Gen:Lock is the second original animated series from Austin-based production company Rooster Teeth — whose first series RWBY has six seasons already. The fights themselves revolve around the characters and the curve of the action bends itself around the arc that’s necessary for the characters. Instead, Gen:Lock’s fights in the first few episodes feel more like brief interludes. It plays as a stark reminder of what the cost of these fights could be and the world the characters are fighting to pro

Why can’t I get into this “VIP Demo”? “During the demo weekend, we identified a bug where VIP players with a specific combination of entitlements were being blocked from accessing the demo,” Robertson wrote. Friday it kicked off an early access demo for players who had pre-ordered the game or subscribed to Electronic Arts’ two premium Access services. Robertson did not say anything about extending either the demo or the VIP period in light of the problems playing Anthem. But players who were ent

Fortnite is doing away with its blind-draw lootboxes, and will replace the “V-Buck Llamas” with an “X-Ray Llama” that shows its contents before being opened. The qualifier here is this is for Fortnite: Save The World, not the more popular Battle Royale. All current Save the World players get five Upgrade Llama tokens to see how this works for free. They are not see-thru like the X-ray Llamas, either. Update: A cheeky attempt to compare Save the World to its more popular sibling didn’t go over so

We are exactly three months from the launch date for the most anticipated video game of 2019 according to a J.D. Power and Associates survey of me: Days Gone. It introduced the open world of the Pacific Northwest wilderness and the Freakers (i.e. I’m all for it, I’ve been ready for a proper, dedicated biker fantasy video game for about a decade now. Days Gone launches April 26 on PlayStation 4.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is testing out a slimmed-down version of the game that will still perform on PCs that don’t have hardware meeting the main game’s minimum or recommended specifications. PUBG Lite, as it is called, is being tested out in Thailand for now. PUBG Corp. announced the beta test this week, saying PUBG Lite is for “players in areas where the core game’s required specifications are more difficult to achieve due to the hardware available.” So it may not come to this region. P

Fallout 76 is getting a new game mode geared toward more competitive players seeking a challenge, Bethesda said in a blog post. This game mode, Survival, will be accessible from the main menu. While many players have hoped for a more challenging experience or a new PvP mode, the Fallout 76 fanbase has concerns about Survival. Fallout 76 has a serious problem with duped items and bobbleheads creating characters who are unstoppable. Right now, multiple threads on the front page of the Fallout 76 s

Even when it launches on Jan. 29, Kingdom Hearts 3 won’t have all of its content available to check out. But gaining access to the latter post-release addition, the secret movie, will take a bit of work on the part of players. The secret movie is only accessible after photographing a number of Lucky Emblems, which are Mickey Mouse-shaped Easter eggs scattered throughout the game. For fans who want to get every last drop out of Kingdom Hearts possible, though, get ready to take a lot of pics. Unt

[Warning: The remainder of this post contains spoilers for “Shadow Heritage,” the second chapter of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Legacy of the First Blade add-on.] However, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in the run-up to its October launch noted the ability to play as a female or a male character, and same-sex or opposite-sex (or both) romance options among the limited role-playing choices. Jonathan Dumont, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s creative director, apologized last week for the clumsy handling of the

Here we are, on the eve of the release of the long-anticipated Resident Evil 2 remake and it appears that the entire world if collectively agreeing: Resident Evil is good again! To wit, Deadline is reporting that Netflix is “developing a scripted series based on the hit action horror franchise” with Constantin Film — the outfit behind the long-running movie franchise — leading the charge. Related Resident Evil 2 is everything a video game remake should beThe Resident Evil film franchise debuted

An officially licensed World Rally Championship racing game will return in 2019 after skipping last year. WRC 8 will launch this September for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. In addition to the real-world drivers in the FIA World Rally Championship, WRC 8 will offer drivers from the WRC 2 and Junior WRC series. Kylotonn has developed the WRC: World Rally Championship series since 2015’s WRC 5. Dirt returns at the end of February with Dirt Rally 2.0 on PlayStation 4, Win

