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  • While fans continue to pass the time until Thursday, the weeky reset has made its return to the world of Destiny 2. Weekly Nightfall StrikeThis week in the Nightfall, the Arms Dealer is back at it again. Towards the end of the strike, players will find that Zahn isn’t one to stick around to fight. Flashpoint Location and Treasure MapsThe Flashpoint milestone has made its way back to the European Dead Zone this week. Leviathan Raid Encounter Order/Weekly ChallengeWhile providing new milestones an
    Destiny 2 Weekly Reset for January 9: Nightfall, Heroic Strikes, Flashpoint, and More

  • With the inaugural season for the Overwatch League beginning tomorrow, fans of Blizzard‘s team-based shooter looking to tune in might be wondering exactly where they can go to watch the action unfold. Although the company’s announcement has come down to the wire, Blizzard has finally revealed that Twitch will be the exclusive third-party streaming partner of the professional eSports league for the game. According to Blizzard’s announcement, Twitch is set to broadcast each and every Overwatch Lea
    Overwatch League Gives Twitch Exclusive Broadcast Rights

  • In order to incentivize fans into action and to potentially scare the pants off of them, the publisher and developer have now revealed a brand new trailer for the first-person shooter’s new Zombies DLC known as The Darkest Shore. As seen below in the latest Call of Duty: WW2 trailer, The Darkest Shore is the next chapter of the Nazi Zombies story, and it’s set a few days after the disaster at Mittelburg, with the heroes discovering that Doktor Straub is hiding out on an island north of Germany.
    Call of Duty: WW2 Nazi Zombies Trailer Shows Darkest Shore DLC

  • While last year’s king of the consoles has yet to be officially crowned, it looks as if the Big N’s latest system has at least managed to beat lifetime sales of its precursor, the Wii U, in Japan. According to Famitsu, the Nintendo Switch has already managed to reach 3.4 million units sold in Japan by the end of the 2017, compared to the 3.3 million Wii U units that have been sold over the course of its entire lifespan in the country. To be clear, the Wii U has sold just over 13.5 million units
    Nintendo Switch Beats Wii U’s Lifetime Sales in Japan

  • In addition to hardware sales, the company also noted that 55.9 million PS4 games were sold during the season, including both physical and digital downloads through the PlayStation Store, which adds up to 645 million copies of games selling cumulatively as of the end of last year. The PlayStation 4 Pro also received markdowns at some stores, too, but Sony didn’t reveal exactly how many units sold during the season. All things considered, while many would consider Sony’s sales of the PlayStation
    PS4 Sells Nearly 6 Million Over the Holidays

  • When Niantic announced the Pokemon GO EX Raid system, it was pitched as a way of rewarding committed players for their time spent in the game. It seems that the game keeps failing to give Reversal passes for EX Raid battles. For months Pokemon GO players have complained about the EX Raid battle system, saying that they too are fed up with the way that passes are being sent out. The EX Raid system is currently in testing and fans had hoped that Niantic would work to address this problem area quic
    Pokemon GO Players Turn Against EX Raid System

  • Now Bandai Namco Entertainment has announced the 11 characters that players will be able to play as in the Dragon Ball FighterZ beta next week. Here is the full list of fighters for the Dragon Ball FighterZ beta when it kicks off next week:Adult GohanAndroid 18BeerusCellFriezaGokuKid BuuKrillinNappaPiccoloVegetaWith 11 characters available in the beta, fans will be able to play as over half of the announced roster for Dragon Ball FighterZ. It’s hard not to notice that the beta roster is comprise
    Dragon Ball FighterZ: Here’s Who You Can Play in the Beta

  • Most recently, a celebrity Pokemon GO player was spotted taking a break from the Golden Globe Awards red carpet activities to pull out the app and catch a few new monsters. Jason Ralph, most well known for his role in The Magicians, attended the Golden Globes a few nights ago and brought his favorite app along with him. The actor spent at least some of his time on the exclusive red carpet attempting to catch a Rattata and documenting the encounter on his instagram account. Here’s a look at the c
    This Actor Was Playing Pokemon GO On The Golden Globes Red Carpet

  • League of Legends‘ Twitch presence hasn’t been waning by any stretch, but there has been a large void in the streaming community of Riot’s stalwart MOBA title ever since the banning of Tyler “Tyler1” Steinkamp from the game. Calls to “free Tyler1” have been present in every high-profile League of Legends event’s Twitch chat ever since, and Riot finally caved, allowing Tyler1 to return to the game and to the Twitch streaming platform as a result on January 8, 2018. What followed was the complete
    Twitch Streamer Tyler1 Sets New Record With League of Legends Return

  • After a couple of successful beta tests last month, fans are now only two weeks away from taking down massive beasts in Monster Hunter World. In a captured screenshot of Monster Hunter World, the base version of the game will take up 16GB of hard drive space on the PlayStation 4. The details actually come from the Japanese box art, which displays the file size right on the back of the package. Of course, it’s worth keeping in mind that file size doesn’t go hand in hand with quality. Monster Hunt
    Monster Hunter World File Size is Surprisingly Small

