us will be able to experience one of the greatest fantasy worlds in gaming. Everyone at NCSOFT and ArenaNet is excited to welcome them into our amazing community.”

Guild Wars 2 has been hailed as one of the best MMOs of its time. ArenaNet has supported the title with seasonal updates and expansion packs, the latest being February’s End of Dragons.

Do you still play Guild Wars 2? Will you be picking it up on Steam to dive in for the first time? Let us know in the comments!

The Knights of the Old Republic remake sounds like it may be running into some trouble, but fans of the original classic BioWare game have reason to celebrate. Celebrated collectibles maker Gentle Giant is prepping a new statue depicting one of the central characters of the original game. Jedi Knight Bastila Shan has never looked better.

The action-posed figure depicts Bastila Shan in battle with a Guardian Droid in the ruins of Dantooine, one of the early sites players visited in the game. The statue is made of PVC, and looks to feature some impressive sculpting and paint work. The yellow-hued double-bladed lightsaber in mid-swing is a particular highlight.

 

If it’s been a few years since you ventured into the classic Star Wars RPG, Bastila Shan was a Jedi Master many thousands of years before the events of the Skywalker Saga. Among other gifts provided by the Force, she had the rare capability known as battle meditation, which could be used to boost her allies and demoralize her enemies. At one point, she was tortured and turned to the dark side by Darth Malak, and the player is given a choice of how to interact with her – including options to redeem or kill her.

The new statue is steering toward launch in spring of 2023, but pre-orders open in just a few days, on 8/19 over at Gentle Giant’s official site. Suggested retail price is 80 republic credits, or $80 if you prefer your local currency.

Blizzard announced that cross-progression is coming to Overwatch 2, and starting today, you can merge multiple accounts onto a single profile. 

With Overwatch 2 set to release on Oct. 4, which is also when the game will replace the original Overwatch, now’s a great time to get all your cosmetics, loot boxes, and more in order. It’s also a great time to merge some accounts so that you can, for example, jump between playing on PC and PlayStation freely. Fortunately, Blizzard made that possible today because you now merge multiple accounts. 

“With the launch of cross-progression, players can merge multiple Overwatch accounts to carry progression and in-game cosmetics into Overwatch 2 on a single profile,” a press release reads. “Starting Aug. 16, every player with a linked console account will be prompted at login to identify, select, and confirm the accounts you want to merge. Once you approve, we will prepare you accounts to be merged during the release of Overwatch 2.

“All players will need a battle.net account to play Overwatch 2, regardless of platform. Progress from linked console accounts will be stored on your battle.net accounts, which will share in-game cosmetics and progress across the linked accounts.” 

Blizzard says there will only be one opportunity to merge console accounts and that you should double-check which accounts you are merging before you confirm. The studio is aware that there will be numerous questions associated with this news, so the team prepared an extensive FAQ that you can check out here with answers to questions like, “how do I merge my accounts?” and more.

You know we've arrived at the back half of a month when Xbox Game Pass subscribers are treated to a second helping of new games hitting the library. In terms of brand new releases, the stylish brawler Midnight Fight Express launches on the service alongside the Pikmin-like Tinykin. Sam Barlow’s latest FMV adventure game, Immortality, also makes its debut. Speaking of living forever, Ubisoft's underappreciated Immortals Fenyx Rising is swooping in for another chance in the spotlight. Check out the full list of games coming and going this month (spoiler: a lot of good stuff is leaving), as well as links to our reviews for applicable titles.

You can read August’s first batch of Game Pass titles here. 

What’s Coming To Xbox Game Pass

Coffee Talk (Console, PC, Cloud) – Today | Our Review

Midnight Fight Express (Console, PC, Cloud) – August 23

Exapunks (PC) – August 25

Opus: Echo of Starsong – Full Bloom Edition (Console, PC) – August 25

Commandos 3 – HD Remaster (Console, PC, Cloud) – August 30

Immortality (Xbox Series X/S, PC, Cloud) – August 30

Immortals Fenyx Rising (Console, PC, Cloud) – August 30 | Our Review

Tinykin (Console, PC) – August 30

What’s Leaving Xbox Game Pass On August 31

Elite Dangerous (Console, Cloud)

Hades (Console, PC, Cloud) | Our Review

Myst (Console, PC, Cloud)

NBA 2K22 (Console, Cloud) | Our Review

Signs of the Sojourner (Console, PC, Cloud)

Spiritfarer (Console, PC, Cloud) | Our Review

Twelve Minutes (Console, PC, Cloud) | Our Review

Two Point Hospital (Console, PC, Cloud) | Our Review

What Remains of Edith Finch (Console, PC, Cloud) | Our Review

World War Z (Console, PC, Cloud) | Our Review

Last week, a Fortnite tweet announced an incoming Dragon Ball crossover event, with the mythical wish-fulfilling dragon, Shenron, adorning the shared screenshot. At the time, details about content and features were still a mystery. However, a short gameplay trailer released today revealed several collectible items and a Dragon Ball-themed map. You can watch the zany footage below.

According to Gamespot, two bundles touting skins inspired by popular characters will be available for purchase. The cosmetics include Goku, Vegeta, and Bulma with alternate styles, Beerus, and back bling items like Seer Fish, Power Pole, Kamesennin’s Shill, and two new Pickaxes. Nimbus and Space Pod gliders also appear with an anime-themed Kamehameha attack to decimate foes the Saiyan way. Finally, creative maps contain cool locations like Kami’s Palace, Goku’s House, the Room of Spirit and Time, and more. 

The description of the event reads as follows:

“Visit the Dragon Ball Adventure Island (available August 19, 2022) to explore locations inspired by Dragon Ball Super, check out select episodes at the Dragon Ball Super Episode Festival row in Discover, visit the new “Power Unleashed!” Tab to complete quests to raise your power level and earn Dragon Ball-related free rewards, drop into the Battle Royale Island and pick up the Kamehameha to blast Goku’s iconic skill and ride around on the Nimbus Cloud (Kintoun).”

The Fortnite Dragon Ball Crossover awaits die-hard fans today. 

[Source: Gamespot]

Reviewed on: PlayStation 5
Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC
Publisher: Private Division
Developer: Roll7
Release: August 16, 2022

My roller skates come to life, whirling loudly on concrete before drowning out to the murderous symphony of shotgun blasts and rocket explosions. I spin to avoid a hail of bullets, latch my skates onto a rail, and then flip through the air, my guns blazing as I perform a flashy trick to bring the crowd to its feet. I hope this run creates a big enough death combo to reach a high score and unlock the next stage, where more powerful weapons and foes await. This is Rollerdrome, a skating-shooter that blends the trick system of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with the kill chains of Doom 2016 to create an exciting dystopian experience that makes you feel like a god on wheels.

Roll7, the team behind the OlliOlli series, is locked in on every aspect of this game, delivering enticing skating freedom, challenges that require devotion, comic-book visuals that leap off the screen, and a fascinating science-fiction vision stripped right out of 1970s cinema. Rollerdrome is a love letter to James Caan's classic film Rollerball, following the same theme of corporations ruling the planet and using the poor as contestants in a blood sport. Even the skaters' uniforms are similar in design and color. The retro vibe and inspirations work well to create a fascinating backdrop to skate to. When playing Rollerdrome, the comparison points to other games and entertainment are crystal clear, but they unite to create something unique.

The concept of the gameplay is simple: Skate or die. If you stop moving, a sniper will pick you off, or a mech will blow you to kingdom come. You travel the globe to different arenas, each designed like a skate park with a sea of ramps and rails to help you gain speed and soar. You use these playgrounds to earn advantage points to attack militant groups hired by mega-corporations. They are disposable and are here to highlight the skills of the contestants. You assume the role of a rookie named Kara Hassan, who you never get a good look at since her back is always to you and she's wearing a helmet, but her skills are undeniable and, more importantly, great fun to display.   

