The inclusion of playable female soldiers in Battlefield 5 has courted controversy. “Player choice and female playable characters are here to stay,” said DICE general manager Oskar Gabrielson in response to the backlash last month—a sentiment echoed by design director Alan Kertz. It needs to fit with the era,” explains Morrell. So I wouldn’t be surprised if we included a bagpipe as an item because there was one crazy guy who used it.” If you don’t have Access, the Deluxe Edition releases October

The 36-second teaser for The Elder Scrolls 6 didn’t give us much to go on. High Rock was also one of the locations used in The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, and more recently The Elder Scrolls Online’s second expansion was devoted to Orsinium, which could have been a sneaky tease for a more thorough exploration in the next mainline Elder Scrolls game. ElsweyrThere are two good arguments for why the next Elder Scrolls game could be set in Elsweyr. Valenwood would be a rich setting for a future Eld

Show us your rig On Show Us Your Rig we feature PC gaming’s best and brightest as they show us the systems they use to work and play. He’s part of a global community who by necessity have a lot of experience gaming on a budget, and he shares that knowledge on a YouTube channel called The LowSpec Gamer. This is my attempt at recreating that because I know that a lot of my community uses that as a baseline. Motherboard: This is a huge motherboard with a 775 socket so we’re talking pre-i3, pre-i5,

If you saw Devolver Digital’s E3 conference last year, you’ll have had an idea what to expect: host Nina Struthers doing a pitch-perfect impersonation of frightening corporate passion, gore, skits, and maybe some hints about actual games. This year’s was a short one, though it did find time to reveal “lootboxcoin” and end with an homage to Robocop. In between, there were actual trailers for actual games including a remake of FromSoftware’s Metal Wolf Chaos, a game in which the President of the U

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice isn’t the only new From Software game announced at E3 2018: Devolver Digital has announced it will also publish a game by the Dark Souls studio. It’s a remaster of Metal Wolf Chaos, a cult classic mech combat game released for the original Xbox in 2004. Now it’s coming to PC later this year, with upgraded visuals and widescreen support. During Devolver’s typically bizarre press conference, presenter Mahria Zook described Metal Wolf Chaos like this: “this motherfucking l

Near the end of Bethesda’s press conference at E3 2018, Todd Howard put to rest rumors that have existed for years and announced Starfield. The oft-rumored game is speculated to be set in the Fallout universe, albeit much further into the future. Obviously that makes sense, considering Starfield is said to be a space-faring RPG, something confirmed by the short teaser trailer which showed a space station orbiting a planet. “Starfield is a game that we have spent years thinking about and working

The next Elder Scrolls game is called The Elder Scrolls: Blades, and it’s coming to phones, PC, consoles, and virtual reality this fall. You play as one of the Blades, the Empire’s top warriors, who returns to their hometown which has been destroyed and needs to be rebuilt. It’s a first-person RPG with questsThe meat of the game is a town building mode, where you upgrade and decorate your town. In addition to the Town mode, there’s also Abyss, “a roguelike experience where you can see how far yo

The Skyrim Very Special Edition will be available on Amazon Alexa, the Etch-a-sketch, Motorola pagers (specific models to be determined), and Samsung smart refrigerators, which will bring a whole new level of depth to those trips to the Nordic north. The trailer is a joke, of course, a bit of self-referential fun about Skryim’s presence on all sorts of different platforms. But it’s a good one too (“That’s no horker, that’s my wife!”) I mean, I don’t think it would, and I don’t have an Alexa so I

Finally detailed at Bethesda’s E3 showcase, Fallout 76 is indeed a multiplayer survival game, confirming rumors surrounding the prequel’s recent reveal. Don’t expect much in the way of NPC character interactions though. Fallout 76 is built using new tech, and it shows. Early comparisons to Rust weren’t totally inaccurate, but based on what we know so far, Fallout 76 will be much more player friendly. We’ll be poring through everything Bethesda showed, collecting everything we know about Fallout

Announced during Bethesda’s E3 showcase, Wolfenstein: Youngblood is a co-op game starring B.J. Blazkowicz’s twin daughters, set in Paris in 1980s. The Nazis are still in charge in Wolfenstein’s alternate timeline. Watch the debut trailer above. Wolfenstein: Youngblood is releasing in 2019.

