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By Stephany Nunneley, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:04 GMT Cloud Imperium Games has kicked off Invictus Launch Week in Star Citizen, which is an 11-day “Free Fly” event. The event kicks off today, and runs through June 1 and offers new players the opportunity to explore Star Citizen for free. The Free Fly event also

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Mortal Kombat 11 players will soon be able to play out one of the most-discussed cinematic battles of the 1980s that never actually happened. RoboCop and Terminator are both coming to the franchise, finally allowing gamers to answer for themselves

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The Switch is the biggest hardware success for Nintendo in years, but the money it makes on the console is nothing compared with game sales. Naturally, Nintendo is quick to deploy its army of lawyers when someone threatens to undermine

Ubisoft has revealed the next season of content coming to Rainbow Six Siege. Operation Steel Wave will introduce quite a few changes to the game, including a fully reworked House map, as well as the introduction of two new (and recently leaked) characters. The now-renovated House map retains much of the original’s look – for

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Video gaming is basically a giant bag of tricks designed to simulate the real-life environments around us. As such, developers have had to create methods of simulating ideas like weapons fire and hit effects. There are two main methods for

According to Ubisoft’s fiscal report from today, May 14, an unannounced triple-A game from one of its biggest franchises is coming this year. This applies to the current fiscal year, which runs from April 1, 2020, through March 31, 2021. Alongside the unannounced project – which, again, will be a triple-A game from one of

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. There are persistent rumors that both Diablo II and Diablo IV could drop before the end of the year, alongside the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Shadowlands. Blizzard has reportedly come under pressure to show more return on investment on

By Emily Gera, Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:17 GMT After two years of inactivity, the official Twitter account for the Mafia series has tweeted out a single word: Family. The tweet coincides with Mother’s Day here in North America, but if recent trademarks are anything to go by it’s more likely the tweet is teeing

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Whether you own a Nintendo Switch, a PS4 Pro, or an Xbox One X, you’ve got a platform capable of playing new, cutting-edge games — but what sets these machines apart from each other, or from mainstream gaming PCs? In

By Stephany Nunneley, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:42 GMT Skater XL has a release date. Skater XL will be released July 7 on PC through Steam, PlayStation 4, Switch, and Xbox One the developer, Easy Day Studios, has announced. The game will be made available digitally on all platforms and on disc for PS4 and

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Microsoft launched Xbox Game Pass in 2017, seeking to become the long-fabled “Netflix for games.” The company has never talked about subscriber counts, until now. In its most recent investor call, Microsoft revealed Xbox Game Pass has seen strong growth

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 2 May 2020 15:30 GMT If you have been wanting to try Media Molecule’s Dreams, you can now through a demo. A demo for Dreams is rolling out worldwide on the PlayStation Store, and if you like what you experience, you can grab the game on sale. The demo includes the

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. For fans of retro game consoles and home computer systems, it’s been a long time coming: RetroPie 4.6 has launched, with the star feature being official support for the Raspberry Pi 4. The RetroPie team took its time on purpose

By Stephany Nunneley, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 17:45 GMT Xbox Games with Gold for May have been announced for Xbox One and Xbox 360 May’s Xbox Games with Gold update includes V-Rally 4, Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr, Sensible World of Soccer, and Overlord 2. V-Rally 4 will be available May 1-31 on Xbox One, and Warhammer

By Elizabeth Henges, Friday, 24 April 2020 17:15 GMT There have been problems with Nintendo Switch Lite production due to COVID, but the system is slowly coming back into stock. If you want one, you’ll want to grab it now before it’s too late! In the US, you can get the Switch Lite at GameStop.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has upended economic activity around the globe and made it rather difficult to plan a PC upgrade. With tens of millions of people recently out of work and everyone stuck at home, boosting the performance of the hardware you’ve got on hand suddenly became a lot more interesting. Before we kick-off,

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Computers today are so enormously improved from the devices I used in my childhood, it scarcely feels accurate to refer to them with the same word. Mostly, that’s a good thing. I do not miss the days when hard drive

By James Pickard, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:24 GMT The Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox controller is now available to order from various retailers. We caught a glimpse of the not-very-cyberpunk Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox controller just last week when it was accidentally listed at Amazon Canada. Now, it’s been officially revealed and is available to order right

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Just when you thought the “Can it Run Crysis” meme might be finally, mercifully consigned to the dustbin of history, Crytek has announced it’ll be remastering the original game for modern hardware. The original Crysis, released in 2007, was lauded

By Stephany Nunneley, Thursday, 16 April 2020 16:51 GMT PC and N64 classic Star Wars Episode 1: Racer is to coming to PlayStation 4 and Switch in May. Star Wars Episode 1: Racer will be released for PS4 and Switch with modernized controls for your podracer on May 14. All of the FMV sequences in

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Many of today’s biggest games feature loot box gameplay mechanics that critics claim are little different than gambling. Now, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) has announced it will take loot boxes a bit more seriously. Going forward, titles that

Final Fantasy 7 Remake isn’t just about remaking a classic game, despite the name. It’s about recontextualizing an entire beloved world. This article will remain spoiler-free from specific details, but will discuss the broad strokes of Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s approach to narrative. The spoiler sensitive should come back later. Final Fantasy 7 Reimagined is

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google has finally had an idea for how to expand Stadia’s audience, and it only took a worldwide pandemic for the company to realize there might be a better way to reach potential customers. A recent company blog post states:

In FIFA 20, football’s top strikers are deadlier than ever. Thanks to the new ball-physics system that mean you can finish more emphatically than ever, you can poach goals more consistently. Here are the best strikers in FIFA 20 to drive your team to glory. We’ve updated some of our suggestions based on the January

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:14 GMT Infinity Ward has announced when you can expect season three of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone to kick off. Modern Warfare and Warzone players can expect season three to start next week on April 8. Details on what to expect haven’t been provided as

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Evidently someone designated the first week of April as “laptop week” and forgot to notify us. AMD and Intel both made significant moves in mobile this week, as did Nvidia. Team Green is announcing a new feature to match AMD’s

Once upon a time, Microsoft promised a truly impressive 4K overhaul for Minecraft and then canceled it. Shortly thereafter, Nvidia announced that it would create an RTX-powered version of Minecraft, delivering ray-traced visuals to Nvidia owners who own the Windows 10 version of the game and want to play it in this mode. Nvidia has

Tending to your island in Animal Crossing New Horizons more or less requires you to make it pretty – and what better way to do that than with Flowers? Flowers in Animal Crossing New Horizons come in a variety of different breeds that have different looks, and each of those breeds also have a range

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. It’s been a long time since Valve took us to the world of Half-Life, but the wait may have been worth it. The newly released Half-Life: Alyx is being called a true virtual reality masterpiece. It’s actually driving many people

Call of Duty: Warzone battle royale suffers by neglecting a key pillar of the genre. Call of Duty: Warzone is a special kind of battle royale. It innovates and introduces new mechanics, sure, but the way it takes down and repurposes core battle royale tenets is what makes it interesting. For better or worse, those