Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will soon be graced with the revamped progression system promised during the intense fallout over its original loot box system. And even though the premium currency is returning—which EA said would happen at the time—it sounds like a big improvement. I was glad to see the premium currency go, but axing it didn’t make Battlefront 2’s progression system better—it just removed the most offensive feature while leaving the consequences of that feature intact. The Battlefront

In positive Cultist Simulator news, I am no longer under investigation by the authorities. I could have tried a bribe but I was in the mood to throw someone under the Lovecraftian card game bus. Cultist Simulator is the first project from Weather Factory, the new studio comprising Failbetter founder Alexis Kennedy and Failbetter alumnus Lottie Bevan. It takes the form of a narrative card game where you combine and reposition cards in order to unlock new story options. That won’t be the finish li

Great Nintendo games start with that, for me, then the rest of the magic comes from art, sound and level design. “For me personally I think Nintendo are just the masters of putting a smile on your face,” says Finn Brice, CEO of Starbound developer Chucklefish. Indie games and the digital marketplace mean we’ve seen a ton of games with Nintendo DNA, made by creators who grew up with those old consoles. From Metroidvanias to 2D platformers to Zelda-likes, there’s a variant of pretty much every old

Neo Cab is the debut game from Californian outfit Chance Agency. It’s a survival game, of sorts, but not what we’re used to from the genre. “Neo Cab is an emotional survival game about gig labor, tech disruption and the experience of being a driver-for-hire… perhaps the last of their kind,” reads a tweet from the game’s newly launched Twitter account. As told by RPS, players assume control of Lina, a human cab driver living in the AI-controlled city of Los Ojos. Neo Cab is an emotional survival

J.B. Smoove J.B. Smoove is an actor, writer and comedian whose career spans over 20 years. I think Larry would get caught up in it and he’d be addicted to it. Did I just inadvertently brainstorm a GTA 5-inspired episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm with the show’s Leon Black? But, as J.B. Smoove says, how great would that be? Look out for our full conversation with J.B. Smoove on playing Ray De Angelo Harris, GTA 5’s enduring appeal, and working with Rockstar in the coming days.

One of the most stunning upsets of Overwatch League just took place, as the second-last place Florida Mayhem knocked off the number-four Los Angeles Valiant. Before this match, the Mayhem had only won two games—and those were against the bottom-ranked Shanghai Dragons and Dallas Fuel. But today they took down the Los Angeles Valiant, ranked fourth in the League with a total of 11 wins. The Mayhem took maps one and two, fell on map three, but then won map four with an impressive double-sniper pus

The Sinking City is an open-world investigation game with a Lovecraftian twist, set in the 1920s in Oakmont, Massachusetts, a city plagued by flood. With its first public showcase about to take place at GDC and EGX, the studio has released a trailer looking at the challenges of creating a demo that will properly showcase what the game is all about. The goal, the narrator says, is to show off as much “diversity” as possible: “Diversity of gameplay features, and cultural aspects as well.” The team

When it comes to capturing the spirit and thrill of the battle royale genre, PUBG Mobile is surprisingly adept. PUBG Mobile is about as good a port as anyone could hope for. I couldn’t get the game running when not on wifi, but I’m hoping that doesn’t indicate that PUBG mobile is wifi only. But in capturing that spirit, PUBG Mobile also has to make a ton of concessions that exacerbate PUBG’s already annoying-as-hell problems. If you lack a computer powerful enough to play PUBG or are just desper

Those perpetually strolling characters showed how closely 6 Eyes are emulating Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre, their two main inspirations. Yet even without endlessly marching NPCs, there are a lot of elements of Fell Seal lifted directly from Final Fantasy: Tactics. In Fell Seal, the party has a set number of each item per fight and that number resets, removing the fear of waste. The injury system gives an incentive to trade in your second-string combatants while the starting lineup is

Crossplay with PCOne of the port’s most surprising features is crossplay compatibility with the PC version (PS4, Xbox One, and Mac, too). Mobile players are normally matched with other mobile players, but joining a PC player throws you into the PC matchmaking pool so don’t worry about stiff, inexperienced mobile players crowding your matches. Legions of teens with cruddy iPhones will, on the daily, put the average Fortnite players of all platforms to shame. I started played Fortnite’s mobile ver

