It’s a chilly, snow-themed island called Vikendi, bringing with it new weather, a new gun and the coolest way to get around a battlefield: snowmobiles. There’s a ‘60s cosmodrome, complete with rocket, and a even quirky dinosaur theme park. “In every map, you’re always going to have these iconic, central locations that really lend themselves to hot-dropping,” Curd says. Some of PUBG Corp’s artists took a trip to Slovenia where they found a dinosaur park, inspiring the one in-game. The developers

The Block, a flat concrete lot, just replaced Risky Reels on Fortnite’s battle royale map. Think back to the long forgotten age of this morning when Fortnite Season 7 and the new creative mode went live. The Block will be where the best player-made creations are put on display for everyone, so long as they make the cut. Epic says the feature and creative mode are still fairly new and rough, so you’ll need to stick to the following rules to put whatever you make up for consideration. Epic is alwa

After building a spectacularly large audience with Fornite, Epic is turning its game launcher into a Steam-like store—though one that offers developers a larger revenue share. The first games it’s offering are now visible on the Epic Store . First of all, Subnautica and Super Meat Boy, both great games, are going to be free for a limited time, starting later in December. But also: free games. We’d never heard of a game called Hades until now, and yet here it is, available on the Epic Store in Ea

Credit: TheMysticalMungus on TwitterThe hits keep on coming for Bethesda and its customers. For a brief period today, players who logged into Bethesda’s website to view or update their technical support tickets were able to view everyone else’s support tickets, too. The information in some of these support tickets apparently included customer’s names, email addresses, and other personal information. Those uploaded documents were apparently viewable by other customers as well, and those receipts

If you’re having trouble entering the Blind Well PvE arena in Destiny 2, you’re not alone. The instructions are to walk into the Blind Well slowly, via the right side hallway while hugging the wall. Walking slowly into the arena has apparently been a trick to expedite matchmaking for a while, but it’s funny to see Bungie openly acknowledging it. Here’s their tweet:We have identified an issue with matchmaking within the Blind Well. It’s become clear that we made the initial Power requirements for

First announced at Microsoft’s 2013 E3 press conference, fantasy roguelike Below is finally releasing on December 14 – just in time to meet its 2018 release window. Below is a roguelike: it has a procedurally generated world full of dark dungeons and ominous outdoor environments, and permadeath. There’s plenty of games like this in 2018, but the art style of Below will certainly set it apart. “If I’m not bleeding out from an encounter with my little red friends, I’m contending with an empty stom

Blizzard announced yesterday that the Winter Wonderland will return to Overwatch on December 11, a snowy special event that we predicted would be preceded by the usual array of new Legendary skin reveals. Sure enough, we were right (shocking, I know): First on the runway is Snowboarder Zarya, whose cute furry look makes for a very different sort of “Russian Bear.” Pawsitively fursome.Shred your opponents as SNOWBOARDER ZARYA (Legendary)! 🏂Winter Wonderland begins Dec 11! Overwatch’s Winter Wonde

In response to those complaints, Valve has posted a message in the Steamworks Development group (available to the public) explaining what happened. This change was meant to fix an issue where customers would search for a game, but that game would be much lower in the search results than other less relevant games,” Valve wrote. “As a result, overall impressions and views for the ‘More Like This’ section did show a substantial decrease for about two weeks after the initial bug,” Valve said. That w

Mike Laidlaw, formerly the creative director and lead designer on the Dragon Age RPG series, left BioWare in 2017 so he could try his hand at other things—including the Dragon Age: Origins-inspired RPG The Waylanders. But today he announced that he’s back at a big developer, this time as the creative director at Ubisoft Quebec. If you’ve played the excellent Assassin’s Creed Odyssey—which was principally developed here in Quebec City—you already have some taste of what that combination can produ

Starbreeze, the publisher of games including Payday 2 and Overkill’s The Walking Dead, has confirmed reports that its Stockholm office was raided by Swedish authorities investigating allegations of insider trading. Word of the raid first surfaced in Swedish sources including Expressen.se, which said that authorities had seized computers and documents as part of an investigation into a “suspected gross insider breach in Starbreeze.” “On Wednesday Swedish Economic Crime Authority has conducted a s

This is the best time of year to build or upgrade your PC, or add to it (like a new router). We’re knee-deep in the holiday shopping season at this point, and that means there are deals galore. This is day two of its ’12 Days of Deals’ event, each day of which focuses on a specific category. We’ve already highlighted some of the better deals on Logitech’s gaming peripherals and accessories, but that’s just scratching a very large surface. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy somethi

Zotac recently added another GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card model to its product stack, and in doing so it seemingly revealed that Nvidia was adding a GDDR5X memory option to the 1070, like it did with the GeForce GTX 1060 in October. If you got your hopes up, brace yourself—the GDDR5X memory that initially appeared in the specifications was a “simple mistake” on Zotac’s part. The potential advantage of using GDDR5X memory is ultimately more bandwidth, by running at faster speeds. It remains to

Walmart’s Overpowered gaming PC line is not going away any time soon. Rumors began circulating a few days ago that Walmart had pulled their Overpowered line of gaming PC desktops from sale. Walmart Gaming PCs are done! pic.twitter.com/qoDbZMt3MsDecember 3, 2018We were able to confirm that all Overpowered gaming desktop PCs and laptops are available for purchase on Walmart’s website, though it appears several models have dropped in price recently. The Overpowered gaming laptop model with 32GB of

Bethesda has confirmed that we can expect Fallout 76’s live in-game events to begin early next year. “We are excited to announce that, starting in early 2019, we plan to release a variety of in-game events that will take place over the course of a week. We’ve wondered for a while how Fallout 76 will benefit from being a live game. Chris gave Fallout 76 60 percent, citing numerous problems with the PC version and the game itself. “Despite the considerable issues with the PC version, I’ve still ha

Reports say a new Dragon Age game is set to be revealed at The Game Awards tomorrow—but it’ll be at least three years until you can play it. The report says that this new Dragon Age game has spent a year in limbo. If this report is correct, it’ll be at least seven years between Dragon Age instalments. Did Dragon Age get stuck in the Deep Roads? I’m curious to know what forms Dragon Age 4 has taken over the years—developer Alexis Kennedy discussed his involvement in the project in August last yea

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Today’s Destiny 2 update was fairly bland as these things go—fixes and tweaks, mostly—but one note was worthy of a double-take: “Fixed an issue where Protheon, the Modular Mind grew three times larger than intended in Update 2.1.0.” Protheon, Modular Mind is a pretty big fella to begin with, so three times his size? This week we fixed an issue where Protheon, Modular Mind, the boss of the Inverted Spire strike, grew three times his normal size.You asked for video evidence so here’s your “bigboi”

Instead, I have a question: Do we need point C? Do we need the point in the middle of the map, which is surrounded by all the other points, and which is full of grenades at all times? I wonder this mostly because of Battlefield 5’s Rotterdam map, which features a central cathedral that is constantly being contested. Meanwhile, at least one squad on the other team circumnavigated the map and captured all of the surrounding points but one. I assume that’s because most players were in Conquest dyin

Sequels followed in 2003, 2004, and 2007 (confusingly called Unreal Tournament 3), and in 2014 a new UT was announced. Don’t feel bad if you’ve forgotten about that (or just hadn’t heard), though, because it’s been a couple of years since the last time we checked in—when, ironically, we declared that “it’s time to pay attention to the new Unreal Tournament.” Originally released in mid-2017 as a third-person survival-shooter, Fortnite became a mega-sensation a few months later when the Unreal Tou