After what seemed like an eternity, EA and DICE's commitment to the games as a service model for Battlefield V has finally bore fruit. The island-hopping conflict between the United States and Japan …
November 18, 2019 | 12:00 EST
One of the few constants in life is that nothing is ever perfect for everyone, and gaming is no exception. The latest Call of Duty, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, may have an excellent single-player…
November 18, 2019 | 11:00 EST
At first glance, The Outer Worlds looks a lot like Fallout: New Vegas but in space. It may have something to do with the art style, the engine, or the fact that the same developer made both games. In…
November 6, 2019 | 11:00 EST
It is really not surprising that Huniepop was mostly overlooked by the mainstream press. It's a $10 3-match indie puzzle game come dating sim, where successful matches can lead to bedding up to 12…
October 24, 2019 | 01:45 EDT
Borderlands 3, like all looter shooters, offers two distinct gameplay experiences. There’s the initial playthrough, which is typically a casual run where loot is less important than learning the…
September 30, 2019 | 12:50 EDT
Two years ago, Star Wars Battlefront 2 was released to a storm of controversy. For the first time in recent memory, a AAA game had microtransactions that directly affected gameplay. You could buy…
September 3, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
Over the past week or so, Respawn Entertainment landed in some hot water. In a strange series of events, one of the developers basically said that some people were “asshats" and “freeloaders," among…
August 27, 2019 | 11:30 EDT
Overwatch’s latest grand experiment in balancing and matchmaking is now live for everyone. From now on, all core playlists will require you to queue up for a certain role before finding a match. By…
August 19, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
The Division 2's post-launch expansion content has officially kicked off with D.C. Outskirts: Expeditions. Advertised as the first third of the Year 1 post-launch story content, the DLC has new…
July 30, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Of all the updates to ever grace Overwatch, the 2/2/2 role queue patch may be the most impactful to date. While it is currently only live on the PTR, the update should be active on all platforms by…
July 22, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
For the past year, the 3/3 team composition (or GOATS) has been the talk of the town in Overwatch. While there have been a few variations of the 3/3 comp since its inception, the basic idea of the…
July 8, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
After half a decade of silence, Gearbox finally decided to let Borderlands 3 see the light of day. Thanks to a substantial showing at and prior to E3 2019, it’s probably safe to say that Borderlands…
July 2, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
When I started writing this piece, I wanted to push it out quickly because I was feeling frustrated. But I decided to wait because Treyarch had announced a new update coming on June 25. This update…
July 2, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
In 1984, William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer was released. An underground hit that won multiple awards, the novel, which is about a washed-up computer hacker who must contend with an artificial…
June 27, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
Prior to its gameplay premiere at E3 2019, few games were more intriguing than Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. After all, it’s a Star Wars game that’s being developed by the same team that…
June 21, 2019 | 01:30 EDT
Stellaris, or the space RTS that lets you encounter exciting new alien species, enslave them, and eat them, reached its three year anniversary. Developed by Paradox Interactive, the game is a mixing…
May 27, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
The Division 2, or the third person shooter that’s pretending to be an RPG that’s pretending to be a MMORPG, is getting its first Raid. The eight person activity is intended to be the most difficult…
May 20, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Recently released on consoles and PC, Outward is the debut role-playing game from Nine Dot Studio. It happily wears its inspirations on its sleeves as it features a blend of the classic PC RPGs of…
April 17, 2019 | 12:15 EDT
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is still very much in development. Fans have been eagerly anticipating the release of this open-world role-playing game from the moment it's been announced. The wait…
April 10, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
One of the most ubiquitous complaints about the first Division was that enemies were far too resistant to damage. It was all too common that normal human enemies in the endgame could ignore the…
March 28, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
The looter shooter genre is getting more and more crowded every year, especially now that almost every major publisher has a dog in the race. With the release of Ubisoft's The Division 2, the…
March 20, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
A long time ago in a console generation far far away, BioWare was a name that implied exceptional quality. For years, they were known for creating revolutionary single player RPGs. There were some…
February 26, 2019 | 02:00 EST
Apex Legends was a surprise release that no one was expecting until the teaser announcement. Since release we've seen the game take over Twitch, reach 25 million players in the span of a week, and…
February 14, 2019 | 11:00 EST
“A famous explorer once said that the extraordinary is in what we do, not who we are.” —Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, 2013 Since Lara Croft's first appearance in the original Tomb Raider in 1996, she has…
