Following a year-long delay because of COVID-19, The Witch Queen expansion has finally arrived in Destiny 2 featuring the addition of the new Throne World zone, a whole new Deepsight-based crafting system, a new glaive-type melee weapon, the new Vow of the Disciple raid, and the new Wellspring six-player dungeon. The expansion’s release also marks the start of a new [...]
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If you love word games, and Wordle in particular, then you’ll absolutely love Squabble. The new web-based game combines the mechanics of The New York Times’ popular word game with the intensity of multiplayer battle royales. Players join a lobby where they’ll race against other players and against the clock to guess the hidden word. Each player gets 100 points [...]
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Battlefield 2042 players have started a Change.org petition demanding full refunds due to the game being virtually unplayable due to bugs and other issues. The petition accuses Electronic Arts and DICE of false advertising and unfulfilled launch promises resulting in what players describe as a bug-ridden, poorly-made game. “According to many consumer reports, Electronic Arts and DICE did not keep [...]
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Hearthstone is getting several new Alterac Valley-inspired cards next week with the release of the Onyxia’s Lair mini-set on February 15th as part of Patch 22.4. The mini-set will include 35 new cards that can be acquired from Fractured in Alterac Valley card pack or purchased as a 66-card set for $14.99 or 2000 Gold. An all-Golden version is also [...]
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CROWZ, a new Korean-made open-world first-person shooter, will be running a week-long open beta test on Steam from February 21-28. The playtest will feature two playable maps with different game modes: Squad Operation and Blood Zone. Squad Operation is a 4-player co-op mode where players must collect a resource called “Q-on” and escape from Blue Whale Island. Blood Zone, on [...]
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Warframe’s first major New War update, Echoes of War, is now live on PC and consoles featuring new character customization options, several quality-of-life improvements, and the return of the Star Days event. Echoes of War introduces new augments for Gauss, Grendel, Yareli, and Frost along with new deluxe skins for Hildryn and Part 1 of the Tennogen Round 21 cosmetics. [...]
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America’s Army: Proving Grounds, the official free-to-play first-person shooter of the U.S. Army, will be shutting down after nearly eight years in operation. According to the official announcement, the servers will permanently be taken offline on Thursday, May 5th for PC and PlayStation 4. Private servers, the mission editor, and other offline features, however, will continue to function following the [...]
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Popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends has kicked off a new season with a new playable Legend, changes to the Olympus map, and the new Control limited-time mode. “Defiance’s newest Legend, Mad Maggie, a cutthroat punk-rock warlord, and the Outlands’ meanest mad-lass must fight to stay alive after being sentenced to death by combat in the Apex Games. Hold on, [...]
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SmileGate, the South Korean gaming company behind Lost Ark and CrossFire, launched CrossFireX globally today exclusively on Xbox. CrossFireX is a free to play tactical FPS game. The multiplayer content is free to play, but the story content must be purchased to access. If the game does well on Xbox, I expect a PC release in the near future. Watch [...]
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Rockstar Games confirms that work on the next Grand Theft Auto game is now underway in their latest community update. The studio, however, isn’t done with GTA V just yet and have laid out their plans for the game for the next few months, which includes a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S release next month for both the base [...]
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