When Kara rips into an area, chaos hits to thunderous applause and doesn't relent until the last body collapses to the floor. Her movements are swift and fluid, and the most significant actions are easy to perform, such as launching off a half pipe or spinning through the air while simultaneously firing a machinegun. Roll7 did a phenomenal job with the controls, making them intuitive to the point that they quickly become muscle memory and don't require much more than a single button press. The timing windows for specific moves are also fantastic, making evading sniper fire not just a cinch but an integral part of the combo system. If you can perform a perfect evade, your point total ticks up.

In the first few levels, I skated with the sole intent of winning and moving on to the next stage. But the game's progression system requires more than this. To reach the second tier of stages, Kara must first complete a specific number of mini objectives. These tasks range from achieving high scores to downing specific enemy types in particular ways. These goals are Pro Skater-like but do lead to some frustration if you don't want to try your hand in the same battles numerous times.

 

I felt a little frustration in the later levels, yet I adored how the challenges pushed me to find and execute huge combo strings to reach higher scores. The combo meter multiplier only advances on kills, so you must figure out how to reach and kill enemies in a timely order. These foes spawn across the arena, and your ammo reserve only replenishes when you perform tricks, so you are constantly trying to dazzle the crowd or down an adversary. It's a phenomenal mix of two distinct gaming disciplines. The gunplay fits nicely with the skating, thanks to one of the most generous lock-on targeting systems you'll see. The focus is on gaining ammo and timing shots, which is fantastic given your character's breakneck speed and them often being airborne.

The retro sci-fi setting fits the action, but don't expect much from the story. You'll hear voices in the locker room that advance specific plot points and gain more insight into the world through notes and newspaper clippings, but they don't add up to much – all the excitement is in the arena.

Rollerdrome immediately clicked with me, and I ate it all up. As polished and fun as the experience is, it feels like Roll7 is just dipping its toes into the water. I hope this talented studio gets the chance to make a sequel to further flesh out this unique concept with more detail in the story and greater player progression. Regardless, Rollerdrome is a fantastic first foot forward. I adored the campaign gameplay and have a feeling my friend group will use this unique title for late-night scoring competitions.

Score: 8.5

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Join host Wesley LeBlanc as he chats with Game Informer editor Marcus Stewart about Thymesia, an upcoming Victorian-esque Souls-like that hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC later this week. 

More specifically, OverBorder Studio's take on the action formula popularized by From Software hits consoles and PC on Aug. 18. If you're the type of person who loves a good Souls-like, or if you've been curious about Thymesia for a while now, you're going to want to check out today's New Gameplay Today. Not only does it feature more than 10 minutes of new gameplay, but Marcus, who's reviewing the game for Game Informer, walks Wesley through what works in the game, what doesn't, and how it's different from the countless others like it in the genre. 

For more previews of some of the biggest games of 2022 and beyond, be sure to head over to our YouTube page for early looks at You Suck At Parking, The DioField Chronicle, Recipe For Disaster, Saints Row, Overwatch 2, Diablo IV, and more. 

Developer KeokeN Interactive has delayed its upcoming adventure game Deliver Us Mars to next year. 

More specifically, the Red Planet sequel to Deliver Us The Moon will no longer be released on September 27 and will instead hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on February 2, 2023. That's a delay of roughly four-ish months. As for why, KeokeN Interactive released a statement alongside the news, citing that the game needs more time to be the best it can possibly be. 

"Deliver Us Mars is KeokeN Interactive's most ambitious project to date. The journey that players will take as Kathy Johanson is packed with deeply emotional moments and fraught with danger. It is important to use that this experience is the best it can be at launch. With this in mind, we've collectively made the difficult decision to move the release date to 2nd of February 2023 in order to ensure that we are able to live up to that ambition.  "Whilst we understand this news might be disappointing, we are excited for you all to face the challenges of Mars, traverse its hostile environments, and discover the mystery of the ARKs. Your patience will allow us to deliver the best experience we can. In the meantime, we'll be sharing a fresh look at Deliver Us Mars at the Future Games Show at Gamescom with a brand new trailer on 24th of August 2022." 

An update on the release date of Deliver Us Mars: pic.twitter.com/1SrFqjL3zm

— Deliver Us Mars (@DeliverUsMars) August 15, 2022

For more about Deliver Us Mars, read about its reveal from earlier this year. Read Game Informer's Deliver Us The Moon review after that. 

Are you excited about Deliver Us Mars? Let us know in the comments below!

Disney announced that it will hold a Disney & Marvel Games Showcase next month, live from its D23 Expo. 

More specifically, the showcase will begin at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET on Friday, Sept. 9, and will be hosted by Kinda Funny's Blessing Adeoye Jr. It is set to feature "incredible new content" from Disney & Pixar Games, Marvel Games, Lucasfilm Games, and 20th Century Games. This includes titles like Disney Dreamlight Valley, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and even a "sneak peek at the upcoming ensemble game from Skydance New Media." 

JUST ANNOUNCED: Watch the Disney & Marvel GAMES SHOWCASE on Friday, September 9 – live from #D23Expo 2022! https://t.co/uZcDYdUZKA pic.twitter.com/RJ67ooTR2F

— Disney D23 (@DisneyD23) August 15, 2022

You might recognize Skydance New Media as the studio where former Uncharted series director Amy Hennig works as president. Connecting those dots means the sneak peek at the upcoming ensemble game from Skydance New Media is the first sneak peek of Hennig's new game, which she revealed as a narrative-driven, action-adventure game last year. 

Considering it's an ensemble game, it could be any number of famous Marvel squads or families. However, it's probably a safe bet to assume it won't be the Avengers since Crystal Dynamic's Avengers is only two years old and still getting updates. We also know it won't be the Midnight Suns, as XCOM developer Firaxis is developing that. I'm hoping Hennig's game is based on the X-Men, but since it's an ensemble game, it could be something like the Inhumans, the Fantastic Four, or even the New Avengers, too. Only time will tell, but fortunately, we have less than a month of waiting to go because the Disney and Marvel Games Showcase airs on Sept. 9. 

What Marvel heroes do you hope Hennig's game features? Let us know in the comments below!

Arcade1Up, the team behind the upcoming Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 arcade cabinet we recently played at EVO 2022, has announced NFL Blitz Legends, a new at-home cabinet that features remasters of three games from the popular franchise. 

Those three games are NFL Blitz (first released in 1997), NFL Blitz ‘99 (released in 1998), and NFL Blitz 2000: Gold Edition (originally released in 1999), and each will be easily playable in the NFL Blitz Legends cabinet from Arcade1Up, which features a $599 price tag. 

 

“We could not be more excited to bring NFL Blitz Legends to fans who have been waiting years for the return of this iconic game,” Arcade1Up CEO writes in a press release. “Our team spent the better part of the last two years making sure we both honored the games’ past while bringing it up to today’s modern standards with AAA development efforts in partnership with the NFL and FGA, and I think we’ve achieved that in an unbelievable feat of fun, exciting, action-packed gameplay while reengineering the original game.” 

Arcade1Up partnered with the NFL and the Football Greats Alliance to “ensure that hundreds of the game’s legends are featured including Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins), Jerry Rice (San Francisco 49ers), Deion Sanders (Denver Broncos), Brett Farve (Green Bay Packers), Jerome Bettis (Pittsburgh Steelers), Terrell Davis (Denver Broncos), and Cris Carter (Minnesota Vikings)."

In remastering these three Blitz games, Arcade1Up had to tweak some of the tackles and after-the-whistle hits in the games “to support the NFL’s current Player Health & Safety initiatives,” including edits to these moves or outright removal of some. This at-home cabinet will include local multiplayer, of course, but it will also give players the ability to compete online with Wi-Fi multiplayer and leaderboards. 

“Build to resemble the iconic NFL Blitz found at retro arcades, NFL Blitz Legends is a five-foot-tall arcade machine featuring NFL legends on the sides of the cabinet,” the press release reads. “The artwork and gameplay also feature retro team logos and uniforms, adding to the authenticity of the gaming experience. In addition to Wi-Fi multiplayer and leaderboard, the arcade machine has a 49-way joystick and 17-inch screen with a light-up marquee, and a branded riser.” 

