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14 CommentsWatch an hour of gameplay from Ghost Recon Wildlands
One of the most unexpected surprises from Ubisoft’s E3 2015 press conference was Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands. Set in a fictionalized version of Bolivia taken over by a drug cartel, Wildlands marks the first mainline Ghost Recon game in five years. Ubisoft says the game contains the largest action-adventure open world the company has ever created.
Above, check out 23 minutes of single-player PlayStation 4 Pro gameplay from the open world of Wildlands, and below, check out 37 minutes of four player co-op gameplay from another of the game’s 21 regions.
Ghost Recon Wildlands comes out March 7, 2017 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.
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7 CommentsHeroes of the Dorm drops ESPN for Facebook in third season
After two years of broadcasting on ESPN, Blizzard’s Heroes of the Dorm competition will return for a 2017 season — but this time it will be broadcast entirely through Facebook. Blizzard made the announcement today, revealing that all stages of this year’s Heroes of the Dorm will take place on the Heroes of the Storm Esports Facebook page, including the Heroic Four and National Championship matches.
As with previous seasons, Heroes of the Dorm will see a collection of college-based teams facing off in matches of Heroes of the Storm and attempt to win major prizes. More than $500,000 in scholarships will be rewarded, including paid tuition for members of the winning team.
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Final Fantasy 7: An oral history
30,000 words! 35 interviews! 4 videos! A trivia minigame! We take an in-depth look back at Square’s breakthrough role-playing game.
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18 CommentsPrey launching in early May, watch the new trailer
Prey, Arkane Studios’ reboot of the first-person shooter series, will be released May 5 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, publisher Bethesda Softworks announced today.
Bethesda also released the second gameplay trailer for Prey today, showing off more of the space station Talos I and the story in the game. We learn that Morgan Yu, the protagonist of Prey — who can be male or female, depending on the player’s choice — is the vice president and director of research for the TranStar Corporation.
It appears that Yu has been studying alien life forms known as Typhon onboard Talos I and doing research into “neuromods.” These mods, which are based on the Typhon creatures, confer alien powers to humans ... by being injected into an eye socket.
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6 CommentsHitman adds Professional Difficulty in next update
Hitman's next update, coming Jan. 31, will deliver a new difficulty level, Professional, Io Interactive announced this morning. The new content is free.
Intended for skilled players looking for a challenge on a replay, Professional Difficulty only becomes available after reaching Mastery Level 20 for a specific location. The difficulty setting introduces restrictions and enhancements regarding item availability and use, advanced AI in enemies and security cameras, limited saves and a new set of rewards.
Hitman's leaderboards will be segmented by difficulty level once Professional Difficulty is introduced. Professional Difficulty is available for all story missions in Season One, except for the prologue. However, live content such as Elusive Targets and Escalation Targets will only be...
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20 CommentsOverwatch’s Year of the Rooster event introduced a weird bug: skinny Mei
Overwatch’s Year of the Rooster event went live on Tuesday, bringing with it a new capture the flag gameplay mode and a bunch of new skins and other cosmetics themed around the Chinese New Year. It also introduced its share of minor bugs, including one that puzzled players: an unusually skinny Mei.
Mei’s new Lunar New Year skins — Luna and Chang’e — appeared to give her a much thinner, unnatural-looking waist, Overwatch players noticed shortly after the update went live. Compare Mei’s (contentious) Christmas-themed outfit to her new Year of the Rooster skins:
In profile, Mei’s tinier waist looked even more unusual, if not straight-up broken.
Blizzard says that slimmed-down Mei is a glitch, and it will require a patch to remedy.
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26 CommentsOverwatch’s capture the flag mode took years to figure out, but it may be here to stay
Overwatch’s Chinese New Year event adds more than just festive skins to the game. It adds a new game mode, called “Capture the Rooster,” a holiday-themed take on the classic playground game capture the flag. The popular game type’s inclusion may come as a surprise to longtime Overwatch fans, who recall Blizzard Entertainment’s repeated comments about how capture the flag just wouldn’t work for the hero shooter.
“Over the years, when we were iterating and testing various versions of capture the flag, we actually gave up on the mode for awhile,” director Jeff Kaplan explained in his latest “Developer Update” video, above. “We felt like what we didn’t want to do was add a bunch of rules that no longer made Overwatch heroes feel like Overwatch heroes.”
The problem that Blizzard frequently...
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22 CommentsLadykiller in a Bind shows that we’re not ready to handle messy queer stories
Indie game developer Christine Love has rewritten a scene from her latest game, Ladykiller in a Bind, after backlash from players. In her patch notes, Love reports that “the bulk of the scene has been completely rewritten,” and now contains no sexual content.
