As we warned yesterday , a substantial serving of new Metro Exodus footage was shown at The Game Awards today. It’s the first time we’ve seen the game in action since it was unveiled at E3 last year, but “action” is probably not the correct term, because while the video was substantial, it didn’t show any gameplay. While rumour had it that 4A Games would take the series in an open world direction, the studio later confirmed it would be a mix of linear and non-linear levels – in keeping with how

We expected a long-awaited substantial look at the new PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds desert map Miramar during the Game Awards tonight, but we got more than just that. Firstly, PUBG Corporation revealed that the game will launch out of Early Access on December 20. Secondly, the desert map is playable tonight on the PUBG test servers, at midnight PST (7pm in Australia, 8am in the UK). Chris visited Bluehole in South Korea in September, and spent some time galavanting around the in-development map

Witchfire, the next game coming from The Astronauts, the developer of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, is “a dark fantasy shooter”. Wish I had a bit more to tell you—it’s also coming from the creators of Painkiller and Bulletstorm, according to the teaser above which aired at The Game Awards—but beyond that we don’t know much. We’ll update you when we learn more (like when it’s coming and indeed if it’s coming to PC). It sure looks pretty, though.

Electronic Arts announced at The Game Awards tonight that A Way Out, the two-player prison break escapade that’s like a David Cage game, only co-op and good, will be out on March 23, 2018. A “friends pass free trial” version of the game will also be available that will make the entire co-op game available to play with a friend who owns the full version. The story is a genre-transcending narrative that’s meant to be played with someone you know,” writer and director Josef Fares said. “We develope

The Moon Fields is a multiplayer brawler inspired by Super Smash Bros. and the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. But unlike most brawlers, The Moon Fields is the creation of just one designer. Paul and I were at the event for like an hour before busting out The Moon Fields, but we eventually pulled it out.” Another fond memory Azcueta has is of a cosplaying kid who showed up to try The Moon Fields at Geek.kon in Madison . He’s looking forward to the future of The Moon Fields though, with plan

Bethesda launched a new, and entirely light-hearted, campaign at The Game Awards tonight aimed at saving single-player games—and to help get the job done it’s running a sale. “While Bethesda and its family of studios produce and publish a wide array of games (including some of the pioneering games in the multiplayer and esports space), single-player games are a big part of the Company’s DNA and will continue to be as they work to develop and publish narrative-driven single-player games in the fu

SoulCalibur VI will release in 2018, and it’s already confirmed for Steam. The announcement was made at the 2017 Game Awards, and it’s the first installment in the 3D weapon-centric fighting series since 2012’s SoulCalibur V. And just like Tekken 7, it’s developed using Unreal Engine 4. The trailer is above – we’ll add more details as they come.

Announced at The Game Awards, a new 50 versus 50 mode is now available to play in Fortnite Battle Royale. It’s leading off a new wave of timed events—timed, likely because making a refined, balanced 50v50 mode would require way more legwork than is worthwhile. Broken, experimental game modes as a temporary diversion from the usual free-for-all are a perfect fit for Fortnite’s more playful battle royale arena. A few minor changes will accompany the mode, including chevrons above all allied player

At The Game Awards, we got a look at the announcement trailer for Campo Santo’s next game, called In The Valley of Gods. Due in 2019, the game is unrelated to Firewatch, though “if you enjoy well-told and well-acted dynamic video game stories, or you just really liked Firewatch, this game is for you.” “In the Valley of Gods is a single-player first person video game set in Egypt in the 1920s,” reads the official site’s FAQ. You play as an explorer and filmmaker who, along with your old partner,

EA pointed out at The Game Awards today that it’s running a storewide 30%-off sale on Origin. Use the code FILLYOURSTOCKING at checkout to claim the discount, which’ll get you Star Wars Battlefront 2 and other normally $60 games for $37.79. The sale was seemingly already running before the quick Game Awards plug—I just hadn’t noticed, and if it’s news to me, I figure it might be news to some of you, too. Star Wars: The Old Republic, “select partner titles,” pre-orders, virtual currency, and subs

