Capcom is working on a new game mode for its Resident Evil 2 remake that offers three additional perspectives on the zombie infestation of Raccoon City. That mode, The Ghost Survivors, will be released as a free update to the game, Capcom announced at Resident Evil 2’s launch event in Japan. According to a translation of the event from Siliconera, The Ghost Survivors will include randomized scenarios, an enemy unique to the game mode, and a shop where players can purchase items with points they

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth had a rough 2018 — one that Blizzard is intent on fixing this year with new content. 2019’s first batch of World of Warcraft content offers a new raid, and some powerful Mythic Keystone changes as well. With all the raid excitement, it’s tempting to look past the Mythic Keystone dungeons. The end-of-week Mythic Keystone chest — rewarded depending on the highest tier of Mythic Keystone you did last week — can now scale all the way up to 410. However, nothing

Sea of Thieves is enjoying an excellent start to 2019. Despite these changes, the core gameplay of Sea of Thieves has always been a blast to watch. Sea of Thieves has consistently hit the top three of titles streaming on Twitch lately, going toe to toe with games like Fortnite and League of Legends. In the wake of Summit adopting Sea of Thieves, other major streamers have adopted the game as well, including Dr Disrespect and Ninja. An influx of new players can be challenging for many games, but

When Stellaris: Console Edition launches on Feb. 26 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, it will be the first grand strategy game ever released for modern consoles. “I’m very surprised and very happy with how it actually works,” Paradox game director Daniel Moregård told Polygon in an interview last week. Using the right button, for instance, takes players to the traditional “outliner” along the right-hand side of the screen on PC. For consoles, he says the team opted for a similar approach, but with

Fortnite’s newest patch offers players a few balance changes but, more importantly, asks if they wanna build a snowman. The item will allow players to shoot out decoy snowmen, or dress up as one themselves. Swapped the drop chance of Shield Potions and Small Shield PotionsShield PotionReduced drop chance from Floor Loot from 16.53% to 13.22%. Vaulted the following itemsQuad Rocket LauncherPort-a-fortressGrapplerReduced the Drop chance of GlidersReduced drop chance from Chests from 11.89% to 4.43

The team also added a new system for your home base, allowing you to invest resources and rally your characters to earn more upgrades for yourself. @Battlesand from Twitter asked us “What game mechanics changed over Far Cry 5?” pic.twitter.com/TqhogYJhvf — Far Cry New Dawn (@FarCrygame) January 21, 2019Outposts have also been given a sort of leveling system, allowing you to increase the difficulty, and reward, of capturing and re-capturing outposts. “We have what we call the escalation system fo

Season three of The Expanse will begin streaming free for Amazon Prime members starting Feb. 8, Variety reports. Fans can expect season four to premiere later this year, also on Amazon Prime. The Expanse began its life on SyFy in 2015, but was canceled in May of last year, mid-way through the run of its third season. That’s when Jeff Bezos swooped in to pick it up, transporting the entire production over to Amazon Prime. In fact, fans should expect some episodes to run slightly longer than they

Steven Universe can be a very annoying boy. But the story of Steven Universe isn’t about Steven discarding the things that made, and still make, him childish — it’s about figuring out how to use them in more specific, salutary ways. This formal choice pays off spectacularly in Steven’s encounter with White Diamond, as Steven Universe proves definitively to be his own person. The frame is split, as we see through the eyes of both organic and Gem Steven. Steven Universe is commonly lauded as a chi

Rockstar Games’ decision not to bring Red Dead Redemption 2 to the PC has left a bit of a vacuum on Steam. Later this month the team from Codehatch hopes to rectify that situation with a Western-themed MMO called Heat. This particular developer has a notorious reputation of promising the moon to eager fans, and then delivering a pile of rocks instead. Heat is aimed squarely at fans of Red Dead Online, Rockstar Games’ multiplayer version of Red Dead Redemption 2. Polygon has reached out to the te

The Epic Games Store seems to think so. When the Epic Games Store was announced Dec. 4, it was also mentioned as a component of the store, but not much else was said. And 2) that Support-a-Creator is what Epic needs because it sees the Games Store’s customers as younger than Steam’s — perhaps not even using Steam. Here’s where influencers come inWhat that means, Galyonkin reasoned, is that most of the discovery of games listed on Epic Games Store will take place outside of the store. The Epic Ga

Hitman 2’s latest update, released Monday, brings a wintry mix of new content to the game for all players, including the first add-on for Expansion Pass owners. The mission will be available for the duration of an in-game seasonal event that developer IO Interactive calls the Snow Festival. As you can see in the screenshot above, IO has spruced up the snowy Japanese setting with some cheery lights for the Snow Festival. Two new items come with the event: the Ice Pick and the Snow Festival Suit.

