Fortnite’s fifth season is about to come to an end, and it really hasn’t been the best time for the game. But, before we move on completely, let’s look at the best and worst things from Fortnite Season 5. With battle pass skins like Ragnarok and event skins like Wild Card, Fortnite’s skins are better than ever. Overall, the numbers of changes Season 5 made in it’s first day was far greater than the entire previous season combined. For all of the faults of Fortnite’s fifth season, none of these a

The PlayStation platform was the last holdout on cross-play, fighting the idea that software is more powerful than hardware. Keeping those doors closed until now has less to do with Xbox versus PlayStation and more to do with Microsoft versus Sony. This is why big third parties like Bethesda were putting so much public pressure on Sony about cross-platform play. And anyone can either play against the community on their device, or join the huge pool of players in cross-platform play. For Sony, it

Fortnite is the biggest game in the world, so it would be silly to think it’s escaped the attention of the biggest boy band in the world. On the latest episode of The Tonight Show, South Korean boy band BTS was challenged to perform some of the dances popularized by Fortnite (a category which is rife with controversy, as many of the dances were actually created by black entertainers and used without their involvement). Performing the “Tidy” dance is a hell of a lot easier than any of the dances

Oculus will release a new stand-alone virtual reality headset — meaning it won’t require a separate PC or mobile device — called Oculus Quest in the spring of 2019. The company announced the new device, which will retail for $399 for a 64 GB model, Wednesday at Oculus Connect. The Oculus Quest will offer six degrees of freedom, won’t require external sensors and will work with the company’s Touch controllers, according to an official announcement. The Quest will use the same optics as Oculus Go,

The game remains as thrilling and varied as ever in FIFA 19; its only sin seems to be, again, an overindulgence in flashy plays or big moments. None of the bang-bang headers or bicycle kicks or swiveling volleys made me want to play FIFA 19 any less, for goodness sake. But the Champions League doesn’t feel like some final piece to the FIFA 19 puzzle (it had been exclusive to Pro Evolution Soccer for 10 years). I hope that’s because a full Women’s World Cup mode is coming this spring, as it did f

Konami is bringing two of its beloved Castlevania games, Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood, to PlayStation 4 for the first time in a new package called Castlevania Requiem. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood was the 10th title in the franchise, and was released exclusively in Japan in 1993. While the 1995 Super Nintendo release Castlevania: Dracula X was ostensibly a remake of Rondo of Blood, it changed much of the original game. The 2007 PlayStation Portable release, Castlevania: The Dracula X

Sony has finally stopped fighting the future: A beta for cross-platform play, including support for Fortnite, launches today. There is very little other information given about how the beta will work or how to sign up to participate in it. The blog post also states that only “selected” third-party content will be playable across different platforms. The post does make it clear, however, that this was a change in the industry that Sony couldn’t continue to ignore. “Today, the communities around s

Fortnite, season six launches in the early morning on Thursday, Sept. 27, and Epic Games has released the third and possibly final tease about what we can expect from the new Battle Pass and tone of the upcoming content. You can check out the latest tweet below, complete with a look at what appears to be a werewolf skin:Here is the tease from yesterday:Saddle up! 2 days to Season 6. pic.twitter.com/si2L9etjkk — Fortnite (@FortniteGame) September 25, 2018And here’s the first tease from two days a

Most other console online services offer a buffer period to renew online subscriptions, if not offering a fully free cloud save service. But the original wording of the Nintendo Switch Online FAQ made it unclear whether this was going to be the case. The full policy is as follows:If a Nintendo Switch Online membership expires, users won’t be able to access their Save Data Cloud backups. However, Nintendo will allow users who resubscribe within 180 days to access their previous Save Data Cloud ba

PlayStation Plus subscribers will get access to two very different competitive multiplayer games in October: horror game Friday the 13th and retro-futuristic combat sport Laser League, both of which will be available on PlayStation 4. Sony announced next month’s PlayStation Plus game lineup in a post on the PlayStation Blog today, leading with Friday the 13th: The Game and Laser League. But that’s not all that PS4 owners will get access to in October, thanks to a number of PS Plus titles with Cr

