Don’t press start! This is the best bit! As noted in the past,I’m a mark for movie trailers. I have a collection of a good few thousand previews, pulled from the hype-hysteria of yesteryear, before the art was lost in a painful tidal wave of cookie-cutter, focus-tested banality. I’m not quite sure what brought about my love of these three-minute marvels. I guess I’m just a fan of the pulse-pounding, goosebump-inducing excitement that a masterful editor can induce in such a short space of time....

Wukong, The Monkey King, is Riot Games’ take on the popular Sun Wukong and they haveadaptedhis mythological background to fit in theLeague of Legendsuniverse. Apparently some Chinese players are not too happy with this forced adaptation, but most of Wukong’s abilities seem to at least show some attempt at a faithful recreation of the legendary hero. Check out the abilities of the new DPS champion, who might just be wielding aMonkey King Bar, below....

No frills port, no complaints Xeodrifterstands among a proud line of games werecommended toMetroidfanswho were disappointed with the ideaMetroid Prime: Federation Force,and now it’s coming to Wii U next week. It’s yet another game to hit the console that’s more like a classic Nintendo title than most of Nintendo’s current offerings. I’m about half way through the port as we speak, and while the experience isn’t quite as exciting as it was the first time around, there are definitely advantages to playing it on the WIi U....

Strap one on, it’s time to jam! For San Diego Comic-Con, Insomniac Games is talking up character customization inSunset Overdriveand the clothing options range from “traditional” to “out there” — way, way out there. Interestingly, these vanity items don’t have stat bonuses or anything of the sort attached to them in an effort to let players be who they want to be, worry free. I appreciate that. Sunset Overdriveis out October 28 exclusively on Xbox One....

You too can shower while others watch Today Green Man Gaming added a few titles to its “Best of 2015” deal roundup (a sale within its Winter Sale; inception!). Some titles likeCrookz – The Big Heistare cheaper on Steam, but a number of the games are hitting new lows at GMG, includingone of the top2015 titles,Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. The seven titles listed below are all 2015 releases at their lowest price ever....

Swap those buttons and crank up the sensitivity A newPokémon Snapgame is out today, a sentence I am still honestly surprised I’m typing in the year 2021. The first was a one-off spin-off on the Nintendo 64, a quirky game that let you photograph Pokémon instead of capturing and battling them. The firstSnapstill became something of a nostalgic classic and now, two decades later,New Pokémon Snaphas hit the Nintendo Switch. It isPokémon Snapas you remember it, albeit with a few notable changes....

Charges still stand against Bohemia pair After spending 130 in a Greek prison, Bohemia Interactive developersMartin Pezlar and Ivan Buchta have been releasedon a €5000/$6,672/£4160 bail. The charges against artist Pezlar and creative director Buchta still stand, however, and they will have to return to Greece later in the year to appear in court. There was initiallysome confusionas to why Pezlar and Buchta were on the Greek island of Lemnos, where they were arrested after allegedly photographing military installations....

[Update:Bastionhas been announced for August 30. This version isn’t merely a straight port and it will support Retina display and Game Center. Read Supergiant’sextensive blog postfor the specifics. If you’re attending PAX, you can get your hands on it at booth #6019.] Having already appeared on platforms like the Mac App Store and even Chrome, it’s not too surprising to hear that Supergiant Games’Bastionis coming to iPad. What is curious, however, is that this version hasn’t been announced yet; it just showed up on theNew Zealand App Store, of all places....

Payday 3will likely never become more popular than the good “old”Payday 2. The problem is, despite remaining incredibly fun,Payday 2’syears are showing. It could do with some improvements. Luckily,Payday 2has a community dedicated to modernizing the game with quality-of-life fixes and fresh new mods. So, here are the bestPayday 2mods, in no particular order. Table of contents Better Bots Bots are the lifeblood of horde shooters, so it’s no surprise thatBetter Botsis the most popularPayday 2mod ever....

Fantasy adventure continues to evolve Experiment 101 has released the next major update to its spiritual adventure titleBiomutant. Available on PC and PlayStation platforms now, with Xbox to follow shortly, update 1.5 adds several new features and options toBiomutant‘sever-evolvinguniverse. First and foremost, the new update implements a much-requested “scrap” option toBiomutant‘s loot screen, allow for a more streamlined organization process when sifting through our hero’s pocket full of fatcaps. Loot in general has been tweaked, with a reduction of duplicate items and more focus on similarly-designed but higher-stat upgrades....

Call of Duty: Black Ops IIbroke retail recordsa mere 24 hours after the publicdebut of the single-player campaign. An impressive feat, considering that multiplayer, the franchise’s bread and butter, wasn’t even shown off untiljust a week ago. It’s a good thing for fans that Treyarch isn’t a studio who would just settle for minor refinements, then. They very well could have, but instead, the team has rebuilt the multiplayer system so much that you would be forgiven for thinking they’re insane....

Namco Bandai’s coming out party for thePC version ofDark Soulsalmost went off without a hitch, but then we noticed the Games for Windows Live logo and theentire internet lost their sh*t. Forums lit up, petitions were signed, houses were razed. But you might want to stand down with your clubs and pitchforks, as there’s still hope for something other than GFWL. In a Q&A session at a press event last week,Dark Soulsproducer Hidetaka Miyazaki gracefullyhandled the growing internet rage....

Got a butt-kicking interview here with Capcom’s Seth Killian on the development and localization ofTatsunoko Vs Capcom, and a little bonus stuff withNapoleon Dynamite‘s Jon Heder at the end. I’m still pissed/jealous that Heder got aT Vs Cshirt and I didn’t, and when you hear how into the game he is, you’ll understand why. Oh, and a little bonus tidbit; Seth told me off camera that it’s not impossible for the 2-3 additional Capcom characters that may (or may not) make there way into the Western release ofT Vs Cto be decided via an online poll....