God of War took home Game of the Year at the DICE Awards in Las Vegas last night, along with a whole bunch of other awards. Celeste got best indie, while Florence was voted the best portable game. Interestingly, only one award—Outstanding Technical Achievement—for Red Dead Redemption 2

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm: The Kotaku Review

For Civ fans, the future has been set in stone since October 2016: no matter how good Civilization VI was at launch, it wouldn’t be done until it had gotten two expansions. Well, now it’s got them. Building on the contentintroduced in 2018’s Rise & Fall, and adding a whole raft of its own new…

As part of the 7.40 patch, Fortnite players who complete 13 of the new Overtime challenges will get Season 8’s Battle Pass free. The patch also brings new LTMs, changes to the Bush and Zipline, and brings back gifting until February 22.

K-Pop Pick Of The Day: DALLA DALLA

ITZY is the newest girl group on the block, and they bring some eye-opening pedigree to the saturated K-Pop idol market. First, they hail from JYP Entertainment, which is reason enough to pay attention. JYP is one of the oldest and most storied agencies in Korea that drove groups like Twice, 2PM and GOT7 to…

One of the most popular mobile multiplayer arena games is now on PC. Super Evil Mega Corp’s Vainglory is now on Steam, free-to-play with cross-platform play with the mobile version. Time to show those tablet touchers how it’s done. 

Tetris is the latest series to become a battle royale. Yes, that Tetris. Tetris 99, which Nintendo just announced is available on Switch right now, is a 99-player version of the uber classic. Last person standing—or I guess stacking—wins.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses will release on July 26th on the Nintendo Switch. There’s some serious Hogwarts and Final Fantasy 8 stuff going on here, with a mercenary academy and multiple houses to pledge loyalty too. I seriously can’t wait.

A new Tokyo RPG Factory game called Oninaki will be coming to Switch this summer. This new JRPG from the studio behind I Am Setsuna will focus on isometric action combat where you acquire and equip different souls to outfit your character with special abilities.

Today’s Nintendo Direct starts at 5pm ET. You can watch right here or via the YouTube embed below. Should be 35 minutes full of Switch news on Fire Emblem and much more.