Gears 5‘s first multiplayer tech test is set to begin on July 19. The test will offer players their first opportunity to play Gears 5‘s Escalation, Arcade, and King of the Hill multiplayer modes, whi...
By Rory Young on 18 July 2019EA Sports recently revealed its Madden NFL 20 player ratings. Some NFL stars are no doubt happy with their Madden NFL 20 ratings, like cover athlete Patrick Mahomes, who has the highest quarterback r...
By Dalton Cooper on 18 July 2019Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will have a proper multiplayer reveal on August 1. It’s then when many fans expect to learn more about the multiplayer beta, including its release date and other details....
By Dalton Cooper on 18 July 2019The Loaded Question fusion rifle may have been the Vanguard pinnacle weapon in Season of the Drifter in Destiny 2, but it is still a top-tier weapon for PvE. Plus, the quest can still be completed ev...
By Weston Albert on 18 July 2019The final week of Season 9 in Fortnite‘s battle royale mode has arrived, and with it comes map changes with large implications. Fortnite players will likely have noticed that the giant pink robot bei...
By Rory Young on 18 July 2019Destiny 2: Shadowkeep is only a few months away, which means that developer Bungie will soon be peeling back the layers regarding what experiences players can expect in the upcoming Year 3 expansion....
By Anthony Taormina on 17 July 2019It’s week 9 in Fortnite, which means that a new set of challenges are available to complete. Additionally, a new Fortnite crossover with Stranger Things has begun, with skins themed after the popular...
By Anthony Taormina on 05 July 2019With his work on the critically-acclaimed Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Koji Igarashi played an instrumental role in creating the “Metroidvania” genre of games. His subsequent Castlevania games...
By Dalton Cooper on 04 July 2019The days of summer are upon us and Fortnite players are busy celebrating by completing an ongoing series of challenges. The latest 14 Days of Summer challenge brings some new tasks to the table and,...
By Denny Connolly on 04 July 2019Over the past weeks, players have been scouring the Fortnite map for Fortbytes, collectible computer chips that will, ultimately, “decrypt a mysterious image” and unlock rewards. Indeed, Fortnite Sea...
By William Parks on 04 July 2019Fortnite‘s 14 Days of Summer event is on-going, providing players with a brand new challenge every day. This has tasked players with a variety of tasks such as finding giant beach balls and unicorn f...
By Joshua Duckworth on 04 July 2019Since its launch last October, fans have been asking not if, but when they’ll see Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 come to PC. There have been rumors, leaks, and even support from upper management at...
By CJ Schummer on 04 July 2019Fortnite‘s season 9 week 8 challenges are here. They require players to complete a landing challenge, deal 500 damage with assault rifles, apply 400 shields, visit 3 different clocks around the battl...
By Joshua Duckworth on 30 June 2019The new Fortnite season 9 week 8 challenges have arrived, and they require a lot from gamers who aim to complete the full circuit of challenges. Aside of standard battle-based challenges like dealing...
By John Jacques on 30 June 2019Fortnite Season 9 is in full swing and players are working hard to complete the many challenges this season. While there are plenty of generic challenges, players are also tasked with tracking down F...
By Patrick Kirk on 30 June 2019Fortnite‘s 14 Days of Summer challenge is live, and players are busy scouring the map for hidden items to earn some sweet cosmetic rewards. Players have danced at beach parties and tracked down giant...
By Patrick Kirk on 30 June 2019Back in Season 7, Fortnite introduced Creative Mode, giving fans the tools to create their very own battle royale maps. As is often the case when games add robust creation tools, Fortnite fans ran of...
By Dalton Cooper on 30 June 2019The next Fortbyte is ready for the taking in Fortnite, and is in another food-themed location. Here are the tips you’ll need to go out there and claim it for yourself. In order to access Fortbyte 60,...
By Curt Hutson on 30 June 2019Another Fortnite challenge is ready to be undertaken and today’s prize is Fortbyte 67. To snag the latest Fortbyte, players will need show off their glider skills and fly through a series of rings. H...
By Curt Hutson on 30 June 2019Fortnite recently got a new update, and it brought with it a brand new John Wick skin for fans – but it’s not for Keanu Reeves. With the main character of the movie trilogy already having two skins i...
By John Jacques on 30 June 2019In addition to on-going tasks such as finding Fortbyte 43 at the banana stand, Fortnite is introducing its new 14 Days of Summer event that gives players a new challenge to complete every day over th...
By Joshua Duckworth on 23 June 2019The hunt for Fortbytes in Fortnite continues, with a new challenge recently added to the game. Fortbyte 43 is now ready for retrieval, and we’ll explain what players will need to do to claim it. Many...
By Curt Hutson on 23 June 2019Fortnite may be on the back slope of season 9, but the highly popular battle royale title is as busy as ever. Season 9 Week 7 offers players a variety of challenges such as earning 3 suppressed weapo...
By Joshua Duckworth on 23 June 2019During its E3 press conference last week, Bethesda announced a number of new additions and updates coming to Fallout 76 as well as a free trial period for the game that is set to end today. If gettin...
By CJ Schummer on 18 June 2019Last month, it was leaked that Fallout 76 would be adding a new mode called Nuclear Winter. Now Nuclear Winter has been officially announced by Bethesda, and as some predicted, Nuclear Winter will be...
By Dalton Cooper on 18 June 2019A new week of Fortnite challenges have arrives, which means that players are out in full force concentrating on checking these tasks off of their to-do list, so that they can earn the associated rewa...
By Denny Connolly on 17 June 2019In past Fortnite Seasons, players only had to be on the lookout for secret battle stars. However, Fortnite Season 9 adds a brand new collectible for battle royale players to hunt down in the form of...
By Dalton Cooper on 17 June 2019It’s a new day, which means it’s time for a new Fortnite Fortbyte challenge. The most recent challenge tasked players with dropping into the trailer park to find Fortbyte #14 and the antics continue...
By Denny Connolly on 17 June 2019The streaming service Netflix has made its intentions clear to start adapting some of its original shows and movies into video games. While interactive content, such as Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Mi...
By CJ Schummer on 10 June 2019Fortnite is one of the most successful video games of all time, and has made an absurd amount of money for Epic Games. However, if then-Director of Production Rod Fergusson had stayed at Epic Games i...
By Dalton Cooper on 10 June 2019Red Dead Redemption 2 remains in the unfortunate in-between time where it’s available on current generation consoles but has yet to even be announced for PC. With Rockstar’s previous game, Grand Thef...
By Rory Young on 09 June 2019Season 9 of Fortnite Battle Royale kicked off last night, bringing with it plenty of changes and additions like the futuristic new style of Tilted Towers. Players have also begun hunting new Fortbyte...
By Derek Nichols on 07 June 2019As Epic Games prepares for a big Fortnite presence at E3 2019, Week 5 rolls on in Season 9. Yet again, there are a series of challenges for players to complete and a new storm in a bottle item to pla...
By Anthony Taormina on 07 June 2019For the first time in history, popular video game personalities PewDiePie and Ninja are teaming up on this week’s Friday Fortnite tournament. Friday Fortnite started out as an unofficial competition...
By Ramon Hara on 07 June 2019It wouldn’t be a Fortnite World Cup qualifying weekend if there wasn’t a little controversy and yet again Epic Games finds itself in a tough situation. A known Fortnite cheater who was previously ban...
By Anthony Taormina on 31 May 2019Fortnite‘s Season 9 Week 4 challenges are now live, tasking players with finding a holographic tomato head and more. Just like past weeks in Fortnite, completing all of the challenges will unlock a l...
By Dalton Cooper on 31 May 2019Red Dead Online has officially exited its beta stage and entered its full launch with the recent massive Red Dead Redemption 2 update. It introduced new story missions that continue the “A Land of Op...
By Joshua Duckworth on 18 May 2019After an exciting reveal at E3 2018, Fallout 76 hasn’t been the game many expected it to be. Due in large part to game breaking bugs, server issues, bad PR, and plenty more, fan satisfaction with the...
By Derek Nichols on 18 May 2019Earlier this year, Bethesda released an elaborate Fallout 76 roadmap, which provided an overview of the game’s planned content for 2019. Included in this Fallout 76 roadmap was a new game mode, title...
By William Parks on 18 May 2019In order to keep all major post-launch content DLCs free, Fallout 76 launched with the Atomic Shop, a store of microtransactions that Bethesda Vice President Pete Hines promised was simply “cosmetic...
By Joshua Duckworth on 18 April 2019The launch of Fallout 76 has been anything but smooth, a fact recently acknowledged by Bethesda’s own Todd Howard during an event held in Boston alongside PAX East. Bugs, issues, controversies, and m...
By Derek Nichols on 18 April 2019Right out of the gate, Fallout 76‘s reception was not what developer Bethesda was hoping for. Couple the gameplay problems with a few PR guffaws, and many felt stiffed by the beloved developer. This...