 

You can pre-order the machine starting today for $599.99 and branded stools representing every team in the NFL today are available for $79.99. The first 1000 consumers to pre-order the machine from Arcade1Up.com will receive a limited-edition NFL Blitz Legends hat as a gift with the purchase. 

Are you interested in adding NFL Blitz Legends to your home arcade? Let us know in the comments below!

Private Division, a publishing arm under the Take-Two Interactive umbrella, has signed a publishing agreement with Wētā Workshop to publish the studio’s new Lord of the Rings game. 

Wētā Workshop is the VFX studio behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy directed by Peter Jackson, and in 2014, it founded a video game division. That team is now developing a “new game set in the Middle-earth universe of J.R.R. Tolkien,” according to a press release. Middle-earth Enterprises has licensed the literary works of the series to Wētā Workshop, too, giving the studio “the broadest creative license to interpret the underlying lore of the books.” 

“We are thrilled to partner with Wētā Workshop to publish a game set in such an extraordinary and celebrated universe,” Private Division head Michael Worosz writes in a press release. “The Lord of the Rings IP is home to so many remarkable stories, and no entity is better equipped than the team at Wētā Workshop to create a distinctive, new Middle-earth gaming experience.” 

Wētā Workshop’s gaming lead, Amie Wolken, says it's a privilege to create a new game set in Middle-earth, especially one that’s going to be “so different from what fans have played previously.” 

“As a fan ourselves, we’re excited for gamers to explore Middle-earth in a way they never have before, and introduce new fans to the magic of The Lord of the Rings,” Wolken writes in the press release. 

This new Lord of the Rings game does not yet have a title and is early in development. It doesn’t have a release date either, but it’s expected to launch sometime during Take-Two’s Fiscal Year 2024 (April 2023 - March 2024). 

While waiting to learn more about this game, check out the latest gameplay from The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which was recently delayed out of its Sept. 1 release date by a few months. Watch this teaser from the upcoming Amazon Middle-earth TV show, The Lord of the Rings:​ The Rings of Power, after that. 

What kind of game do you hope this ends up being? Let us know in the comments below!

PlayStation and Sucker Punch Productions’ 2020 hit, Ghost of Tsushima, is being developed into a feature film with John Wick director Chad Stehelski set to direct it. The movie seems to be early in development, although it did land Takashi Doscher as its writer earlier this year, but we might have some new information about it straight from a recent interview with Stehelski. 

More specifically, Stehelski revealed to Collider that the movie might feature an entirely Japanese cast and that the film could be in Japanese. Plus, he says Sony is on board with the idea. Here’s what he had to say:

“[I] think if we did this right, it would be visually stunning. It’s character driven. It’s got an opportunity for great action, great looks. And honestly, we’d try to do it, all in character. Meaning, it’s a Japanese thing about the Mongols invading Tsushima island. A complete Japanese cast, in Japanese. Sony is so on board with backing us on that. I’ve been going to Japan since I was 16. I have a love for the country, love of the people, love of the language. To try to direct not only in my language, but someone else’s and culturally shift my mindset to bring apart that in a cool way that still entices a Western audience.” 

This sounds awesome, but with the project being so early in development, anything could change. It’s great to hear that Sony’s on board with the idea, though! 

[Source: Collider]

What are you most excited to see from the game in this movie? Let us know in the comments below!

Update, 3:08 p.m., 8/15/22

After seemingly leaking by way of an in-game startup screen uploaded to MultiVersus a few hours too early, Player First Games has confirmed that both Black Adam and Stripe from Gremlins will hit the free-to-play stage fighter during its first season. You can check out the official announcement below: 

What's better than officially kicking off #MultiVersus Season 1? Announcing Black Adam and Stripe are also coming this season. 😏 You're welcome. pic.twitter.com/vmo3nm8tv5

— MultiVersus (@multiversus) August 15, 2022

With Season 1 now live, you might be wondering when Black Adam and Stripe will hit the game. Player First Games says the two fighters will join the MultiVersus roster "in the coming months as part of Season 1, along with Morty Smith and Rick Sanchez" from Rick and Morty. Morty hits the game on Aug. 23, while Rick will be released later in Season 1. Additionally, new modes will be added to MultiVersus in the months ahead during Season 1, including Classic Arcade and Ranked. 

For more details about Season 1 of MultiVersus, head here for a full rundown of the Season 1 Battle Pass, new skins, and more. 

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Original Story, 8:45 a.m., 8/15/22:

MultiVersus finally launched into 1.0 after weeks of beta testing, and while the launch was quite smooth, Player First Games opted to delay Season 1. 

However, that brief delay is behind us as Season 1 begins today, and you can check out the patch notes detailing every character buff, nerf, and more here. Alongside today's patch notes, though, came a small leak from Player First Games and MultiVersus itself. Twitter user _FireMonkey booted up MultiVersus and saw a Season 1 startup loading screen a bit too early, as reported by Eurogamer. That's because this startup screen featured two characters not yet revealed for the roster: Stripe, the antagonist from Gremlins, and Black Adam. 

Check it out for yourself below: 

Slightly Higher Quality image: https://t.co/2QOFC35Wjh pic.twitter.com/idwQgX95Go

— 🎄 Santa Ricky (@_FireMonkey) August 15, 2022

As you can see in the screenshot above, Black Adam and Stripe will be joining the roster sometime in Season 1. Black Adam makes sense – Warner Bros. and DC (and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, for that matter) are in full marketing mode for Black Adam. Stripe, however, is more of a curveball. It's an awesome inclusion but also a somewhat random one.

For more, read Game Informer's MultiVersus review, and then check out this story about the upcoming release of Morty from Rick and Morty. Read about every character buff, nerf, and more in Season 1 after that. 

[Source: Eurogamer]

Which of these two characters are you most excited to check out? Let us know in the comments below!

MultiVersus finally launched into 1.0 on Aug. 15 after weeks of beta testing, and now, after a brief delay, Season 1 is upon us. 

Set to launch sometime today, Season 1 will feature a healthy dose of content for the free-to-play stage fighter, although exactly what remains unknown. However, we do know that Morty from Rick and Morty will join the roster next week on Aug. 23. Beyond that, the studio says that new modes and content will be added to the game throughout the duration of Season 1. 

In the meantime, ahead of today’s Season 1 update, the team has released the Season 1 patch notes, and you can check them out in full below: 

General

• Morty will be arriving on 08/23! He will be our first Plumbus-wielding character!
• The patch will come in two parts. The first will be on August 15 and the second will be coming shortly afterwards (hopefully in the next few days). So not every change, but most will be in the August 15 patch.

New Free Character Rotation (8/15 - 8/30)

• Arya
• Batman
• LeBron
• Steven

Meta Systems

• Free Rotation Characters now have an icon in character select to identify them
• Battle Pass XP match rewards increased to 10 for wins and 5 for losses, up from 5 for wins and 3 for losses.
• Disabled class based Battle Pass missions other than for Tanks
  • Developer Note: Since players might not have access to fighters in specific classes other than Tank (thanks to Wonder Woman), we felt like relying on rerolls was not a reliable enough method to work around those missions.
• Lowered the requirements for a number of seasonal missions:
  • Ringout a player from the top of the map 50 times (previously 75)
  • Ringout a player from the side of the map 50 times (previously 75)
  • Ringout a player from the bottom of the map 50 times (previously 75)
  • Get 50 assists (previously 125)

General Perks

• Clear The Air - Increased consistency on perk effect.
  • We are aware of inconsistencies in this perk’s interaction with Velma’s speech bubbles and Batman’s Batarang. We will address these interactions in a future patch.
• Make it Rain, Dog! - Projectile speed is now properly applied to thrown items.
• Painted Target - Fixed an issue where projectiles weren’t applying bonus damage
• Retaliation Ready - Reduced unstacked gray health from 3 HP for 3 seconds to 1 HP for 3 seconds
  • Reduced stacked gray health from 4 HP for 3 seconds to 2 HP for 3 seconds
• School Me Once… - Increased consistency on projectile block spawn. Notable - getting hit by Jerry will now spawn a projectile block buff
• Slippery When Feint - Fixed an issue where evade distance was not increased on hit cancels
• Snowball Effect - Fixed an issue where projectiles weren’t applying bonus damage
• Static Electricity - Increased consistency on projectile electric damage application. Notable - thrown items will now apply electricity

Gameplay Systems:

• Ice Debuff - Movement speed slow at 1 stack reduced from 20% to 15%
  • Slow now scales linearly with each stack of Ice Debuff
  • Removed a bug where fighters affected by Ice Debuff took additional knockback
• Ability Cooldowns - fixed a bug where cooldowns would not trigger properly if used near an ally Jake

Gameplay Modes:

• FFA - Fixed a bug where pop up text would display the incorrect point value.

