Windows Games

Red Dead Online’s New Solo Missions Are Pretty Good

The latest Red Dead Online update, released earlier this week, added a few new missions to the game. These new telegram missions are short and simple but are also built to be played alone, another sign that Rockstar is willing to give players more single-player content even in ostensibly online games. While Red Dead Online…

Shovel Knight Is Coming To Sma–Er, For Honor

Finally, after years of waiting, Shovel Knight is coming to the popular fighting game… For Honor. Oh…that’s fine I guess. I mean, who can think of any other game that needs Shovel Knight? Ubisoft Announced today that new Shovel Knight-inspired outfits, emotes and executions are available in the online fight ‘em up For Honor until…

The New Mortal Kombat Movie Might Just Be A Good Mortal Kombat Movie

In the first 30 seconds of the first trailer for April’s Mortal Kombat movie reboot, Mehcad Brooks’ Jax loses both his arms to the icy grip of Joe Taslim’s Sub-Zero. Then things get violent. In theaters and on HBO Max on April 16, the new Mortal Kombat movie looks to be using every iota of…

You Can Finally Import Your Owned Levels Into Hitman 3 On PC

Hitman 3 PC players who own Hitman 1 or 2 can finally import their owned levels for free, developer IO Interactive announced today. “PC players who own Hitman 1 or Hitman 2 are now able to import locations from those games into Hitman 3 at no additional cost,” the developer wrote in a blog post.…

The Makers Of Minit Are Back With A Clever New Spin-Off

Minit took the sense of exploration and discovery from a classic Zelda and recreated it in 60-second black and white chunks. The result was fantastic, so it’s not surprising its creators are returning to that world in their latest game: Minit Fun Racer The new side-scrolling racing game, which publisher Devolver Digital describes as a…

Final Fantasy XIV Could Go At Least Five More Years, Director Says

Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida recently spoke about the future of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game with The Washington Post, saying that at its current growth rate, users can expect the online world to continue expanding with new content for at least five more years, if not indefinitely. “Even now, [Square Enix CEO…

Plants vs. Zombies: Battle For Neighborville Comes To Switch Next Month

The most family-friendly competitive online shooter this side of Splatoon finally makes its way to the Switch on March 19. Plants vs. Zombies: Battle For Neighborville Complete Edition brings the fight to Nintendo’s console and makes all released cosmetic DLC unlockable in-game without a premium store or microtransactions. Co-developed with QLOC S.A., the Switch version…

Oh Hey, They’re Bringing Back Stubbs The Zombie

Remember Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without A Pulse, the 2005 action game for PC and Xbox about a depression-era zombie eating brains in the late 1950s? Maybe? Either way, it’s coming to Xboxes, PlayStations, Switch, and PC on March 16. It’s not a remake. It’s not a remaster. The version of Stubbs the Zombie…

Fall Guys Coming To Switch This Summer [Update: And Xbox]

This one’s no hill of beans. Fall Guys will come out on Switch at some point in the summer. Following a savvy, streamer-centric marketing campaign, Fall Guys first came out last August for PC and PlayStation 4, where it exploded in popularity. That month, Fall Guys was one of the “free” games available for PS…

No Man’s Sky Players Can Now Tame, Breed, And Train Alien Creatures

Showing no sign of slowing down after a 2020 filled with game-changing updates, Hello Games starts off the fifth year of No Man’s Sky with the “Companions” update, which gives players the ability to befriend procedurally-generated alien creatures, turning them into loyal universe-exploring companions. After last year’s mech, living ships, and space horror updates, I…

Fortnite is getting a short film festival this Saturday at 2pm ET. The movies will play at the big screen on the Party Royale island and will repeat for 24 hours.

Let’s Compare The Nier Replicant Remaster To The Original

To mark the game’s tenth anniversary, a Nier Replicant remaster was announced for the PS4, Xbox One, and Steam. Let’s see how the game, so far, stacks up against the PlayStation 3 original. While there could be slight differences in the final retail version, the comparison shows that the remaster has undergone a good polish…

Here’s a two-minute animated short for Final Fantasy XIV in South Korea. The Korean language clip shows Miqo’te’s daily life in the city of Miqo’te as well as glimpses at some adventuring.

Metal Gear Solid’s Board Game Has Been Cancelled

IDW was supposed to be releasing Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game later this year, but after a succession of delays the company has decided to walk away from the project instead. As Dicebreaker report, after delaying the game from “early 2019″ to “summer 2020″ and then “2021″, IDW felt they needed to make even…

Valve & Netflix Are Making A DOTA Anime

Sure, why not? Dragon’s Blood is an upcoming anime series that is “exploring the Dota universe like never before.” It’ll be out on March 25, and as the trailer below says, the series has been made, “in collaboration with Valve.” This is cool for DOTA fans, I guess? Though it’s also a damn shame Valve’s…

Friendship Ended with Azeroth, Now Final Fantasy XIV Is My Best Friend

I’ve done it. I’ve finally begun my journey with Final Fantasy XIV, after six years of aborted attempts I made it through the still strangely unfriendly onboarding process and am now roaming free in the world of Eorzea. This was a long time coming. This previously glaring omission in my Final Fantasy record lead to…

Stadia Leadership Praised Development Studios For ‘Great Progress’ Just One Week Before Laying Them All Off

Developers at Google’s recently formed game studios were shocked February 1 when they were notified that the studios would be shut down, according to four sources with knowledge of what transpired. Just the week prior, Google Stadia vice president and general manager Phil Harrison sent an email to staff lauding the “great progress” its studios…

Amazon’s New World MMO Delayed Again, Now Due August 31

It's going to take the new frontier a bit longer to open

Big Skyrim Mod Comes Back From The Dead

Wyrmstooth, a hugely popular mod for Skyrim, was taken down in 2016 when its author removed all traces of it from sites like Nexus Mods. This month, it returns! As PC Gamer reports, the mod is now back, having been uploaded by its original creator Jonx0r. And it returns with a new trailer, that in…

Vice City & Grand Theft Auto III’s Source Code Has Been Reverse-Engineered

A team of fans have managed to reverse-engineer the source code for both Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto Vice City, making the files available for download This is great news! We’ve seen recently what reverse-engineered games can mean to modders, with Mario 64 being the biggest example, allowing it to be “ported”…