By Joshua Duckworth on 18 April 2019In order to complete the Ancient Evil Easter egg, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players will need to obtain the shield of the new Zombies mode. Dubbed Apollo’s Will, this spear and shield gives players a...
By Joshua Duckworth on 31 March 2019During its official announcement at Pax East 2019, one major detail about Borderlands 3 wasn’t confirmed, and that is its release date. Yet it appears that this release date could have actually been...
By Joshua Duckworth on 29 March 2019Both Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and the Warcraft 2: Battle.net Edition battle chest featuring Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness and its expansion Beyond the Dark Portal are available to buy and download n...
By Rory Young on 28 March 2019Not too long ago, it was confirmed that the video game developer Behaviour Interactive would be including Ash vs Evil Dead DLC at some point in the near future for its survival horror title Dead by D...
By Kyle Sledge on 28 March 2019A new week in Fortnite means a new set of challenges, and a new set of challenges means a new secret reward. Per the alternating battle star and banner pattern established back in season 6, players w...
By Joshua Duckworth on 28 March 2019The fabled day has arrived, and the final episode of the Walking Dead Final Season is available now. Thanks should be given to Skybound Games for finishing Clementine’s story after the unfortunate cl...
By Joshua Duckworth on 28 March 2019By now, the problems surrounding Fallout 76 are widely known. It lacked a lot of the oomph previous titles in the series had and its launch on PC was absolutely abysmal. There are certainly those who...
By Curt Hutson on 18 March 2019At the end of February, Bethesda revealed a specific plan of continued support for its newest multiplayer RPG, Fallout 76, releasing a content roadmap that outlined a number of updates set to keep fa...
By William Parks on 18 March 2019Much like its predecessor, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is about an American city rebuilding itself following an act of bioterrorism called the Green Poison outbreak. Instead of New York City, the seq...
By Kyle Sledge on 18 March 2019There is a lot of excitement surrounding the addition of raids in The Division 2. And thanks to dataminers looking into the game’s files, there’s a detailed look at what the first raid will contain....
By Weston Albert on 18 March 2019Regardless of one’s feelings about Electronic Arts, there’s no denying that EA Access is one of the best deals in gaming, especially for sports fans. For just $30, EA Access gives players full access...
By Dalton Cooper on 18 March 2019In The Division 2, players have more than just guns and grenades at their disposal. They also have eight different skills that they can unlock by completing main story missions, all of which have the...
By Dalton Cooper on 18 March 2019Printer Filament is a rare material in The Division 2 that is used in crafting to create mods for gear and skills. Not only is it a purple tier item but it is also rare in where it is found, coming f...
By Weston Albert on 18 March 2019The Division 2 has been flooded with agents roaming the streets of Washington ever since the game launched earlier this week, and all of them are slowly developing their own styles and looks. This we...
By John Jacques on 17 March 2019Agents returning to The Division 2 after playing the first game will see a few familiar sights, ranging from trash-filled post-pandemic streets to encountering Hunter units that will put up a tough f...
By John Jacques on 17 March 2019In The Division 2, players are eventually given a mission to speak with Henry Hayes, and this seems to be giving people some trouble. Before we get to why some Division 2 players may simply be unable...
By Dalton Cooper on 17 March 2019In The Division 2, players are encouraged to team up with others online to tackle the game’s various missions and activities. While players are free to do this in a group of friends that they know, s...
By Dalton Cooper on 17 March 2019There was a time when Valve‘s digital distribution software, Steam, was beloved and lauded by some as the one true place for PC gamers to download the latest hits. But as the years have gone, Steam h...
By Michael Beckwith on 17 March 2019Division 2 players may have noticed a chest in the White House base of operations that requires 8 ivory keys to unlock. Because Ubisoft and developer Massive Entertainment are layering The Division 2...
By Anthony Taormina on 17 March 2019In The Division 2, players can upgrade their agents in a variety of ways. The most obvious is leveling up, but they can also equip better weaponry and gear, as well as unlock Specializations. The Div...
By Dalton Cooper on 17 March 2019In September 2018, the Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account replied to a Lady Gaga tweet posted by the singer and actress back in 2012. The decision to respond to such an old tweet prompted wild speculatio...
By Jasmine Henry on 14 March 2019With Fortnite season 8 well underway, players are tasked with a new series of challenges every week in a drastically changed landscape. The advent of season 8 saw the emergence of the volcano and two...
By Joshua Duckworth on 14 March 2019About a couple of weeks ago, the video game publisher and developer Blizzard Entertainment officially announced it would be bringing yet another playable character to its first-person shooter, Overwa...
By Kyle Sledge on 14 March 2019At E3 2018, DICE announced that Battlefield V would be getting its very own battle royale mode called Firestorm, which would be added to the game in March. We haven’t had a specific release date for ...
By Dalton Cooper on 14 March 2019In previous seasons of Fortnite, players had to find treasure maps hidden throughout the battle royale map, and then follow their directions to secret battle stars. Season 8 of Fortnite mixes things...
By Dalton Cooper on 14 March 2019Fortnite Battle Royale has now reached Season 8 Week 3, and players can attempt to take on a fresh list of different Battle Pass challenges in the free-to-play multiplayer sandbox shooter in order to...
By Kyle Sledge on 14 March 2019Apex Legends‘ success story starts with its February 4 launch, a surprise announcement, and same-day release. Electronic Arts manufactured a surge of marketing to go alongside the battle royale’s lau...
By Rory Young on 14 March 2019Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 doesn’t officially release until Friday but early access edition owners are already digging through Ubisoft’s loot-based shooter. For most, the focus is on gaining XP quic...
By Anthony Taormina on 14 March 2019Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is now available to be experienced via early access, and there is no doubt that a lot of players are currently focusing their efforts on reaching level 30 as fast as possi...
By Kyle Sledge on 13 March 2019Devil May Cry 5 offers plenty beyond the core story to keep gamers actively engaged, including a wide range of collectibles, upgrades, and secret missions. Extending the player’s Devil Trigger Gauge...
By Sarah Fields on 13 March 2019Devil May Cry 5 introduced a new combat mechanic to the series in Nero’s Devil Breakers, replaceable mechanical arms that give the demon hunter access to an array of powerful abilities. While there a...
By William Parks on 13 March 2019Ever since the 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot, story has had an increased focus for the franchise. That will hold true for the upcoming Mortal Kombat 11, which is set to have a time-bending story mode fea...
By Dalton Cooper on 12 March 2019Dataminers have been busy digging through Devil May Cry 5‘s PC files, and they have potentially found some future content that’s in store for the game. This includes a fourth playable character joini...
By Dalton Cooper on 12 March 2019Dante and the crew are back in Devil May Cry 5, and as it was with previous installments, there are a series of secret missions for players to find and conquer. Like before, some are easy to find, wh...
By Curt Hutson on 12 March 2019Most of the unlockable content in Devil May Cry 5 revolves around unlocking new abilities for the three playable characters or upgrading their health and Devil Trigger meters. However, there are five...
By Dalton Cooper on 12 March 2019Those looking forward to From Software‘s next major project won’t have to wait too much longer, as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is set to release across multiple platforms in a little over a week from n...
By Kyle Sledge on 11 March 2019Apex Legends came out of nowhere last month and has soared in popularity since its surprise launch. The game has passed a staggering 50 million players worldwide, and continues to be one of the most...
By Dalton Cooper on 10 March 2019Over the past several weeks, fans have been treated to a number of new trailers focusing on various aspects of From Software’s upcoming action-adventure game, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. While the det...
By William Parks on 09 March 2019There’s no doubt that a plethora of gamers are eagerly anticipating the release of Obsidian Entertainment’s first-person RPG The Outer Worlds, but despite a potential release date leak, there’s still...
By Kyle Sledge on 08 March 2019It won’t be too much longer before the multi-platform action-adventure game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice officially launches, and it looks as if the developer From Software is ramping up promotion in or...
By Kyle Sledge on 08 March 2019Mortal Kombat 11 fans have slightly over a month to wait until the highly anticipated gory fighting title launches, but as we near its date, developer NetherRealm Studio has been providing fans with...
By Joshua Duckworth on 08 March 2019Not too long ago, the video game developer NetherRealm Studios released a story trailer which confirmed that the likes of Erron Black, Jacqui Briggs, and Cassie Cage would be making their return in t...
By Kyle Sledge on 08 March 2019The launch of Mortal Komat 11 is less than two months away and NetherRealm Studios is ramping up the hype. Trickling out individual fighter trailers has been paused, understandable after Mortal Komba...
By Rory Young on 08 March 2019Without a doubt, Mortal Kombat 11 is one of the most anticipated titles of 2019, but another title that has already taken 2019 by storm is Apex Legends. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the game...
By Joshua Duckworth on 08 March 2019A couple of years after its last release, Respawn Entertainment surprised the game industry by simultaneously announcing and launching a free to play battle royale title called Apex Legends. While ma...
