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Netflix’s Stranger Things series has made a lot of collaborations with video games. It’s looking into making even more collaborations. With the series’ Season 4 currently in limbo, Netflix has to find ways to keep the IP on top of people’s minds. To do this, Netflix decided to partner with Hi-Rez Studios and Wizards of the Coast. […]

Activision confirmed last May that Sledgehammer Games will be developing the next Call of Duty (COD) title. There is no official title yet for the next installment of the game. However, there have been rumors that Treyarch is pitching in for the title, and that it will be called Call of Duty: Vanguard. The game […]

Video game retailer GameStop has had a great year. Its stock price has surged by over a thousand percent in 2021. Meanwhile, it’s been acquiring new executives that can help steer the ship in the right direction. The plan is to ride the wave of investors riding into the GameStop hype train, whether or not […]

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart arrived for the PlayStation 5 on June 11, 2021. Immediately, it captured the adoration of critics and fans. The next-generation game by Insomniac Games is a technological marvel. The extra time it spent in the oven between the launch of the PS5 and its release this Friday was well spent. The […]

They didn’t have to make a press release about it, but it’s not hard to miss that Sony’s isn’t part of the E3 2021 Online Schedule. But why won’t the PlayStation creators not show up for E3 2021, when in fact they should have a lot to show off for their PS5 console? They have […]

Bethesda will be taking down the Fallout 76 Nuclear Winter Battle Royale Mode in September, they revealed. The publisher revealed that the game mode doesn’t get enough players queueing up, making it hard to complete a single lobby. “When we first introduced Nuclear Winter, we were thrilled to watch so many players from our community, as well […]

Riot recently released a teaser video during the Summer Game Fest of what could be the 16th agent for VALORANT. Ever since the roster started expanding, players just can’t get enough of these new agents and are now asking for more. Recently, compared to the previous releases of the other agents such as Yoru and […]

There are two new colors for the PS5 DualSense controller, bumping the total number to three. Joining the pristine white color of the original White color design are Cosmic Red and Midnight Black. Sony first revealed the two new colors in a blog post last month. They even released a reveal trailer for the new […]

It’s almost E3 weekend, so it’s not surprising that E3 developers and publishers are in full marketing mode right now. One such example is Devolver Digital, which teased their Monetization as a Service plan, promoting their MaxPass+ E3 Event. They do this with their “Devolver MaxPass+ Prologue” teaser video, presenting their marketing team in a […]

Los Angeles Thieves finds themselves in a short pickle, placing 5th right now out of 6 in their group for CDL Stage 4. They’re at (1-2) right now, with two more matches lined up for this week. To increase their chances of finishing with a higher seed, LA Thieves changes up their roster once again. […]

Triple-A game Control is this week’s free Epic Games Store giveaway. The 2019 hit title arrives as Epic Games Store‘s weekly free game for June 11-June 17, and gamers shouldn’t let this opportunity pass them by. In Control, you play as Jesse Faden, the new director of the Federal Bureau of Control. Jesse enters the Old House, a […]

The Summer Game Fest revealed some great surprises, like the Elden Ring trailer and release date announcement. But some announcements have already been leaked beforehand, so the surprise isn’t there anymore. Still, we’re pretty hyped about Two Point Campus, which Two Point Studios finally unveiled during the Summer Game Fest. Two Point Campus follows up on the successful business […]

Mediatonic and SQUARE ENIX collaborated to bring NieR: Automata to Fall Guys. Just like Fortnite, Mediatonic has been bringing in a lot of different IPs into their game as a way to appeal to a wider audience. This time, it’s one unlikely character arriving at Fall Guys. NieR: Automata‘s 2B will become a purchasable skin in the game. With that […]

FromSoftware’s newest Souls game, Elden Ring, finally has a release date. The highly-anticipated world created by Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin has also been revealed through an official trailer. The trailer played to close out Summer Game Fest 2021, leading to fans hyped for the game’s release. Elden Ring Release Date: January 21, 2022 Summer […]

After Brazil’s Neymar Jr., Epic Games releases two new Soccer skins of real-world athletes on Fortnite. This time, it’s England’s Captain Harry Kane and Germany’s Marco Reus. The two world-class Soccer players arrive at the Fortnite Shop on June 11, 2021. Players can buy them individually or as a set containing both of the skins. Harry […]

The National Music Producers’ Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit against Roblox Corporation for alleged copyright infringement. As reported by Variety, NMPA CEO David Israelite announced the lawsuit during the association’s 2021 annual meeting. Israelite claims that Roblox has taken advantage of children’s ignorance of copyright law to allow copyrighted music on their platform. The company charges players for uploading […]

Battlefield 2042‘s reveal trailer was whack. And apart from that, the game’s public reveal didn’t get hampered in any way by the multitude of leaks and rumors leading up to this day. The game’s developers, EA DICE, gave us a lot of exciting details about ‘Battlefield 6‘. They revealed that they’re ditching the single-player campaign […]

For the first time since the release of Battlefield: Bad Company, a Battlefield game will be released without a single-player campaign. Similar to the original Battlefield 1942 game, the first in the series, Battlefield 2042 will not have a single-player mode. It will be entirely played in multiplayer, just like the originals. However, this doesn’t mean that Battlefield 2042 will not have any […]

Cult classic action games No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2, originally from the Nintendo Wii, arrives on Steam PC. The two games are remastered versions of the originals and have arrived on the Steam storefront earlier today. To celebrate their PC launch, both games will be available to purchase for 10% off until June 17, 2021. No […]

It’s not like we’ve been hearing about Call of Duty: Vanguard in recent weeks. Hence, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Activision decided to skip E3 2021 this year for their next Call of Duty title. Still, we could have used even just a small glimpse of what is to come. However, it might just be the right […]

