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Fallout 76‘s Approach To Nukes Seems Like A Shift For The Series

Fallout 76 will have nukes. Provided players find the keys, they will be able to fire these nukes off whenever they please. This gameplay feature, announced at last night’s Bethesda press conference, is presumably meant to encourage player-created drama in the upcoming online survival game. It’s also the clearest signal yet that the Fallout series,…

The Division 2 Feels Like An Apology To Those Burned By The Last Game

It’s clear the developers of The Division 2 have a long list of the grievances people had with first game, even though many of those problems were patched out during the game’s radical post-launch improvement. That wasn’t enough, and now they’re really pouring on the charm while making a sequel that is impressive to play…

Satisfactory Has The Best Name At E3

Satisfactory is an upcoming game for the PC that’s about foraging for supplies, working as a team and then taking all that stuff and actually building something huge and complicated and functional with it. There are loads of games that have you scavenging and constructing, from Minecraft on upwards, but those have usually been aimless…

Valve just announced Steam China. The goal is to introduce more games to China, though how that will work isn’t clear yet. In recent times, Steam has added some popular Chinese games. However, Chinese players have become Steam users’ go-to object of borderline-xenophobic rage thanks to cheating issues

Yakuza Is Coming To The PC

Sega just announced that two Yakuza games are on the way for the PC. They’ll be joined by the upcoming Valkyria Chronicles 4 The two games mentioned during Sega’s trailer at the PC Gaming Show at E3 were Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami Yakuza 0 is out in August, and is already up for preorder…

We Played Anthem, And It’s Pretty Fun

I sat down with Anthem, BioWare’s upcoming shared-world third-person shooter, for 30 minutes today. I came away surprised at just how good it feels to move around in the game’s fantasy sci-fi world. Flying through its gorgeous environments on my way to kill some bad guys, fix an ancient relic, or take out a giant…

Everything Ubisoft Showed At E3 2018

It’s the third day of E3 press conferences, and Ubisoft just took their turn. The Parisian publisher showed a bunch of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, some hot Skull & Bones pirates, and announced a Star Fox crossover as well as a new Trials game. Let’s go over everything Ubisoft announced. They started with an appropriately ridiculous…

Everything We Learned About Assassin’s Creed Odyssey After Playing It

The next Assassin’s Creed is going to turn heads. That won’t just be because it’s set in ancient Greece, nor simply because it lets you play as a man or a woman. It’s also changing the series’ combat yet again, offering more options for stealth, and even fleshing out the modern-day stuff that’s been lacking…

New For Honor Expansion Adds A New Faction And Castle Sieges

In its biggest expansion since release, For Honor is getting an entirely new faction, graphical overhaul, and new competitive siege mode called Breach in its Marching Fire update coming October 16, 2018. Ubisoft’s medieval brawler has gotten a consistent trickle of new content since it released over a year ago, including a handful of new…

Star Fox Will Appear In Ubisoft’s Space Game Starlink

Fox McCloud will appear in Ubisoft’s toy-based space flight action-adventure game Starlink: Battle For Atlas, the company said today. Exclusively on the game’s Nintendo Switch version, of course. In the game, to be released October 16 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch, you build a modular spacecraft, attach it to your controller, then take…

Skull & Bones Is Way More Than Just A Black Flag Spinoff

Skull and Bones is still happening and has the makings of a damn good pirate game. At Ubisoft’s E3 2018 press conference today, the once-delayed pirate game received a fresh trailer that showed off massive pirate battles and some stealth gameplay. Ubisoft first announced Skull and Bones at their E3 2017 press conference last year,…

Ubisoft Just Announced A Wii Game

It is the year 2018 and Ubisoft is releasing Just Dance for the Wii. Not the Wii U, although that’s getting a version of the company’s perennially-popular motion-controlled dancing game, too. Just Dance 2019 is also coming out for the Xbox 360 Kinect! But really, the shocking part is that games are still being made…

The Division 2‘s three year one updates will all be free. The game is also getting 8-player raids, Ubisoft announced at its E3 press event today. That’s two more players than Destiny’s raids, although we don’t know yet how involved The Division 2‘s will be. The first Division’s DLCs were each paid.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 Features Young Jade, After All

Jade, the heroine of the original Beyond Good and Evil, will play a major role in the next game, Ubisoft said. Originally, Beyond Good and Evil 2 was said to take place before Jade was born, but instead a “ferocious young Jade” will appear in the game’s storyline. The long-awaited follow-up to Ubisoft’s critically acclaimed…

We’re Liveblogging Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference [Update: It’s Over!]

Can’t watch the Ubisoft conference live? No worries! Follow along with me and Riley MacLeod for all the announcements, trailers and surprises. Ubisoft’s big press conference starts at 4pm eastern, and you can watch live here. In case you’re stuck at work, Riley and I are here to let you know what’s going down. We’re…

Watch Ubisoft’s E3 2018 Press Conference Here, Live [Update: Over]

E3 continues with Ubisoft’s press conference at 1pm PT/4pm ET. We’re sure to see more Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and The Division 2. And how are things going with Beyond Good & Evil 2? You can watch the show on YouTube, below, or on Twitch

Square Enix’s E3 Presentation Was A Joke

Expectations were high for the first E3 presser from Square Enix in three years. The publisher has a lot of exciting upcoming projects that we haven’t heard much about, including Final Fantasy VII Remake, The Avengers, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Naturally, Square Enix showed absolutely none of them. “That’s it?” was the resounding reaction…

Everything Square Enix Showed At E3 2018

It’s the third day of E3 press conferences, and Square Enix just showed up with… well, with a pretty disappointing show. The Japanese publisher had a couple of game announcements, some videos about games we already know about, and a pair of slightly longer looks at Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Just Cause 4.…

Babylon’s Fall Is The Next Game From Nier Developer Platinum Games

Platinum Games has a new project. During their E3 2018 press conference today, Square Enix announced Babylon’s Fall The reveal trailer dropped heavy lore for the setting and showed off some dark fantasy action. The teaser trailer didn’t reveal much about Babylon’s Fall, but eagle-eyed viewers can decipher a world history where the discovery of…

We’re Liveblogging Square Enix’s E3 Press Conference [Update: It’s Over]

It’s Monday morning, which means we’re ready to kick off E3’s most packed day of press conferences. First up is Square Enix. We’ve already seen a few of its games, but what else does the Final Fantasy maker have in store for us? You can watch the press conference here or follow along with our…