To kick off today’s BlizzCon 2019 opening ceremony, Blizzard Entertainment president J. Allen Brack addressed the recent controversy surrounding the company’s actions toward Hearthstone player Ng “Blitzchung” Wai Chung earlier this month. Blitzchung received a yearlong ban from competition and had his winnings withheld after a post-match interview where he delivered a “Liberate Hong Kong”
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As we now know, the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers is set in a time where the superhero team has been disbanded and it’s up to Kamala Khan (aka Ms. Marvel) to grab Thor, entice Iron Man, and unsulk the Hulk. Basically she’s reassembling the Avengers, trying to bring them together to fight off the evil organisation
On December 20, the long-awaited Netflix adaptation, starring Man of Steel’s Henry Cavil, finally arrives. Based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s influential novels, The Witcher will cover material prior to the beloved CD Projekt Red games – meaning both fans of the games and newcomers will have something fresh to look forward to. Check out the enticing
It’s Halloween! We’ve put the Hivemind Of Horror into a spooky jar of bubbling green liquid, and it’ll be pumping horror-themed articles onto the site today. Do you struggle with horror games? Me too. I could list exceptions. System Shock 2, or the good Aliens Vs Predator (even after months of playing it, getting caught
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What’s a holiday to The Outer Worlds without Companions to share the journey with? Obsidian’s latest open-world(s) RPG is very reminiscent of games such as Mass Effect, providing you with six different Companions to bring aboard your ship, the Unreliable, and help you in the quests and battles you face. They also have their own
EA and Valve are partnering up to put both games and EA Access (EA’s subscription service) on Steam. The first big drop for this initiative is Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on Steam, launching on November 15. A glance at the title’s Steam page seems to indicate that users opting in on Steam will still need to
Can’t Stop Playing is our monthly celebration of a game we’re loving. This time we have been buried under the pixel avalanches of physicsy roguelike Noita. Watch out for more articles on it throughout the month. Castle Shotgun has been ringing with the sound of spells, explosions, and squelching purple monsters thank to the chaotic
Death Stranding developer Kojima Productions has announced that the title is coming to PC some time next summer, and it’ll be published by 505 Games. Kojima Productions made the announcement via twitter, and currently there are no other details regarding any possible additional content or enhancements for the PC version. We’ll have our review of the PS4
The latest interactive file system pal from Nathalie Lawhead is a delightfully anxious almost-spider called SHARED_ANXIETIES_WITH_A_FRIEND_ON_YOUR_BIRTHDAY.exe. They wander about your screen, expressing all kinds of day to day fears. And I love them. The insect friend within the file crawls about and, as the name suggests, shares their anxieties. But they’re shared in more way
If you’ve not been following PC games goings-on across the week, catch up on some of the big stories quick in our noncomprehensive Weekly News Digest. I’ve slipped in a few things we haven’t already posted about, and do also read The Updates Update for some of the week’s notable patches and updates. In this
Pack your thermals: Monster Hunter: World‘s Iceborne expansion now has a PC release date of January 9th, 2020. While console Monster Hunters got Iceborne at the tail end of summer in September, when the frozen land of Hoarfrost Reach might have offered welcome respite from the searing sun, it’ll be proper cold all-round for us.