By Derek Nichols on 08 March 2019In 2013, Capcom partnered with Ninja Theory to reboot its hack and slash action franchise Devil May Cry with the polarizing DmC. While many praised DmC for its exciting combat and interesting visuals...
By Dalton Cooper on 04 March 2019Ubisoft RedLynx’s Trials series has long been a favorite franchise for players looking to experience a deft mixture of zany, over-the-top motorcycle trial racing and lavish, elaborately designed set...
By Kyle Sledge on 01 March 2019With Mortal Kombat 11, the latest entry in NetherRealm Studios’ grisly and gruesome fighting game series, only a couple of months away from release, it’s not surprising that we’re seeing a new charac...
By Michael Beckwith on 01 March 2019BioWare is one of the most celebrated and critically-acclaimed video game studios in history, particularly when it comes to RPGs. The studio has released games that have been hailed as masterpieces,...
By Dalton Cooper on 01 March 2019“You Will Not Survive,” is the tagline for Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, a brand new 90s-inspired FPS built on original Quake technology. As the tagline implies, Wrath is a throwback to the visceral, gory, hi...
By Rory Young on 01 March 2019Ever since Obsidian Entertainment revealed its forthcoming action-RPG The Outer Worlds with a trailer during The Game Awards 2018, plenty of players have been clamoring for as much information about...
By Kyle Sledge on 22 February 2019Far Cry New Dawn is a standalone sequel to Far Cry 5 set 17 years after the bombs drop over Hope County. Instead of a bleak, brown-and-gray post-apocalyptic scenario, Ubisoft has focused on life once...
By John Jacques on 18 February 2019Far Cry New Dawn is out now, allowing players to return to Hope County and see the aftermath of Far Cry 5. All of this can be done in style, as the silent protagonist also returns with a number of cu...
By Joshua Duckworth on 18 February 2019Bethesda is preparing to launch a large update for Fallout 76 called the Wild Appalachia expansion on March 12, and it promises to breathe plenty of new life into the online post-apocalyptic title. T...
By John Jacques on 18 February 2019In the midst of trying to fix Fallout 76, it seems that Bethesda is perhaps also working on a new Fallout title that might release this year. According to a new Amazon listing, it seems Bethesda has...
By Patrick Kirk on 18 February 2019Bethesda has shared its current roadmap for Fallout 76 post-launch plans in 2019. Two infographics were released as part of the roadmap reveal. The first provides a general outlook of the year to com...
By Rory Young on 18 February 2019Although the reveal of The Outer Worlds was viewed by many as a major diss aimed at Bethesda, co-directors Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky shot down this rumor, saying the timing was “purely accidental...
By Caleb Wilmoth on 15 February 2019The Outer Worlds is the upcoming sci-fi RPG from Fallout: New Vegas developers Obsidian Entertainment, and Fallout series creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky are working on the game, too. So, it s...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 February 2019The Outer Worlds developer Obsidian Entertainment has offered plenty of details about the game’s combat this month. The studio has detailed the game’s version of Fallout‘s VATS, teased no-kill playth...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 February 2019Throughout the course of the month, fans have been treated to a number of details on From Software’s upcoming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, including specifics on how skills work and a look at the game...
By William Parks on 15 February 2019Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is one of 2019’s most anticipated games, and with launch day quickly approaching, FromSoftware is giving fans a small glimpse into the story that players will discover. Prev...
By Patrick Kirk on 15 February 2019Apex Legends is a unique game, combining the battle royale genre with hero-shooter elements, drawing many comparisons to Blizzard’s Overwatch in the process. And just like Overwatch, much of the lore...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 February 2019Metro Exodus turned heads when it was first announced at Microsoft’s E3 2017 press conference with a gameplay presentation that led many to believe it would be an open world take on the franchise. Wh...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 February 2019Following the reveal event and first Kombat Kast for Mortal Kombat 11, many players have continued to wonder which characters would ultimately make the final cut and occupy one of the limited base ro...
By Derek Nichols on 15 February 2019NetherRealm Studios announced Mortal Kombat 11 just two months ago during The Game Awards 2018, but since then has kept a steady pace by unveiling members of the fighting game’s roster at a rate of o...
By Rory Young on 15 February 2019NetherRealm Studios has busily been revealing new characters for Mortal Kombat 11 over the past week. First came Kano’s announcement, one of Mortal Kombat‘s most recognized fighters. Then came Kabal...
By Rory Young on 15 February 2019During Mortal Kombat 11‘s Kommunity Reveal live stream, NetherRealm Studios announced that the forthcoming fighting game would have a gear system allowing players to customize the appearance of each...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 February 2019About a week ago, NetherRealm Studios Creative Director Ed Boon teased to fans that there are even more classic characters to come in the latest entry of the company’s long-running fighting game fran...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 February 2019Rage 2 is still several months away from launch, but there’s a lot of open world left to introduce players to before May. As such, Bethesda has released a lengthy 9-minute-long trailer that’s nothing...
By Rory Young on 15 February 2019Crackdown 3 debuted on Xbox Game Pass this past Friday, giving players the chance to yet again explore an open world, fight baddies, and collect orbs to power up their playable agent. Past interviews...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 February 2019Crackdown 3 is rapidly approaching its February 15 release date, the culmination of what’s been a longer-than-expected development time. Today Microsoft confirmed one final detail that fans have been...
By Rory Young on 15 February 2019After years of development woes and multiple delays, Sumo Digital is just about ready to release Crackdown 3, its open-world third-person shooter, which stars actor Terry Crews as a playable characte...
By CJ Schummer on 15 February 2019With several months left until the launch of Mortal Kombat 11, NetherRealm Studios still has plenty of character reveals to make. But while the studio would love to keep to its strict schedule, there...
By Anthony Taormina on 15 February 2019Being only mere months away from the release of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, anticipation for From Software’s newest action-adventure game is growing. While it will certainly differ from past From Soft...
By Caleb Wilmoth on 15 January 2019For those who believed that Dark Souls bosses were the pinnacle of video game boss design, From Software says just wait for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Sekiro publisher Activision recently hosted Game...
By Rory Young on 15 January 2019After From Software used E3 2018 as a means to confirm the existence of its new title, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the developer stated it will not be a Soulsborne game, meaning that it intends to sta...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 January 2019Dead Cells was one of 2018’s standout indie games. A 2D side-scrolling rogue-like with tight controls and compelling action, the title led many players to keep pushing through each death to run throu...
By Weston Albert on 15 January 2019About a month ago, Capcom and CD Projekt Red revealed a partnership between the two that would provide Monster Hunter World with a crossover event featuring none other than The Witcher‘s Geralt of Ri...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 January 2019In a game brimming with pop culture references and memorials to real world people, it was only a matter of time before World of Warcraft paid respects to one of Marvel’s most beloved creators. A new...
By Curt Hutson on 15 January 2019Update: Xbox has corrected itself regarding Life is Strange 2‘s future on Game Pass. While upcoming episodes of Life is Strange 2 will indeed be coming to Game Pass, they will not be available at lau...
By Rory Young on 15 January 2019There’s no doubt that Far Cry 5 was one of the most popular titles released this year, especially with the first-person shooter having been included among Google’s top ten most searched for video gam...
By Kyle Sledge on 18 December 2018Last night at The Game Awards, Obsidian and Private Division excited sci-fi fans around the globe by announcing The Outer Worlds. The retro-futuristic title seems like a spiritual successor to Fallou...
By John Jacques on 15 December 2018Ever since its reveal at The Game Awards 2018, The Outer Worlds from Obsidian Entertainment has generated quite a bit of buzz. Announced just after the general failure of Fallout 76 and making it a p...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 December 2018One of the best surprises at The Game Awards 2018 was the reveal of Obsidian’s new RPG, The Outer Worlds. Favorably compared to Fallout and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, the game has been...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 December 2018In more ways than one, The Outer Worlds is an attempt to appeal to disgruntled western RPG fans who may have been burned by disappointing games like Mass Effect: Andromeda and Fallout 76. The game’s...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 December 2018Upcoming open-world RPG Rage 2 was present at The Game Awards this week, offering up a new trailer and a release date. However, this isn’t the only new information about the game that has just been c...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 December 2018It has been quite a while since RAGE 2 fans have received any news about id Software and Avalanche Studios’ forthcoming open world first-person shooter, but it looks as if the companies are set to gi...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 December 2018It has been nearly seven months since Bethesda officially announced Rage 2, and fans have been treated to several high-octane gameplay trailers, and some sporadic information, ever since. Now, the co...
