Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey ‘will launch on the Epic Games store first on August 27, 2019, with the PS4 and Xbox release planned sometime in December.

TMG Podcast episode 190 begins our coverage of E3 2019 with what we can expect from companies like EA, Bethesda, Square Enix, and Ubisoft. We talk about Epic Games Store’s latest controversy. and more!

Double Fine Productions’ latest game Rad lets you play as a bat wielding teenager that slowly mutates, earning new abilities as you progress through this rogue-like action game.

Rainbow Six: Siege expands yet again with Operation Phantom Sight, adding Operators Nøkk and Warden to the game’s roster while revamping one of the first maps in the game when it launched in 2015.

The announcement of this strategic partnership builds on previous moves by both console manufacturers towards streaming, such as the in-development Project xCloud streaming service at Microsoft and streaming functions that have recently been added to the PS4.

“So much of the amazing style and substance in that game was only possible because they have such a knack for what's cool,” said Capcom producer Matt Walker.

Paradox has been dropping videos that introduce players to the various vampire clans such as the secretive Tremere and the savage Brujah. Now they’re dropped a new reveal video for the Toreador.

A combination of Twitter posts, retweets, PR denials surrounding the future of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell are all part of Ubisoft’s new meta-marketing strategy, which I hereby dub, “Ghost Protocol.”

Anything is viable in Elder Scrolls Online, which is great to see after level 50. But I’m overwhelmed on what to do. I have no interest in buying any expansions because the base game is filled with content that it feels like I have another month worth of content available to me.

LudoNarraCon is a games convention like no other. Not only is it dedicated to narrative-focused games, it’s a digital event that takes place entirely on Steam, with a "central theater stream," livestreams and chats, and playable demos for featured games. 

The latest update adds a new item that lets players put their extra stuff up for sale while they go off on (mis)adventures, but a sales tax is causing all sorts of controversy.

Although Anthem did not perform well in terms of physical sales – it shifted a mere half of the boxed units that Mass Effect Andromeda sold in the same launch period in 2017 – it did much better in digital sales.