Best PS4 games this year. The demons you need to slay are tougher than ever, so expect plenty of new weapons with which to deal death justice …
Watch Dogs: Legion recently debuted, with a multiplayer mode planned to follow before the end of 2020. Ubisoft is making a change of plans, and is putting the multiplayer mode on the backburner until an unspecified date in 2021. Ubisoft posted a statement on their official site, explaining the rationale behind the delay, as well as immediate steps towards stabilizing […]
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Cuphead’s final episode is going to need even more time in the oven. Developer Studio MDHR announced Wednesday that Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course has been delayed to 2021. The add-on was originally planned for release in 2019, but was delayed to 2020 last summer. Now the game’s final piece of downloadable content is slated for release next year. Studio […]
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In late 2019, No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games added a full-blown synthesizer to the ever-expanding space game, allowing fans to create their own melodies. And in 2020, explorers who are a part of the fan-run Galactic Hub group have come together to build in-game colonies where the dance party never stops, courtesy of that musical update. Internally, fans refer […]
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Since it was released in March, Call of Duty: Warzone has gone through quite the life cycle. It started out lacking a strong identity, and with only the limited arsenal of Modern Warfare’s basic weapons. But Infinity Ward remained committed to the battle royale game and continued updating and improving it. The developer refined the mechanics, made the game harder […]
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Capcom is bringing Resident Evil film star Milla Jovovich — and her monster-hunting character Artemis from the upcoming Monster Hunter movie — to Monster Hunter: World. Jovovich’s character will make a guest appearance in a two-part event quest, where she’ll be voiced by the actor. Monster Hunter: World players will battle Black Diablos, a monster prominently featured in Paul W.S. […]
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Rainbow Six Siege will offer modes prioritizing performance or resolution, plus a host of visual upgrades, when its PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions launch on Dec. 1, Ubisoft announced Tuesday. Siege will get a performance mode, which targets a frame rate of 120 frames per second with dynamic 4K resolution, and a resolution mode, which will opt for […]
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Mike Laidlaw, best known as the creative director of the Dragon Age franchise, has started a studio with three other designers who have worked on some of AAA video gaming’s biggest series over the past decade. Laidlaw will join Ubisoft veterans Thomas Giroux (The Crew), Jeff Skalski, and Frederic St.-Laurent B. (both Assassin’s Creed Syndicate) in founding Yellow Brick Games, […]
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Grand Theft Auto Online players have robbed prisons, casinos, and banks, but there’s a tempting new target coming to the game on Dec. 15. Rockstar Games is adding The Cayo Perico Heist, which takes place on a heavily guarded and luxurious private island. Cayo Perico clearly builds on the heist infrastructure set up with the Diamond Casino Heist, which allowed […]
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Closing out the final Night City Wire for Cyberpunk 2077 on Thursday was this: a meaty, five-minute look at gameplay inside CD Projekt Red’s highly anticipated role-playing game. This is a start-to-finish examination of what you’ll be doing, and why, in Cyberpunk 2077’s open world. It touches on the game’s story, the broad origin for the player character, what Keanu […]
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The combat is what made me love the first few Assassin’s Creed games. There was a simple joy in getting surrounded by enemies, waiting for them to attack, then countering them to death one by one. Then Ubisoft started to overcomplicate things. Some of the complications were probably necessary. The simple counterattacks of the earlier games were already wearing thin […]
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