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With Fortnite Chapter 2 – Season 3 in full swing, we’re bringing LTM game modes back to the Island’s summer season and Battle Royale rotation. We’re calling it Summer Splash! Starting with this week’s 13.20 game update, we’re starting the party with the return of popular LTMs from past seasons. Sneaky Silencers is coming back

After the last few good-but-not-great expansions for Borderlands 3, it brings me great joy to tell you that Bounty of Blood: A Fistful of Redemption is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, my favorite Borderlands 3 DLC so far. In fact, I’d go so far as to say this might be my favorite Borderlands-anything since

After working for close to four years with Sony on the PS5 and Unreal Engine 5, Epic’s VP of Engineering says that the upcoming console is a “masterpiece of systems design.” This is the latest in the debate over power versus custom engineering. While Microsoft’s Xbox Series X has more raw “by-the-numbers” power on paper,

Captain Price needs you to join the fight in Season Four Reloaded! With the Armistice alliance all but broken and infighting between Allegiance and Coalition forces threatening to cause chaos across Verdansk, here is your emergency briefing: 200 Player Warzone With this update, Verdansk will now be able to hold up to 200 players in

Every pixel is simulated in Noita. That means it can be dull or deadly, and react like its real-world counterpart (or, you know, its unreal-world counterpart). Throw in the OTT spells of your wizard, and the burning, electrified, or weird counter-spells of the enemies, and you have a perfect platform for mods. There are no

When The Outer Worlds released last year on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, it won acclaim from critics and consumers alike for its choice-driven gameplay and clever writing. However, when the RPG came to Switch, players on Nintendo’s console didn’t get to see the game at its best; the performance can be pretty rough.  To address concerns

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima appears to be teasing Death Stranding 2, or possibly an entirely new game set in the same universe. The hint comes from Twitter, where Kojima shared a photo captioned with his work-from-home process. You can check it out below. Here’s my way of designing new title w/Yoji. 1st we

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft announced today that it would kill its Mixer streaming service and transition users to Facebook Gaming. The announcement both is and isn’t a surprise. On the one hand, it’s been rumored that Microsoft might make a move with Mixer

Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Nihon Falcom’s long-running The Legend of Heroes series finally hits Nintendo Switch in this third entry in the epic Trails of Cold Steel story arc, a direct sequel to Trails of Cold Steel II that takes place less than two years after the Erebonian Civil War portrayed in both that

Those of you who own the addictive Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch may want to participate in the new event which is taking place right now. It’s the Bug-Off where the goal is to catch as many creepy crawlys as possible. The event will be happening on the fourth Saturday of each

Long before they became Bandai Namco and famous for the Tekken franchise, Namco were among the original legends and pioneers of the video game arcade; it was an era where they single-handedly placed video games into pop culture when they unleashed Pac-Man fever onto the world. With such immense and continued success in a fast-moving

We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you

Assetto Corsa Competizione is the exclusively GT3-focused offshoot of the fan-favourite, mod-friendly Assetto Corsa. That darling of the PC racing simulator community was ported to console back in 2016 to mixed results.Competizione, though, is in most ways a vastly better racer than its broader progenitor: there’s night racing, there’s dynamic weather, and the AI is

Whatever your feelings about the story in The Last of Us Part II, don’t expect it to be expanded on in any DLC. Game Director Neil Druckmann says there are no plans for The Last of Us Part II DLC, leaving the story as it is. The news comes from Kinda Funny’s The Last of

My time in Cyberpunk 2077 begins with a broken nose. Staring back at me in the grimy mirror of a seedy neon-lit bar is my customized mercenary V, and her nose is gonna need resetting. I have the choice to take an offered shot to ease the pain, or just get it over with, quick but

CD Projekt Red today announced an anime series spun off from Cyberpunk 2077, named Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Coming to Netflix in 2022, it’s being made by Trigger, the Japanese animation studio known for Kill La Kill and Little Witch Academia. Given the success of Netflix’s The Witcher, yeah, I’m not surprised. [embedded content]To experience this #content,

While Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Baby Peach, Baby Daisy, and even Baby Rosalina have appeared recently in games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Mario Kart World Tour, Baby Wario has been left in the dust since his sole appearance in 2006’s Yoshi’s Island DS. Now, the developers behind Dr. Mario World have announced that

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:17 GMT Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director Ashraf Ismail has announced he is stepping down from his position. Ashraf Ismail, the creative director of Assassins Creed Valhalla, announced his departure today on Twitter. According to Ismail, he is stepping away from his role in order to focus on

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. To date, Oculus has shipped two standalone headsets: Oculus Go and Oculus Quest. The company announced today that the earlier Oculus Go is being discontinued because the company will focus on six-degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) headsets such as the Quest from now

In a company webinar with investors this week, EA CEO Andrew Wilson spoke about third-party giant’s “tremendous relationship” with both Disney and Lucas and how it wanted to “double down” on Star Wars games after experiencing a huge amount of success with titles such as Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Jedi Fallen Order. We’ve had

Atlus has released a new trailer showing off some gameplay for Catherine: Full Body for Nintendo Switch. It releases on 7th July this year and if the trailer is anything to go by, it’s certainly looking to be a standout game for Nintendo’s hybrid console. The title is a remake/enhanced port of the 2011 Catherine

It’s been a good few years since we first had the chance to go hands-on with Prison Architect, with the Xbox One version rocking up way back in 2016. Since that time though there have been multiple updates and expansions for the game, as the teams at Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven continued to push

Hey Alpha ring users! Today’s Xbox Insider Release Notes highlight the latest fixes, known issues, and features coming to your console. Starting at 2 p.m. PT today, users will receive the latest 2007 Xbox One system update (build: RS_XBOX_RELEASE_200719041.3406.200618-0000). Keep reading for more details. System Update Details: OS version released: RS_XBOX_RELEASE_200719041.3406.200618-0000 Available: 2 p.m. PT

Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated marks the return of one of the most iconic licensed characters to enter the 3D platforming fray. Sadly, this flashy remake feels more like a skin-deep remaster in practice, doing little to fix the issues that plagued the original adventure. Its graphical update is accompanied by some imaginative improvements,

CD Projekt RED may have delayed Cyberpunk 2077, but those curious about the game world can still get their sci-fi fix this September. Starting September 9th, Dark Horse Comics will begin publishing a four-issue limited comic series about the Trauma Team featured in Cyberpunk 2077. Each issue of the series, which is simply simply titled

Last week, we asked you to talk the talk and share conversational moments in your favorite games using #PS4share and #PSBlog. After sifting through all the chatty captures, here’s this week’s highlights: Geralt and Yennifer have a heart to heart in this moment from The Witcher 3 shared by JamesACL. Aloy chats with fellow Nora

Why should Fortnite‘s 100-player deathmatch be limited to humans, anyway? If we’re going to prove who’s the best of the best, let’s invite the whole animal kingdom along for the ride. Fortnite’s latest update sank the map, bringing deadly sharks into the fray – and it looks like the ocean predators are already more than

NetherRealm’s 2013 fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us is a bombastic good time. In his review, our own Andrew Reiner said the game was, “a success on both fighting and comic book levels.” But you don’t have to take our word for it, you can get the game for free this weekend and play it

The interactive rope in The Last of Us: Part 2 has developers, artists, and programmers giving huge props to Naughty Dog. A scene showing the rope in action can be watched in this The Last of Us: Part 2 clip which was posted to Twitter. This is making me want to cry. And my primary

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There’s a new set of slides being passed around that supposedly showcase AMD’s upcoming Radeon 6900 XT. They’re completely fake. Here’s how you can tell: In the first slide, the branding has been updated at the upper right, but the