Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's battle royale mode Blackout is free to play throughout April

Poor Blackout. For a brief period last year I thought Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s battle royale mode was going to take off. Blackout looked like Playerunknown’s...

15 years later, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is finally happening

Good things come to those who wait, and in this case to those who waited a long time. Fifteen years after the release of one of the most beloved “cult”...

Crackdown 3 review: Why?

In 2007, I played the Crackdown demo more than probably any other Xbox 360 release that year. The demo, not the full game. It was probably...

Anthem review: A great first impression and not much else

Anthem is a striking example of how familiarity breeds contempt. It makes, without a doubt, one of the best first impressions I’ve ever seen....

Far Cry New Dawn review: A surprisingly satisfying refresh, with some lingering old problems

Far Cry: New Dawn is something of a paradox. On the one hand it’s exactly what the series needed, a significant mechanical shakeup that’s breathed life...

Total War: Three Kingdoms preview: A complete overhaul of Creative Assembly's historical approach

Few previews feel so fraught with danger as Total War. It’s a series with some very high highs, including the original Rome, Medieval...

The Humble Sonic Bundle gives you 6 Sonic the Hedgehog games for $1, or 12 games for $15

There’s a great Humble Bundle available right now with one of the most legendary classic console characters to ever grace the PC platform. Until...

John Romero celebrates Doom's 25th anniversary with Sigil, a free fifth chapter for the original game

Today’s the 25th anniversary of Doom, if you can believe it. On December 10, 1993 people first stepped foot onto a demon-infested Mars, courtesy...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive goes free-to-play, adds a battle royale mode called Danger Zone

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s finally making the free-to-play pivot, ditching the $15 barrier to entry it’s maintained since release in 2012. Starting...

Epic Games is creating a Steam rival and Valve should be scared

Valve must be sleeping poorly these days. Steam is still king of PC gaming at the moment, but it’s an increasingly belabored kingdom beset on all sides by...

Battlefield V is about to get a huge ray tracing performance boost, Nvidia says

Three weeks back, EA officially turned RTX on in Battlefield V, becoming the first game to support the radical real-time ray tracing capabilities of...

Just Cause 4 review impressions: A buggy and boring overhaul

Being in a creative rut is bad, but getting out of one isn’t always better. The proof? Just Cause 4 ($60 on Humble), a game that could’ve been...

Pokemon Go: New Gen 4 Evolutions Now Available

The first wave of Gen 4 Pokemon debuted in Pokemon Go last month, and since then, developer Niantic has been slowly introducing more...

Darksiders III review: A slightly disappointing sequel that hopefully merits another

Is it possible to die of boredom?" It's one of the earliest lines in Darksiders III, and for a while there at the start I thought I might find out the...

Check out this exclusive look at Guild Wars 2's jaw-dropping Infernal Leap roller beetle track

At a time when everyone is raging about bugs in another game, ArenaNet is trying to get everyone talking about bugs in its own Guild Wars 2. In this...

Battlefield V review: World War II never changes

Battlefield V releases today. It also released five days ago, and it released on November 9, depending on who’s asking, and what version of the game you...

Fallout 76 review: Almost hell, West Virginia

Let’s just recount the bugs, shall we? It started with the Bureau of Tourism, a mission you pick up mere hours into the game—and, if you were one of the...

Memories Retold review: All's finally quiet on the Western Front

n 2014 Ubisoft commemorated the hundredth anniversary of World War I with a game called Valiant Hearts. Though hand-animated, it nevertheless told a...

Microsoft acquires CRPG heavyweights Obsidian and InXile

For years Microsoft’s talked about renewing its commitment to PC gaming, with mixed results. Today’s announcements might signal an actual push towards that...

Hitman 2 review: Absolutely killer

It starts with a small roadside bar, and a man yelling into his phone. “Get me out of here, Dex.” The man is P-Power, celebrity tattoo artist. Poor old P-Power’s...