UI:

• Announcer Pack - You can now preview a character's announcer pack before deciding to unlock it.

Tutorials:

• Various Bug Fixes -
  • Fix for tutorials causing stage hazards to toggle off in other game modes.
  • Down spike tutorial has been fixed so that it requires an actual spike rather than any aerial attack.
  • The Reindog tether step of the intro tutorial no longer counts if you pull your ally in after they have been rung out.
  • Fix for Shaggy falling off the map during the aerial combat tutorial demo.
  • Added a wall to the second step of the KBI tutorial.

Glossary and Terms:

• New Terms
  • Added Wall Fatigue to the glossary.
  • Added the terms Block, Hazard, and Wipe to the glossary and updated move lists accordingly.

Characters

Legend:

+ = Buff

- = Nerf

~ = Change

Note: Attacks callouts reference default controls.

Arya

The goal of these changes was to make Arya’s combos be more consistent and successful at lower skill levels.

• + Air/Ground Up Special - Hitting a fighter will now more accurately launch them at an angle to allow follow-ups for Arya
• + Air Up Attack - The first hit will now more accurately combo into the second hit.
• + Neutral Air Attack - Now has earlier branching on hit.
• + Ground Side Attack - Arya will retain velocity on first hit of side attack.
• + Ground Down Attack - Now has slightly earlier dodge branching
• ~ Air/Ground Neutral Special - Fixed a bug where Arya would not copy over capsule hitboxes on her normal neutral attacks when stealing a fighter's face.
  • Set Arya's hurtbox to match her victim's hurtbox while she is disguised as them.
  • Fixed a bug where Arya's top UI would be offset incorrectly when she steals a face.
  • Fixed bug where Arya's disguise attack hitbox could get disconnected.
  • Fixed bug where Arya's original hitboxes would be useable during disguise attacks.
  • Fixed bug where the hitboxes from Arya's disguise would stay active during her normal attacks.

Batman

• ~ Air/Ground Side Special - Fixed bug where Batman would overshoot his grapple destination if the fighter he was grappling to dodged.
  • Increased the overshooting distance when grappling to an ally.
  • Fixed Batman grapple failing at short distances under high latency
• - Ground Side Attack - First hit added 3 frames of whiff recovery.
• - Air/Ground Neutral Attack (coming in patch 2): Batarang pick up will now return 9.45s of it’s cooldown down from 11.55s. This change helps create a window from when the batarang is used for the opponent to react. With perks like Coffeezilla causing this cooldown to be even shorter, we felt this change was necessary to create counterplay against the batarang.

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is a bit too safe in everything he does. We’ve given him some additional whiff punish windows to help address this.

• ~ Air Up Special - Fixed an exploit where Bugs could spawn two rockets.
• ~ Air Side Special - Fixed an exploit where Bugs could spawn two rockets.
• - Air/Ground Neutral Special - Fixed an exploit where Bugs could spawn multiple safes without triggering his cooldown.
  • - Safe HP reduced from 16 to 14.
• ~ Air Down Special - Bugs' previous tunnels will now disappear when creating new tunnels.
• - Air Up Attack
  • Added 4 frames of whiff recovery.
• - Air Side Attack - Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames.
• - Air Neutral Attack - Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames.
• - Ground Down Attack - Pie max lifetime set to 8 seconds, from infinite.
  • - Pie no longer applies a slow

Finn

Fighting against Finn felt too difficult as Finn felt a bit too safe and could throw out attacks without much fear of a punish due to how quickly he recovered. Hurt/Hit box foundational updates are coming soon, but will not be in this patch.

• - Passive - Attacks affected by Attack Decay no longer spawn coins
  • Finn now spawns with 100 gold instead of 200
• + Air Down Special - Fixed an issue where the gem required 200 gold to spawn, but only cost 100 to spawn. Gem now requires and costs 100
• - Air Side Special - Added additional whiff recovery.
• - Ground/Air Up Special - Reduced the strength of the vacuum effect on the backpack
  • Weaker hits of the backpack will no longer “overwrite” stronger knockbacks from other attacks
  • Whiffing with all hits will still drop a coin
  • Added whiff recovery.
  • Hitboxes should better match the attack (not perfect until our planned hurt/hit box system overhaul)
• - Air Side Attack - Reduced active frames to diminish Finn’s ability to hit fighters behind him
• - Ground Down Attack - The distance Finn covers with this attack now scales with how charged the attack is.
• - Ground Side Attack - Increased whiff recovery for the first hit.
• + On The House perk - Fixed an issue where Finn still spent gold on gems spawned by the perk
  • Slightly reduced the launch speed of gems spawned by the perk – this should fix issues that arose when this perk was combined with the “Make it Rain, Dog!” perk

Garnet

• + Air/Ground Neutral Special - Song activation starts earlier on frame 12 instead of frame 30.
• ~ Air/Ground Down Special - Fixed bug where Garnet would be stopped by Iron Giant's collision when she moves with her down special.
• + Air Neutral Attack - Slightly higher base knockback

Harley

• ~Stuffie Bat - Harley bomb vfx shrunk to better match the explosion radius
• + Weight - Increased from 42 to 44.

Iron Giant

• ~ VFX - Global fighter VFX now better matches Iron Giant’s size without making the screen too busy. Notable adjustments include Projectile Block buff, Speed Boost buff, and Steven Bubble debuff
• - Air/Ground Down Special - Fixed an issue where VFX trails would persist and fill up the screen
  • Can no longer use cannonball attack when out of air specials
  • Knockback angle changed to send fighters more horizontally and away from Iron Giant.
  • Fixed issues that allowed for infinitely bouncing on enemies near the ground
• - Air/Ground Neutral Special - Gray Health from activation reduced from 2 + #bolts HP for 5 seconds to #bolts HP for 3 seconds
  • Gray Health from ally overlap reduced from 5 HP for 5 seconds to 3 HP for 3 seconds
• ~ Ground Forward Special - Iron Giant grabs are correctly blocked by incompatible states.
• - Air Up Attack - Can no longer hit the same target multiple times
• - Air Neutral Attack - Final hit knockback angle changed to send fighters more horizontally and away from Iron Giant
  • Increased knockback scaling
• - Ground Up Attack - Gray Health from scrap reduced from 3 HP for 5 seconds to 2 HP for 3 seconds
  • Allies that consume scrap will overwrite any existing gray health they have from consuming scrap
• ~ Ground Forward Attack - Fixed attack decay not triggering for all parts of forward attack combo
• - Ground Down Attack - Gray health from art reduced from 10 HP for 10 seconds to 6 HP for 3 seconds

Jake

• - Air Down Attack - Removed instant cancel out of the attack to prevent skateboard infinites
  • No longer bounces off allies
• - Ground Up Attack - Additional whiff recovery; Slightly later charge cancel window to make it a bit more committal

