BioWare’s upcoming action-RPG Anthem will have the player collaborating with their friends, and it’ll have them forming relationships with a core cast of NPCs — but it won’t offer players the chance to get all snuggly with anyone. Mike Gamble, Anthem’s lead producer, told Game Informer the news, likely to be wistfully received by many a fan of BioWare’s famously amorous franchises like Mass Effect or Dragon Age. Some of the stuff we did with Mass Effect — the Citadel DLC specifically — there was

I was crestfallen to learn that Jack Ford will not return to Madden NFL 19 for the next chapter of Longshot, the story mode introduced in last year’s game. And yet, it’s almost good news if you really dug Ford as a character, the way his dialogue was written and the way he was presented in the first Longshot in Madden NFL 18. The second chapter will not import the choices a user made in Madden NFL 18. I took the latter route, and it sounds like that one is the basis for Longshot’s second chapter

Did you notice the platforms FIFA 19 is launching on, when the game was announced today at EA Play 2018? There’s Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One — and, an EA representative confirmed to Polygon, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. But the confirmation that FIFA 19 is in development for those older systems points to the Xbox 360 and PS3 as still-relevant platforms and market spaces that a publisher — particularly one paying a ton of licensing fees — would still do well to address.

Anger over Electronic Arts approach to microtransactions — specifically loot boxes and concerns over pay-to-win tactics — was still on the minds of the company today at the publisher’s EA Play event. As you look at the 10 experiences that you’re going to see today and as you play games this week, there’s some things we hope come through. First, that at the very core is choice, is that you as players get to choose how you play, what you play, when you play and what devices you play on. At EA Play

John Lasseter, Pixar’s chief creative officer and the head of Walt Disney Animation Studios, will leave the company at the end of the year, the Walt Disney Company announced. Last November, Lasseter took a six-month leave of absence to address his professional behavior, amid several reports of misconduct allegations from female employees. The Walt Disney Company has yet to announce a replacement for Lasseter at this time. The Toy Story and Cars director has been a public fixture of the Walt Disn

Each month, Netflix adds nearly 80 movies, shows, and original series to the platform, a streaming bounty that piles up and leaves most of us endlessly scrolling through the on-screen recommendations. But, twist, the second assassin’s clients really just want him to run into and kill the first assassin on the job! 1 and 2, Thor’s latest outing seems designed for Netflix — so give it a shot there. What follows is not a good movie, but The Covenant turns a genre that typically sexualizes women on

Nintendo is bringing back its familiar Nintendo Direct video presentation for E3 2018. We’ve drummed up our list of what to expect to make an appearance during the Nintendo Direct E3 2018. Big Nintendo Switch gamesSuper Smash Bros. for Switch: Like Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey at previous E3s, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Switch will be the star of Nintendo’s E3 2018 show. Fire Emblem: Nintendo owes us some gameplay for its first proper Fire Emblem game on Nintendo Switch. Keepin

Game Freak has made it easier than ever to collect and breed optimized Pokémon in what could be the final Pokémon games for the Nintendo 3DS: Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon. This gives you an amazing opportunity to finally build that collection of shiny Pokémon from your dreams. Shiny Pokémon are much easier to get now“Shiny” Pokémon are rare variations on each of the game’s monsters with alternate color schemes. Shiny Pokémon are functionally the same as their non-shiny versions, but

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly exotic item merchant. Its exotic perk, Wraithmetal Mail, will grant Hunters a movement speed bonus and extra weapon handling after they dodge. However, Hunters already have Foetracer and other excellent PvP exotics to take. Its exotic perk, Mecha Holster, will reload submachine guns when you store them and allow you to ready them instantly. Their exotic perk, Strange Protractor, increases your sprint speed and automatically reloads

Justice League #1 packs more sheer joy in to its first three pages than most comics do in their entirety. Every new creative team on a Justice League or Avengers book says that, in their story, the team is going to face their biggest challenge yet. In this single issue alone, the Justice League defeat a millennium-old plan by Vandal Savage and get word of a space-time warping phenomena headed directly for Earth. Our introduction to his Justice League is an introduction to their affection for eac

Every platform has as many drawbacks as it has features, and no one seems to know what a feature-complete VR platform would even include, or when it will get here. So we wanted to have a diversity of offerings so people could come see some of the things VR could offer. What I’m hoping for during E3, from every VR platform, is to see new games that can’t be done on a standard screen. Sony went hard on VR last year, and the PlayStation VR continues to offer one of the best VR libraries out there.

