Scrolls, the collectible card game from Minecraft maker Mojang, is going free-to-play, the developer announced, and it’s also getting a new name. Many remember Scrolls as a project announced by Mojang in 2011, as Minecraft was in beta and its popularity was already soaring. However, ZeniMax Media, owners of Bethesda Softworks and its Elder Scrolls trademarks, filed a suit challenging Mojang’s application for a Scrolls trademark. A Bethesda Softworks representative reached by Polygon was unaware

Valve has restricted trading in two of its games, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, in an effort to comply with the Netherlands Gaming Authority’s rules governing loot boxes. The Kansspelautoriteit accusation is different from how other countries think about loot boxes, so we hired Dutch legal counsel, looked at the recent Study into Loot Boxes published by the Kansspelautoriteit, and learned more about Dutch law. The letters don’t tell us how to do that, but the Study into Loot Boxes

To do this, Red Shell has to follow what users are doing outside of the game. These include Battlerite, The Elder Scrolls Online and Conan Exiles at the outset of the controversy. Red Shell had also been in Total War games, but Creative Assembly said it would remove it. According to this list there are many more games using the tracker, some familiar, others obscure. Red Shell defended both its service and its methods in a statement to Kotaku yesterday.

Fallout 76, like the last time Bethesda Softworks launched a Fallout title, is coming just months after it was formally announced. Here is everything we know about Fallout 76 when the nuclear apocalypse visits the hills of West Virginia in five months. Fallout 76 launches Nov. 14, 2018, on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. In Fallout 76, players will emerge from a “Vault” in underground West Virginia 25 years after a nuclear strike, making Fallout 76 the earliest the game has been set in t

God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. Man creates dinosaurs, dinosaurs become reptilian John McClanes that operate like covert commandos and leap through windows to evade death-by-fireball! This is the scientific basis for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the excessive, exasperated, yet occasionally exuberant sequel to 2015’s tedious Jurassic World. [Warning: This review contains mild spoilers for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.] Like Lost World, Fallen Kingdom makes tons of promises wit

Legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont returned to pen a story for the X-Men Wedding Special #1 one-shot. You might want to wait until after tomorrow’s X-Men Gold #30 before reading the insights in today’s @nytimes! In fairness to X-Men Gold Writer Marc Guggenheim, the twist was not originally his idea. does x-men gold rly think it can redeem itself just bcs it’s gonna have rogue and remy getting married in it? As X-Men Gold #30 shows, even when the Joker isn’t trying to interfere, anything can

Mario Tennis Aces isn’t hurting for playable characters — you start out with 16. Playing through Aces’ Adventure Mode has you battling against a wide cast of characters that aren’t playable from the start. HOW TO UNLOCK NEW COURTSWhen you first start playing Mario Tennis Aces, there’s just one playable court: the Marina Stadium. To unlock more interesting courts, you’ll need to play through Adventure Mode. A new court will unlock whenever you finish each of the game’s five areas, bringing the to

Lower Undead Burg is a transitional area that moves you from the main (upper) area of Undead Burg to The Depths. If you purchased the Residence Key from the Undead Merchant in (upper) Undead Burg, you can unlock the room where Griggs of Vinheim is held, where you can also find the Sorcerer Armor Set. In the aqueduct, you’ll meet the female Undead Merchant. Once you use the Basement Key and climb down the ladder from the bridge (close to Solaire), you can run up the nearby stairs to unlock the sh

Jones left the creative director role at the project’s co-developer Reagent Games, and with it Crackdown 3, to take the role of director of cloud and esport strategies at Epic. “Unlike other games, this wall has compute power and memory on demand,” Jones told GamesTM magazine. Booty also confirmed that Microsoft is no longer working with Jones or Reagent Games on Crackdown 3. Reagent Games are looking for a skilled games software engineer to work with us on Crackdown 3 !! In an E3 2018 interview

The previous Death Stranding trailer had fans analyzing every last detail and coming up with theories. The music video features a group of three people who go to a shady motel and draw straws, while another person waits outside by the car. Low Roar has been associated with Death Stranding since Kojima used a Low Roar song in the game’s E3 2016 trailer. pic.twitter.com/x5HMxJrDM0 — HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) December 5, 2016When the music video for “Give Me An Answer” was released back in Ju

