The auto-battler revolution of 2019 saw a flurry of activity from publishers as they tried to take advantage of the latest craze: Dota 2 Auto Chess. A custom game mod built using Dota 2 itself, Auto Chess was another product of the endless iteration found in the custom map modding scene--Dota was born out of a Warcraft 3 custom map, which iterated on a StarCraft custom map, and Auto Chess itself iterated on a separate Warcraft 3 map, and so on. A year later, Valve's free-to-play interpretation of Auto Chess is one of the few left standing, and for good reason: Dota Underlords is a thrilling game that promotes layered strategy, mental acuity, and the rush that comes with beating overwhelming odds, making it a continually diverse and compelling experience.Unlike Dota 2, Dota Underlords is a straightforward game. You can easily think of it like a deck builder or drafting game with multiple economies--Dominion, Ascension, or the Legendary series are some good touchstones. Facing off against seven other people, you have to build a team from a selection of heroes presented to you, and that team will then fight in head-to-head battles with others over a series of rounds until only one player remains. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX was announced in early January, and now its release date is less than a week away. The upcoming Nintendo Switch game launches this Friday, March 6, and in a limited-time online deal, you can snag it for $10 off before it's even out. That drops your price to $50, a rare discount for any first-party Switch game.The discount is available over at Rakuten, which currently has the game discounted to $54.95. By using promo code SNG4X at checkout, however, you can slash an additional $4.96 off that price, dropping the overall cost to $49.99 (plus any sales tax) with free shipping. To claim the deal, you'll have to log in or create a free Rakuten account if you don't have one already. Shipping dates will vary based on where you live, of course, but Rakuten will show you a delivery estimate.This promo code can be used one time only, and it's only valid until March 5, so don't wait if you're planning to pick up Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The next event for Apex Legends, System Override Collection, runs from March 3-17. Alongside the limited-time event's release, Respawn Entertainment is implementing a new update into the game--the full patch notes of which are outlined below. The update includes several notable in-game adjustments, such as the return of Kings Canyon, changes to the inventory system in order to decrease the necessity of Wattson, and transforming Bloodhound into the recon character they've always should have been.The update's headlining feature is Deja Loot, a "unique take" on the traditional battle royale experience. Here, all loot spawns in the same location during the event, allowing you to chart the best path to your favorite weapon in the hopes of getting that win. But because loot remains static in this game mode, everyone else will likely be vying for the same gear. While most of everything will stay the same, the plane path and circle locations will change on a daily basis. Deja Loot's first week will be on World's Edge, while the second week takes you back to Kings Canyon.Along with the introduction of Deja Loot is a new equipment type. The Evo Shield is weaker than common body shields but progressively grows stronger as you damage non-downed players. The stacks carry over from person to person, so it's possible you could pick up your buddy's fully-charged Evo Shield--and drop just as quickly for an enemy to prosper with. For the moment, Evo Shields are exclusive to Deja Loot and spawn at high frequencies, but Respawn may add them to all match types after the System Override Collection Event ends.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

You might've already hacked your way through all of the fearsome beasts in Monster Hunter World and its massive Iceborne expansion, but you're not quite done just yet. Early in February, Capcom announced that a pair of new monsters are coming to the game in March: Raging Brachydios and Furious Rajang. Now the studio has set a firm release date for their arrival, with both coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on March 23, and on PC sometime in April.The date is set! Raging Brachydios and Furious Rajang will challenge bravest hunters on March 23 on PS4 and Xbox One! Coming to PC in April. pic.twitter.com/COUIROiLKf — Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter) March 1, 2020Both monsters are more challenging variants of foes that already appear in Iceborne and previously made their debuts in past Monster Hunter games. Raging Brachydios is an infernal dinosaur-esque beast who enjoys coating the ground in flames and lava while pounding you to dust you with its smouldering fists. Furious Rajang, meanwhile, is an electrified ape with terrifying horns and a similar predilection for smashing you into the ground.This is the third title update for Iceborne, and much like the pair that came before it, it's completely free. It's also the last DLC to launch with a staggered release date on PC. Capcom announced back in January--with a new content roadmap--that console and PC releases would eventually sync up and receive updates simultaneously. That begins in April when every platform will get Arch-Tempered and Master Rank versions of existing monsters, and the Astera/Seliana Fest on the same day.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Disney's purchase of Fox's entertainment assets last year meant that Disney now has majority ownership of Hulu. We've already seen Disney move some Fox TV content onto Disney+--most notably The Simpsons--and now some the more mature Fox shows have hit Hulu, with the launch of the 'FX on Hulu' hub.The new hub features a wide variety of shows made by FX--in total there will be 39 series and around 1,600 episodes. The highest profile titles include American Horror Story, Sons of Anarchy, Fargo, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, plus such popular dramas and comedies as Atlanta, Justified, Damages, Rescue Me, and Terriers. The hub is also set to include upcoming FX shows like the much-anticipated Alex Garland-created thriller DEVS.Below, check out everything that's been added to the FX on Hulu hub, and for more streaming service info, check out everything coming to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video for March.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

