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Soulcalibur VI‘s Unique Mechanics Take Center Stage In Early Competition

Even in a genre as varied as fighting games, the Soulcalibur series has maintained a distinctive personality throughout several installments thanks to its fluid, weapon-based combat. Soulcalibur VI, which landed on store shelves just last week, continues this tradition, and both pre- and post-launch tournaments have provided some of the most exciting moments in modern…

Here’s All The Overwatch LEGO Sets

That Bastion was just the start; there’s a whole line of LEGO Overwatch sets coming, featuring many of the core cast, some locations, some vehicles and of course, The Payload. While not officially announced by Blizzard yet, Target went and put pictures of the sets up a bit early, andThe Brothers Brick were able to…

Fallout 76 Feels Like Two Different Games

There’s a lot of tension in Fallout 76 between the series’ solitary past and its new multiplayer future. During my four hours in the game’s beta last night, these two sides of the game repeatedly rubbed up uncomfortably against one another. I have a tough time imagining how they’ll ever be reconciled. Fallout 76 began…

I Can’t Wait To Get Black Ops 4‘s Magical Unicorn Gun

There’s a pretty unicorn gun that can be earned in Black Ops 4, and other really fun camos and variants can make your gun glow as you perform well. Treyarch is doing a great job with the camos and variant guns for this year’s Call of Duty, and I’m on a mission to unlock them…

Lineage 2 Revolution Adds Hot Anime Orcs

Orcs. The craggly-faced brutes of the fantasy RPG world. Scarred by countless battles, these hideous creatures are the embodiment of brutality and violence. Unless they’re in Korean-developed mobile MMO Lineage 2 Revolution. Then they’re kind of hot. Introduced in today’s big update for the massively multiplayer mobile game that’s eaten a fair amount of my…

Finally, An Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Ship Battle I Enjoyed

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s live events have finally launched, one week after they were initially promised. These limited time quests offer difficult targets to take down with special rewards for anyone who manages the deed. The first limited bounty—a quest to destroy a rogue pirate ship—is straightforward but the extra difficulty led to one of the…

Battlefield V’s Battle Royale Mode Won’t Launch Until 2019

Battlefield V will launch on November 20 without its new battle royale or co-op modes, EA and DICE confirmed today. Instead, these highly-anticipated features, part of the game’s free Tides of War post-launch updates, will land somewhere between January and March, 2019. While neither of these modes is technically “delayed,” since specific release dates hadn’t…

Meltan Revealed To Be The First Mythical Pokémon That Evolves (Into An Absolute Unit)

You know Meltan, the weird little hex-headed mythical Pokémon that started showing up in Pokémon Go last month? That’s not even its final form. Get enough Meltan together and they merge to form the massive Melmetal. In the latest Meltan Research Update on the official Pokémon YouTube channel, Professors Willow and Oak witness the evolution…

Fortnite’s Halloween Event Released, Then Removed Because Of Issues [Update: It’s Working Again]

Another day, another Fortnite patch. The one that went live this morning is V6.20, notable for introducing the game’s Halloween event, Fortnitemares. Unfortunately, players began experiencing problems, including long matchmaking times, as soon as they started trying to play. Within a few hours the event had already been removed. [Update – 11:11am]: The Fortnitemares event…

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Street Masters, a beat-em-up board game we wrote about last year, now has an expansion (and a reprint of the original game!)

Overwatch Is Getting A Spectator Mode

If you’ve ever found yourself tired of Overwatch esports spectators’ camera angle choices and thought you could do a better job, your big day is just around the corner. Blizzard’s shooter is getting an in-game spectator mode, though it’s gonna have to go through some testing first. Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan—who, in a stunning turn…

Grand Theft Auto V Mods Continue To Look Incredible

NaturalVision Remastered, a mod we’ve covered previously, takes Grand Theft Auto V—already still a very good-looking game!—and turns it into something extraordinary. It’s just got its final update, and surprise, it now looks even better. In a chat with PC Gamer the mod’s creator, Razed, explains that the last update was also one of the…

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Massive Fallout Mod New California Is Out Today

Fallout: New California, an enormously ambitious mod for Fallout: New Vegas, is now out, finished and ready to play. New California—built from the bones of an older mod called Brazil— is set in between the events of Fallout 2 and Fallout New Vegas, and to simply call it a “mod” is to sell it short.…

PS3 Game Shutting Down Servers Earlier Than Promised [Update]

Warhawk is a third-person military shooter that came out on PS3 in 2007. Over a decade before Call of Duty thought to do it, Warhawk ditched the standard single-player campaign to focus instead on multiplayer only. Last month, Sony announced the game’s servers would finally be abruptly shutting down on October 25. Thirty days’ notice…

Newly Discovered Super Smash Bros. Melee Technique Turns Link Into A Rocket

Super Smash Bros. Melee turns 17 years old next month, but that doesn’t mean the game has been completely solved. Sure, there’s an upper echelon of competitors who you can count on to win just about any tournament they enter, but there are also Melee players like Joseph “Savestate” El-Khouri grinding out new techniques for…

Bethesda Tries To Set Player Expectations Ahead Of Fallout 76‘s Beta

Late yesterday, Bethesda published a letter to its fans that appeared to be an attempt to set their expectations for today’s launch of the Fallout 76 beta test on Xbox One. The letter covered a variety of topics, but the most notable was when Bethesda touched on how buggy its games have been in the…

GTA V Exploit Let Hackers Kill Players In Single-Player

Last week, Twitch streamer FriendlyBaron was in the middle of a GTA V single player speedrun. Suddenly, his in-game car slowed to a stop and his player character got out of the vehicle and randomly died. Had he discovered some bizarre glitch? No, FriendlyBaron had been killed by a GTA modder while playing single-player. FriendlyBaronposted…

Spider-Man’s Heist DLC Is Fun But Familiar

My favorite part of the new downloadable addition to the new Spider-Man on PS4 involves a hungry and exhausted Peter Parker eating a pizza on the roof of an apartment building with the city skyline behind him. Warring mob families, stolen art, a love triangle between the Black Cat Mary Jane can all wait. Everybody’s…