You can add Battlefield 5’s subreddit to the chorus of voices no longer interested in deflection arguments about historical accuracy, or which question the presence of playable women characters in the World War II game. “It’s a game, not a history book,” they wrote in the headline post declaring that people who continue to argue this point will face moderation. Some readers complained of being censored or having normal discussion chilled because of the ugly behavior of a minority of miscreants.

Feminist Frequency released its annual breakdown of gender roles in E3 games today. By contrast, Feminist Frequency counted 24 percent of games with a clear male lead. Feminist Frequency offers analysis and commentary on video games, especially in how games approach gender. “The percentage of games shown at E3 that focus on women has hovered around the 7-9% range for the past few years,” stated today’s report. “This year shows no improvement, with 9 games, or roughly 8% of games shown, featuring

The Last of Us Part 2 trailer at E3 2018 was anything but subtle. According to its co-directors, it’s designed to show the two worlds that Ellie inhabits — and imply a question. We know from a line at the beginning of the The Last of Us Part 2’s E3 trailer that her pocket of what passes for normal human civilization in Jackson, Wyoming is vulnerable. “It’s hard to know what’s inside someone’s mind and how they’re reacting”Devoid of that context, the trailer could be read differently. I mean to m

Any Rick and Morty fan will tell you that the worst part of being a Rick and Morty fan is the long waiting period between seasons. The hiatus between Rick and Morty’s second and third season, for example, was more than 18 months. It’s a long time, and it can leave people feeling antsy over when the new episodes will hit Adult Swim. Part of that has to do with Adult Swim ordering 70 more Rick and Morty episodes, giving Roiland and his co-creator Dan Harmon a little more security to flesh out epis

Epic Games gave away a variety of items during its live Celebrity Pro-Am and party at E3, and those goodie bags included codes for 2,500 V-bucks — the game’s virtual currency — and an in-game spray that is exclusive to E3. It should go without saying that these items are already being sold for large amounts of real cash on the secondary market. Different combinations of the free items are being offered for around $100 to $300, and multiple listings have sold for that price range. The exclusive s

The villainous foot soldiers were mutants, many with facial wounds that looked an awful lot like my own birth defect: a full cleft lip and palate. But with a little extra time left in my interview with id Software studio director Tim Willits, I asked why the cleft lip and palate imagery made the cut from Rage to Rage 2. It makes me a little uncomfortable when it’s always the bad guys that have the upper lip and nose removed, effectively. But we do have some — the heroes in Rage 2 are not as pret

This week the trickiest of the bunch tasks you to “Follow the treasure map found in Pleasant Park.” As per usual, we’re not going to worry about the actual treasure map location, focusing instead on where it leads. To start, you’re going to want to head here:Basically what you’re looking for is a small hill located in the southeast corner of Titled Towers. There’s kind of a squared-off cut in the shape of Titled Towers, and the hill is right in the center of that cut. The hill you’re looking for

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s beta will arrive in August, but players in eight large U.S. cities will get a chance to see it before then thanks to another partnership between Activision and cable provider Comcast. A news release from Comcast confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s multiplayer beta would be available to the general public sometime in August. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 got a showcase presentation at PlayStation’s E3 news conference on Monday, but no beta date was announced. Howeve

Here‘s what happened: Accounts that have been played on the Nintendo Switch likewise seem to be locked out of the PlayStation 4. Sony never warned players that they could be locked out of using their accounts on future consoles due to playing Fortnite on the PlayStation 4. ”We also offer Fortnite cross-play support with PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices, expanding the opportunity for Fortnite fans on PS4 to play with even more gamers on other platforms,” Sony stated. Nintendo has told Polygon th

The announcement that Super Smash Bros. But further gameplay footage has revealed something disturbing in Solid Snake’s updated design. While most of these designs were received with little pushback, there was a major issue in Snake’s design. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Solid Snake was blessed with a voluptuous backside. Super Smash Bros.