The Underlords of Dota Underlords are no longer a naming flourish, today becoming actual units leading our armies with handy perks and abilities. Valve name today’s update The Big Update because, well, it is. Along with the first two Underlords, it adds new heroes from Dota 2 and new Alliances with new bonuses. A Duos
During Ubisoft’s financial earnings call, the publisher announced that it will be delaying Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine, and Watch Dogs: Legion to the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Ubisoft’s CEO and Co-Founder Yves Guillemot stated that the reason for the delays was to give each developer more time to craft its vision of each game. While
Neil Druckmann has confirmed that The Last of Us Part II will not meet its original February 21 release. In a post on the PlayStation blog, Druckmann announced the game’s new release date: May 29. Despite the “blowout” announcement during last month’s State of Play, The Last of Us Part II may not be as
“What the hell is going on?” Thoughts like this creep into my mind whenever I watch new Death Stranding trailers and gameplay videos. Don’t take that as a bad thing, per se. Hideo Kojima delivering wild ideas is nothing new, and he usually knocks them out of the park. That said, I am worried about
Hot on the heels of Bethesda delaying Fallout 76’s NPC-focused Wastlanders update until next year, the company is now giving players something unexpected, and it costs money. Bethesda is inviting people to join Fallout 1st, a premium monthly membership that gives players access to private worlds, unlimited storage for crafting components in a new Scrapbox,
Halloween descends upon Rainbow Six Siege today with the launch of Doktor’s Curse, a hide ‘n’ seek mode where monsterhunters armed with honking great hammers are out to squash ghoulies who just want to live. It’s not their fault they’re alive, you awful hunters. Take it up with the Doktor. You can meet the fiend
The third episode of icy survival sandbox The Long Dark‘s story mode arrived today. Crossroads Elegy switches protagonists, putting us in the hiking boots of the doctor we were searching for in the first two episodes. Handy thing to be in the icepocalypse, a doctor. More useful than a pilot without a plane. Here, see
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is set to conclude the long-running Skywalker Saga this December, but we still have a lot to learn about the finale. While many of us would prefer to go in as blind as possible, that’s not the rule everyone abides by, nor is it the way the entertainment industry
Playing a multiplayer game shoulder-to-shoulder with pals in the same room is grand but does, y’know, require being in the same room. For times when you want to play those local multiplayer games but aren’t all together, Steam is adding a technomagical way to play them online. It’s called Steam Remote Play Together, it entered
Gearbox hosted a Halloween-themed Bloody Harvest event for Borderlands 2, and the the company has revealed that this celebrations is returning in Borderlands 3. The event takes place from October 24 through December 5. During Bloody Harvest, players discover a new crew member named Maurice. Players can also travel to a new location, called Heck, where they can
I like a video game that tells me everything I need to know right there in the title. Like Bleakstead. Bleakstead is about a certain place, a stead, if you will, which is bleak. Thanks Bleakstead! It also has just incredible stars. In Bleakstead, you accidentally oversleep and end up at the final stop on
If you’ve not been following PC games goings-on across the week, catch up on some of the big stories quick in our noncomprehensive Weekly News Digest. I’ve slipped in a few things we haven’t already posted about, and do also read The Updates Update for some of the week’s notable patches and updates. This week,
Humble’s game subscription service Humble Monthly will soon relaunch with a higher price as Humble Choice. Rather than giving a fixed bag of games (usually 8) for $12/month, each month Humble Choice have a choice of 10 games and let you pick some to keep. You’ll get 3 on the Choice Basic tier for $15/month,
Sideshow and PCS Collectibles have created the ultimate item for fans of the game. Standing in at 24-inches in height, the Spider-Man Advanced Suit statue can be yours for just $1,100. Sideshow is creating two different versions: an “exclusive” one that comes with a flexible web, and the “standard” edition that doesn’t have it. Spider-Man
It must be hard to make Halloween updates for a game where most enemies are swashbuckling skeletons. But that’s just what Sea Of Thieves is trying to do with Fort Of The Damned, October’s harrowing Halloween twist on Rare’s sea shanty. With a damnable new castle and skinless pets, Sea Of Thieves wants to make
Red Dead Redemption 2 arrives on PC on November 5, and you can now get a taste of just how beautiful it is going to look for people who have the hardware to run it in 4K. The first shot of this short minute-long trailer shows off the increased draw distant and general improvements to
What’s this? Another outing from your trusted deals herald in a single day? Trust me, it’s a big one this time, as Fanatical have just launched their Insanity Sale, offering massive discounts on everything from Borderlands 3 to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Hurry, though, as it’s only on for the next 24 hours or
Analogue, the company behind the Super Nt and the Mega Sg premium retro consoles, has announced the Analogue Pocket. This new handheld device follows in the footsteps of the Super Nt and Mega Sg systems in that it allows you to play retro games you already own natively, with no emulation required, but it also