LeBron

• ~ Air/Ground Side Special - LeBron’s solo dunk no longer spawns a shockwave on the ground.
  • The alley-oop teleport version of LeBron’s dunk spawns a shockwave and will launch fighters into the shockwave. The shockwave will launch fighters into a final hit that applies Weakened debuff.
  • Solo dunk knockback and hitbox size increased
  • Fixed a bug where LeBron could dunk himself into the sky
• ~ Ground/Air Down Special (No Ball) - Adjusted to prevent ball spam
• + Air Side Attack - Branches earlier on hit; fix for hitbox hitting behind him too much
• + Air Neutral Attack - Branches earlier on hit to increase combo potential.
  • Fix for ball neutral air branching into no ball neutral air.
• + Ground Side Attack/ Ground Down Attack - Removed shared attack decay from side attack and down attack
• + Ground Side Attack - 3 hit combo hits more consistently.
• ~ Ground Neutral Attack - Fixed angle of attack.
• ~ Basketball - Fixed some team color issues that would occur when reflecting LeBron basketball.
  • Fixed an issue where LeBron could be stuck attacking without his ball while visually holding his ball
• ~ Hot Hands perk - When an ally catches a no-look pass while the Hot Hands perk is equipped, the basketball pass buff will emit flames to let allies know they will throw an ignited basketball

Reindog

• + Air Up Special - Removed hitpause on ally that threw Reindog when Reindog connects in ball form
• - Air/Ground Neutral Special - Increased cooldown from 13s to 14s
• + Air Up Attack - Hitbox size increased

Shaggy

Shaggy’s Side Special felt a little too unpunishable, so we’ve added a bit of Whiff Recovery.

• - Rage Air Side Special - Recovery increased by two frames; now better matches rage ground side special
  • Addressed an issue where Shaggy could perform two rage specials
• + Rage Ground Down Special - Shaggy’s shockwave will launch fighters into a final hit that applies Weakened debuff.
• - Ground/Air Side Special - Added 4 additional frames of whiff recovery

Steven

• - Ground Down Special - Watermelon Steven ability cooldown now begins when Watermelon Steven is rung out.
  • Fixed a bug where Watermelon Steven could spawn inside ceilings and be stuck.
• ~ Air Neutral Attack - No longer will animation hitch.
• ~ VO/SFX - Fixed an issue where Steven's intro VO lines failed to play.
• ~ Taunt - Fixed an issue where Steven could only perform his up taunt.

Superman

• - Ground Neutral Attack - Added additional whiff recovery.
• - Ground Up Attack - Added additional whiff recovery.
• - Ground Down Special - Added additional whiff recovery.

Taz

This is the start of our tornado changes for Taz. We will be continuing to monitor the tornado with extra scrutiny in case additional changes are needed.

• Chicken Debuff -
  • Fixed a bug where transformed fighters could receive buffs that would not appear visually when they returned to their normal form
  • - Reduced chicken duration from 10 seconds to 8
  • + Increased the size of the chicken
• + Air/Ground Down Special - Adjusted projectile movement direction of Taz spit projectiles to be more forward and less of a lob.
  • + When Taz spits a projectile back at a fighter, the projectile will maintain its original speed.
• + Air/Ground Neutral Special - If Taz eats a projectile that can't be spit back out, he will refresh a count of his apple core ability.
  • Increased size of hit collision for Taz eating projectiles on his neutral special. Also made it possible to eat projectiles a few frames earlier.
  • Taz deals 1 stack of Weakened debuff everytime he chews an enemy.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed for ground movement after eating an enemy fighter
• - Air/Ground Up Special - Damage reduced from 10 to 9 and base knockback reduced from 1500 to 1350
  • Fixed a bug where enemy fighters could become invulnerable to the fight cloud after dodging it.
• ~ Air/Ground Side Special - Now a cooldown move with a 7-second cooldown. While the cooldown is active, side special is a weaker version of the tornado.
  • Full power tornado has a 1.5 second duration and receives an additional 1 second duration after passing an ally.
  • On cooldown tornado has a 0.25 second duration and does not gain additional duration by passing an ally.
• + Ground Up Attack - Now a two-hit attack. The early hit combos into the sandwich clap

Tom And Jerry

• + Tom And Jerry - Dynamite now applies projectile perk effects.
• ~ Air Normal Attacks - Fixed a bug that would prevent Tom and Jerry from using normal attacks when Air Special limit had been reached.
• - Air Up Special - Fixed an issue where Jerry would continue to have active hit frames when falling from the rocket

Velma

• - Air Side Special - Reduced move distance.
  • The distance this traveled before gave Velma additional recovery that wasn’t intended.
• - Air Up Special - Reduced Weaken stacks from 3 to 2.
  • - Will no longer chain into Air Down Attack as easily to prevent easy application of damage.
• - Ground Side Special - Reduced gray health from 12 HP for 4 seconds to 6 HP for 3 seconds
• - Air Down Attack - Increased Recovery
• - Air Side Attack - Added whiff recovery
• - Ground/Air Neutral Attack - Fixed issues when word bubbles would go through Bugs’ Tunnels.
  • Reduced ammo count from 4 to 3
  • Reduced ammo return from 11 to 10
• - Weight - Decreased weight from 63 to 60.
• - Knowledge Is Power perk - Reduced gray health from 7 HP for 5 seconds to 3 HP for 3 seconds

Wonder Woman

• + Ground/Air Neutral Special - Lowered cooldown from 13s to 12s
• + Ground Side Special - Projectile Shield comes out earlier to allow her to better react to incoming projectiles.
• ~ Air Up Attack - Hurtbox should now better match the animation.
• + Weight - Increased weight from 65 to 76
• ~ Shield of Athena Signature Perk - Adjusted scale of projectile shield for Shield of Athena signature perk to cover an edge case where projectiles would pass above it during a dodge.

Let’s rock, baby! Season 6 of Video Gameography gets stylish as we examine the Devil May Cry series! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be covering the history and lore of Capcom’s premiere action franchise, and this episode takes aim at the lauded yet somewhat polarizing Devil May Cry 4. 

Devil May Cry 4 took the series to a new generation of hardware, including Xbox for the first time. That's only one of the many firsts for this entry. Capcom moved Dante aside to place newcomer Nero in the starring role, who brought his demon arm Devil Bringer as the new centerpiece mechanic. Dante wasn't completely shunned, however; players control him during the adventure's questionably designed back half. In this episode, we'll discuss DMC 4's bizarre 2005 reveal, Capcom's reasoning behind Nero's conception, the fan reaction to the Xbox launch, and what it's really like to visit Fortuna's inspiration, Vatican City. 

Join hosts Marcus Stewart (@MarcusStewart7) and the returning host of The Great Game Debate podcast Wes Bates (@GreatGameDeb8), as we unpack Nero's big debut. 

If you’d like to get in touch with the Video Gameography podcast, you can email us at podcast@gameinformer.com. You can also join our official Game Informer Discord server by linking your Discord account to your Twitch account and subscribing to the Game Informer Twitch channel. From there, find the Video Gameography channel under “Community Spaces.”

Reviewed on: Switch
Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
Publisher: Bandai Namco
Developer: Hyde, Inc
Release: July 29, 2022
Rating: Teen

Gathered after a tragedy befalls our group, I attempt to calm down and plea that we should trust one another. Blood’s been spilled, and tensions are at an all-time high for this lost party of teens trapped in a dangerous land. That’s not quite the scene I had imagined going into Digimon Survive, a tactical RPG by way of a visual novel based on the sometimes-kid-friendly monster franchise. The dramatic dynamics at play are gripping, but the grid-based battles left me snoozing, souring what could have been a compelling, complete package.

As a visual novel, Digimon Survive is an absolute treat, full of beautifully drawn characters and scenery. Each location has well-crafted character staging with camera pans and zooms, giving these places a sense of depth. I’m often put off by the sparse production values of visual novels, but Digimon Survive keeps the flow of conversations visually interesting, enhanced by a partial Japanese voice-over.

You’re put in the shoes of 14-year-old Takuma, flocked by a cast of other young teens trapped in a dangerous world after getting lost on a school trip. Here, each child is paired with a partner Digimon through a mysterious bond that everyone hardly accepts. This unease leads to many difficult situations testing the group’s trust in one another, their Digimon, and some characters’ grip on reality.  While the story starts slow, I’m impressed by the depth of the characters and learning the interactions and roles each plays within the group.

