The closed beta for Sea of Thieves has come and gone and despite server issues on day one, it’s safe to say it was quite the success. Now, if the rumors are to be believed, those who missed out on the closed beta may soon be getting a chance to captain their own ship. In a recent post on Reddit, user vJoeyz shared news regarding a possible Sea of Thieves open-beta. The only way the closed beta could be accessed was to either have it pre-ordered or be a member of the games insider program. Sea of

Now, with the event live, the publisher and developer has decided to officially unveil all six of the new skins available in the title by way of a new trailer. Like last year’s event, the fresh skins aren’t the only thing available in the Lunar New Year event for 2018, as there are plenty of other new cosmetics based on this year’s theme. While Overwatch‘s six new skins in the Year of the Dog event are quite beautiful, some fans may lament the fact that they lack some of last year’s Lunar New Ye

Pokemon GO is about to release its latest Legendary Raid boss, which means it’s time to master a new matchup. Like all of the Pokemon GO level five raid bosses, Rayquaza definitely will require at least a few players to take down the monster in time. When equipped with Dragon Tail and Outrage, he will be the best counter for non-Outrage Rayquaza. KyogreThis recently released Legendary equipped with Waterfall and Blizzard will be an effective counter against Rayquaza with any moveset. Pokemon GO

Speaking of the title’s popularity, the publisher and developer have now revealed that the game has surpassed a previous concurrent player record set by its competitor, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. According to a recent blog post from Epic Games, Fortnite hit a new peak of 3.4 million concurrent players last Sunday, surpassing the previous benchmark set by PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds with 3.2 million concurrent players. While this concurrent player success for Fortnite is definitely worthy o

Niantic has confirmed that starting from February 9, Pokemon GO players will be able to catch the legendary Pokemon Rayquaza. Rayquaza is a Dragon and Flying-type Pokemon that was the mascot legendary character for Pokemon Emerald (the last game in Gen 3 and a sibling game to Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire). The character will be available as a raid boss for a limited time, explains the developer, and players will be able to catch Rayquaza until March 16. Meanwhile, the Water-type legendary P

Last month Nintendo announced Mario Kart Tour, a mobile version of its hugely popular racing series, Mario Kart. According to a translation via Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki, during DeNA’s latest financial briefing the company confirmed that Mario Kart Tour will be free to start. This should mean that Mario Kart Tour will use a more traditional free to play business model. Both Nintendo fans and shareholders will be glad to hear that Mario Kart Tour is more like a traditional fr

The latest push, which shortly follows some controversial EX Raid updates, adds a new batch of Gen-3 monsters to hunt down. Pokemon GO’s gradual rollout of Gen-3 has been a great way to keep players coming back for more of the game every month. If all of the new Pokemon had arrived at once, the hardcore players likely would have hunted them all down within the first few weeks. This approach allows Niantic to pull players back into the game month after month, during a season when the game is usua

Epic Games multiplayer title Fortnite has already found huge success on PC, PS4, and Xbox One but fans are eager for the game to come to Nintendo Switch as well. One high profile Fortnite fan who would also like to see the game released on Nintendo Switch is Chance The Rapper. The Grammy-award winning singer, rapper, and producer took to Twitter earlier this week to let Nintendo of America know that he desperately wants to play the game on the Nintendo Switch. Can we get a fortnite on switch @Ni

The Metal Gear Survive beta is going to include three missions set across two maps in co-op mode, which can be played online with up to four players. The bonus will consist of a Fox Hound name plate, a Metal Gear REX head accessory, and a bandana. Many were wary at first when it came to Konami’s reveal of Metal Gear Survive after its falling out with the original series’ creator, Hideo Kojima. All things considered, it will be interesting to see if Metal Gear Survive‘s second beta period attract

NeatherRealm Studios promised a big surprise when it revealed the final character for Fighter Pack 3 of Injustice 2. Without a leak or rumor to spoil the surprise, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wowed and shocked the crowd at the Injustice 2 World Championships back in November. Initially caught by Grant Smith on Twitter, the developers at NetherRealm Studios places a number blink and you’ll miss it references throughout the debut Injustice 2 Turtles trailer. The first is a picture of an apple

