During The Game Awards 2019, Microsoft unveiled the next generation of Xbox: the Xbox Series X. Xbox — Series X is the name of the model coming next year. “The name we’re carrying forward to the next generation is simply Xbox,” said the Microsoft representative. “And at The Game Awards you saw that name come to life through the Xbox Series X.” This is a similar naming convention to the powerful Xbox One X and less powerful Xbox One S.It’s unclear if Xbox intends to continue denoting the weaker c

Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition’s latest add-on to its character roster is Seth, the silvery boss from Street Fighter 4, but in a new form. After being defeated in Street Fighter 4, Seth’s intelligence lived, moving on to a new vessel, thus becoming female. Seth’s new body resembles a taller version of Juri Han, another character who debuted in Street Fighter 4. Seth is the 40th character on the roster, joining Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition when it drops on Feb. 14, 2020 for $29.99. Stre

Apple Arcade launched earlier this year with a single subscription option: $4.99 a month. If you’re already subscribed to Apple Arcade, you can switch over to the yearly fee by selecting your Apple ID profile in Settings and navigating to the subscriptions page. From there, select Apple Arcade. Essentially it’s giving players access to two free months of Apple Arcade; if you pay the monthly fee, you’ll end up spending $59.99 a year. Apple Arcade launched on Sept. 19 with more than 100 games.

One of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s frequently requested features is a deaths column on the scoreboard for every mode. While it may seem like a trivial addition, it’s entirely missing from modes like Team Deathmatch and has been since launch. However, as part of the recent Mother Russia bundle, players can buy the ability to see their deaths for $20. Deaths are a stat that players have been requesting to add to the scoreboard since Modern Warfare was released earlier this year. According to th

In No Man’s Sky’s pre-holiday update, Hello Games surprised players with a new, completely functional synthesizer. The studio calls the machine the ByteBeat Device, and it’s capable of creating new music tracks for the game. With the ByteBeat, players have the power to mess with the music as much or as little as they’d like. Players can let the randomly created music play, or interact with the machine to set tempo, octave, key, melody, and drums. The ByteBeat has settings that allow it to connec

Meanwhile, Take-Two’s plans for MLB 2K can be best described as having more money than brains. Take-Two shuttered original MLB 2K developer Kush Games and stuck Visual Concepts with the bag on a nine-months production schedule. MLB 2K13, best described as MLB 2K12 warmed under a heat lamp, was the last game in the series. Electronic Arts’ MVP engine was more than a generation old; maybe Konami (with the engine driving Pro Yakyuu Spirits) had a means of making an MLB game. In any event, no one co

The newest clip for Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker was debuted in-game for players to see. The event started with the Millennium Falcon flying onto the map along with several First Order Star Destroyers. The lightsabers appear to now be part of the standard Fortnite weapons along with Star Wars blaster rifles. Epic’s partnership with Disney and Lucasfilm doesn’t end at this Star Wars clip either. There are also Star Wars skins in the shop including Rey, Finn and a Sith Stormtrooper.

Throughout the weekend all of this year’s Community Day Pokémon, will have higher spawn rates during the set times. You can also evolve these Pokémon during the event time to learn any of the 2018 and 2019 Community Day moves. Grid View Image: Niantic via PolygonImage: Niantic via PolygonImage: Niantic via PolygonImage: Niantic via PolygonImage: Niantic via PolygonImage: Niantic via PolygonImage: Niantic via PolygonImage: Niantic via PolygonImage: Niantic via PolygonImage: Niantic via PolygonIma

For those who enjoyed The Outer Worlds but really, really wished it lasted longer: good news! At any rate, The Outer Worlds launched at the end of October, and while fans have mused about it in forums, subreddits and such, Obsidian hasn’t said anything about DLC until now. No time window was mentioned, but The Outer Worlds will be launching on Nintendo Switch sometime before March 31, so perhaps this arrives around that time, too. We enjoyed The Outer Worlds and appreciated its compact nature, b

PlanetSide Arena, the multiplayer shooter spinoff from Daybreak Game Company’s PlanetSide franchise, is closing down next month. This follows a year in which the game was delayed past its launch date, Daybreak refunded all pre-orders, and eventually delivered it in Steam Early Access. PlanetSide Arena’s servers shut down on Jan. 10, 2020 at 8 p.m. EST. PlanetSide Arena was developed with a 250-on-250 deathmatch in mind. Originally pegged for a January 2019 launch, Daybreak instead announced that

