Epic Games announced today that Fortnite will release on iOS, with sign-ups for the first Invite Event opening on Monday. It’s no surprise that Epic would want the game on mobile, but what’s most surprising is that the iOS (and later, Android) version will support crossplay with PC. In addition to crossplay with mobile, PC players will also be able to compete with players on Mac and PlayStation 4. The latter is interesting, as Sony has demonstrated reluctance to support crossplay as a standard f

In Bungie’s weekly update , Senior Crucible Designer Kevin Yanes and Design Lead Josh Hamrick discussed changes coming to the sandbox portion of Destiny 2 on March 27 as part of the 1.1.4 update. First up, Crucible changes. Iron Banner (6v6), Rumble, and Mayhem modes are returning in full soon, and with them comes a busier Crucible. To compensate, respawn timers and power ammo timers have been reduced across the board. Buffs to the Warlock’s Dawnblade subclass stand out here, removing in-air acc

US president Donald Trump opened today’s meeting with representatives and critics of the videogame industry by playing “a montage of clips of various violent videogames,” according to this Washington Post report. “In so many other places where you had mass shootings by children and every instance I just gave, that child who was the shooter was watching violent videogames.” Following the meeting, Rep. Hartzler released a statement on Twitter praising the president’s effort to solve the problem of

Final Fantasy XV has its first mod, and while it’s slightly disappointing that Sonic isn’t involved, I think we can all agree that it’s wise to start where all good mods should: with performance enhancements. This one’s the work of Kaldaien, who, among other things, helped make Nier: Automata play a bit nicer on PC. “It has come to my attention that the game loads input icons synchronously any time it sees input on keyboard/mouse or gamepad,” Kaldaien writes. “This means if you are using a gamep

Kingdom Come: Deliverance began life as a Kickstarter way back in early 2014—a very successful Kickstarter, which as commonly happens in crowdfunding campaigns led to a slew of stretch goals. Many were achieved, including a playable female character at £600,000 and a dog companion at £1 million, yet they remain unrealized. “There is more in development including some of the KS stretch goals, but there’s no public timeframe for release yet.” As we noted earlier this week, the Kingdom Come: Delive

There are a lot of ways Into the Breach can go wrong. Before I knew it I was down to two power on one of those maps that gets eaten up by a tidal wave turn by turn. As the Steel Judoka, I’d “perfect”ed my first island, earning a second pilot with an amazing ability—a second reset. It was the last turn and the vek had only taken one shot at my power grid—nothing I couldn’t patch up later. My pitiful 19% Grid Defense activated, the building resisted the damage, I completed the map, and later earne

Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene revealed a roadmap for PUBG today, giving us a look at the future of the popular battle royale shooter in 2018. An emote system is planned, accessible via a radial wheel, to allow players to point, wave, nod, clap, and taunt. The API will also “allow esports groups and other third parties to create custom games within PUBG.” Absent from the roadmap is modding support, something Greene has talked about wanting for PUBG in the past. While those are the major points o

A new expansion is coming to the free-to-play fantasy CCG Shadowverse at the end of the month called Dawnbreak, Nightedge. And once again, we’ve got an exclusive look at five of the new cards that are on the way. We begin our five reveals with a Gold rarity card by the name of Suttungr. The card banishes enemy amulets, or gains a +3/+3 buff if no enemy amulets are in play. Megalorca, unevolvedMegalorca, evolvedAnd finally, the Fairy, a 1/1 unevolved, 3/3 evolved Forestcraft follower, also of Bro

“The gravest situation of all was that, at the time we were starting Final Fantasy 15, we didn’t see an increase in new fans of the franchise.” When I grew up, Final Fantasy was still in what I would loosely term a golden age, which began during the ’90s and arguably ended with Final Fantasy 12 in 2006. Final Fantasy 15 is pretty simple by the series’ standards. There’s the Ascension Grid, which offers a progression path, but it’s so simple compared to the Sphere Grid in Final Fantasy 10 or junc

If you’ve been thinking about building a new PC or upgrading an existing one, then check out this Coffee Lake bundle on Newegg. It consists of a Core i5-8600K processor, 16GB (2x8GB) of Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3000 RAM, and an Asus Prime Z370-A motherboard for $500 after rebate. The Core i5-8600K is an unlocked 6-core/6-thread chip with a 3.6GHz base clock and 4.3GHz boost clock, and 9MB of cache. This bundle doesn’t skimp on RAM or the motherboard, either. 16GB of DDR4-3000 is right around t

Bloober Team, creators of Observer and Layers of Fear, revealed their next game today. Codenamed Project Méliès, the game was announced by publisher Gun Media, who says the game’s official title and its release date will be announced “at a later date.” In the meantime, fans of Bloober’s work have an 18-second teaser to chew on. As Eurogamer observed, the game’s codename suggests it’s named after French filmmaker Georges Méliès, who’s best known for early sci-fi films like The Impossible Voyage.

