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Heroes Of The Storm Is Nerfing The Overpowered ‘Infernal Shrines’ Map

Heroes of the Storm put out its new patch notes today, and boy is this a big one. In addition to adding the new StarCraft Medic support hero Lt. Morales and completely reworking a number of struggling warriors, they’re finally making some changes to the game’s maps. Most importantly: the ungodly “Infernal Shrines.” Phew! Infernal…

Far Cry Primal is now official—it’s set in the prehistoric era and will feature woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers, as we reported yesterday. It’ll be out on February 23, 2016 for Xbox One and PS4, with a PC version to follow.

Today’s Destiny Daily Quest Is Also Full Of Secrets

Destiny, a video game in which players spend hours and hours dropping out of strike playlists, is still full of secrets. Today’s involves a little old place called the Vault of Glass. As we’ve all learned by now thanks to the Black Spindle, the developers at Bungie are putting all sorts of secrets and easter…

Riot put out its spotlight for the uber-creepy League of Legends champion Kindred, and their ult looks as bonkers as I was expecting. They also said Kindred’s release is delayed until the 5.20 patch due to “an important, gameplay-impacting issue.” Keep up with Worlds in the meantime with our explainer.

It’s An Awkward Time To Be A Star Wars Fan

Star Wars is not a series of movies. It’s not a collection of interconnected stories. And it’s not a genre. Star Wars is instead a place, a universe, a setting for a series of movies and other interconnected stories. Now, Star Wars is being refreshed, but it’s still Star Wars. While the events are different,…

The First Five Minutes Of Transformers: Devastation: So Far, So Good

I was a little worried about not being able to get my hands on Transformers: Devastation until launch day. After playing for five minutes, everything is just prime. For starters, the game has Transformers in it. Thanks for watching! What, that’s not enough? Weird. Okay, it’s got good the good Transformers in it, voiced by…

Fan’s Remaking The Original 1987 Meal Gear In Unreal Engine

Sounds like an ambitious project, but not an impossible one. Hideo Kojima’s 1987 one-man sneaking title Metal Gear is much smaller game than the ones that followed. A revamped fan-version makes sense. Metal Gear fan Boker posted early shots of this project here. We can see the tanks and the environment of the game’s first…

Konami Goes Microtransaction Crazy with Metal Gear Solid V…Insurance [Update]

Metal Gear Online is launching today. We previously checked out the game at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. It’s a lot of fun as is Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain. You know what isn’t fun? Charging people for what’s essentially a cheat mode. 10/6/15 – 8:35am Update: The title and text were changed to…

Angels Fall First Is Trying To Be Your Dream Sci-Fi Combat Game

Angels Fall First is the latest in a long line of games—from Battlecruiser 3000AD to Planetside—to try and actually be the type of video game I dreamed about playing in high school. Made by a team of former modders—who unsurprisingly given this game’s brief had worked on stuff like Homeworld and Unreal Engine—Angels Fall First…

Look At This Gorgeous Super Nintendo Book

It’s a good time to be alive if you like books about consoles from the 90s. Sega fans got an amazing Genesis/Mega Drive coffee table book last year, and now SNES fans are getting one, albeit with a slightly different approach. Stuart Brett, curator of the wonderful Super Famicom Guy Instagram account (which we’ve featured…

NBA2K16’s Spike Lee Joint Is Terrible, But I Still Love It

NBA2K16 is a mainstream sports video game, meaning its full of things like stats, complex controls and painstaking licensing. But it’s also home to something a lot more adventurous and potentially important: a role-playing game where you take a kid from high school to the NBA. It’s far from the first sports game to offer…

Sources: Destiny‘s DLC Plan Is Changing Big-Time

Destiny is getting microtransactions, sources tell us. Don’t freak out too much, though: We hear this paid DLC will be limited to cosmetic items like emotes and sparrow skins. And the developers at Bungie will be doling out free content every few months until next fall. This is all part of a new plan that…

Edward Snowden’s favorite Pokemon is none other than the glitch-tastic Missigno. An appropriate choice, if you know what the mysterious Missingno is.

31 Movies For Horror Newcomers

Let’s say you’ve considered watching a horror movie before but didn’t know where to start. Let’s say the month of October has you horror curious. Let’s say I’ve compiled a list to guide you through several decades of nightmares. (Yes, this list was supposed to run on Friday! Sorry.) Last week, I published a list…

Six Things That Are Going to Change in the Next Marvel Universe

This is the month that things start changing big-time in the Marvel Universe. Mutants are becoming an endangered species, Tony Stark’s financial situation goes topsy-turvy and one of Marvel’s grimmest loners is getting some unwanted help. Even though Secret Wars won’t be over for a little while, fans of the Marvel Universe are going to…

The Next Far Cry Will Go To The Stone Age [UPDATE]

UPDATE (10/6/15, 12:12pm): It’s official: the next Far Cry is Far Cry Primal, and it’ll be set in prehistoric times—although it’s actually in the Stone Age, directly after the Ice Age. (Sorry for the mix-up.) It’ll be out February 23, 2016. Original article follows: At around 12pm today, Ubisoft put up a livestream of a…

One GIF Sums Up Star Wars Battlefront‘s Modern Multiplayer Potential

Plenty of non-canonical moments will be possible in the upcoming multiplayer game Star Wars Battlefront. Above, a scene from YouTuber Jackfrags’ recent session with the game. A beta for Battlefront will be playable on PS4, Xbox One and PC starting this Thursday The game can be played in first or third-person. Here’s more: To contact…

World’s Best Smash Bros. Player Makes Awesome Comeback After Almost Burning Out

Last weekend, things didn’t look so great for Smash Bros.’ top player, Gonzalo “Zer0” Barrios. For a moment, it seemed like reigning champ might actually lose a tournament. (I apologize for the auto-playing Twitch embeds below. You might want to scroll down and pause those before reading further.) What you have to understand is, up…

Lenny Kravitz’ Pants Remain Intact Through An Entire Guitar Hero Live Spot

Not sure about James Franco’s. In honor of tomorrow’s launch of Rock Band 4, Activision has released a Guitar Hero Live promo spot featuring Lenny Kravitz and James Franco. It’s kind of adorable, and totally safe for work as well! Franco does manage to slip in a reference to Kravitz’ infamous dick slip (is that…

Armature, the studio run by ex-Metroid Prime has announced a second new game for 2016, a top-down arcade shooter called Dead Star that supports 10v10 multiplayer. PC, PS4, early in the new year. The’ve also got ReCore coming for Xbox One