In what may go down as one of the cruelest teases in history, a short video was aired at The Game Awards tonight which confirmed that From Software is working on something unannounced. Given the nature of the video, which appeared to sport a dark fantasy or horror aesthetic, I’m pretty sure it’s not the next Armored Core game. Some are speculating that it’s called Shadows Die Twice, since those are the sole words shown during the 29 second trailer embedded above. Worst case scenario (for us at l

One of our favorite VR games, Job Simulator, puts you in a post-scarcity society’s virtual ‘simulation’ of what it was like to work a job. It’s basically a big environmental toy where you can muck with interactive items—photocopy your head, throw staplers at robots. At The Game Awards today, Owlchemy Labs announced that it’s developing a follow-up: Vacation Simulator. “It was pretty funny, people have been loving ‘to job,'” said founder Alex Schwartz, “and we’ve been working on the game for so l

The first big announcement out of The Game Awards came right at the start of the pre-show, and it’s World War Z, a zombie-survival game coming from Saber Interactive. Details aren’t available yet, but it looks like a high-speed, high-volume zombie survival game of some sort, although taking on waves of zeds like that with anything less than an armored division seems like a bad idea. We’ll see how that works out—For now, the big news is that the teaser confirms the game will be coming to Steam. W

The Prometheus Lens exotic trace rifle that came to Destiny 2 in the Curse of Osiris expansion isn’t just overpowered, it’s straight-up broken. Bungie said in its latest Bungie blog update that it will roll out a fix as soon as possible, but it won’t be until next week sometime. “We know about the Prometheus Lens. “The weapon shipped with a bug, which we intend to fix with Destiny Update 1.1.1, along with everything else in the December update. Less surprisingly, the Destiny subreddit, which was

Lost Sphear, the new game from I Am Setsuna studio Tokyo RPG Factory, tells the tale of a young boy named Kanata, whose world is literally disappearing, piece by piece. Possessing the unique power of Memory that enables him to restore what’s been lost, he and his friends set out on a mission to put things right. The game won’t be out until early next year, but you can get a taste of what’s to come by way of the demo that was released today on Steam. But it’s free—big plus—and it’s not an overly

In a big departure for the studio responsible for Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams and the recent Bubsy reboot, Black Forest Games will release Fade to Silence into Early Access next week. A survival game, it follows the adventure of Ash, who must “explore a post-apocalyptic, frozen wasteland to gather the resources necessary to establish a refuge for survival”. Published by THQ Nordic, the Steam page is already live ahead of what was probably going to be a Game Awards reveal later today. The Early

Kobolds & Catacombs, which launched in NA and EU today, is going to have a huge impact on Hearthstone. Sleeper hits From Spellstones to Spiteful Summoners, these are five Kobolds and Catacombs cards we think will be surprise sleeper hits. According to senior game designer Peter Whalen, that’s no accident: learning from Barnes was integral to balancing Recruit. We see the aggressive Rogue decks, we see the Priest decks. That said, the biggest question is whether the family of weapon-destroying oo

Here’s how it’ll work: “Each logged in, non-limited Steam account will receive one entry per draw while watching the broadcast [on Steam]. Steam will randomly choose 150 lucky winners from eligible participants every 15 minutes. ——If you’re watching The Game Awards tonight, you may want to watch on Steam, or at least have the stream open on Steam. According to the rules, viewers can participate in more than one drawing throughout the show, and Steam will auto-select a game you don’t own as t

I will begin by saying that I actually liked Homefront, and mostly unironically. Yes, it was top-to-bottom dumb, from the underlying premise to the wonky AI and especially the over-earnest “war is hell” moments that just don’t come off the way they’re supposed to. That’s not to excuse its many failures as a game that was intended to run with Call of Duty (seriously) but it does mean that it’s a solid pickup when you can get it for free—which is now the case over at the Humble Store. Until 10 am

Crycash is a new cryptocurrency ecosystem designed with gamers in mind. Crytek’s press release describes Crycash as “an independent decentralized ecosystem of products for gamers fueled by an all-new, gamer-centric cryptocurrency.” The Crycash whitepaper offers an example using Crytek’s free-to-play military shooter Warface, which is slated to integrate Crycash early next year. Ethereum currently trades for an average of $417, which puts the value of one CRC at just over $0.41. The Crycash ecosy