Just for Fortnitemares, Epic has added a few AI enemies to all of Fortnite’s battle royale modes. This is the first time Fortnite has included AI enemies in Battle Royale, but they likely won’t stick around after the event is complete. As for the event’s challenges, none of them will seem too surprising for players. Epic has already released the first set and they seem pretty standard, but it looks like they’ll change every few days, another first for Fortnite events. Each set of challenges look

Rockstar Games will release a companion app for Red Dead Redemption 2 on Oct. 26, the same day the full game hits stores, that will deliver “real-time interactive information” to Android and iOS devices. The Red Dead Redemption 2 app will let players view the game’s world map, and set waypoints and mark areas of interest as they explore, according to a post on Rockstar Games’ website. The app also promises real-time information on Arthur Morgan’s health, stamina and other stats, which Rockstar s

The latest video in the Professor Oak/Professor Willow saga, released in anticipation of Pokémon: Let’s Go!, introduces Melmetal — the first legendary Pokémon evolution in the franchise. The Evolution of the Mythical Pokémon Meltan into Melmetal can only occur in Pokémon GO and requires 400 Meltan Candies. Fans can also obtain Meltan Candies by sending that Pokémon from Pokémon GO to the Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! Pokémon: Let’s Go!

Electronic Arts and developer EA DICE have laid out the post-launch timeline for Battlefield 5, and it includes at least one major surprise: The game’s battle royale mode, Firestorm, won’t launch until 2019. The mode’s release window starts in March, according to the timeline image in a new blog post, with no further specifics given on the timing. “During spring, DICE and Criterion start the fire with Battlefield V’s battle royale experience,” DICE’s Jonas Elfving wrote. “During this period, we’

The new Fortnite patch has a massive amount of content to explore. The biggest addition in this patch comes via the game’s Halloween event: Fortnitemares. For a slightly shorter breakdown of what you need to know from this patch, you can check out our patch summary. GameplayThe Glider Redeploy functionality that’s available in the Soaring Limited Time Modes can now be used in all game modes. Maximum time in the DBNO state reduced from 100 seconds to 50 seconds if no friendly player attempts to r

Horses have always been a big part of the Red Dead series, something definitely expected of a game set in the Wild West, and the original Red Dead Redemption boasted some of the most realistic horse mechanics of the time. Game development studios sometimes outsource the motion capture of animals to animation studios specifically dedicated to motion capture, since those locations have the space and equipment necessary. The team behind 2010’s Red Dead Redemption worked with motion capture supervis

The screen goes red with Red Dead Redemption’s trademark “DEAD” lettering. The bestI don’t want to be subtle about this, so: Red Dead Redemption is the greatest Western ever made. I don’t mean that in the sense of the best Western video game ever made, or the best Western novel, or the best Western film. But the biggest reason Red Dead Redemption is the best Western ever made is because in order to play Red Dead Redemption, you have to get off a train and then ride a horse. “Far Away” is the sig

But the adventures of Luke and Danny might not yet be over — if Netflix takes a page from the most successful comic starring the two of them: Heroes for Hire. [Editor’s note: This post will contain spoilers for Luke Cage season two and Iron Fist season two.] Luke Cage ended with Luke acquiring the nightclub Harlem’s Paradise and setting himself up to take over Mariah Stokes’ territory — not too dissimilar from when Matt Murdock became Kingpin in Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev’s Daredevil r

It’s surprising, then, that reading Naoki Urasawa’s apocalyptic manga 20th Century Boys winds up closer to Stephen King’s It than any manga before it, with a distant group of friends reunited when a symbol of their past comes back as something much more sinister. The overwhelming feeling of reading this book is ‘sinister.’Published intermittently between 1999 and 2009 in Japan, 20th Century Boys cuts back and forth between 1969 and 1997. Before his death, Donkey mails Kenji a letter with a drawi

A mixture of serious, macabre and goofy, the Undead Nightmare expansion brought horror and myth to Red Dead Redemption’s straightforward Old West world. But Undead Nightmare succeeded on another level: It made me question my own humanity. The directions for me were pretty clear: I must go into the woods and kill six Sasquatches to keep everyone safe. Much of Red Dead Redemption and its expansion is straightforward: Kill the bad guys before they hurt anyone. In Undead Nightmare, it was a given th

