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Halo: The Master Chief Collection Is Coming To PC, Adds Halo: Reach

Halo: The Master Chief Collection will soon include Halo: Reach and be available on the Windows store and Steam, Microsoft announced today during its Inside Xbox livestream. Rather than make every game in the collection available all at once on PC, Microsoft said the collection will roll out one game at a time, starting with…

Final Fantasy Gunblades, Ranked

Seriously. Final Fantasy VII was the first game in the series to have guns. They added to the game’s modern and mature mystique at the time. Prior to that, the series’ weaponry was purely medieval, primarily focused around swords. But what if you could have a sword that was also a gun? Final Fantasy VIII…

Strange Man Lures Unsuspecting Fallout 76 Players Into Deadly Labyrinth

Role-play has always been where Fallout 76 has shown the most promise, and nothing better illustrates that than some stranger in a nightgown wandering around Appalachia searching for fresh victims to bring back to his homemade labyrinth. As spotted by Gamesradar, a player named Korindabar has constructed a maze in Fallout 76 out of concrete…

Nanotale is a role-playing game where you battle monsters by typing and it looks to be coming along splendidly. It’s actually a sequel to Epistory, a game with similar mechanics but less polished visuals. The developers at Fishing Cactus say to expect on PC in the second half of the year.

Richard Garfield, who helped create Magic: The Gathering, is no longer working on Valve’s troubled card game Artifact The designer confirmed in a recent interview that he was one of the contractors laid off by Valve. “We weren’t surprised by the layoff considering how rocky the launch was,” he said.

Fortnite Dance Lawsuits Dropped, At Least For Now

On March 4 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people must complete their registration with the Copyright Office before they can sue for copyright infringement. As a result, lawsuits against the makers of Fortnite, Epic Games, over certain dance emotes available in the game have been dropped until the Copyright Office’s review of the dances…

For A Brief Period, Anthem‘s Loot System Was Much Better–Then BioWare Fixed A Bug

For a short while over the weekend, Anthem was practically showering players with loot. Players thought this might be the result of changes that came in Saturday’s big 1.0.3 patch, but it turned out it was a bug. Now, despite welcome improvements from the new update, players are back to the same toilsome grind, with…

Top Players Look To Drink, Chill, Maybe Win Some Cash At This Weekend’s Smash Ultimate Summit

The first ever Smash Ultimate Summit is here. After years of success in bringing its collective weirdness to Super Smash Bros. Melee, Beyond the Summit is finally launching its hybrid esports tournament format, complete with casual couch banter and comedy sketches, for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Invited players include the likes of MkLeo, ZeRo, Mew2King,…

Warhammer: Vermintide 2, One Year Later

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 came out on PC on March 8, 2018. Maybe you’ve never heard of it. Maybe you have but then forgot, that grimy compound word in the title slipping past you like rain down the side of a newly waxed car. You should know that it was always good, and it’s spent the…

Anthem: The Promise Vs. The Reality

The launch of BioWare’s new multiplayer loot shooter has been anything but smooth. Anthem is a pretty game undermined by bugs, frustrating user-interface obstacles, and a world that feels static and lifeless. There’s a lot BioWare can do to continue improving it, some of which could include incorporating stuff that Anthem already appeared to have…

Artifact‘s Few Remaining Players Are Desperate To Know What Valve Has Planned

Valve’s new card game launched on Nov. 28, and in just 100 days, it’s become a ghost town. The number of concurrent players recently dropped to just 500, and as a result, you can now buy every card in the game for a total of $60. The game was criticized when it came out because…

Zombie Battle Royale Game H1Z1 Changes Its Name Again

Before there was Apex Legends, Fortnite Battle Royale, or even PUBG, there was Daybreak Game’s H1Z1, a battle royale game that dominated Steam in the first half of 2017. This week the developers have rolled back many of the recent changes made to the game and once again changed the name, this time to Z1…

Just Cause 4 Hits Xbox Game Pass Only Three Months After Release

Despite all of the explosions in Avalanche Studios’ open-world chaos simulator, Just Cause 4 did not set the world on fire when it launched last year on December 4. Now, less than 100 days later, it’s free for Game Pass subscribers to download and play on Xbox One. Microsoft announced the game would be the…

Anthem‘s Level-One Weapons Are Stronger Than Endgame Ones, Thanks To An Apparent Bug

An apparent bug in the new loot shooter Anthem has made beginner weapons just as powerful as the ones you’ll get in the final levels. In fact, players have discovered, the level-1 rifle might currently be the strongest gun in the game. Earlier today, a player by the name of YeetLordSupreme shared a major discovery…

Nintendo Is Reportedly Toning Down Micro-Transactions In Its Mobile Games

Developers behind some of the free-to-play mobile games Nintendo has published in recent years say the company has told them not to be too aggressive with the microtransactions that these games tend to rely on to make money, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Where individual studios Nintendo partners with are looking…

Rainbow Six Siege’s first expansion of the year, Operation Burnt Horizon, is live on PS4, Xbox One, and PC It adds two new operators, Gridlock and Mozzie, a new map called Outback, and a Newcomer Playlist for people just getting started with the game so they don’t get shredded by veteran players.

The Latest Steam Game To Test Valve’s Laissez-Faire Policy Is Called ‘Rape Day’

An independent developer called Desk Lamp says it has spent over two years working on a game called Rape Day. Now it’s waiting for approval from Valve to sell it on Steam. “Rape Day is a game where you can rape and murder during a zombie apocalypse,” reads its description on Steam. I’m not exaggerating…

Mars arrives in Dota 2 today adding another ancient god to the game’s existing pool of over 100 heroes. The melee carry has a giant shield that decreases damage he receives from the front and sides and has a bunch of crowd-control abilities that should make him fun to play.

Man Beats Mario 64’s First Bowser Fight Without Using The Control Stick

Super Mario 64 expert Pannenkoek2012 has devised a way to defeat Bowser in the game’s Dark World without ever using the N64 controller’s joystick, and the result is incredible to watch. Pannenkoek2012, whom we’ve covered before and who has spent years researching the depths of every little detail and nuance in Mario 64, has most…

Conan Unconquered is a real-time strategy game being made by Petroglyph, a studio formed by some of the original developers on the Command & Conquer series. It’s also a wave-survival game like They Are Billions, which all sounds great on paper. It’s slated to arrive on PC in the first half of 2019.