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It’s one of the biggest questions on the lips of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (opens in new tab) fans: is Luke Skywalker turning to The Dark Side? The first trailer (opens in new tab) suggested, maybe, yeah, and the most recent trailer (opens in new tab) seemed to go …

It wouldn’t be a Blizzcon without a World Of Warcraft (opens in new tab) expansion, and this year’s packed in two. First, the reveal of WoW’s next massive expansion Battle for Azeroth, and second, the arrival of official Vanilla World of Warcraft servers. “Battle for Azeroth will make you prouder …

Thinking about picking up one of those updated PlayStation VR headsets this holiday season? You might as well get Gran Turismo Sport (opens in new tab) for free, too. Sony just announced a new PSVR bundle that includes a PSVR headset, a PS4 camera (required to use PSVR), and a …

Housemarque, the Finnish studio responsible for games like Super Stardust, Resogun (opens in new tab), and most recently Nex Machina, have decided to stop making the arcade-style titles which it was known for. Why? Well, a new blog post spells it out pretty plainly: Arcade is dead. That’s not me …

Halloween is officially over. The spooky times are behind us, and looking ahead are times of family, togetherness, warm cocoa, and (of course) major sales and bundles for November. Nintendo has wasted no time revealing some of its offerings, and announced today two special bundles for The Legend of Zelda: …

Star Wars Battlefront 2 (opens in new tab) is rethinking its approach to player progression and loot boxes. EA made some quick assurances (opens in new tab) that it had heard the negative fan feedback after the beta ended (opens in new tab) earlier in October, and it followed up …

In South Park: The Fractured But Whole (opens in new tab), the character Call Girl can use an attack to sabotage an enemy’s phone and deal damage to them. As the sixth-graders, Raisins girls, ninjas, and Crab People of South Park pull out their phones, you hear a voice shout, …

Super Mario Odyssey (opens in new tab) has been out for a weekend, and Nintendo Switch just recently got built-in support for sharing videos to Twitter and other social networks – you can do the math. Players around the world are sharing their favorite moments from their journeys with Mario …

On October 17, 2017, Electronic Arts shuttered Visceral Games (opens in new tab) and canned its untitled Star Wars game. Project Ragtag, as it was known in-house, was no more. EA executive vice president Patrick Soderlund wrote in a statement that there would be a “pivot” in the game’s design, …

Well, that’s surprising. Right in the middle of the most manic week in all of games (Super Mario Odyssey (opens in new tab), Wolfenstein 2 (opens in new tab), and Assassin’s Creed Origins (opens in new tab), all on the same day? The gods of gaming are both kind and …