 

Early on, I decided who would tend to take my side, who was prone to worrying, who was headstrong and stubborn, and the people who are difficult or insufferable to deal with. I wouldn’t say I liked many of the characters for a while (or ever), which is great, and why Survive succeeds in its characterization and relationships. Throughout my playthrough, I loved how I had to learn to deal with each character, to tell them what they wanted to hear in a particular situation, or what they needed to be told for the betterment and survival of the group. The fate of these kids’ lives is on the line, leading to an enjoyable tension. Even casual chats can lead to interesting turning points for a character that can drag them back from the brink of being a problem for the team or set them off on an anxiety-inducing path for everyone around them.

Accompanying each kid is a Digimon who appears as the group enters this new dimension. Series mascot Agumon pairs up with you while others like Floramon, Lopmon, Labramon, and Falcomon become tied to the other recurring teens. These creatures play a pivotal role in the story and are linked emotionally with human partners. I’m disappointed by some underwhelming evolutions for the main Digimon, but overall, the interactions between you and the monsters are fun and rewarding. I enjoyed learning how their budding friendships pan out or not, leading to powerful moments in the story that I’ll remember for some time.

Choices made through conversations can and will affect the Digimon and how they evolve, which is especially true with Agumon. Because emotions drive the connection between the partners, if your conversation choices lean towards one of the three traits of wrathful, moral, or harmony, Agumon’s evolutionary tree will shift throughout the game. These options have overarching narrative ramifications as well, making the one cool link between the story structure and the turn-based battles. I appreciate that my journey can have many different effects on my monsters, but the part of the game where evolutions truly matter suffers greatly compared to the visual novel.

Digimon Survive’s tactical turn-based combat is overly simplistic and lacks excitement and strategy. Each Digimon can shuffle along the map grid to position for attacks against enemy monsters. Digimon have a signature move and a basic attack along with up to two additional equipable skills. My favorite part of skirmishes is the management. Using special attacks and assuming an evolved form consumes SP; remaining in base form for any of the main party’s monsters restores the precious resource. The few times I had to juggle stages of evolution to conserve SP for a last-ditch attack were stimulating and interesting. Still, that’s far from the norm when most battles are far from mentally taxing encounters.

Instead of relying on team composition, formations, and strategically interesting attacks, most encounters play out by just getting your team close to the opposition and hammering them with your strongest ability. Sure, there are elemental advantages at play, and depending on whether you attack from the side or rear flank can yield some additional destruction, but simple brute force typically gets the job done. As a result, the part of this game I was most excited about feels like padding and brings down the overall experience.

Battles also allow for additional Digimon to join your party, but the process is a tedious mess. These recruitment opportunities only come from free battles during exploration and require you to use the talk command to start a conversation. The enemy Digimon will ask you a series of three questions, of which you must respond in the way they prefer multiple times to get the chance to ask them to join the team. It’s clumsy and tedious, with many interactions resulting in failure. Despite my wanting to have a cool new Digimon on my team, I eventually decided it was hardly worth the trouble.

I applaud Digimon Survive for being a dark, harrowing, and wonderful visual novel, and subverting what I thought a Digimon story could be. While I wish the combat evolved as much as the surrounding story presentation, it’s not enough to deter someone from seeing the narrative through. Don’t expect a tactical masterpiece, but rather a well-made melancholy tale depicting Digimon in a light they haven’t been in before.

Score: 7.25

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This week on All Things Nintendo, Brian invites fighting game expert and former Game Informer editor Suriel Vazquez to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Street Fighter franchise. The main segment pays homage to the series through a deep dive on the history and impact of the most iconic fighting games, but before that, the two run down the news, including a big breakdown of the Splatoon 3 info dump we got earlier this week.

If you'd like to follow the people from this episode on Twitter, hit the following links: Brian Shea (@brianpshea), Suriel Vazquez (@SurielVazquez)

The All Things Nintendo podcast is a weekly show where we can celebrate, discuss, and break down all the latest games, news, and announcements from the industry's most recognizable name. Each week, Brian is joined by different guests to talk about what's happening in the world of Nintendo. Along the way, they'll share personal stories, uncover hidden gems in the eShop, and even look back on the classics we all grew up with. A new episode hits every Friday!

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00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:38 – First Nintendo Game/Favorite Nintendo Game
00:15:21 – Pokémon Anime Special Coming to Netflix
00:18:32 – New Super Punch-Out!! Cheat Code Discovered
00:22:56 – Kirby's Dream Buffet Details and Release Date
00:25:44 – Fall Guys Sonic Event
00:28:01 – Dragon Ball Fortnite Tease
00:29:56 – Sonic 3 Theatrical Release Date
00:32:11 – Sonic Origins Patches Out Worst Glitch
00:33:33 – Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Arcade1Up Cabinet
00:39:24 – Splatoon 3 Deep Dive
00:56:49 – Street Fighter Franchise Retrospective
02:02:26 – Definitive Ranking: Street Fighter Characters
02:09:35 – eShop Gem of the Week: Treachery in Beatdown City

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Standing here, I realize that this Super Replay will be a cut above the rest because we’ll be slicing and dicing in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance! Join us today on Twitch at 3 p.m. Centralto enjoy two hours of what will be a full playthrough of the cult favorite action game streaming weekly each Friday. 

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance serves as a sequel/spin-off to Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots that puts cyborg ninja Raiden at the helm. Instead of sneaking around in boxes, players eviscerate foes in fast-paced, stylish action courtesy of developer Platinum Games. Since its launch in 2013, Revengence’s action and absurdity have garnered it a passionate internet fandom, but I have a little secret: I didn’t think the game was all that special when I played it at launch. However, years of being inundated with internet memes and being told my opinion is incorrect has inspired me to give Revengece another look. Will I acquire a new appreciation for the game nine years later? How many watermelons will I slice? You’ll have to tune in to find out. 

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Developer Avalanche and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive have delayed Hogwarts Legacy to next year. 

More specifically, Hogwarts Legacy, originally due out sometime this year, will now hit PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on February 10, 2023. The game will make its way to Switch, too, but today's announcement also came with the news that the Switch version will launch at a later date.

"Hogwarts Legacy will launch on February 10, 2023 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. The Nintendo Switch launch date will be revealed soon. The team is excited for you to play, but we need a little more time to deliver the best possible game experience." 

Hogwarts Legacy will launch on February 10, 2023 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. The Nintendo Switch launch date will be revealed soon. The team is excited for you to play, but we need a little more time to deliver the best possible game experience. pic.twitter.com/zh0EsOvDb7

— Hogwarts Legacy (@HogwartsLegacy) August 12, 2022

Hogwarts Legacy was originally due out in 2021 before it was delayed to 2022. Now, it's coming in 2023. For more about the game, check out the latest details revealed during a March Sony State of Play, and then read about Hogwarts Legacy's PS5 DualSense features. Read about how controversial Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is not involved with the making of Hogwarts Legacy (although she will certainly be getting money as a direct result of this game). 

Infinity Ward has released a TikTok (it’s a new world) that shows some of its developers discussing a new map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 called Farm 18, as reported by Eurogamer. 

The map will probably fall into the medium-sized range of Call of Duty maps, and that’s because it’s one part a level set in an abandoned and overgrown cement factory and another part, Shoothouse, the popular level from 2019’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Of course, it’s not a 1-to-1 recreation, but Infinity Ward says Farm 18’s center, which is a large shoot house, was inspired by Modern Warfare’s Shoothouse.

Check it out for yourself below: 

Welcome to Farm 18. Location: [classified]. Shoothouse optional. #ModernWarfare2 #IntelDrops pic.twitter.com/OkZuuwjPXD

— Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) August 11, 2022

As you can see, the map looks like it’s going to be a great time. Players looking to play it safe can stick to the outside, using the overgrown brush to conceal them while stalking the level’s perimeter. Those looking for a riskier fight can head into the central warehouse, where they’ll find themselves in the Shoothouse-inspired part of Farm 18. 

