Gamescom 2019 takes place in Cologne, Germany from Tuesday, August 20 to Saturday, August 24, and you can generally think of it as a slightly calmer, more fan oriented after-dinner mint to the madness that was E3 2019 (opens in new tab). That’s not to say there won’t be announcements …
Read More »Top Gun: Mavericks first trailer has Tom Cruise, aerial acrobatics, and a funeral
Do you feel the need? The need for speed? Well, you’re about to Lieutenant, because Tom Cruise just surprised SDCC with a trailer for Top Gun: Maverick, the follow up to the 1986 blockbuster. It’s got it all, aerial acrobatics, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, and just enough of the original Top …
Read More »This new and improved Nintendo Switch model is somehow way less exciting than the Nintendo Switch Lite
Just a week on from announcing the Nintendo Switch Lite (opens in new tab), a smaller, cheaper model of its best selling eighth generation console, the video game company has unexpectedly dropped information about another new variant of the Switch’s original hardware. This new model, unlike the Lite, is designed …
Read More »The latest Borderlands 3 trailer is a delightfully deadly dance routine
Between Rage 2 and Borderlands 3 (opens in new tab), this has been a good year for the trailers of batshit-crazy open-world shooters. Borderlands 3’s latest offering, appropriately titled So Happy Together and set to the titular song by The Turtles, is yet another goodun. We’ve already seen some gameplay …
Read More »Haunting of Hill House actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen joins the cast of The Haunting of Bly Manor
Despite being an anthology series akin to American Horror Story, The Haunting of Hill House season 2 will feature a few familiar faces. Oliver Jackson-Cohen joins Hill House castmate Victoria Pedretti in The Haunting of Bly Manor (opens in new tab). They will play different character in the second season, …
Read More »Latest Sims 4 update adds personality quizzes and over 1000 new catalog objects
Remember those personality quizzes you got in teen magazines back in the day? Well, The Sims 4 (opens in new tab) is bringing them back as a part of the sim creation process. It’s a new game mode for Create-A-Sim that will feature probing questions like their music taste, what …
Read More »For just $250 get a PS4 Slim with Spider-Man and Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
If you want to get a taste of the best PlayStation 4 has to offer for a bargain price, you need to snap up this $250 PS4 Slim bundle (opens in new tab) right now. It comes with the PS4 Slim 1TB console, Spider-Man PS4 (opens in new tab) and …
Read More »Ubisoft pulls fan-made Assassins Creed Odyssey XP farming quests to maintain “quality and integrity”
Ubisoft has pulled the plug on a number of fan-created content in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey after it noticed “an increasing flow of ‘farming quests'” that reportedly “exploited” the feature by offering low-challenge, high-XP encounters purely to farm XP. Launched in June, Story Creator enables players to create – and share …
Read More »Destiny 2s new finishing moves will be moddable and cost Super energy
With the Destiny 2 Shadowkeep (opens in new tab) reveal and ViDoc, Bungie committed to turning Destiny 2 into an unabashed action MMO (opens in new tab). We’re getting a revamped armor system in the expansion, for instance, as well as new abilities called finishing moves. In a recent interview …
Read More »Disintegration is a new sci-fi shooter from the co-creator of Halo
Disintegration is the new game from V1 Interactive, a studio founded by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, and it’s going to be a sci-fi first-person shooter. The studio has been taking shape since 2014 after Lehto left Bungie, and it’s finally ready to share more about its first project. In this …
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