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By Jared Cornelius Welcome back to Sweet Release! Bleeding Cool's look at the new video games coming to store shelves and digital platforms.  With the last entry of Sweet Release! straddling the end of March and the beginning of April, we have a little catching up to do.  First off I need to do some housekeeping and update Axiom Verge players that the PlayStation Vita version didn't hit last week[...]

I know a lot of people who are going to be very excited about this. It turns out that the 3 day reveal Square Enix have been running has been spoiled by

We've assumed for a while that the world of The Witcher 3 was going to be big. However, we never really knew exactly how big. Novigrad is a whole fantasy

Halo Online was announced a few weeks ago, leaving a lot of people excited about the prospect of Halo on a PC again. At least they were until they read

Bastion has really become a bit of a classic over the last few years. The game came out to huge praise and has proven to have some pretty incredible legs

Viral Marketing campaigns are always interesting to watch unfold. While I'm never inclined to take part in something like I Love Bees, reading about them

Remember a little while ago, I talked about a way that World of Warcraft could be 'free' to those who were farming enough gold to buy subscription time on

Tomb Raider hit in 2013 to a pretty significant splash. The game was a big critical darling as new life was breathed into a stale franchise.

Hidetaka Miyazaki is quickly becoming one of the most beloved auteurs in the medium. The Bloodborne director, who is responsible for all the 'Souls'

By Joe Cammisa   Monday night is here and it's time for The SML Podcast Episode 109: The Week We Stopped Caring here on Bleeding Cool! I don't even

The hype for The Witcher 3 is slowly climbing up to a fever pitch. They game is, frighteningly, out next month. The 200 hour adventure is threatening to

The other day, Nintendo opened a submission form where fans could make suggestions about new characters Nintendo should include in upcoming Super Smash

Bioshock, as a series, still remains one of my all time favorite first person shooters. It really is one of the finest examples of story telling in the

Mortal Kombat X is just over a week away, which almost feels like a bad thing. This marketing campaign has been so utterly relentless that I'm worried

When many people think about Square Enix, they usually conjure up images of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. They are synonymous with JRPGs, but

Maybe the idea of fictional podcasts really gets my engines running, but so far I've been completely enamored with the Hunt the Truth podcast. Diving into

Telltale's Game of Thrones has had me enthralled in its clutches since the firs episode hit in December. The developer has carved out an interesting story

To many, The Dark Below DLC for Destiny was somewhat of a letdown. It gave players a little more gear to chase and a new Raid, but it wasn't quite the

Bloodborne is a challenging experience at the best of times. Many players will know the sorrow of collecting a couple thousand points that they intended

I stand over the lifeless body of a foul beast, it's grizzly mandibles lay motionless. The cobbled street runs red with putrid blood of the lusus naturae.

Yesterday, Goro made his onscreen debut in Mortal Kombat X. The trailer showed him ripping people in half and punch heads into torsos. It was pretty

The industry appears to be on a big infographic influx of late. Every other games is throwing out an infographic about arbitrary statistics that

GTA Online has remained fairly popular with those who like to wreak havoc in the streets of Los Santos. The push for money to continue upgrading your

Goro is one of the most anticipated characters coming to Mortal Kombat X. That's why it's a shame that he's hidden behind a pre-order wall, but hey,

The Amiibo shortage is real. With every passing wave we are getting more and more stories of these things selling out and then being hunted down for

Rainbow Six: Siege has a lot of of tactical first-person fans in a bit of a tizzy. From what we've been shown, the game is based upon a a pretty

Phil Spencer has been known as one of the few video game bosses that talks openly about his competitors. Usually, it comes from a place of respect too.

I have quite a soft spot for Titanfall. The game is a ton of fun to play and Respawn really laid the ground work to continue the series. We learnt of

DICE's reboot of the Star War: Battlefront series is easily one of the most anticipated games of this holiday season. With The Force Awakens opening

Diablo III is known for it's top down point of view. This is an evolution from the 2D way the original game was rendered, with Blizzard deciding to keep