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Griefing, a term applying to any bad faith behaviour in an online game, whether it’s ruining things for your group or harassing other players, has reared its ugly head since early MMOs like Ultima Online. The behaviour existed even further back in MUDs, text-based multi-user dungeons, before the term griefing had been coined. Yet, going

Ark: Genesis, the monstrous next expansion for Ark: Survival Evolved, has been delayed. Again. Well, half of it, at least. While the first bit of Ark’s massive two-part expansion was set to embark last December, its release was later pushed back to January. This week, Studio Wildcard regret to inform us that we’ll need to

Pour one out for Stormdivers, readers. Developers Housemarque today revealed that the long-suffering battle royale contender is being shelved indefinitely, along with all other projects at the studio – save one. See, if there’s any remorse in the Finnish firm’s announcement, it doesn’t show. On Housemarque’s 25th anniversary, the developers are gearing up to announce

Talking to villagers in Shenmue III can be a time consuming and sometimes confusing process. In patch 1.04, developer Ys Net is taking some of the bite out of these talks. Players can now skip the initial conversation with a villager. If you want to speed things up or talk to someone for a second

Today marks the release of the first episode of The Dreadnought Diaries, a series of videos aiming to give insight into the various projects in development at Ninja Theory. While the beginning touches on Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II and the previously announced The Insight Project, the video closes out with a tease of a new

MLB the Show 20’s first gameplay trailer has just dropped, giving teases of some of what’s to come when the game releases for PS4 on March 17. Apart from some new legends like John Franco, David Ortiz, and Mariano Rivera, the trailer also shows off some personality with team celebrations and Juan Soto’s ”Soto Shuffle.” In

The Samsung T7 Touch is the latest member of Samsung’s portable SSD family. Like the Samsung T5 before it, this titchy drive has a lovely, sleek aluminium chassis that’s roughly the same size as a couple of stacked credit cards. Only now it has a fancy fingerprint reader for extra security and supports the nippier

Funko revealed the first wave of Cyberpunk 2077 Pops at this year’s London Toy Fair. Unlike McFarlane Toys’ recent announcement of Cyberpunk action figures which just consists of a male version of main character V, Funko is creating both male and female figures. You’ll also be able to purchase two different versions of Johnny Silverhand:

Ubisoft are taking the owners of a website offering DDoS (Dedicated Denial of Service) attacks against Rainbow Six: Siege to court.. The lawsuit, filed in California last week, accused the owners of SNG.ONE and affiliated sites of offering server-killing services at a premium. Ubisoft are seeking to have the sites concerned shut down for good,

Warner Bros. Animation via The Hollywood Reporter A live-action film is set to debut in 2021, but fans won’t have to wait long to enjoy a cinematic adventure set in the brutal universe of Mortal Kombat. Warner Bros. Animation has announced Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, an animated film following many of the series’ most iconic

There are rumours that robo-dinosaur hunting adventure Horizon: Zero Dawn is coming to PC soon, which would be the first time a game produced by a Sony-owned studio has shaken loose from its console shackles. We’ve also seen other former PlayStation exclusives developed by third-party studios make the leap to PC in the past year,

Overwatch is ringing in the new year with new face-changing technology. Kicking off today and running until February 6, players can earn new skins that are themed to the Lunar New Year, which just happens to be the Year of the Rat. The skin players will likely want the most is Face-Changing Sombra, which is

Ahead of Rainbow Six Siege‘s tournament next month, the Six Invitational 2020, Ubisoft are sending players on a month long in-game event. The Road To SI 2020 playlist will last for five weekends with a matching Battle Pass and unlockable rewards on a brand new map. From January 15th to February 16th, players will have

If you’re wondering what games are coming up in 2020, we’ve put them all in one convenient location. This list will be continually updated to act as a living, breathing schedule as new dates are announced, titles are delayed, and big reveals happen. This should help you plan out your next several months in gaming

I’m going to level with you, I’m extremely late to the party with The Witcher. I never played the games or read the books, so the Netflix series is very much my entry point to all of its extensive lore. And from what I’ve seen so far, it demands a fair bit of prior knowledge

