Diablo 3 feels like the Blizzard game that’s the most stuck in time. The bad news is that the story-based campaign of Diablo would possibly either go away completely or, more likely, just be de-emphasized significantly in a Diablo 4. Blizzard must want to have a way for Diablo players to remain Diablo players for more than a week or two every few years. Diablo is never going to turn into a multiplayer game, where players battle each other — at least, not primarily. Paying a bit more often to get

Mobile brick-breaker games have gained traction among more casual players over the past year, but Holedown seems to be the first to find traction across the entire games community. Holedown is the latest game by Swedish developer Martin Jonasson, who single-handedly runs Grapefrukt Games. “I have very high standards for mobile games,” Vollmer wrote. “There is a very specific amount of attention that phone games should ask of you … and Holedown is the best example I’ve seen of it in years.”I ha

On the few occasions the Infinity Stones have been wielded as one, they’ve had the power to destroy worlds and decimate populations. [Warning: This post will contain spoilers for this week’s Infinity Wars #2]Fathers & DaughtersAt its heart, Infinity Wars — and really, Gerry Duggan’s entire cosmic saga — has been about Gamora, and her quest to be whole once more. She may be serving as the villain in Infinity Wars, but she’s certainly a sympathetic one. Infinity Warps is the banner for several tie

Arguably the only thing more culturally significant than Shrek is the Shrek soundtrack. Billy Corgan, a two-time Paws Chicago magazine cover model and lead singer of he Smashing Pumpkins, now claims that his band was offered the Shrek soundtrack first. Corgan said that if the Smashing Pumpkins had agreed to the deal, the band would have used a song called “Untitled,” heard below. Plus, it’s not like the Smashing Pumpkins weren’t involved in other films. Correction: An original version of this ar

Yakuza Kiwami 2, the upcoming remake of Yakuza 2, promises more of what makes the series so great: creative, over-the-top violence; delicious food options; bizarre substories; and another Majima-centric campaign. Running on the Dragon Engine used in Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, Kiwami 2 looks richer, more fluid than any other title in the series so far. In Kiwami 2, certain substories can unlock new heat actions and finishing moves if you’re within a certain distance of a nonplayer character. Kiw

Twitch is investigating a user associated with a recent hacking of Riverdale actors Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse’s Twitter accounts, and questions are swirling after a concerning clip was posted to the user’s account. The clip, captured below, belongs to Savaged6, the Twitch channel linked to from Reinhart’s Twitter account during the attack. A Twitter account linked to the attack has only tweeted once — and that was to say “LOL” less than a week ago. Statements like “we got that bitch’s Insta

Netflix and Marvel have released the first official trailer for Iron Fist’s second season, and fans will be happy to know there are at least two very powerful, glowing fists. The trailer includes a couple of wide shots framing Danny Rand’s yellow glowing fist as he trains, but he’ll have some stiff competition. His main competition: Steel Serpent (Sacha Dhawan), a friend from his training days who serves up his own red-hot punches. Meanwhile, Danny’s former best friend Davos returns to New York

Cyclops, Marvel Girl, The Beast, The Angel and Iceman. The five teenage X-Men became stuck in the present, in a world that they didn’t recognize and faced with a future they didn’t understand. The longer the time-displaced X-Men remained in the present, the more they were changed by it, making an eventual return to their own time less and less likely. Most recently, the time-displaced X-Men have been operating out of the red light island nation Madripoor under the tutelage of Magneto, a man who

(The upcoming Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is considered its own entity, separate from the MCU and Sony’s expanded Spider-Verse.) Sony currently has nine slated for production, and if any of them come to fruition, it would realize a dream Sony’s had for more than a decade. While Venom is part of the Spider-Verse, it’s still not certain whether Tom Holland’s Spider-Man will appear in the film. She made a small appearance in the MCU film Spider-Man: Homecoming, portrayed by Tiffany Espensen.