To combat spoilers, leaks, and data mined content, Genshin Impact developers miHoYo released some official information ahead of others. Their official features of new characters Sayu and Yoimiya as soon as they added their data on the game’s files surprised even the leakers. However, miHoYo cannot simply release information on all of their plans in one go. This gives […]

Battlefield 2042‘s official reveal trailer has finally landed earlier today, and it did not disappoint. The new Battlefield game seems awesome, and the reveal trailer confirmed some things we’ve been talking about in the past few months. The game, which releases on October 22, 2021, will continue Battlefield‘s fantastic multiplayer game modes. However, the game will not feature a […]

You can now add your friends to your friends list on Battle.net, regardless of which servers you are in. The Battle.net launcher received a massive update, which they announced with a blog post earlier today. “We’ve always envisioned Battle.net as a place for players to connect, collaborate, and play their favorite games,” Blizzard writes. “Now, […]

Blizzard has finally taken the steps to introduce cross-platform play for Overwatch. The developers initially had misgivings about allowing cross-platform play for the game. They cited the difference between mouse-and-keyboard gameplay and controllers being the primary reason why they don’t want to feature cross-platform play. “Mixing mouse/keyboard and controller can have balance and competitive issues,” Blizzard […]

After a long wait and months of leaks and rumors, Battlefield 2042 is now officially revealed. The Battlefield 6 game is now out in the open, and its fans can’t be any more hyped. Now that the game’s finally officially unveiled, we can now expect more official news about the game from DICE and EA moving forward. To start […]

Now that the Fortnite Primal Season has come to an end, so has the bows, makeshift, and primal weapons. Surely, every player has come to love and adapt to the Primal Season’s weapons. These weapons are the pioneers of the weapon crafting system in Fortnite. But don’t worry, the crafting mechanic is here to stay. […]

Over the past few weeks, content creators on Twitch have been showing their displeasure on the platform. Twitch introduced a new tool a few weeks back that made DMCA striking easier. On top of that, they sent an email to advise their users to unpublish old content to avoid DMCA claims. Obviously, this didn’t sit […]

MiHoYo, creators of Genshin Impact, one-upped leakers and data miners with their latest game update files. Upon adding the new characters Yoimiya, Sayu, Kazuha, and Ayaka on the game’s data for the Genshin Impact 1.6 version update, miHoYo revealed the characters officially on Twitter. This happened while data miners were still busy preparing their own […]

Superman arrives on Battle Royale Island! Well, in a sense, anyway. The Man of Steel has been confirmed to be part of Chapter 2 Season 7’s Battle Pass, but we have no way of unlocking him yet. The Fortnite Superman skin unlocks on August 12, 2021. Until then, feel free to unlock all of the other skins in […]

The new Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7 Battle Pass is now out. We now know what skins we can get from the latest Battle Pass using our Battle Stars. But we know that there’s more to come on the horizon. Aside from the Skins already revealed, there are some that have just been lurking in the shadows. […]

Retired Filipino Dota 2 professional player Heinrich “Heinrich” Abad has died on Sunday, June 6, at age 29. Abad was diagnosed with acute monoblastic leukemia, a cancer of the blood and the blood marrow. According to his fiancé, Bev Sausal, Abad was rushed to the hospital on May 12 and was then diagnosed with sickness. He died […]

The Fortnite Rick and Morty tease finally paid off with the reveal of the Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7 Battle Pass. There are many cool new skins that you can get from the new Battle Pass. But one of them stands chief among others. That’s right, it’s your cool mad scientist granddad, Rick Sanchez! Check out how you can […]

The wait is finally over! The aliens have arrived and are planning to take out the Fortnite universe! Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 7 Invasion Season is here! This season, Epic Games brought back “Battle Stars”. Just like in the past, Battle Stars give you the opportunity to unlock any given reward at any given time […]

The aliens have officially invaded Fortnite and the map without a doubt looks like Doomsday has arrived. Their mothership can be seen in the sky and these invaders have left their mark all over the map. They’ve made it clear to everyone that they are here to stay. Paintings of aliens and markings have been stamped […]

Fortnite might be getting a Rick and Morty-inspired collaboration event soon. Epic Games teased the upcoming new season, Chapter 2 Season 7, in a tweet they dropped earlier today. The tweet may look harmless at first, but eagle-eyed fans at Fortnite Intel noted that the robot in the middle seemed familiar. Indeed, the middle robot appears to be […]

Given that we’re headed to Inazuma soon, it’s not surprising to see Genshin Impact leaks on the Traveler’s Electro powers. We’re bound to get it soon, anyway. And given that Inazuma will introduce us to yet another nation in the game with its own Archon, the timing’s just right. The rumor mill has been leaking information from […]

Economy is very important in games like VALORANT. Players earn money by taking down opponents and winning rounds. They also can keep their weapon from the previous round if they survived it entirely. Sometimes, players will opt not to buy anything in a round to make sure they have enough money to buy stronger weapons in […]

It’s not unusual for creators to poke fun at themselves for the flaws of their creations. That seemed to be the case during the development of Cyberpunk 2077, as new leaks show that the developers at CDPR seemed to have made their own “gag reels” of bug compilations. As spotted by Video Games Chronicle, hackers […]

Ubisoft released two videos today on Rainbow Six Extraction, the new title of the long-awaited Rainbow Six Quarantine. The first video was used the new title: Rainbow Six Extraction. In the Dev Team Title Reveal video, the game’s producers teased what the game will be like. Apparently, Rainbow Six Extraction will be borrowing some ideas from the successful Rainbow Six Siege game. “We […]