Search
Every Big Announcement From Gamescom, Breaking Down The Borderlands 4 Trailer, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
24.8.2024
This week, one of the three events each year in which we’re routinely graced with the presence of Geoff Keighley took place, with Gamescom Opening Night Live kicking off the week-long convention in Cologne, Germany. A host of World Premiere trailers and other announcements came out of that...
Concord Has One Big Thing Going For It And Lots Of Stuff Holding It Back
23.8.2024
Concord is a hero-based multiplayer shooter where you run around sci-fi maps on distant planets using pistols, cannons, fireballs and knives to obliterate opponents in familiar modes like “capture the point” and “kill stuff.” There’s nothing in it that’s surprised me or blown my mind, but it’s...
Hands-On: Marvel Rivals Does Right By Captain America And Winter Soldier
22.8.2024
I’ve enjoyed every game I’ve played in NetEase’s Marvel Rivals. The comic book take on the hero shooter genre is a lot of fun, even if it takes some blatant inspiration from Overwatch. It feels less sanded down and polished than its obvious competitor, but that opens it up to chaos and fun plays...
New Overwatch 2 Patch Makes It Easier To Kill Some Of Its Peskiest Heroes
21.8.2024
Overwatch 2 has begun its 12th season and alongside the Egyptian-themed battle pass and new support hero Juno, Blizzard has released a balance patch. The tweaks have addressed some longstanding issues with heroes like Lifeweaver, while also giving a few tweaks to tanks after supercharging them last...
Overwatch 2 Fans Are Tired Of Blizzard Playing Favorites
20.8.2024
Overwatch 2 has a lot of heroes on its roster. With Juno, the Martian support character joining the game in season 12, the hero shooter now has 41 different heroes for players to choose from. Spreading the love equally between all of them as far as skins and other cosmetics go is a tall order,...
Star Wars Outlaws Preview, Destiny 2's Future, And More Hot Takes
3.8.2024
It’s been a helluva week for video games, with mass layoffs at Destiny 2 studio Bungie, and a few hands-ons for upcoming high-profile releases like Marvel Rivals and Star Wars Outlaws. As usual, we weighed in on the goings-on of the week, so click through to read all of our big opinions and spicy...
Marvel Rivals Feels Like Overwatch Without All The Baggage
1.8.2024
I have over 1000 hours in Overwatch, but only about a dozen hours in Marvel Rivals, the megalithic comic makers’ attempt to cash in on Blizzard’s once-winning formula. In all the matches I’ve played in the game’s beta as the Guardians of the Galaxy leader Star-Lord alongside other heroes...
Overwatch 2's Identity Crisis, The Hate Driving The Assassin's Creed 'Controversy,' And More Opinions For The Week
28.7.2024
This week, Ubisoft released a statement addressing what might generously be called a “controversy” about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed game, Shadows. Let’s be real, though. It’s just the latest salvo from a reactionary hate movement. You can read our thoughts on that, the terrific texture of Yakuza...
Overwatch 2 Is Trapped In A Crisis Of Its Own Making
25.7.2024
Today Blizzard published a lengthy Overwatch 2 Director’s Take addressing the Reinhardt-sized elephant in the room: whether or not the sequel should revert back to the original game’s 6v6 format. Written by game director Aaron Keller, the massive blog post traces back to Overwatch 1 and the major...
PlayStation's Hero Shooter Won't Have A Battle Pass: 'You Own Concord, Concord Doesn't Own You'
24.7.2024
At a time when it feels like not a whole lot sets Concord apart from other hero-based online shooters, the developers behind the sci-fi live service game just revealed one big difference: Concord won’t have a battle pass.Read more
You Can Try Overwatch 2’s Groovy New Support Hero For A Limited Time This Weekend
19.7.2024
The newest Overwatch hero is playable starting today for a limited time. Juno, a support hero Blizzard began teasing as far back as last year’s BlizzCon, brings a space-age flair to the hero shooter when she joins the roster as part of Season 12 when it launches on August 20. Based on Juno’s reveal...
Online Shooter Mashup Of Halo And Portal Is Getting An Even Bigger Sequel
18.7.2024
Splitgate was a refreshing flash in the pan when it briefly blew up in 2021. It combined the feel of an old-school arena shooter with the novel and brain-tickling mechanic of on-demand portals. Now the team behind it is promising a sequel that’s bigger, better, and coming sometime in 2025 to join...
Concord Is A Really Good Multiplayer Shooter, But That Doesn't Feel Like Enough
15.7.2024
The reaction to Concord wasn’t great during Sony’s State of Play earlier this year. But after playing a few hours of the sci-fi FPS on PS5, I’m sold on Concord’s mix of hero-shooter action and tight Call of Duty-like gameplay. The only question is: Will people be willing to spend $40 for...
These Transformers Didn't Make The Cut For Blizzard's Overwatch 2 Crossover
12.7.2024
Overwatch 2 just launched its Transformers crossover skins as part of its midseason update. Even as someone who is pretty burnt out on Overwatch doing crossovers while its own lore and story are being left to die, I have to admit Blizzard’s artists killed it on this one. Reinhardt, Ramattra...
Overwatch 2 Fans Are Calling Its Tank-Centric Patch The Worst It’s Ever Had
10.7.2024
Overwatch 2 launched its Transformers crossover skins this week, and while those were obviously the headliner of the hero shooter’s July 9 update, they were accompanied by the game’s midseason balance patch. The buffs and nerfs were meant to address criticisms surrounding the lack of “tankiness”...
Here’s Your First Look At Overwatch 2’s Transformers Skins
9.7.2024
After weeks of teases, a comic, and an animated trailer, Overwatch 2’s Transformers crossover is live today, July 9. While all of the above has told us which of Blizzard’s heroes would be donning looks based on Hasbro’s robots in disguise, we hadn’t seen the skins in-game yet. Now Blizzard...
Overwatch 2 Heroes As Transformers Look Pretty Sick, Actually
8.7.2024
Overwatch 2’s latest collaboration gives four of its heroes skins based on Transformers. It started with a comic that seems to actually canonize the robots in disguise within Blizzard’s universe, rather than simply letting its characters “cosplay” something from a different property as it did with...
Overwatch 2 Fans Are Sick And Tired Of Pharah
2.7.2024
Like any other competitive game, the meta for Blizzard’s hero shooter Overwatch 2 is constantly in flux. Sometimes a new hero like Mauga dominates when they debut and has to be reined in with some debuffs and tweaks. Other times a series of changes send characters skyrocketing to the top of tier...
Overwatch 2 Devs Agree: Tanks Are Miserable To Play Right Now
28.6.2024
Overwatch 2’s tank role has been in an awkward spot since the sequel took one of them out of the mix. Where once the role prioritized team-wide defense, Overwatch 2 has built and reworked tanks to be frontline brawlers. Since then, the role has been in constant flux as Blizzard has tried to better...
9 Things We Just Learned About PlayStation's Sci-Fi Shooter Concord
27.6.2024
Concord is Sony’s next big PlayStation bet on live service gaming and the sci-fi shooter is just a couple months away. A recent batch of previews finally gave us a better idea of what to expect, and the reactions so far are as mixed as fans’ were after seeing the initial gameplay at last month’s...