Summer Game Festwas a whirlwind of titles this year - between the Opening Night Live presentation, Day of the Devs, and theXbox Games Showcase, the entire weekend was stacked top to bottom with announcements. Journalists from all over the world also spent three days playing some of the next few years’ most exciting upcoming games, from indies to triple-As. I was lucky enough to be one of them, seeing 17 games throughout the weekend, and I walked away extremely impressed....

Fantasy has always been a ripe genre combination for horror, one that’s netted such iconic films as Guillermo del Toro’sPan’s Labyrinthand Robert Eggers’The Witch. However, let’s not forget the sweeping horror crusade emerging from Europe in recent memory, with films likeThe VourdalakandYou Won’t Be Alonestill leaving us quivering in our seats from their unique haunting narratives. Another bright — or, more fittingly, dark — example that’s arrived in the last decade isDraug, a Swedish horror film that follows a search party’s descent into an eldritch, shadowy territory rampant with pagan worship and whispers of the mythical “draugr....

League of Legends News Immortals are looking to contend with the top heading into 2022. [Image Credit: Tina Jo/Riot Games via ESPAT] Immortals entered the LCS Lock In Tournament with two new players in Jason “Wildturtle” Tran and Tristan “PowerofEvil” Schrage as the team is looking to improve upon their 2021 performance. For IMT’s new players, it is an opportunity to bounce back from their underwhelming 2021 season, but for IMT jungler Andrei “Xerxe” Dragomir, it is an opportunity to continue his development as the team’s leader....

Outside of Fuse, it’s on a roll Insomniac Games has had quite the streak commercially and critically. After the generally well-likedRatchetandSpyroseries, it moved on toResistanceandSunset Overdrive. Outside of the painfully genericFuse, the studio has had a fun run. Now it’s poised to releaseEdge of Nowhere,The Unspoken, andFeral Riteson the Oculus Rift this year after its well-receivedRatchet & Clankreboot. In other words, Insomniac has been busy. While we know all aboutEdge of Nowhere,Kotaku reportsthatUnspokenwill be a first-person action game set in Chicago involving an “urban magic fight club,” and will use the upcoming Oculus Touch controllers....

Who’s there? Imagine what? Imagine album by John Lennon coming toRock Band 3. The classic album is coming toRB3sometime after the October 26th launch (October 29th worldwide), though no solid date is given. Sorry, this post is the most you’ll get out of a guy that doesn’t care forRock Band, The Beatles, John Lennon or any of that. Nick’s going to love this story when he gets back in the office!...

In the mid-to-late nineties, LucasArts was one of the most exciting game developers on the planet. Since then, the quality of their titles has been rather hit-and-miss. That latter-day disappointment may be about to change, as the company is currently looking for a huge amount of recruits to begin work on a group of unannounced games. The jobs, listed byGamasutraandLucasArtsthemselves, include designers and engineers for a “first-person shooter,” “open-world RPG,” and an “action/adventure title....

You know, whenI posted a video ofLove Plusa while back to show off its quirky dating sim charm I thought that would be the last we saw of the game here on Destructoid. After all, it wasn’t coming to the West any time soon and it really seemed more like a Japanator thing anyway. Unbeknown to me the game became insanely popular and is even respected bytwo of my favorite game developers....

News A music festival is landing inside the game. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) is releasing its new ALLSTAR update soon, which will also have a collaboration with the South Korean girl group Itzy. The All-Star update is bringing a ton of events to the game, including a new theme to the map, and a much-needed revamp of Minsitthar as well as a MLBB x Itzy collaboration. Here’s everything you need to know about the MLBB ALLSTAR update....

Capcom seems happy All of the work that Capcom has put intoMonster Hunter: Worldfor the past four years seems to have paid off. As announced this morning after the worldwide release ofWorldlast Friday, the single iteration has nowshippedfive million units worldwide,a number that in this instance includes digital sales. This is for PS4 and Xbox One, the latter of which Capcom specifies is only available in North America and Europe (Capcom also reminds us that the PC version is due this fall)....

CS:GO News There is almost nothing separating G2 and NiP. After G2 won NiP’s map pick of Mirage, NiP struck back on Inferno and how! NiP won a thriller on Dust 2 to secure a Grand finals appearance against Mousesports. G2 and the Ninjas in Pyjamas faced each other in the lower bracket final of Flashpoint Season 3. The winner would move ahead to meet an undefeated Mousesports in the grand finals....

CS:GO News Days after being benched by NAVI, npl has found a new home. He joins B8 Esports on loan. 17-year-old Andrii “npl” Kukharskyi was moved to the NAVI bench on June 30 making way for NAVI’s two new signings. However, after just nine days on the bench and he has already found a new home in B8 Esports. Npl joined NAVI Junior in 2021 as the org looked to promote local talent to the upper echelons....

DOTA 2 News ATF follows up with an explanation following the incident. Ammar “ATF” Al-Assaf and Akbar “SoNNeikO” Butaev are both in the hot seat at PGL Wallachia Season 2 after a physical altercation happened between the two in the hotel lobby. AVULUS, SoNNeikO’s team, has been given a penalty as a result, losing massive drafting time for the entire series against Team Falcons. What happened between SoNNeikO and ATF? During the third day of PGL Wallachia’s group stage, a heated incident happened before AVULUS and Team Falcons squared off....

They’ll never know it was me! Need For Speed: Rivalshad a new Career Mode unveiled today at Gamescom: undercover cop. Playing as a cop is nothing new in the series, but this is the first time you can play as oneundercover. Not much was detailed about the actual gameplay differences of the mode, but there is a fancy non-gameplay video to watch. Personalization was also mentioned, with “millions of options” to make your car as bling-bling as possible....