At Bethesda’s E3 2018 press conference, a trailer for Prey DLC Mooncrash came along with the surprise announcement that this big update for Prey is available right now. Instead it’s a piece of DLC called Mooncrash, where “enemies, hazards, and loot are all different each time you play.” There’s also a free update for Prey consisting of three things: Story Mode, New Game+, and Survival Mode. Mooncrash is available on Steam now for $20, or in a deluxe bundle with the base game for $40. Mooncrash a

Bethesda just aired a brand new trailer for The Elder Scrolls Legends at its E3 2018 press conference, and while it’s very console focused (the game is coming to Switch, Xbox One and PS4 later this year), there’s some footage of the forthcoming graphical revamp for you to gaze at. For more on the big changes coming to Bethesda’s card game, Andy has you sorted.

Marty Stratton and Hugo Martin, producer and creative director of Doom at id, showed up at the Bethesda E3 press conference to announce Doom Eternal, “an awesome, awesome new sequel to Doom.” Doom Eternal will have an “even more powerful” Doom Slayer, and “twice as many” demons. It will make its full debut at this year’s QuakeCon in Dallas this August. Also, are those Cacodemons with arms? We’re not sure how we feel.

The Rage 2 intro featured a surprise appearance by Andrew WK, laying down a live performance exhorting the audience to party and kill stuff, and possibly to die. The game was presented by id Software’s Tim Willits and Avalanche Studios game directgor Magnus Nedfors, who described Rage 2 as “the most insane open world shooter you have ever played.” The trailer showcases the Eden Spaceport Mission, in which Walker quests for an item that will help him take down the Authority. Rage 2 is due out in

Tales of Vesperia was a notable JRPG back in 2008: it was released exclusively on the Xbox 360 and was a lavish, big budget production at the time, something the Tales series hasn’t really had since. A PS3 version released exclusively in Japan a year later had some extra content that never made its way to the west. Until now, anyway: a trailer shown at Microsoft’s E3 2018 press conference announced Vesperia is coming back this winter, with that PS3 content included. Vesperia stars a before-he-wa

In a confluence of bizarre surprises, From Software debuted its new Activision-published action game, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, at Microsoft’s E3 2018 press conference. As we’ve long known, it’s not a Dark Souls game, and importantly, it’s not a Bloodborne sequel either. Note that throughout the trailer, Sekiro wields a sword in his left hand the entire time. During his aborted death Sekiro lost his right limb, and he’s told its mechanical replacement is “something much more useful”. Sekiro: Sh

Cyberpunk 2077 was finally shown again at the Microsoft E3 2018 conference . ‘The worst place to live in America'”In 2077 they voted my city the worst place to live in America.” By 2077 the city should be relatively stable, but it’s reasonable to expect crime bosses and CEOs to feature heavily. In the Cyberpunk 2077 setting mega-corporations control key territory and small-time mobs fight for the rest. There’s been a lot of speculation among fans that something called Braindance, which is a virt

That Cyberpunk 2077 E3 2018 trailer was a lot to take in: neon mohawks, MMA androids, flying cars, non-flying but somehow cooler cars, a lot of guns. But William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and considered the father of cyberpunk, isn’t convinced. “The trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 strikes me as GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future,” Gibson wrote on twitter, “but hey, that’s just me.” To be fair, though, Gibson also spends his time on Twitter retweeting New York Times op-ed columnist P

Freeze-frame of Cyberpunk 2077… easter egg FAQ hidden behind! oooOOO pic.twitter.com/d3NgFulOIYJune 10, 2018We’re currently going nuts over the new Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, and not just because it’s our first look at one of the most anticipated games in years. Tucked in the end of the trailer is a secret, hidden letter from developer CD Projekt Red. The letter’s a bit garbled, but that doesn’t stop it from addressing a few critical questions fans might have about the game:When? “When we told yo

Battletoads, the amphibian (not reptilian!) beat-em-up that debuted all the way back in 1991, will return in 2019 with a new game called… well, Battletoads. Revealed during Microsoft’s E3 press event, the new game will feature 4K hand-drawn graphics, three-player couch co-op, and “body morphing genre mash-ups.” Unfortunately, that’s literally all we know about it at this point: Nothing of the actual game was shown in the teaser, including confirmation that it will be released for PC. I think i