The best Star Wars games will, like the esteemed movie series itself, divide opinion. If you know your Lego iterations from your EA and Bioware slants, you’ll already know how varied the galaxy far, far away is in video game form – all of which makes gathering the best of …
Read More »eFootball PES 2020 hands-on proves mixed news for die-hard fans of the series
The shock news is that Konami’s long-running Pro Evolution Soccer series has rebranded as eFootball PES 2020. What’s less clear is why PES has focused on eSports and how it affects long-term fans of the series. We sat down to play 30 minutes of PES 2020 (we can’t bring ourselves …
Read More »Here are all the biggest changes in Destiny 2s massive Season of the Drifter patch notes
After several weeks of teasers and trailers, Destiny 2 Season of the Drifter (opens in new tab) and the Joker’s Wild annual pass DLC have finally arrived. Everything goes live today, including a massive patch which is chock-full of balance changes, bug fixes, and some much-needed quality of life updates. …
Read More »Destiny 2s newest Exotics include matching gauntlets and a kinetic fusion rifle
If you haven’t heard, Destiny 2 Season of the Drifter (opens in new tab) and the Joker’s Wild DLC have arrived, delivering a smorgasbord of content and updates for Bungie’s shared-world sci-fi shooter. On top of Gambit Prime, The Reckoning, and reams of balance changes and bug fixes (opens in …
Read More »The Division 2 director explains how the sequel fixed the bullet sponge problem
The Division (opens in new tab)’s campaign was filled with big armored dudes with flamethrowers and ridiculous amounts of health. Just, like, obscene amounts of health. Enough health to feed an army. Happily, at a recent event The Division 2 (opens in new tab) creative director Julian Gerighty told me …
Read More »Destiny 2s Season of the Drifter will add better clan rewards and more Exotic catalysts
Destiny 2 (opens in new tab)‘s latest update made sweeping changes to supers, multiple weapon archetypes, and one of the game’s oldest power problems (opens in new tab). With all that out of the way, Bungie’s set its sights on Destiny 2’s underwhelming clan system, which, per today’s This Week …
Read More »BioWare teases something special for the Anthem demos Sunday finale
After the troubled Anthem (opens in new tab) game VIP demo – which ended with BioWare handing out skins and javelins (opens in new tab) to make up for all the downtime – a public demo is scheduled for this weekend from Friday, February 1 through Sunday, February 3. What’s …
Read More »The biggest 2019 tech trends, and how they could affect gaming
The year in tech kicked off with a bang at CES 2019. While past events have often yielded a slate of products focused squarely on gimmicky tech, this year produced some genuinely interesting stuff with real world applications. From TVs that roll in on themselves to massive 65’ IPS monitors …
Read More »Atlas players are being overwhelmed by armies of wolves
Pictured: Altered Beast That new Atlas game (opens in new tab), the pirate survival MMO from Grapeshot Games – a sister studio to ARK: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard – got off to a rough start, to say the least. It was repeatedly delayed at the last minute, and like …
Read More »Fortnite has an icy orb in the sky and were all wondering if its the next Kevin
Great news, everyone! Fortnite (opens in new tab) now has Orb. An icy sphere levitating above Polar Peak appeared when update 7.20 went live earlier today, and it already has players (like J05H_Tries, who captured the source of the screenshot above) speculating about what it may mean. They’re especially curious …
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