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StarCraft II Is Going Free-To-Play

StarCraft II is going free-to-play, Blizzard announced today during the BlizzCon 2017 keynote. On November 14, you’ll be able to download the Wings of Liberty campaign without paying a cent, getting access to both single- and multiplayer for free. If you already have Wings, you’ll get a free copy of the game’s first expansion, Heart…

Studio Behind Torchlight Shuts Down; Big Layoffs At Studio Behind Gigantic

China-based publisher Perfect World this week laid off most of Motiga, the developer of the hero shooter Gigantic, and shut down Runic Games, the studio behind the popular action-RPG Torchlight and the recently released puzzle-platformer Hob. Both game developers were based in Seattle. In a statement, Perfect World said that it will continue to sell…

Half-Life 2 Episode 3, As Imagined By Five Different Developers

In August, former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw posted a blog post on his site which outlined a potential story for Half Life 2: Episode 3. A game jamusing that story as inspiration has created some colorful interpretations of Gordon Freeman’s final adventure. Epistle Jam, which took its name from Laidlaw’s post titled ‘Epistle 3,’ sought…

Players Have Already Found Ways To Glitch Out Of Call Of Duty: WWII Levels

Players dedicated to breaking games have been hard at work hunting for glitches in Call of Duty WWII, and they’ve already found ways to get outside of the normal map areas areas and make themselves invincible to zombies. Take the beaches of Normandy for instance. It’s kind of a rule at this point that if…

EA Is Making Another UFC Game

After a promising but still too-barebones second installment, EA’s taking a third swing at the UFC. EA Sports UFC 3 is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 2. Here’s what it looks like: The big new features this time around are an improved animation system, a movement system with an emphasis on…

Bowser Will Comment On Your Outfit In Super Mario Odyssey

In addition to being a great platformer and excellent collectible game, Mario Odyssey is also a fashion sim. In the game, just like in real life, every outfit has its fans and critics. What follows includes some very minor spoilers for the ending of the game, so readers beware. As pointed out in a recent…

MSI Geforce GTX 1070 Ti Review: Solid, If Not Exciting

Equipped with 5% less CUDA cores than the GTX 1080 and the same GDDR5 memory as the vanilla GTX 1070, it’s not so simple to judge the performance of Nvidia’s new GTX 1070 Ti. We know that it has 2432 cores (27% more than the 1070) and a throughput of 8Gbps thanks to its 256-bit…

The Xbox One X Is Great So Far, But Waiting For Game Updates Is The Worst

After spending a week with the Xbox One X, Microsoft’s “world’s most powerful console,” I know three things for certain. It’s definitely an Xbox One, it makes enhanced games look lovely, and waiting for Xbox One X enhancement updates sucks. The $500 Xbox One X is a ridiculously powerful console, but in order to actively…

War. War Sometimes Changes.

2002’s Medal of Honor and 2017’s Call of Duty: WW2 have very similar intros (a nice touch, given CoD’s lineage). So similar that they’re a handy example of just how far video game visuals have come in the last 15 years. Both involve the same scenario—a first-person invasion of the beaches of Normandy—and both are…

Danganronpa producer Yuichiro Saito announced that October was his last month at Spike Chunsoft. This isn’t the last of Saito, who said he’ll be producing a game console game in a new locale. 

Battlegrounds‘ Hackers Getting Roughed Up In Net Cafes

Hackers can really ruin the experience for everyone. Recently, clips have been surfacing of people not exactly pleased when they see fellow players using speed hacks in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Warning: The clips below contain physical violence. Speed hacks make it possible for cheaters to move so quickly that they’re impossible to track. The clips below…

The Pokémon Anime’s 1,000th Episode Is Next Week 

The first episode of the Pokémon television anime aired on April 1, 1997 in Japan. Next week, the show will reach the 1,000th episode milestone. The name of the 1,000th episode is “Lilie and Silvady, the Resurrected Memory!” and will feature Silvady’s TV anime debut. Broadcasting on November 9, the episode looks like a tearjerker…

Secluded Lake. Eksjo, Sweden. By Mike Jaffe. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Wolfenstein’s Posters Are Just The Best

As with the first Wolfenstein, New Colossus shows that there are few studios out there who get singleplayer FPS quite like MachineGames does. A big part of that is down to their focus not just on the shooting, but on the world you’re shooting your way through. In New Colossus, a game full of lovable…

Ubisoft Denies Assassin’s Creed Origins’ DRM Is Slamming Your CPU

Since the release of Assassin’s Creed Origins on PC, some users have been complaining that the game’s CPU usage has been immense, sometimes pushing 90-100%. That’s not normal, and it’s led to accusations that the game’s new DRM is the culprit. Voksi, a member of the Revolt team of game crackers, told TorrentFreak earlier this…

The Internet Still Loves Man’s Not Hot Joke Rap

Big Shaq’s “Man’s Not Hot” should have stopped being funny weeks ago. But instead of fading into obscurity, we’re getting great iterations on the joke almost every day. At this point, “Man’s Not Hot” is a little old hat. In late August, the comedian Michael Dapaah appeared on “Fire In The Booth” to freestyle a…

Another Hint That Wolfenstein And Doom Share The Same Universe

The idea of a shared universe between Doom and Wolfenstein goes all the way back to Doom II, but it’s never been officially confirmed. A special weapon at the end of Wolfenstein 2 is further evidence that the games share a common timeline. What follows includes some spoilers for Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, so…

Bungie says it has fixed Destiny 2‘s infamous “Bureaucratic Walk” emote, which was allowing players to glitch through walls to access parts of the game that they shouldn’t have been able to access. A hotfix released today patched that bug and made some tweaks to Faction Rallies and Crucible scores,among other things

Peach Amiibo Lets You Cheat Like Hell At Super Mario Odyssey

I’m kind of blown away by how much the Peach Amiibo breaks Super Mario Odyssey Like most of Nintendo’s Switch games, Super Mario Odyssey lets you use your stash of Amiibo™ brand interactive gaming figurines in a variety of ways. A souped-up Roomba named Uncle Amiibo will let you tap figures to find hidden Moons,…

Game About A Road Trip Is Perfect On The Switch

Wheels of Aurelia, now out on Switch, is a smart, charming game that takes you on a road trip through Italy in the 70s. Wheels of Aurelia is a visual novel that originally came out for PC in 2016 and iOS last month. It’s about two young women driving from Italy to France in 1978.…