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A quick look at Twitch daily streaming numbers confirms what most of us already knew – battle royale games like Fornite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are still massively popular. But those huge player bases could soon be split among several more games.  Later this year, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will join the fight for battle royale supremacy with its Blackout mode. Battlefield V also has a battle royale mode coming in the near future, and several lower-profile titles like Housemarque’s Stormdivers and Automaton’s Mavericks: Proving Grounds are also preparing to skydive into the competition.  Which, if any, of these new ... Read more

By Liana ‘LiLi’ Ruppert – August 25, 2018 With the release of Fallout 76 on the horizon and Bethesda trying something a little new this go around, there’s a lot of reasons to celebrate. What better way to do just that than with an officially licensed Fallout rum? That’s right! Fallout rum is officially on the way! Bethesda is no stranger to more adult-geared partnerships. Back in 2015 they paired up with Carlsberg for a Fallout beer line and now they are going a little darker with Nuka-Cola Dark. These fine rum beverages will boast a 35% alcohol content and ... Read more

Reigns: Game of Thrones, a crossover between Tinder-like ruling sim Reigns and HBO’s series about sad people wearing furs, might be the best GoT game made yet. That isn’t a huge compliment, as the Telltale series was nothing special, but we quite like Reigns, so it’s probably worth a go for Ice and Fire fans.  Comparisons aside, the crossover was a good match (hah), and an interesting one. Often, licensed games are designed to the specifications of the source material—in a game about Spider-man, you have to sling webs, right? But now and then things happen the other way around, ... Read more

KyRo22h ago Alot of people did ubtil they realised there weren’t really much of a end game which is not the case now. I really loved the setting of the first game too but I miss the snow covered setting. This one looks a bit generic in setting. ReplyAgree 1Disagree 0 ▼✖–+ SPAMInappropriate

By Tanner Dedmon – August 25, 2018 A new Division is coming to Call of Duty: WWII next week alongside the debut of the Shadow War DLC. The release of the new Division was confirmed in a post from Sledgehammer Games shared on the game’s subreddit. Pushing back the weekly community post from Friday to Monday, Sledgehammer Games said that the new DLC would launch on the PlayStation 4 next week on August 28 with every platform gaining access to another Division and more Basic Trainings soon. “In light of next week being a big content drop for DLC4 (PS4) ... Read more

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host this week. With PAX West 2018 coming up next weekend, many of you are hotly anticipating Giant Bomb’s next PAX panel or the continuation of the League of Heels saga. Back to the Spotlight, you’ll notice the several discussion threads buzzing about playable demos and trailers from Gamescom 2018! The event drew a ton of buzz for dozens of games and you can join in by reviewing the “Join The Discussion” section of the Spotlight. So, ... Read more

By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 25 August 2018 15:39 GMT Two new heroes were announced for Dota 2 during The International, and you can play one right now. Grimstroke and Mars were announced as new playable characters for Dota 2. During The International this week, Grimstroke was made available to players as a new, ranged support hero. As you can see in the trailer, he wields a rather dangerous rebinding brush dipped in “profane ink.” You can look over his character page through the official website and familiarize yourself with his moveset (thanks, Neowin). Mars will be added as a playable ... Read more

There’s lots of options if you’re interested Overwatch‘s professional competitive games are done for the season, but this weekend the Overwatch League (OWL) is hosting its first All-Star weekend, featuring teams made up from some of the best players in the world. The matches begin in about half an hour and can be viewed on Twitch, Major League Gaming, OverwatchLeague.com, or on cable if your package includes DisneyXD or ESPN3. Events will continue on Sunday at 11:00 AM PDT and can be viewed in the same way. Each event will pit the Atlantic team vs. the Pacific team, and people playing at ... Read more

Two new heroes have been announced for Dota 2: Grimstroke and Mars. While there’s not yet much known about the latter other than they’re coming later this year “ready for war”, Grimstroke is playable now courtesy of the latest update. “Chosen to serve as an arcane guardian of his people, Grimstroke was instead responsible for their eternal corruption,” states the news update on the official Dota 2 website.  “Trapped in agony as inky revenants, his former kindred cast cruel shadows of what might have been. But the sacrifice infused Grimstroke with great power, and he considers it a price well ... Read more

Just Survive, the survival H1Z1 video game, shuts down in October. In a post on Steam, developer Daybreak said Just Survive goes dark at 7pm UK time on 24th October. All Steam purchases and in-game transactions have been disabled. “The excitement of the game’s promise was palpable and its loyal community is still full of ideas for its future,” Daybreak said. “Unfortunately, we are no longer in a position to fulfill its greatness and the current population of the game makes it untenable to maintain.” Just Survive had an up and down existence. The open-world zombie survival game launched in ... Read more

Fortnite‘s Week 7 challenges on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile, bringing the running tally of Season 5 challenges to a whopping 49. As usual, completing these will level your Battle Pass up and unlock Season 5 rewards, but there’s an extra incentive to finish all of the challenges in a given week; doing so will check off a corresponding Road Trip challenge and net you a special loading screen that points to a secret Battle Star hidden around the island. If you’ve managed to stay on top of all of the challenges to date and clear Week ... Read more

Star Citizen is free to try from now until Monday. Star Citizen’s “Gamescom Free Fly” weekend gives you the chance to try out four vehicles—the Avenger Titan, Cutless Black, Dragonfly Black, and Protector—in both the “dogfighting stage Arena Commander, and first-person shooter Star Marine” modes.  “To begin your adventure, you would normally pledge for one of our starter packages, which gets you a user-friendly ship and game access,” states the website. “For a limited time, we’re giving prospective Citizens the chance to explore the universe and test out a handful of ships and ground vehicles for free.” To play, head ... Read more

Rainbow Six turned 20 this week, yet another in a series of impressive milestones for Ubisoft’s special ops series. We could equally well say it’s 20 years since the tactical shooter genre was born, 20 years since ‘realism’ was seriously applied to an FPS, or 20 years since the ‘Tom Clancy’ name began a journey towards becoming one of the most recognisable prefixes in gaming. Considering where it stands today, it’s impressive to think that the Tom Clancy video-game phenomenon started with just two developers at Red Storm’s North Carolina office, with little experience and no serious architecture underlying the game they were ... Read more

With Nvidia’s recent announcement of its new RTX graphics cards, keeping up with the price of GPUs can burn hole in your pocket. And if you’re not on the PC bandwagon already, the entrance fee will just burn your pants right off. However, with Shadow, a cloud gaming service, you can play the most graphically intensive games on the cheapest laptops around. To test this, we used the service on an Asus VivoBook E203NA, an Acer Chromebook Spin 11 and a Samsung Galaxy Tab S4. First, let’s break down what you actually get with the Shadow service. Currently, the Shadow ... Read more