When NetherRealm Studios unveiled Mortal Kombat 11 last week, the game’s brand-new character, Geras, might have looked like a fairly standard grappler. He’s armed with a few familiar Mortal Kombat-style teleportation and freeze moves, plus the ability to manipulate stone and sand. But Geras is easily the game’s most intriguing character, thanks to his ability to manipulate time — including the power to influence the in-game timer. It consists of two moves: Lost Time, which subtracts up to 30 sec

The Windows PC version of Yakuza Kiwami will be released Feb. 19 on Steam, publisher Sega appeared to announce on Monday. It’s been more than six months since E3 2018, when Sega announced that it was bringing PC ports of Valkyria Chronicles 4, Yakuza 0, and Yakuza Kiwami to Steam. But while the company released Yakuza 0 in August and Valkyria Chronicles 4 in September, it hadn’t said anything about the release window for the PC version of Yakuza Kiwami. (In fact, the release date field on the St

The Field announced Monday that it is also home to a newly discovered species of prehistoric shark. Called Galagadon nordquisteae, the creature was so named because its tiny teeth resemble the spaceships from the arcade classic Galaga. In his 45-minute presentation on SUE’s new mounting, Simpson let slip that the exhibit included an entirely new species of shark. But the story of how the shark was discovered is even more interesting than the funny shape of its teeth. After SUE was discovered in

Allied Races, a new addition, have dealt with factions and races we’ve helped or met in the past. With all of the excitement over new Allied races, I took the opportunity to revisit two of the original additions: the Nightborne and the Void Elves. The NightborneThe Nightborne were one of the most anticipated — and most controversial — Allied Races. “The Void Elves were a case where we didn’t want the Allied Races to be something you were always familiar with before. In the Stormwind Cathedral, V

Individual gear doesn’t level upYour gear doesn’t level, you need to find better/higher rarities. However, Ben Irving clarified on a stream that only rarer items will be sent to those that forget them — everything else will be lost. As the developer adds new loot, Irving suggested that they’ll most likely add new abilities as well. Ammo drops restore ammo for both weapons https://t.co/ShdB7Uv1RL — Ben Irving (@BenIrvo) January 6, 2019Ammunition blocks are tied to specific weapon types. Good luck

What we rarely see is what happens to those who stick out the apocalypse, which is where Netflix’s new sci-fi film Io begins. The remaining population now resides in a makeshift colony aboard a space station orbiting Jupiter’s moon, Io. The film focuses on those who remained on Earth, a meditative setup that Io can’t quite mine for deeper meaning. Io centers on Sam Walden (Margaret Qualley), a scientist who hopes to make the planet habitable again. After Micah’s arrival, we get 40 minutes of lon

The Shrouded Isle, a cult manager sim that was released in 2017 and recently came to Nintendo Switch, is a successful horror game. In The Shrouded Isle, I’m put in charge of a secluded village controlled by several houses. I also have the choice to seek out an adviser’s vices, which have an adverse effect on the village. The Shrouded Isle is one of the hardest games I’ve played in the past few years — not because of any external physical challenge, but one that’s wholly technical. The Shrouded I

The developers assigned it the codename “Resident Evil 1.5” in order to differentiate it from the release version of Resident Evil 2 that they were now working on. The “1.5” is meant to reference the prototype’s development taking place between Resident Evil (“1”) and Resident Evil 2. A curated trailer of “Resident Evil 1.5” was included as a bonus with Japanese copies of Resident Evil: Director’s Cut Dual Shock Ver., which was released in August 1998 (after the final release of Resident Evil 2)

While not quite as rare as Nintendo Switch deals, discounts on the PlayStation 4 Pro are few and far between. Most notably, Sony didn’t offer any sort of discount on the PS4 Pro during Black Friday 2018, instead promoting PSVR bundles and a discounted Spider-Man bundle. That brings the price on the PS4 Pro down to $359.99, which is cheaper than what used models are going for on Amazon. Finally, PowerA’s Switch Joy-Con and Pro Controller Charging Dock is half off at Amazon, bringing it down to $1