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Fortnite Festival's New Season Makes The Game Even More Like Rock Band
23.4.2024
On April 23, Fortnite Festival Season 3 launched, adding new music, skins, features, and tweaks to the popular rhythm game mode that lives inside Epic’s popular online battle royale. The big news is that players can now use plastic guitars while playing Fortnite Festival, making the mode just a...
Overwatch 2's Most Independent Tank Is Becoming A Team Player
15.4.2024
Overwatch 2’s tenth season begins tomorrow, April 16, and it’s bringing a new hero in Venture, a limited-time event that swaps the series’ good guys and bad guys, and a big balance patch to top it all off. A lot of these changes are predictably small adjustments, but one hero is getting a pretty...
New Overwatch 2 Changes Continue An Upsetting Trend
23.2.2024
Since Overwatch 2’s controversial launch, Blizzard has made a lot of massive changes to its hero shooter formula. First, it changed the core team makeup from 6v6 to 5v5, then it gutted its promised PvE mode, reworked heroes, added new game modes, and gave every character passive healing abilities....
Gigantic’s Return Feels Like The Anti-Overwatch In The Best Way
20.2.2024
I never played Gigantic when the team-based MOBA shooter was active from 2017 to 2018, or when it was briefly revived in 2023. Now, publisher Gearbox and developer Abstraction Games are reviving the Motiga shooter as Gigantic: Rampage Edition, and when I played a few rounds via a remote preview...
Overwatch 2’s Latest Change Has The Community Shook
14.2.2024
Overwatch 2’s ninth season is underway, and it’s bringing some sweeping changes to the hero shooter. On top of reworking Pharah and giving every hero both a health buff and a passive heal, Blizzard also increased the projectile size of most heroes’ weapons. In layperson’s terms, they made...
Leaked Footage Reveals The Sci-Fi Call Of Duty That Never Was
29.1.2024
Before releasing 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts, Activision studio Neversoft had been working on a sci-fi spin-off in the everlasting FPS franchise. Called either Future Warfare or NX1, footage of the unreleased shooter leaked online over the weekend—first spotted by CharlieIntel—revealing both...
Rock Band Devs Announce No More DLC, Focusing On Fortnite Now
17.1.2024
Harmonix, the Epic Games-owned studio behind the popular rhythm game franchise Rock Band, has officially announced that it is wrapping up its weekly DLC releases for 2015's Rock Band 4. It will now focus on supporting Fortnite Festival, instead. Read more
The Biggest Gaming Disappointments Of 2023
20.12.2023
Good job folks, that’s another year down. This year, like so many recent years, was a mess as we continued to deal with the ongoing effects of the pandemic while governments and businesses around the world pretended everything is better now. And now, I can’t even complain about it on Twitter...
Bobby Kotick’s Goodbye Letter Calls Xbox ‘The World’s Most Admired Company’
20.12.2023
We knew that Activision Blizzard’s longtime CEO, Bobby Kotick, would be stepping down at the end of this year following Microsoft’s historic acquisition of his company—but we didn’t know that he’d officially leave on the last workday of 2023, technically two days before the end of the year. This...
Overwatch 2 Season 8 Patch Buffs Mauga, Other Tanks
5.12.2023
Overwatch 2’s eighth season begins today, and Mauga, the hero shooter’s latest tank, isn’t the only major addition in season eight’s accompanying patch.Read more
10 Indie Games That Deserve A Spot On Your Steam Wishlist
23.11.2023
When over 50 indie games come out a day on Steam alone, it can feel impossible to keep up with what’s worth playing. One of the best techniques is to curate a wishlist, meaning games that deserve attention float to the surface on release. And that’s where we can help: here are ten games you’ve...
Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision
13.10.2023
On October 13, Microsoft completed its nearly two-year-long process of consuming Activision Blizzard King. And while it will take months and years for Xbox and all the parties involved to sort everything out and start bringing past Activision Blizzard games to Game Pass, for now, we can tally...
Activision Blizzard Games Should Hit Game Pass In 2024
9.10.2023
When speculation rife that Microsoft expects to finalize its purchase of Activision Blizzard this week, and COD: Modern Warfare III out in a month, it seems people have been wondering when Activision’s games will start appearing on Microsoft’s Game Pass. According to a tweet from Activision...
Gearbox Is Reviving A Dead Hero Shooter For 3 Days (No, Not Battleborn)
4.10.2023
You remember Gigantic, don’t you? The hero shooter from Motiga that was released in 2017 and, uh, died a year later? Well no worries if not, because Gearbox is bringing the ill-fated hero shooter back for a limited-time event from October 5 to 7, 2023. Read more
Manga Plus' New Two-Plan Subscription Service Has More Pros Than Cons
4.10.2023
Much like TV- and movie-streaming apps with sliding scale price plans, manga-reading services have slowly integrated payment tiers with varying benefits and limitations. Manga Plus by Shueisha, a previously free-to-read manga website with a rather annoying caveat (we’ll get there), is the latest...
Hold Onto Your Butts, Microsoft's Massive Activision Blizzard Deal Is Finally Happening
22.9.2023
Twenty months after it was first announced, Microsoft’s unprecedented deal to buy Call of Duty and Candy Crush publisher Activision Blizzard for $69 billion appears to have beaten its final boss. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority revealed on Friday that it has provisionally approved...
US Open Star Coco Gauff Celebrated Reaching Finals By Watching My Hero Academia
8.9.2023
Coco Gauff, a young tennis star competing in the US Open, joins a long list of prominent athletes who use inspirational anime as a part of their pre and post-game ritual.Read more
Microsoft Selling Activision Blizzard Cloud Gaming Rights To Ubisoft In Last-Ditch Effort To Get Merger Approved
22.8.2023
Somehow, over a year later, Microsoft’s attempted $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard just took its weirdest turn yet. The tech giant announced today that it will sell off the streaming rights for Call of Duty, Overwatch, and more to rival publisher Ubisoft as part of one last attempt...
Microsoft Selling Activision Blizzard Cloud Gaming Rights To Ubisoft In Last-Ditch Effort To Get Merger Approved
22.8.2023
Somehow, over a year later, Microsoft’s attempted $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard just took its weirdest turn yet. The tech giant announced today that it will sell off the streaming rights for Call of Duty, Overwatch, and more to rival publisher Ubisoft as part of one last attempt...
Despite Advancements, Games Still Aren't Doing Enough To Stop Toxic Voice Chat
21.7.2023
I started regularly playing competitive online games in 2007, with the launch of Halo 3. Back then, participating in in-game voice chat was harrowing for a 17-year-old girl whose voice betrayed her gender and her youth. I was subjected to such frequent and horrific hostility (rape threats...