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Control Comes To PS5 And Xbox Series X/S With Ray-Tracing In February

Remedy Games’ paranormal office thriller Control will come to next-gen consoles digitally on February 2, followed by a full retail release on March 2, the studio announced on Twitter this morning. The next-gen version of the game will include a performance mode to run at 60 fps on both platforms, while the standard 30 fps…

Dota 2 Gets New Hero And Massive Mistwoods Update

Dota 2‘s Mistwoods update dropped yesterday, making a ton of changes to the game and adding its 120th hero: a crossbow toting woodland creature named Hoodwink. Update 7.28 is Dota 2‘s fifth of the year, but arguably also its biggest, adding a completely new mechanic right before the holidays called Aghanim’s Shards: items that can…

Track: Late Evening In Jersey (from Heat) | Artist: Brian Eno | Album: Film Music: Crime Pays

A Final Goodbye To The Last Generation

For the past month we’ve been taking a look back at the winners, losers and defining trends of the PlayStation 4/Xbox One era of home video game consoles as part of a feature series called The Last Generation In that time we’ve covered Nintendo’s smooth exit from the console arms race, said goodbye to my…

Sony Pulls Cyberpunk 2077 From PlayStation Store, Says Buyers Can Get A Refund

Hopefully concluding a rollercoaster few days where PlayStation owners were told to get a refund for Cyberpunk 2077 then asked not to, Sony has confirmed that not only will the company be issuing refunds, but the game itself is being pulled from the PlayStation Store. A short statement posted on the PlayStation website reads: SIE…

Riot Casually Announces League Of Legends MMO

League of Legends fans who would like to enjoy the universe but not keep playing the same game over and over until you die, you’re in luck. Riot just announced a new MMO set in the game’s universe in the most casual way imaginable. In this tweet exchange, Riot VP Greg Street starts off by…

Beat (Stupid Sexy) Sephiroth In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate And Unlock Him 5 Days Early

Sephiroth officially joins the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate cast next week, but players eager to open their presents early can unlock this surprisingly shirtless Final Fantasy VII villain right now by simply kicking the crap out of him. “Sephiroth Challenge,” which can be found on the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate main menu if you pre-purchase…

It’s Weird How Some Games Are Now Too Big To Fail

For nearly the entire history of video games, most title’s lifespans would play out the same cruel, Darwinian way: they would come out and either live or die, sometimes with spectacular consequences. No second chances. This was true of first cartridge and then disc-based games, which would either fly off the shelf or not. But…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting Barret, Tifa, Aerith, And Geno Mii Fighter Costumes

During today’s Sephiroth presentation, Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai showed off some of the new Mii Fighter costumes that will be added to Ultimate alongside the Final Fantasy villain. The next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update will expand the Mii Fighter’s wardrobe with costumes based on Final Fantasy VII party members Barret, Tifa, and…

Streamers Flabbergasted After Twitch Partially Bans The Word ‘Simp’

It’s been yet another long 24 hours for Twitch—the latest in what’s shaped up to be an agonizingly long year for the company (and also everybody on Earth). Yesterday afternoon, Twitch held a live town hall with the goal of illuminating recent policy changes and features around DMCAs, sexual harassment, ads, and other hot-button issues.…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Adds Super Baby 2, Whoever The Heck That Is

Dragon Ball FighterZ has gone off the rails. I can understand, on some level, the thousands of Goku variations that make up its cast. I’ll even overlook the two Brolys, if only because both versions are so popular. But recent reports that the Arc System Works fighting game is getting Super Baby 2 are where I…

Among Us is out on Game Pass for PC today, Microsoft announced in a blog post. The popular betrayal party game will come to the rest of Game Pass for Xbox consoles sometime next year.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure finally has multiplayer. Up to four-player coop was originally supposed to be available at launch but was delayed. Today’s update adds cross-gen cross-play and save transfers as well.

PSA: Cities: Skylines Is Currently Free On The Epic Games Store

The Epic Games Store is giving away the terrific building sim Cities: Skylines for free today, the first in a series of holiday giveaways going on throughout the rest of the December. According to a press release, Epic’s holiday event will give away 15 games in all, rotating a new one in daily from now…

A New Invisibility Glitch Is Wreaking Havoc In Call Of Duty: Warzone [Update]

Call of Duty: Warzone players are getting merc’d by invisible foes thanks to the game’s latest helicopter glitch, and they aren’t happy about. Warzone’s latest season went live earlier this week adding a new map, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War weapons, and attack helicopters that players can exploit to turn invisible. The new…

Nintendo Of America President Calls Artificial Purchase-By Deadlines A ‘Celebration’

Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser was asked during a recent interview why some popular Nintendo games are only being sold for a limited time. His answer? “[T]his is a celebration.” Earlier this year, Nintendo released Super Mario 3D All-Stars to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES.…

Cyberpunk 2077 Comes To Death Stranding On PC, Bringing Items And New Missions

Given how Hideo Kojima appears in Cyberpunk 2077 as an NPC, it should be no surprise that the world of CD Projekt Red’s sci-fi yarn is coming to Death Stranding in a just-released update. The new, free patch for Death Stranding’s PC version brings a number of unlockable items, including: • Cyberpunk 2077 themed Reverse…

Track: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto | Album: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence OST 

Ubisoft Waits A Month To Start Selling XP Booster For Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

What do you do when you launch an Assassin’s Creed game, include the option for your customers to pay $10 to level up faster, draw all kinds of negative reactions—many of them suspicious, wary—and then launch a new Assassin’s Creed two years later? Launch with that controversial paid booster again? Not quite. If you’re publisher…

Rabbits Won’t Stop Jumping In Front Of My Fucking Horse

With the release of the PlayStation 5, I’ve taken the opportunity to go back and play through a few games from the previous generation to see how they take advantage of the new console. One of those games is Rockstar’s western epic Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s great fun, but I can’t help but wonder…