PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer PUBG Corp. announced its plan to expand the game’s esports infrastructure into a global competition on Tuesday. The company has already announced the existence of the National PUBG League, in North America, and the PUBG Europe League, which will oversee European competition. After the third phase of competition, the last of the season, the Global Championship will be held to determine who will claim the title of the best PUBG team in the world. Each of the

Blizzard wasn’t ready for the immediate, and overwhelmingly negative, fan reaction to the announcement of Diablo: Immortal. Why is Diablo: Immortal such a bizarre shift for Blizzard, and why is it triggering such rage and anxiety in the audience? Diablo: Immortal isn’t the sequel that Diablo fans wanted, nor is it Blizzard taking a crack at an existing genre. Related All the announcements from BlizzCon 2018NetEase is collaborating with Blizzard on Diablo: Immortal, but Blizzard builds excitement

Several retailers are starting to release Black Friday ads in the countdown to the holiday shopping season. But gaming hardware manufacturer Razer is getting ahead of the rush by discounting some of its most popular products in a “Cyber Weekend” sale, a full three weeks before Cyber Monday, Black Friday’s online equivalent. Razer’s Cyber Weekend sale includes up to 50 percent off some of Razer’s most popular gaming peripherals, including keyboards, headsets and mice with promo code VIP18. The la

The latest trailer for SyFy’s adaptation of the Deadly Class comics series lets some of the sadistic side characters get a slice of action. Deadly Class is “Hogwarts meets assassins,” where the scions of mass murderers and notorious organized crime families attend King’s Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts, an elite prep school hidden in San Francisco. At King’s Dominion, Marcus meets all kinds of deadly students, both friend and foe. In a martial arts class, Marcus meets Maria (played by María

Given that smorgasbord of content, it can be easy to forget that the biggest moments of AMC’s The Walking Dead are ripped directly from a comic series. And as ratings on The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead continue to slide, The Walking Dead comic has marked its 15th year by quietly retaking its place as the most relevant — and most boundary-pushing — zombie story in the franchise. The Walking Dead launched right in the middle of that craze, and offered zombie-fanatics with the kind of st

Ingress Prime launched today on the iOS App Store and Google Play for Android, and it’s a major redux of the original augmented-reality mobile game. That storyline will change over the course of the game’s lifespan, says Niantic, with help from Anomalies, community-minded events meant to get Ingress agents playing together in the real world. The anime follows up on the Ingress storyline, with an agent named Makoto seeking out the dangerous Exotic Matter, and combines it with some CG animation. P

A new trailer for Kingdom Hearts 3 shows off the Kingdom of Corona from Tangled, home of Rapunzel and Flynn Rider. It’s been almost 15 years since the last mainline Kingdom Hearts game, which means plenty of new movies and lands to explore. In addition to Corona, Arendelle from Frozen and San Fransokyo from Big Hero 6 are coming to Kingdom Hearts 3. Disney also acquired Pixar since the last Kingdom Hearts so Andy’s Room from Toy Story and Monstropolis from Monsters, Inc will also be featured. Ki

Escape From Tarkov, the over-the-top, session-based tactical shooter, has dramatically lowered the price of in-game items for a limited time. Fans are anticipating a new patch — and a complete server wipe — very shortly. I had a short-lived love affair with Escape From Tarkov, also known as EFT, earlier this year. That’s a pretty standard tactical shooter narrative, I admit. There’s even in-game insurance, which will return items to you if those AI-controlled enemies get the jump on you.

Larson’s costume prompted reactions from Metroid fans everywhere, who started to speculate about a live-action reimagining of the Nintendo series. https://t.co/6ZneOLu2Wh — Brie Larson (@brielarson) November 2, 2018Naturally, Larson’s enthusiasm for the role spurred fans across the internet to share their fan art of Samus with the actress. @brielarson heard you would love to be in a Metroid movie and I 100% support that! Here’s some art I did of Samus to wish you good luck for Metroid and captai

The National Football League is partnering with Epic Games to bring NFL-themed skins to Fortnite. Fortnite dances crept into the sports world early last year, making their way into the end zones of NFL games during the 2017-18 season. “We see the popularity of Fortnite every day at the NFL as many of our players are passionate about this game,” said Brian Rolapp, chief media and business officer at the NFL. They are available for both male and female avatars, and players can change the number sh

The remake shares its name with Konami’s original, iconic demo: Playable Teaser, or P.T. And according to Łączkowski, the download also follows the spirit of the game itself to the letter. “I hope that my remake of P.T. That being said, Łączkowski acknowledged that Konami tends to kill these fan-made P.T. The game remains available as a free download as of this writing, however.

