Chun-Li, a mainstay of the Street Fighter series, has joined the Power Rangers. She’s not part of the TV series, or included in the upcoming movie sequel that has been rumored, though–instead she’s joined the mobile game Power Rangers: Legacy Wars to battle against the villain M. Bison. You can see her in her Power Rangers garb, and see how her moves translate to the game, in the video below.

The video description sums up the plot for this new Chun-Li episode within the game: “As Chun-Li’s allies fended off M. Bison’s army of Evil Rangers, she faced him one on one. With her courage, determination, and teamwork, she was able to retrieve the Phoenix Power Coin and save her newfound friends.”

The mobile fighting game developed by nWay pits characters from the TV show against each other, and this is not the first time it has crossed over with Street Fighter. The Street Fighter Showdown event introduced Ryu, Chun-Li, Guile, Akuma, M. Bison and Cammy to the game in 2018, but they didn’t get the full Power Rangers suit treatment as Chun-Li has now. Her moveset has been faithfully carried across from the Street Fighter series (which continues to grow with the recent announcement of Street Fighter V: Champion Edition.)

Power Rangers: Legacy Wars is an online tag-team fighting game based on the massively popular franchise. It features series antagonist Rita Repulsa as a major villain, and is free-to-play. As of March 2019, it had been downloaded over 50 million times.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/street-fighters-chun-li-has-joined-the-power-range/1100-6471548/

Dragon Quest Builders 2 is coming to PC on December 10, bringing the popular Dragon Quest spin-off to PC for the first time. The game, which mixes Minecraft-style building and crafting with a JRPG structure, is available now to pre-purchase on Steam, and carries a price tag of $59.99 / £49.99 / AUD$89.95.

Preordering the game will nab you several bonuses, which will be available in-game once it releases:

• Medicinal Herb Decoration: a recipe for a decorative Medicinal Herb
• Dragon Quest Logo Decoration: a recipe for the famous DRAGON QUEST logo.
• Chimaera Wing Decoration: a recipe for an ornamental Chimaera Wing
• Sigil Blocks: five recipes for blocks which have either a Sun, Moon, Star, Water drop or Heart symbol
• Lo-Res Luminary Recipes: a set of recipes for building the Scions of Erdrick
• Legendary Line Art Recipe: a recipe for a painting of the Scions of Erdrick

All content made available to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch owners who purchased the Season Pass will also be available for PC users at no additional charge. This includes:

• Designer’s Sunglasses
• Hotto Stuff Pack: includes over 40 new recipes to design structures in the style the Hotto Steppe resting area and access to an all-new island with new materials.
• Aquarium Pack: Unlock the fishing rod, plus access to a fishing island where you can catch 40 different fish.
• Modernist Pack: Includes over 70 recipes for modern-looking structures, hairstyles and clothing.

The PC version will also likely feature the epilogue that was added to console iterations of the game post-launch. If you want to test the game out and have one of the consoles it’s available on, there’s a jumbo demo available that lets you play through the first few hours on both PS4 and Switch. We gave Dragon Quest Builders 2 an 8/10 in our review, and critic Heidi Kemps stated that “Dragon Quest Builders 2 is a great game, combining exploration, sandbox-building, questing, and town-management into a delightful package that will gladly suck up your time and put a big smile on your face.”

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dragon-quest-builders-2-is-coming-to-pc-this-year-/1100-6471543/

Google Stadia is almost here, marking a new entry in the gaming market from one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Google has taken a non-traditional approach with Stadia, rejecting powerful hardware in favor of what it poses as a revolutionary approach: streaming a live video feed of your game session as you play it on powerful remote servers.

The idea does sound futuristic, and indeed Google pitched the tech with sky-high ideas of what could eventually be accomplished by leveraging cloud technology into video games. Most of those features aren’t available at launch, though, so the service is fairly bare-bones. Critics have begun chiming in with their own impressions, largely finding the concept more promising than the current execution.

“During roughly a week of tests, Stadia exhibited a lot of small pain points,” Peter Brown wrote in GameSpot’s review-in-progress. “I expected to not to have to sneer at sub-optimal latency, video compression artifacts, or wrestle with finicky software. Regrettably, I bumped into all of these issues on multiple occasions. I can play games for long periods of time under generally acceptable conditions, but it’s all too easy to focus on the little annoyances that make Stadia feel like a less-than alternative to traditional console or PC gaming.”

To get a view from around the industry, we’ve compiled several reviews below. For now, Google is sending out Founder’s Editions to those who pre-ordered early, and you can still order a Premiere Edition. The full service is said to be launching more widely in 2020.

