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Rocket League is going to space with Starbase Arc, a new octagonal arena available December 7th.

The 2016 Game Awards start at 9pm ET tonight. There are lots of places to watch: YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, etc. Should be a fun one!

The Division‘s Survival Expansion Has A Good Story After All

There are understandable complaints that The Division’s expansions are really just new game modes and not actual storyline extensions. But there’s a story in The Division’s Survival mode. I think it’s about me and a guy named Kirk. Kirk was this Division super-agent, all leveled up from his time in the PC version of the…

Ever wanted to spam your friends’ phones with the same emotes you spam in Twitch chat? Now, you can! Twitch stickers are now available for iOS. Go crazy.

Final Fantasy XV‘s Scripted Prologue Probably Should’ve Been In The Game

Final Fantasy XV, a video game about four men who just love hanging out and wearing black, has a few glaring issues. For example: The plot is a complete mess. The emotional beats are all there—by the end of the journey it’s hard not to care deeply about Noctis and his crew—but the story is…

I’m Pretty Into These Buttons Under My Game Controller

Recently I’ve been using a new controller to play video games. It has buttons on the top, and triggers on the back. It also has buttons underneath “Buttons underneath?” you might be saying. “That is madness! What will they think of next??” Or maybe you’re thinking to yourself, “Sheesh, this guy is only now learning…

Speaking at Nasdaq’s 35th Investor Program, Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen said the company would not have a new Battlefield game for “a couple of years,” opting to focus on a new Star Wars Battlefront. The Battlefield series has released titles with wider gaps in recent years.

Transformers Is Getting A New Fighting Game, And I Don’t Care That It’s Mobile

  Autobots and Decepticons from all corners of the cartoon, comic, toy and movie universes do battle this spring in Transformers: Forged To Fight. Developed by Kabam, it sounds a lot like Marvel: Contest of Champions, only with Transformers. That’s just prime. Yes, I know. You were excited until you saw “mobile game” in the…

Wild-Sounding Survival Game Makes Other Players Your Parents And Kids

Jason Rohrer, creator of experimental games like Passage and, most recently, a satanic gambling game that people have won as much as $6,000 from, has a new project. It’s a multiplayer survival game about living life in an hour. Also, other players are your parents, and you cooperate across generations to take civilization from sticks…

No Man’s Sky Fans Are Starting To Find Messages Left By Other Players

One of the features that came with the big “Foundation” update for No Man’s Sky was the ability to write short notes that could be discovered by other players. While many have sent words into the abyss, only a lucky few have managed to find messages from other people thus far. One of the first…

Necromancy Minion Game Is The New Agario On YouTube

Right Click to Necromance is a free game by Juicy Beast. It is a one year old game jam title that’s finding renewed popularity as some of the biggest YouTubers share the game with their followers. There’s good reason for that. Right Click to Necromance is simple to play and a ton of fun. The…

What To Expect From The 2016 Game Awards

Tonight in Los Angeles is the annual Geoff Keighley Extravaganza, a lavish celebration of all things Video Game that should have plenty of announcements and new gameplay footage. Also, there might be awards. The 2016 Game Awards, which starts at 9pm ET and can be watched on pretty much anything, will feature: New footage from…

Skyrim, Fallout And Doom Make For Three Very Cool Pinball Tables

Zen Studios’ pinball platforms are getting a trio of tables based on Bethesda’s greatest hits next week. We got our hands on the Doom, Skyrim and Fallout tables ahead of time, and they do the games proud. Zen Studios dived deep into its bag of tricks for these tables, packing each with massive characters, deep…

The recent changes made to Pokémon Go’s ‘Nearby’ feature, originally only live in certain areas of the US, Canada and Australia, are now rolling out to “the rest of the continental United States and large parts of Europe”.

RIP Cities: Skylines, Everyone Is Dead, Everything Turned To Ash

Cities: Skylines, a game which until this week was all about building things, has a new expansion out. And will henceforth be a game about tearing shit down, burning it, shaking it loose then watching it sink under the waves. The new expansion is called Natural Disasters, and looks to bring a little of that…

Nearly 40% Of All Steam Games Were Released In 2016

2016 has been a hellscape. Everywhere. Even for those managing online video game marketplaces. Pub trivia and business development resource Steam Spy posted this chart earlier today, breaking down Steam’s catalogue by each game’s year of release. In 2012, for example, 379 games were released on Steam. In 2016, that number has leapt to 4207…

The Sheer Terror Of Introducing A Friend To Your Favorite Game

A few days ago, I was hanging out at some friends’ house. One of them, Ian, decided to buy a new PS4 game. “Get The Witcher 3!” I yapped, briefly outdoing his tiny dog, who looked on with a mix of curiosity and some other dog emotion. “Get it, get it, get it!” It was…

Top YouTubers Say They’re Being Screwed Yet Again By The Platform

Recently, top YouTubers are saying that, yet again, the behemoth video sharing network is fucking them over. This time, it’s about an alleged issue with subscribers—suddenly, they’re disappearing. And, no, it’s not because they unsubscribed. YouTube, for their part, denies that there’s a glitch. Regardless, several popular YouTubers are up in arms about shrinking subscriber…

Hitman’s 15th Elusive Target will be available for seven days starting December 2. I’ll just be over here looking at the cool outfits I’m too far behind to ever unlock…

Overwatch Players Are Finding Ridiculous Ways To Use The New Map’s Cars

Overwatch’s new map, Oasis, has cars and jump pads. You know what that means: the dreaded S-word. I speak, of course, of shenanigans Among other things, Oasis is populated by cars that can and will do what cars do: mercilessly plow through cartoon heroes. Overwatch players, who happen to overlap with the ten percent of…