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Folks who own Android devices can usually download apps from the Google Play Store. Unfortunately, they cannot download the mobile version of Fortnite. In order to forgo paying the 30% fee to Google, Epic Games has instead decided to make users go to their site to download it. In our reporting, we detailed some of the potential dangers associated with downloading Fortnite on Android. Last Friday, Google revealed hackers could load malware by hijacking the game’s installation software. This reveal hasn’t sat well with Epic, who believe Google should have delayed reporting the news. In fact, the game developer has ... Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red is hosting a livestream on its Twitch page, hinting that something new may be revealed about its open-world RPG imminently. The stream currently shows lines of code being typed out on a screen, and there doesn’t seem to be any obvious indications of when something else will be shown or what it’ll be. Of course, we’ll stay glued to our screens and keep you updated on developments as they happen. You can watch for yourself in the video above. [Update: Just as many were hoping, the Twitch feed was serving as a countdown for ... Read more

Earlier this month, the PCG Q&A asked: What piece of game music is always stuck in your head? The answers there alone illustrate just how diverse videogame music can be. When it comes to introducing children to classical music, the head of the UK’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra reckons game tunes are just as important as real-life concerts.  In conversation with The Telegraph, James Williams, managing director at the RPO, says game music is a great “access point” for children when first discovering classical music.  “I think exposure to orchestral music in all its forms is a fantastic thing,” says Williams. ... Read more

The upcoming Devil May Cry 5 is somewhat of a homecoming for the long-running action game series. Following its reimagining by British developer Ninja Theory in 2013’s excellent DmC: Devil May Cry, Capcom’s sword-swinging, monster-juggling action game is returning to the hands of its Japanese developer. Developed by an internal Capcom team, the fifth numbered entry in the series feels like it’s striving to be as familiar as it is fresh. That intent is driven home from the very outset. Seconds into my hands-on with the Gamescom 2018 demo I noticed sound effects pulled straight out of the first game. ... Read more

Image copyright GLHF Game Bar Image caption The incident took place in a games bar attached to a restaurant Two professional video gamers have been named by US media as the victims of a rival player in a shooting at an eSports tournament in Florida. Eli Clayton, 21, and Taylor Robertson, 27, were both well-known players of the Madden NFL American football game. Police say David Katz, 24, from Baltimore, carried out the attack at the Jacksonville Landing shopping and entertainment complex on Sunday. Unconfirmed reports say Katz had become angry after losing a match. Florida shooting: Gaming community reacts ... Read more

Update: The 48-minute gameplay reveal of Cyberpunk 2077 was broadcast live today on Twitch. An archive of the footage from YouTube has been embedded above. Original story: The Twitch feed for CD Projekt Red, the Polish developers behind the Witcher series of role-playing games, is acting a little funny this morning. For more than five hours, it’s been spewing a seemingly endless stream of nonsense — white characters on a black background with no sound at all. Fans on Reddit are convinced that it’s a teaser, and that a public demonstration of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay is on the way. Cyberpunk ... Read more

High Lord Wolnir can be one of Dark Souls 3’s more frustrating enemies. No wonder this 5-year-old seems excited to beat him. Twitter user Nyu posted this clip of his son appearing to defeat the boss. 息子(5歳) vs 覇王ウォルニール pic.twitter.com/5ZxTIHXxv6 — (にゅ)feat.埃 (@nYu_desu_yo) August 25, 2018 “Daddy, I did it! Daddy! Daddy! Look! Yay!” Gotta love the kid’s reaction. Screenshot: nYu_desu_yo

Cyberpunk 2077‘s impressive demo from E3 2018 generated tons of buzz for the game, but it wasn’t shown to the public. That same demo again popped up at Gamescom, and with that event now concluded, CD Projekt Red is finally showing gameplay off to the public. Now that you should have a better idea of what the game is all about, we’re reviewing some of what we’ve learned over the past couple months. Night City, the setting of the game, is shown extensively in the demo, but there’s much more to it than what we see the game’s protagonist, v, ... Read more

Taking feedback from the Rainbow Six Siege Test Server for Operation Grim Sky, Ubisoft is implementing balancing patches for a few of the game’s Operators. One of the two new Grim Sky Operators, Maverick, is getting the most changes. Players must have felt Maverick was too effective an Operator, as all of his changes are nerfs. His smoke grenade is being replaced with a stun grenade and his blowtorch’s volume is being made louder so that he can no longer easily hide where he’s cutting. Maverick’s blowtorch is also being made weaker against barbed wire, so the process of destroying ... Read more

BTW Back in April, the Belgian government declared that loot boxes in video games are an illegal form of gambling, instructing major game developers like Blizzard, 2K, EA, and Valve to remove the function from their games or suffer fines and even possible jail time. That decree has finally come to fruition, as Blizzard and 2K announced they have formally expunged loot boxes from the Belgian versions of their games. In a post on the official Blizzard forums, the company announced that players will no longer be able to spend real-world money on loot boxes in Overwatch or Heroes of ... Read more

Activision has released a new trailer for Call of Duty: WW2‘s fourth DLC pack, Shadow War. The DLC is coming out as a timed exclusive for PS4 first, before releasing on other platforms. Shadow War concludes WW2’s Nazi zombie storyline in a final chapter titled The Frozen Dawn. Taking place in the hellish depths of a lost city, The Frozen Dawn will test you with new hordes of zombie. However, seemingly magic-infused weapons will be available for you to pull off insanely powerful attacks. Some of them can be seen in the trailer, but Sledgehammer promises there are more secrets ... Read more

I love VR and I love gaming, but I have now got to the point where the mention of the two things in the same sentence – specially when people seem to imply they’re the same thing – makes me roll my eyes and sigh. Part of it is due to the fact I’m yet to get really hooked into a VR game. Most of them just make me feel queasy, so I’m limited to short experiences that showcase the potential of the medium, for sure, but in no way prompt me to sell my console and screen setup just ... Read more

The survival genre has been exploding lately thanks to the popularity of battle royale-style games like Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. But a brand new survival game, titled SCUM, is currently the third most popular game on Twitch. Developed by a small team at Gamepires with the help of Croteam, creators of the Serious Sam franchise, it’s a profoundly hardcore experience and a throwback to the earliest days of the survival genre. In the fiction of SCUM, players take on the role of inmates in a supermax prison. Those prisoners are also contestants on a reality-style TV program produced by the ... Read more

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