While we completely support Love’s decision to edit the scene, the conversation around its existence has been disheartening. Ladykiller in a Bind is a game about queer women, by a queer woman. It is the perfect vehicle for queer women to explore fantasies — even fantasies that may seem unsavory. It’s valuable that these stories are told from a queer woman’s perspective.
Before we continue, be aware that this story includes frank depictions of sex and dubious consent. There won’t be any sexual images that would get you in trouble at...
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8 CommentsHow does Resident Evil 7 tie in to the rest of the series?
Today’s release of Resident Evil 7 marks a major shift for Capcom’s biggest franchise. In addition to changing to first-person, the game’s plot is distinct from the rest of the series, shifting from global zombie outbreaks to the horror of a single psychotic family. With the developer unwilling to give any clues, fans have wondered if or how the scenario in Resident Evil 7 ties in to the wider RE universe that has been growing for 20 years now.
It goes without saying, but this post contains major spoilers for Resident Evil 7. If you’re planning to play the game and don’t want plot elements ruined for you, please do not read any further. If you’d prefer to read some spoiler-free words about the game, consider checking out our review instead.
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11 CommentsOverwatch’s Chinese New Year event is live
Blizzard Entertainment’s newest seasonal event for Overwatch, Year of the Rooster, is now live, bringing a new batch of cosmetic items and a new gameplay mode, Capture the Rooster, to the game.
Overwatch’s take on capture the flag takes place on Lijiang Tower. Players must secure the enemy flag while the opposing team tries to do the same. “In this fast-paced brawl, players will need to get creative with their team compositions as they attempt construct a lineup that’s simultaneously built for offensive speed and defensive stability,” Blizzard said of the limited-time game mode.
Today’s update also brings more than 100 new cosmetic items — character skins, sprays, voice lines, emotes and more — to Overwatch. These include Journey to the West-inspired skins for characters like Zenyatta,...
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16 CommentsResident Evil 7’s first DLC adds new mode next week
Resident Evil 7 biohazard is now available, and Capcom celebrated the hotly anticipated horror game’s launch by announcing details about its upcoming downloadable content. Two packs of DLC will arrive beginning Jan. 31, and they’ll add new modes to play, as well as some new — and terrifying — playable episodes.
Banned Footage Vol. 1 will hit PlayStation 4 first on Jan. 31, according to the Capcom Unity blog; it will then come to Windows PC and Xbox One on Feb. 21. Included in the $9.99 set are two new pieces of videotape, which contain scenes that players actually interact with throughout Resident Evil 7, not just watch. These are “Bedroom” and “Nightmare,” which players should expect to be pretty dang horrifying.
Also scary: a mode called “Ethan Must Die,” which is not compatible with...
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20 CommentsOverwatch Chinese New Year event skins, details leak out early (update)
A trailer for Overwatch’s next seasonal event based on the upcoming Chinese New Year, has made its way online. A member of the Chinese social network Weibo uploaded a low-res version of a teaser for the Year of the Rooster promotion, which is set for Jan. 24.
The trailer, which is an advertisement for the Chinese market, is grainy, but it gives fans a quick look at costumes for a variety of heroes. Symmetra is decked out in a red-and-gold dress, appropriate for the holiday. Roadhog, Reinhardt, Winston and Zenyatta resemble characters from the classic Chinese story Journey to the West, which boasts a cast full of animals that are also featured in the Zodiac.
The quartet’s skins are seen more clearly in another ad that made it online ahead of the trailer. A poster showing the four in...
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4 CommentsWhat does the Dirty Coin do in Resident Evil 7?
Ever since Resident Evil 7’s initial demo was released last summer, fans were obsessed with a bizarre puzzle that seemed to have no solution. Then, after a final update to the demo in December, players finally cracked the code. The reward for all of this trouble? An item called the Dirty Coin that players could take with them into the release version of Resident Evil 7.
Since then, fans have spent the last month speculating on what the Dirty Coin will accomplish in the full game. Now that we’ve played it, we can give you the big reveal, and it’s ... kind of disappointing, actually.
Throughout the course of Resident Evil 7, you can pick up special collectibles called Ancient Coins. At a few points throughout the game, you’ll encounter locked bird cages that can be opened by placing a set...
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24 CommentsMass Effect: Andromeda gets 10-hour EA Access trial
People who subscribe to EA Access or Origin Access will be able to play Mass Effect: Andromeda for up to 10 hours before the game launches, publisher Electronic Arts announced recently.
