Gaming

The PC gaming industry, analysts and enthusiasts alike, have been buzzing about the meteoric rise in pricing for high-end video cards over the past two years. This has largely been attributed to a booming demand for them for the purpose of cryptocurrency mining. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and even “joke” cryptocoins such as Garlicoin and Dogecoin […]

With the announcement that the PlayStation Vita would no longer be seeing any new physical releases after its current scheduled titles hit store shelves — and the attendant understanding that this also signified the death of the underperforming handheld console – coming just this week past, it would seem that Sony is having to have […]

Sony announced the new officially licensed Scuf Vantage game controller for the PlayStation 4 on Tuesday from custom controller maker Scuf Gaming. The new high-end controller has all the bells and whistles one would expect, but it surprisingly borrows from the Xbox One controller layout. The Scuf Vantage for the PS4 will come in wired […]

Fortnite: Battle Royale was updated Tuesday morning with the new item promised by Epic Games: the jetpack. The item is joined by a double dose of limited time modes for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and mobile players to try out, one of which features the jetpack. Update 4.2 is now available in Fortnite: Battle […]

Fortnite: Battle Royale players will have a new way to get around the map via an update scheduled for Tuesday morning. Epic Games is finally delivering the previously delayed jetpacks to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and mobile shooter. Epic Games announced via Twitter and an in-game announcement that Jetpacks are coming in the […]

While browsing their Steam client and the attached storefront today, PC gamers may be surprised to note that popular titles such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Rainbow Six Siege, and Conan Exiles have been hurled from their throne atop the bestseller’s list to be replaced by – House Flipper? Have you ever wondered how nerd's house looks […]

For the past year, battle-royale style games have become some of the most popular titles amongst hardcore gamers and casuals alike. Beginning primarily with the big push by PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds – affectionately known in the shorthand as PUBG — to capture the majority of the market, the wild success enjoyed by Epic’s subsequent effort, Fortnite […]

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard was one of the more graphically impressive games from Capcom to hit the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in 2017. Surprisingly, it is now getting a Nintendo Switch release, but it is how the developer is making the game possible on the hybrid console that is gaining attention. Capcom announced […]

Will Overwatch be the next game to join the cross-platform club play? Blizzard Creative Director Jeff Kaplan hinted at just that in a recent issue of games magazine, but will Sony and the PlayStation 4 play with Microsoft and the Xbox One? Cross-platform play between consoles and the PC have become increasingly more common as […]

The king of the digital distribution castle, Valve’s Steam platform, has taken a decidedly puritanical turn this past week as Kotaku reports several game studios coming forward with written warnings and threats of delisting in hand. Delisting a game from Steam can very obviously be disastrous for many developers, great and small. Lupiesoft, creators of […]

Microsoft – and by extension well known philanthropist and CEO Bill Gates – have made a major step forward in innovating for inclusive gaming with the announcement that they will release the official Adaptive Controller for Xbox One. With a sturdy yet simplistic design, the Xbox Adaptive Controller, or XAC for short, features two very […]

Rumors of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 ditching a single-player campaign were confirmed Thursday during the shooter’s live reveal at the Jet Center in Los Angeles, California. Treyarch is opting to focus solely on multiplayer for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC outing via an expanded PVP and Zombies experience plus an all-new […]

Destiny 2: Warmind and its accompanying changes were released barely a week ago and Bungie already has more significant updates planned for release in May. The studio shared a refreshed development roadmap for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC shooter Wednesday and revealed further updates are coming this month plus more exciting changes planned […]

Electronic Arts set an official date and time Wednesday for the reveal of Battlefield V. Details on the follow-up to Battlefield 1 are unknown at this time, but PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC gamers will be intently watching the reveal not just for the setting and gameplay but also to get some feeling as […]

League of Legends is bringing the tournament experience in-game with an all-new mode called Clash. The hugely popular MOBA is giving PC gamers a chance to team up with friends and compete through multiple brackets to earn in-game rewards. The Clash tournament mode is set up to run for three days every two weeks. Players […]

Collectors, beware, and gamers on the go, take note. The Vita’s days are numbered. The portable system has had its share of ups and downs, launching to great acclaim and promise – powerful hardware coupled with a strong stable of JRPG legends and even a few shooter franchises on board, from Killzone to Call of […]

Bethesda Softworks made Rage 2 official Monday followed by the release of a gameplay trailer today. The sequel to the open-world shooter is coming with some major changes for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, starting with a more colorful and punk rock-inspired tone. The first Rage was released on last-gen consoles in 2011 […]

