Among the numerous shooter games out on the market, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is easily the most tactical and strategic of them all. Here’s a breakdown of everything that makes Rainbow Six Siege special – and why the game is only going to get even better as time goes on. This sets Rainbow Six Siege apart from other tactical shooters, as none of them even bother with strategic pre-firefight planning phases. Of course, it wouldn’t be an amazing shooter if it didn’t have amazing maps, and Rain

Death Stranding can’t support Australia by smashing the Like button, but it can donate the proceeds from some new pieces of merch to a worthy cause. Kojima Productions has updated its official store with two new Death Stranding products: a T-shirt for you and an avatar for your PlayStation Account. Both show the same graphic: Australia outlined in the blue holographic display technology of Death Stranding, with connections between its major cities and the rest of the world. Death Stranding is fi

Boss Key Productions, the now-defunct studio formerly led by Cliff Bleszinski, was once in talks to create a new first-person shooter set in the Alien universe, but it got shelved after Disney’s buyout of Fox. “Funfact: Before BKP shut down we were in talks to do a new game in the Aliens franchise with Fox. Then Disney bought them and that got lost in the shuffle, darnit.” Weyland-Yutani are weaponizing the aliens in a Black Mesa style facility and, of course, all hell breaks loose. He went on t

If you’re desperate for Animal Crossing but only have a PC, Hokko Life may be the next best thing. Coming from a single developer named Robert Tatnell, Hokko Life is unmistakably an Animal Crossing-inspired game due to hit Steam Early Access later in 2020. Furniture can be customized and players can decorate their homes and walls and clothing with many more options. Most interesting of all is that players will be able to sell their creations to other players in a future update. Hokko Life is due

Nintendo Switch won’t be the new console on the block once PS5 and Xbox Series X show up later this year, but Nintendo isn’t worried about it. Nintendo’s latest console blazed its own trail in the middle of the current console generation, and it worked out – especially compared to Wii U, its direct predecessor. “Therefore, we do not believe that the business activities of other companies will be especially influential on Nintendo’s business.” Switch came out early 2017, so if we’re just entering

A free Chrome extension called Animal Crossing Music brings the series’ real-time soundtrack to real life, letting you live like a resident of your own in-game town. The extension takes into account data like your local time of day, day of the week, and even the weather to customize your listening experience. Currently I’m enjoying the mid-morning tunes of the original Animal Crossing while writing this from the US west coast. It also features music spanning the illustrious history of the series

As resolutions rise, games get bigger – not in the “more to explore” sense but in the “more to download” sense. New technology in the works at Microsoft could reverse that trend for Xbox Series X . You may not have heard of Microsoft Game Stack before, but it could have a big impact on the way your games work in the next generation. One attendee mentioned how some fans are using AI to automatically sharpen fuzzy textures in older games. There’s no guarantee we’ll see this kind of technology used

We already knew Kings Canyon is returning to Apex Legends next month for ranked play, but it looks like unranked squads mode may be getting the map back too. This leak comes via @That1MiningGuy on Twitter who has a history of correctly identifying unannounced Apex Legends content from his data mining efforts. “Judging by some things found today – I can say that I do believe Kings Canyon will be available for both Ranked and Squads whenever the split happens. Judging by some things found today –

Platinum Games studio head, Atsushi Inaba, has said he would love to revive Scalebound. The former Xbox exclusive was originally announced at Microsoft’s E3 press briefing back in 2014. But it’s a game that we fall in love with and love, if the opportunity arises, it’s something we would love to return to.” Scalebound was a third-person, action RPG set in the world of Draconis. The game was set for a 2016 release date, which was delayed by Platinum to ensure the title lived up to its hype.

Red Dead Online players are experiencing a new undead nightmare, but it seems to be the work of hackers rather than Rockstar Games. Multiple player reports have surfaced from Red Dead Online in the last few days that whisper of a new threat on the frontier: two-headed skeletons that want to fight. Minor spoiler for the single-player campaign, but the two-headed skeleton already exists in the game as the remains of a carnival’s star attraction who was tragically trapped and died after a wagon cra

The headlining factoid comes from 4Gamer , which reports that Pokemon Home Switch users who have multiple accounts on one console will have the option of maintaining individual Pokemon Home collections or combining them into one big bank. Several other outlets examined the features and limitations of the app’s trade and transfer functions. For instance, you won’t be able to send Pokemon Eggs to Pokemon Home, and if you bring in Pokemon from Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu or Eevee, you’ll need to move

In case you missed it, Bong Joon-Ho won four Oscars at this year’s awards. In total he got one for Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture win for Parasite, the first time a foreign film has taken that honor. It’s infectious and heart warming so enjoy these reactions of someone just having the best night of their lives. Here’s Bong Joon Ho winning Best Original Screenplay with Han Jin Won, and having a little moment while Won gives a speech. He had li

By the end of the week, the Cannes Film Festival jury unanimously award Parasite the top prize, making Bong the first-ever South Korean to take home the Palme d’Or. While Bong, 50, has often worked in genre cinema – be it crime (Memories of Murder, Mother) or fantasy (Snowpiercer, Okja) – Parasite is a very different beast. Bong also tutored for a rich family when he was in college (he studied sociology at Yonsei University in Seoul). While he’d broached social inequality in his films before, Pa

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 2’s trailer has leaked, giving us an early glimpse of what to expect from the shooter’s next update. Call of Duty Season 2 mapsAtlas SuperstoreLocated in the city of Verdansk, Atlas Superstore can also be seen in the Modern Warfare Spec Ops mission: Operation Paladin. RustArguably one of the best maps in Call of Duty history, Rust makes its return in Modern Warfare Season 2. Call of Duty Season 2 launch timeThe Season 2 update is set to launch on Tuesday Febru

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Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has revealed more about the company’s thinking behind its surprise decision to unveil the Xbox Series X at The Game Awards last year, admitting that he “wasn’t the biggest fan” of the initial idea at first. “She just stood up in the room and said, ‘We should go do something bold, something we’ve never done before. I don’t think we’re going to disrupt and grow our business by doing what we’ve always done. “Some of them we’ll get right and some of them we won’t, but we’re

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Sam Mendes was expected to walk away with the Oscars for Best Director for his work on the one-take World War One movie 1917. Instead, Bong Joon-ho pulled off a surprise victory for Parasite. Looking at the audience with an expression of sheer surprise, Bong thanked fellow nominees Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) and Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) for supporting his work in the United States. Earlier in the night, Parasite became the first South Korean movie to win the Best Int

Renee Zellweger has won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance as Judy Garland in Judy, beating fellow nominees Cynthia Erivo (Harriet), Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story), Saoirse Ronan (Little Women), and Charlize Theron (Bombshell). While Zellweger has previously won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Cold Mountain, she has lost out twice for Best Actress (Bridget Jones’s Diary in 2002 and Chicago in 2003). Zellweger also heaped praise on her director Rupert Goold, sayin