By William Parks on 15 December 2018Without a doubt, Crackdown 3 has had a rather tumultuous development cycle since it was initially announced. In order to assuage any worries that fans of the franchise may have for the sequel, Xbox h...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 December 2018Despite having been named one of the best-selling titles for November 2018, there’s no doubt that Fallout 76 has had an incredibly rough launch. Whether it’s due to the near-broken state in which it...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 December 2018Ubisoft has taken a new approach to their long-running Assassin’s Creed franchise in the past couple of entries, hoping to keep players engaged in the single-player experience by regularly scheduling...
By CJ Schummer on 15 November 2018The holiday season is almost upon us, and there are a ton of great Black Friday 2018 deals that have already gone live ahead of what is set to be the biggest shopping period of the year. With this be...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 November 2018Despite the loss of fans and backlash that ensued when DICE released Star Wars: Battlefront 2 with game-changing loot boxes, some fans have remained loyal to the series and were awarded with a new he...
By Caleb Wilmoth on 15 November 2018To talk about Crackdown 3 now usually brings with it the baggage of multiple delays, and mentions of lackluster preview showings from media. While the Xbox One exclusive finally has a solid release d...
By CJ Schummer on 15 October 2018Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been a commercial success for Ubisoft, selling better than every current-gen entry of the franchise. Nevertheless, games on an epic scale with great reviews like this act...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 October 2018Last year, Star Wars Battlefront 2 was the center of a huge controversy regarding the loot box business model in games. Some were so furious about the game and its “pay to win” loot boxes that publis...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 October 2018The first-ever live event for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been canceled due to unspecified technical issues. The event was supposed to go live sometime this week, which will allow players...
By Ramon Hara on 15 October 2018At E3 2018, Microsoft revealed that it was expanding its first-party studio roster, and a result, it appears that the company is reportedly close to acquiring Obsidian Entertainment, which is best kn...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 October 2018Dedicated Resident Evil fan ZergRex remakes the opening of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis within Far Cry 5 using the game’s impressively comprehensive level editor.
By Cameron Corliss on 18 September 2018This past June at E3, From Software revealed its newest game, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice to the public. While the style of both combat and heightened difficulty resembles that of the studio’s previous...
By CJ Schummer on 15 September 2018The gaming industry never really slows down. There are notable game releases every month, not to mention industry events, in-game events for ongoing games, expansions, DLC, betas, and more. September...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 September 2018In 2013, the Tomb Raider reboot gave new life to the franchise, offering fans a fresh take on the classic character Lara Croft while updating the gameplay to compete with the biggest and best modern...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 September 2018Last week, Square Enix and Eidos Montreal wrapped up their version of Lara Croft’s origin story with Shadow of the Tomb Raider. While the newest adventure sees the conclusion of Lara’s journey to bec...
By CJ Schummer on 15 September 2018A new mod for The Witcher 3 surfaced online following the controversy that surrounded the rumored casting of the character of Ciri for the upcoming Netflix adaptation. The mod gives players the abili...
By Ramon Hara on 15 September 2018World of Warcraft players who have hit max level and reached the World Quest grind see a ton of quests on a daily basis. It becomes easy to sort of ignore the quest text and go through the motions of...
By Denny Connolly on 15 September 2018Even though Anthem is still quite a ways off from launch, fans have been getting plenty of new information thanks to a panel held at PAX West in Seattle, Washington this past weekend. In addition to...
By Derek Nichols on 15 September 2018It’s been over ten years since players first experienced the dystopian society that is Rapture in the original BioShock that was released in 2007, also known as one of the best years for gaming. Whil...
By Richard Apodaca on 15 September 2018As many attendees of E3 2018 would likely attest, the forthcoming first-person shooter from Bethesda, id Software, and Avalanche Studios, Rage 2, was easily one of the best games on-hand at the event...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 August 2018About a couple of months ago, Microsoft officially confirmed that the forthcoming open world shooter Crackdown 3 would see its release date change to February 2019, marking the third instance of the...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 August 2018Last year, the crowdfunded title Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was delayed into 2018 due to an internal shakeup, causing the game’s original developers to move away from the project. As we near t...
By CJ Schummer on 15 August 2018Another member of the strongest clan in space joins Dragon Ball FighterZ, as Cooler has officially been confirmed for the game’s roster. Bandai Namco introduced Cooler through a reveal trailer follow...
By Curt Hutson on 15 August 2018After recently introducing the new Tomb Raider hub world that will feature for the first time in the latest game in the series, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Square Enix has recently revealed that the u...
By Janine Engelbrecht on 15 August 2018The release of one of the most anticipated games of fall 2018, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, is around the corner, and like many upcoming games such as Battlefield V and Fallout 76 that have special Xbo...
By Janine Engelbrecht on 15 August 2018There’s no denying that Fortnite has been on top of the world in the video game community this year. It’s consistently one of the most streamed, played, and viewed games on Twitch and YouTube, but th...
By Denny Connolly on 15 August 2018World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is available now, which means players have a ton to do in the MMO’s new content. From hitting max level, to battling the opposing faction, to preparing for end g...
By Denny Connolly on 15 August 2018Almost two weeks ago, Blizzard released their newest expansion for their long-running MMORPG World of Warcraft with Battle for Azeroth. Battle for Azeroth is the seventh expansion to release in the p...
By CJ Schummer on 15 August 2018World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth arrives roughly 14 years after the initial launch of the powerhouse Blizzard MMO and asks whether or not the game that helped define a genre still holds up. With...
By Denny Connolly on 15 August 2018Whenever a new World of Warcraft expansion launches, there are always some players who race through the leveling process in an attempt to be one of the first players in the world to reach max level....
By Denny Connolly on 15 August 2018When id Software released the upcoming Quake Champions into Steam Early Access last year, it was also announced that the game would be making use of a free-to-play model on release, with players bein...
By Gabriella Ferreira on 01 August 2018When Dragon Ball FighterZ first launched, the 2.5D fighting game had Super Saiyan Goku, Super Saiyan Vegeta, SSGSS Goku, and SSGSS Vegeta on its roster, but the game did not contain the original base...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 July 2018Ahead of its release next week, Far Cry 5 teases its Lost on Mars DLC with a short trailer. Like its predecessor, the Hours of Darkness DLC, this expansion sees players take control of yet another ci...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 July 2018Not too long ago, Bethesda confirmed that the highly anticipated beta for Fallout 76 won’t officially begin until October, which happens to be just one month prior to the post-apocalyptic online game...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 July 2018Whether it was the introduction of brand new IPs such as Starfield or the return of favorite franchises like Rage 2, there was a lot of exciting things revealed during the course of E3 2018, with the...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 June 2018Microsoft has been struggled with its exclusives over the years, with many first-party titles on the Xbox One being critical failures or outright canceled. Then, of course, there are games stuck in d...
By Cameron Corliss on 15 June 2018Without a doubt, a bevy of gamers considered Crackdown 3 to be one of the top Xbox One exclusives to look forward to, as players had been excited to finally learn some more about the forthcoming thir...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 June 2018The torrid release schedule for Crackdown 3 continues, as today Microsoft has once again officially shifted the open world action game’s launch date. As rumored, Crackdown 3 is no longer planned for...
By Rory Young on 15 June 2018Without a doubt, Microsoft’s E3 2018 press conference featured a wide variety of game premieres, with one of the more noteworthy announcements belonging to Techland for its reveal trailer for Dying L...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 June 2018With Vampyr, Life is Strange studio Dontnod Entertainment tries its hand at a horror-themed action RPG. The game’s atmospheric trailers have turned heads, and it has been considered one of the most a...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 June 2018Taking to Twitter, Bandai Namco US posted a cryptic teaser for the next DLC fighter joining the Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s Roster. While Fused Zamasu has been officially revealed to be one of the next DL...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 May 2018About a week ago, Bandai Namco Entertainment and Arc System Works revealed the official release date for Dragon Ball FighterZ’s next DLC roster members, Fused Zamasu and Vegito Blue, giving fans of t...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 May 2018Not long after Fused Zamasu was officially revealed for Dragon Ball FighterZ, many began to speculate who would join the fusion between Goku Black and Future Zamasu as the next DLC fighter. Moreover,...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 May 2018It is just over two weeks until Dotnod Entertainment’s vampire-based action role-playing game, Vampyr, will be available for purchase. As the release date draws closer, more information about the gam...
By Gabriella Ferreira on 15 May 2018Without a doubt, Focus Home Interactive and Dontnod Entertainment’s forthcoming action role-playing game Vampyr is considered by many to be one of the most highly anticipated horror games of 2018, as...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 May 2018Despite the fact that it only released at the tail end of the month, Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 managed to become the best-selling game of March 2018, with the title having nearly doubled sales of the third...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 May 2018When footage of Radical Heights‘ wacky gameplay started doing the rounds a few weeks ago, many praised developer Boss Key’s interesting iteration on the Battle Royale genre. But now, only two weeks s...