This week, the industry’s still a sleepy after the Christmas holiday but Monster Hunter: World’s Iceborne expansion got its delayed PC launch (with a few wrinkles), an American trade union launched a new campaign encouraging unionising the games industry, and Awesome Games Done Quick raised millions for charity with a week of speedrunning. Read on

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has several excellent multiplayer modes, but none deliver the intimate intensity of Gunfight. What started out as a mode delivering 2v2 battles, has since adopted 1v1 fights, and will soon add 3v3 battles in a forthcoming update. Developer Infinity Ward announced the news on its blog, and also revealed additional

For several years now, a group of volunteer modders called The Elder Scrolls Renewal Project have been working on Skywind, a standalone mod recreating Morrowind using Skyrim’s creation kit. The Skywind team posted a rare development video today giving a status update on the project wrapped in a callout for new volunteers in several disciplines

Will this Warner Bros. Montreal tease actually lead to an announcement? The studio’s last attempt from September 2019 didn’t go anywhere. In that moment, Warner Bros. Montreal released a series of logos that looked vaguely Batman-like, and today’s tease is basically the same thing. The studio released pieces of a logo across three of its social-media

During today’s Pokémon Direct presentation, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announced two new expansions that add new areas to explore and new Pokémon to catch. However, as a part of these big updates, Pokémon Sword & Shield will add several Pokémon from past games that did not initially appear in the games when they launched

Yes, I know. Fallout 76 is not exactly a beloved game what with the whole Fallout 1st subscription launching at the same time the free Wastelanders update was delayed. Before that was the game’s initial, buggy launch. There are still players out there who do seem to love it and continue to make delightfully silly creations

Earlier this year we introduced the upcoming IP Corner Wolves by new developer Brass Lion – a studio started by vets who’ve worked on the Mass Effect, Sleeping Dogs, and Fallout franchises.  Corner Wolves tells the story of Jacinte, a young afro-latina living in mid-’90s Harlem who is caught up in events after she finds her father murdered. The

As well as a plentiful supply of new gaming monitors to coo over this week, this year’s CES tech bonanza has also brought us dozens of new gaming laptops, including the world’s most powerful 14in laptop, the Asus Zephyrus G14. But it’s not so much the G14’s souped up innards that have me all aflutter

We have entered 2020. We survived that entire monolith of a decade. I don’t know what 2019 was like for you, but I think I can say with a degree of certitude that I have had better years. Despite the apocalyptic politics, the extreme weather (incl. fires, floods, and earthquakes oh my), and the continued

Like a brief flicker of life in a dead Bloodsucker’s eyes, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Twitter account popped up with an announcement this week. The sequel is still being developed, and it’s being made in the Unreal Engine, the pixel powerhouse behind such games as Fortnite and—uh—Bacon Man: An Adventure. Developers GSC Game World seem to

If you have Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and own an Xbox One, you can download Styx: Shards of Darkness now through January 31. Styx is a 2017 stealth/action game from developer Cyanide. You’ll also have the chance to download Batman: The Telltale series starting January 16 and running through February 15.

This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the difficult journeys they’ve taken to make their games. This time, Unity Of Command II [official site]. The first Unity Of Command was designed for the open steppes of the Eastern Front. There, the major battles were about manoeuvre, with tank units chasing and

Cyberpunk 2077 launches on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on April 16, and there’s a good chance you’ll be able to pick up a Keanu Reeves/Johnny Silverhand action figure on the same day. McFarlane Toys is launching three different Cyberpunk 2077 action figures in the spring. Two of these figures are of Silverhand, one

This one is worth a snort of disgust, for sure Every year we are put in a cardboard box full of straw and carefully packed away in the treehouse attic, until Graham wakes up on January 3rd and chains us to our desks again. It’s a cosy little break for us, but we don’t want

Very specific indeed Every year we are put in a cardboard box full of straw and carefully packed away in the treehouse attic, until Graham wakes up on January 3rd and chains us to our desks again. It’s a cosy little break for us, but we don’t want you to feel alone. That’s why we’ve