  • Nearly two years after the launch of the HTC Vive, the high-end VR headset is getting its first major upgrade. After speculation and leaks, HTC has officially confirmed that the Vive Pro is on the way and the new piece of hardware will address some of the key complaints filed against the original device. Luckily, the Vive Pro is taking a major step forward by redesigning the headstrap and adding built-in headphones. That’s a 78% bump from the 2160 x 1200 (1080 x 1200 per eye) resolution in the o
    Vive Pro Adds Key Missing Feature

  • While many have already written Metal Gear Survive off, those willing to give it a chance will have an opportunity next week, more than a month before its official launch. Anyone participating in the Metal Gear Survive open beta will be happy to learn that playing it will yield some rewards for the main game. Specifically, participating in the Metal Gear Survive beta will net some cosmetic items, including a Metal Gear Rex accessory and a Fox Hound nameplate. In the meantime, it will be interest
    Metal Gear Survive Beta Begins Next Week, New Trailer Released

  • At the moment, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds‘ FPP mode is only available to be played solo on Xbox One, with group servers likely to be added at some point in the future. Finally, the patch for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds also adds analog stick acceleration when jumping out of the plane and while parachuting. Taking all of this into consideration, it’s great to see Bluehole Studio bringing another feature that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds fans on both PC and Xbox One can enjoy. PlayerUnknown’
    PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Patch Adds First-Person Mode on Xbox One

  • As it so happens, the ESRB recently published a listing for a “Royal Edition” of the title, indicating that the role-playing game might have a Game of the Year version in the works for consoles. The ESRB rating for Final Fantasy 15‘s Royal Edition doesn’t offer much useful information in regards to what the product could be, with the description mostly reexplaining what the original title’s content contained. Taking all of this into consideration, with the ESRB having already given Final Fantasy
    Final Fantasy 15 Royal Edition Leaks Through ESRB Rating

  • The latest action-packed trailer from Dragon Ball FighterZ just dropped and it showcases the devastating, dark powers of Goku Black. Like the other character trailers from Dragon Ball FighterZ, it’s short, but contains just enough to get gamers’ blood pumping. When Dragon Ball FighterZ premiered at E3 2017, it had a relatively small roster of characters from the Dragon Ball universe. In fact, all of the early characters were from the Dragon Ball Z era and none were from the current series, Drago
    Goku Black Shows the Power of a God In Dragon Ball FighterZ Character Trailer

  • Gears of War developer The Coalition is now working on a new intellectual property. The Vancouver-based studio assumed developmental duties of the fabled Gears of War franchise when Microsoft acquired its rights from Epic Games in 2014, creating both a retrospective Ultimate Edition and a continuation of the franchise with Gears of War 4. The news comes from the Storylab Productions website, which states that the studio started collaborating with The Coalition on a new IP in 2017. Whatever The C
    Gears of War Developer The Coalition Working On New IP

  • Players aren’t exactly spoiled for choice, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some exciting Xbox One exclusives on the horizon. Microsoft’s console is still getting a handful of brilliant-looking titles during 2018 and these games are listed below. PlayerUnknown’s BattlegroundsPlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is the hit battle royale game that took players by storm in 2017 and in December it was released on Xbox One as part of the Xbox Game Preview program. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is ava
    5 Most Exciting Xbox One Exclusive Games of 2018

  • Although Sea of Thieves has already received special treatment from Microsoft, it is continuing in the form of a new custom controller. Set to release on February 6, this impressive controller is dark purple with a light green splatter across it. The Sea of Thieves custom controller is currently available as a pre-order through the Microsoft Store. Despite recent setbacks, Mad Catz seems determined to bring quality products to the market, but whether or not it can deliver something as impressive
    Sea of Thieves Gets Awesome Custom Controller That Glows in the Dark

  • For the past week, rumors have been swirling about Nintendo hosting a major Nintendo Direct on January 11. The latest rumors surrounding the supposed January 11 Nintendo Direct have to deal with The Legend of Zelda franchise, and claim that the next game in the series will be a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for 3DS. According to the rumors, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is being remade for the 3DS with an open world style more reminiscent of The Legend of Zelda: Breath
    Rumor: Next Legend of Zelda Game is a Remake

  • Now, it looks as if the update has been a huge hit with the free-to-play mode’s PS4 fans, with streams of the game on Sony’s current generation console more than doubling those of Call of Duty: WW2 and Grand Theft Auto 5 combined. As seen below in the screenshot courtesy of the Resetera user known as “v_iHuGi,” Fortnite seems to be trouncing the competition in terms of PS4 livestreams, with the survival title racking up 5,582 streams over Grand Theft Auto 5 and Call of Duty: WW2‘s combined count
    Fortnite Streams on PS4 Double Call of Duty, GTA 5 Combined

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