Wizards of the Coast enlisted extensive player feedback through D&D Next for what became 5th edition.
For a long time, I’d look at fighting games and say, “That looks so cool — but it’s not for me.” I had done some casual button mashing, but I had never dug into the deeper mechanics.
Marvel’s Avengers, a third-person action brawler from Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics, is still alive and kicking.
PC Game Pass subscribers can now enjoy a generous group of retro titles from id Software and Bethesda.
Diablo 4 will follow in Diablo 3’s footsteps with a seasonal model, albeit with a few modern bells and whistles attached.
The typical golf video game has six or seven courses and well over 100 holes.
I spent hours and hours playing Night Elves back in those days, playing out my own RP scenarios of glorious Kaldorei and their animal friends.” For these fans, watching the Night Elves’ story advance through World of Warcraft has had highs and lows.
After months of waiting, the final Light subclass update is finally coming to Destiny 2 with the Arc 3.0 update.
Boyfriend Dungeon, the game all about dating people who can transform into sexy weapons, just turned one this month.
Bethesda is hosting a QuakeCon sale, and some of the publisher’s most recent and compelling games are available at deep discounts.
A new skin for Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Vanguard is getting suspiciously side-eyed for its similarity to a different game’s character skin, just weeks after publisher Activision was accused of copying an artist’s work for Call of Duty cosmetics.
When Overwatch 2 launches in October, Blizzard’s hero shooter will include cross-play and cross-progression across all of its platforms.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 officially launches on Oct. 28, but players who pre-order the game (digitally, that is) will get early access to the game’s single-player campaign for a week, Activision announced Tuesday.
Disney’s upcoming D23 fan expo will include a little something for everyone who considers themselves a fan of Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars, across the company’s film, television, and theme parks divisions.
Nintendo announced the end of fair play in Nintendo Switch Sports on Friday when the company revealed that legendary Wii Sports competitor Matt is now available for players to challenge.
NFL Blitz, the faster, more aggressive, and concussive version of NFL rules football that took arcades by storm in the late ’90s, will return this year — and in throwback arcade cabinet form.
Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation is the first full-length game in the My Summer Vacation series to make it outside of Japan, where it’s known as Boku no Natsuyasumi.
Alone in the Dark, the seminal survivor horror game from 1992, is being reimagined and remade, publisher THQ Nordic announced Friday.
The studio has gone on to release a handful of games, including its debut title Dangerous Golf and crash-spectacle driving games Danger Zone, Danger Zone 2, and Dangerous Driving.
Hogwarts Legacy, the open-world adventure set in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, originally given a holiday 2022 release window, is now a 2023 game.
British developer Nosebleed Interactive is interested in clashing juxtapositions — specifically, what happens when you jam classic, in-the-moment arcade gaming up against the long view and slow build of the management genre.
Sea of Thieves has continually been updated since its launch, bringing in everything from spectral phantoms and coral beasts to Jack Sparrow and Spanish fleets.
The MultiVersus Twitter account advised players that “everything we are bringing to you in Season 1 will not drop on the same day,” and so they should stay tuned for additional release date announcements.
Those looking to evolve Wurmple into Silcoon or Cascoon in Pokémon Go to complete the Bug Out!
With the upcoming Bungie showcase, season 18, and a reprised original Destiny raid less than two weeks away, Destiny 2 fans have a lot to be excited for in August.
The Jordan Challenge, the centerpiece of a landmark work in sports video gaming 12 years ago, returns in NBA 2K23 with a spared-no-expense level of detail and presentation that is, even from the preview slice shown to media on Monday, legitimately impressive.
World of Warcraft players have been wading through uncharted territory for some time now, working their way through the realms of Death in Shadowlands.
Marvel’s Spider-Man (2018) already got a remaster for PlayStation 5 back in 2020, and now it’s been remastered for Windows PC as well, with spinoff game Miles Morales to be released on PC later this year.
Humble also has a seven-item bundle for $10, which includes the aforementioned games as well as Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition, Resident Evil 6, and Resident Evil Revelations 2: Deluxe Edition.
On Monday, a trailer for Square Enix and Luminous Productions’ forthcoming title Forspoken was shared by the game’s Twitter account, and promptly went viral for less-than-flattering reasons.
Nintendo introduced the new hosts of Splatoon 3, Deep Cut, as part of a Nintendo Direct stream on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, in a new Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo offered a deep dive into the world of Splatoon 3, detailing what’s coming at launch and what’s expected over the next two years of post-release content.
And in a recent feat of Lego prowess, one builder has recreated a Wandering Mausoleum from Elden Ring in breathtaking detail.
Indie fighting game Nidhogg 2 is coming to the arcades.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns has been delayed a second time.
Guilty Gear Strive’s second season of characters kicked off Monday with the release of Bridget, the yo-yo-wielding, habit-wearing fighter who first joined the series with 2002’s Guilty Gear X2.
MultiVersus will include a “classic arcade mode” as well as ranked multiplayer when its first season launches… well, sometime.
The developers of Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon — the 2D throwback set in the Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night universe — are working on another Castlevania-inspired project.
The next Nintendo Direct will focus on one of Nintendo’s biggest 2022 games: Splatoon 3.
Square Enix offloaded Eidos, Crystal Dynamics, and the IPs they owned to Embracer Group at the beginning of May.
Udyr has long been one of the League of Legends champions most in need of an update, and now his rework is finally almost here.
In addition to MvC 2, the cabinet will also include the original Marvel vs. Capcom (previously released as part of Arcade1Up’s retro cabinet lineup), Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men Children of the Atom, X-Men Mutant Apocalypse, and Marvel Super Heroes in War of the Gems.
Capcom and SNK are in a race, it seems, to see who can be the first to release every one of their classic games on modern platforms.
Square Enix’s remake of classic tactical strategy RPG Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together is coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Windows PC this November, the publisher announced Thursday.
MultiVersus, the Warner Bros. ensemble fighting game whose free, open beta began last week, will have its first season of content delayed to an unspecified later date, the game’s official Twitter account said Wednesday night.
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Konami unveiled a new take on Bomberman, the competitive blast-’em-up series that arguably peaked in 1997 with the dual release of Saturn Bomberman and Super Bomberman 64, that looks quite different from recent attempts to revive the franchise.
NBA 2K23’s designers are emphasizing drive-to-the-hoop gameplay with several features and changes, including more dynamic dunking with new right stick commands, an “Adrenaline Boost” to help them beat defenders off the dribble, and a long-overdue return of a one-button passing command to get AI teammates open and attacking the rim.
Servers for a MMORPG like Final Fantasy 14 tend to be able to handle large player bases, but a DDoS attack clogs the server, and it can be difficult to tell which connections are a legitimate user and which ones are part of the attack.
But console gaming can be tough to move away from, as it’s always had one major advantage over PC: comfort.
Final Fantasy 14's upcoming Patch 6.2, which is titled Buried Memory, will add the long-awaited Island Sanctuary that will allow players to gather materials, build facilities, care for creatures, and much more on their very own island.
• Machine-learning jobs are one of the hottest and highest-paid jobs in tech.
North America extended its dominance for artificial intelligence (AI) hiring among private banking industry companies in the three months ending June.
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Donor organs are a scarce resource, each one as unique as the patients who need a transplant.