2018’s NFL Draft is over. Free agency is complete too, at least where the major movers and shakers are concerned, meaning it’s now possible to predict how all 32 NFL teams will line up next season – and, as a result, who’ll be the most exciting to play as on …
Read More »Fortnites upcoming Jetpack item will be temporary but at least its Rocketeer skin is forever
Fortnite (opens in new tab) jetpacks are coming months after they were first announced (opens in new tab), but they won’t be staying long. A new announcement on Fortnite: Battle Royale’s in-game news page teases that the jetpack is “coming soon” (which typically means in the next patch) but the …
Read More »Halo arcade game opens at Dave & Busters summer 2018
A new Halo game is on the way, but probably not in the form you expected. Say hello to Halo: Fireteam Raven, a co-op arcade experience coming this summer to Dave & Buster’s restaurants: Taking place during the same timeframe as the original Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo: Fireteam Raven puts …
Read More »So will Borderlands 3 be at E3 2018 or not? Gearbox’s answer isn’t so simple
Rage 2 (opens in new tab) was announced earlier this week and, with its happy-go-lucky approach to an open-world post-apocalypse game, the comparisons to Gearbox’s Borderlands series were inevitable. Some commentators even worried whether Bethesda’s unexpected sequel would be completely overshadowed by the long awaited Borderlands 3, should that be …
Read More »Want to improve your life? Stop caring about completing games and just *finish* them
I used to think that achieving 100% completion of a game was the surest way to know I loved it. If I was truly enamored with a game’s world, aesthetic, and mechanics, why would I ever leave any extra content on the table? This was at an age when most …
Read More »“You’re going to own the apocalypse”: How Overkills The Walking Dead will make you excited about zombie games again
Resident Evil, Call of Duty, Dead Rising, Dying Light, Left 4 Dead, State of Decay, Dead Island, Plants vs. Zombies… it can often seem as though zombie games are as much of an epidemic as the creatures they so often portray. Not just that, but cast out the net into …
Read More »The Netherlands declares four games using loot boxes to be in violation of law
The Netherlands today declared (opens in new tab) that, after conducting an investigation into the matter, it found several high-profile games’ loot box systems to be illegal. If you’re strongly against the randomized reward system so widely adopted in modern games, you might be tempted to do a little dance …
Read More »Fortnite Battle Royale has removed Guided Missiles permanently in response to player complaints
The Guided Missile disappeared from Fortnite (opens in new tab) Battle Royale last week due to a glitch and now its leave of absence has been extended indefinitely. Developer Epic Games revealed in a post (opens in new tab) on the Fortnite Battle Royale subreddit that the still-quite-new weapon is …
Read More »“It’s closer to a melee short film almost than a straight-on trailer”: The story behind making Dead Island’s ground-breaking trailer
I definitely cried. Maybe you even cried. Who can blame us? Seven years ago one of the most talked-about trailers for a little-known game called Dead Island (opens in new tab) emerged, presenting gamers everywhere with a tragic tale of a family vacation gone wrong. Featuring sections that played in …
Read More »Yes, it sounds like bullsh*t, but according to this experiment gaming, movie, and TV spoilers supposedly make stories better
Yeah, yeah, I know. You’re probably ready to mount my head on a pike for suggesting that spoilers can increase your enjoyment of a movie, TV show, or game. And by no means am I suggesting we should start blurting out spoilers as soon as we get our hands on …
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