By Chris Glover on 15 April 2018Since releasing in “X-treme Early Access” last week, the 80s game show-infused battle royale game from Boss Key Productions, Radical Heights, has been met with a great deal of criticism. One of the b...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 April 2018While the battle royale genre is currently dominated by the likes of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, another contender threw its hat in the ring just this past week. Boss Key Productions,...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 April 2018This week, Lawbreakers developer Boss Key Productions released Radical Heights, a brand new battle royale game that is now available in early access. Radical Heights is the developer’s answer to Fort...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 April 2018With the first round of downloadable characters publicaly available for players, many have begun to wonder what’s next for the massively popular fighting game Dragon Ball FighterZ. Fans have been wel...
By Derek Nichols on 15 April 2018With the recent inclusion of Bardock and Broly in Dragon Ball FighterZ, many fans may be looking forward to the next DLC character. Considering the 2.5D fighting game has a vast pool to pull from, it...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 April 2018A trailer for Vampyr, the upcoming horror RPG, released last month that focused mostly on the game’s story. Now, thanks to a new trailer, we get to see a bit more about what powers players can use w...
By A.J. Plautz on 15 April 2018During the PC Gamer Weekender 2018 event in London, Biomutant developer Stefan Ljungqvist was interviewed and discussed the game’s character customization. Prior to the interview, a new trailer was s...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 March 2018Over the weekend, the publisher THQ Nordic and the developer Experiment 101 showed how character customization works and how a character’s appearance can influence their stats within the forthcoming...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2018Just yesterday, THQ Nordic and Experiment 101 released a gameplay teaser trailer for the forthcoming action role-playing game Biomutant that showed off several of the title’s environments, its varyin...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2018While Psychonauts 2 received an amazing crowdfunded kickstart, gathering 1 million dollars in less than 24 hours, news has been scarce about the highly-anticipated sequel. However, a bit of unwanted...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 March 2018It took Psychonauts 2 less than a day to procure a million dollars via crowdfunding two years ago, and Double Fine Productions has worked hard to show fans that the studio hasn’t been slacking in tha...
By John Jacques on 15 March 2018Dragon Ball FighterZ’s popularity has been demonstrated this week by the high number of registrants for this year’s EVO tournament. In fact, the recorded EVO registrants is the highest for any game a...
By Hannah McCole on 15 March 2018Not too long ago, Arc System Works and Bandai Namco Entertainment officially confirmed the release date for Dragon Ball FighterZ‘s first round of DLC characters, with Broly and Bardock joining the ti...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2018About a month ago, Focus Home Interactive and Dontnod Entertainment began a making-of series for the forthcoming action role-playing game, Vampyr, with the companies offering fans a peek behind the c...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2018Focus Home Interactive and DONTNOD Entertainment have released a teaser for the upcoming web series detailing the making of Vampyr. Including some gameplay footage, this series discusses “the studio’...
By Joshua Duckworth on 15 March 2018After a number of delays, South Park: The Fractured But Whole is now available to the masses. And as returning players from The Stick of Truth will realize, the game is more challenging than its pred...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2018South Park: The Fractured But Whole released earlier this week to strong reviews, with a number of outlets praising it as a worthy followup to 2014’s The Stick of Truth. As many that have played it c...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2018Although it’s Batman that’s known as the world’s greatest detective, The New Kid from South Park: The Fractured but Whole is also expected to showcase some pretty solid investigative powers from time...
By Rob Gordon on 15 March 2018The success of South Park: The Stick of Truth was something to behold, with the game earning excellent reviews and a strong following of fans. When a follow-up was therefore announced, South Park; Th...
By Rob Gordon on 15 March 2018Last week, Ubisoft (in partnership with Trey Parker and Matt Stone) released South Park: The Fractured But Whole, the follow-up to the well-received Stick of Truth. Although the dev team, Parker, and...
By Anthony Taormina on 15 March 2018In South Park: The Stick of Truth, players were tasked with finding all the Chinpokomon hidden throughout the town of South Park. The sequel, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, has its own set of c...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2018South Park: The Fractured But Whole is stuffed with easter eggs and clever references to some of the show’s classic episodes, but some of these are hidden rather well. For those that would like to se...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2018As evidenced in our review of South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Ubisoft managed to build upon the success of its predecessor The Stick of Truth, by offering an equally funny look at the world of s...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2018When the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was released on PS4 in 2017, the platforming game remasters did phenomenally well, racking up huge sales and receiving critical acclaim too. But is the remast...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 March 2018Hazelight Studios’ upcoming cooperative prison escape game, A Way Out, is due to release later this month, and new details have emerged concerning the game’s length and development. This includes the...
By Matt Morgans on 15 March 2018Gamers interested in the upcoming co-operative game A Way Out will be happy to learn that it has officially gone gold. For the unfamiliar, “going gold” means that a game’s production is completed, an...
By John Jacques on 15 March 2018In September, Rockstar Games surprised fans by announcing an L.A Noire remaster. The updated version of the hit detective game will be available for current-generation consoles (including the Nintend...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 March 2018Rockstar Games will be releasing L.A. Noire on the Nintendo Switch later this month, giving fans a chance to play the hit detective mystery game on the go. However, actually getting to play the game...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 March 2018Nielsen Media Research has published its annual Nielsen Game Rank survey, which reveals the most anticipated video game releases for holiday 2017. As is typical, Activision’s Call of Duty series is o...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2018Should one ask practically any fan of Bethesda’s wildly popular post-apocalyptic RPG franchise what their favorite entry is, it’s almost certainly a given they will answer that their most beloved ins...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2018Due to legal reasons, the Road to Liberty mod team had to cancel Fallout 3 mod project. The Fallout 3 remake mod that was supposed to be housed in Fallout 4 was pulled because of copyright infringeme...
By Janine Engelbrecht on 15 March 2018About a month ago, the mod team known as Road to Liberty released a trailer for its Fallout 3 remake mod dubbed “Capital Wasteland,” showing fans how the project looks within the Creation Engine used...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2018With Monster Hunter World having already hit Capcom’s sales targets for the company’s current fiscal year, there’s no doubt that the action role-playing game can be considered a bona fide success, es...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2018To the surprise of all, Valve made a Portal-related game announcement today. No, it isn’t Portal 3, and no, it isn’t even a game being made by Valve itself. Instead, Valve will be lending the Portal...
By Rory Young on 15 March 2018Starcraft released almost twenty years ago and the game has since become an iconic franchise for PC gamers. The sci-fi RTS is best known for its highly competitive scene, that is still active nearly...
By Denny Connolly on 18 July 2017Nostalgic StarCraft fans have been admittedly spoiled in recent weeks: Blizzard has not only announced that a remastered edition of the original game is on due course to arrive this summer, but the c...
By John Jacques on 18 July 2017The first major announcement of BlizzCon 2017 has been made by Mike Morhaime during the event’s opening ceremony. StarCraft 2, Blizzard’s popular sci-fi real-time strategy game, is going free-to-play...
By Rory Young on 18 July 2017Without a doubt, the confirmation of StarCraft Remastered‘s release date has plenty of real-time strategy aficionados practically champing at the bit in anticipation of being able to revisit the titl...
By Kyle Sledge on 18 July 2017It might not be the most popular eSport in the world any longer, but the original StarCraft, alongside the incredibly popular Brood War expansion, completely changed the landscape of the game industr...
By Cody Gravelle on 18 July 2017While Valve may be dominating the digital distribution service on the PC thanks in large part to Steam, many fans associate the software company with its massively popular franchises like Team Fortre...
By Derek Nichols on 18 July 2017Quake Champions has been in closed beta since April, but now the game is finally set to enter its early access period. Beginning August 22nd, players can buy their way into the early access period fo...
By Dalton Cooper on 01 July 2017Quake Champions is welcoming Ranger to its growing roster. Quake fans may remember Ranger as the original protagonist franchise’s genesis. Ranger will join Quake Champions wearing his recognizable ye...
By Rory Young on 01 July 2017Bethesda’s released some raw gameplay footage of a Quake Champions team match featuring prominent competitive Quake player ZeRo4. This is one of the first opportunities people will get to see uncut Q...
By Rory Young on 01 July 2017Unfortunately for THQ Nordic, BioMutant, the publisher’s post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu action RPG, leaked ahead of an official announcement at gamescom 2017. But the company along with the game’s develope...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 March 2017Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the side-scrolling action game from former Castlevania series producer Koji Igarashi – also known as IGA – is set to make an appearance at E3 2017, with the game no...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2017In 2015, Koji Igarashi helmed a Kickstarter campaign for a spiritual successor to his Castlevania games, raising more than $5 million to fund the development of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Now...
By Brad Jones on 15 March 2017When the release date for ARK: Survival Evolved was initially announced for August 8, alongside some rather tempting ARK: Survival Evolved collector’s editions, fans who had picked up the game in its...
By Rob Gordon on 15 March 2017In a pre-E3 EA press conference full of some of the biggest hitters in the industry, it was surprise announcement A Way Out that left an impression with many gamers once the show had closed. A title...
