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Sword Art Online to Make its Way to Nintendo Switch This Year

Bandai Namco today announced that Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization – Deluxe Edition will be coming to Nintendo Switch this spring. The first Sword Art Online game to be making its way onto the Switch, Hollow Realization – Deluxe Edition will include season pass content “Abyss of the Shrine Maiden” and “Warriors of the Sky”.

Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet – Complete Edition will also be coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2019 and will contain the base game, all season pass content, which includes: “Ambush of the Imposters”, “Betrayal of Comrades”, and “Collapse of Balance,” as well as the “Dissonance of the Nexus” expansion.

Blowfish Studios Announces Obey Me

Blowfish Studios and Error 404 Game Studios today announced Obey Me, a co-op holypunk brawler coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in Q3 2019.

Dead End Job – Ghoul-B-Gone Trailer

Headup has released a new trailer for Dead End Job, the 90’s Ren & Stimpy-esque roguelike twin-stick shooter coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC in Q2 2019.

Episode 3 of The Walking Dead: The Final Season Debuts Today

The third episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season, titled Broken Toys, is now available for purchase on PC in the Epic Games Store, as well as on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.

In Episode Three, Broken Toys, Clementine is going to war. With the help of a strange new ally, she makes a final stand against a ghost from her past to save her kidnapped friends. All the while, AJ is watching her every move.

The concluding fourth episode of Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season releases on March 26th.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr Announced

Today, Zenimax Online Studios took the wraps off its 2019 plans for the online RPG The Elder Scrolls Online. Here are the highlights:

• Dragons!: Dragons are coming to ESO for the first time;
• Yearlong Story: The Season of the Dragon is a yearlong interconnected Elder Scrolls tale tying all four 2019 updates into one massive adventure;
• Elsweyr: 2019’s Chapter, Elsweyr, is set to launch in June with even more content than previous Chapters, including the new zone of Elsweyr, home of the Khajiit, and a new class – the Necromancer.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr will release for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on June 4th. PC will be available in Early Access for pre-purchase customers on May 20th.

Blackout Free Trial Starting Thursday, January 17th

Today, Activision and Treyarch announced that fans will be able to play Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Battle Royale mode for free in the Blackout Free Trial, which begins Thursday for one week on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

Additionally, Treyarch released a new update to the game today on consoles (later this week on PC) that features the following:

• Debut of Gauntlets and new Elixirs in Zombies on PS4
• A new week of Featured Playlists and the addition of Elevation and Madagascar to map rotation for Black Ops Pass owners in Multiplayer
• New-and-improved console looting interface in Blackout
• plus much more

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Legacy of the First Blade, Episode 2, Now Available

Today, Ubisoft announced that Shadow Heritage, the second episode in the first post-launch story arc for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Legacy of the First Blade, is now available across all available platforms.

In Shadow Heritage, a letter from Darius leads players to investigate a mystery through which the hero will come face to face with a new threat, The Tempest, a mastermind of naval battle who commands her own fleet. With her superior naval techniques and deadly weaponry, she will stop at nothing to ensure the hero’s demise.

Each episode of Legacy of the First Blade will feature a new ability for each branch of the skill tree: Hunter, Warrior and Assassin. The first episode, Hunted, introduced a new Assassin ability, and in Shadow Heritage players will discover a new Hunter ability, Rapid Fire. It will allow players to rapidly shoot arrows without having to reload with the firing speed increasing with each skill level and will be a valuable skill to all players, not only those with a Hunter playstyle.

To access Shadow Heritage, players must have completed Hunted, the first episode of Legacy of the First Blade, and the Naxos questline in Chapter 7 of the main story of the game, and must have reached character level 28 or above.

New Trailer Presents Unique Character Classes of Bless Unleashed

Bandai Namco today released a new Class Intro Trailer teasing the combat capabilities of the five character classes available at launch in the upcoming action MMORPG for the Xbox One, Bless Unleashed.

Sega Reveals Team Sonic Racing’s Team Eggman Lineup

Sega today announced the rotten members of Team Eggman, a new diabolical squad that will be hitting the track as the final team in Team Sonic Racing.

• Eggman [Technique] – a.k.a. Dr. Ivo Robotnik is the main archenemy of Sonic, with a personal goal of achieving world domination.
• Metal Sonic [Speed] – one of Eggman’s lethal creations, this cold, violent machine aims to prove that he’s the better hedgehog between him and the Blue Blur.
• Zavok [Heavy] – the leader of the Deadly Six, a demon-like being that continues to battle Sonic and friends whenever the opportunity arises.

Team Sonic Racing will be available May 21st for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.

Onimusha: Warlords is Now Available

Capcom today announced that Onimusha: Warlords is now available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam. This remaster of the original 2001 sword fighting action-adventure includes HD graphics, widescreen display option, analog stick support, a readily available Easy Mode option, new soundtrack and a new ‘honor’ in-game achievement system.