For more about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, check out the game’s first extended gameplay reveal from earlier this summer, and then read our preview of the game after checking it out in June. Read about the ways to get into the early access betas for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 after that. 

[Source: Eurogamer]

What do you think of this map? Let us know in the comments below!

Update, 8/12/22:

The official MultiVersus Twitter account has revealed that Season 1 for the popular stage fighter will begin next Monday, Aug. 15, after a delay to the season was announced last week. Morty from Rick and Morty, who was set to drop with Season 1, will join the roster roughly a week later, on Aug. 23. Also, the team has announced that everything coming to the game in Season 1 will not drop on the same day, citing that new modes and content will drop throughout the season. 

Quick Note: Everything we are bringing to you in Season 1 will not drop on the same day. New modes and content will be spread through the life of the Season. We'll continue to share dates on all the fun things to come!

— MultiVersus (@multiversus) August 12, 2022

The original story continues below: 

Original Story, 8/4/2022: 

The crossover brawler of our dreams, MultiVersus, is the fighting genre's latest prize winner. From Adventure Time to Game of Thrones, Player First Games' debut title is a wacky fusion of legendary franchises that's left fans enamored with the light-hearted art style and Super Smash-inspired gameplay. Sadly, the rising champ's first season and next playable character, Morty (Rick & Morty), have been pushed back. A finalized release date remains unknown.  

We want to let everyone know that we are delaying the start of Season 1 & the release of Morty to a later date. We know this might be disappointing for some and want to assure our Community that we are dedicated to delivering new and exciting content that delights players. (2/3)

— MultiVersus (@multiversus) August 4, 2022

Tweets released by the MultiVersus dev team thank players for their continued support and patience while announcing the unexpected news (seen above). You can read the complete statement below:

"A big thank you to everyone playing MultiVersus. It's exciting to see so many players enjoying the game and the launch of the Open Beta is just the beginning. We want to let everyone know that we are delaying the start of Season 1 & the release of Morty to a later date. We know this might be disappointing for some and want to assure our Community that we are dedicated to delivering new and exciting content that delights players. We'll let you know the timing as soon as we can. We appreciate your patience & enthusiasm and look forward to unveiling Season 1 very soon!"

Season 1 was initially slated to launch on August 9. For now, you'll just have to keep busy kicking Lebron James' butt. John Carson previewed MultiVersus for us and concluded his findings by stating, "I went into the alpha test of MultiVersus with low expectations. Besides Smash Bros., the big brand mash-up fighters feel hollow and feature underwhelming rosters, but I've come away impressed with what I've played so far. The cast is great so far, and each character brings unique gameplay and mechanics to the fray."

What are your thoughts on MultiVersus so far? Let us know in the comments below!

If you’re playing an RPG, you’re in it for the long haul and want an experience that’s going to immerse you and keep you entertained the whole way through. A genre that is both familiar and constantly evolving, RPGs are often tasked with having the total package. The best ones contain all the key ingredients, masterfully combining exciting combat, memorable characters, larger-than-life bosses, and a gripping storyline. 

If you’re looking for RPGs that excel in those aspects, look no further than this list. The following games all share common elements but carve out their own unique path in the genre and promise a narrative-focused adventure full of thrilling encounters around every bend. Listed in no particular order, here are 10 stellar RPGs worth the time and effort. This is an evolving list that we'll periodically update with exceptional titles as they release. 

What games on this list do you enjoy? What games would you add that aren’t listed? Let us know in the comments! If you enjoyed this list, be sure to check out our other recent genre lists by clicking on our list hub below.

In a year riddled with delays, Metal Slug Tactics is the latest game to slip into next year. Publisher Dotemu has announced that the tactical spin-off of the popular shoot 'em up needs more time to come together and will launch in 2023.

The tweet, embedded below, doesn’t elaborate more than that. We haven't heard much of a peep about the game since its reveal last summer, making us wonder if a delay was on the horizon.

Marco, Eri, Fio, and Tarma are tinkering away to make #MetalSlugTactics as explosive as possible on release, but the squad needs a bit more time in the shop to prepare for the battles ahead. See you in 2023! @LeikirStudio x @Dotemu
🎨Artwork by @AngryangryD pic.twitter.com/JRKqpnvUQp

— Dotemu (@Dotemu) August 11, 2022

Metal Slug Tactics was one of the pleasant surprises of E3 2021. The game, developed by Leikir Studio, transforms the series’ explosive run-and-gun action into a tile-based tactics experience that retains Metal Slug’s signature style and tone. Although turn-based, units still wield classic Metal Slug weapons and can be improved by unlocking abilities and perks on a skill tree.

We’ll have to wait a while longer to see how well Metal Slug translates to this new template. When it does arrive, it will be available on Switch and PC.

It's been a long week, and I'm ready to blow some steam off by piledriving teenagers into concrete – in a fictional video game setting, of course! Rumbleverse, the new battle royale wrestling game from the creators of Killer Instinct (2013), releases today for free. In Rumbleverse, you equip wrestling moves and stat-boosting consumables like protein powder instead of guns and weapon attachments.

It seems cool, so I'll play it with former Associate Editor John Carson today!

We're going live at 2:00 p.m. Central on our Twitch page, and then I'll upload it to the Game Informer YouTube channel afterward. See you soon.

Developer Massive Monster's Cult of the Lamb, an adorable mish-mash of cute critters and macabre cult-isms, is finally out and it's a great time. You can read about why in my review here. If you're jumping into the game today, I have just the thing for you: some tips and tricks I wish I could have read before starting what would become a 19-hour journey through Cult of the Lamb. ​​​​​​

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In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, we return from Las Vegas to talk about our time at EVO 2022 and the event's fighting game announcements alongside special guests Michael Higham (Fanbyte) and John Carson (Former Associate Editor). Of course, that's not all. The Newshound himself, Wesley LeBlanc, shares his Cult Of The Lamb review impressions before the larger group chats about Soul Hackers 2 and Digimon Survive. 

Follow us on social media: Alex Van Aken (@itsVanAken), Wesley LeBlanc (@LeBlancWes), John Carson (@John_Carson), Michael Higham (@MichaelPHigham)

The Game Informer Show is a weekly gaming podcast covering the latest video game news, industry topics, exclusive reveals, and reviews. Join host Alex Van Aken every Thursday for a chat about your favorite games – past and present – with Game Informer staff, developers, and special guests from around the industry. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Editor's Note: Please welcome Matt Storm, our new freelance audio editor for The Game Informer Show. Matt is an experienced podcast host, editor, and producer who's been podcasting for over a decade. You should listen to Matt's shows like the "Fun" And Games Podcast and Reignite, a Mass Effect podcast. 

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:49 - EVO 2022 Recap

00:33:42 - Cult of the Lamb

00:44:12 - Digimon Survive

00:55:39 - Soul Hackers 2

01:06:57 - House Keeping and Listener Mail

Nightingale, the Victorian first-person survival action game, has had its early access launch pushed to the first half of 2023. The game is the debut by Inflexion Games, a team consisting of former Bioware developers, including ex-general manager Aaron Flynn. 

In a message posted to Twitter, Inflexion explains it delayed the launch for two reasons. One, it’s migrating the game to Unreal Engine 5. Two, it needs the extra time to ensure it's polished and packed with content before players can begin testing it out. You can read Inflexion's full message below (click the image to enlarge). 

Nightingale debuted during The Game Awards 2021 and is a PvE crafting and survival game that can be played alone or in co-op. Players find themselves stranded in a Victorian Gaslamp fantasy world connected by a network of portals. To survive, they’ll have to harvest materials such as wood and ore to construct weapons, equipment, and buildings. Jumping through portals transports players to new biomes such as deserts, swamps, and jungles. Nightingale’s appearance during this year’s Summer Game Fest introduced Realm Cards used to unlock new areas and influence the type of content, such as enemies and resources, they contain. 