By Rob Gordon on 15 March 2017Electronic Arts’ first surprise announcement during its E3 2017 press conference is named A Way Out, from the creators of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. A Way Out is a cooperative adventure game featu...
By Rory Young on 15 March 2017One of the most unique games seen at E3 2017 was A Way Out, a split-screen co-op game that follows the stories of two convicts as they escape from prison and go on the run. The game is one of the mor...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2017Long-time fans of The Banner Saga have come to both seek and fear the franchise’s multitude of choices. After all, the tactical RPG series has regularly bucked the trend of in-game character decision...
By Rob Gordon on 15 March 2017Analysts officially reveal that the Steam player numbers for Activision and Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare are lower than Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege. Despite being touted as one of t...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2017Research firm SuperData releases its financial findings for September 2016 and Pokemon GO, Destiny, and League of Legends aren’t going away any time soon. In a market as complex as the one that video...
By Cody Gravelle on 15 March 2017In a new post on the BioShock: The Collection Steam page, 2K Games acknowledges the collection’s various performance issues before detailing what problems will be addressed. After months of rumors an...
By Alexander Pan on 15 March 2017Following its public release last week, 2K’s BioShock: The Collection officially goes on to debut at the top of the United Kingdom’s software sales charts. Despite the recent news of BioShock: The Co...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2017BioShock: The Collection is littered with collectibles that allow players to unlock special features. Here’s where to find every Golden Reel hidden in the remaster. BioShock: The Collection gives fa...
By Denny Connolly on 15 March 2017Without a doubt, one of the most beloved video game franchises of all time is the post-apocalyptic RPG series, Fallout, as there are plenty of fans the world over who are intimately familiar with the...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2017Mass Effect series lead writer Mac Walters explains how the controversial ending of Mass Effect 3 will influence the story of the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda. While the Mass Effect series is gen...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2017Following an exciting N7 Day that saw the release of a new Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer, Game Rant looks back at the most memorable moments in Mass Effect history. With the Mass Effect trilogy, Bio...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2017Since its release back in March, Mass Effect: Andromeda is a title that has been plagued with issues, many of which stem from the poor facial animations in several portions of the game. Despite years...
By Maxwell Jeffery on 15 March 2017When Mass Effect: Andromeda was released on PC and consoles at the end of March, the sci-fi RPG didn’t quite hit the mark. Rumors about its turbulent development seemed to suggest that a lack of dire...
By Jasmine Henry on 15 March 2017Despite its strong initial sales, Mass Effect: Andromeda has hardly reached the same level of acclaim as the other entries in BioWare’s beloved sci-fi RPG series. Perhaps to try and stir further inte...
By Rob Gordon on 15 March 2017EA’s Origin service is offering PC gamers the chance to download Mass Effect 2 for free, allowing anyone who hasn’t done so already to experience Shepard’s adventures. People who have always wanted t...
By F. O'Sullivan on 15 March 2017Valve introduces new skins that will help its players customize their Steam Link and Steam controllers with various Valve properties’ logos and color schemes. Valve has always been a bit of an oddity...
By Cody Gravelle on 15 March 2017Responding to a question during his Reddit AMA, Valve president Gabe Newell confirms that he is open to developing a new IP set in the Half-Life universe. There are running jokes in the video game in...
By Cody Gravelle on 15 March 2017It’s no secret that Valve isn’t the same studio that it was a decade ago — its priorities have shifted considerably, and new single-player games don’t seem to be high on its agenda. However, the body...
By Brad Jones on 15 March 2017Publisher Electronic Arts officially announces the long-awaited arrival of toddlers to The Sims 4 by releasing a free update for the life simulation game. Fans of The Sims 4 are evidently being spoil...
By John Jacques on 18 July 2016As the 20th anniversary of Blizzard’s popular Diablo franchise approaches, all other major titles prepare to celebrate with an exclusive demon-themed event. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Bl...
By Maxwell Jeffery on 18 July 2016Overwatch fan favorite character D.Va is coming to StarCraft 2 as an announcer, becoming the first non-StarCraft lore character to do so. Blizzard fans are likely very familiar with Hana “D.Va” Song...
By John Jacques on 18 July 2016A report by Korean news site iNews24 claims that Blizzard’s classic real-time strategy game StarCraft is getting an HD remaster, with more details to come this year. Hot off the heels of Overwatch an...
By Dalton Cooper on 18 July 2016A DDoS attack on Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net service causes many of the company’s servers to be crippled, with players no longer able to play online. On April 13, Blizzard Entertainment‘s Bat...
By Maxwell Jeffery on 18 July 2016With Final Fantasy 15 and Uncharted 4 coming soon, 2016 is looking like a solid year for gamers. But one writer argues why 1998 remains his pick as the best year for video games. 2015 had a number of...
By Alexander Pan on 18 July 2016In celebration of the series’ 20th anniversary, developer Machine Games release a brand new episode of the classic first-person shooter Quake as a gift to fans. After Bethesda and id Software made a...
By Alexander Pan on 01 July 2016After showing a PC only trailer for Quake Champions at the Bethesda E3 showcase, id Software reveals that a console release could potentially still happen down the road. After releasing a very well r...
By Derek Nichols on 01 July 2016Bethesda kicks off its E3 2016 press conference by announcing Quake Champions with a CG trailer, marking the first new core game in the series since 2005. At least year’s E3 event, Bethesda unveiled...
By Dalton Cooper on 01 July 2016After years of requests, Double Fine will finally be giving fans the opportunity to make Psychonauts 2 a reality through the crowd-funding website Fig. It’s no secret that a sequel to the cult-classi...
By Riley Little on 15 March 2016Game developer Zak McClendon, known for his role as lead designer for BioShock 2, announces that he has been hired by Double Fine Productions to work on Psychonauts 2. Double Fine Productions is curr...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2016Double Fine Productions releases a new development diary for Psychonauts 2, with the developer explaining how it plans to improve upon the original game. When it comes to cult classic games, Psychona...
By Rob Gordon on 15 March 2016After a surprise reveal, the crowdfunded sequel to the beloved Psychonauts has already managed to break the $1 million mark, with the amount continuing to climb. In a show that featured a digital Sha...
By Evan Hopkins on 15 March 2016In a new development update video for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, project leader Koji Igarashi announces that the game will be delayed until the first half of 2018. Following the departure of...
By Alexander Pan on 15 March 2016Kickstarter backers for the Castlevania spiritual successor Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night receive the game’s E3 2016 demo build as gratitude from the developers. After Microsoft’s press conferenc...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2016Payday 2 already has criminals from John Wick and Point Break as playable options and we’re ready for more DLC. Here are our top picks for movie-inspired playable characters. One of the sleeper hits...
By Denny Connolly on 15 March 2016With the remake of beloved heist movie Point Break set to release this month, Overkill releases free and paid DLC that brings the characters and events into Payday 2. The Payday series has never been...
By Evan Hopkins on 15 March 2016Payday 2 Producer named Almir Listo took to Reddit to answer questions about Payday 2’s Crimefest event, which featured plenty of controversy about ‘pay to win’ loot drops. With the Crimefest Event f...
By John Jacques on 15 March 2016For fans of the old-school isometric Fallout games, there’s now a new Fallout 2 mod available called Fallout 1.5: Resurrection, which bridges the gap between the first two games. Fallout 4 has been o...
By Alexander Pan on 15 March 2016The PC version of Campo Santo’s newest first-person adventure game Firewatch allows gamers to develop and print out photos taken with an in-game disposable camera. Campo Santos Games’ Firewatch was d...
By Alexander Pan on 15 March 2016Campo Santo’s Firewatch is an indie game hit, with publisher Panic reporting that the game has sold over 500,000 copies, bringing in $10 million in revenue. Whenever developers leave established stud...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2016A Ford auto dealer based in Massachusetts stands accused of using art stolen from indie hit Firewatch as part of its promotional materials distributed to customers. When Firewatch launched in Februar...
By Brad Jones on 15 March 2016With some Firewatch fans having doubts over the quality of the game’s conclusion, one writer discusses whether the title’s narrative fits perfectly with the game as a whole. It’s rare to see an indep...
By Rob Gordon on 15 March 2016A former producer at Team Bondi confirms that the Australian-based team is no longer working on Whore of the Orient, which was meant to be a successor to L.A. Noire. At the time of its release, L.A....
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2016Square Enix’s latest trailer for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a ‘101’ introductory video, is paired with plans for both a digital and retail Collector’s Edition. After a lengthy period of silence from S...
By Rory Young on 15 March 2016Eidos Montreal announces a Twitch stream reveal for a number of Deus Ex projects including a lengthy gameplay demo for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided starting tomorrow, June 8. Fans have been waiting much...
By Derek Nichols on 15 March 2016Eidos Montreal announces a major delay to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided in order to provide more time for refinement and to not compromise on quality. The highly anticipated stealth action game, Deus Ex:...
