knowing is half the battlefield Find out about guns, maps, and modes, watch trailers and footage, and learn everything we know about Battlefield 5. Above: 10 minutes of Battlefield 5 Grand Operations gameplay. There’s about 10 minutes of gameplay footage above from the event. This session was a chance to try out Battlefield 5’s Grand Operations mode (not the battle royale mode that was announced but not elaborated on). Grand Operations is an asymmetrical 64-player mode where one team invades and

Gears of War studio The Coalition revealed “a true Gears of War PC experience in a completely different genre” today called Gears Tactics. The game will follow the adventures of an entirely new squad, 12 years before the events of Gears of War 1, as they go on the hunt for the Locust forces that are wiping out entire cities. Details will be revealed soon. The Coalition also announced Gears of War 5 today. Catch up with that bit of excitement here.

Dying Light 2 was just announced during Microsoft’s E3 2018 press conference, and, surprisingly, Chris Avellone is working with developer Techland to design the narrative. Set 15 years after the initial zombie outbreak, Dying Light 2’s post-apocalyptic setting is borderline fantastical, a big departure from the vaguely Middle-Eastern setting of the first game. As Avellone explained during the presentation, however, Dying Light 2’s world will change radically depending on decisions you make. In o

At Microsoft’s E3 show today, CD Projekt showed up with a new Cyberpunk 2077 trailer—the first big showing of the Witcher 3 dev’s next RPG we’ve seen in some time. It’s not the gameplay reveal we might’ve hoped for, but as far as cinematic trailers go, it certainly sets a tone, doesn’t it? Here’s everything else we know about Cyberpunk so far. Now that the big cinematic trailer is out of the way, we expect the next reveal to involve some proper play. No official release date has been announced,

Gears of War studio head Rod Fergusson got on stage at Microsoft’s press conference to announce Gears of War 5, coming from The Coalition in 2019. The following trailer was surprisingly character-focused and combat-light, setting up a story focused on Kait, one of the squadmates introduced in Gears of War 4. The video shows off new wintry environments, melee combat with a giant mace, and new bio-machine enemy types that look vaguely Borg-esque. It’s hard to tell from a single trailer, but Gears

The debut trailer for Jump Force, a Shonen Jump mash-up fighting game, was revealed at Microsoft’s E3 press conference. Set in a ruined city, the trailer shows a suite of Shonen Jump characters duking it out, including Goku, Naruto, the One Piece guy, some dude from Death Note, and— listen, I’m not a great anime correspondent. So far, Jump Force mainly seems to be a game about beating up Frieza. Jump Force is coming from publisher Bandai Namco, but we don’t have more details on the developer yet

Todd Howard appeared the Microsoft E3 2018 press conference to tease Fallout 76. He didn’t confirm whether it’s a proper full-scale open world Bethesda RPG or not, but he did say that, whatever it is, it will be “four times the size of fallout 4.” It’s a prequel, which might be why the world looks less brown and utterly ruined than Fallout games tend to be. We’ll almost certainly learn more at the Bethesda E3 2018 conference happening later today, but the trailer showed some sumptuous vistas. St

At Microsoft’s E3 press conference on Sunday, things started with a Halo-shaped bang. Microsoft teased a new Halo game called Halo Infinite, “powered by the SlipSpace engine.” “With Halo Infinite we will join Master Chief on his greatest adenture yet to save humanity,” said Xbox chief Phil Spencer. The trailer description on Youtube confirms what we heard from Microsoft last year: the next Halo is coming to Windows 10 as well as the Xbox. Watch the trailer above.

So when André Bengtsson, artist and one third of the design team at Swedish studio Redbeet Interactive, tells me about the origins of their game Raft it’s refreshingly different. Raft is a survival game set on the ocean, where you start with four squares of wood beneath your feet and a hook-rope in your hand. You throw the hook to grab junk as it floats by, which you craft tools and expand the raft with. “It was just you hooking stuff and expanding the raft,” Bengtsson says. As for why theirs ha

A leaked picture of a keychain, of all things, led Ubisoft to confirm that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is the next installment in the long-running series, and that it’ll take place in ancient Greece. Ahead of a full reveal at E3, another leak has revealed a bunch of screenshots of the game, some of which show that it will, as rumoured, have dialogue options for the first time in the series. The screens, a selection of which are below, also show off ship combat, part of the skill tree and the world