Why are game companies so afraid of the politics in their games? Share Why are game companies so afraid of the politics in their games? So even when game companies make relatively straightforward decisions to reflect broad societal norms, they can expect trouble. CEOs of game companies that are owned by massive non-gaming corporations are rarely keen to explain negative headlines to their bosses. Unlike in other entertainment media, games do not have to answer to powerful critics with wide reade

Polygon’s interview with the team behind Cyberpunk 2077 was the very last one that CD Projekt Red had scheduled for this E3. “So,” I said, “when should players of Cyberpunk 2077 expect to bump into Ciri?”Warning: What follows will contain spoilers for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. “I hate this question,” Badowski moaned. If you played through The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, you know that for a time Ciri was teleported to another dimension for hiding. A version of Cyberpunk 2077’s various trailers has been

Creed recast the underdog boxer saga with Jordan as Adonis Johnson, son of Rocky’s legendary foe, Apollo Creed. Allow the trailer for Creed II to answer that question. Here’s the official synopsis from Warner Bros. Pictures:Life has become a balancing act for Adonis Creed. Creed II is about going back to basics to rediscover what made you a champion in the first place, and remembering that, no matter where you go, you can’t escape your history. Creed II hits theaters on Nov. 21, 2018, when we’ll

MoviePass, the company that’s rocked the movie theater industry by offering nearly unlimited movie tickets for $9.95 per month, is in for some competition. AMC theaters announced Wednesday that it’ll offer a similar service, AMC Stubs A-List, starting June 26. Billed as a new tier to AMC’s existing Stubs loyalty program, AMC Stubs A-List members can see up to three movies each week, including IMAX and 3D screenings, with a $19.99 per month subscription. Additionally, AMC Stubs A-List tickets can

Mario Tennis Aces is a return to form for the Mario sports brand, infusing the tennis video game formula with the proven hooks of competitive fighting games. The game looks like a sports RPG, but it helps to forget all the marketing: Mario Tennis Aces is its own thing. Having played most of Mario Tennis Aces’ campaign, I’ll distinguish what the game appears to be from what it actually is. Because I predict that people will forget Mario Tennis Aces’ campaign, but will be playing multiplayer for y

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting an “Event Pass” this Friday; PUBG Corp. calls it a progression-based system with unlockables that will premiere with the the introduction of the long-awaited Sanhok map on PC. The first Event Pass is Sanhok-themed and will last about four weeks. PUBG Corp. said it will include “dozens of missions, including daily missions, weekly missions, and Sanhok-specific missions,” the developer said on the game’s Steam page. The Event Pass will have both free and pr

Rocket League’s makers have shared more information about the upcoming “Rocket Pass,” announced back in May, which seems to follow the season pass model of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. The cost to unlock the premium tier of a Rocket Pass will be the in-game equivalent of $9.99, same cost as Fortnite’s “Battle Pass,” which is also a time-limited progression system. Psyonix did not say when the Rocket Pass would be introduced, other than later this summer. Psyonix did not know how m

Your familiarity with Fist of the North Star — the classic, post-apocalyptic and extremely violent Shonen Jump series — likely varies depending on your age. But if you were reading manga in the late ’80s, there was a good chance you both had access to and read Fist of the North Star. Otherwise, Fist of the North Star is most commonly known as a meme these days. Super-powered martial artist Kenshiro’s catchphrase makes for a perfect reaction GIF: “You’re already dead.” In the series, Kenshiro say

After disappearing from the Black Lion during a fight with Zarkon at the conclusion of the second season, Shiro returns after being presumably held captive by the Galra following the fight. The Shiro that’s been around since season three isn’t the real Shiro. Aside from the confusion of clone Shiro (who fans referred to as “Kuron” while crafting theories) and real Shiro, questions still remained: was the clone actively conspiring against Voltron for four seasons? This explains why none of the pa

Allow us to flex our super strength and recommend some comic-book movies you’ll want to watch, rewatch, or play in the background as you futz around on your computer. The World (2010)Available to stream on HBO Now and HBO GoTime has been kind to Edgar Wright’s adaptation the Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Canadian shōnen tale. Wonder Woman (2017)Available to stream on HBO Now and HBO GoWonder Woman 1984, the sequel to DC Films’ first acclaimed superhero movie, will arrive on Nov. 1, 2019. Wonder Woman isn