PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 are free to all Xbox Live members today through Sunday. That means Xbox One users without a Gold subscription can still download and play the battle royale shooter and soccer simulation. PUBG’s full 1.0 launch for Xbox One came Sept. 4, after about nine months in Xbox Game Preview. Pro Evolution Soccer is regularly $59.99. Note that these are free only for the weekend; after that, players have to buy the games if they want to keep playi

This all came to mind earlier this week, after checking out the new PlayStation Classic mini-console at a Sony press event. Unit qualityMuch like with the NES Classic and SNES Classic, the first thing that stands out with PlayStation Classic is how small it looks. InterfaceTurn on the PlayStation Classic and you get a familiar boot-up sound and the Sony Interactive Entertainment logo. Game lineupWhen Sony announced the PlayStation Classic launch lineup in October, fans came away with mixed feeli

Three months after an investigative report by Kotaku alleging a culture of discrimination and harassment, one current and one former employee of Riot Games have filed a lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit accuses the League of Legends developer of endemic gender-based discrimination, violation of the California Equal Pay Act and a sexually hostile workplace. McCracken is currently employed by Riot Games and has worked for the company since 2013. The original report about discrimination and

Pokémon: Let’s Go! stays largely faithful to the original Red, Blue, and Yellow — with some noted twists — but its historical nods to the series stretch even farther back. The game’s latest trailer, likely the last ahead of launch, reveals that the trainers Red and Blue appear, joined by fellow trainer Green for the first time. Otherwise known as Gary Oak, he’s the grandson of Professor Oak and one of the strongest trainers players fight against in the first-gen games. (Red was the male trainer

Based on a webcomic by a man also named Honda, who worked at a bookstore previously, the anime is based on lived experiences. Honda, the skull-faced star of the show, works along masked monsters as they deal with the hardships of working retail in a bookstore that mostly sells manga. From speaking panicked, broken English to foreign customers to appeasing sales teams from book publishers, Skull-face Bookseller Honda actually has good insight into what working in a bookstore would be like. Earlie

Fallout 76, Bethesda’s prequel to the post-apocalyptic Fallout series, will be released on Nov. 14. If you’re not yet a member of Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus, you’ll need to subscribe before launching Fallout 76. Note: Fallout 76 is included in Amazon Prime’s pre-order program, which means you’ll get a $10 credit when you pre-order the game. Fallout 76 base gameB.E.T.A. Fallout 76 base gameB.E.T.A.

Super Mario Bros. 3, a book by Alyse Knorr, is about the history of the 1990 platformer of the same name. Publisher Boss Fight Books tweeted about the humorous mixup today after some Amazon customers buying Knorr’s book ended up with the swaperoo. Evidently Boss Fight and Knorr’s publisher (OR Books) share the same printer. This is one whopper of a printing error, @BossFightBooks pic.twitter.com/SHPPuYmyRR — brango krango (@brandokay) November 5, 2018Well alrighty then! On the other hand …

The Hitman series, in which players take the role of an international assassin known only as Agent 47, has always been defined by its levels. Yet how would the studio top itself for Hitman 2, in which all six chapters are playable from the get-go? The developers did want to create larger, more complex playgrounds for 47 and his adversaries in Hitman 2 — but they knew that bigger wasn’t necessarily better. This time around, said Liebold, IO focused on using the game’s expansive, detailed levels t

Last night’s Maxis Monthly — a dedicated livestream for all new Sims content across the various PC and mobile titles — revealed that a first-person camera mode will be coming to all Sims 4 players with the next patch update. Pressing Shift + Tab will switch the camera into first person mode, viewing the Sim world from the eyes of your Sim. On the stream, Sims global community manager known as SimGuru Kate and Maxis build engineer Steve Lansing mentioned that builders (those in the Sims community

Red Dead Redemption 2 launched to critical and commercial acclaim, and now we have an idea of just how well it did from a sales perspective: Rockstar Games has shipped more than 17 million copies of the open-world Western, parent company Take-Two Interactive announced Wednesday. That staggering figure represents sales as of today — which means that Rockstar sold that many copies of Red Dead Redemption 2 in just 12 days, since the game launched Oct. 26 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Take-Two note

So we’ve put together a list of everything we learned from this developer gameplay. Gamble — who played the Storm Javelin — stated that he was playing a support class. This enemy type belongs to the Dominion faction, and is basically just a Storm Javelin. Gear abilities help you refine your play style past a simple Javelin choiceThe Anthem Javelin is meant to define your playstyle. In the stream, Gamble had access to a “wind wall,” which came from a gear piece attached to his Storm Javelin.

