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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Finally Comes Out For Real

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the glitchy but charismatic survival shooter that has averaged over one million players in early access, is finally seeing a full release. It’s been a long, wild ride for the genre-defining hit, and with Battlegrounds updating to 1.0 at 2 am ET tomorrow, that ride’s not even close to over. The last-man-standing game…

Riley’s Top 10 Games Of 2017

While The Witcher 3 was obviously the game I played the most this year, did you know there were other games too? It was a great year for stealth games, immersive sims, and survival games—three of my favorite things! Here are my 1o favorite games that came out in 2017. Secret World Legends Secret World…

Lego Marvel‘s Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 DLC Doesn’t Mess With A Good Thing

You know the first 10 minutes or so of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, where Baby Groot dances while the rest of the team battles a giant space squid? That was pretty great. So great that Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 recreated it for its Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 DLC, “Mr. Blue…

Egyptian Zombies Are Coming To Total War: Warhammer II

The Tomb Kings, sadly absent from the core campaign of Total War: Warhammer II, are coming as part of an expansion on January 23. It’s a paid expansion, and there’s no new story content, but there will be four legendary lords available, and they’ll be playable in both the vortex campaign (where they get their…

There Is Now Some Final Fantasy XV In Assassin’s Creed Origins [UPDATE: We Found More Stuff]

A few weeks ago, the makers of Assassin’s Creed Origins teased a screenshot of yellow feathers, and now players who embark on a new quest in Ubisoft’s sprawling ancient Egyptian adventure will find some Final Fantasy in the game. It features some of the odder use of Chocobos in gaming history. The franchise crossover between…

Kingdom: New Lands got a free DLC expansion called Skull Island today. It adds a new territory to the pixel-animated, side-scrolling medieval strategy game as well as a new win condition apparently. According to the developers it’s also “challenging AF. Yeah, that’s right, capital A F. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu.” 

The Video Games Of 2017, As Screenshots From The Witcher 3

A lot of games came out in 2017, but none of them were as good as The Witcher 3, which is so good it can do a mean impression of pretty much anything that was released this year. Here, then, is a list of 2017 video games, depicted as Witcher 3 screenshots. PERSONA 5 LIFE…

The Switch Just Got Its First Smash-Style Fighter

A little platform fighter beat its gamedaddy Super Smash Bros. to the Nintendo Switch. A fun, easy-to-pick-up party game that simplifies aspects of Smash, Brawlout also misses out on a lot of what gave Smash character. Brawlout is a Smash-like, or a game that takes its mechanics from the genre-defining Nintendo fighting game. Eight months…

One Of The Most Popular Mobile Games In The World Comes To North America

With more than 200 million monthly active players in China, Tencent’s competitive multiplayer game Arena of Valor (AKA Kings of Glory and Strike of Kings) is one of the most popular and profitable mobile games in the world. Today it launched in North America on iOS and Android. Who’s playing? Arena of Valor is a…

This Is A Good Video Game Door

Look at this door. The end of the year is a time for sneaking in all those games you missed when they came out. I’ve been playing The Evil Within 2, an astonishingly good horror game that occasionally drops players into semi-open world areaspacked with enemies, hidden items, and sidequests. Players take the role of…

The World’s Biggest Video Game Mod Site Will Start Paying Modders

Nexus Mods plans to roll out a new donation system and storefront early in 2018 according to a recent post in the site’s news section The fan site was founded in 2001 and now has over 10 million registered users. While it supports mods for hundreds of games some of the biggest include ones like…

My Quest For All-Pink Gaming Gear Is Almost At An End

I love PC gaming. I love the color pink. I’ve spent years trying to bring those two loves together for a desktop threesome. Razer’s Quartz line made it happen. The color pink is soft and cheery, bubbly and welcoming. It’s happy, which is how I want to feel when I sit down for a 10…

The Year In Old Games, 2017

This year was a pretty damn good one for new video games. It was also great for old ones! The flip side of video games’ ever-advancing technological virtuosity is that older games tend to go out of print very quickly. Sure, you can wade into the world of emulators and Raspberries Pi, but it’s nice…

Ten Video Game Alloys That May Or May Not Be What The US Government Apparently Has

This weekend, the New York Times reportedon the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which apparently found unidentifiable alien alloys. While we have no clue what the hell those alloys are, here are some video game alloys that might as well be real now. The information the New York Times outlines a strange alloy that caused…

Gwent’s midwinter update is out today on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. The Witcher 3-based card game is getting balancing tweaks as well as some new features like adaily quest system and new deck builder interface. The game’s third holiday event, Midwinter Hunt, is also live. You can find the complete patch notes here.  

Perma-Permadeath Game Upsilon Circuit Gets Canceled

Upsilon Circuit was to be a game where, if you died once, you died forever and could never play again. Now it’s dead. The game, announced in 2015, was to be part-multiplayer fantasy RPG, part-game show, and part-Twitch Plays Pokemon. While two teams competed to explore, fight monsters, and collect treasure, an audience would watch…

Crawl, a party game where your friends are dungeon monsters who want you to die, is now on the Switch. It’s a righteously good and dark as hell local multiplayer with some innovative mechanics that keep the game fresh every time.

SaGa Frontier Director Says Ending In The Middle Of The Final Boss Was Intentional

Square Enix’s Akitoshi Kawazu, director of the SaGa series, says he doesn’t want to go back to Final Fantasy. He hopes to bring more SaGa games to the West. And, believe it or not, that jarring ending to Blue’s campaign in SaGa Frontier was totally intentional. In 2016, Square released a mobile remake of Romancing…

Ubisoft Changes For Honor‘s Boob-Groping Emote [UPDATE]

Medieval fighting game For Honor is no-holds-barred gore and grime. So yesterday when the game replaced one of its racier emotes with a more tempered one, fans were a little peeved. For Honor’s Valkyrie hero is a beefy lady who fights with a spear and shield. Last month, she received a new execution, an emote…

L.A. Noire VR Is Great, Except For The Damn Hat

With on-screen hands used for everything from drawing weapons to flipping the siren on a patrol car, L.A. Noire: VR Case Files nails one of the main features I look for in a virtual reality port. But it also has this hat. L.A. Noire: VR Case Files takes a selection of cases from the non-VR…