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In the vast video game version of Washington, D.C in Ubisoft’s The Division 2, there is a single police car that…
I’ve exchanged some odd DMs with a colleague over the past week as we try to figure out an intriguing new video game…
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Aside from a quickly-squashed leak, it hasn’t been possible to see the E3 2019 gameplay demo for Crystal Dynamics’…
A couple of months ago, in a meeting room on the outskirts of the Los Angeles Convention Center during the E3 gaming…
Adding stuff to a game months after release? That’s usually good news. Removing it a few weeks later? That tends to…
Workers at Rockstar Lincoln, the British studio that does the lion’s share of testing for the Grand Theft Auto and Re…
The ESA, the lobbying group that also runs E3, acknowledged today that information for media attendees of two E3s in the previous decade was on a third-party website and has “either been taken down or are in the process of being removed.” For more on all of the ESA’s bungling of attendee info, check our updated post… Read more
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Video games can inspire us to do strange things. For example, there I was yesterday playing The Division 2, checking…
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The developers of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey have been moving the game’s finish line farther out since October of last…
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The acclaimed 2015 throwback role-playing game Pillars of Eternity is coming to Nintendo Switch on August 8, according to a new trailer from publisher Versus Evil and development studio Obsidian. The Switch release will include the game’s updates and White March expansions. The Switch, along with other consoles, is…
Maybe it’s just me, but when I see a supposedly unreachable small island at the edge of a video game level, I think “GoldenEye.” That’s why the sight above in one of The Division 2's new levels got me thinking about my colleague Heather’s article about a certain “dam island.”
Microsoft is tweaking the look of the Xbox One’s home menu again, with more space given to recent games played and separate clickable spots for accessing important pages like the store and Game Pass (they really want you to subscribe!). The change will go live for all Xbox One users this fall, according to an official…
Ubisoft’s sprawling loot shooter The Division 2 just received its biggest free update since its March…
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I’ve spent 20 minutes playing the new Judgment Of Atlantis add-on to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and already just as…
I keep thinking about a video game I played in Los Angeles a month ago that’s what you’d get if the renowned covert…