Grave Gamer News & Views — pc

Street Fighter V: Cross-Play, Exclusivity, and Roman Numerals

Street Fighter V (and I think that’s Roman numeral five and not Vee — hate to specify but we live in a world where Mortal Kombat Ecks is a fucking thing) is coming exclusively to the PlayStation 4 and PC. And if it’s a timed exclusive, Capcom sure as shit isn’t saying so.

Two Japanese juggernauts, Sony and Capcom, joining forces makes a sobering kind of sense. Sony isn’t just dumping money onto the project like a Porsche driving Hollywood producer blowing through red lights on their way to a strip club. They’re actually assisting in development, ensuring SFV is a lean, mean, Hadoken firing machine on their console.

Sony’s own Adam Boyes insists the PS4 is the only console you’ll ever see Street Fighter V on, and if that truly remains a solemn fact, it’s a serious blow to Microsoft. A Focus Punch even. To go without the most popular fighting game franchise of all time? Goddamn. Let’s just say Killer Instinct Season Two ain’t where the thunder is.

PC people have a lot more to smile about, though. Not only are they getting the game at launch but they’ll be able to enact a Put Up or Shut Up policy against console players thanks to cross-play between the PS4 and PC. It’s a beautiful coalescence where two warring factions can finally come together and smack the stupid out of each other.

Street Fighter V Teaser Leaked… And It’s a PS4/PC Exclusive?!

A mere day before the first ever PlayStation Experience and already a bombshell announcement has cannon spiked its way onto the internet.

The original teaser, which tastefully shines a spotlight on the fighting game community, was spotted by — who else? — a NeoGAF user but has since gone private. I was going to link you to a mirrored version of the teaser featuring the above next-gen sparring session, but even that video has been pulled down while I was still typing this article up. The immediate copyright enforcement and the teaser’s high production values definitely lend to its credibility.

The shocker here isn’t that Street Fighter V exists; it’s the teaser’s bold proclamation that the sequel is exclusive to the PlayStation 4 and PC. This news having been ripped from the horse’s mouth, the horse in this case being Capcom, it’s difficult to ascertain what’s what and what’s not. More information to come as this story develops.

Till then, salivate over these GIFs Kotaku cooked up.

Meet the Team! Er, Blizzard’s Overwatch Team, That Is

Blizzard, for the first time in thirty-seven years, has announced a brand new IP today. Overwatch is a vibrant 6v6 first-person shooter that walks, admittedly, a very Team Fortress-y line.

It’s got itself an artistic bent that calls Pixar’s style to mind and incorporates unique personalities with class specific traits like healing, flying, and...

Gearbox Reveals Their Next Multiplayer Scramble: Battleborn

Debuting in this month’s Game Informer, the creators of a little co-op diddy called Borderlands are following up their genre mash-up with another FPS mix drink.

Battleborncombines the trigger-happy thrills of a first-person shooter with the quick leveling, team-heavy gameplay found in most popular MOBA’s. This arena, however, is at the...

Escape Dead Island Announced; A Tropical Adventure Game Spiced Up with Madness and the Undead

Publisher Deep SIlver is not about to let the zombie infested gravy train that is Dead Island ride away into the sunset without taking a bite…out of…zombie gravy… All right, I don’t have a degree in metaphors. Screw it.

What I’m saying is Deep Silver is making a shitload of Dead Islands. From dipping into the MOBA genre with Dead Island: Epidemic to barreling at next-gen with Dead Island 2, it’s a lttle eye-widening to hear that a third release is imminent, heading for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 this Fall. With this horde of the digital dead shuffling after our wallets, it’s a fortunate thing for Deep Silver that Escape Dead Island looks so promising.

Forgoing the Action-RPG setup of the original Dead Island (which was heavier on the action than the RPG), Escape is actually a third-person adventure game where you have to mix up stealth maneuvering and advantages in the environment to bust some undead skull.

More mindful of story in this single-player narrative, you’ll control Cliff Calo, an investigator sent this doomed chain of islands to figure out why the locals are bitier than usual. Cliff’s noticeable shortcoming as an intrepid photojournalist would have to be his loose grip on reality. Throughout the game, you’ll hallucinate outlandish sights that even reshape the environment – or outright kill you, thus pushing you through a “time loop” to before you went all Hunter S. Thompson.

The result makes Escape Dead Island seem like a combination of Far Cry 3’s dream sequences with a Darksiders-ish adventure game where your surroundings play into gameplay much more than just scenery. Sure, they might be flogging the zombie horse cranking out these Dead Island titles. But they at least show the same imagination and promise Escape does, I say ride that undead gravy train of horse flogging.

Escape to Dead Island in This Escape Dead Island Trailer!