An image purported to be from Fortnite’s new map is circulating on Reddit. Seemingly via the Italian app store, a thumbnail for Fortnite “chapter 2” shows characters standing in front of a river with boats. There’s also a short sizzle reel. We’ll find out when Season 10 ends on Sunday at 2pm Eastern. (Correction 10/13/19—This…
Snowy city-builder Frostpunk was one of my favorite games of 2018, even though most of my Victorian outposts fell to cold, starvation, or citizen uprisings. Video producer Paul Tamayo and I sat down with the game’s developers from 11 Bit Studios to talk about how they’re bringing the PC survival game to consoles this summer.…
Donald Trump got a Twitch channel, from which he’s currently livestreaming a rally in Minneapolis. This is how we live now. As of this writing, Trump’s channel has almost 9,000 followers, and about 8,700 are watching his rally in Minnesota. The chat is moving rapidly, but there are walls of “IMPEACH,” as well as a…
Since the start of Season 3, Apex Legends’ map has been dotted with locked vaults full of high-tier loot. A countdown timer suggested they’d open at 1 p.m. ET today, but players are reporting that they’re open now. Here’s how to get inside. There are three vaults on the map: one near Lava City, one…
Space exploration game Outer Wilds is coming to PlayStation on October 15. We loved the game on PC.
Transgender nonprofit Trans Lifeline is running a streaming fundraiser this month. This week, in tandem with several events relevant to LGBTQ rights, the lineup will consist entirely of trans streamers. Trans Lifeline runs two programs: a crisis line serving and staffed by trans people and a program offering guidance and financial assistance for trans people…
Starting today, the PlayStation 4 will no longer support Facebook integration. This means you can’t share your screenshots and trophies with your Facebook friends from your console, as well as a few other limitations that, though minor, are annoying. As Sony points out in their article on the issue, “Facebook will no longer be offered…
Talking about games with someone who doesn’t play them can be hard. How do you explain why you like a certain genre or series, if the person isn’t familiar with the genre you’re describing? It can be just as complicated to explain the more specific storyline or mechanics of the game you’re currently obsessed with.…
Children of Morta’s Switch version has been delayed to November 20, developer Dead Mage and publisher 11 bit announced today. The PlayStation and Xbox versions will still come out on October 15.
A Texas judge has dismissed the final defamation claims in voice actor Vic Mignogna’s lawsuit. The Dragon Ball actor was accused of sexual harassmentearlier this year and subsequently sued studio Funimation, fellow voice actors Monica Rial and Jamie Marchi, and Ronald Toye, Rial’s fiance. Funimation cut ties with Mignogna over the claims.
Sixteen professional Fortnite players have started the Fortnite Professional Players’ Association. In an announcement tweet, they say they are an “independent world-wide collective…meant to provide us a platform to voice our opinions on the future of the competitive scene of Fortnite.”
The weekend is for being Mr. Autumn Man in the extreme. I’m going to wear a sweater, and make soup, and dig my blankets out of the closet. I’m also going to play some video games. I’m completely obsessed with Overland, even though I can’t make it to the third area no matter how hard…
A Canadian law firm is requesting to pursue a class action against Fortnite developer Epic for failing to disclose the game’s addictive properties. According to the CBC, the suit is based on a Canadian suit against tobacco companies and “makes note of the World Health Organization’s 2018 decision to classify video game addiction as a disease.”
Fortnite got skill-based matchmaking in a recent patch, a system that intends to put players of similar skill in games together. Players quickly noticed that the new matchmaking queued players up across different platforms, even though this wasn’t mentioned in the patch notes. Today, Epic addressed the issue and said that things are working as…
Apex Legends Season 3 brings a new slate of daily and weekly challenges. Among the dictates to get headshots or play as certain characters, there’s a daily challenge that honors any gamer’s most important quality: politeness. A new daily challenge rewards players for thanking three teammates. A player on Redditnoticed the challenge shortly after Season…
Patrick Ewing, creative lead for indie game Neo Cab, told me a story about how he once got an Amazon package delivered by a person with the license plate “Uber God.” The Uber God had actually been fired from Uber that week, he told Ewing, after five years and over 19,000 rides, following an anonymous…
Fortnite Season 10 has been extended and will end on October 13. You’ll have another week to complete your challenges, but you’ll also have another week of dealing with the chaos this season has brought. Today’s 10.4.1 patch notes read, “We may be almost out of time, but we’re not out just yet—Season X has…
Apex Legends season 3 brings a new map, a new character, and a lot of small changes. Trying out a new map and a new character alongside everyone else harkens back to the game’s earliest days, when the spirit of exploration felt stronger than the thirst for victory. Currently, new map World’s Edge has completely…
Survival game Overland is unusually tough. Resources are limited, enemies are plentiful, and even my best runs have gone south quickly. Your car is one of your most important resources, as getting through the game’s levels on foot isn’t viable for long. But when the opportunity arose in one of my recent runs to steal…
The weekend is for visiting my parents, which has involved not an insignificant amount of putting away food they keep leaving out. It’s like a puzzle game, but with food poisoning. I’m really excited to play more of Hitman 2‘s new mission, which is full of exciting accidents to engineer that I’ve yet to try…
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