And Scarlet Witch fans only had eyes for one thing: The appearance of the character’s classic red costume. Like many of her Marvel Cinematic Universe counterparts, Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff wears a modernized version of her habitual comic book duds. She actually has several new “costumes” in the teaser, each one appearing to represent a different era of the American sitcom. Such a plotline could easily crib from the Scarlet Witch and Vision’s two most famous stories. For a brief moment of

Perhaps the Madden NFL “cover curse” — a piece of statistical mythology that took hold after a string of bad-luck seasons befell the first 10 or so players to get the honor — can be laid to rest. Sunday night, Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs to a 31-20 Super Bowl LIV triumph, and became just the second (of 22) Madden NFL cover stars to win a Super Bowl in the season of his cover appearance. And Mahomes is the first cover star to win the Super Bowl MVP in that season. No Ma

Nintendo is regularly about a decade behind the rest of the gaming industry. Nintendo lets other companies test new ideas and take the critical and financial blows that come with innovation. Based on this theory, we can try to predict what Nintendo’s next decade will look like by looking back on the biggest trends of the past decade. For example, the dadification of the video game industry began in the early 2010s and was fully completed in 2018, when Kratos ascended to fatherhood. Watch the vid

Xbox One bounty hunters who find holes in Xbox Live security and point them out to Microsoft can claim rewards of $500 to $20,000. Microsoft put out the call to find vulnerabilities yesterday with the kickoff of its Xbox Bounty Program. Denial of service vulnerabilities are listed as “out of scope” and don’t pay anything. Obviously, Microsoft is not saying these vulnerabilities exist within Xbox Live. Kotaku noted that Nintendo has had a “bug bounty program” since 2016, offering rewards of up to

Mike Laidlaw, the Dragon Age designer who joined Ubisoft Quebec as its creative director in 2018, is leaving the studio after a little more than a year there. When Laidlaw joined, he said he would be working on a “not-yet-announced project.” At E3 2019, Ubisoft announced the open world role-playing game Gods & Monsters, with Ubisoft Quebec developing. Laidlaw joined Ubisoft Quebec in December 2018 after a year spent consulting with that studio and other developers. Laidlaw was well known for his

Sega will deliver all of its PC games in fully recycled packaging from now on, the company said on Thursday, as part of its ongoing efforts in conservation and environmental awareness. The change begins with the Feb. 6 launch of Total War: Rome 2 – Enemy at the Gates Edition. We’re pleased to announce that all of our future physical releases of PC games will be launched in fully recycled packaging! pic.twitter.com/UdcwnQqSFU — SEGA (@SEGA) January 30, 2020″Fully recycled packaging,” means 100% r

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order closed out 2020 as a very pleasant surprise for Electronic Arts, easily beating sales expectations and demonstrating that yes, there is plenty of room for a good old-fashioned single-player narrative in the world of AAA video games. It’s “a very strong result for a single-player action game,” Jorgensen said. Electronic Arts chief executive Andrew Wilson called Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order “the action-adventure game that fans were looking for this holiday season. But

A California man who hacked into Nintendo of America’s servers and leaked information about the Nintendo Switch before its 2017 launch must pay the company almost $260,000 in restitution, and that may be the least of his problems. But he also pleaded guilty to child pornography charges, related to a directory of more than 1,000 sexually explicit videos and images of minors that he stored in a folder he labeled “Bad Stuff.” The Nintendo charges could get him a maximum sentence of five years in pr

Dota Underlords has been in beta for the better part of eight months, but Valve has finally let fans know the game’s official release date. The company has announced that Dota Underlords will be leaving beta on Feb. 25. Along with Enno, Dota Underlords got a small final beta patch that contains a few changes. Correction: Enno the Underlord and the latest beta patch are available now, whereas Dota Underlords will come out of beta alongside the launch of season 1 on Feb. 25. Dota Underlords: Hey,

February is going to be a busy month in Pokémon Go, with a handful of new Pokémon being added to the game, including Legendary Pokémon Tornadus. Woobat will also be the monthly Research Breakthrough reward, alongside some extra Woobat Candy. From Feb. 7 until Feb. 10, there’ll be an event celebrating the Sinnoh region, bringing Pokémon from the region into the 7 km egg pool. There’ll also be a Valentine’s Day event from Feb. 14 until Feb. 17 featuring pink Pokémon. On Feb. 4 from 6-7 p.m., a mys