By Derek Nichols on 15 March 2016Square Enix teams up with renowned prosthetics creator Open Bionic to create a real world, functioning version of the prosthetic hand Adam Jensen uses in Deus Ex. The world of Deus Ex is still severa...
By Sarah Fields on 15 March 2016A video featuring a visit to Eidos Montreal studios shows off some brand new gameplay for the developer’s forthcoming action-RPG title Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Autodesk, the 3D design software creat...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2016The release of BioShock: The Collection is just a week away and the latest trailer takes players back to a beautifully remastered version of Infinite’s Columbia. BioShock: The Collection was nothing...
By Denny Connolly on 15 March 2016Publisher and developer 2K Games officially releases a brand new trailer showing off the updated graphics for the forthcoming remasters within BioShock: The Collection. Ever since it was unofficially...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 20162K Games releases three separate Let’s Play videos for the titles in the forthcoming remasters of BioShock: The Collection, comprising of more than 35 minutes of gameplay. Following the release of la...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 20162K reveals the minimum and required PC specifications it takes to run and play its forthcoming first-person shooter release of BioShock: The Collection. It won’t be long before BioShock: The Collecti...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2016Life is Strange developers Dontnod Entertainment reveal a number of screenshots showing off the company’s next role-playing game, a horror game called Vampyr. After the surprise success of Life is S...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2016A number of Game Rant writers give their personal takes on worthwhile games released in 2015 that manage to stand out amongst a sea of blockbuster releases. There’s no question that 2015 has been loa...
By Riley Little on 15 March 2016Germany officially lifts its ban on Fallout 3, which could mean that Bethesda is working on putting out a re-release of the popular post-apocalyptic RPG. For those not in the know, Germany originally...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2016An upcoming series of novels from publisher Titan Books link the story between video game developer BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 and Mass Effect: Andromeda. This August, those gaming fans anticipating Mas...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2016A couple of dedicated sci-fi junkies use mods to inject Mass Effect‘s N7 armor and its protagonist Commander Shepard into Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic RPG, Fallout 4. Should Fallout 4 fans wish to ven...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2016Video game publisher Electronic Arts explains why the tentative remasters for the original trilogy of the science fiction franchise Mass Effect won’t happen. Despite the fact that Electronic Arts’ Ex...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2016Electronic Arts executive vice president Patrick Soderlund discusses video game remasters, teasing that remastered versions of the Mass Effect games are in development. One of the most popular series...
By Dalton Cooper on 15 March 2016After Donald Trump tweeted a fan-made trailer for the politician based on Mass Effect 2, Electronic Arts has requested and enforced the removal of the footage from YouTube. As a gaming journalist, re...
By Riley Little on 15 March 2016An extremely talented fan of Valve’s puzzle-shooter hybrid Portal writes, animates, and directs a music video for a Christmas carol parody using elements from the game. In order to celebrate Christma...
By Kyle Sledge on 15 March 2016Long beloved as one of LucasArts’ best adventure games, ‘Grim Fandango’ receives a brand new remaster keeping the original spirit – and difficulty – intact.
By Andrew Dyce on 18 July 2015It was only a little over a month ago that EA Games announced an exciting expansion pack for The Sims, which lets players actually follow their Sims to work for a few select career paths, or even s...
By John Jacques on 18 July 2015Whether it’s being kidnapped by aliens or marrying the girl you met at the park four hours earlier, The Sims has undoubtedly seen it all. It’s been a good six months since the game launched last fa...
By John Jacques on 18 July 2015Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a new trend in video game Kickstarters really start to take off; the original developers of well-loved series taking to crowdfunding platforms, with high hopes o...
By Brad Jones on 15 March 2015The growth of League of Legends has been staggering. The massively-popular multiplayer title has broken record after record, with a peak of 7.5 million concurrent users and an average of 27 million...
By Rob Gordon on 15 March 2015Ethan Carter is a young boy who’s seemingly aware of the supernatural. He’s a fan of paranormal detective Paul Prospero and so when he goes missing under strange circumstances, it’s up to Prospero...
By Rob Keyes on 15 March 2015Payday 2 heisters are well-aware that the first-person shooter/theft game likes to make references to other video game and film properties fairly often. Just a month ago, the marketing campaign for...
By Denny Connolly on 15 March 2015SPOILERS: This review contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Life is Strange: Episode 2. Like the previous two episodes, the mellow, indie-rock aesthetic of Life Is Strange Episode 3: “Chaos Theory” hits a m...
By Melissa Loomis on 15 March 2015As one of Electronic Arts’ best selling franchises, any game in the Battlefield series is going to have high expectations attached to it. The latest to have said hopes pinned to their lapel before...
By Jasmine Henry on 18 July 2014GTA 5 may be the don of organized crime titles, but until the game’s servers go live on October 1st, Payday 2 remains the biggest stick-up artist in town. Released back in August of this year, the...
By Samuel James Riley on 15 March 2014Before delving too deep into the world of Broken Age it’s important to note two things. First, this is a Kickstarter-funded project, meaning it sought out a specific audience — point-and-click adve...
By Anthony Taormina on 15 March 2014The developers at Double Fine proved that the demand for a classic adventure game was still high, bringing in over $3 million through Kickstarter to launch development on the product now known as B...
By Andrew Dyce on 15 March 2014Garrett the Master Thief is back! And he’s suffering from the most fashionable of video game protagonist ailments: amnesia. After a prologue in which Garrett and his impatient ex-apprentice Erin br...
By Hannah Shaw-Williams on 15 March 2014A clumsy Thief is a dead Thief – or so you might think. Eidos Montreal‘s much anticipated sneak-em-up title finally sleuthed into view earlier today, only to be met with a barrage of lukewarm criti...
By Samuel James Riley on 15 March 2014Here’s to the heist, the hoard and the heat that follows. This year has certainly seen its fair share of audacious raids and botched break-ins, owing largely to the efforts of two of America’s most...
By Samuel James Riley on 15 March 2014They called it the Great War, but for an entire generation of people it was the scariest time of their lives. Not just for the soldiers either, but for any man, woman, or child who was a part of or...
By Anthony Taormina on 15 March 2014The original Deus Ex is not only one of the most highly-lauded and influential action RPGs of all time, it’s also widely considered to be one of the best PC games of all time. Eidos Montreal’s recen...
By Hannah Shaw-Williams on 15 March 2014It hasn’t been the best week for futuristic extraterrestiral-hunting first-person shooters (see: Aliens: Colonial Marines) nor, for that matter, Electronic Arts-published first-person shooters (see...
By Brian Sipple on 18 July 2013In an industry where long-running franchises are brainlessly scrambling to be the next Call of Duty, the Crysis series has carved out a solid fanbase through a smart mix of blockbuster story moments...
By Ben Kendrick on 18 July 2013The PC saw an epic revival of sorts over the last few years, quashing ideas that the console and handheld markets would consume all of gaming. Aging home game consoles and the rise of digital sales...
By Patrick Dane on 18 July 2013In October 2011, we reviewed Battlefield 3 for the Xbox 360, but those of us interested in the game continued to play on with the PC version because the console version was lacking and current-gen...
By Rob Keyes on 18 July 2013Before Dragon Age 3 was officially announced last year a leaked survey revealed key character and plot details from the game. The information originated from a leaked survey from BioWare and Electr...
By Rob Keyes on 18 July 2013A week before the Battlefield 4 event in San Francisco last month during the Game Developer’s Conference, leaks, rumors and teasers provided fans a looking developer DICE’s first foray into next-gen...
By Rob Keyes on 18 July 2013Taking advantage of the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) where video game industry professionals gather in San Francisco each year for the largest industry event, Electronic Arts gathered media tog...
By Rob Keyes on 18 July 2013After the collapse of S.T.A.L.K.E.R developer GSC Game World, series fans were left wondering what would become of the post-apocalyptic franchise. S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 was cancelled, as remnants of GSC...
By Anthony Mole on 15 March 2013It’s been a major week in video games with embargoes lifting on reviews of Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Saints Row 4 and Activision hosting an event to unveil Call of Duty: Ghosts‘ multiplayer feat...
By Rob Keyes on 15 March 2013It’s hard to think of how a development studio could get started on a better foot than Supergiant Games. The makers of Bastion, 2011’s smash success RPG brawler have once again unveiled their newes...
By Andrew Dyce on 15 March 2013From open-world crime operas to open-range spaghetti westerns, from substance abusing detectives to detectives who draw a self-righteous line at adultery, Rockstar Games’s reputation precedes it. W...
By Brian Sipple on 15 March 2013[HTML4] It’s time to play catch-up on a few key games that are releasing later this year and share some fun newsbits for some of our recent favorites. Let’s take look a real-life Minecraft sword Port...