Rainbow Six Siege, in which teams highly skilled killing machines use high-tech weapons, super cool abilities and hand-signals to kill the other side, has paid a … rather interesting? tribute to another studio with an in-game weapon skin. To celebrate, we’re giving the GRIS® weapon skin and charm to all our players who log in between now and Sunday, December 15th. pic.twitter.com/3TTxXcOfpl — Rainbow Six Siege (@Rainbow6Game) December 13, 2019Fuck the heck? Just to be clear, Gris developer Nomad

It appears that Fortnite’s servers went down, less than an hour before its in-world premiere of a clip from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is due to air at Risky Reels. Shout to to @FortniteGame for having there servers go down RIGHT before THE ONLY EVENT OF THE SEASON SO FAR. — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) December 14, 2019We’ve reached out to an Epic Games representative to ask what is going on and for more details. The gates of Risky Reels, Fortnite’s in-world drive-in, were due to ope

Always carry spearsRelatively early in the game, you’ll pick up your first bone spears. Side Journeys unlock important new mechanics just as often as the main Journeys do, and those new abilities will make your main mission much easier. Your weapon and armor determine your classIn Ashen, you won’t be putting points into stats like you might expect from an action role-playing game. You won’t unlock upgrading weapons for a while (or armor ever)Upgrading (improving) you weapons won’t become an opti

Jumanji: The Next Level solves that problem by giving one of its characters separation anxiety. But going back into the video game a third time seems like a hard bargain to drive. The return to the formula that made the 1995 Jumanji so fun, and also serves as a reminder that The Next Level is actually the third Jumanji movie, rather than the second of a new Jumanji series. But The Next Level’s connections to the original film don’t end there. Will the game avatars somehow be brought into the rea

The team at THQ Nordic has been busy spooling up a new development team in Barcelona, Spain. To test their mettle, the powers that be set them to task on a remake of a game in their stable: specifically Piranha Bites’ cult classic Gothic, a flawed and beloved role-playing game from 2001. The result is this playable teaser, available for free to anyone who also owns any other Piranha Bites game. Gothic was a devilishly opaque little game that focused on a male protagonist inside a prison colony.

The last year in science fiction and fantasy novels saw a welcome mix of debut voices and returning favorites. The entire book is eye-opening, thoughtful, and some of the best that science fiction has to offer. It kicked off a flurry of interest in the country’s science fiction scene (which has included other novels by Liu, as well as a major film adaptation, The Wandering Earth). Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonaldThe Moon is the perfect, clean-slate environment for science fiction authors to use

The latest expansion, Empyrean, is built on the foundation of Warframe, but it’s almost a whole new game in and of itself. My first few voyages upon the Railjack spaceship were quick and devastating. The story, which has been added in bits and pieces over Warframe’s seven year lifespan, has turned into a high-stakes galactic showdown. The new Railjack is going to take us forward to find some conclusions — and new mysteries. “We’re getting back to our roots,” says Carter, referencing the early da

At The Game Awards 2019, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox Series X, its next generation game console. With the Xbox Series X, you’ll be able to suspend and resume multiple games at once — without listening to your jet engine of a console melt down in your entertainment center, with Spencer claiming the Series X runs very quielty. When you shut off your console, the Xbox One places your game in a kind of limbo. With the Xbox Series X, players can theoretically have a rotating salvo of games ready to p

The world has gone insane for Baby Yoda, but so far officially licensed merchandise has been hard to find. You’re more likely to find Rose Rico merch than anything on Baby Yoda, depending on what category you’re searching in. Authenticated autographs by Werner Herzog and Gina Carano are also among the offerings, but the big seller is certain to be Baby Yoda sipping his bone broth. Right now, Van Ohlen says, his main concern is finding someone to sign all these pictures of Baby Yoda that are flyi

A verified streamer on Mixer lost his partnership with Microsoft after he tweeted a joke about being a sex offender playing Fortnite with kids. Harrison “HarrisonJr” Patrick Stewart, a Mixer streamer since 2017 with 80,000 followers, summarily lost just about everything about his presence on Mixer, too. Per The Hollywood Reporter (via Kotaku), on Dec. 5, HarrisonJr tweeted, underneath a photo of himself in sunglasses and a cheesy mustache, “Come watch a registered sex offender plays [sic] Fortni