EA has revealed the first official Battlefront 2 gameplay footage at its pre-E3 show in Hollywood today, which comes after a big chuck of leaked footage found its way online before the event. That free content will also include the planet Theed, seen in the Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer. “All post-launch heroes, maps, weapons, and vehicles will be free for everyone who owns Star Wars Battlefront 2,” said presenter Janina Gavankar, who plays the protagonist Iden Versio. After the gameplay prem

BioWare unveiled its next game at EA Play today—this is, as we understand it, the new IP from the Edmonton studio that was lightly teased while Mass Effect: Andromeda was in production. Thankfully, we don’t have to call it ‘the new IP’ anymore: it’s Anthem. It’s our armor,” speaks a voice in the teaser, recalling Attack on Titan. The teaser leaves us with tons of questions, but we won’t have to wait long: The full gameplay reveal is coming tomorrow at Microsoft’s press conference. Here’s the ful

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons was a wonderful singleplayer game built around the mechanic of controlling two brothers with a single controller. Creator Josef Fares’ new game, which he announced on stage at EA Play today, looks like an extension of that theme. A Way Out starts in a prison, where Vincent and Leo are incarcerated and looking for a way to break out. After breaking out of prison, A Way Out looks like it will have chase scenes, driving sequence, shooting, and plenty of dramatic slow-mo

Alex Hunter, star of FIFA 17’s story mode ‘The Journey’, will return in FIFA 18 to continue his career (with your help, of course). Watch the teaser trailer above from EA Play, which features clips of various fans, sports figures, and broadcasters giving their (often very loud) opinions of Hunter, followed by some cinematic clips of Hunter’s professional and personal life. FIFA 18 is due out September 29.

Electronic Arts revealed more information about its upcoming street racing game Need for Speed Payback today on the EA Play stage, with a brand new trailer depicting a “Highway Heist” featuring fast cars, big trucks, and lots of wreckage. EA said Payback will put players “behind the wheel of an action-driving fantasy,” featuring three different characters, each with their own unique style. Car customization is central to the experience, and players will also be able to find and restore “Relics,”

EA’s press conference today kicked off with Madden, and then quickly transitioned into some details on Battlefield 1’s next piece of DLC, In The Name of the Tsar. It’ll include six new maps, the Russian army, and the Women’s Battalion of Death. We’ll also see “deeper player progression through all new assignments, the ability to tailor your playstyle with specializations, and new multi-battle experiences woven through the fan favorite game mode, Operations,” says EA. In The Name of the Tsar hits

While Electronic Arts isn’t technically part of the proper E3 press conference, it’s hosting an event today in Hollywood called EA Play. On the roster, we’re anticipating a healthy dose of Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (there was a gameplay footage leak a little earlier), and we’re also hoping to see a bit more of Visceral’s Star Wars game and whatever mysterious game Bioware has been cooking up. If you’d like to tune in, you can watch EA Play starting at 12PM Pacific time on Twitch and YouTube. You

Bethesda teased us with the title ‘The New Colossus’ way back at last year’s E3, though a release date was blanked out in the DOS-style file listing. That release date may have been inadvertently revealed by Amazon Germany, at least briefly, as October 27. In what appears to be a screencap posted on NeoGAF by user chadskin, the now-removed store listing shows “Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus – Collector’s Edition- [PC]” and the October 27 release date. We’ll see if Bethesda confirms the Wolfens

The Hearthstone community is pretty happy right now, and so is Ben Brode. Ben Brode, game directorBen Brode: Adapt, quests, elementals. It’s also the kind of fun that we like in Hearthstone, where every game feels different and you’re solving new problems each time. Ben BrodeSometimes we make a card like Reno and the deck’s good enough. You know, there’s always the holy grail of nine classes literally 100 percent equivalent, but I don’t think that’s realistic, right?

