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This year's Tokyo Game Show expo has been finished.

It’s mostly a console games expo (it’s Japan after all) but we do have some interesting news about multi-platform releases as well.

Death Stranding by Hideo Kojima is rumored to be released on PC after its initial debut as a PS4 exclusive - Kojima revealed new details about his upcoming game as well. We know that Death Stranding will be an action game, with open world.

Hideo-san likes talking big about his project - he stated that the game will feature "different kind of online play than anything we've seen before." We also get to know that the game will be out before 2019. Kojima also stated that he is not involved in any ways in the making of Metal Gear Survival - despite the rumors that he was the mastermind behind the idea of making MGS a zombie-survival game - oh, and we do have new materials about that game as well!

We also got more details on upcoming Berserk game (based on the friggin best manga ever!) If you're not familiar with the source material, Berserk is a dark fantasy series set in a world based on medieval Europe - and it’s brutal. The series has inspired many video games, most prominently Dark Souls.

The game will follow Koei Tecmo Warrior’s game formula (or “Musou” as it is known in Japan): you get to fight massive waves of enemies on small maps.

We’ll end this short recap with terrifying new trailer for Resident Evil 7.

Resident Evil 7 biohazard will be available January 24th, 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Some of you may have noticed that our streamer got a major face lift a few days ago. Those of you that haven’t noticed - well, now you have!

So what’s new? Apart from the awesomely stylish new interface, which is a huge improvement over the old one, we’ve also made the manual addition of a game a whole lot easier. 

Pressing that button opens up the ‘Add Game’ dialogue where you can browse to the game’s .exe file location, enter a name for your game (if you don’t like the default one), and even enter attributes if you want to start the game (such as “ prince megahit” if you’re playing the DOS version of Prince of Persia for some reason). 

Removing a manually added game is as simple as hovering over the manually added game tile and hitting the ‘X’. 

Windows Central runs a weekly review of 5 apps that caught their eye on the Windows 10 Store. Well, after breaking into the top 50 apps in the Entertainment section, apparently we’ve caught their eye!

http://www.windowscentral.com/5-windows-10-apps-you-should-try-september-10-2016

If you haven’t switched off every internet-connected device in your house for the past week, you’ve probably already heard about the latest Apple phone, the surprisingly named iPhone 7 (and its bigger brother, the iPhone 7 plus) revealed yesterday in their annual event.

As per the usual, the iPhone announcement was a larger than life keynote, with Apple making their usual sweeping statements about ‘the most advanced iPhone ever’, showing off a new double camera, the second generation of the Apple Watch (which finally has some serious water proofing, and in theory can be used up to a depth of 50 meters), and even two new operating systems (macOS Sierra, and iOS 10).

We won’t go into all the gory details, as these have been extensively covered in websites that actually do this for a living - from the already infamous wireless earphones, to the new ‘feel’ of the iPhone, and about the latest iOS that Apple are going to release any day now.

Ok, all jokes and bad puns aside - iPhone 7 is powerful.

And this means new mobile games.

We’re just here to reassure you that our local Apple expert has already started working on making sure that Remotr is compatible with iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, and any new twists the latest iOS will have to throw at us.

The sequel for the successful Shadow Warrior in 2013 (itself a remake of the 1999 3D Realms game by the same name) is due out in October, and unlike other games we could mention, is headed for the PC.

If you’ve never followed a bunny off the cliff to find the burial place of Jackie Chan, seen the same pixelated girl having a bath 20 years later, or fought with demons with a chainsaw combined with a katana, then this should definitely go onto your wishlist.

Basically, Shadow Warrior 2 looks like it’s going to be Doom, but with shotguns and special abilities against demons, in a demonic landscape. So… Doom. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing (as Doom 2016 was awesome), and Shadow Warrior has been known for throwing in it’s own unique twists on the well known run and gun shooter genre (the main character is called ‘Wang’, and yes, the first game included dick jokes, because subtlety didn’t exist in 1999).  

So if you are looking for a game with tons of gore, plenty of weapons, power-ups that let you impale demons on spikes like an Asian Vlad the Impaler, Shadow Warrior 2 is the game for you.

If you haven’t seen Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s latest trailer, go ahead and watch it now.

If you HAVE seen it, you’ve probably already seen the comments. And the thumbs down.

Just to compare, here are the approval ratings for Battlefield 1’s gameplay trailer.

Now, I’m not going to say that one game is better than the other. But what I WILL say, is that before the game has even come out, it looks like Infinity Ward, who has traditionally developed the better games in the Call of Duty universe, has their work cut out for them just to make people believe in the franchise again. YouTube commenters, who aren’t known for their restraint and poise on the best of days, are leaving comments from ‘it looks just like Halo mashed together with TitanFall’ to ‘Looks so boring and generic.’ to ‘Remember the thing you hated the most from CoD Ghosts? Well, here it is! AND IN ROBOT FORM!’

I’m just hoping that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is another of those games that had a terrible trailer, but turned out to be awesome.

If I was to name games that genuinely made me a better gamer Dark Souls (or Souls series in general) has to be one of them. And I’m not alone. It’s tough, unforgiving and brutal. You must have heard of how difficult the game is. If you are going to play any of Souls games you will fail, a lot.

But the sense of satisfaction after each boss is unparalleled. And the harder the challenge - the higher the rush, the bigger the reward.

As the wise man said:

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty…”

Theodore Roosevelt

I could spend hours telling stories about playing PVP “fight clubs” - and how awesome the community is. And now we are about to get  DLC - and, boy oh boy, it looks gorgeous! 

What can we expect? Lets dig in to the publisher provided info:

“Return to the world of Dark Souls III and uncover a terrible secret that lies within the frozen land of Ariandel,”

So the new land is called Ariandel - cool.

“Players are tasked to enter the land of Ariandel and defeat the evil within to uncover the mystery of what has caused the land to become defiled.”

Mystery, curses - pretty standard stuff :)

“In addition to adding a new environment to Dark Souls III, the Dark Souls III: Ashes of Ariandel expansion will also include new weapons, armour sets, and magic for players to discover and experiment with, as well as new features for the game’s wildly popular competitive multiplayer mode.”

YES! YES! YES!

Thanks to Remotr and playing Darks Souls on phone I’ve spent hours on grinding souls in that one spot. I’m ready.

For all the new equipment. For all all the new monsters. For duels.

And all new ways to die.

When was your last time spent with our favorite sword-wielding mutant (sorry Wolverine - occasionally using a sword doesn't count.)?

The fans were waiting for it (some of them winning medals at Olympic Games) and now it’s official - with soon-to-be-released GOTY edition of The Witcher 3 we have an opportunity to re-visit all the beautiful lands (now with an AWESOME 360-degree screenshot support) and slay all the ugly monsters the game has to offer.

Game of the Year Edition includes the base game  (which won over 250 GOTY awards in 2015)

Both expansion packs — Hearts of Stone & Blood and Wine — and every piece of downloadable content, as well as every update and improvement ever released.