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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft is relaunching its Xbox All Access plan, with a new added bonus tacked on: the option to upgrade to a Project Scarlett console when that platform debuts in 2020. That’s a bit different than what the plan offered when

By Sherif Saed, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 10:41 GMT After admitting that it dropped the ball with Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Ubisoft is now ready to explain where it plans to take the game. Ghost Recon Breakpoint has been a critical and commercial disappointment for Ubisoft, so much so that the publisher delayed all of its

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Much of this story presented firmly tongue-in-cheek. War. War never changes. On October 23, 2077, the Great War between China, the United States, and the USSR broke out. By the time it ended, two hours later, the world had been

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 26 October 2019 20:43 GMT Epic Games is suing a beta tester for leaking details about Fortnite Chapter 2 ahead of launch. Ronald Sykes is being sued by Epic for violating a non-disclosure regarding Fortnite Chapter 2. According to the suit, reported by Polygon, Sykes was a beta tester who revealed information

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:28 GMT The game based on Netflix crime drama Narcos has a release date. You’ll be able to pick up Narcos: Rise of the Cartels in November. Curve Digital and Kuju will release Narcos: Rise of the Cartels in November, it’s been announced. Based on the Netflix series,

One of the most elusive Pokemon remains the shape shifting critter Ditto – and in Pokemon Go, that can lead to some significant frustration. Ditto is an absolutely key Pokemon in Pokemon Go, and that’s despite it not being the sort of Pokemon that could ever rank on the best Pokemon Tier lists – and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. This week, Bethesda launched private servers for its struggling multiplayer game, Fallout 76. While this feature has been requested since before the game even launched, the company didn’t make it a free update. If you want a private Fallout 76

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:41 GMT Rockstar has been spoiling us of late with new rides in GTA Online. This week you should head over to GTA Online supercar shop Legendary Motorsport and pick up the Pegassi Zorrusso. It’s one sexy beast of a machine, and perfect for anyone experiencing a midlife

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 18:23 GMT One financial analyst expects Cyberpunk 2077 to sell gangbusters once its hits the market. Bloomberg recently published its 50 Companies to Watch in 2020 list, and thanks to Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt made the list. According to Bloomberg analyst Matthew Kanterman, the company could beat analysts’

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Great roleplaying games don’t come along very often, but the reception for The Outer Worlds suggests the title is a genre gem. The game releases on October 25 and reviews have come in from a number of publications. The overall

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The era of mobile gaming started off great with cute little time-wasters like Angry Birds, but then in-app purchases happened. Today’s top mobile games are mostly “free-to-play,” which is a nice way of saying everything you do seems to cost

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 20:15 GMT Ark: Survival Evolved is once again getting in Halloween spirit. Ark: Survival Evolved players can now participate in the annual Ark: Fear Evolved Halloween event. Try not to get too spooked. Running now through November 5, the in-game event will see candy corn-themed supply drops, randomly

China has censored Youtuber PewDiePie following the release of a video sharing a meme which compares the country’s president to Winnie the Pooh. Felix Kjellberg, known otherwie as PewDiePie,  announced his blacklisting in a recent video which presents a screenshot of what happens when you search “PewDiePie” in China: There are no results. A number

If you want to be the very best, you’ll need to stay on top of the Pokemon Go Research Quests – constantly changing missions and activities that players can pick up and complete for bonuses and rewards. Here’s all the current missions for August 2019. Pokemon Go’s research quests are split into two categories: Field

It’s finally happening: Crusader Kings 3 is coming to PC in 2020. ParadoxCon is well underway and we finally got our first look at Crusader Kings 3, which is due to release on PC via Steam and Xbox Game Pass in 2020. As an added bonus, Crusader Kings 2 is now free and there’s a

Fighting game veteran Katsuhiro Harada will mute you on Twitter if you keep spamming him with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC requests. The Tekken producer is taking to task fans of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate who keep tweeting him with requests to add their favourite heroes to the game. According to Harada, the developer is

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Razer made its name creating flashy gaming peripherals like mice, headset, and of course, keyboards. It has since moved into the laptop space with the Blade series of gaming-oriented notebooks. Its previous innovation in laptop keyboards has been mostly limited

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Long ago, in a gaming ecosystem far, far removed from the one we currently occupy, there were a solid handful of great Star Wars games. While they weren’t all produced by the same developer, they shared one common trait: They

By Emily Gera, Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:34 GMT No, there won’t be loot boxes in the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, says Activision. In a new post, the game publisher confirms Modern Warfare will not feature a loot box system. Instead the game will have a battle pass system similar to titles like

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. If you pay attention to the retro gaming scene, chances are you’ve heard of Analogue. The company builds gorgeous, FPGA-powered retro gaming systems that exploit the unique capabilities of FPGA hardware to deliver virtually perfect emulation. We say “virtually,” because

BioWare’s Anthem was the fifth top-selling game in North America of 2019 up until the end of August. Sales of the troubled game came in at fifth place after Mortal Kombat 11, Kingdom Hearts 3, Madden NFL 20, and Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, according to statistics from the NPD Group via industry analyst Mat

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Toss another body on the burn pile. During the same event in which it launched the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, Google killed off the Daydream VR platform. Neither of the new devices is compatible with the Daydream VR

By Emily Gera, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:27 GMT A new Legendary Bounty has hit Red Dead Online. Rockstar Games has revealed Red Dead Online’s latest Legendary Bounty for players to track down and haul in: an arsonist and murderer by the name of Cecil C. Tucker. He’s available in the game now following this

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Great news for fans of old PC games: The venerable Internet Archive has made an additional 2,500 MS-DOS games playable online in a browser, and in most cases with accompanying manuals. We’ve already seen playable games from a variety of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Earlier this year, Nvidia launched a very old game into the modern era with an RTX-enhanced version of Quake II. The new version of the very old game was generally well-received. It helps that Quake II was an iconic title

By Emily Gera, Monday, 14 October 2019 19:35 GMT Gearbox Software continues its celebration of Borderlands’ 10-year anniversary this week with the release of the “Show Me the Eridium” event in Borderlands 3. Starting October 15, a micropatch will go live kicking the Eridium event into gear. This will introduce additional Eridium drops across the

Last week, several events have shown a spotlight on Chinese censorship of the ongoing Hong Kong protests. Chinese censors have been taking increasingly draconian action to crack down on criticism of the country. When a Hong Kong-based Hearthstone streamer voiced support for the protesters who have battled for their right to a fair trial, Blizzard

With so many evolutions to choose from, you want to make sure that you get your favorite – so let’s talk about how to evolve Eevee in Pokemon Go. For our money, Eevee is one of the coolest Pokemon. It’s one of the cutest of the original Red/Blue/Green generation of Pokemon games, yes, and it’s

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:21 GMT Moons of Madness, the Lovecraftian horror and Mars exploration game, has a release date. Published by Funcom and developed by Rock Pocket Games, Moons of Madness, will be released for PC on October 22. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users can grab the title January 21,

By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 11 October 2019 19:51 GMT Another patch has been released for Borderlands 3, and like the last one, it features balance changes. The latest Borderlands 3 patch is live on all platforms, and addresses passive abilities, gear balance, and quality-of-life issues. Players can expect further adjustments to gear in the coming