Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is coming to consoles and PC on Oct. 25, with cross-play support across PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. Players will get a taste of cross-platform multiplayer starting Thursday, Sept. 19, with Modern Warfare’s cross-play open beta. On the official Activision blog, the game’s creators explain how cross-play will work in Call of Duty: […]
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Borderlands 3 gives you plenty of ways to customize your characters, from the three skill trees of each new vault hunter, to the array of guns you can have equipped, and the class mods that you’ll collect as you play. But many of these options aren’t available when you begin the game, and it may take hours — if not […]
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There is so much of Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding that we still don’t understand, so much about the systems and the mission that we’re still trying to grasp. But after Hideo Kojima’s hour-long Death Stranding presentation at Tokyo Game Show 2019 — Kojima showed off 50 minutes of raw gameplay — we know a little more about Sam Bridges, played […]
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In its weekly blog post, Bungie announced upcoming changes to players’ abilities and Supers in Destiny 2. The studio also unveiled some of the new armor sets players can find in Destiny 2: Shadowkeep early next month. Buffs Bungie started by announcing the buffs it’ll be making to some Guardians’ abilities. For Nightstalker’s bottom tree, Way of the Pathfinder, the […]
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Fortnite Battle Royale may be a downloadable free-to-play game, but that won’t stop its creator from getting their mega-hit on store shelves this holiday season. Developer Epic Games, in a partnership with Warner Brothers, is releasing a brand new cosmetic bundle for Fortnite that will be available as a download, but also in retail stores. The new bundle, called the […]
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Apex Legends’ next event, Voidwalker, kicks off Tuesday and runs for the next two weeks. The event offers a new limited-time mode, another town takeover, and both free and premium loot. The limited-time mode is called Armed and Dangerous, which limits weapons to long-range and up-close — namely, sniper rifles and shotguns. Loot in this mode is “much harder to […]
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It is no surprise that neither of the two big ratings agencies — North America’s ESRB and Europe’s PEGI — flagged NBA 2K20 for gambling, simulated or otherwise. PEGI nonetheless explained its reasoning to someone who complained. The tl;dr is that PEGI says its gambling content descriptor doesn’t apply because the mini-games involved in NBA 2K’s MyTeam mode — whose […]
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Today CD Projekt Red released a highly edited version of its E3 gameplay demo. This public reveal was also accompanied by a new, detailed breakdown of key game systems, including character creation and hacking. The footage also showed off the game’s use of Nvidia’s ray tracing technology. Here’s a breakdown of the highlights: Character creation Character creation in Cyberpunk 2077 […]
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In a new blog post from Destiny franchise director Luke Smith, Bungie revealed how seasons will work in Destiny 2’s third year; including Shadowkeep and New Light this fall. Each season has a free or paid version (“10 bucks” each, according to Smith), similar to battle passes in games like Fortnite or Dauntless. The first season of Year 3, Season […]
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Control can be a stunning visual showpiece with impressive physics, but its performance may leave you frustrated depending on where you choose to play it. The game comes to life when played on higher-end gaming PCs with Nvidia’s RTX-tier cards that enable ray tracing while keeping the frame rate high, but the different console options don’t fare nearly as well. […]
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