Super Mario Bros. has found its new speedrunning champion, and he may hold that title for the foreseeable future. Kosmic, a streamer who specializes in speedrunning various Mario games, did what many players thought impossible earlier this week. After tying with the previous Any% world record of 4:56.245, Kosmic kept going — and managed to best it, shocking fans as he became the first person to set a record under the 4:56 mark. Those who watched Kosmic’s Super Mario Bros. run live on Twitch call

Sony has announced that cross-platform play is coming to PlayStation 4, starting with Fortnite. But cross-platform play wasn’t the real reason people were upset about how Sony was handling Fortnite accounts. It felt like we should have been warned never to play Fortnite on PlayStation 4 if we wanted to play on Switch at a later date. 2) Enabling unlinking a console from one Fortnite account, and relinking to another Fortnite account. Even players who never really cared about cross-platform play

The BlizzCon virtual ticket, which can be purchased now for $49.99, is going to come with a bonus to the normal goodies this year. Blizzard will be including a demo for the highly anticipated World of Warcraft Classic for all virtual ticket buyers. For those who don’t know, World of Warcraft Classic is a Blizzard project that aims to restore World of Warcraft to its original, vanilla days. The in-game virtual ticket goodies for World of Warcraft also become available today. Blizzard has yet to a

The Game Boy was 10 years old when Pokémon Red and Blue launched in the United States in September 1998; the Game Boy Color, the Game Boy’s first true successor, launched two months later. By then, Nintendo had so thoroughly dominated the world of portable gaming that “Game Boy” had become a catch-all term for any kind of handheld video game system. Pokémon exemplifies what made the Game Boy greatWhich is why it’s impossible to separate the early success of Pokémon with the ongoing reign of Nint

Starting way back in Pokémon Red, all of my Pokémon were my friends. When playing Pokémon Red as a six-year-old, I was less creative with my nicknames. I even can recall the names of some of my friends’ Pokémon, when I normally wouldn’t remember a single thing about anyone else’s team. This felt right to me even as a second grader booting up Pokémon Red, the first video game I ever owned. Naming Pokémon was a pointless endeavor, taking time away from the real meat of battling.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is just around the corner, and a new trailer from Warner Bros. today is sprinkling in some last-minute sneak peeks. Nagini is best known as Lord Voldemort’s faithful snake, but she gets reimagined in the new trailer. The Crimes of Grindelwald is the second installment in Warner Bros.’ planned five-part series, which centers on Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and his adventures in a pre-Harry Potter wizarding world. Earlier trailers have teased the appe

If you’re not following Todd Phillips’ Instagram account, now would be a good time to start. Phillips, who’s directing the stand-alone Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix, shared a photo of the actor in full clown costume. It’s more traditional than Joker costumes we’re accustomed to seeing on the big screen. Beetz, best known for her role as Domino in Deadpool 2, will play Sophie Dumond in Phillips’ stand-alone Joker movie. The film is set in Gotham City during the 1980’s, and will give the Jo

On Sept. 20, the Wall Street Journal reported that Disney would reanimate scenes from upcoming Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph, which featured Princess and the Frog character Princess Tiana. But viewers quickly noticed there was something off about Princess Tiana: she didn’t look a thing like her original design. Tiana first appeared in 2009’s The Princess and the Frog and to this date is the studio’s only black princess. This led to a rally on social media, as fan

For any die-hard Pokémon fan who demands more lore and background to some of the characters from the game series, there is an answer for you: Read the Pokémon Adventures manga. Pokémon Adventures has one arc based on each generation of games, including any remakes. No other form of Pokémon media features its preteen heroes in situations with such heavy stakes as Pokémon Adventures. [Warning: There are spoilers below for the Red/Blue/Green and Gold/Silver arcs of Pokémon Adventures.] Pokémon Adve

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’s final trailer reintroduces a key Harry Potter character, just not quite as we know her. She’s never received a proper history — even in all of author J.K. Rowling’s additions, confirmations and revisions of Harry Potter lore in recent years. Crimes of Grindelwald will act as the first canonical extension of Nagini’s history (sorry, Harry Potter theorists who still believe the boa constrictor Harry helped free in The Philosopher’s Stone was Nagini). “