The newest patch for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s battle royale mode, Blackout, has arrived and the game has quite a few balance changes to show for it. The other major change coming with this most recent patch is the addition of something called “Blightfather” to the game mode. For a closer look at everything this patch changed in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 you can check out Treyarch’s official patch notes. Reduced re-center pattern offsets. Reduced re-center pattern offsets.

Nintendo intends to patch out offensive imagery from Super Smash Bros. “Nintendo has been planning to distribute an update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate that removes the feather from the silhouette of Mr. Game & Watch,” the company told Polygon in a statement. “We sincerely apologize that this change was not noticed in our marketing material and are continuing our work to make Super Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros.

Gris, the introspective, watercolor painting-like platformer we fell for earlier this fall, will be available in December, just ahead of the holidays. Devolver Digital announced today that Nomada Studio’s first title launches Dec. 13 on Nintendo Switch and Windows PC. The world of Gris is a quiet one, and one defined by color and music rather than dialogue. Gris, the woman whose story the game tells, loses her voice and endeavors to retrieve it, all while making sense of the dramatic, dreamlike

The Purge movies started out in an intimate place and they grew in scope as the franchise progressed. Between you and I, at Purge 4 at some point, we had come up with an idea to do The French Purge. This is what we can’t really know in the NFFA world. So do you ever see the Purge franchise going global in a movie or the second season? They really loved the idea of the French Purge or a European Purge.

Finding a three-star badger in Red Dead Redemption 2 can be laborious. To get a Perfect Badger Pelt, you need to find a three-star badger. Finding badgers is difficult enough. Where to find and hunt badgersRed Dead Redemption 2’s map icons show a handful of places to find badgers. Grid View Badger location maps from Red Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar Games via PolygonBadger location maps from Red Dead Redemption 2 Rockstar Games via PolygonWe chose this location because it’s a an open area with gent

Halloween has come and gone, but the trio on the The History of Fun doesn’t care: We’re trick or treating all year long, my dudes. On this week’s episode, Christopher Thomas Plante gives us a lengthy tour through the origins of trick or treating, as to follow up on last week’s investigation into Devil’s/Mischief Night. Enjoying The History of Fun? New to The History of Fun? Every Monday, Russ Frushtick, Allegra Frank and Chris Plante explore the hidden backstories behind the things we love to do

Bean will play Alec Holland, the biologist who is transformed into the peculiar and monstrous-looking Swamp Thing after discovering a strange illness in the Louisiana Swamps. The original Swamp Thing was the byproduct of Alec Holland’s consciousness attaching itself to a mass of swamp plant life, after a laboratory bomb explosion sent Holland running into the swamp while on fire. The restorative formula he’d been working on provoked the creation of what would become the Swamp Thing (though the c

In interviews with Blizzard, creators and executives stressed the Diablo: Immortal was still early in development, and like other Blizzard games, could change drastically over the course its creation. There’s still plenty we don’t know about Diablo: Immortal, but here’s what we learned about Blizzard’s next game in the Diablo franchise at BlizzCon. While only six classes have been announced, more — like Diablo 3’s Witch Doctor — are expected after Diablo: Immortal launches. Blizzard is designing

With the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series on indefinite hiatus, a bird of a different feather — Skatebird — is ready to take on the mantle of video game skateboarding. Skatebird, from indie developer Glass Bottom Games, looks like it will reimagine the grinding, kickflipping and trick-fueled combos of the Tony Hawk series on a much smaller, much more adorable scale. “You’ll make friends, birds will come check out your park, and maybe you’ll even host events! Skatebird is “coming soon-ish” in 2019 t

The Temporal Surge is an offshoot of the Eververse store — players simply need to talk to Tess Everis to find it. Unlike when the emotes are available in-season, the Temporal Surge items can only be bought with Silver, Destiny’s real-money currency. Players who already own these emotes will be unable to re-purchase them from the Temporal Surge store. Rare emotes cost 200 Silver, legendary emotes cost 500 Silver, and exotic emotes cost 1,000 Silver — for clarity, $10 can buy you 1,100 Silver. It’