As if E3 2018 wasn’t already exciting enough, Wednesday morning at 9AM PDT, Evan and Steven will be hosting a glorious Facebook livestream from the E3 show floor. We’ll also be joined by friends from GamesRadar and IGN to talk about the most exciting games at the show, making it a great way to stay abreast of the biggest stories happening at E3. When a developer joins us to talk about their game, you’ll also have a chance to ask them questions directly. At the end of the show, we’ll be opening u

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor—Martyr, a new action RPG from the creators of The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, came out of Early Access on June 6. The end result of these events is the addition of “Warzone”, a mode that generates endless missions for endgame leveling and loot. After these additions comes a Season update, adding a whole new subsector to travel around in: “This Season will introduce the Dark Eldar faction along with an increased level cap, new items, perks, enchants, and new

A short distance away from the sound and fury of E3, literally across the road from the LA Convention Center, there’s an alternative show called Indie Heaven. Publisher Good Shepherd is taking the opportunity to showcase some smaller games, and one of them is turn-based tactics game Phantom Doctrine. This new story trailer sets up the plot, which takes place during the Cold War and features spies who go rogue to take down a global conspiracy called “the Beholder Initiative”. It shows off a littl

There have been teases for some moon-based Prey DLC as well, and there are bound to be some surprise announcements. Watch Bethesda’s press conference above on Sunday, June 10, at 6:30 pm Pacific / 9:30 pm Eastern / 2:30 am BST (Mon) / 11:30 am AEST (Mon) or by tuning to Twitch. Check out the rest of the E3 press conference schedule here. And don’t forget, we’ve once again got our own show at E3! It’s the fourth annual PC Gaming Show, and here’s what to expect and how to watch it.

As always with Microsoft’s E3 press conference, there will be a big focus on console games, but naturally we’ll hear a lot about what’s cooking for PC as well (especially as all of Microsoft’s Xbox games have been releasing on Windows 10 as of late). We’re also expecting some Gears of War, Forza, and other assorted trailers from Microsoft and its partners. You can watch Microsoft’s press conference above on Saturday, June 10, at 1 pm Pacific / 4 pm Eastern / 9 am BST / 6 am AEST (Mon), or here o

Pillault also alluded to the Columbine shooting, and said he could not “wait to blow brains out of skulls.” (Note: Pillault’s case file says he was arrested in October 2014. In comparison, Pillault’s case, the circumstances of which bear a remarkable resemblance to Carter’s, was relatively quiet. However, Pillault’s case stands out because of the evidence that led to his inordinately severe sentence. At the time he made the threats, Pillault says his alcoholism was “at its lowest point and was v

While BioWare says we can play Anthem alone, it turns out we can’t do so offline. “You need to be online to play,” said BioWare’s Mark Darrah on Twitter. You need to be online to play https://t.co/KsojxJ0rvJJune 9, 2018That’s a disappointment for anyone whose internet connection isn’t up to the task, as the person Darrah was responding to indicated. It also reinforces that, while solo play is possible, it is not what BioWare is going for with this one (which is Destiny… it’s going for Destiny,

Cool Mini Or Not and Guillotine Games have announced Cthulhu: Death May Die by two of contemporary board gaming’s most popular, prolific designers: Eric M. Lang and Rob Daviau. Cthulhu: Death May Die will be a series of standalone episodes. Mitigating dice rolls and bad outcomes by playing around each character’s insanity is cited as a major mechanic. Daviau is best known for legacy games like Risk: Legacy, SeaFall, Pandemic Legacy, and the upcoming Betrayal Legacy, as well as miniatures game He

Game Informer reports that BioWare’s Anthem will feature zero smooching. Citadel was ace, though, so if there’s a breath of that sort of camaraderie in Anthem we might get to enjoy some of that BioWare magic after all. Anthem is due out in February 2019, and it won’t feature lootboxes (though there will be cosmetic microtransactions). Watch the cinematic trailer from today’s EA press conference for a flavour of EA’s third-person Destiny-a-like. We’re collecting everything we know about Anthem in

If you’re wondering when we’re getting a new Dragon Age game and whether Mass Effect will ever return to PC, BioWare’s Casey Hudson has weighed in on that as part of a Game Informer cover feature on Anthem. “I would say a majority of the people at BioWare are working on Anthem, but we do have people who are figuring out what a next Dragon Age would look like,” Hudson says. When asked about Mass Effect, Hudson said: “It’s my baby. I helped start Mass Effect from the beginning. Myself and Tom expl