This week, Bungie officially unveiled the Crimson Days event for Destiny 2, which will kick off with the reset on February 13th. In stark contrast to The Dawning, Crimson Engrams will only be unlocked via gameplay not Eververse or microtransactions. For Crimson Days, players will simply be able to play the new 2v2 playlist and earn the cosmetics along the way. There is, however, going to be a rotating stock of Crimson Days items that players can buy using Bright Dust. For all intents and purpose

One of the biggest talking points surrounding Death Stranding is who will play the game’s female lead. The latest clue that has Death Stranding fans talking comes from Stefanie Joosten’s Twitter account. The images have a similar tone to Death Stranding trailers which have featured rain, grey, overcast skies and a beach. Joosten has also tweeted about how “amazing” Mikkelsen looked in the Death Stranding trailer that was released in December 2016. Death Stranding is currently in development for

Pokemon GO players were outraged this week when developer Niantic released changes to the EX Raid battle invite system. In the post, Niantic explains that when it released an update to the EX Raid invite system, it also introduced a bug. The bug has since been fixed and future invites will only be sent if a player has completed a raid at that particular Gym. While Niantic was at it fixing the bug the devs also made some changes to the EX Raid system. For example, Pokemon GO players have previous

This past week Rockstar games gave players just what they were asking for: a firm release date for Red Dead Redemption 2. And in this instance, Rockstar Games felt more polish was required, and naturally we are in favour of that decision [to delay Red Dead Redemption 2]. There’s plenty of opportunity to go around So we’re really excited about [Red Dead Redemption 2] and the timing related to the launch.”Zelnick also wanted to point out that this move was not fully driven by the bottom line. Hope

Hideki Kamiya, the creator of Devil May Cry and director of the original Resident Evil 2, left Capcom in 2006 after it closed down Clover Studio. Kamiya posted an image to his Instagram account of him standing outside the Capcom headquarters in Osaka, Japan. In the past, Kamiya has expressed interest in collaborating with Capcom on a project, and has even spoken with Capcom producer Jun Takeuchi about the possibility. Kamiya has also commented on new creative directions for Devil May Cry, and ma

While the game offers many notable fighters such as Beerus, Hit, and original character Android 21, Tien currently seems to be getting some extra attention. It seems that way because Tien can turn a specific opponent invisible, although it is by no means an easy feat. Certain conditions have to be met in the combat of Dragon Ball FighterZ, and none of them are simple. First, the only character that Tien can turn invisible is none other than Android 21 and only at a specific moment. If done and t

Although Red Dead Redemption 2 was sadly delayed into October, a lot of information has been made available about the game. Whether or not most or any of this is true remains to be seen, but one of the more popular rumors is that Red Dead Redemption 2 is getting a battle royale mode. Another GTA-related rumor that could be occurring in Red Dead 2 is the first-person mode, but like the existence of the battle royale mode, nothing is certain. Tell us, Ranters, would you like to see battle royale i

Last week, PUBG Corporation released a patch for the Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds that was meant to nerf vehicles so they weren’t quite so overpowered in the game. The latest patch reverses the latter, so players should find it easier to get kills by smashing into others with their vehicles. These bug fixes and the vehicle change will likely be appreciated by many PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players on Xbox One, especially those that felt the vehicle nerfs went too far. Of

To be specific, this most recent figure shared by Take-Two reflects that GTA 5 sold a whopping 15 million units in 2017 alone. The game has now sold in over 90 million units worldwide! pic.twitter.com/VZlZ55z8zV — Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) February 7, 2018For reference, this means that the game sold in 15 million units in the past year. This is 15 million units in 2017 for a game that came out in 2013. Grand Theft Auto 5 is available now for PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One

Just last month, the video game peripheral manufactuer Hyperkin officially announced the release window for the long-awaited revival of the Xbox’s original “The Duke” controller for Microsoft’s Xbox One console. Now, with the controller’s availability on the horizon, The Duke just went up for pre-order through the retailer GameStop, with the peripheral set for launch on April 1, 2018. According to the listing for The Duke on GameStop’s site, the Xbox One peripheral will set nostalgic players bac