This November, the first season of Life is Strange continues on in the form of a comic. note: This post contains spoilers for the end of Life is Strange’s first season.] The two end up driving away, and in the comic, we catch up with them a year later as they start anew together, far away from the melodrama that Arcadia Bay inflicted upon their lives. We don’t know much about Tammi, Dwight, Dex or Pixie, but they don’t seem to have much in common with the privileged kids of Arcadia Bay. Titan Co

We’ve known that SpongeBob SquarePants would be headed back to the big screen since early 2015, but only now have we received our first real details of what he’ll be up to in his third feature film. It’s a Wonderful Sponge will, however, be directed by Tim Hill, a veteran of the series. This will also be the first SpongeBob movie to feature entirely CG animation. The original SpongeBob SquarePants movie was traditionally hand drawn; the second film, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, mixe

Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo is teaming up with Nintendo once again, choosing Pokémon as theme of its annual T-shirt design contest. Pokémon Company president Tsunekazu Ishihara, Pokémon game designer Ken Sugimori and Japanese fashion designer Nigo will judge the designs. From now until Dec. 8, artists can submit Pokémon T-shirt designs for a chance to win big. Unfortunately, if a design wins there will be no further royalties, and the design will belong to the Pokémon Company. Uniqlo’s prev

This year’s Pokémon Go Halloween event will highlight the freshly released generation-four Pokémon. The tasks will highlight all the spooky-scary dark- and ghost-type Pokémon that roam the world. And, of course, how spooky would a Pokémon event be without highlighting one of the scariest Pokémon of all? Giratina, the Renegade Pokémon, is making its Pokémon Go debut. For the first time, the Pokémon Platinum mascot and fourth-gen legendary will be appearing in Raid Battles — but snatch it up fast.

Hitman 2’s story missions take place in those six settings, whereas the Sniper Assassin game mode is set in Himmelstein, Austria. Santa Fortuna, Colombia Your mission takes you to the remote village of Santa Fortuna, entrenched deep inside the lush Colombian rainforest. Mumbai, India Nicknamed “City of Dreams,” Mumbai is a treat for any visiting traveler or agent on a mission. Whittleton Creek, USA Welcome to picture perfect Whittleton Creek, USA — the quintessential American suburb. [Sniper Ass

The hashtag in question, #WontBeErased, spread widely yesterday on Twitter amid news of a memo leaked from inside the Trump administration. Those manning the Twitter feed at Poland-based GOG.com jumped into the fray with a tweet that stated, “Classic PC Games #WontBeErased on our watch. In a statement on Twitter, representatives of GOG.com later said that the tweet was simply a bad pun. In August, CD Projekt’s own Twitter account elected to make a formal apology after making a joke about incorre

Following seven years of development by a team of dedicated volunteers, Fallout: New California launches today. The mod uses 2010’s Fallout: New Vegas as its base, a title widely regarded as having some of the best writing of all the modern Fallout games. According to its developers, New California is intended to bridge the gap between Fallout 2, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. But conflicts were sorted out behind the scenes, and both the PC mod and the tabletop game were allowed to proceed un

GameStop will be releasing Red Dead Redemption 2 a little earlier than expected — you’ll be able to pick up your pre-ordered copy starting at 9 p.m. local time on Thursday, Oct. 25. But the retailer is offering an even better deal on hardware to try to get you to buy the game for the Xbox platform. If you buy Red Dead Redemption 2 from GameStop, you can save $100 on any Xbox One console purchase. This brings the price of the Xbox One X down to $399.99, and the Xbox One S down to $199.99. Still,

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has been out for a little over a week, but fans are already finding some frustrations in the multiplayer game. A little too often, Black Ops 4 players are seeing their bullets not go where they expect them to based on what they’re seeing on screen, and that’s causing a lot of frustration. For Black Ops 4, it appears that the servers are 20 tick or 20hz servers, that means inputs are being received about once every 50ms. Most players are under the impression that an incr

The studio has taken steps to appeal to dismayed critics and fans, with its latest being a massive “thank you” note to the thousands who worked on Red Dead Redemption 2. “Red Dead Redemption 2 has been a massive project spanning many years and multiple teams, and we are extremely proud of the work of the entire company in bringing this game to the world,” Rockstar Games wrote in a public letter on the Red Dead Redemption 2 site. That list runs more than 3,000 names long — which makes sense, cons