By Rob Keyes on 15 March 2013All week long, Electronic Arts and DICE and celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their flagship shooter franchise, Battlefield. The decade has hosted many releases in the series, beginning with the...
By Rob Keyes on 18 July 2012Unlike the certain perpetuity of the core Battlefield franchise, DICE’s Battlefield: Bad Company series exists in a state of perpetual uncertainty. Since Battlefield: Bad Company 2 released in 2010...
By Brian Sipple on 18 July 2012It’s an inevitable question faced by successful trilogies: What’s next after Volume 3? When the magic and mythos incepted by designers and artists and storytellers fulfills its intended purpose, i...
By Brian Sipple on 18 July 2012With all of the talk of the next generation of consoles, it’s easy to forget that the PS3 and Xbox 360 (and now the Wii U as well) are still capable of impressive feats. Two upcoming games, Crysis 3...
By Anthony Mole on 18 July 2012Crysis 2 may have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean the stunning visuals and Nanosuit powers won’t be making a return to PC and consoles soon. With Crysis 3 fast approaching, EA and Crytek have t...
By Andrew Dyce on 18 July 2012For the longest time, Crysis set the bar for graphics. Players often joked about the game’s maximum settings, which required some pretty impressive hardware to run. Even by today’s standards, the ga...
By Anthony Mole on 18 July 2012With a lineup of upcoming Battlefield 3 DLC content coming over the next year, surrounding the release this fall’s Medal of Honor: Warfighter, shooters are top of mind for Electronic Arts in the near...
By Rob Keyes on 18 July 2012If you needed any more proof that Crysis 3 is going to be absolutely gorgeous, EA’s got it covered. The publisher has just released a handful of new screenshots and concept art to feast your eyes on,...
By Anthony Mole on 18 July 2012While generally Crytek products, like the forthcoming Crysis 3, tend to speak for themselves, it’s best sometimes to get insight into how the magic the developer is able to achieve is accomplished....
By Anthony Taormina on 18 July 2012Electronic Arts never hid the fact they planned to grow the Crysis franchise after its sequel hit last year and so when Crysis 3 popped up on Origin’s pre-order page two weeks ago, it wasn’t at all...
By Rob Keyes on 18 July 2012Over the last week, Electronic Arts has shifted their first-person shooter marketing efforts and attention away from Battlefield 3 and the upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter, and placed it on thei...
By Rob Keyes on 18 July 2012Earlier today, it was revealed that Double Fine‘s Tim Schafer has pitched the idea of a follow up to the fan-favorite Xbox original title, Psychonauts, to several publishers – but apparently none o...
By Riley Little on 15 March 2012It was a sad, sad day when developer GSC Game World closed its doors and ceased development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. However, there might still be hope for the franchise, as Skyrim developer Bethesda h...
By Anthony Mole on 15 March 2012It’s been a bumpy, vacillating road for STALKER 2 and GSC Game World, and in a move likely to jolt longtime fans of the series once more, the skeleton crew of Ukrainian developers now looks primed...
By Brian Sipple on 15 March 2012It hasn’t been smooth sailing recently for L.A. Noire developer Team Bondi, but it appears that the studio’s next game has washed ashore in a fascinating new land. Having been liquidated and purcha...
By Brian Sipple on 15 March 2012For fans awaiting Max Payne 3, there should be a silver linning to the game’s recent delay; the silver linning being that the time to pre-order the Special Edition has been extended! Originally, th...
By Anthony Mole on 15 March 2012The next entry in Rockstar‘s series of videos focusing on the design and technology in Max Payne 3 has been released, this one focusing on Bullet Time. One of the key indicators of a Max Payne titl...
By Anthony Taormina on 15 March 2012Max Payne is the original cinematic shooter, thanks to its signature move, Bullet Time. Max Payne 3 takes the series online in a big way, and the developers at Rockstar Games understandably didn’t...
By Jeff Schille on 15 March 2012[Update: Join or Die and Freedom Editions of AC3 have been confirmed and detailed for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Check them out here!] Seeing as though Assassin’s Creeds II through Revelat...
By Brian Sipple on 15 March 2012After debuting all the way back in April 2011, not to mention racking up Game of the Year awards around the industry, Valve recently gave players a reason to return to their testing chamber for mor...
By Ben Kendrick on 15 March 2012Many gamers probably thought that last year’s Portal 2 was out of this world. Not only did fans get to return to the dark, depressing depths of Aperture Science, but they got to finish what they st...
By Riley Little on 15 March 2012httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7rZO2ACP3A In a feat of testing that GlaDOS herself would be proud of, Valve’s Portal 2: Perpetual Testing Initiative has racked up over a million tests across 35,000...
By Kyle Matthews on 15 March 2012Ah, Portal 2. While the allure of its mind-bending puzzles, and the witty, malevolent charm of its antagonists may be evergreen, it wouldn’t hurt to have some new levels to play through once in a wh...
By Jeff Schille on 15 March 2012It’s not a secret that the summer sales over at Steam have become the shining example of digital sales done right – games are discounted in huge amounts, making purchasing several games between $2-...
By John Jacques on 18 July 2011Oldschool gamers will remember the Jagged Alliance series as being a popular, intensive experience as you lead a pack of mercenaries through a series of dangerous missions. The second game in the s...
By John Jacques on 15 March 2011Electronic Arts is giving gamers a new incentive for pre-ordering Shift 2 Unleashed. Late last year we told you EA will be offering a limited edition version of the title which included three exclu...
By Dwayne Holder on 15 March 2011While a few years ago, it was nearly impossible for smaller developers to get the coverage required to properly sell their games, services such as the Xbox Live Arcade have made it possible for deve...
By Ryan Blanchard on 15 March 2011Over the past few years, there have been some truly stunning releases from indie developers. This is not to say that these games lack in gameplay quality, but some of the things that developers have...
By Ryan Blanchard on 15 March 2011Wading through the massive hype surrounding big-name video game releases is often an inane, demoralizing process. With every publisher hoping to catch the viral wave to huge initial sales, the Inter...
By Kyle Hembree on 15 March 2011Valve issued a challenge this past week to all owners of their zombie-survival game Left 4 Dead 2, and the community completed the challenge in record time. The challenge in question was for Steam g...
By Riley Little on 15 March 2011Despite controversial marketing – EA’s “your mom will hate this game” campaign – Dead Space 2 sold over two million copies since its release on January 25, 2011, far outstripping the original thank...
By Isaac Calon on 15 March 2011Today DICE announced the addition of four new maps to Battlefield Bad Company 2. Last Friday they teased an image of what appeared to be Oasis with only a title referencing that the developers were...
By Elliot Volkman on 18 July 2010Though the holiday season has come to an end, the always-generous Electronic Arts thought they would throw in a little bonus for Battlefield Bad Company 2 players – to celebrate the New Year. While...
By Anthony Taormina on 18 July 2010DICE has yet to release an official date for Bad Company 2: Vietnam and the VIP Map Pack 7, but it is quite likely there will be one by Friday. In the meantime, EA Games has featured the second bra...
By Elliot Volkman on 18 July 2010Battlefield Bad Company 2’s newest map Heavy Metal will be one of the largest Battlefield maps to date – and is set up to feature an all out vehicular battle.
By Elliot Volkman on 18 July 2010Sitting here looking at my shelf, I count no less than 15 games I currently want to play. My collection edges over 100 games, but those 15 I’ve identified as to-play (and, in some cases, to-play-ag...
By Matthew Talbot on 15 March 2010Racing fanatics better mark July 20 in their calendars, because that’s the release date for Need for Speed World‘s free client. Players will be able to download the client and jump right into the R...
By Rory Young on 15 March 2010In the days when new games cost $80 and stay full price for extended periods, it’s good to know that someone out there is paying attention to the gamers who can’t splash a full day of pay into thei...
By John Jacques on 15 March 2010The 2009 Spike Video Game Awards are over with, and we’ve been covering a lot of announcement and trailer information coming out of the show, but in case you missed the actual awards themselves, we...
By Ben Kendrick on 15 March 2010Spike announced today on the VGA 2009 website, the nominees for this year’s program. Voting is now open so be sure to stop by and vote for your favorite games! Something a little more interesting th...
By Riley Little on 15 March 2010Dragon Age 2 is still a little ways off (March 2011) unfortunately but fear not, fellow Grey Warden, you can still get your adventuring in with your copy of Dragon Age: Origins or Awakenings. BioWa...
By Trung Bui on 15 March 2010I called it! BioWare revealed the new DLC for Dragon Age: Origins today, and just like I had prophesied you will be playing as a Darkspawn. The Darkspawn Chronicles will set you in the shoes (greav...
By Rory Young on 15 March 2010This September you get to, wait for it, play with Morrigan – the action figure. Uh huh. Exactly. DC Direct is launching a first run of Dragon Age: Origins figures on September 29 and Morrigan is be...
By Matthew Talbot on 15 March 2010