Everyone has a fighting chance
I’m not a big Lovecraft buff, but I’ve always appreciated the tangential games and what little bits of knowledge of Cthulu-inspired lore I’ve picked up along the way. The existential cosmic horror is nightmarish indeed, but few games have really tapped into the feelings and stories presented by the hellscape Lovecraft invented. Frogware’s The Sinking City, thankfully, is one such game. This is our review.
Everyone has successfully made weight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s return to the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the first time since 2012.
In my last column recapping the story of Guild Wars 2 so far, I left off discussing Scarlet and the role she played in forcing us into direct conflict with Mordremoth. While Scarlet did speed up our confrontation with Mordremoth, she probably did us a favor since he had the potential to be a real pain considering his powers after just one Elder Dragon was killed were already almost enough to do us in. As with before, if you haven’t played through Season 2, this will contain spoilers.
Retired former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate has admitted Ronda Rousey’s career path is more appealing to her than current dual-division champion Amanda Nunes.
Jon Jones has stated in the past that he may look at moving up to the heavyweight division in the future to challenge himself, and one of the UFC’s most powerful heavyweights, Francis Ngannou, would love to welcome him there.
The latest edition of Inside Star Citizen has arrived, this time calling itself the “season finale”. The team takes “a look at the three-headed chimera of AI systems (social, ships, and combat) and find out what Alpha 3.6 features the devs are most excited about”.
The time Final Fantasy XIV players have been waiting for has finally arrived. The early access period for the Shadowbringers expansion has started with eager players flocking to FFXIV servers. In addition, Square Enix has re-released the opening trailer complete with the official lyrics to the theme song.
Bandai Namco has announced a new anime-styled action RPG called Blue Protocol for PC. The game is being developed by Project Blue Sky, a team made up of veterans from Bandai Namco Online and Bandai Namco Studio, and it is being built on Unreal Engine 4. There are few other details and only a single screenshot of the game in development, but we do have an English-language description of the game.
UFC on ESPN 3 in Minneapolis has taken a hit.
The Legacy Fighting Alliance is back this Friday in Madison, Wisconsin, for the second half of its heavyweight tournament semifinals.