MMOSpotlight

• Harpy Champion Teaser – League of Legends
  She fights for the cause,. He fights for her. The first new champion release of 2017 in league of legends is looking to be a big one. Being teased initially not long after April Fools Events such as Advanced Bots and Graves Cigar, it was a bit unclea…
  - 3 Apr 17, 9:06pm -
• Season 10 Begins – Diablo III
  A new start in the conquest of the Forces of Hell As we previously covered the nearing end of Diablo’s 9th season, the end has official come and the beginning of Season 10 has replaced it. Available on both  PC and Consoles the Diablo III season o…
  - 1 Apr 17, 6:45pm -
• Double Everything Weekend – Smite
  Earn all you can Take, and take all you can Earn This weekend until Sunday you can play smite for double rewards for everything you do. Still not hit the Level cap? You can get experience. Almost done with your mastery? Worshipers are included as wel…
  - 31 Mar 17, 4:20pm -
• The Tomb of Sargeras – Wow Patch 7.2
  One step closer to the Legions fall A new release and more adventures in World of Warcraft Legion to be had. Bringing plenty to do this Update will include new Class quests, World Quests, Scenarios, Cross Faction Events and More for you to conquer as…
  - 29 Mar 17, 3:27pm -
• A Mammoth Celebration!
  Free stuff just for Dropping by! Celebrating their Year of the Mammoth Event and Leading up to the Official release of Journey to Un’Goro in Hearthstone. This is the second of them, the first being a Brawl where winning a Match in Hearthstone score…
  - 27 Mar 17, 9:04pm -

OWNT

N4G

• newEcho Review | GameSpot
  Echo is a marvel of A.I. programming bolstered by a compelling sci-fi storytelling, and injects new life into the stealth genre.
  - 6 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:15am -
• newSuper Mario Odyssey Preview: It's Freedom Like You Never Knew [Nintendo Insider]
  Nintendo Insider writes:Nintendos moustachioed hero has never set out on such an exciting adventure. We leapt into paintings in Super Mario 64 to recover Power Stars, washed away graffiti on Isle Delfino in Super Mario Sunshine, soared among the st…
  - 15 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:06am -
• newNintendo Took Down Mario 64 Online Creator's Patreon And 20 Videos
  Welp. This didn't take long. Nintendo really doesn't like it when their IP property is being used without permission.
  - 21 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:00am -
• newXbox One X: Take a Closer Hands-on Look at the Sleek Project Scorpio Edition
  DualShockers gets touchy-feely with an Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition, showing every angle, the vertical stand, and the ports on the back.
  - 40 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:41am -
• newPatched #19 Part 3 - What's Up With Gaming Crossovers?
  Paul and Jay from Player 2 discuss the recent spate of gaming cross-overs, discussing the past, present and future of them, and some of their favourite cross-overs.
  - 57 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:24am -

PCGamer

Game Informer

• newThe Witness Now Available On iPhone and iPad
  Last year, Jonathan Blow's follow-up to Braid was released. The Witness is a puzzle game reminiscent of Myst that has you exploring a massive island filled with countless puzzles. Jonathan Blow has revealed that the game is now on iOS:If you have…
  - 44 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:37am -
• newNew Dragon Ball FighterZ Trailer Shows Off Story Mode
  Bandai Namco has released a new trailer for Dragon Ball FighterZ, this time focusing on the game's original story mode.The new trailer focuses on an army of Gokus and the newly-revealed Android 21 seemingly controlling them. From there, the trailer…
  - 5 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 5:04am -
• newNBA 2K18 Slashes Virtual Currency Prices After Backlash
  NBA 2K18 has a lot of virtues, but players have been finding its virtual currency prices is not one of them. A backlash against the price of certain things that use the virtual currency has forced 2K Games to reconsider the costs.As an example, a h…
  - 11 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 11:42pm -
• newSteam Introduces Review Histograms To Combat Review Bombing
  Steam user reviews were meant to be handy little scores designed to tell you at a glance whether a game is good by popular consensus. It has since become the domain of meme jokes (thousand hour counts with "This game is okay" as the only text) and e…
  - 12 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 10:49pm -
• newCertain Apps No Longer Work On iOS 11, So Flappy Bird Is Officially Gone Forever On Apple Devices
  If you hadn't heard, iOS 11 is out ahead of next week's release of the iPhone 8, adding features like a file manager and paying people money through text messages. It also killed all 32-bit apps.Apple has been warning app developers since 2014 that…
  - 12 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 9:54pm -

