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NetEase Games has pulled from decades of comic book history to pack Marvel Rivals with 48 playable heroes – but will it ever slow down?We caught up with creative director Guangyun “GuangGuang” Chen and executive producer Danny Koo to learn more about the trajectory of their ongoing superhero hero shooter at GDC. While opening up about how NetEase plans to maintain its one-hero-per-month live-service strategy, the pair touched on whether players could soon see an original character created just for Marvel Rivals.The short answer? Probably not, or at least not anytime soon.“We have so many right now,” Koo said. “It’s…
Even in its compromised home console format, few would disagree that Final Fight was the king of Super Nintendo brawlers. But the 16-bit system was bursting with beat-’em-ups, and we’ll always harbour a fondness for Jaleco’s kooky 1992 effort, Rival Turf – or Rushing Beat, as it was known in Japan. The title spawned two sequels – Brawl Brothers and The Peace Keepers – and now more than 30 years later, the series is back to stand on the shoulders of other belt scrolling revivals, like Streets of Rage 4. Right off the bat, this sequel plunges you into the…
Category: PlaytestsMarch 24, 2026 Once Human Console Closed Beta – Join the Supernatural Survival World on Xbox Tim, Xbox Program Manager We’re thrilled to announce the first-ever Console Closed Beta for Once Human, the free-to-play supernature survival game, is coming soon to Xbox Series X|S! A limited number of spots are available for players to be among the first to experience the world of Deviants on console and help shape its future. Playtest Schedule (PT) Pre-download begins: March 24, 7:00 PM (PT) Servers live: March 26, 7:00 PM (PT) Servers close: April 8, 11:59 PM (PT) About the Closed Beta:…
As for what other outlets had to say this time round, here’s a quick rundown: VGC: “What remains to be seen at this stage is whether Living the Dream has the legs to remain enjoyable beyond that initial impact. The first couple of hours have been a treat, but what will happen when the island fills with Mii characters, we’ve seen all the funny animations and cutscenes and we’ve unlocked all the buildings? It’s a case of ‘so far, so good’ for now, then, but time will tell whether we’re looking at a must-have swan song for the Switch, or…
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PAYDAY: Aces High – Reveal Trailer (Meta Quest, SteamVR) – YouTube Watch On Starbreeze has something new cooking on the Payday front and, well, it’s a VR game—Payday: Aces High, a co-op heist game like the others in the series, but “built specifically for virtual reality, bringing the planning, teamwork and signature chaos of a Payday heist to a fully immersive format.”Payday: Aces High does look very much like a Payday game: Four supposedly elite bank robbers put on suits and clown masks, and then Gong Show their way through jobs that invariably end in extreme violence and huge body…
These horror game fails had me wheezing and full-on cackling From shrieks that could shatter glass to pure panic button …