September may have just started, but the holiday season is already fast approaching, with plenty of eager shoppers looking to find the next great gift for their game-adoring friends or family members.
23.08.2023 - 22:23 / hardcoregamer.com / Hardcore
This weekend, All Elite Wrestling will be hosting not only their largest event ever, but what will likely go down as one of the largest events in pro wrestling history: All In at Wembley Stadium in London.
With over 80,000 tickets sold, All In is set to be a gigantic European debut for a wrestling company that is often considered second fiddle to WWE. And just in time for the leadup to this historic pay per view, THQ Nordic and Yuke’s have announced that their AEW Fight Forever video game will be receiving a free update later today with the online Stadium Stampede mode that was first revealed last month.
As part of the game’s first major update, the new mode has drawn plenty of comparisons to the battle royale genre, with thirty wrestlers competing inside a massive stadium to be the last competitor standing. Considering the limited scope of the arenas that players have typically been forced to hold their matches in, these new options to take the fight outside the ring, across the football field and up into the stands will certainly be welcome. Additionally, the field has been altered with dirt covering half of it and has been adorned with various obstacles including production trucks, scaffoldings and more for players to climb up and leap off of. Plus, new footage featured in the trailer below also shows at least one indoors area and new vehicles players can use to traverse the stadium, including a golf cart and horse.
Of course, players will be able to utilize the full roster of more than 50 male and female wrestlers from the base game, in addition to upcoming DLC wrestlers including Keith Lee, The Bunny, HOOK and Danhausen. Plus, players can take advantage of over forty weapons including trash cans, kendo sticks and barbed wire baseball bats, in addition to all-new power-ups that will give those who find them an edge on this chaotic battlefield.
The original posting of the announcement and trailer was made at 9 PM PT yesterday and stated that Stadium Stampede would be coming to Fight Forever “within the next 24 hours.” With only a handful of hours left to keep this promise, it’s definitely likely that the new mode launches during or shortly after the broadcast of tonight’s AEW Dynamite episode, which begins at 5 PM PT. For now, check out the release trailer featuring AEW CEO Tony Khan alongside wrestlers Kenny Omega and Eddie Kingston.
September may have just started, but the holiday season is already fast approaching, with plenty of eager shoppers looking to find the next great gift for their game-adoring friends or family members.
NetherRealm Studios today revealed one of the final characters for Mortal Kombat 1, Nitara.
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When it comes to wrestling games, one of the most important things they can do is continue to add to their main roster via updates and DLC content. Given roster sizes, it’s understandable that they can’t put everyone in the game at the start. But by using things like a season pass or little DLC fighter packs, they can add more characters to the title and thus give gamers more options on who they can play as. For AEW Fight Forever, the game has just dropped one such DLC pack, and it features two very different wrestlers and some mini-games to boot!
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Seeing as Gamescom is now over and fans still haven’t gotten any news about Hollow Knight: Silksong, it’s looking like metroidvania enthusiast still have a while to wait until they can get their hands on what many suspect will be the genre’s next top-tier release. That’s not necessarily the case though. Blasphemous 2 hit a few days ago to great effect, and now Fearie Afterlight is on its way to PC and Switch sometime next month.
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Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai was announced last year and the launch date is growing ever closer. Dragon Quest: The Adventures of Dai debuted as a manga back in 1991 and has more recently been adapted into an anime. Players of the mobile game Dragon Quest Tact are likely familiar with Dai thanks to a couple crossover events that occurred over the last couple years. Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventures of Dai is an action RPG based on the manga and anime. In this upcoming game players will be able to reenact events from The Adventures of Dai. Those who have been curious about the different game modes and what this title will look like in action will have their curiosity at least partially satisfied by the action packed trailer before.
Today, EA and Codemasters have announced a celebration to the restart of the Formula One season. After the summer break, the F1 calendar returns as F1 23 will offer new content for its F1 World. From August 29 to September 4, players can race against the lap time of back-to-back World Champion Max Verstappen at Circuit Zandvoort. Those who beat Verstappen’s lap time of 1:10:621 will earn his special Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix 2023 helmet in-game that shows off the victory. After that time on September 5, players can then go head-to-head against Charles Leclerc to win a special Scuderia Ferrari item for the Formula One Pirelli Gran Premio D’Italia 2023.
Vienna, Austria / Jacksonville, USA and Tokyo, Japan, August 24th, 2023: THQ Nordic GmbH, AEW and YUKE’s Co. Ltd. today released the highly anticipated “Stadium Stampede” mode for AEW: Fight Forever across PS4™, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo® Switch.
As we noted yesterday, we’re in the midst of one of the biggest weeks in All Elite Wrestling history. Tonight is the final AEW Dynamite show before their biggest PPV ever via All In London, and the head of the company, Tony Khan, has been making all sorts of statements to hype up the event. For example, yesterday, he held a press conference breaking down the event and showcasing how excited the company was about what was about to happen. But then, just before the new day dawned, he dropped another announcement about AEW Fight Forever that fans will want to hear.
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