Mortal Kombat 11 Announced, Launching Globally April 23

Tonight at the 2018 Game Awards, Netherrealm Studios head Ed Boon took the stage to announce the winner of the best sports or racing game award, but sgave us a trailer for Mortal Kombat XI instead—complete with an April 23 global launch date. Not a lot of details were given during the clever twist reveal,…

Stranger Things Season 3 Is Getting A Retro-Style Game

Need more Stranger Things? Good news: a game is coming. Details are scant, but all your faves are here. It appears to be an adventure game featuring the pint-sized Scooby Gang and their gruff lumberdad: This is a follow up to the previous Stranger Things games, also developed by Bonus XP. I guess they’re not…

Bioware Teases Dragon Age 4

BioWare’s Dragon Age series, which has been quiet since 2014, is back with a brand new game and a very short trailer to go with it. Though as we’ve already reported, we shouldn’t expect it any time soon. Having recently been rebooted, Dragon Age 4 is still very early in development, but the trailer shown…

Coming to Steam on December 13 from Studio Wildcard, makers of ARK: Survival Evolved, Atlas is a massively multiplayer survival game set in a fantasy world filled with magical creatures. Look for it to hit Xbox One next year as part of that whole hitting Xbox One first program. You know the one.

The Developers Of No Man’s Sky Have A Surprise New Game

In case you think Hello Games hasn’t been working hard enough, given their multiple, massive and free updates to No Man’s Sky, tonight they’ve announced a new game, called The Last Campfire “The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost Ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way…

Obsidian’s Next Game, The Outer Worlds, Is Basically Fallout: New Vegas In Space

As Bethesda takes Fallout multiplayer, the original creators of Fallout are making a brand new single-player shooter-RPG along with the studio that made Fallout: New Vegas. It’s called The Outer Worlds, it’ll be out next year, and it’s basically New Vegas in space. Game studio Obsidian announced The Outer Worlds at The Game Awards tonight,…

BioWare Wants You To Know That Story Is A Priority For Anthem 

One of the biggest ongoing questions surrounding BioWare’s upcoming online shooter Anthem is whether it will be able to hit the narrative bar that the studio has set for itself through series like Dragon Age and Mass Effect. With a new trailer tonight—and a presentation to press this morning in Los Angeles—BioWare is trying to…

Crash Team Racing Remake Will Release In June 2019

Crash Team Racing, the PlayStation 1’s answer to Mario Kart, is coming back in 2019, Activision announced at The Game Awards this evening. In development at the studio Beenox, which created the racing portion of 2015’s Skylanders Superchargers, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is a “built from the ground up” remake of Naughty Dog’s 1999 kart…

The latest from Bastion and Transistor developer Supergiant Games is a rogue-like dungeon crawler called Hades It’s got a cool animated look, fast action and a sardonic hero. The best part? You can play it on PC right now for $19.99 in early access via the Epic Games store.

Far Cry Is Heading To The Post-Apocalypse

The new Far Cry, called Far Cry New Dawn, takes place in a post-apocalyptic world after the end of Far Cry 5. Apparently, it’s coming out February 15th. You probably know the drill with Far Cry already: in New Dawn, you’re going to explore a huge map, including Far Cry 5‘s Hope Country, craft cool…

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3 Is Coming, Made By Team Ninja And Is A Switch Exclusive

There’s a new Avengers (and X-Men, and Guardians of the Galaxy) game coming to the Switch, in the form of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: Black Order. It’ll be out in 2019, and amazingly, is being developed by Team Ninja. Coming ten years after the last game in the series, it introduces a new over-the-shoulder camera…

The most ambitious crossover event in history.

Sayonara Wild Hearts, developed by Annapurna and Simogo for Switch, was just announced at The Game Awards. It’s a game based around pop music with a bunch of fictional bands and catchy music. Put it in my hands.

Watch The 2018 Game Awards Here

It’s that time again—the 2018 Game Awards. We’ll get lots of announcements, news, trailers, and also people getting trophies. Everyone likes trophies. The pre-show starts at 8:30 Eastern, and you can follow along at Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube, below.

GOG’s Community Manager Was Fired For Offensive Tweets

On October 22 the Twitter account for the digital gaming storefront GOG sent out a Tweet using a hashtag advocating for trans rights to try to promote its digital storefront. Though quickly deleted, it was the third in a string of offensive tweets sent this year from accounts associated with CD Projekt Red, which owns…

No Thank You Disney, No, Please Stop This

Disney is researching ways to better capture and portray human teeth in video games and movies. And you can’t research human teeth without unsettling imagery As Motherboard reports, a team of researchers at Disney have published a paper called Appearance Capture and Modeling of Human Teeth, which is fine and interesting and scientific, but it’s…

Counter-Strike Adds Battle Royale Mode, Goes Free-To-Play

It’s a big day for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Valve’s tactical shooter mainstay has gone free-to-play, and it’s added a battle royale mode called “Danger Zone.” The change to free-to-play is pretty straightforward. The base game is now entirely free, giving players instant access to “all game modes, matchmaking, and a limited set of item drops…

The Leaked Box Art For Far Cry New Dawn Owns

The box art for the next game in the Far Cry series, Far Cry New Dawn leaked on social media ahead of tonight’s announcement at The Game Awards. As per usual for the series, it’s provocative and transgressive. It depicts a white man strapped to a car riddled with bullet holes, and in the foreground,…