GameSpot

“So far, Google’s tech has impressed me to the point where I would comfortably play most in a browser tab or on a phone without batting an eye, but then I consider that I will have to buy the vast majority of games, and I’m left in awe of the value Microsoft and Sony are offering, even if their overall services lack Stadia’s flexibility. For the moment, cloud gaming still feels like a decent alternative to the real thing, and I don’t think I’m ready to dedicate a full-price game purchase to a secondary platform.” – Peter Brown [Full Review]

CNET

“Until Google finds a way to loop in YouTube and develop truly unique competitive large-scale games, Stadia isn’t worth your time yet. Yes, the future is possibly wild, and you can see hints of the streaming-only cloud-based playground Stadia wants to become. But we’ll see what it shapes into over the next handful of months and check back in.” – Scott Stein [Full Review]

Engadget

“Game streaming is finally viable, and Stadia is leading the charge — but with this launch, it’s turning out to be more of a stroll. Hey, at least we’re getting there.” – Jessica Conditt [Full Review]

Forbes

“I may have been a Stadia skeptic going into this test run, but I was willing to give it a chance. But this has been a catastrophe from start to finish during my testing phase, and the problem is that even if it did work flawlessly, which it absolutely doesn’t, the entire model seemed doomed from the start. This is an enormous miss from Google, and I am really wondering what the fallout is going to be from this ill-conceived early launch.” – Paul Tassi [Full Review]

Polygon

“Right now we just need a cloud-streaming service that works, and works well. I’m less concerned with the promises of the future than I am the realistic potential of tomorrow.” – Chris Plante [Full Review]

The Verge

“There’s no reason anyone should buy into Stadia right now. Google has made sure of that, partly by underdelivering at launch and partly with a pricing scheme that sees you paying three times (for hardware, for the service, for games) just to be an early adopter.” – Sean Hollister [Full Review]

VentureBeat

“Meanwhile, Google is right that casual players don’t want to spend $300-to-$500 on consoles. But they also don’t want to spend $60 on software. Sure, they might buy Red Dead or FIFA. But that audience is used to getting games for free on mobile devices. So Google Stadia might work, but it doesn’t actually matter.” – Jeff Grubb [Full Review]

Washington Post

“Stadia is absolutely paving a new sort of information highway for gaming. My advice today is to stay in your current lane until they finish that work.” – Gene Park [Full Review]

Wired

“If you’re on the fence about investing $129 in an unproven service, you’re not alone. The Premiere Edition is basically for true believers who don’t mind dropping serious money on what amounts to a pay-to-play beta test. When February rolls around and those free trials are offered, you should give it a shot. You might be surprised.” – Jess Gray [Full Review]

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/google-stadia-reviews-roundup/1100-6471544/

After leaving BioWare in 2017, former Mass Effect senior gameplay designer Manveer Heir said he wasn’t getting out of game design entirely, but that he wanted to focus on new types of stories–ones that focused on diverse voices. Earlier this month, with a Medium blog post, Heir revealed what he has been working on: an indie studio called Brass Lion Entertainment. The team’s first project is Corner Wolves, a narrative-focused game set in 1990s Harlem. In an interview with Game Informer, Heir spoke on further details about the game.

“We definitely want to get that authenticity,” Heir told Game Informer. “It allows us to write a lot of different characters from lots of different backgrounds so we can have lots of different lenses on the same problem, to let the player kind of choose what angle they like to approach things from or what their thought processes on how to solve these issues [are].”

In Corner Wolves, you play as Jacinte, an Afro-Latina woman who works in her father’s bodega–only to arrive at the store one day to find him murdered. She decides to find out who his murderer is and discover the motives behind his death. Jacinte is intelligent, so you can talk your way out of most of the problems you’ll encounter in-game, but she can brawl in melee-based combat if needed. However, because of her race and economic status, you will have to learn how to handle certain people and how to adjust your vocabulary when encountering others.

“What I think you do is create the systems in a way that supports your thesis, that supports the themes and motifs of the game, of the story,” Heir said. “And then you make sure that it is embedded in all the different systems of the game. If you think how racism works in the real world, it’s embedded in all of our real systems. It’s embedded in the school system already. It’s embedded in the policing already. It’s embedded in job applications already.”

“I think that higher-level point of view, and that control [players] don’t have–I think that’s what I want people to experience,” he continued. “You don’t always get to be the hero in our world because literally the rest of the world doesn’t let you.”

Brass Lion was co-founded between Heir, former Sleeping Dogs project manager Bryna Dabby Smith, and former Bethesda environmental artist Rashad Redic. Whereas Smith is primarily handling the business side of things, Redic is building Corner Wolves’ in-game world–one that will feature an anime-inspired look. DJ and Jay-Z producer Just Blaze has signed a contract with Brass Lion to help design Corner Wolves’ musical tone and “Rise of the Black Panther” writer Evan Narcisse is penning the game’s story.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/former-mass-effect-sleeping-dogs-and-bethesda-devs/1100-6471541/