Overwatch’s annual Lunar New Year event kicks off today, Jan. 16, with a batch of fresh skins and a semi-new game mode called Capture the Flag Blitz available in the game’s arcade. Players will get access to seven new skins during Overwatch Lunar New Year. Three of those are of the epic variety, and can be earned by playing the game and winning nine games each week. It’s the same distance as in CTF games that go into overtime, but to compensate for that frenzied pace, teams will need six capture

Another day, another Fire Emblem character added to Super Smash Bros. On Thursday, Smash Ultimate game director Masahiro Sakurai announced that Byleth is joining the series, with both male and female forms. The rest of the recorded presentation was similarly cheeky, with Sakurai seemingly trolling Smash players with a whole long section on the history of the Fire Emblem franchise. Sakurai calls Metroid’s Mother Brain “Mom”The next six Super Smash Bros. Ultimate characters have already been chose

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina returns to Netflix next week, and a new trailer reveals what horrors this season has in store. A teaser in the form of a music video hinted at some of the chilling plotlines in store — and also the fact that Sabrina was going to become a cheerleader. The first full trailer dives into the horrors without the pop music video aesthetic: Sabrina’s going to Hell to rescue her boyfriend, and just might destroy the whole dang world doing so. “Being Queen of Hell isn’t jus

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Years before the launch of a set, Wizards gathers artists from around the world together at its headquarters. The Secret Lair Drop Series lets those artists flex their muscles, and invites new creative voices to take a stab at old cards. The first batch of Secret Lair cards went live Dec. 2, 2019. They paid a flat fee, got the physical cards they wanted, and were even able to unlock unique card sleeves in Magic: The Gathering Arena or the cards themselves in Magic: Online. Customers will also ge

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Super Smash Bros. That means Super Smash Bros. Earlier today, Sakurai confirmed the fifth and final fighter coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as part of the first Fighters Pass: Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Byleth will be released on Jan. 28, the same day that pre-orders for the Fighters Pass Vol.

The Joker and his deadly bag of tricks get a madcap close-up in the latest Mortal Kombat 11 trailer. Joker packs all kinds of jack-in-the-box, cuckoo-clock toys that stun, juggle, and bludgeon his foes. The Joker joins Mortal Kombat 11 on Jan. 28. via the $39.99 Kombat Pack. (Those who bought Mortal Kombat 11’s $99.99 Premium Edition got the Kombat Pack with their purchase.) Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, The Terminator (T-800 model), and Sindel have all been released, leaving Spawn to complete the Kom

A nifty — but unintentional — power has been nerfed out of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order with the game’s latest patch. That’s right, you can no longer destroy rockets using the game’s photo mode. Some likened this to an extension of Cal’s ability to Force-manipulate rockets but, nah, ain’t supposed to work like that. “We’ve fixed this to ensure that you can continue playing the game after using Photo Mode.” There are several other bug fixes in the latest patch for Jedi: Fallen Order on PlayStatio

ThinkGeek — now owned by GameStop — has filed a Bluetooth speaker with the Federal Communications Commission. Typically, ThinkGeek does a pretty great job for the goof holiday. The price point feels high for a novelty speaker. And yet, I still want it — precisely for the pleasure of having a Jigglypuff speaker that can sing the creature’s famous song. Of course, GameStop isn’t doing too well, with the company’s holiday financial results painting a bleak picture for the company.

Epic let players upgrade weapons in the first Fortnite Chapter 2 patch. But the new v11.40 update includes an option for players to “sidegrade” their assault rifle, turning it into a Heavy Assault Rifle instead — but only in non-competitive playlists. As of this patch, it seems like the standard Assault Rifle is the only weapon players can sidegrade. The Heavy Assault Rifle had been removed from Fortnite for quite a while, and was only reintroduced in patch v11.40. It’s possible that Epic could

Karakin is the game’s smallest map so far, which should also make it the most intense. Karakin is playable on the PUBG Test Server right now. It’s 2×2, making it half the size of Sanhok, PUBG’s previously smallest map. Thanks to its tiny size, Karakin will only support 64 players, rather than the standard 100, but it shouldn’t feel any less intense. This kind of dynamic map change is entirely new to PUBG and at this point is exclusive to Karakin.

It’s called the Road to SI 2020, and it starts today, and runs until Feb. 16. Set up on the infield is a kill house stocked with rooms and other callbacks to other maps in the Rainbow Six Siege lineup. The season-ending Six Invitational 2020 will bring 16 top teams to Ubisoft Montreal to compete for a large, cash prize pool. The Six Invitational 2020 begins Feb. 7. and runs for a week. The Road to SI 2020 also provides a 25% boost for ranked and unranked playlists, which increases to 30% for Yea

Steam is finally getting a category listing for soundtracks, which cleans up how they’re offered on the marketplace. Since they’re no longer classified as DLC, that means soundtracks will no longer have system requirements in their listings. Steam is introducing a new download format called “Soundtracks” so the UNDERTALE Soundtrack won’t be categorized as “Game DLC” anymore. This probably isn’t the end of system requirement goofs across the board. For example, a reply to Fox’s thread shows the f

Mobius Final Fantasy is a free-to-play mobile role-playing game that was released in Japan in 2015; it was released globally in August 2016. In 2017, it came to Steam as a Final Fantasy 7 Remake tie-in. Mobius Final Fantasy is a “gacha” game — like the capsule-toy vending machines. Players use in-game currency, “Magicite” or tickets in Mobius Final Fantasy, to pull collectible cards. Popularity has waned since the game’s release in Japan, but fans are devastated — but not necessarily surprised —

But with the company closing so many of its outlets, retail-watchers are generally more interested in same-store comparisons. The video chain’s final pre-bankruptcy protection revenues were down 20%, following the previous quarter which was down 5%. In its previous quarter ended in October, the company announced sales down 14%, with same-store sales down 11%. This time last year, the company announced holiday sales down 5%. Seeking Alpha today said the company faces “challenging existential ques

Pathfinder: Kingmaker, the isometric role-playing game, could get a sequel. Developer Owlcat Games is working on a follow-up called Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and it’s once again turning to crowdfunding to finance the RPG’s development. A Kickstarter campaign for Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is scheduled to go live on Feb. 4, but there’s no release window for the RPG yet. The Russia-based development team at Owlcat was relatively unknown before its campaign for Kingmaker succeeded

There is little The Mandalorian fans want other than a Baby Yoda plush figure. Baby Yoda merch has been trickling out since the show’s debut — there are official printed goods, like T-shirts and coffee cups, but Baby Yoda plushies won’t be available until spring. So far, we’ve seen a couple options, like the plastic-y looking Baby Yoda doll that showed up on Walmart’s website late last year. Build a Bear Baby Yoda will be coming in the next few monthsVia business insider #TheMandalorian pic.twit

Now you can find out how much time you spent on your PlayStation 4 last year. Sony has posted a fun online tool that creates an infographic of PlayStation users’ gaming time. If you’re an adult with a PlayStation Network account, you can log in here. The tool churns out the top three games you played in 2019, and how much time you spent on them. The tool will also log hours spent on your Vita, if you’re still using the PlayStation portable.

If you played last year’s Resident Evil 2 remake, you’re probably still recovering from the trauma of being chased down by the Tyrant (aka Mr. X) and occasionally being punched to death by that mountain of a mutated man. Well, friend, the Nemesis, as seen in a new trailer for Capcom’s Resident Evil 3 remake, is here to inform you that he will be much more of a massive pain in your ass. Related Resident Evil 3 remake will bring some big changes to the classic gameYou can see some terrifying new N