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Fancy tweaking some Halo games to make some cool or cursed content? Then good news! Yesterday, developers 343 industries released modding tools for Halo 2 and Halo 3 alongside the Master Chief Collection‘s season 8 update. Halo: Combat Evolved got its own official modding tools back in June, and the new tools for 2 and

The animated film Injustice will have a segment during this Saturday’s DC FanDome event, but we have an exclusive clip from the movie before the festivities kick-off. In case you’re new to the Injustice lore, Superman has gone bad after Joker kills Lois Lane and establishes a global dictatorship to enforce essentially martial law. That doesn’t sit

Can you play Split Screen co-op in Back 4 Blood? Back 4 Blood harkens back to some classic co-op games like Left 4 Dead, so many of you are probably wondering whether you can hunker down on the sofa and play split screen like you did before. This guide will let you know whether you

The first Mortal Kombat game turns 30 years old in 2022, but series co-creator Ed Boon points out that 2021 marks 30 years since he and fellow creator John Tobias began making the game. To mark the occasion, Boon hopped on Twitter to share a fascinating behind-the-scenes clip of the making of Scorpion’s iconic spear

Last week, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) filed an objection to an $18 million proposed settlement between Activision Blizzard and the USA’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), claiming it could harm their own lawsuit with the Call Of Duty and World Of Warcraft publishers. This objection might have an adverse affect on

Microsoft has been dropping custom Xbox Series X consoles left and right lately. Video games, superhero movies, and even snack foods have all been plastered on the tough-to-find console, though the latest collaboration falls more into the game category. Mostly. To celebrate last week’s launch of the Super Smash Bros.-like fighter Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Microsoft has created

How can you upgrade tools in New World? Tools and weapons in New World can come in various different qualities, as reflected by their tier. Technically in this game you don’t upgrade your tools — in as much as you don’t use a lower-tier item as a base for a higher-tier upgrade. But there are

New World‘s server transfer system won’t be as flexible as first suggested. Amazon had originally said that players would be able to switch between servers in different regions, letting you move a character from, for example, a North American server to a European one. As of yesterday, they confirmed that’s not the case.

Soon, virtual worlds will be crawling with skeletons, jack o’ lanterns, and all that good stuff. While the various digital spaces we inhabit have different histories, different religions, different species, so many differences, it’s nice to see that one belief is shared across almost every facet of the multiverse: actually, skeletons are really cool.

Children of Morta is a recommendation I give to people who are looking for something a little different to play. I’m extending that recommendation to you, too. This story-driven dungeon crawler has a powerful storytelling pulse, a rewarding progression system, and plenty of variety in its Diablo-like combat. You join the Bergson family on their

Rockstar Games announced Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition today, which features remasters of GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas. The company also announced that to celebrate the 20th anniversary of GTA 3, commemorative gear will be added to Grand Theft Auto Online this Fall. Rockstar says throughout upcoming events hitting

Rockstar Games celebrates 20 years since the release of Grand Theft Auto III with the confirmation that the 2001 classic, along with Vice City and San Andreas, will be re-released to modern consoles and PC in one special collection.  That previously rumored collection, dubbed Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, features a swath of

Bungie have announced plans to remove the Forsaken expansion’s story campaign from Destiny 2, shuffling it into the Destiny Content Vault along with the Tangled Shore location. The Dreaming City will stay, thankfully, and Bungie also plan to pull some old content back out of the Vault. Before Forsaken vanishes in February, it will become

Halo Infinite isn’t even out yet, but that’s not stopping players from stretching its systems to their limits in the multiplayer technical previews as of late.  The latest batch of technical previews happened during the previous two weekends and in those previews, the classic Halo mode, Big Team Battle, was available to play. Matches took

While Valve yesterday were busy cracking open a Steam Deck, CD Projekt Red showed us a game actually running on one. They’ve posted a series of short videos of them playing The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt on Valve’s handheld PC and yup, that seems to run well enough. The game might be a few

Everybody’s got that one snack they like to eat while gaming (unless you’re pure of heart and keep snacks away from controllers) and if Trolli’s gummi worms are your thing, you’re going to want to sit down. That’s because Trolli is giving away 20 custom gummi worm-themed Xbox Series S consoles.  Announced as part of Xbox’s ongoing

A week after launch New World continues to see hundreds of thousands of players logging on to get a piece of that sweet new MMORPG action. Just this weekend, the game nearly hit a million concurrent players on Steam. But with that popularity has come long queues, and some players are going AFK once they

Epic Games has revealed that some of Universal’s classic and iconic monsters are coming to Fortnite.  Epic announced the news today, revealing that the first monstrous icon to join the battle royale will be Frankenstein’s Monster. Throughout the month, more monsters will be added to the Item Shop, but Epic only revealed one more that players

Which is the best starting zone to get in New World? Unfortunately, at the time of writing, you can’t choose or change your New World starting zone. Once you’ve joined a server and created your character you play through a brief prologue, and then the game randomly spawns you into one of its four starting

You may have been introduced to the studio by Dark Souls, but Tokyo’s From Software has a lengthy history in the game industry. While visiting the studio for our October cover story on Dark Souls III, we spoke with senior managing director Masanori Takeuchi about his 20-year career within From Software’s walls. Throughout the interview,

Four days before the start of their huge Dota 2 tournament, Valve have called off having a live audience at The International. This year’s event in Romania was meant to be a glorious return after 2020’s International was cancelled by the pandemic, but that pandemic is not yet over. With Covid-19 infection rates in Romania

Madness: Project Nexus will stir nostalgia for people who used to play browser games via Newgrounds. It’s a fully 3D entry in the Madness Combat series of Flash animations which began in 2002, and named after the Flash game released in 2012.

Accessibility in games has been a rising topic over the past few years, and rightly so. The more people can play games, the better. Companies are adding in all kinds of options and modes to make games more accessible in various ways, but finding out which games have the options someone may be looking for

There’s no shortage of developers reafirming a love for PC as a platform lately. Sega want to do more PC ports. Atari have restructured and shifted focus to consoles and PC. Capcom too, are now saying that they want PC to be their main platform with an equal share of their game sales within the

Everybody’s favorite pair of Avatars have finally been confirmed for the roster of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, just days before release. Both Aang and Korra will be bending all kinds of elements against the likes of Ren and Stimpy, Danny Phantom, and Patrick Star. While Aang can utilize bending techniques for all four basic elements in

Ever want to know how long you’ve been jamming on a game? Xbox users are one step closer to readily available information as part of the console user interface. The feature is still in testing, but certain Xbox Insiders can use the feature with a new update, which is still in the testing phase. Xbox

Wondering how to get a house in Genshin Impact? Genshin Impact’s Serenitea Pot system grants you the ability to decorate your own realm with characters, furniture, plants, rocks, and even pets. Some players have carefully crafted gardens with elegantly decorated houses. Other players have simply used their teapots to trap Venti in an empty room

Splatoon 3 made a splat during last week’s Nintendo Direct, reaffirming its release next year while giving a peek at the campaign with the return of mammals to the world. Nintendo is keeping the information momentum flowing on Twitter with some new screenshots and details about two new special weapons to use in battle. First

Amazon’s sandbox MMO New World instantly become one of the most-played games on Steam when it launched this week (briefly the most), and some of those 700,000 ‘players’ even made it through the server queues to actually play. The devs have been scrambling to meet demand ever since and continue to open new servers, in

Every month, PlayStation Plus subscribers reap the benefit of a handful of free games to go along with the other perks of the service. Since the launch of the PS5, one title has been dedicated to the new-generation console, and the trend continues moving into October. October’s selection of free PlayStation Plus games brings an