Open-world games give players incredible freedom to explore, and Red Dead Redemption 2 is no exception. note: What follows contains spoilers for both the original Red Dead Redemption and the sequel, Red Dead Redemption 2.] While Minecraft is procedurally generated one “chunk” at a time, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a much more finite space. In Red Dead Redemption 2, Guarma is located in the Caribbean. Here’s hoping there are even more fascinating mysteries in Red Dead Redemption 2 remaining to be di

But what you need to know is that League of Legends developer Riot Games debuted a new song and video, “Pop/Stars,” at the game’s championship in Incheon, South Korea. The band behind the song is known as K/DA, and it’s made up of real singers, including two members of the K-pop group (G)I-dle. The group, K/DA, is how Riot is promoting League of Legends’ new line of character cosmetics for four champions: Ahri, Akali, Evelynn and Kai’Sa. The promotional music video for “Pop/Stars” played in the

note: Spoilers for The Walking Dead ahead!] Andrew Lincoln’s final episode of The Walking Dead TV series may have aired last Sunday night, but the actor isn’t moving on from the role of Rick Grimes, the show’s lead character throughout its first nine seasons, quite yet. Just after the actor’s final episode of the show aired, AMC announced that Andrew Lincoln would be returning to his Walking Dead character for at least three made-for-TV movies. Rather than feeling like longer episodes of The Wal

With his new film Burning, writer-director Lee Chang-dong embarks on one of modern cinema’s greatest challenges: adapting Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Take this quote from “Barn Burning,” written from the perspective of the story’s protagonist:You burn barns. The man who he is speaking to has no fear when he asks as to the nature of the eponymous barn burning, either. The weird and arbitrary nature of the act of barn burning is normalized as the people in the story address it in a way that m

Warcraft 3: Reforged isn’t a perfect recreating of the original game; it’s better. But like with Stratholme, Reforged feels like the Warcraft 3 you remember, not the one sitting in the forgotten memory banks of your old computer. Each swing of the unit’s swords against the old Stratholme buildings is a reminder of the charm that Warcraft has always had. Warcraft 3: Reforged is ultimately that realization of what was impossible 16 years ago, combined with the current knowledge and love of the War

Diablo: Immortal — the new mobile Diablo game announced at BlizzCon 2018 — has earned the ire of many diehard Blizzard fans since its reveal. At BlizzCon 2018, we sat down with executive producer and Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham to talk about the only thing Diablo players really care about: loot. In an effort to understand how loot will be different in Immortal, we asked Adham if the completely random system that players are used to in Diablo will be back, or if players can expect quest or bo

Mods for Fallout 76 are already available, and the game is still only in its beta. As spied by PC Gamer, a baker’s dozen of cosmetic mods for the Fallout 76 B.E.T.A. are on Nexus Mods, the modding supermarket where Bethesda’s Fallout and Elder Scrolls series dominate the thousands of files available for free. The Fallout 76 beta continues today from 2 to 9 p.m. Additional beta times have not been announced; Fallout 76 launches Nov. 14 for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.

Fortnite’s Cube, which has been stomping around the map since late August, blowed up today, and it transported players to a bonkers alternate dimension where the normal laws of reality do not apply. Players then found themselves floating around inside Xenu’s consciousness or something, I don’t know, catching ethereal butterflies. At the beginning of Season 6, the Cube emerged floating into the sky along with the island that had been at the center areas. A bunch of other weird stuff happened, lea

The streaming video options on Nintendo Switch right now include Hulu, and that’s about it. Rumor has it a Nintendo app is on the way to the console. Forum-goers on ResetEra say they’re getting suggestions for a YouTube app when they search Nintendo’s website for games. The French website NintendHome (via Engadget) said users there were also seeing the YouTube app suggestions. Hulu then launched for Nintendo Switch roughly one year ago in November 2017.