Bungie’s latest trailer for Destiny 2: Forsaken — which shows the death of Cayde-6, the beloved hunter Vanguard — debuted at Sony’s E3 2018 press conference earlier this week. A quick trip to the Destiny subreddit will offer a good variety of memes and goofs in memory of the community’s favorite Guardian. Some posts demand for revenge against Prince Uldren, the Awoken who pulls the trigger on Cayde in the trailer. After months and months of grey skies for Destiny 2, it’s nice to see the goofs fl

Since its announcement on May 17th, fans of the Dragon Ball franchise have been buzzing about the upcoming, new anime series, Dragon Ball Heroes. Dragon Ball Heroes is an upcoming promotional anime based off of the massively popular Japanese digital card game Dragon Ball Heroes and its update, Super Dragon Ball Heroes. In 2016, Heroes was updated to Super Dragon Ball Heroes. Dragon Ball Heroes PR Anime1st Episode on 1st July,20182nd Episode on 16th July,2018 pic.twitter.com/VDPWOtEz2i — GovetaXV

Killer Queen started as an arcade cabinet, and gained a cult following for its deceptively complex mechanics. With the E3 Nintendo Direct announcement of Killer Queen Black coming to Switch, the game becomes infinitely more available. Whoever manages to kill the black team then becomes the new black team and so on and so forth. But the honor also comes with a unique opportunity:The black team’s matches will constantly be streamed online. With a swift turnaround and constantly shifting black team

“Here’s another reply telling you that your Fortnite account lockdown is utter absurdity,” gaming personality Jim Sterling wrote on Twitter. Not allowing me to sign-in to Fortnite Switch with my Epic account because it’s linked to PS4 is tone deaf and points more to fear than market dominance. Parody accounts might as well join the NBA with these dunks:Today we revealed another big console exclusive: your Fortnite account. The Fortnite situation is one in which Sony can’t be as confident in its

Pokémon: Let’s Go!, available Nov. 16 for Nintendo Switch, will bring us a step closer to trading monsters within the mobile game, allowing for players to transfer their first-gen Pokémon Go collection over to the Switch games. The trade feature only works one way; we still don’t have any way of trading Pokémon back over to Pokémon Go. The whole one-way trade process is pretty much a simplified version of the similar cross-generation trading in the handheld Pokémon games. Pokémon: Let’s Go! None

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A fan-made remix for CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 E3 trailer, which debuted at Microsoft’s Xbox press conference, is hyping up fans of The Witcher for a cameo that many hope will tie the two franchises together. Fans who played The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt may remember a conversation between Geralt and Ciri, in which the latter character talks about one of the worlds she visited while attempting to outrun Eredin Bréacc Glas. In the game, Ciri speaks of other worlds and time periods she’d traveled

Fortnite was released on the Nintendo Switch shortly before noon ET yesterday, and the game has already racked up 2 million downloads on the Switch eShop, according to Nintendo. “Fortnite’s launch went extremely well — we had more than 2 million downloads in less than 24 hours,” Reggie Fils-Aime, president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, told Polygon in an interview at E3 2018 today. “I think that speaks to the power of the franchise, the engagement of our players and the res

Nintendo confirmed today that Yoshi’s solo Nintendo Switch game has been delayed to 2019. Yoshi was notably absent during Nintendo’s E3 2018 presentation, which Nintendo said ahead of time would focus on its 2018 slate — even though the E3 Nintendo Direct opened with a 2019 game, Daemon X Machina. Yoshi’s game is also not on the E3 2018 show floor, and the game doesn’t even have an official title yet, but since it was previously announced for release this year, we were expecting to see it. Yoshi

The Last of Us Part 2 will include a multiplayer component, the game’s co-director, Anthony Newman, told Polygon at E3 2018. “There is going to be multiplayer with the game,” Newman said. “We’re really excited to share details about it, but that’s going to be at a later date.”The Last of Us launched with multiplayer of its own back in 2013 (and continued in the PlayStation 4 version, The Last of Us Remastered). “Factions” took the bog-standard deathmatch and team deathmatch game types found in m