So far, Nightingale is only confirmed to launch for PC via Steam.

Developer PanicBarn and publisher No More Robots are working on a "comedy open-world RPG" where you save the world with a magic soccer ball. Soccer Story is slated to release later this year for PlayStation and Xbox consoles, Switch, PC, and Stadia.

Your role in Soccer Story begins one year after an event called The Calamity, which apparently has made soccer illegal. A magic soccer ball chooses you to be the so-called Savior of Soccer, a role that will also help heal the world.

No More Robots states Soccer Story delivers over 15 hours of gameplay unfolding through story-based missions and side activities. You'll apparently square off against sharks, toddlers, old-age pensioners, and ninjas as you complete these tasks and solve puzzles using the ball.

In addition to the single-player campaign, Soccer Story features a four-player local multiplayer mode, with each team led by an animal captain.

Soccer Story is not developed by SideBar Games, the team behind the wonderful Golf Story title, but it does appear to draw plenty of inspiration from it, including the name.

Let us know what you think of this surprising game announcement in the comments section below!

For weeks now, leaks and rumors have pointed to a Dragon Ball Z collaboration happening with Epic Games' battle royale, Fortnite. Now, such a crossover has been officially confirmed. 

Today, the official Fortnite Twitter account tweeted out an image of Shenron floating high above the battle island with a caption that says, "Speak. Name your wish...8.16.2022." Check it out for yourself below: 

Speak. Name your wish…8.16.2022 pic.twitter.com/IloBVI07AY

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) August 11, 2022

As you can see, it seems Epic Games will finally unveil the Dragon Ball Zcontent coming to Fortnite next Tuesday. As for what to expect, that remains officially unknown, but leaks (and, let's be honest, a solid guess) point to skins of popular Dragon Ball Z characters such as Goku and Vegeta and DBZ-specific pickups too. Only time will tell, but fortunately, we don't have to wait too much longer now. 

Prepare your wallets. 

Are you excited about this upcoming collaboration? Let us know in the comments below!

Nintendo has released a brand new trailer for Kirby's Dream Buffet that showcases many of the minigames we'll be partaking in when the game hits Switch. 

And speaking of Switch, today's overview trailer reveals that Kirby's Dream Buffet is out next week, on Wednesday, Aug. 17. That's exciting, especially considering this game was only just announced last month. The trailer details the main progression of games in Kirby's Dream Buffet, as well as important ways to strategize using Kirby's different copy abilities. 

Check it out for yourself below: 

As you can see, Kirby's Dream Buffet is shaping up to be an adorably cute time (not to mention, a hunger-inducing one too). For more information about Kirby's Dream Buffet, be sure to check out this story. After that, read this Kirby series retrospective that dives deep into the character's origins and more. 

Are you excited about Kirby's Dream Buffet? Let us know in the comments below!

Reviewed on: PlayStation 5
Platform: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Publisher: Warner Bros. Games
Developer: Player First Games
Release: August 15, 2022
Rating: Teen

Warner Bros. has given new studio Player First Games some of its most popular characters to carve out space in the Smash Bros.-dominated IP-crossover-fighter genre. MultiVersus succeeds where others have failed, but it still has some growing to do.

Though LeBron James appears on the roster thanks to his starring role in Space Jam: A New Legacy, the WB roster in MultiVersus doesn’t feel as icky as the roster of that film. Each character is treated with reverence, creating a world where you eventually don’t bat an eye at the fact that Arya Stark from Game of Thrones is stabbing Bugs Bunny.

The tight, Smash-like controls deftly convey the powerful and heavy Iron Giant just as well as the swift and silly Finn from Adventure Time. Just when I thought I had found my main, I started up another character and was always surprised by how unique and interesting they were to learn.

While 1v1 and 4-player Free-For-All are included, everything is built around 2v2 gameplay. Character classes indicate traits at a glance and hint at how teams might gel. For example, Velma can hang back and cover with projectiles and buffs/debuffs, while Superman charges in to pound everyone. You can pair characters that enhance strengths and cover weaknesses, or simply go all in with two rushdown characters; all options are workable in the right hands.

The perks system plays into this directly. Character leveling unlocks boosts to speed, dodging, jumps, and more. It’s smart to match up perks with your partner for a stacking bonus. Superman and Velma both have ice attacks, for example, so you can combo to increase that debuff. Unique signature perks play up character strengths as well. Even in this early state, the team/perk combos are staggering and kept me experimenting constantly.

Despite the strength of the current basic modes, the lack of variety needs to be addressed (and apparently will be soon with an arcade and ranked mode). The limited number of maps cover standard size and layout requirements, but none of them match the creativity and detail of a good Smash Bros. level. It’s neat to volley enemies off a Batmobile in the Batcave, but stages like a generic, empty coliseum and stock grassy field with waterfall left me wanting more.

Online play is fantastic thanks to rollback netcode and a massive cross-platform player base. I never had to wait for matches or deal with lag. Reindog – a new character created for the game – turned invisible a couple of times, but that’s about the extent of my technical problems.

 

MultiVersus is free-to-play on almost every console and PC, making it easy to access. However, this also triggers microtransaction anxieties. Thankfully, the fair economy provides plenty for players who don’t want to pay. Wonder Woman is free alongside a rotating roster of four characters. An early influx of gold pays for another character so you’re set with 6 of 17 in the roster in short order. The remaining grind is far slower, but not too daunting. And all characters are playable in a practice area. Paid content is limited mostly to cosmetics, instant character unlocks, and the premium tier of the Battle Pass.

The current free and paid mini Battle Passes and daily quests kept me busy throughout my time with MultiVersus. While I enjoyed unlocking content, the need to grind out repetitive bot matches to hit some numbers in a reasonable amount of time can be a slog. Completed seasonal goals annoyingly didn’t clear out for me so I had to dig into the menus and turn past a page of grayed-out items to check my progress constantly.

Living games have the potential to go in frustrating directions, but MultiVersus has a strong foundation. If it can meaningfully roll out content and smooth out its rough edges, this could become a new crossover obsession for years to come.

Note: This review is based on the open beta version of MultiVersus.

Score: 8

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Snow Blind, the next installment in the Mortal Kombat Legends animated film series, got its first trailer today ahead of its October release. The new movie tells the origin story of Kenshi, who tags up with Sub-Zero to kombat Outworld's usual suspects and keep the peace (or as peaceful as this universe can get). 

The film explores how Kenshi loses his eyesight and trains to become the master swordfighter that fans have loved since his debut in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance. Kenshi’s goal: take down a fully cybernetic Kano and his Black Dragon clan. Kenshi has another ace up his sleeve in the form of a powerful ally (?) in Sub-Zero. Some of the characters that appear include Shang Tsung and Kabal and even lesser seen faces like Tremor and Kira. 

Snow Blind is the third Mortal Kombat Legends film following 2021’s Battle of the Realmsand 2020’s Scorpion’s Revenge. It will be available on digital storefronts on October 9 and on Blu-ray October 11. Personally, I'm excited to see where it winds up landing on my ranking of every Mortal Kombat on-screen adaptation. 

In addition to PlayStation Plus' August offerings of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and Little Nightmares, the catalog of downloadable games for Extra and Premium subscription tiers is expanding next week. If you're a Yakuza diehard or Yakuza-curious, Sony has you covered. 

On August 16, Extra/Premium subscribers can download and play the following titles (click the links to read our review of applicable games):

• Bugsnax 
• Dead by Daylight 
• Ghost Recon Wildlands 
• Yakuza 0 
• Yakuza Kiwami
• Yakuza Kiwami 2

While those titles are treated as the headliners, a few more games will also become available on that same date:

• Metro Exodus
• Monopoly Madness
• Monopoly Plus
• Trials of Mana
• Uno

If you need a refresher on the differences between each subscription tier, be sure to check out our PlayStation Plus breakdown. Have you upgraded to the Extra or Premium tiers? If so, what do you think about the offerings so far? Let us know in the comments!