The trial will go live March 16, five days before Mass Effect: Andromeda’s March 21 release date. EA Access and Origin Access are available on Xbox One and Windows PC, respectively, meaning that as always, PlayStation 4 owners will miss out on the trial.
EA also announced the next four games that it will add to the EA Access Vault: Dead Space: Ignition, Madden NFL 17, Skate 3 and Zuma’s Revenge. That will expand the Vault over the 40-game mark “later this year,” according to EA.
The set of games is notable because of the presence of Skate 3, which was originally released in 2010 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox...
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8 CommentsDark Souls 3’s final DLC stops by The Ringed City this March
The last expansion for Dark Souls 3, The Ringed City, will launch on March 28. Bandai Namco Entertainment revealed the release date alongside a trailer for the downloadable content, showing off what awaits players in the apocalyptic cityscape at the world’s end.
The DLC is coming to PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One, and will cost $14.99. Owners of the $24.99 season pass will receive the expansion — the game’s second after last fall’s Ashes of Ariandel — when it launches.
The Ringed City will introduce new characters to the game as players traverse the world of Dark Souls 3 in pursuit of the Slave Knight Gael. There will also be new armor, weapons and magic to check out along the way to and within the hellish Ringed City.
Although we weren’t as enamored of Dark Souls 3 as we were...
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2 CommentsTekken 7 finally hits consoles this June
Tekken 7 will launch on June 2, Bandai Namco Entertainment announced. The long-awaited fighting game arrives on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One after years in development and an at-times controversial stint in arcades.
Ahead of the June release, Bandai Namco announced both a season pass and several pre-order bonuses for Tekken fans. Players who reserve the game starting today will get a downloadable character: Eliza, a vampiric fighter who first joined the series in Tekken Revolution. For those playing Tekken 7 on Xbox One, they’ll also get free, backward-compatible copies of Tekken 6 for Xbox 360.
PlayStation 4 players, on the other hand, will get exclusive costumes and a jukebox mode when the game launches this June.
The game’s season pass will include three different content...
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2 CommentsHovercraft shooter Crash Force arrives in Early Access
Crash Force is a multiplayer hovercraft arena shooter that's due to be released on Windows PC and Xbox One in April. But the game is available now via Steam Early Access.
Cyprus-based developer Ascanio Entertainment also released a trailer for the game this week (above).
Players take control of class-based vehicles which are then customizeable through upgrade trees. Power-ups for individual classes are available during battles. Modes include Team Showdown, Capture the Flag and Control the Nest in player-vs-player configurations up to 6-v-6. Crash Force currently costs $29.99.
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21 CommentsThe Division's major new update detailed
Alongside the release of its third paid expansion, Last Stand, Ubisoft is also rolling out Update 1.6 to all players of its shooting game The Division. So what's new?
In a blog post this week, Ubi outlined the changes, which the company says are some of the most significant it's brought to the apocalyptic game since its launch in March last year.
Most important is the opening of a new area in the northern parts of the PvP and PvE Dark Zone where Dark Zone 7, 8 and 9 will now be available. Ubi describes the situations in these areas as "especially dire" with "a couple of surprises."
The company says these new spaces — including vertical and underground arenas — almost double the total size of the current Dark Zone. Players will now be able to insta-travel around the map.
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11 CommentsNostalgic shooter Strafe gets a March release date
Tongue-in-cheek throwback shooter Strafe is arriving on March 28 on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC, according to publisher Devolver Digital.
The game first garnered attention following the release of an absurdly '90s trailer back in 2015. Further examination revealed an unabashedly straightforward shooting game, that's right out of 1998. The game is being developed by indie team Pixel Titans.
"We’re seeing a generational shift of nostalgia from side-scrolling pixel art to primitive 3D," said developer Thom Glunt in a 2015 interview with Polygon. "We aimed for that 20-year-old aesthetic because I absolutely loved Quake and I loved Doom and I wanted more of it."
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15 CommentsHalo Wars 2 multiplayer demo is live now
Halo Wars 2 is a realtime strategy game for Windows PC and Xbox One that's due to be released next month. In the meantime, publisher Microsoft has launched a multiplayer demo that eases players into the game's action sequences.
Halo Wars Blitz is free-to-play for anyone with Windows 10 or an Xbox Live Gold account. It replaces the basic start-game RTS mechanic of resource gathering, base building and tech tree advancement with a card-based strategy.
Players select from a random pack of cards, balancing their attack and defense budgets, before going into battle with a human opponent. The demo is strictly player-vs-player right now, but there will be an opportunity to play this mode against an AI when the final game launches.
"For fans new to RTS, Blitz takes players straight into...
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