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Dtoid Deals The single greatest video game surprise of last year may have beenHitman. Sometime in 2015, Square Enix suddenly announced that the newHitmanwould be episodic and all pre-orders were refunded. It was a strange reversal, one that felt like admission that no one knew exactly what to do with this game. Expectations were lowered accordingly. But, as it turns out, Square Enix and IO Interactive knew exactly what to do with this game....

Lots of noise was madeabout the price of the PlayStation Vita memory cards. I didn’t love the reaction, and that was mostly because it was based on a retailer’s early listings. Of course, that’s all we had at the time to go on. Now that we’ve got the official launch details from Sony, we can see that the MSRP on the Vita memory cards won’t burn as much. They’re not exactly cheap, but they’re not criminally overpriced either....

Hands-on with the boost-heavy arcade racer There’s a simple pleasure to arcade racing games, and I’ve had my eye onHot Wheels Unleashedas someone who owned a mess of orange plastic tracks as a kid. Even if I don’t have a current connection to the individual cars — I could rattle off few if any names from memory — I still appreciate their outlandish designs. Whowouldn’twant a shark car? After going hands-on with a preview build of the PC version, I’m feeling good aboutHot Wheels Unleashed, at least as far as the winding tracks and zippy driving are concerned....

The finale for Act II ofEpisode: Heresyhas Guardians attempting a coup. Players try to imprison the Echo of Navigation; however, it’s not as simple as slaying a few foes. A puzzle stands in the way that might stump anyone who hasn’t done the Salvation’s Edge Raid. Warning: Spoilers ahead for the finale of Destiny 2’s Act II of Episode: Heresy. At the end ofDestiny 2‘s second Act ofEpisode: Heresy, Guardians are tasked with helping Eris Morn bind the Echo of Navigation to her Throne World....

Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact,the fighting game based on the popular anime series, has been delayed into 2025. This is primarily based on the inclusion of rollback netcode into the game that many fans of the fighting genre request in modern-day titles. Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact delayed out of 2024 “We sincerely apologize for the trouble caused by this delay to the players who are looking forward to the game’s release,” said Arc System Works onX....

It’s what everyone has always called it The AIAS sends word that theInteractive Achievement Awardshave been renamed to the D.I.C.E. Awards. The new name rolls off the tongue easier, sounds cooler, and fits better with an event that is held in Las Vegas every year. The real reason is that everyone has always called it the D.I.C.E. Awards anyway. Seriously! This year’s award show, the 16th Annual one, will take place on February 7....

There are no secrets on the internet, friend Microsoft has filed two unannounced projects with the FCC. The filings for model numbers1682and1683– which were spotted by eagle-eyedNeoGAFfer ekim (who alsospotted yesterday’s Katamari news,too, incidentally) – suggest new Xbox hardware may be on its way sooner than we thought. The FCC regulates any and all data transmission devices sold in the US. While the filer can choose to keep details of the devices private initially, for each filing there’s an availability date – which happens to be June 25 for item 1683, and July 29 for 1682....

chirp On the PlayStation Blog, the top-selling PlayStation Network games of December have been compiled for curious minds to look over and commit to memory. Topping the charts is none other than thatgamecompany’sJourney, beating out full PlayStation 3 games likeMass Effect,Far Cry 3, andPlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. Even though it wasn’t discounted until the very end of last month, surely that had some noticeable impact on this list. Personally, the deal pushed me over the edge and resulted in a particularly memorable Christmas Eve....

Recently we brought younewsthat Krystal — the She-Ra to Fox McCloud’s He-Man — had been revealed as a character in the upcomingSuper Smash Bros. Brawlvia a combination of cunning, stealth and being able to read web pages. It seems that Alesia Glidewell’s online resumé contained an entry detailing her work as the voice of the anthropoid sex object in the upcoming fighter. But like Cringer, the web is prone to changing shape without notice....

Today, we have a very special edition ofAlso Talksin store for you. Johnny Luchador and I will be sitting down with Roger Barr, the founder ofi-Mockery.com. Roger has been releasing parody games on i-Mockery for some time, butAbobo’s Big Adventureis the site’s largest undertaking yet. In theBig Adventure,Abobo, a beefcake villain from theDouble Dragonseries, has seen his son Aboboy kidnapped and must bash his way through several NES worlds to rescue him....

It’s time for Meat Arrow Nintendo has shared more gameplay today ofThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,showcasing Link’s new abilitiesin a new and changing Hyrule. Among all the new features, there were a few that seemed to open up a wealth of creative options for future adventurers of Hyrule. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildwas already a font for player ingenuity. Alongside all the Stasis hijinks players could get up to, there were also items like the Octo Balloons which could let players create flying contraptions....

Yes, apparently it’s true. The L.A. Timesdid a feature onDigital Domain, which is a special effects company headed up by theArmageddon-tastic director Michael Bay. Yes, Mr. lips-on-TransformersBay. So, the article mentions this early on: Bay’s first-person shooter game is part of a larger strategy to transform Digital Domain Inc., where he is now co-chairman, from one of Hollywood’s elite special-effects houses into a full-blown production studio, capitalizing on the convergence between games and feature films....

All in the family Something delightfully novel for this week’s Arcade Archives entry as Hamster pulls ’80s alien blasterBaradukeout of its big bag of Namco games and gives it a fresh release on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Originally released to the coin-op market in 1985,Baraduke, (akaAlien Sector),sees intrepid space explorer Toby “Kissy” Masuo picking her way through a series of claustrophobic interplanetary caverns, taking on an army of gooey aliens and gathering up cute, cycloptic creatures known as “Paccets”....