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UPDATE: You can see all 19 new Destiny Emotes here (opens in new tab). Back in June, Destiny: The Taken King (opens in new tab) creative director Luke Smith spoke (opens in new tab) to Eurogamer, defending the $80 pricetag for the Collector’s Edition (opens in new tab) with this …

What’s this? Has the Gears of War franchise traded sci-fi aliens for fantasy dragons? No, but I wouldn’t blame you for thinking that, because I certainly couldn’t help but notice the similarities between the beefy soldiers of Microsoft’s third-person shooter series and Warcraft’s Thrall as seen in newly-released (opens in …

There are two schools of thought on Wildlands (opens in new tab). One says it’s a brash GTA wannabe that betrays Ghost Recon’s grounding in team-based tactical warfare. The other side argues it’s a much-needed modernisation of a flagging series; one that transplants the action into an exotic, reactive open …

If you haven’t put a few dozen hours into Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) yet, you probably only know Forward Operating Bases from the game’s endless server status messages. You can’t start building your own FOBs and raiding others until you’ve finished mission 22 …

It really is a bug’s life for this Ludum Dare success story from last year. After much lauding of the original 48 hour version, devs Eteeski (opens in new tab) decided to make a full game of Ant Simulator and it looks kind of amazing. Complete with first person (ant?) …

Where many open-world action games are akin to sandboxes, Hitman: Blood Money is perhaps best viewed as a series of toy boxes. Each level is relatively small in scale, its parameters easily defined, but the possibilities for inventive play are numerous. The game offers several testing grounds for crazy assassination …

GTA Online (opens in new tab) is celebrating the American labor movement this holiday weekend in its own special way: with four days of revolving vehicle discounts and Job bonuses. Here’s the complete list – all events indicated will award double GTA$/RP payouts, while all (virtual) retailers indicated will have …

Steven Spielberg knows a thing or two about blockbuster movies, which is why – when the director predicted a Hollywood ‘implosion’ a couple of years ago -everybody listened. Well, those same ears will be pricking up once more, because Spielberg has been talking to the Associated Press about superhero movies, …

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (opens in new tab) is unlike any Metal Gear game before it. You can deploy whenever and wherever you want, you can invade other players’ Forward Operating Bases (when the servers are working (opens in new tab)), and you can even go cardboarding …

If you got Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (opens in new tab) on Xbox One, you might have noticed its one glaring omission. Gearbox justified leaving the original Borderlands out because it didn’t have an appearance from Handsome Jack (who is a central character in Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel), …