All The Big Announcements At The 2019 Game Awards

The new Xbox was shown off at the fifth annual Game Awards, during a show that also saw a slew of new game announcements, release date reveals, and trailers. Microsoft unveiled the name of the next Xbox It’s called Xbox: Series X. How will people abbreviate that? Xbox SX? And it looks like a computer…

Sekiro Wins Game Of The Year At The 2019 Game Awards

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is the 2019 Game Awards’ Game of the Year, winning over games like Death Stranding and Resident Evil 2. It’s a surprise award that snuck ninja-like over the finish. It also won best Action/Adventure game. The Game Awards dazzled audience members and viewers worldwide with a variety of trailers and announcements…

Disco Elysium Developers Shout Out Marx And Engels In Game Awards Victory Speech

During the speech for their second win of the night, ZA/UM, the team behind Disco Elysium, gave a special thanks to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the authors of The Communist Manifesto In this acceptance speech for the Fresh Indie Game Award, Helen Hendepere said that the team would like to thank “some of the…

Apex Legends Is Getting A Mirage-Themed Holiday Event

Tonight, my boyfriend Mirage from Apex Legends announced a new limited-time holiday event, Mirage’s Holo-Day Bash. This event comes with extremely adorable new skins. Everyone looks like they’re in The Nutcracker! Once again, I want to thank Respawn for marketing Apex Legends directly to me. This event apparently starts now, so as soon as Geoff…

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance Is Coming Back With A Brand New Game

A spiritual successor to 2001’s Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance is coming next year, Wizards of the Coast announced tonight at the Game Awards. Called Dark Alliance, the action role-playing game is based on Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms campaign and will follow the exploits of the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden, created by fantasy writer R.…

A New Bravely Default Is Coming To Switch

The beloved 3DS JRPG series Bravely Default is getting a third game on Nintendo Switch next year. The first Bravely Default started out as a sequel to Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light, but ended up becoming its own series and getting a direct sequel, Bravely Second: End Layer. The games have beautiful towns, grindy…

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Announced For Xbox Series X

Following the official reveal of the Xbox Series X at the 2019 Video Game Awards, Microsoft showed off a trailer for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, the follow-up to Ninja Theory’s Senua’s Sacrifice. All the footage seen in the trailer below is captured from a build created to make the most of the new Xbox hardware,…

The Next-Gen Xbox Is Called Xbox Series X

The next Xbox console is called the Xbox Series X. It has a weird new shape, a practically identical controller, loads of backwards compatibility, and it’s out in the 2020 holiday season. Here’s the debut trailer: I…really like that box. And the fact the controller looks identical, because really, Xbox controllers have been pretty much…

Watch The 2019 Game Awards Here [Update: It’s Over!]

Here we are again: The Game Awards, in which new game reveals and occasional shenanigans are interspersed with people winning things. Join us, won’t you? Things kick off at 8:30 Eastern. You can watch on YouTube, below, or on Twitch, Mixer, Twitter, or Steam

To go with the already-released Stormtrooper, Fortnite has got some extra Star Wars stuff in the form of skins for Rey, Finn and a Sith Trooper. They’re available now in the game’s item shop.

Microsoft Cancels Streamer’s Partnership After ‘Sex Offender’ Tweet

Harrison “HarrisonJr” Patrick Stewart had, until last week, been a verified streamer and partner on Microsoft’s Mixer platform. His deal has since been cancelled after he tweeted an image of himself alongside the text “Come watch a registered sex offender plays Fortnite with 10 year olds!!” As The Hollywood Reporter…reports, Stewart—who had around 80,000 followers—posted…

The Contents Of The Secret $375 Inside Collector’s Edition Have Been Revealed, And 🤮

In March of last year, iam8bit and developer Playdead announced a very special collector’s edition for indie adventure game Inside. The $375 box contains a PlayStation 4 copy of the game, Steam codes for Inside and Limbo, and a secret something from sex-mannequin maker Realdoll. Now that the collector’s editions are about to ship, iam8bit…

Overwatch Glitch Allows All Heroes To Fly

Unlike most first-person shooters, Overwatch is not opposed to allowing some heroes to fly. Pharah rockets up and bonks her head on the sky’s ceiling. Sigma soars above the battlefield on an invisible cloud of psychic energy during his ult. Zenyatta hovers and should never be allowed to walk. Real flight for everyone, though, is…

Baby Yoda Can Be Bought In The Sims 4

Because EA owns The Sims, and because EA also has the rights to Star Wars video games, we finally have a digital tie-in with the new live-action Mandalorian series. It’s not a Carl Weathers outfit. It’s not a “Bounty Hunter” job for your Sim. It’s a Baby Yoda statue you can buy and put in…

A Big Final Fantasy XIV Update Finally Makes Playing As Blue Mages Better

Final Fantasy XIV’s Blue Mage class was silly but ultimately limited in what it could do. Fans wanted an entire new job class that could fit into established groups. Instead, they got a bite-sized blast of goofy magic that could only team up with other Blue Mages. It was neat but ultimately a disappointment. Thankfully,…

GTA Online’s Latest Update Adds A Huge New Heist

Grand Theft Auto Online got a new heist today, a rare and wonderful occurrence. The Diamond Casino Heist update includes a new heist, as well as new music, weapons, collectibles, and balance changes that make it harder to grief other players. The big star of this new update is, of course, the heist. After the…