The device is called the Freedom Wing, and is compatible with the Xbox Adaptive Controller. Plans for the Freedom Wing will be made available free online, and early versions are already shipping out to those who need them. The way that power wheelchairs work is by putting controls where users can easily reach them. Using inputs built into the Xbox Adaptive Controller, AbleGamers and A.T. Makers have been able to allow a power wheelchair’s single, familiar control system to do double duty as a ga

PlayStation games could soon be playable on all kinds of different platforms, if a recent survey is to be believed. According to the Reddit post, the survey discussed Remote Play on a variety of different devices, including Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. It even asked about using Remote Play on nongaming devices like Apple TV and Android TV. As for the versions of Remote Play that already exist, the survey also discusses the idea of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games joining the Remote Play line

In its Thursday blog post, Bungie teased Destiny 2’s mysterious Empyrean Foundation event. If the data mines are accurate, the completion of the Empyrean Foundation will enable the beloved Trials of Osiris PvP mode next season. For players still looking to pick up some great weapon rolls this season and help the community, the Empyrean Foundation can help with both. There’s a special Triumph and emblem for players that donate 5,000 or more Polarized Fractaline to the Empyrean Foundation during t

Nintendo will not be releasing a new iteration of the Nintendo Switch hardware this year, the company said Friday, laying to rest rumors about a so-called Switch Pro. “Please note that we have no plans to launch a new Nintendo Switch model during 2020,” said Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa during a corporate management policy briefing for the first three quarters of the company’s current fiscal year. So if you’re afraid that there might be a more powerful version of the Nintendo Switch comi

Share All sharing options for: The Pokémon hoax that found its way into TemtemA new Pokémon generation doesn’t kick off when Game Freak announces another game — it starts when the world begins to circulate new pocket monster rumors. Game Freak also hadn’t announced Pokémon Sword and Shield yet, which would make starters a tremendous leak. “Send us sketches and work with our art team to create a Temtem and help us brainstorm its name,” the description read. “When I saw the Platypet design as a fa

RogueTech is a near-total conversion for BattleTech, a set of different mods and assets all bundled up together. Each time you begin the game you pick a faction, with determines which list of random ‘Mechs you’ll have access to. Thanks to Mech Engineer, I was able to strip armor off the Dervish and kit it out with long-range missiles. But thanks to the flexibility of the RogueTech system, I was able to use them for cross purposes. As a result, RogueTech has sent me on a research mission deep int

More than one billion PlayStation 4 games have been sold, worldwide, since the console’s launch at the end of 2013, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced on Friday. The total as of Jan. 31, 2020 is 1.181 billion, Sony said. The figures represent retail store sales and online sales through the PlayStation Store, and do not include downloadable content or other add-ons, Sony said. That and the PS2’s record of 155 million units sold — most of any console, all-time — seem safe as Sony will

Ahead of Pokémon Day 2020, held on Feb. 27, The Pokémon Company announced a new Mythical Pokémon is coming to Pokémon Sword and Shield. The new Pokémon is also expected to star in the upcoming Pokémon animated film, Coco. Three Legendary Pokémon already exist in Sword and Shield: Zacian and Zamazenta, the two dog-like Pokémon, and a mysterious Legendary called Eternatus. Feb. 27 — Pokémon Day — is the anniversary of Pokémon Red and Green’s Japanese release date. Pokémon Day is recognized by the

The BB Update, as it is known, was originally planned to launch on Thursday, but was postponed for some last-minute bug fixes. He appeared in 2017’s The Last Jedi, and shows up in Battlefront 2’s BB Update as well. That means that Scarif, the tropical planet from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, will join the game; it was last seen in 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront reboot. DICE mentioned that the second Death Star would also be a map getting this new Supremacy game type. The BB update will also offer

Nintendo this March will release a special edition of the Nintendo Switch inspired by Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the upcoming life simulation game. The special edition hardware will arrive March 13 — one week before Animal Crossing: New Horizons hits North America — and will cost $299.99. Here’s another look at the Animal Crossing Switch:And, to keep this lovely console in good working order, Nintendo is also releasing an Animal Crossing: New Horizons “Aloha Edition” carrying case and screen