We are going to see that soon with the release of second generation Ryzen parts, prices for which have leaked out. AMD’s second generation Ryzen processors are not Zen 2. They’re based on what AMD is calling Zen+ using a refined 12-nanometer manufacturing process, whereas first generation Ryzen (Zen) processors are built on a 14nm process. Spanish website El Chapuzas Informatico dumped a whole bunch of AMD slides detailing the company’s upcoming Ryzen processors. The price points match up simila

The rumor that surfaced earlier this week is now officially true: The next game in the Call of Duty series will be Black Ops 4, it’s being developed by Treyarch, and it’s coming on October 12. Alas, if you were expecting more in the way of detail, I’m afraid you’re in for a disappointment. Aside from the title, the developer, and the date, Activision has said nothing more about it, and it’s quite possible that it’s only saying this much because of the leak. A full and proper reveal will take pla

The White House meeting with representatives of the videogame industry is set to take place today, and thanks to a tweet from CNN’s chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper, we now know who’s attending. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), Representative Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), and Representative Martha Roby (R-AL) will also be in attendance. “Unproven and emotionally driven gun control legislation is a common and simplistic response to gun-related tragedies,” she wrote in Politico in 2013. “We must hav

If you’re at all interested in co-op hack-and-slasher Warhammer: Vermintide 2, which comes out today, then I recommend you head straight over to this piece, written by the PC Gamer team after they spent a few hours bashing rats’ heads in. And when you’re done, read this piece Tom wrote after playing a slice with developers Fatshark in January. Loot is more important this time than in the brilliant original Vermintide, with a more flexible class system to back up all the gear you get. As I said,

That chip is the Core i7-8670. Buried in the information tab is that the Core i7-8670 is a 6-core/12-thread processor, just as we would expect from a Core i7 Coffee Lake CPU, with a 3.1GHz base clockspeed. Barring any wholesale price changes, it’s reasonable to expect the Core i7-8670 to cost in the neighborhood of $275. The Core i7-8670 uses Intel’s integrated UHD 630 graphics and scored similarly to a Core i7-8700 with the same iGPU. With only a 100MHz difference in CPU clocks between the two,

With masses of storage, an AI-Powered Kirin 970 chipset, and a marathon battery life among just some of its most redeeming features, it’s no wonder Honor View10 is the best gaming phone on the market today. Here’s how Honor View10 overcomes the five most annoying things about gaming on the move. Gaming phones are too smallI’m sure there’s a game in here somewhere. Honor View10’s Game Suite combats this by offering three major features: a host of bespoke gaming modes, AI-powered game enhancements

Ubisoft dropped hints about a sequel to its online multiplayer shooter The Division last year, and now it has confirmed that The Division 2 is, in fact, a real thing. The developers streamed a brief Q&A about the sequel earlier today, and they said it will be one of the only times they talk about it before E3, so hop on over if you’re interested. “We’re thrilled to announce that we are working on Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, and that development will be led by Massive Entertainment in collaborat

H1Z1, which which left Early Access just over a week ago and added a cars-only battle royale mode called Auto Royale has made another sharp turn in its already twisty-turny development path. At 10 am Pacific today, Daybreak’s battle royale shooter will be become a free-to-play game. If you recall, H1Z1 was originally conceived as a free-to-play title, back when Daybreak was Sony Online Entertainment and back when H1Z1 was an Early Access multiplayer survival game. King of the Kill emerged first

Is the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack worth your money, then? Rockstar bills the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack as follows:The Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack is the fastest way for new Grand Theft Auto Online players to jumpstart their criminal empires. Do not purchase if you already own the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack. As Rockstar outlines in its blurb, the contents of the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack are “valued at over GTA$10,000,000 if purchased separately.” From a personal st