As far as big budget video games go, Mass Effect has traditionally been a pretty progressive franchise that allows for a variety of different romances, depending on your character’s sexual orientation. But during the development of Mass Effect 2, one potential affair was apparently tweaked due to a scaremongering news clip. Players of the galactic […]
Sarah Connor and the Terminator have both arrived in Fortnite
Fortnite is heading to the future and the past as the T-800 and Sarah Connor from the Terminator series have now joined the game as skins. The pair arrived as part of the game’s shop update on Thursday night. While there are plenty of versions of both the model T-800 Terminator and Sarah Connor to […]
Dead by Daylight dev announces colorblind mode amid controversy
Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive has announced a new feature, following outcry from the gaming community. Colorblind mode will come to Dead by Daylight, with settings for the various kinds of colorblindness: deuteranope (inability to perceive green light,) protanope (inability to perceive red light,) and tritanope (inability to perceive blue light. There is no […]
Apex Legends season 8 introduces a new character next month
Apex Legends’ eighth season, Mayhem, will go live on Feb. 2, and it will feature the debut of the battle royale game’s 16th Legend: Fuse, developer Respawn Entertainment announced Monday. Respawn introduced Apex Legends players to Fuse with a new Stories from the Outlands short on Monday. The four-minute video tells the tale of Fuse’s […]
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is bringing back the series’ classic map, Express
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s first season has been out for a few weeks now and Treyarch is already adding content. Along with some additions like a new Zombies map and new weapons, Treyarch is using the midseason point to add Express, a Black Ops fan-favorite map, to multiplayer. Related Call of Duty: […]
Rainbow Six Siege operators join Ghost Recon Breakpoint in new event
The Ghost Recon franchise has a history of tagging in the protagonists of other Ubisoft titles, like the ability for players to play as an Assassin with a Creed in Wildlands. Now, it’s doing that again by adding Rainbow Six Siege operators to Ghost Recon Breakpoint. On Jan. 19, Ubisoft Paris is releasing a patch […]
Resident Evil Village showcase event coming Jan. 21
Capcom is planning a big Resident Evil blowout on Jan. 21, including all-new details on Resident Evil Village, the next major entry in the survival horror game franchise. Next Thursday’s Resident Evil Showcase promises a “guided tour” of Resident Evil Village, which means a new trailer and our first look at gameplay. The Resident Evil […]
GTA 5’s ‘Lamar roasts Franklin’ meme goes IRL with original actors
Lamar-roasting-Franklin in Grand Theft Auto 5 is in danger of going from meme to cliché (both being French words) in the span of a month. But not before the scene’s original actors recreate it IRL, reminding Franklin once again his yee-yee ass haircut is why Tenisha prefers to date doctors and lawyers. Obviously, this dialogue […]
League of Legends: Wild Rift is coming to North America in March
On Friday, Riot Games released a video detailing some of the things coming to the League of Legends universe in 2021. Among those announcements was a new update on League of Legends: Wild Rift — the new console and mobile version of the MOBA — including the fact that North American players will get their […]
Cyberpunk 2077’s refund fiasco
CD Projekt’s rush to guarantee refunds for Cyberpunk 2077, which launched with numerous glitches and performance problems, seems to have made a bad situation, between the studio and its players, into an even worse one, between the company and its corporate partners. Vice on Wednesday reported GameStop’s instructions to sales associates not to provide direct […]