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If you haven't heard yet, Gearbox's overlooked, hyper-stylized MOBA, Battleborn, has gone free to play, it's currently released on Steam and Xbox One worldwide, it's also on PS4 in North America and will be global come June 13th. Gearbox, the developers of the insane RPG, Borderlands, is known to be "unconventional" as is Battleborn. So of course you should always expect nothing less from them even when it comes to how they handle the transition as well. Battleborn has launched into a "free trial without an end date" which is truly interesting. Now this can be perplexing for some as if you didn't read that and go into the Xbox/PlayStation/Steam stores, the game is still shown for the full price of $29.99, ignore that, highlight free trial, download, wait for download to complete, and you're good to go. Now for those players (such as myself) who purchased the game before this shift are probably a bit bummed or even feel like the...

Greetings fellow Knights, with Portal Knights now released in the US, you may be looking for some great tips and tricks to help you on your journey to be the ultimate Knight, but just needed some extra guidance. Well hopefully these tips from our resident Knight-in-training, FhaTe, has been scouring the interwebs looking for a great tips to share with fellow Knights. So here are 12 helpful Tips and Tricks he found to get started or to help get through rough patches. #1: Mining Bows If you're looking for a faster way to mine, because the pickax only lets you break up on block at a time. Why not consider using a bow? If you can manage to line up your reticule you can destroy 2 blocks at a time instead of one, making mining just a little bit faster, that is until you discover the Mining Drill which allows you to remove 4 blocks at a time! Then you shall be called, Mole Knight! #2: That reach In Portal Knights your reach is really long, like very long. You can mine and pl...

Looking for fun, action, adventure, cats, or assassins? If that's a "YES" to any or all, then keep an eye out for a game from Mode 7 (Frozen Synapse) and SMAC Games, that shall be releasing on May 31st for PC/Xbox One and Mid-July for PS4, called Tokyo 42 . Tokyo 42 has unique elements from the gameplay to the camera style. You shall be playing as an assassin who's looking to uncover secrets. Tokyo 42 shall offer an open world single player mode as well as competitive multiplayer. If you'd like to see some action, check out Mode 7's YouTube for the Announcement Trailer.  Enjoy the vibrant colors and catchy tones as the trailer brings you in and makes you want to know more. Then they end it on the best note possible, with them showing that there are cats in the game, hopefully there shall be some use for them aside from being adorably mischievous felines. If you want more actual gameplay, click here  to check out and early alpha play thro...

     Saber Interactive's indie basketball game, NBA Playgrounds is the most recent basketball game to come out that has shied away from the traditional simulator such as 2k or Live for that sorely missed arcade flair of NBA Jams. Touting the signature 2v2 match up and a splash of NBA Streets, Playgrounds is a breathe of fresh air, but sometimes even the air can be a little bit stale. NBA Playgrounds has been stated to be somewhat of a spiritual successor of sorts to the aforementioned games, NBA Jams and NBA Streets. Playgrounds does bring back the caricature-esque NBA superstars with their own unique art style to further embrace the arcade-y feel. Overall the game can be fun, shooting, stealing, shoving, and dunking as you aim to fill up your Lottery Bar to get one 6 possible power-ups to help shift the game in your favor. Yet even with those elements done quite well, some decent music, the lack of hype the announcers in Playgrounds makes the game feel a bit disjointed...

Many console players probably have no clue as to what Gang Beasts is being that it's been in Early Access on Steam. Yet the funny brawler in which players use weird looking avatars to declare war upon friends has been a success over on Steam and is set to come out of Early Access and launch on both PC and consoles. Gang Beasts  is confirmed to be launching on PC and PS4, but what about the Xbox One? Well that may not be a reality as Microsoft has a parity clause which Microsoft wants non-exclusive games to launch on the same day as they would on rival consoles. For AAA and some larger indie studios, simultaneous releases may not be much of an issue as they have the resources to do have multiple version ship same day, but this seems not to be the case with Boneloaf, the developers of Gang Beasts . Hopefully there will be something worked out between Boneloaf and Microsoft or else this could be a game that is will not be coming to Xbox One. This will most likely mean that o...

Before the dismantling begins, it is understood that this is Pre-Alpha Gameplay. If you'd like to see the video for yourself, the "IGN First" video is linked down below. So with that out the way, let's talk about what was observed in the game, shall we? Well for starters Fury looks good (though we mostly see her from the back). Her character model has a nice athletic build, her flowing vibrantly red hair, and very conservative looking outfit tied her together nicely. Despite her looking nice, her animations in terms of combat movement seemed a bit annoying, especially her dodging. Side dodges has Fury doing a flashy mid-air cartwheel. which in combat a simple juke would seem to be more fitting especially being that it seems quite slow when she goes into the animation. Her back dodge is fine, though that also seems to be a bit slow too. So here's to hoping that they either simplify her dodges or perhaps make them faster, being that this is an action game ...

So have you been wanting to play Overwatch, but you just never seem to be able to snag it? Perhaps you have been waiting for it to go on sale more often, but can never seem to catch it? Well if that's that's the case, rejoice, as Hi-Rez Studios (the developers behind the popular MOBA, Smite) has released Paladins into Open Beta. Paladins has been around a tad bit longer in time than Overwatch, but Paladins had a bit of an identity crisis in the beginning of development and implementation, which forced them to have to delay release and kept it under the Closed Beta moniker for safety as they fleshed things out. Though it's been in Open Beta for PC/Mac for a fair amount of time, May 3, 2017 marks the day that Hi-Rez released Paladins to the masses on both the PS4 and Xbox One consoles. Whether you're looking for another team based game to play with friends, another game to compete in (there's a good following on the eSport circuit), or perhaps looking for a f...

Are you a fan of sharks? Sharknado, Sharknado 2, Sharknado 3, or maybe even Jaws (the one good movie in this lineup of shark based movies.) Now what if there was a way to summon a massive shark in Battlefield 1, would you go through all the work to do so? If the answer is yes, then here's the video from IGN that will tell you how to just that. Summon the Mighty Megalodon P.S. You'll need a lot of friends. Source: IGN

The much anticipated Darksiders franchise is getting a third installment next year. The internet has been buzzing about this new game due to a leak on Amazon. However, THQ Nordic and Gunfire Games have just released a trailer showing our new protagonist, Fury. It seems she will be taking on the Seven Deadly Sins. Darksiders has been an open world action-adventure, focusing on exploration and puzzles. It seems that this games timeline will be set during Darksiders II. Check out the trailer below! Source:  IGN