You’re carrying around local multiplayer games wherever you go; you need only flip up the kickstand and detach the two Joy-Cons. You don’t need to worry about keeping them charged, because they charge themselves when you’re using the Switch as a portable system. The shift from portable to console, and more importantly from single portable to one console with two controllers all charged up and ready go, was seamless. Which was Nintendo’s genius; it made local multiplayer something that came packe

As time passed, so did her patience; she begged people to stop clapping so that her publisher, Devolver Digital, could get on with its E3 press conference. It took 30 seconds for people to realize that Struthers was a fake and Devolver Digital’s inaugural press conference was a goof. “Things got out of hand quickly”Devolver’s press conference probably shouldn’t have happened. I was pretty elated afterwards that it actually worked out.”The conference wasn’t just a success for Lowrie, Thacker or D

The future of Game of Thrones is officially in the past. Though Game of Thrones season eight will conclude the television adaptation of George R.R. Like the many theories burning inside the heads of Game of Thrones Reddit maesters, the spinoff announcement made the who/what/where/when gears crank away. Set thousands of years before the events of the current Thrones series, this expansion to the universe will chronicle the world’s shift from a golden Age of Heroes into “its darkest hour,” says Va

It’s easy to get hooked on Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. He didn’t know anything about that when he found Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. He spent $400 here on Nyx, the protagonist of Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy 15, $500 there for Rubicante, a Final Fantasy 4 boss. Cloud is the heart of Final Fantasy!”Until Cloud, Final Fantasy 7 was noticeably absent from Brave Exvius. Cloud’s banner was unusual: Except for Cloud himself, even on-banner pulls were disappointing nobodies created specifically for Final

Blumhouse productions has debuted the first trailer for its upcoming Halloween sequel. This movie appears to be a direct sequel to the original Halloween, and will follow the film’s heroine Laurie Strode and her family as she returns to Haddonfield four decades after Michael Myers’ original killing spree. Halloween (2018) will bring back at least two of the original film’s cast members: Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie, and Nick Castle, who played the original Michael Myers and never appeared in the f

The film begins inside a miniature model constructed by Annie Graham (Toni Collette). Slowly, the model stirs to life, as the Graham family goes about preparing for the day. She loves her family, but not enough, she thinks, or not without caveats, which are revealed part and parcel with the Graham family history. If there is anything to find fault with in Hereditary, it’s in the thing that hobbles most, if not all, horror movies. Hereditary is a movie to be watched from between your fingers, and

Before FromSoftware found success with Dark Souls and Bloodborne, the company dabbled in a wide variety of outlandish action games, including the cult hit, Japan-only, Xbox-exclusive mech game Metal Wolf Chaos. Despite that alteration, the seal that Devolver tweeted looks much closer to the presidential seal that appeared in Metal Wolf Chaos than the one used by the U.S. government. FromSoftware released Metal Wolf Chaos on Xbox in 2004. Wilson travels cross-country in a mech suit named the Meta

The latest entry in Team Ninja and Tecmo Koei’s flagship fighting game series, Dead or Alive, is coming next year. Dead or Alive 6 is coming to PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One sometime in early 2019, according to a reveal trailer. Dead or Alive 6’s debut trailer reveals six returning playable characters: Ryu Hayabusa, Kasumi, Hayate, Helena, Jann Lee and Zack. The most recent entry in the series, Dead or Alive 5, was released in 2012. That game was later updated and re-released as Dead or

Dontnod Entertainment, the developer behind Life is Strange and the recently released Vampyr, revealed its new project today: Twin Mirror, a mystery thriller coming to PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One from publisher Bandai Namco. Twin Mirror’s debut trailer shows a character named Sam returning to the rural town of Basswood, seemingly in the wake of the mysterious death of a local journalist. The trailer shows Sam exploring a surreal environment, seemingly a mindscape, in search of answers