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Overkill’s The Walking Dead Confirmed For 2016 Release

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Last August, developer Overkill announced it was working on a new The Walking Dead game, and according to publisher Starbreeze, it would focus on cooperative gameplay. Today, Starbreeze confirmed the game is coming to Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC, and won’t be released until sometime in 2016.

Starbreeze also announced it would be publishing the games on consoles under an agreement with 505 Games. For a $10 million USD license fee, 505 Games will publish The Walking Dead on Xbox One and PS4. The partnership comes as no surprise considering the two companies worked together on Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. They also collaborated on the hugely successful Payday series, evidence that they work well together.

The new The Walking Dead game will be Payday-esque, but with a larger world. The company says it will “deliver a completely new co-op experience to The Walking Dead universe, exploring new characters and storylines.” Gameplay wise, it will be a first-person cooperative shooter  which Starbreeze says will incorporate action, role-playing, and stealth. And, like any good zombie game, survival horror. Similar to other The Walking Dead titles, players will assume the role of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world that will apparently be set in 2016 Washington.

The game will be set in the same universe as the comics, not the TV show. It will have no connection to with Telltale’s The Walking Dead episodic series, or with Activision’s The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. Although the game obviously doesn’t have a rating yet, Starbreeze have warned that, because of the canon established by the comics, it’s going to be a game for mature audiences only.

Bo Andersson Klint, CEO of Starbreeze, said, “it will be gameplay focused, ferocious and bring chaos to the traditional industry model – from us developers straight to you. This time it’s big – don’t walk alone.”

In addition to the confirmation of the new game, fans of Payday 2 will be able to enjoy adding to their stash of weapons a Lucille baseball bat, intended to commemorate the collaboration between Overkill, their parent company Starbreeze, and 505 Games.

Rhiannon likes video games and she likes writing, so she decided to combine them. As well as writing about video games, she also belts out the occasional science fiction or fantasy story, edits videos, and eats strawberry oreos. In that order.

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Sony Has a “Monopoly” on the High-End Japanese Gaming Market, According to a US Senator

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The never-ending saga surrounding Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has a new participant.  Today, Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from the state of Washington, said some things about the subject that were hard to understand.

The senator, whose remarks were reported on by ResetEra, spoke at a Senate finance committee hearing on “the president’s 2023 Trade Policy Plan,” which we are sure was quite interesting.

Senator Cantwell said that she had been told that Sony “controls a monopoly of 98% of the high-end game market” despite the fact that “Japan’s government has allowed Sony to engage in blatant anti-competitive conduct through exclusive deals and payments to game publishers, establishing games that are among the most popular in Japan.”

This 98% statistic is highly deceptive because it ignores PC, Nintendo, and mobile games and instead refers to Sony’s adoption rate over Microsoft in Sony’s native country of Japan, a fact that shouldn’t surprise anyone who is even somewhat familiar with the video game business.

What can we do to rectify these problems and create a level playing field, she said of US Trade Representative Katherine Tai after charging Japan’s Federal Trade Commission with improperly failing to look into this purported “exclusionary conduct”?

It is absurd to claim that Sony has a monopoly on the Japanese video game market, as Luke Plunkett of Kotaku correctly points out, “because Sony doesn’t even have a 98% share of the market for the God of War series, a title they own, as Steam is getting 30% of every sale on PC.”

It goes without saying that we can’t expect elected officials to be experts in every field, but this is a visible step at a time when the ongoing attempt to buy the company is at a very important point.

Is it significant that Microsoft, along with Nintendo, maintains its headquarters in Redmond, Washington—Senator Cantwell’s district—or that Microsoft has given Cantwell more than $500,000 over the past two decades?  Let us leave that up to you.

 

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Eating trash, Pizza Possum destroys the PS5

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Pizza Possum is an arcade action game in which you, a possum, attempt to consume as much trash as you can without being discovered.  It is a web-based sequel to the anarchy simulator Untitled Goose Game.It will eventually be available on the PS5.

We couldn’t help but notice that the possum in the title doesn’t look like the cute Australian possum that comes out at night to visit people.On the other hand, it looks like the horrible North American opossums are the ones that will attack trash cans and cause general chaos.Even though we think the second choice was better in terms of theme, we prefer the first one and are happy to explain why.

Your thoughts on Pizza Possum?  Does it possess the necessary mass appeal to successfully skitter along the back fenceline while setting the dog off in the process?

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The Mercenaries, a free piece of DLC for Resident Evil 4 Remake, launches on April 7

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Resident Evil 4 is now out, and the excellent remake can be bought right away.Even though you probably plan to play it all this weekend, you can take comfort in the fact that The Mercenaries, Resident Evil’s almost-required challenge mode, will be available as free DLC on April 7.

The mode’s exact details are still unknown, but if it’s anything like previous versions, you can expect some pretty hard tasks to test your skills.

You’re stumped about something? If you are still debating whether to purchase Resident Evil 4 Remake, be sure to look at our exhaustive guide for the answer or our in-depth review. Are you spending this weekend playing Resident Evil 4? Are you anticipating The Mercenaries?

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