FIFA 19’s FUT Team of the Week for Week 19 is here, and it’s heavy on attackers this week. This week’s team is headlined by two Paris Saint-Germain players which should come as no real surprise to anyone that saw the team’s 9-0 dismantling of Guingamp over the weekend. Both Kylian Mbappe and Edison Cavani scored hat tricks — and Cavani’s took less than 20 minutes — which helped earn them their place on this week’s team. Joining these two attackers is Real Madrid’s midfielder Luka Modric, who sco

Soni on the other hand, directed by first-timer Ivan Ayr and distributed by Netflix, is a swing in the other direction. The drama is meticulously crafted; this is one of those rare films where everything clicks into place. Kalpana however, comes from an extended Sikh family, but even her lively, colourful home can’t help but be intrusive. Despite being at loggerheads, Soni and Kalpana have a mutually supportive relationship. There’s no easy solution to what Soni and Kalpana are up against, and n

Then there’s The Magicians, a series with no taste for the status quo. note: This post will contain spoilers for the The Magicians season 4.] But for Game of Thrones, the democratization of peril is the status quo. There has never been safety, or familiarity, or comfort in The Magicians, and that’s not changing in season four, either. Maybe the show has a status quo after all.

Anthem, like several other titles that Electronic Arts has published recently, has an extremely drawn-out release date … or release dates, in this case. Anthem VIP DemoDates: Jan. 25-27Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox OneRequirements: pre-order, or EA Access or Origin Access subscriptionThis is the first early access demo that EA is offering for Anthem. It’s only available to players who have the game pre-ordered, or subscribe to EA Access (Xbox One) or Origin Access (PC). Anthem early access to the f

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, the sequel to the hit role-playing title from Obsidian Entertainment, is getting a turn-based mode. There’s simply so much shit flying around in a Pillars game that it’s difficult to keep track of it all. Pillars of Eternity 2’s new turn-based mode enforces a kind of calm that the franchise has been missing all this time. Related How a mysterious drawing helped create Pillars of Eternity 2For the majority of the time, the turn-based mode plays just like the origi

The main characters are descendants of the Joestar family, the drama rippling from the legendary hate-love between two adoptive brothers in 1880s England. This lack of expression has prompted artists to pick up the slack and develop a significant strain of fan art to fill those missing parts of the story, sometimes for their own sakes. finished up an ol wip … dad.png pic.twitter.com/qjGXpZAW8V — melts (@meltsmelts) April 13, 2018JJBA fan art is much more than an appreciative reflection of the

Shuri is back from space in the latest issue of her solo comic series. note: This post contains spoilers for Shuri #4]In an attempt to find T’Challa, Shuri and the youngest of those women, a girl named Mansa, were sent on a psychic trip through space. Shuri ended up mind-melding with Groot, while Mansa’s consciousness was trapped in a giant space-insect called a Lubber. Moses augments the Space-Lubber’s power and tears a black hole into the ground. Teaming up with Storm, Okoye and Shuri they try

SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech headlined an indie game showcase for Nintendo Switch this morning. Image & Form Games, makers of the SteamWorld line of games (four other launches going back to 2010) said SteamWorld Quest will launch “first on Nintendo Switch,” meaning this will be a timed exclusive. On the game’s official site, SteamWorld Quest is said to have a deck of 100 “punch-cards” to help players get through the turn-based combat of their adventure. SteamWorld Quest launches sometime

I’m beginning to suspect that Dead or Alive 6’s alleged wokeness is not all it seems to be. “We had a lot of meetings to talk about these changes,” Shimbori said. “It will be very difficult to become a top esports fighting game,” Shimbori said. There are elements of the game that have been designed with esports in mind, and we have held some competitions for Dead or Alive, which have been great successes. We also plan to release a free-to-play version later, as we did with Dead or Alive 5.

The newest map for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Vikendi, has finally made it to consoles. Unlike previous maps for the game, Vikendi is slightly smaller and plays a little bit slower. With its wide-open areas and stark white landscapes, players have to be a little more stealthy and pick their opportunities more carefully on Vikendi than on any other map. Just like it did for PC players, the console release of Vikendi also signals the opening of the new Vikendi missions. You can check out a tra