March is officially underway, and there are a ton of events lined up for Pokemon Go this month, including the debut of the Legendary Thundurus. A new month also means a new set of Field Research tasks, and if you can complete enough of them, you'll earn an encounter with another new Gen 5 Pokemon.As usual, Field Research tasks are distributed via Poke Stops. You'll receive a task when you spin the Photo Disc, and each one you complete will net you rewards, which can range from helpful items like Poke Balls and berries to encounters with certain Pokemon.On top of that, the first Field Research task you complete each day will net you a stamp. If you amass seven stamps, you'll achieve a Research Breakthrough, which will net you additional rewards, including an encounter with a special Pokemon. This month's Research Breakthrough reward is Ferroseed, a Steel/Grass type originally introduced in Pokemon Black and White. Ferroseed's evolved form, Ferrothorn, is a great Pokemon to have for PvP battles, so you'll want to catch as many as you can this month.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Ubisoft's shooter-looter The Division 2 was set to get its new Warlords of New York expansion this week, starting on Tuesday, March 3. But it appears Ubisoft pushed the launch-button early, setting the expansion live already. You can jump in and start exploring the new area of Manhattan now--check out the full patch notes here.The expansion costs $30, and adds a completely new area of New York City that had previously gone unexplored in the first game. It does touch on some of the old game's factions, though, and sets the stage for the year ahead in the ongoing story. Aside from the new story content, it also adds a revised gear and power growth system, and raises the level cap to 40. That will give you plenty to do in the Washington DC setting as well.Though the new story content takes place after the main campaign story, you can jump into it right away, even if you're a newcomer. In a recent hands-on, we were able to explore Lower Manhattan, including Battery Park, Twin Bridges, Civic Center, and the Financial District.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Division 2's newest DLC expansion, Warlords of New York, arrived earlier than expected on PC, PlayStation 4, Stadia, and Xbox One. With the sudden launch of the looter-shooter's first major piece of DLC, Ubisoft has shared a long list of changes coming to all platforms. You can check out the full patch notes below.Of course, the main draw of the Warlords of New York expansion is the return trip to the Big Apple. Warlords of New York opens up several locations within the city for you to explore, including Battery Park and the Financial District. As you're combing these added areas, you can take on some new main missions that task you with hunting down rogue Division agent and first wave responder Aaron Keener. There are also new side missions to undertake, a level cap increase from 30 to 40, an additional base of operations, and more.The new locale and mission objectives aren't the only additions in Warlords of New York. The new update also reworks all weapons in what Ubisoft is calling "gear 2.0." There are only a handful of attributes now, with all brand bonuses, talents, mods, gear sets, exotics, and skills being overhauled. Also, loot drops have been reduced and will now scale "more strongly with difficulty," according to the patch notes.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Half-Life: Alyx will be the first game in the series in more than 10 years, and as a result anticipation is high for the VR-only game. Valve has released a trio of gameplay videos to prepare players for what they'll find when it releases on March 23.The trio of trailers show a variety of environments, lots of dialogue, and some enemy encounters. One aspect that's particularly notable is the fine motor control for Alyx's hands, which is a feature used to show the manipulation of pretty fine motor controls. That's one advantage of the VR controls that isn't quite analogous to a standard controller or keyboard and mouse setup.Valve only recently announced the release date, and the game is still offered at a 10% discount pre-order price through the Steam page. We knew it would be coming in March, and the company had said it didn't expect delays since the game was essentially already finished. As the name suggests, this is a full-Half-Life game starring the popular character Alyx Vance, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

As WWE starts to approach Tampa, Florida for Wrestlemania 36, the wrestling company's biggest show of the year, something even scarier than Brock Lesnar is hovering over it. And that's the worldwide spread of COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus.The possibility of the coronavirus being a huge presence in Tampa is a very real invasion angle here. With wrestling fans coming in across the globe for a week of festivities and wrestling shows, there is growing concern about the spread of the disease. However, Tampa Bay Times reports that WWE's Vice President of Special Events, John Saboor, isn't worried about canceling just yet."Given the number of live events that (WWE) does, it's constantly monitoring global events," said Saboor. "There are active and ongoing discussions at play internally, like there are in any sector of American business, and certainly families as a whole. So I think those will continue."