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Vikings Rush To Surprise Victory In For Honor’s First Faction War

The first round of For Honor’s faction war ended yesterday with a surprising upset by the Vikings. Initially underestimated, the bearded brutes have suddenly become the game’s top faction. For Honor’s multiplayer has a meta-game to it in which players across platforms can distribute war assets on a territorial map, claiming enemy lands and pushing…

Following up on its remaster of the original Turok last year, Nightdive Studios is releasing the remastered Turok 2: Seeds of Evil for PC on March 16, with new enemies, weapons, levels and an online multiplayer mode. Prepare to be Cerebral Bored out of your skull.

New Unreal Engine Video Has A Nice Beat You Can Dance To

Today Epic released an Unreal Engine video showing off features game developers will be excited about in 2017, like sequencer cinematic tools and automatic level-of-detail generation. If you are not a developer, feel free to just dance. Just in time for the Game Developers Conference, the video demonstrates (using an assortment of Epic titles) tools…

Cities: Skylines will get a mass transit expansion that adds cable cars, ferries, blimps, and new commuter hubs. I’m excited for anything that puts less cars on the disastrous roads I can’t keep myself from building.

Microsoft Unveils $10 Monthly Gaming Subscription Service For Xbox One [Update]

Coming this spring to the Xbox One, the Xbox Game Pass will give console owners access to over 100 Xbox One and backwards compatible games for $9.99 a month. The Xbox Game Pass is not a streaming service, like PlayStation Now, but a game download subscription along the lines of EA Access. Subscribers who pay…

Thorsen Creek Petroglyphs. Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada. By Taylor Helferty. 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!  

The X-Wing miniatures game is very good. It can look a little daunting if you’re new to board games, though, so if you’re interested but also a little afraid, this newcomers guide—written by the X-Wing world champion, no less—should help you out.

Overwatch Spices Up A Boring Office Job

VR game Job Simulator is fun enough as it is, though I guess adding some Overwatch to it can’t hurt. This cute little vid by Zi Ye (currently working on the Rick & Morty VR game) shows that the only job worth simulating is moving the payload.

Ark: Survival Evolved Devs Offering $4,000 A Month To Some Modders

Next week, Studio Wildcard will officially launch a new program for modders. Every month, 15 modders will receive a $4,000 stipend for their work. Jeremy Stieglitz, Studio Wildcard’s lead designer, lead programmer and co-creative director on Ark: Survival Evolved, told PC Gamer that the program will select 15 modders and pay them a monthly stipend…

Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild Gets Pirated Days Before Launch, Causing Major Leaks

For the last week, the Zelda fandom has become a minefield of spoilers, as various Breath of the Wild related images, screenshots, and videos have leaked ahead of the official release. It’s only gotten worse today. (Some spoilers ahead.) Late this month, some fans discovered that they were able to briefly download Breath of the…

EA’s Peter Moore Gets New Job At Liverpool FC

Peter Moore, lately of Electronic Arts but just as well-known for previous executive roles with Sega and Xbox, will be taking up a new job in June, as chief executive officer of Liverpool FC. It’s a dream job for the Liverpool-born Moore, who as you can see below is an absolute LFC fanatic. He’ll start…

Video game companies are lobbying against a bill that protects independent business’ and gamers’ right to repair personal gaming consoles, VICE Motherboard reports. Several states have introduced bills that will force manufacturers to release tools and information required for fixing their products, exploding their so-called “repair monopoly.”

Pokémon Go’s Evolution Items Seem Incredibly Rare 

One of the biggest draws of gen two in Pokémon Go are the fancy evolutions that require special items, such as the Metal Coat or Dragon Scale. Some players vying for these items are having a hard time actually finding them, though. As far as anyone can tell, evolution item drops are random. There are…

New Non-Profit Has Plans To Save Gaming’s Past

The Video Game History Foundation officially launched today. A non-profit dedicated to the preservation of video games and video game materials, the foundation is already working on special projects to help keep gaming history alive. Directed by game historian Frank Cifaldi and a board of founders, The Video Game History Foundation is one of the…

Thimbleweed Park will be out March 30 for Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Linux. The developers say other platforms will follow later.

New Website Makes It Easier To See New Games On Steam 

With so many games coming out on Steam each week and the service’s fondness for focusing on “popular” and “recommended” new releases, it’s easier for smaller games to fall through the cracks.What’s On Steam is a website that gives every new game on Steam equal treatment. Launched earlier this month by the folks at indie…

An American Hentai Publisher’s Journey From Piracy To Premium

The biggest English-language hentai manga publisher, Fakku, just celebrated its 10-year anniversary last December. That’s ten years of “monster girl,” “oppai,” “nakadashi,” “yaoi” and “futanari,” tags under Fakku’s clean taxonomy of hentai genres. The company’s founder Jacob Grady has a lot to celebrate. In its torrid lifespan, Fakku evolved from an underground hentai piracy operation…

Game-Filled Korean Reality Show Is A Must-Watch

In 2013, South Korean television network tvN aired a competition-style reality television show called The Genius. On the surface it sounds like most other shows in the genre: a group of celebrities are tasked with playing games together in order to win a cash prize. But The Genius is something special. It’s a twisty, often…

EVE Online Players Destroy $13,000 Worth of Ships In A Surprise Attack

EVE Online is a game of risk versus reward, a game where players can take chances with their resources. Over the past weekend, the in-game organization know as “The Imperium” staged an annual event called “Burn Jita.” During this event, the safest areas of the game are invaded by renegade players, who turn everything into…

Not All Switch Games Will Support TV Mode

Not all Nintendo Switch games are going to take advantage of the console’s dual TV/portable nature. Released last year for iOS and Android, rhythm game Voez is now a Japanese Switch launch title, and it requires a touch screen to play. Does this mean we’re in for a flood of tablet ports? The latest game…