Sony is taking a different approach with its E3 Press Conference this year. Shawn Layden, Chairman of Worldwide Studios, joined the PlayStation Blogcast Friday and revealed the console maker will only showcase a handful of PlayStation 4 titles. The PlayStation Showcase is set for Monday, June 11 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The recent […]

Destiny 2: Warmind marks the return of Guardians grinding out multi-step quests to receive powerful weapons. The Sleeper Simulant Exotic Fusion Rifle is the prime example of this as it sends PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC players who have purchased the expansion through a series of difficult tasks. The end result is worth the […]

The Destiny 2: Warmind expansion had much to live up to following the disappointment of Curse of Osiris. Bungie and partner studio largely meet those expectations via updates to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC shooter’s sandbox and quality of life, plus a more compelling play space. However, the studio also fell into some […]

The release of BioWare’s Anthem has officially been narrowed down from the first quarter of 2019 to March of next year. Electronic Arts made that revelation during its year-end fiscal earnings call Thursday and hinted its Origin/EA Access subscription service may see the game included at launch. Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen confirmed Anthem will […]

Bungie released the Destiny 2: Warmind expansion to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC Tuesday and update 1.2.0 along with it. This latest patch brings a slew of changes to the game that addresses the multitude of issues and complaints Guardians have been hammering over the past several months. The Warmind expansion takes players […]

The mashup between Fortnite: Battle Royale and Avengers: Infinity War arrived Tuesday. Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet now have their own limited time event in the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and iOS shooter with the chance for players to transform into the Mad Titan and destroy the opposition. The Fortnite: Battle Royale 4.1 update […]

Thanos, the biggest movie villain of 2018, is crashing the Fortnite: Battle Royale party with his own limited time event. The immensely popular multiplayer shooter for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and iOS is running with a crossover event where players battle to wield the Infinity Gauntlet and transform into the Mad Titan from […]

Funcom is taking the Conan Exiles official servers offline for much of the day Monday and into Tuesday in preparation for the open-world survival game’s official launch. Additionally, the existing Xbox One and PC official servers will be completely wiped to give all players are a fresh and fair start in the Exiled Lands. All […]

Destiny 2: Warmind is bringing a new end-game activity to the public play space on Mars called Escalation Protocol. Details on how the event works have been covered in the past, but Bungie has now clarified how the reward structure works for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC players. Escalation Protocol is a new Horde-like […]

One of the big questions concerning Red Dead Redemption 2 was answered Thursday through various previews of Rockstar Games’ upcoming western game. Arthur Morgan will remain the lone playable character throughout the single-player campaign, unlike Grand Theft Auto V, but the Van der Linde gang and how the protagonist interacts with them will play a […]

Fortnite: Battle Royale‘s juggernaut-like success hasn’t had much impact on Activision-Blizzard, financially at least. The mega-publisher of games like Call of Duty, Overwatch, Destiny, World of Warcraft, and other titles reported another record quarter with $1.97 billion in revenue Thursday during a conference call. Still, the success of Epic Games multiplayer shooter hasn’t escaped notice […]

Destiny 2: Warmind launches next week and will represent a significant shift in how the game plays on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Bungie provided a preview of some of those changes on Thursday with the promise of the full slate of details to drop alongside the Warmind expansion release next week. The […]

The third Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer arrived as promised Wednesday. Rockstar Games puts the focus on the Van der Linde gang with the latest trailer and its fight against a changing wild west. Rockstar lays an ominous setting for Red Dead Redemption 2 as the game is set in 1899 at the end of […]

Funcom began the promotional push for the official Conan Exiles release in just a few days with a series of live-action videos that flips the script and asks how Conan would live in our world. The barbaric character from Robert E. Howard faces new challenges such as assembling IKEA furniture and dealing with a demonic […]

The final Iron Banner of Destiny 2 Season 2 arrived Tuesday as Bungie is gearing up for the start of Season 3 and the release of the Warmind expansion next week. The studio is sharing more lore narrative about the venture to Mars and plans on releasing another free digital comic soon for fans on […]

Undead Labs is gearing up for the release of State of Decay 2 later this month with two interesting bits of news for Xbox One and PC gamers. A gameplay launch trailer has been released that shows how the game is more than just a simple zombie bashing title, though there is plenty of that. […]

