The next Overwatch map sends players into the war-torn Australian Outback, the home of Junkrat and Roadhog. Junkertown is an escort map like Dorado, Watchpoint: Gibraltar, and Route 66, and it looks like a dusty hellhole made perfectly for Junkrat’s frag launcher (and maybe even some sniper characters). The story behind the map and theRead more
Any parent who has had to endure constant whines of “Are we there yet?” from their precious darlings in the backseat knows the value of on-the-road entertainment during a family road trip. And today, in addition to tried-and-true analog classics (the “Alphabet Game,” “Count the Cows,” etc. etc.), mobile tech mercifully provides hours of amusementRead more
Amazon and Best Buy kicked off pre-orders for the Super NES Classic in the wee morning hours of Tuesday. You probably missed it. You’ll always miss it. These things weren’t meant to be owned by the mainstream. And yet. Here we have not just a new trailer for the SNES Classic, but word of aRead more
The newest chapter of the Uncharted series, The Lost Legacy, should make you want to throw out every game in the franchise before it. Calling Lost Legacy a promising next step for the series in a post-Nathan Drake world doesn’t do it justice. In fact, it’s practically an insult. The comparison diminishes what the gameRead more
We don’t know much about the upcoming game Biomutant, but our first look at gameplay shows a beautiful, promising, and weird-in-an-awesome-way game. Biomutant was revealed with a cinematic trailer at Gamescom earlier this week, starring a raccoon-ish rodent wearing a badass eye patch and taking on large enemies with top-of-the-line sword skills. Today’s look atRead more
What… is this? Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition looks like — and seemingly is — a cutesy re-skin of the hit 2016 game from Square Enix. It’s a re-telling of the console game’s story for your Android, iOS, and Windows 10 mobile devices. To make the sprawling game more digestible for smaller screens, Square hasRead more
Over the weekend, Splatoon 2‘s Inkopolis started looking like the video game equivalent of an LGBT pride parade, and it’s absolutely glorious. In the central virtual square for the game, the love was apparent to anyone who launched Splatoon 2 and looked around at other players’ posts. Sparked by an original post declaring that LGBTRead more
There’s a new trailer for Battlefront II and it’s all about the “star” part of Star Wars. Starfighter Assault is the upcoming sequel’s mode for people who crave dogfights and nothing but dogfights. As with the rest of the game, the mode’s Battlefront II appearance spans all the timelines of the Star Wars series, fromRead more
League of Legends developer Riot Games just learned an important (and potentially expensive) lesson: You can’t use someone’s likeness without their permission. Former professional soccer player Edgar Davids won a lawsuit against Riot Games alleging that a character skin in League of Legends used his likeness. A Dutch judge agreed with Davids’s allegations and nowRead more
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