What made these armor sets special was the tender love and care the Blizzard art team put into their design. Wrath – Warrior Tier 2I like Wrath because it was the first time I realized that World of Warcraft was dumb. Image via WoWHeadAbsolution – Priest Tier 6One of my favorite things about World of Warcraft armor sets are the subtle flourishes the art team drops in to distinguish it from the standard machine-generated stuff you’re pulling off of run-of-the-mill mobs. World of Warcraft is a wor

It’s been nearly two years since we took our first (and last) look at Far: Lone Sails, a game we described as “a weirdly charming roadtrip through the post-apocalypse.” You play more of an engineer than a pilot: Instead of driving, you control your oversized land yacht by moving between various stations, trying to keep all the systems working as they should. What you won’t have to deal with, however, are zombies, mutants, or any other denizens of the irradiated wasteland. Far: Lone Sails reminds

A mobile version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds rolled out in China recently, bringing the groundbreaking battle royale experience to anyone with a decent phone and a passing interest in playing it. A “soft launch” is a bit like an early access release: Developers put their game out in a regional store to test stability and gauge interest before moving into a wide release. It’s a fairly common practice in the mobile game business, and Canada is often the beneficiary. This particular soft launc

There’s a story going around that sounds too improbable to be true: that Civilization 6’s AI leaders have been acting strangely because of five misspellings in a data file. That wouldn’t matter if it were misspelled everywhere, but ‘yield’ is written with the correct spelling in every other instance across all of Civ 6’s data files. Testing with and without the typosShark and other Civ players believe these table entries are meant to set the AI leaders’ default priorities, which are then modifie

Today Ubi pinned that down to June 29 with a brief new gameplay trailer and details about a new, high-priced Motor Edition release. The Crew 2 Motor Edition includes the Gold Edition of the game in a SteelBook case, along with a 12×6″ license plate “customized to reflect the spirit of The Crew 2” and a 25×20-inch fold-out map of the game. Interestingly, it’s only $10 more than the digital Gold edition, which comes bundled with the season pass, The Crew 2 Motorsports Deluxe Pack, and three avatar

Today Epic Games announced it’s throwing a big party at E3, hosting 50 celebrities and 50 pro Fortnite Battle Royale players for the first ever Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am. There’s no word as of yet on exactly who will be participating—Epic is still assembling the roster—so let the speculation begin. Known celebrity Fortnite players include Chance the Rapper, Drake (Ninja’s BFF), Travis Scott, Roseanne Barr (yes, from the sitcom), and the Toronto Maple Leafs, apparently. I have 20 fortnite victory

Javier apparently believed that Lovell was cheating on her, but he told Buzzfeed that all that gaming had simply destroyed his libido. Instead of simply leaving him, however, she opted to purchase a samurai sword, which she taped to her side of the bed, along with two knives. She got hold of the family jewels and “tried to rip them off,” but even then Lovell was able to keep his cool. “The feeling I had when I won the fight with my bare hands is just absolutely the best feeling,” he said. A GoFu

VIDEO: We discuss what we want to see in The Division 2 on this week’s stream of The PC Gamer Show. At E3 this June we’ll find out more about The Division 2, the recently announced sequel to Ubisoft’s contentious Clancy-verse looter shooter. The Division 2 is an opportunity to open with a golden goose that gets the entire playerbase talking. The best solution to this conundrum is one that The Division has already toyed with: some amount of procedurally generated mission design. Flavors-of-the-mo

Just a few weeks ago, the Overwatch hacker Sombra received a pretty significant buff. Overwatch lead designer Geoff Goodman chimed in on the forums recently to lay out some upcoming tweaks to Sombra’s Hack:”Any time Sombra’s hack is interrupted by damage, hacking will go on cooldown for 2 seconds. “We are removing this window and instead now using multiple LOS checks to make sure the small LOS blockers are still not a problem. Goodman said that the recent changes intended to increase Sombra’s po

Together, the two will finally bring Outer Wilds to PC later this year, well over three years after its announcement. The prospect of exploring a solar system may remind you of No Man’s Sky, but in practice Outer Wilds is closer to Subnautica. It’s also fully simulated, at least as much as a cartoon solar system should be. Here’s how the newly minted Steam page describes it:”The planets of Outer Wilds are packed with hidden locations that change with the passage of time. Outer Wilds made quite a