Fortnite: Battle Royale has been teasing an incoming meteor impact for a couple of weeks now. Impact finally arrived Tuesday with the start of Season 4, and it brings significant changes to the multiplayer shooter’s map, which introduces a new mechanic that makes players even more mobile. Players have speculated where the meteor would crash […]

Rockstar Games is ready to unveil a little bit more of Red Dead Redemption 2 this week. The studio announced the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC western will receive its third trailer Wednesday while also re-confirming the game’s release date. The new Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer will drop Wednesday, May 2 at 11 […]

It was nearly three decades ago when the Sega Game Gear was first released in Japan in 1990, as it entered a handheld console space where Nintendo’s Game Boy was the most popular device. As such, the Game Gear has long been rendered obsolete by the likes of Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox. But that […]

It’s been almost two years since Pokemon GO first became available for mobile devices, and while the game might not be as hot as it was in its first few months, the next Pokemon GO updates might see the arrival of Gen 4 creatures, a higher level cap and other substantial new features. According to […]

Rockstar Games has been extremely quiet the last few months about Red Dead Redemption 2. The last official news was the studio announcing an October release date. Fans are still concerned about the game slipping further, but a leak of an official art book, plus a separate rumor concerning the next GTA Online update point […]

The latest Grand Theft Auto IV update took away, rather than added to the game as it approaches its 10th anniversary, as a number of songs, including several well-known classic rock and alternative songs, were removed from the in-game radio stations due to expiring song licenses. According to a report from Polygon, this week’s GTA […]

The next Lara Croft adventure, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, was officially revealed Friday via a new trailer showing the heroine taking on a Mayan apocalypse. The upcoming PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC action-adventure title from Square Enix will arrive in September and is meant to be the final chapter in the character’s rebooted […]

The Miramar map test for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds did not exactly go as planned this week as the test servers went down for an extended period of time. What was originally scheduled to only be an approximately three-day test has now been extended through the weekend due to high demand from players. Xbox One PUBG owners […]

Bungie did not really touch on the addition of Exotic Masterwork weapons during the Destiny 2: Warmind reveal stream Tuesday. The studio rectified that Thursday with a deep dive explanation of the new mechanic that will send PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC Guardians on a hunt to make their favorite Exotic Weapons even more […]

Sea of Thieves was Microsoft’s first big Xbox One exclusive for 2018 and received a ton of pre-release hype thanks to multiple betas. The multiplayer high seas shenanigans title also launched the company’s initiative to release all first-party Xbox One games as part of the Xbox Game Pass subscription. Unfortunately, it appears most of the […]

Fortnite: Battle Royale has quickly proven that being first to market does not always translate into big sales. Epic Games’ spin on the 100-player last man standing has officially become the largest free-to-play console game of all time, according to market intelligence firm SuperData, and is racking up impressive numbers on the PC and iOS […]

PlayStation 4 owners with PS Plus subscriptions have a pair of interesting titles to add to their library for free in May. Sony announced Beyond: Two Souls and Rayman Legends in the lineup along with a handful of PS4 and PS Vita titles. Sony will update the PlayStation Store on Tuesday, May 1 with the […]

The Dragon Ball Super anime is continuing to provide plenty of extra characters for Dragon Ball FighterZ DLC update packs in 2018. This time Bandai Namco Entertainment America began streaming a video preview that shows off the new character Fusion Zamasu, the fusion of Goku Black and Zamasu from Dragon Ball Super. Warning: Please note […]

Microsoft announced Wednesday the slate of games coming to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service in May. Xbox One exclusive State of Decay 2 is the headliner and is joined by seven other titles ranging from the co-op party of Overcooked to the first-person action of Homefront: The Revolution. State of Decay 2 is slated […]

Every new expansion of Destiny 2 introduces a new set of Exotic armor and weapons for Guardians to collect. The release of the Warmind DLC next month is particularly noteworthy as while Bungie is adding to the pool of Exotics, it is also revamping several existing weapons as well to make them stand out. New […]

Kill la Kill Season 2 is still in demand by anime fans even years after the TV series finished airing in Japan. After all, the two-cour anime was critically acclaimed and gained a large fan base, so some fans desire a side story or a slice-of-life “after story” sequel for Kill la Kill centered around […]

Funcom released a new Conan Exiles trailer Wednesday in anticipation of the open-world survival game’s impending official launch to the Xbox One and PC plus the first appearance on the PlayStation 4. The studio narrates the player’s journey through the Exiled Lands from being saved from crucifixion to exploring all new areas like the swamp […]