Blizzard has released a second short story for Overwatch, following the release of Bastet in January. While Bastet was about Ana and Soldier: 76, this new tale is about Baptiste, the former Talon medic and his past with that terrorist organization. Bastet launched with an in-game Overwatch challenge to earn a new skin for Ana. We get to see Baptiste kitted out in a swanky outfit throughout the story, suggesting that might be his next legendary skin. For now, we’re just enjoying getting new Overw

Destiny 2’s new Crown of Sorrow raid came out two weeks ago, and players have already mastered the new encounters. But Destiny streamer Gladd and his raiders not only bypassed the bug to complete the flawless raid, they did it with only half the players. This poses a major problem for players who want to complete the flawless raid. Gladd’s crew only used three players, rather than the six players that usually make up a raid crew. Because they had fewer players, they didn’t need to swap as freque

During E3 last week, Epic Games gave fans a sneak peak at one of Fortnite’s upcoming limited-time modes. The mode is called Prop Hunt, and it will send players on a Hide and Seek quest across the map. In Fortnite’s game mode, one team is tasked with collecting coins and the other with eliminating the coin hunters. The mode takes place in a specially designed arena that’s littered with objects for the coin players to disguise themselves as. It’s not clear when this game mode will be release, but

Twitch is suing malicious users who took over the streaming platform’s Artifact category and flooded it with gore, pornography, copyrighted content, and even a video of a mass shooting. Some banned users would simply use a new IP address with a fresh account to keep streaming the offensive content. In response, Defendants sought to evade these steps using old accounts as well as accounts purchased from other users. Twitch alleges in the lawsuit that the raid lasted so long because users coordina

Similar to Automata, Astral Chain appears to merge action combat with a complex story and a bunch of quirks — for example, players are invited to collect and dispose of trash. [Astral Chain] is in the middle of those two. First off, I should start by saying that we didn’t start working on Astral Chain thinking we’d make a cyberpunk game. Astral Chain is the result of all the types of Japanese anime and other things that I like, put into one place. With Astral Chain, you have both human and legio

Over the weekend, Epic Games held its second annual Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am and crowned a new duo as the tournament’s champions: Airwaks and RL Grime. The tournament was held during the Fortnite Summer Block Party Celebration in Los Angeles. The Pro-Am gathered together celebrities, including pro athletes, musicians, models, actors, and influencers, and paired them together with Fortnite pro players and streamers. This tournament was the second time that Epic has hosted a summer Pro-Am tournam

The controversy surrounding Pokémon Sword and Shield’s lack of a National Pokedex has not died down — it’s only gotten bigger. And at least one Pokémon aficionado made the mistake of saying that including all of the monsters in the compendium would only take five minutes each. This, in turn, motivated artists on Twitter to show off what five minutes of work would actually look like. Spoiler alert: Only using five minutes to craft a Pokémon usually results in garbage. #ポケモン5分モデリング pic.twitter.com

Pokémon games often feel like intimate, closed-in experiences. Thanks to being on the Nintendo Switch, Pokémon Sword and Shield feel like the franchise can finally deliver on its biggest promises by rendering our favorite creatures in lush HD. But we haven’t really ever seen traditional Pokémon battles on the big screen in a mainline game. The Galar region, where this game is set, has an obsession with holding Pokémon battles in massive stadiums packed with fans. There are likely other big-scree

Stardock and the two creators of the original Star Control game series this past week agreed to a settlement resolving the legal dispute over ownership of the franchise and its intellectual property. In statements made by both sides, the former adversaries will now collaborate to produce new stories and content for future Star Control games and downloadable content for the existing Star Control Origins. Fred Ford and Paul Reiche, who designed Star Control and Star Control 2 for Accolade in 1990

Here is some straight-up WTFery as what to do about Telltale Games’ back catalog continues to be an issue for digital marketplaces. On Xbox 360, Minecraft: Story Mode has its individual episodes listed for $99.99 each. Back on May 31, Mojang announced that Minecraft: Story Mode would no longer be supported as of June 25, and that sales have been discontinued. So, after June 25, the $99.99 episodes will come off the Xbox 360 marketplace for good, and will be unavailable to anyone, whether they bo

Whether this morphs into a soft-launch, who can tell, but the “pre-beta” of Fallout 76’s Nuclear Winter has been extended … indefinitely? Nuclear Winter was announced a week ago, at Bethesda’s E3 presentation, and it was accompanied by a weeklong free trial for everyone ending Monday. Nuclear Winter is a 52-player battle royale with everyone vying to survive to be named the overseer of Vault 51. There are ton of other distinctions separating Nuclear Winter from other battle royales. That will br

Mortal Kombat 11’s latest free update does a number of things, but most visibly it “uncensors” Kabal’s goofy Brutality. Kabal’s gimmick is that he’s so ugly underneath his mask that he’ll scare your soul right out of you, sort of like a Scooby-Doo cartoon. Kabal’s uncensored Brutality is among “several new Brutalities for players to discover,” according to the official patch notes. Other highlights to this week’s update include a tweak to the Training mode to make practicing combos with Krushing

The lead developer for Animal Crossing: New Horizons confirmed the workforce redundancy in a statement to Mashable yesterday. “Unfortunately, because there’s no necessity to reset the game or reset button on the Switch, Mr. Resetti had a hard time,” Aya Kyogoku told Mashable. Fear not for Resetti’s job security, however, Kyogoku said developers would find another gig for him somewhere in town. Sonny Resetti’s tenure goes back to the very first Animal Crossing, which launched in the west with the

If you ever meet him in Fallout 76, you might notice that he looks kinda naked, especially compared to players running around in Power Armor and such. TighteyWhiteyMan tells Polygon that he was inspired to do an underwear-only challenge after meeting a number of memorable players who changed his Fallout 76 experience. First, there was the guy who saved him from the brink of death shortly after leaving the vault. Fallout 76 was immensely improved by players who took it upon themselves to liven up

A new video from Digital Foundry looks at all available video and screenshots from the Switch version of the game to discuss what we can expect from the upcoming port. You can watch the video at the top of this post. The game’s official Twitter feed already announced that the Switch version will be running at 540p in portable mode and 720p docked, although the relatively small screen of the Switch makes it easier to overlook the resolution limitations. But there’s reason to be hopeful, especiall

This week at E3, lead creative director Shaun Escayg at Crystal Dynamics stated in an interview that the iconic Marvel characters from the Marvel’s Avengers video game would not be getting a redesign. The statement comes after people reacted negatively to the character designs. “There are currently no plans to change our character designs.”If you haven’t seen the them, the video game characters are not based on the likeliness of the actors. As our own Patricia Hernandez wrote,The character desig

A new Animal Crossing game can only mean one thing: Tom Nook discourse. Following the reveal of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, many on social media started grousing once more about Tom Nook, how he’s a crook, the epitome of capitalism, and basically just The Worst Ever. “Tom Nook, this time around, he has this place called Resident Services. Really, though, it’s also worth remembering that Tom Nook gives you a large loan regardless of your credit score, and he never pesters you about paying it b

One account to rule them allWhen cross-save goes live, players who have multiple accounts will need to choose which account they want to cross-save with. For players who already have separate accounts on other platforms — a PlayStation 4 players that moved to PC, for example — adding cross-save won’t delete the older characters. It also seems that players won’t be able to merge Silver — the real money currency in Destiny — between accounts. Cross-play — meaning players on PC can play with player