On its own, The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story is a fairly generic thriller. The American Dragon Tattoo movies even sport slick opening credits that make the 007 comparison even more impossible to avoid. As with each Bond, each Salander is different by necessity — each actress has a different physicality — but Lisbeth Salander is still Lisbeth Salander. Maybe that’s part of the point, as the Dragon Tattoo series has a definite nihilistic bent, but it feels like a misstep in

From Grand Theft Auto to Bully to Red Dead Redemption, the developer has used alcohol to augment worlds that feel edgy. In Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar has created a drinking mission that leaves its previous work way behind. In Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto 4 and Grand Theft Auto 5, players can enter a bar and order drinks. In the original Red Dead Redemption, players can order a shot at a bar. Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of those games that throws up tons of things to share

Five years after the conclusion of the original series, a Breaking Bad movie is in the works from the series’ original creator, Vince Gilligan, according to the Albuquerque Journal and Variety. Also filmed in Albuquerque is the series spinoff Better Call Saul, which serves both as a prequel to the story of Walter White’s rise and fall, as well as a sequel that follows his lawyer Saul Goodman (the pseudonym of Jimmy McGill), as he tries to escape the final events of the original show. It’s unclea

Now the Japanese Spider-Man is back in action, swinging into the Spider-verse courtesy of Marvel’s Spider-Geddon #3. This week, Yamashiro is one of the many powerful Spider-Men that Doc Ock’s Superior Spider-Man recruited. [Ed note: The rest of this article contains minor spoilers for Spider-Geddon #3]The comic starts off with Superior Spider-Man bringing Insomniac Spider-Man (probably recruited due to his trust of Doctor Octavius) to a secret lair, where the powerful Spider-Man allies have gath

Case in point: When the cover of The Green Lantern #3 was revealed in October, fans couldn’t help but notice that it … well … The Green Lantern #3 appears to depict Hal Jordan arresting God. In The Green Lantern #1, which hits shelves today, Hal Jordan is called back into action by his alien bosses after a Green Lantern prisoner transport crash-lands on Earth near his home. The thought experiment led to the scene in The Green Lantern #1 in which Maxim Tox plays “good cop” to the stomach flu.

There are an ungainly amount of hats in Red Dead Redemption 2. Pagan Skull MaskThis one is easy to find. Pig MaskThis creepy mask is hanging right next to a dead pig at the spot marked above, south of Annesburg. Cat Skull MaskThis mask can be found in the spot above. Ram Skull MaskThis last hidden mask is only accessible once you’ve finished the main story and can access the “entire” map.

Players in World of Warcraft have so much agency and choice when it comes to their own characters and how they build them. The World of Warcraft playerbase is cut in half, but not in the usual “Horde versus Alliance” fashion. Instead, Horde players themselves seem at odds with what their faction actually stands for. “I think that there’s a lot of gray in the game and in our world, right,” asked Cobo. But it seems that World of Warcraft will always reward the good — but that some will have to pay

The post-launch roster for Super Smash Bros. “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s DLC line-up is now complete,” Sakurai said on his Twitter account — a rare instance of the game designer tweeting in English. During development of the previous Smash Bros. game, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo took requests from players about which fighters they’d like to see come to that game. The Smash Bros. “Thank you!”Nintendo and Sakurai confirmed the final launch-day roster for Super Smash Bros.

8BitDo, best known for its retro-style wireless controllers, will be releasing a new wireless adapter on Dec. 7. Ultimate will support Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers, you really need a GameCube controller to Smash the way nature and Masahiro Sakurai intended. Instead of using Nintendo’s wired GameCube adapter, a GameCube controller can plugged right into the GBros., which connects to the Switch via Bluetooth. In addition to GameCube controllers, GBros. wireless adapter is available