September 13, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
Of all the announcements to come out of E3 2018, one of the more controversial of the bunch is that the next Fallout game, Fallout 76, is going to be more multiplayer-oriented than what some may be…
June 26, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
For the longest time, games with the Battlefield logo slapped on the box art were often considered to be the most realistic FPS multiplayer games that you could buy. While this was almost certainly…
June 6, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
As you no doubt may have heard by now, Battlefield 5's debut trailer has stirred up quite an amount of reasonable and rational discussion. Or at least that would be the case in another reality. In…
May 29, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
The rise of video games in culture and society has inevitably meant that children would get their hands on them. In an unsurprising repeat of history, influential public figures have noticed this…
May 5, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
About a month ago, Overwatch's latest Hero, Brigitte, was formally introduced into the game. Interestingly enough, she was not activated in Competitive mode until the start of season 10, ostensibly…
May 3, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Pick up artists aren't a new thing, and the idea of a shortcut to success scheme isn't either. Back in 2007 VH1 aired the popular yet controversial reality show The Pick Up Artist in which nine…
March 24, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
When Rainbow Six Siege was first shown off at E3 2014, it seemed like another run of the mill modern day military shooter from Ubisoft, at least from a thematic standpoint. Yet, almost half a decade…
March 7, 2018 | 09:00 EST
I recently previewed the sci-fi sandbox Astroneer and had an absolute blast with the game. It's just past version 0.5 and has a lot of the game's core systems sorted out, and we're less than a year…
February 14, 2018 | 11:00 EST
In early 2016 the Call of Duty community received one of the greatest zombies maps of all time: "Der Eisendrache." This DLC brought intensity to the overall narrative, four wonder weapon variants,…
February 12, 2018 | 11:00 EST
It is almost impossible to escape the modern day grind of sociopolitical analysis these days. The constant divisiveness between political affiliations, the rise of misinformation and the emotionally…
February 7, 2018 | 01:00 EST
From a conceptual standpoint, the Overwatch League is a natural and presumably inevitable progression of Esports as it, like the general direction that gaming is heading in, represents the…
January 30, 2018 | 01:00 EST
There is little doubt that the vast majority of AAA game releases in 2017 were haunted by the specter of microtransactions. Star Wars Battlefront 2 took most of the flak from online communities and…
January 9, 2018 | 01:00 EST
One of the most defining key aspects of modern gaming is the ability for developers to release an update for a game at virtually any time that they want, all but guaranteeing that every person that…
December 29, 2017 | 09:00 EST
On paper, Rainbow Six Siege sounds like an average to below average game that would fizzle out after a couple months for a whole host of reasons. After all, Siege is a full price game that has no…
December 28, 2017 | 11:00 EST
With all the controversy that Star Wars Battlefront 2 stirred up, it was only a matter of time before the powers that be took notice. Sure enough, Belgium launched an investigation into games like …
November 23, 2017 | 09:00 EST
It should be no secret by now that Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been on the receiving end of one PR broadside after another, with plenty of forums and websites gleefully pouring gas onto the fire that…
November 22, 2017 | 01:00 EST
With a playerbase of some 35 million people, Overwatch is a global phenomenon that, for the time being, is more or less the poster child of what a current generation game should look like. For the…
November 14, 2017 | 09:00 EST
It is no secret that Destiny 2 has a bit of a two faced personality; it attempts to appeal to longtime fans and hardcore grinders with things like Raids and Competitive PvP playlists while at the…
October 12, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
For all intents and purposes, what you saw in Star Wars Battlefront 2's beta is what you're going to get when the game releases on November 17. In some regards, this is a great thing, as the game's…
October 11, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
One of the most unique and defining aspects of games is that you can almost guarantee that no two people will ever have the same exact experience playing the same game. Everyone plays through games…
October 9, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
On September 19, 2017, Overwatch received an update that would drastically change how two of the most popular Heroes in the game would function. To make a long story short, D.Va is now slightly less…
October 5, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
It should come as no real surprise that Destiny 2 is a game that tries to reach many kinds of demographics. From casual to hardcore, from story-aficionados to competitive multiplayer lovers, there is…
September 28, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
One of the most surprising "features" of Destiny was the fact that throughout the whole game, your protagonist was very ... quiet. For the most part, it was apparently up to your Ghost to talk to…
September 27, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
The first time I played UNDERTALE I was blown away, not by the game's interesting and ever-changing game mechanics, combat situations, pacifism, or clever writing. What really stood out to me was…
September 23, 2017 | 01:00 EDT