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Square Enix is moving ever-closer to the highly anticipated release of Kingdom Hearts 3 for the Xbox One and PS4 in January. A month before the game drops the publisher released the official opening... cinematic for the game, which you can watch right now.

Organizers of the 19th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards will be honoring esteemed writer and director Amy Hennig (Uncharted series, Soul Reaver) with the Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC 2019!... ...

The 2019 DICE Summit will be held February 11th to the 13th at the Aria Resort & Casino Las Vegas, where four speakers have been confirmed to discuss the theme of trailblazers. ...

Hey game makers, at the 2019 Game Developers Conference in March the Sea of Thieves devs will show you how they found success using automated testing techniques from day one! ...

The inquiry will touch on various topical issues such as the future of eSports in the UK, the wider uses of gamification, and the potential links between gaming and gambling. ...

It's been a wild year for VG247, so to celebrate we're going to be republishing some of our favourite work published in 2018 - opinion pieces, features, and interviews, that we've enjoyed writing and... reading, and which we believe showcase some of our best work. Enjoy! Meet the bionic man creating real Cyberpunk 2077-esque augmentations […] The post Best of 2018: Meet the bionic man creating real Cyberpunk 2077-esque augmentations appeared first on VG247.

Whether you're looking for a Christmas chiller or an animated adventure, there's a TV holiday episode to suit everyone -- and we've picked 10 of the best to ever air.

Jump in for a conversation with Supergiant Games' Greg Kasavin starting at 1PM ET on the GDC Twitch channel. ...

How well the team works out creative differences is discernible in the end product. Quality suffers when the team cannot balance the input of many personalities. ...

UBM India has announced the premiere edition of Game Development and Design Conference (GDDC) slated for February 21st-22nd 2019 in Pune. ...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has suffered a bit of an unusual leak overnight. The first premium DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 became available for a couple of hours on the PlayStation Store in... Australia. The add-on, simply titled Map Pack 1, includes two multiplayer maps and a Zombies map […] The post Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Map Pack 1 leaks – watch gameplay of new multiplayer maps, Zombies appeared first on VG247.

Players in Australia were able to get early access to the first DLC maps.

A preliminary sales estimate from Famitsu claims Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has already surpassed 1.3 million sales in Japan. ...

Epic Games’ Infinity Blade series, which may have single-handedly demonstrated that premium games can succeed on mobile, is no longer available for sale. Epic Games’ partnership with Apple saw the... developer release three Infinity Blade games, all running on Unreal Engine, and regularly used to demonstrate the jump in GPU and CPU power at many […] The post In a surprise move, Epic has removed all 3 Infinity Blade games from iOS App Store appeared first on VG247.

Facebook is rolling out new updates to Instagram that make it more like other social media services. The post Instagram to roll out voice messaging to its DM service appeared first on Critical Hit.

The phrase "a sinking feeling" describes the way your stomach feels when you descend in a roller coaster or a car crests a steep hill, but it's something that's hard to emulate without physically... moving. While a lot of games end up being capable of bringing about that feeling, none excel at it quite like Ace Combat, and the newest game in the series makes you feel like you're actually in the cockpit of a fighter jet. As a series, Ace Combat has been its own roller coaster in narrative over the years. After a fairly disastrous foray into the real world, the series is returning back into the realms of fictious lands and their fictious wars. The opening CG scene for Ace Combat 7 is narrated by a young girl who, over the course of many years, built a fighter jet with her war veteran...

If you're looking to grab a new Xbox One, it's the best value going in gaming right now.

Nintendo’s online service might be cheaper than its rivals, but its first major online release is a swing and a miss when it comes to quality online play. A little under a week ago, I published my... pre-release review for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. In that review I called the game the best Smash Bros. […] The post Online play in Smash Bros. Ultimate is a bit of a mess appeared first on VG247.

Black Armory is now available for Annual Pass holders in Destiny 2, and there are a bunch of new activities to be getting stuck into. One of these new activities involves searching for the aptly named... Mysterious Box. As Black Amory's content is due to be rolled out gradually, we're not sure what’s in the […] The post Destiny 2: Black Armory – Mysterious Box guide appeared first on VG247.

The news might come as a surprise to some, given it's only been a few months since Schofield announced he'd be departing Sledgehammer to take on new "executive duties" within Activision. ...

It's been a wild year for VG247, so to celebrate we're going to be republishing some of our favourite work published in 2018 - opinion pieces, features, and interviews, that we've enjoyed writing and... reading, and which we believe showcase some of our best work. Enjoy! The Witcher 3 shows what it's really like to […] The post Best of 2018: The Witcher 3 shows what it’s really like to live with mental health issues appeared first on VG247.

Today marks the launch of Special Operation 3 for Ghost Recon Wildlands. As with all big content drops for Ghost Recon Wildlands, Special Operation 3 brings new PvE/PvP content, new cosmetic items,... and of course a new mission for all to play. This time, the mission – called Silent Spade – is inspired by Ghost […] The post Ghost Recon Wildlands gets Future Soldier-inspired mission, new PvP maps and classes, more appeared first on VG247.

Epic puts in 12 percent of the effort with an abysmal game launcher and few user features, but still some fantastic incentives for indie developers. ...

It has been one year since Mario had to start dealing with an invasion of Rabbids on the Nintendo Switch in the turn-based strategy game Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle. And to honor the occasion,... Ubisoft has announced that they will be hosting a worldwide Community Competition for players of this cartoon mashup. Commencing this month and … The post Ubisoft announces Mario+Rabbids Community Competition that could see winners off to Gamescom appeared first on Critical Hit.

You could say that every game is an action game technically, but for this category? We're talking about the games that had a very specific kind of action. The games that swung swords, gave the richest... of explosions and landed the most devastating haymakers possible were what we were after this year, and 2018 didn't disappoint. The post The Critical Hit Games of the Year 2018 – Best Action Game appeared first on Critical Hit.