Joystiq

• newThe Morning After: Thursday, September 21st 2017
  Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.Welcome to Thursday. Apple's new Watch Series 3 has a tiny LTE connectivity issue -- something the company says it will fix in an update, but good luck to those with a pre-order. Google, as rumored, is buying HT…
  - 21 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:00am -
• newGett is using Citymapper data to plot new ride-sharing routes
  London's public transport system is pretty robust, with plenty of Tubes, buses and overground lines zig-zagging across the city. At rush hour, though, squeezing onto a crammed DLR carriage can be a total nightmare. One alternative is a taxi-hailing a…
  - 1 hour ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:12am -
• new'Rainbow Six Seige' update could make your PS4 crash
  With more than 20 million players, it's safe to say that Rainbow Six Siege is still going strong. But, a new console crashing bug could put a damper on the good times for fans of the tactical shooter. At least on PS4, anyway. Gamers have been tweetin…
  - 2 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 8:49am -
• newPlantronics offers affordable wireless audio for your workouts
  Plantronics' latest BackBeat wireless headphones have tended to focus on value for your hard-earned cash, and that's definitely the focus today. It's launching a range of BackBeat Fit headphones that promise sweat-resistant designs without a huge out…
  - 3 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 7:38am -
• newMobike's dockless bike-sharing service comes to Washington, DC
  Washington DC is one of the most bike-happy cities in America, with around five percent of commuters pedaling around the city each day. That's one of the reasons why Mobike, a company that has mostly been in China and Europe until now, is launching a…
  - 4 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 6:25am -

Kotaku

G4

Wired Game Life

The Verge Gaming

• newBacked into a corner, Uber allows users to opt out of ‘always on’ location tracking
  Uber got into hot water earlier this year when the ride-sharing app began tracking users’ location even when they weren’t using the app. The app limited users to giving the company permission to either always track their location or to not track…
  - 46 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:35am -
• newFord is using Microsoft’s HoloLens to design cars in augmented reality
  Microsoft’s HoloLens headset has been slowly pivoting towards commercial markets over the past year. NASA, Volvo, Lowe’s, Audi, and Volkswagen are all testing HoloLens for various reasons, and now Ford is expanding its use of Microsoft’s headse…
  - 1 hour ago, 21 Sep 17, 8:54am -
• newHTC will have another flagship phone, even after billion-dollar deal with Google
  HTC and Google have just made official a $1.1 billion agreement whereby a substantial proportion of HTC’s smartphone design and engineering team will move to work for Google. While the specific details of the deal have not yet been disclosed, one q…
  - 7 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 3:00am -
• newGoogle is buying part of HTC’s smartphone team for $1.1 billion
  Google is making another big buy into smartphone hardware — or at least the people responsible for creating it. The company has just confirmed that it plans to acquire part of HTC’s mobile division team for $1.1 billion. “These future fellow Go…
  - 8 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 2:11am -
• newThis 'AI' standing desk really just has a touchscreen tablet built-in
  I have a standing desk. I like it. I'm standing right now, actually, and blogging at the same time. My standing desk is automated, so I push buttons on its attached remote, and it goes up and down. It also has some onboard memory and saves heights fo…
  - 13 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 9:31pm -

Destructoid

• newSoon you can get physical with Shantae (Half-Genie Hero) on Switch
  Gaming's official belly dancer, Shantae, has made quite the name for herself over the last decade. Beginning as a late era Gameboy Color title, the series has spawned several sequels on various platforms and garnered a cult following. The latest game…
  - 13 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 9:00pm -
• newSTRAFE is getting a massive update with extra content
  Say what you will about the hugely divisive STRAFE, but I thought the game was a total blast. It certainly can be obtuse and definitely isn't an old-school shooter, but developer Pixel Titan's take on on first-person Spelunky was a challenging and re…
  - 14 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 8:30pm -
• newLow poly space adventure Morphite is out now on multiple platforms
  Morphite looks really similar to No Man's Sky at first glance, but it seems to have enough key differences to set it apart, including '80s movie references and animals that look more like actual animals than the creatures No Man's Sky generates.I…
  - 14 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 8:00pm -
• newBattlerite will exit Early Access and go free-to-play this November
  Stunlock Studios has found plenty of success on Steam Early Access with its arena brawler Battlerite, and before long, it'll be time for the full launch. It's set for November 8, 2017. In this specific case, exiting Early Access will also mean transi…
  - 15 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 7:30pm -
• newSchooled: Video games gave me my career
  [Believe it or not, I’m actually a full-time student myself. After growing old and lazy over the course of many years, I decided it was time for a change. Honestly, it was the smartest decision I’ve made in a long time. In a strange twist of fate…
  - 15 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 7:00pm -

