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Battlegrounds Makes Fan-Made Zombie Mode Official

Normally in Battlegrounds, players crouch behind bathroom doors, waiting to shoot whomever bursts in. A few weeks ago, fans riffed on that theme with Battlegrounds’ zombie mode, where instead of hiding in crevices, players gun down hordes of ravenous player-controlled zombies. It was aninstant successin the community and on Twitch. Yesterday, Battlegrounds devs announced that…

Rocket League Is Coming To Switch, Will Have Mario Hats

It was a happy inevitability: Rocket League’s weird and wonderful car soccer is coming to the Nintendo Switch this holiday season. And, yes, you’ll be able to play against your friends on all other platforms. On the Switch, Rocket League will have all the same content, plus some new stuff, like Mario and Luigi hats…

Nintendo announced a new Kirby for the Switch, coming next year. Yes, it’s just called Kirby.

Did you want another way to play Skyrim? If so, lucky you, because it’s coming to PlayStation VR, Sony announced at E3 tonight.

Horizon Zero Dawn’s First DLC Is The Frozen Wilds, Coming This Year

The Frozen Wilds will be Horizon Zero Dawn’s first DLC, Sony announced tonight at E3. It features all-new terrain, and what looks like new robo-beasts. Horizon Zero Dawn left players off at a cliffhanger, so hopefully, the DLC will answer a few lingering questions. Here’s the trailer:

Watch Far Cry 5‘s Cults And Snipers In Action

Today, Ubisoft showed off some proper footage from Far Cry 5, its upcoming first-person shooter about liberating an American community from an extremist Christian militia. The new footage featured the game’s “guns for hire” system: fleshed-out NPCs who back up players with unique skills like sniping and driving a helicopter. Here’s Far Cry 5‘s new…

Ubisoft just announced VR psychological thriller Transference, set to release spring, 2018. We don’t know much about it, but its description explains that Transference will be “the destructive tale of a man’s obsession as you explore his digitally recreated memories.” Also, Elijah Wood is apparently a partner.

Masaaki Yuasa’s Kaiba, one of the most unique anime series in history, is coming to America on Blu-ray, Anime News Network reports

E3 Show Stealer’s Old Political Tweets Spark Internet Firestorm, Apology

Several E3 attendees and viewers were blown away by cyberpunk indie title The Last Night’s E3 debut trailer, but the game quickly became the center of a storm of Twitter controversy when viewers noticed that its co-creator, Tim Soret, seemed to be a Gamergate supporter. “Well, there goes my interest in The Last Night,” a…

The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti’s E3 debut trailer was nothing short of psychedelic, but don’t get your hopes up for a 2017 release date—capping it off was the sassy warning, “Coming when it’s damn ready.”

Crackdown 3 Features Terry Crews, Is Out November

Microsoft’s open-world adventure gameCrackdown 3 will be released on November 7th for Xbox One and Windows. And it features beloved actor-slash-athlete Terry Crews as the character Commander Jaxon. Crackdown is an Xbox-exclusive sandbox franchise in which the player is a superhero “Agent of Justice” who, uh, cracks down on crime. Crackdown 3 takes place in…

Short cyberpunk adventure game The Last Night still looks absolutely incredible in its new E3 trailer. It’s a “cinematic platformer” rendered in gorgeous pixel art and slated for release in 2018.

Microsoft just announced space shooter Deep Rock Galactic for the Xbox One. In it, one to four players—“space dwarves”—will explore and battle their way through procedurally-generated cave systems.

The Most Interesting New Game Announced Today Is A Co-Op Prison Break

EA just announced A Way Out, a new co-op-only adventure game by the team behind 2013 indie darling Brothers. It’s a split-screen prison break game slated for a 2018 release. Director Josef Fares told E3’s audience that he “wanted to play a game where the characters had unique personalities and goals.” A Way Out is…

Punching Players Out Of Moving Cars, And Other Battlegrounds Myths

Survival shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is massively popular, but because it’s in early access, it’s not exactly polished. That makes it ripe for mythmaking. Can you block infinite crossbow bolts with a frying pan? Can you punch someone out of a moving car? The answers to both are yes, according to a new YouTube video by…

Twitch D&D Show ‘Critical Role’ Is Helping Fuel The Game’s Renaissance

Dungeons & Dragons is no longer a basement sport. It took 40 years, but now, in 2017, Dungeons & Dragons has emerged from its cultural cavern as the video platforms Twitch and YouTube help players bring their intimate D&D games to the public realm—including Overwatch voice actor Matt Mercer, whose Twitch show Critical Role has…

Twitch is streaming former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee right now on Russian election interference. Twitch chat, as it does, is spamming “FAKE NEWS” and “LIES” as Comey takes his oath. As Comey discusses hacking, Twitch chat filled up with Overwatch Sombra memes.

Overwatch Ranks You Lower Than It Should So You Feel Better About Yourself 

Overwatch’s 5th Competitive season debuted last week, and in its wake, players are finding themselves demoralized and embarrassed. Skill ratings, Overwatch’s measure of how good you are, have plummeted about 200 points across the board since the end of last season. And, of course, adamant players are flooding Overwatch forums with protestations that these numbers…

Data Shows Xbox Gamers Aren’t Using Backward Compatibility Much [Update: Microsoft Contests]

Backward compatibility is a big draw for console gamers nostalgic for older titles, but new data shows that Xbox One players don’t spend much time revisiting backward-compatible Xbox 360 games. A new Ars Technica report that grabbed stats from nearly a million Xbox Live users showed that, on the Xbox One, only 1.5 percent of…

What You Need To Know About Games Vanishing From the iOS App Store

Apple is ending support for 32-bit games with its upcoming iOS 11, launching this Fall. That means developers are rushing to update their games with 64-bit infrastructure and, sadly, several unlucky games will vanish from the iOS App Store. iOS 11 is currently in beta, but even now, some 32-bit games aren’t showing up in…