This week in Fortnite challenges, we’ve got a particularly easy one, so long as you know where to look. The challenge: “Search where the Stone Heads are looking.” You’ve undoubtedly seen the stone heads scattered around the map since the dawn of Season 5, but where are they all directing you to? The spot you’re looking for is just southwest of Salty Springs. Unlike the larger mountain from the challenge of a few weeks ago, you’re looking for the smaller mountain just north of that one. A small p

Battlefield 5’s latest trailer, for Gamescom, arrived today. The video closes out with a brief look at the upcoming battle royale mode, too. The last trailer Electronic Arts put out for Battlefield 5, during the Xbox keynote presentation at E3 2018, explored the game’s “War Story” campaign mode. An official multiplayer trailer shown at EA Play also announced and showed off the battle royale mode. Battlefield 5 is, actually, the sixth Battlefield of the main series, and the 13th if you count spin

Stock car racing returns to video games for a third straight year when NASCAR Heat 3 returns on Sept. 7. This video, from publisher 704 Games, lays out some of the broader vision for the latest game. Furthermore, user handling will be tightened up, particularly when banging on other drivers in close-quarters racing, so that everything doesn’t devolve to a pileup from contact common to this type of motorsport. Related NASCAR Heat 3 deals the dirt to consoles this fallAnother big user assist shoul

Square Enix’s mysterious new project, The Quiet Man, was first teased at this year’s E3 with a short live-action trailer. The publisher revealed more details about the game today with a trailer that shows off its combat and a more plot-heavy one. The plot-focused trailer mixes live action and CG and follows the protagonist of the game, Dane, as he navigates a mysterious nightclub and cityscape. Overall, it’s quite eerie and, much like the synopsis describes, has an overall cinematic quality to i

Pokémon Go Fest 2018 attendees already have their own Celebi, the Johto region’s exclusive Mythical Pokémon. It sounds like it will be unique from Pokémon Go Fest’s Research challenge, however, since it’s open to anyone who already completed the earlier set of tasks. Completing this version of the Celebi adventure will award initial participants with additional Celebi candy. Johto’s rarest Pokémon made its debut in Pokémon Gold and Silver. It’s been one of the hardest Pokémon to find in mainline

The NBA 2K League said yesterday it will add four expansion teams for its second season tipping off in 2019. At the NBA 2K League Draft in April, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he expected all 30 NBA franchises to have affiliated NBA 2K League teams by the third year of the 2K League. The NBA 2K League tipped off May 1 and just wrapped up its regular season. The eight-team NBA 2K League Playoffs begin Friday, Aug. 17 (6 p.m. The NBA 2K League is the first esports league operated by a professi

Diablo 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch. After a series of teasers, rumors and leaks, Blizzard Entertainment officially confirmed today that Diablo 3: Eternal Collection — the package that includes the Reaper of Souls and Rise of the Necromancer add-ons — will come to Nintendo’s console later this year for $59.99. The Switch release of Diablo 3 will feature a handful of Nintendo-exclusive items, all of them based on The Legend of Zelda. Beyond that, Diablo 3: Eternal Collection appears to be the g

Counter-Strike’s K&M submachine gun, better known among players as the MP5, is now part of the arsenal in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, as of an update released today by Valve. It’s the first time the gun, which has made an appearance in every other Counter-Strike game, has been available in CS:GO. CS:GO’s version of the MP5 is known as the MP5-SD and comes with an integrated silencer. Global Offensive players will be able to try out the new MP5-SD in offline modes and in official casual and

Inside every space station is a teleporter that will connect you with every other space station that you’ve visited. Flight of the navigatorEvery planet in No Man’s Sky is supposed to have a portal, but searching for them by hand is a fool’s errand. Otherwise, you can find them hidden inside the orange cubes that you may find floating inside the space station lobby areas. Finding a portalOnce at a monolith, you’ll need to interact with it and have the correct items in your inventory. On that dai

Blizzard Entertainment has dropped some serious hints about bringing the Diablo series to the Nintendo Switch in some form, and it looks like the rumor has been confirmed: Diablo 3 is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Details from a leaked report state that the Switch version will cost $59.99 and will include Diablo 3, the Reaper of Souls expansion and the game’s Necromancer class. Up to four players can adventure together on a single Nintendo Switch system, and up to four systems can be linked tog

EmuParadise, for 18 years a go-to site for emulators and ROMs to play hard-to-find, if not ancient video games, announced last week that it would no longer offer its vast library of ROMs. Are emulators and ROMs legal? Preservation advocates have lamented EmuParadise’s self-imposed shutdown of offering ROMs, calling it a blow to those interested in finding, preserving and examining old video games. Thus no video game’s copyright has expired, even if the companies that published them are now defun