Games Radar

VG 24/7

• newStreet Fighter 5: Arcade Edition retail listing spotted
  A retail listing for Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition was briefly available online this week. It seems you can’t go a day without seeing a new, unannounced version of Street Fighter show up on some retailer’s website. After more retailers jumped…
  - 32 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:49am -
• newPlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds creator promises changes to the Blue Zone, ranked play implementation
  Thanks to a recent Reddit AMA with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds creative director Brendan Greene, we have a little bit of an idea about some of the features that are in the pipeline. Greene, whose Reddit AMA has received a tonne of questions, took…
  - 1 hour ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:11am -
• newOverwatch Competitive Play permanent bans will start next week
  Next week, Blizzard will implement a new Overwatch ban system that will permanently block the worst offenders from playing Competitive. The new Overwatch permanent bans will go in effect starting Wednesday, September 27. To earn a permanent ban, a pl…
  - 2 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 8:04am -
• newDestiny 2 Bright Engrams: here’s how much Silver costs, and what you can and can’t buy with it
  Destiny 2’s microtransactions completely sorted out: Silver, Silver Dust, Bright Engrams and Eververse explained, complete with prices. Alongside Destiny 2’s launch, the in-game microtransactions store, Eververse Trading Company, has opened its d…
  - 4 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 6:33am -
• newHow to complete Destiny 2’s Public Events, trigger Heroic objectives, and get the best loot
  Destiny 2 doubles down on Public Events, and you stand to profit. Now that Destiny 2 makes Public Events so accessible and frequent, you’ll be pleased to know it also offers a chance to make out like a bandit in this profitable activity. Everyone w…
  - 4 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 6:10am -

Euro Gamer

• newMugsters is a physics-based adventure perfect for gifs
  Mugsters is a charming puzzle adventure game seemingly built for gifs.You play a human who tries to escape from an alien threat across various sandbox levels in single-player and two-player co-op. Expect plenty of physics-based shenanigans and loads…
  - 1 hour ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:00am -
• newHere's your first look at Square Enix's Left Alive
  Following its reveal at Tuesday's Sony Press Conference, Square Enix afforded us a first look proper at Left Alive, the third-person survival shooter set in the Front Mission universe. Producer Shinji Hashimoto, game director Toshifumi Nabeshima and…
  - 8 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 2:46am -
• newMinecraft's new cross-platform edition launches today, but without Nintendo Switch
  Minecraft's big new cross-platform version is available right now on Windows 10 PC, Xbox One, iPhone and iPad, Android, and for VR devices.It is a huge moment in the history of the game - and of gaming in general - although the Nintendo Switch versio…
  - 18 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 4:05pm -
• newSteamWorld Dig 2 review
  My absolute favourite thing about the first SteamWorld Dig - a game that, in the memory, seems pretty much bursting with favourite things - was a simple collectable. It was an in-game currency of some kind, although inevitably I can't remember what y…
  - 18 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 4:00pm -
• newPUBG-inspired Fortnite Battle Royale will launch as a free mode
  Fortnite's Battle Royale mode is launching as a free mode for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.The 100-player PVP mode in Fortnite will be completely free for everyone from 26th September. There's no need to have paid for the base game. It's a canny mo…
  - 19 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 3:40pm -

Shack News

• newTGS 2017: Monster Hunter Begins Her Hunt in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Trailer
  The Tokyo Game Show news keeps on coming out of Japan, with the latest involving the recently-released Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Remember a few days ago when Capcom confirmed the rest of its 2017 DLC roster and noted that there weren't any art ass…
  - 3 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 7:05am -
• newProject Cars 2 Review: Sunday Drivers Need Not Apply
  Slightly Mad Studios delivered the original Project Cars in 2015. It attempted to go three-wide in the turns with Gran Turismo and Forza, and came close to making a podium. Two years later, Project Cars 2 pulls up to the line having learned from the…
  - 6 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 4:00am -
• newTGS 2017: Left Alive's Second Trailer Travels to the 22nd Century
  During the twilight hours of Tuesday morning, Square Enix revealed Left Alive, the next project from producer Shinji Hashimoto. Nothing much in terms of details was offered, other than Metal Gear artist Yoji Shinkawa's involvement.Wednesday evening…
  - 6 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 3:55am -
• newDivinity: Original Sin 2 - Character Creation and Beginner's Tips
  The first Divinity: Original Sin was a deep experience that offered players a lot of options as they fought through over 40 hours of gameplay. That hour count is not counting the likely handful of restarts as players became more familiar with gamepl…
  - 10 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 12:00am -
• newShack's Arcade Corner: Mario Bros.
  You may know Mario as both a plumber and pioneer of smooth scrolling. Years before he did anything so audacious as walk to the right and cause new terrain to scroll smoothly into sight, Mario traded in hammers and construction sets for POW blocks and…
  - 11 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 11:20pm -