As usual, the closer to E3 we get, the more games start springing leaks ahead of their reveals. In this instance it’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2, which will be officially on display later today during EA’s press conference. In the captured footage above you can see Darth Maul, Boba Fett, and Rey—each character from a different era of the Star Wars film series—battling it out alongside AI companions. (About three minutes in, Rey runs past what appears to be a young version of Han Solo as well.) Mau

I’m not familiar with the Ace Combat series, but the newest trailer for Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown—which, in case you missed it, is coming to PC—makes me want to rectify that. It offers a mixture of dramatic music, aerial combat, cod-philosophical musings, and reports from a war between fictional countries—also, there’s a space elevator, and an army is occupying it, which is probably bad. We’ll have to wait and see whether this is the extent of Bandai Namco’s E3 Ace Combat 7 media, or whether w

In celebration of E3, Ubisoft has temporarily made three of its games available for free: Steep, The Division, and Trials Fusion. It’s the usual Free Weekend dealio, only this time on Uplay, so if you aren’t a fan of Ubisoft’s Steam alternative, then you’re out of luck. You’ll need to sign up here to take advantage of the free weekend, which comes with the following bullet points relating to The Division:The Free Weekend is PC exclusive. Progress made during the Free Weekend will carry over to t

For instance, there’s this cryptic tease of something new from XCOM 2 planned for the PC Gaming Show (hey, that’s us!) Set to be revealed at our PC Gaming Show on Monday, something new is coming—and while there’s every chance it could be another LW-type dealio, I suspect the announcement will be more substantial and tied to XCOM 2 itself. I spent last week in Taiwan for Computex, an annual tech convention that always has a few PC gaming goodies to be found. Bo Moore: Top LaptopAfter months and m

Ahead of tomorrow’s unveiling of the first-ever Star Wars Battlefront 2 gameplay footage at the EA Play press event, Electronic Arts has revealed the game’s preorder bonuses and confirmed that a multiplayer beta will take place ahead of launch. Preordering any edition of the game will get you three days of early access to the beta, plus:Instant access to an upgraded Epic Lightsaber Mastery Star Card for Yoda (available while supplies last)Exclusive Star Wars: The Last Jedi outfits for Kylo Ren a

A slew of leaks has already revealed the high points of Ubisoft’s next Assassin’s Creed, an ancient Egyptian adventure subtitled Origins. And today, thanks to a Redittor who posted pictures of the latest issue of GameInformer on Imgur, we even have a release date: Barring delays, the game will be out on October 27. The image of the inside cover indicates that Assassin’s Creed: Origins will be available for purchase in four separate editions: standard, Deluxe, Gold, and Gold Steelbook. We called

Four days ago, a job listing revealed that Bethesda is working on a “bleeding-edge AAA fremium game” that hasn’t yet been announced to the public. Today, it’s Blizzard’s turn: As noted by NeoGAF, the studio has put up three separate job listings looking for an animator and engineers to work on a new, unannounced first-person project. The descriptions for both Lead Software Engineer, Engine, and Lead Software Engineer, Tools are identical in the relevant bits, saying that Blizzard is seeking expe

You start with the Intro Pack and Episode 1, and then tack on episodes as you like: Sapienza, Marrakesh, Colorado, and so forth. The changeover will take place in roughly two weeks, Io said, after which the individual episodes, along with the packs, will no longer be offered for sale. However, owners of the Intro Pack will be able to upgrade to the Complete First Edition at a reduced price, depending on how many episodes they already own. “These changes do not affect anyone who purchased the Com

Thanks to my recent trip to Computex, I can cross liquid nitrogen overclocking off my bucket list. HWBot director Pieter-Jan Plaisier explained the science and technique of liquid nitrogen overclocking, and together we took a CPU to 7GHz and lived to tell the tale. Some people criticize liquid nitrogen overclocking as being impractical, since you can’t realistically pump LN2 through your system 24/7 (although it’s been done). Instead of the usual heatsink, liquid nitrogen calls for a block that

He did this to visit some online friends he met playing Minecraft. After graduating in June 2016, Skyler didn’t want to immediately commit to anything and risk exploding “like a bed in the nether,” he said on Reddit. He had a rough route in mind when he set out, but his only goals were to “outrun winter” on his way south and visit as many Minecraft friends as possible. He’s really good at it.”Friends listI also spoke with Chris Kreidler, who Skyler visited a few weeks ago. “I think having online

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was a huge Kickstarter success in 2015, drawing in more than $5.5 million in support for the “Igavania”-style platformer. The boss that awaits the player is a vampiric mistress, Bloodless, whose appearance might be altered in the future,” developer Koji Igarashi wrote in the latest Kickstarter update. “In the trailer, we’ve added areas from the stages we’ve shown previously to demonstrate new visual changes to improve the gameplay experience. We will be picking