Ubisoft’s open-world racer, The Crew 2 returns with a beta available to all players on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. The beta client is available for download right now, Ubisoft announced at its E3 2018 presentation. The Crew 2 had a closed beta test over the past weekend. The first The Crew was an ambitious game straddling two console generations, set in an open world taking drivers to all parts of the United States. Our impressions of The Crew 2, based on its closed beta the past wee

Ubisoft kicked off its press conference by showing a beautiful new cinematic trailer for Beyond Good & Evil 2 along with some highly anticipated gameplay. There were other surprises in store, such as a second — yes, a second — Ubisoft and Nintendo crossover. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey got a world premiere along with a hefty dose of gameplay. Beyond Good & Evil 2A new extended cinematic trailer for Beyond Good and Evil 2 shows young Jade. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle: Donkey Kong AdventureSkull &

Coffee Stain Studio open tonight’s PC Gaming Show with a new trailer for its building game Satisfactory. Players take on the role of an engineer who sets out to explore a map, gather resources and build massive factories. Unusually for the building genre, it’s presented in first-person perspective, rather than the traditional top-down. Satisfactory also allows for multi-floor constructions so players can stack buildings, as well as navigational gadgets like like jump pads and moving walkways. Co

The DC comic universe is undergoing a seismic shift — but not in the pages of its books. screenplay by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins) and Justin Rhodes (2019’s Untitled Terminator Reboot), reported first in 2017, but the DC Entertainment press release notes that Johns will also produce the new film. On top of his film assignments, Johns will continue carving out a space for DC’s properties on the small screen. According to the press release, he has also penned an episode of Titans that will spin

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is coming out on Oct. 5, 2018. The player does not swap between the two characters, as seen in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate with Jacob and Evie Frye. We started at level 18 with a full set of special abilities, about 15 hours into the game, Ubisoft says. In Odyssey, Ubisoft has also added dialogue choices — you’ll see at 10 minutes in the video above. At 34 minutes you can see the game’s skill trees and gear.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey keeps the historical fantasy series in the ancient world: This time, we’ll be in ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War. Even if you’ve played Assassin’s Creed Origins, Odyssey is going to be a departure from the series. Dialogue options! As in the naval missions we got to see in Assassin’s Creed Origins and Black Flag, in Odyssey the naval battles will focus on ramming and ranged attacks from your crew. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey comes out on Oct. 5, 2018, on PlaySta

A long-running legal dispute harking back to events in the 1970s is now having a major impact on multiplayer horror game Friday the 13th: The Game. Publisher Gun Media today announced that it’s canceled plans for updates and DLC to the IllFonic-developed game, which is based on the movie series, Friday the 13th. Cunningham says he has legal rights over the movie and its characters. We’ve contacted Gun Media to find out more about the game’s future. Friday the 13th: The Game was released a year a

Joseph “JGL” Gordon-Levitt took the stage during Ubisoft’s E3 2018 conference to announce that his production company, HitRecord, is hooking up with the team behind Beyond Good & Evil 2. Gordon-Levitt and crew will help Ubisoft come up with original assets for the game — assets that were developed by fans themselves. Here’s how the company describes it:Take your Space Monkey participation to the next level by contributing directly to Beyond Good and Evil 2. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the co-founder

We already knew that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is a prequel to Beyond Good & Evil, but in a new cinematic trailer that Ubisoft showed during its E3 2018 press briefing today, we got a glimpse of the original game’s protagonist, Jade. Ubisoft Montpellier also said that Ubisoft teams in Barcelona; Bordeaux, France; and Sofia, Bulgaria, are working on Beyond Good & Evil 2. After years of radio silence that left fans wondering if the project was in development hell, Ubisoft introduced Beyond Good & Evil

Trials, the motocross racing/physics puzzle series from RedLynx and Ubisoft, is returning next year with Trials Rising, Ubisoft announced at its E3 keynote this afternoon in Los Angeles. Trials Rising will be the first entry in the series since 2014’s Trials Fusion. Trials Rising will also feature a career mode spanning “local backyard competitions” to stadium performances, including licensed racing brands such as Fox Racing Gear and Red Lynx. Trials Rising will launch in February 2019 for Ninte

During the Ubisoft E3 2018 press conference, Julian Gerighty the creative director on The Division 2 to give fans their first real information on the game including the announcement of end-game eight person raids. The raids will be delivered post release as DLC for the game. Each of these raids will be set after the events of the game’s main story. In The Division 2, players will be tasked with stopping this before it happens, attempting to ensure that D.C. does not fall into the wrong hands. Th

Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones has been an anticipated title for some time now, originally having been announced at E3 2017 but having since been delayed to the 2019-2020 fiscal year. The pirate combat title is all about naval battles, both in a single-player mode and in five-on-five player-vs-player action. We also got a glimpse at boarding mechanics, which unlock after combat and grant players access to loot. The Hunting Grounds gameplay trailer shows a Portugese warship gunning down upon the players

Ubisoft announced today at their E3 2018 press conference that the Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle — Donkey Kong Adventure will release for Nintendo Switch on June 26. The adventure stars everyone’s favorite necktied gorilla, Donkey Kong. Rabbid Peach and Rabbid Cranky Kong — who is also making his Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle debut in this DLC — will join Donkey in this expanded adventure. In the trailer, we see Rabbid Peach use some of the same abilities she had access to in Mario + Rabbids

Star Fox’s Fox McCloud will appear in Starlink: Battle for Atlas. This year (and last year) that game is Starlink: Battle for Atlas. Set in the Atlas star system 400-lightyears from Earth, players fight an alien legion using laser guns and powerful spacecraft. Starlink: Battle for Atlas will be available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 on Oct. 16. Fox McCloud will be exclusive to the Nintendo Switch.

Ubisoft will again take the stealth-action series to ancient times: ancient Greece, to be precise. Much of that adventure will involve sailing, something players of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag may appreciate. But for the most part, Ubisoft is presenting Assassin’s Creed Odyssey as a dramatic tale of love and loss, war and peace … and at least one fight against a bear. Assassin’s Creed Origins, which launched last November, took place in Egypt. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will launch Oct. 5, 20

For Honor is bringing a new update later this year, adding Chinese warriors to its current ranks of knights, samurai and vikings. To promote the update, For Honor is currently free, for a week, for PC users. You can watch how the new mode works in the video below. For Honor is a medieval-style combat game, released last year for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. In Polygon’s review, we described it as “well-made, gorgeously presented and a stout challenge.” Publisher Ubisoft says For Honor

All eyes were on Bethesda during its press conference, with a surreal amount of traffic going through our post with the live feed. Bethesda is the main event for a large number of people during E3, and the company didn’t disappoint during this news-heavy, rabble-rousing event. Who wouldn’t want to recreate the cover from the very first Fallout game? Starfield is a game coming far in the future, so there’s at least one long shot out there. I might move this up to things Bethesda did right, I don’

Anyone who watches movies can learn something from Schrader, who at 71 is still ferocious, jovial and eager to experiment. Paul Schrader: I have a religious background and a theological education, and so I was interested in religious movies as a young critic, but I was only interested intellectually. When I was a critic, I liked and respected religious movies, but they weren’t me. But they’re not religious movies. Love me, love me, love me.

The mood of the Fallout 76 trailer is set by the use of the iconic song “Country Roads” by folk music legend John Denver … but that’s not John Denver singing his version of the song during the trailer. We tried Shazam and had no luck, and the rest of the internet seemed as baffled as we were. Plenty of people online are curious, but no one had been able to ping down the artist who is covering the song. Bethesda itself has discussed the song and its plans for the cover, but sadly we still don’t