Gamespot

• newNew Resident Evil 7 DLC Gameplay Video Shows Fan-Favorite Character In Action
  Resident Evil 7's upcoming Not A Hero expansion is coming in December, and now fans can see it in action for the first time. The DLC stars series stalwart Chris Redfield and is set after the events of Resident Evil 7's base game. Take a look at the g…
  - 9 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 10:12am -
• newFortnite's Free PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds-Like Battle Royale Mode Launching Very Soon
  Fortnite's Battle Royale mode is becoming a free to play experience, developer Epic Games has announced. The 100-player PvP mode's setup is roughly similar to that of the uber-popular PC shooter Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. There is one map. And th…
  - 47 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:34am -
• newDestiny 2's Weapons Are Hinting At Next Week's "Faction Rally"
  Destiny 2 continues to add more content weeks after launch. According to the official Bungie schedule, something called Faction Rally begins Tuesday, September 26--but even though it hasn't arrived yet, Guardians can get their hands on faction-brande…
  - 49 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:32am -
• newFull Trailer For Square Enix's New Game Left Alive Released
  Following the announcement of Square Enix's intriguing-looking new game Left Alive at Sony's Tokyo Game Show briefing this week, the company has now released a full-length trailer for it.In addition to the trailer, we learned more about the game itse…
  - 53 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:28am -
• newDestiny 2 Gets New Map In Competitive Crucible Playlist
  Destiny 2's Crucible PvP mode has a new map available for the Competitive playlist. Bungie has announced that the map Eternity is now available in the Competitive mode. The map, which you can see a teaser image for below, debuted with the Trials of t…
  - 58 mins ago, 21 Sep 17, 9:23am -

Giant Bomb

• newHaving a Blast at the Xbox Fall Showcase
  Jeff, Ben, and Brad were invited to look at the hottest new Xboxes, and the games that are coming to them. This video doesn't have any of those. There were also quiches.
  - 10 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 12:46am -
• newUnfinished: Super Mario Odyssey 09/20/2017
  Nintendo let us post 10 minutes of Super Mario Odyssey, but joke’s on them, we’re gonna watch it twice!
  - 10 hours ago, 21 Sep 17, 12:06am -
• newKingsway Review
  When you first boot up Kingsway, you immediately “get it.” From the startup sounds, to the launch menu in the task bar, to the grey-bordered windows, it’s immediately apparent that the game is a love letter to a time long-forgotten. More specif…
  - 12 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 10:05pm -
• newSteal My Sunshine - Episode 10
  Yoshi plays by his own rules. And those rules are bad.
  - 13 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 9:22pm -
• newQuick Look: Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
  It's Mahvel, baby - but is that enough to justify a purchase, or is Capcom taking us for a ride?
  - 15 hours ago, 20 Sep 17, 7:21pm -

Gamespy

• Defiance: The MMO vs Defiance: The TV Show - Fight!
  Defiance (PC)We journey to the show's set in Toronto to get the full scoop.
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• Play Thief in Doom 3 with The Dark Mod
  Thief: The Dark Project (PC)A total conversion for Doom 3, The Dark Mod is designed to let players create missions.
  - 22 Oct 12, 7:14pm -
• "Second Wave" of Options Make XCOM: Enemy Unknown Even Tougher
  XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PC)Originally planned to be officially released, modders have gotten the options to work.
  - 22 Oct 12, 6:31pm -
• DICE Adding Console Command to Disable Color Grading in Battlefield 3
  Battlefield 3 (PC)"No major competitive advantage/disadvantage" in disabling color grading.
  - 22 Oct 12, 6:06pm -
• The Castle Doctrine is Jason Rohrer's New Game
  New game from Inside a Star-Filled Sky creator revealed.
  - 22 Oct 12, 5:15pm -