Ashe, the 29th playable hero in the Overwatch retinue, was revealed at BlizzCon 2018, and now she’s available on the game’s Public Test Region. Ashley Oh and I got a chance to try her out in gameplay, to get a feel for how she fits on a team. He has his own health bar, which means he can be destroyed by quick-thinking enemies players or healed by allies. Overall, Ashe seems like a tricky but rewarding character to master. Watch the video above to learn more about how best to deploy her in battle

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is like The Man with No Name of late-night comedy bits — he comes and goes with the wind, arriving to town just when we need him most. “[Beto O’Rourke] was a punk rocker,” Triumph reminds a crowd of devoted Beto fans at a early voting event, “but have you ever actually heard his music? “Does it concern you that half your base thinks they can vote for you through Instagram?” Triumph asks. Later in the segment, Triumph stumbles into a group of Cruz supporters and manag

Studio Mir, the South Korean animation studio behind Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra and Voltron: Legendary Defenders, is ready to take on a new project. A brief three-minute promo on YouTube shows off its prospective new animated series, entitled Koji. Studio Mir shared additional concept art for Koji in the lead-up to its debut on its Instagram, including some stills from the short itself. In a statement from Snow, he compared Koji to other action-based TV series, including Sam

Following in the tradition of all great cinematic universes, Shrek and all associated Shrek properties, including Puss in Boots, are getting rebooted, Variety reports. The new versions of the infamous ogre and his smooth-talking feline sidekick will be handled by Illumination Entertainment, the studio responsible for Minions. Chris Meledandri, CEO of Illumination, has been handed the sacred task of revamping Shrek, Fiona, Donkey and Puss in Boots for the next generation. Meledandri doesn’t know

Robin Wright deserves whatever awards the industry can throw at her for her work on the sixth and final season of House of Cards, Netflix’s political soap opera that cosplayed as prestige television. note: the rest of this post contains spoilers for House of Cards’ final season and everything before it.] What are they going do when Claire Underwood has to explain the bloody scene in the oval office? She finds a real person in Claire Underwood, and then doesn’t allow the silliness of the rest of

YouTube may have brought the viral video to the masses, but it did not create the viral video. — launched and gave us the ability to share content with unprecedented ease, viewers waded through aggregation sites to find golden video content. YouTube regularly took down versions of the short film uploaded to the platform over the years. Taken from the 2015 Blu-ray release of the film, this is Rejected at its most beautiful: remastered in 4K. (Then watch World of Tomorrow while you’re at it.

You gain a level each time you earn 20,000 experience points once you pass level 22. In Call of Duty, you earn experience points for the stuff you do throughout a match, such as capturing objectives, getting kills and assists, and using your equipment successfully. Overwatch players with golden portraits may not be good, they might just be determined. But here’s another take on the Overwatch experience system: Overwatch sells loot boxes, and it wants you to buy loot boxes. In Overwatch, you’ll a

The Joker and Harley Quinn from 2016’s Suicide Squad are coming to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, developer PUBG Corp. announced today. The two DC villains will make a guest appearance in PUBG as a pair of skins “soon.”Beyond the announcement trailer, PUBG Corp. didn’t offer much in the way of details about when and how Joker and Harley would appear or how their inclusion will impact the game. The developer simply confirmed a fairly obvious teaser from last week that hinted at a prison break. Ho

Fortnite’s latest patch has arrived and its got a few big additions, but not many small changes to go along with them. There’s also a new big team game mode that focuses on the Cube Monster NPCs that were added to the game during the Fortnitemares Halloween event. Increased floor loot spawn likelihood by 15%. Chests spawn double ammo & consumables. Supply drops spawn double ammo, and an extra consumable, resource drop and trap.

Rockstar has a fix in the works for a bug that makes several members of Arthur Morgan’s gang disappear from camp early in Red Dead Redemption 2, the company said Monday. After several reports over the past week from players about some of Morgan’s confidants going missing — including major players like Sadie Adler and John Marston — in the game’s second chapter, there are now both workarounds and promises of a solution. Rockstar identified the issue in a support post, explaining what causes these