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Hinterland Studio, the developer behind survival game The Long Dark, has pulled its game from Nvidia GeForce Now because the streaming service never asked for the studio's permission to host it in the first place. The Long Dark is just the latest game to be removed from the service.Game director Raphael van Lierop explained the decision on Twitter, saying, "Sorry to those who are disappointed you can no longer play The Long Dark on GeForce Now. Nvidia didn't ask for our permission to put the game on the platform so we asked them to remove it. Please take your complaints to them, not us. Devs should control where their games exist.Sorry to those who are disappointed you can no longer play #thelongdark on GeForce Now. Nvidia didn't ask for our permission to put the game on the platform so we asked them to remove it. Please take your complaints to them, not us. Devs should control where their games exist. — Raphael van Lierop (@RaphLife) March 1, 2020"Nvidia admitted they made a mistake releasing without our permission, apologized, asked us if we'd like to stay on the platform, and we said 'not at the moment,'" van Lierop continued. "Today's world is getting complex for devs, with lots of platform changes and shifts to streaming, so devs have to be able to plan a strategy for how their games will appear and where, as a means of running a business. All the platforms acknowledge this." Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Reggie Fils-Aime might have left his vaunted position at Nintendo in 2019, but he still has plenty to say. In a reply to a tweet speculating about his height, Fils-Aime clarified that he's actually 6 feet, 2.5 inches, joking that the weight of all of the questions about Mother 3 caused him to shrink.Don’t believe everything on Wikipedia. Real height is 6’ 2.5”. I was 6’3”, but shrunk with the burden of all the Mother 3 questions. https://t.co/1qi5Jnj9PE — Reggie Fils-Aime (@Reggie) February 28, 2020Mother 3 is the 2006 sequel to the cult role-playing game Mother 2, which is better known as Earthbound outside of Japan. Widely considered one of the best RPGs to never receive an official English translation, fans have clamored for its release for decades now. (An unofficial translation was created by a team of Earthbound fans back in 2008.)Even though the game is available in English with minimal effort, gamers still lobby for an official translation on occasion. For example, when Mother 3 was re-released on the Wii U Virtual Console in Japan in 2016, fans spoke out. Given the amount of time that's passed, however, it seems unlikely to happen anytime soon.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

There's more than a year to wait for Tom Cruise to return for his best known action role, Ethan Hunt, in the next Mission Impossible movie--which recently halted production because of the coronavirus outbreak. But in the meantime, the star is set to reprise the character that helped make him a superstar--Top Gun's Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. Top Gun: Maverick arrives this summer, and it has now been announced that we'll get to see it earlier than planned.Admittedly, the movie isn't coming to theaters that much earlier, but it will release two days ahead of its previous date. Top Gun: Maverick now arrives on Wednesday, June 24 instead of Friday, June 26. As Deadline notes, this follows Paramount's traditional pattern of releasing big action movies on Wednesdays--previous examples include the Transformers series and an earlier Cruise movie, War of the Worlds.Top Gun: Maverick also stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris. It's directed by Joseph Kosinski, who previously directed Cruise in 2014's Oblivion. The spectacular second full trailer was released in December, while the first promo arrived at San Diego Comic-Con last summer. There was also this shorter teaser revealed during January's Super Bowl.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Appearing at Chicago's annual comic convention--C2E2--over the February 29 weekend, Mark Ruffalo revealed in a Q&A panel that there's a chance he could make an appearance on the Disney+'s original She-Hulk. (He made no mention if Banner and Hulk will still be merged--which is what we really want to know.)Ruffalo says there is talk about his Hulk potentially showing up in the #SheHulk series... but talks are preliminary. #C2E2 — LaughingPlace.com (@laughing_place) March 1, 2020The She-Hulk series is slated for a 2020 production wrap and will be released exclusively on Disney+. The show is helmed by writer Jessica Gao, who wrote the famous Pickle Rick episode on Rick and Morty and has also contributed to Comedy Central's Corporate and HBO's Silicon Valley.She-Hulk follows the story of Jessica Walters, who is Bruce Banner's cousin. In the comics, Bruce saves her life with a blood transfusion, resulting in Walters getting a Hulk alter-ego of her own. Walters retains more of her personality and control while in Hulk form, in contrast to Banner's more dramatic and unrestrained transformation. The She-Hulk TV series will apparently follow the comic material closely, but specific plot details at this point are scarce.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Seattle-based Emerald City Comic Con will proceed as planned, despite multiple confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the region. In the wake of the outbreak of the virus, organizers have cancelled or postponed several major gaming events, including San Francisco's GDC, which prompted the statement.The event is scheduled to take place from March 12 to 15. According to organizer ReedPOP, the team behind the event have "implemented enhanced cleaning and sanitation across the show, including adhering to the recommendations set forth in the US EPA's Emerging Pathogen Policy."Coronavirus fears have the potential to severely disrupt events across the games industry, especially for important industry conventions like GDC and E3. So far, the 96 confirmed cases of the virus in the United States have been clustered on the West Coast, especially San Francisco and Seattle, two of the traditional hubs of the gaming industry.Info from Gamespot.com