"Since PAX East this past year, Divekick has been giving us a fit of giggles with its tongue-in-cheek parody of fighting game tropes. And now that it's out, it's still making us giggle.
If you want to see what the fuss is all about with this fresh take on the fighting genre, it's available on Steam and as a cross-buy title on PS3 and Vita. I'd also say it's worth the price of admission just for its references to Super Mario Bros. 3, Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Shenmue II.
PSN users can also pre-order Grand Theft Auto V digitally, which will unlock a whole slew of Rockstar titles for sale. Vita users may want to check out the beta of Killzone Mercenary, which supposedly shows some promise given the Vita's disappointing FPS showing for the past year.
The 3DS' eShop has some Ubisoft sales going on with the likes of Ghost Recon and Rayman Origins, and Wii U users may want to partake in an intense rush of nostalgia with the re-release of the SNES Street Fighter II trifecta.
On the Steam and GOG side of things, you've got both Witcher titles for 75 percent off. You're a monster if you pass that up. Geralt doesn't like monsters.
Finally, Xbox Live's got a few new titles, with Cloudberry Kingdom, Brothers, Charlie Murder and the remake of Flashback making their debut this past week.
For all the rest, hit up the list." - Patrick Kulikowski
The GTA 5 Agent Trevor DLC episode could have been a real treat for fans on PlayStation and Xbox, before it was scrubbed sometime before 2017.
With the amount of money they generated, I just don’t understand the scrubbing of this. It would’ve been fantastic for fans.
I really want to know who drove the decision to focus on multiplayer was it Rockstar or take two.
Because when online started taking off many of the studio leads began having falling outs and leading including a founder
Grand Theft Auto V was released on PC on the 14th of April 2015. That means the game will be nine years old in four days, and it’s still among the most-played titles on Steam. With a 24-hour peak of 145K players, it’s as popular as Baldur’s Gate 3, Apex: Legends, and Destiny 2.
The freedom to explore large areas, approach objectives in multiple ways, and stumble across amusing distractions will always be an excellent format for video games, but some do it better than others. To celebrate the formula and parse the best from the best, have a look at the best open-world games of all time so far.
