Riley MacLeod

The Long Dark just received its biggest update of the year, “Resolute Outfitter.” It adds new clothing items and clothing stats, as well as the ability to visualize what your character is wearing. There’s also a new region, frostbite, and more.

Here’s January’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup

The new year means time for some new (or new to you) games. Paying subscribers to Xbox Live can grab these four games for “free”if they have an Xbox Live Gold subscription. January’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One World of Van Helsing: Deathtrap (available January 1-31) Killer Instinct Season 2 Ultra Edition (available January…

Night in the Woods has been delayed to “somewhere in the first part of February,” the developers announced today.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s really cold in New York right now. That’s a great excuse to stay inside and play video games. I’m going to try to get back to The Witcher 3 this weekend, which fell by the wayside for other games. I’m also going to dive into more Astroneer, an early access survival game that just…

Space Survival Game Astroneer Will Kill You In All The Best Ways

While playing Astroneer, I kept messaging my colleagues about cool ways it had killed me. It was a morbid thing to be excited about. But a satisfying death is the hallmark of a good survival game, and, even in its early stages, Astroneer has a lot of them. Astroneer is a space survival game that’s…

Hitman’s 16th Elusive Target, The Guru, will be available in Sapienza for 7 days beginning December 16 If you can’t wait that long for new Hitman stuff, today’s holiday mission should tide you over.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s the weekend! I’ve had a heck of a week and am looking forward to only emerging from my bed when I absolutely have to. Though I also just got an iPad, which means I could technically play FTL in bed, so leaving bed at all is up for grabs. I’m going to (finally) make…

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ releases January 3rd on Steam This DLC includes mod support, as well as new items, bosses, and rooms. Console versions will be coming in the spring.

The fifth episode of Telltale’s Batman, “City of Light,” will be available on all platforms December 13th. “City of Light” is the season finale.

Hitman gets a new Paris mission, “Holiday Hoarders,” on December 13. The mission will be available for all players and is part of the game’s December Update.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Happy Friday! Soon it shall be the weekend, that glorious time when you can sleep in and wear sweatpants all day and cancel your plans to play video games. I’m finally going to try to check out The Division’s Survival DLC, which my colleagues have been having a lot of fun with. I love survival…

Wet dog survival sim The Flame in the Flood is coming to PS4 in January. We liked the game quite a bit on PC.

Our Favorite Games From November

It’s that weird time of year when it isn’t Christmas except everyone thinks it’s OK to play Christmas music (it isn’t, by the way). Before you get inundated with new games from gifts and Steam sales, here were some of our favorite games from November. Pokemon Sun and Moon We enjoyed taking a tropical vacation…

Hitman’s 15th Elusive Target will be available for seven days starting December 2. I’ll just be over here looking at the cool outfits I’m too far behind to ever unlock…

Invisible, Inc., Stories: The Path Of Destinies Headline PlayStation Plus Lineup For December

There are some cool games available on PS Plus this month. We loved Invisible, Inc., and we had a great time with Stories: The Path of Destinies. Several games are available across platforms, too. As ever, the games aren’t “free”: an active PlayStation Plus subscription is required to download and play them. PlayStation 4 Invisible,…

Cities: Skylines—Natural Disasters is available today This DLC adds disasters such as earthquakes, fires, and meteors, as well as a Scenario editor and a radio station with in-game music. My poor road planning is usually all the torment my citizens need, but this looks pretty fun too.

Hitman’s November Update adds the ability to use items you’ve unlocked online in offline mode, as well as some UI changes and other fixes. View all the changes here. The update is available today for all platforms.

Our Reviews Of The Fall’s Biggest Games

It’s been a busy season for major game releases, with plenty more to come before the year is out. If you’re thinking of binging on the latest big game over Thanksgiving weekend or looking to pick up some new games for the holidays, here’s a roundup of what we thought of this fall’s games, from…

Sleeping Dogs, Outlast Headline December’s Xbox Games With Gold

There are some pretty cool games in December’s Xbox Games with Gold. Paying subscribers to Xbox Live can grab four games for “free;” the two games for the Xbox 360 are backward compatible, so you can play them on your Xbox One as well. Remember, these are only free if you have an Xbox Live…

Season Three of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, titled “A New Frontier,” will premiere December 20th on all major platforms and mobile devices. A retail disc will be available February 7.