At The Game Awards 2019, developer Endnight Games announced its new game, Sons of the Forest — a sequel to 2014’s The Forest. In a brief gameplay shot, the protagonist carries an axe, and climbs through the forest with another soldier. The Forest is a survival horror game that tasks players with staying alive in a small forest filled with mutants. It’s unclear how similar Sons of the Forest will be to 2014’s The Forest. Endnight Games didn’t reveal when it will release Sons of the Forest, or wha

Ori and the Will of the Wisps is now slated for a March 11, 2020 launch on Windows PC and Xbox One. But ahead of the release date, developer Moon Studios gave fans another look at the Ori and the Blind Forest follow-up at The Game Awards in Los Angeles. New footage in The Game Awards 2019 trailer showed off more of Ori and the Will of the Wisps’ stunning gameplay. Just like Ori and the Blind Forest before it, Ori and the Will of the Wisps looks to be colorful, clever, and stylish. Ori and the Wi

Cyberpunk 2077 is scheduled to launch on April 16, 2020. Now we know a few of the artists who will be on the game’s soundtrack. A partial list of the musicians was announced at The Game Awards tonight. It includes Grimes, Run The Jewels, Russian DJ Nina Kraviz, and cellist Tina Guo. The partial list includes the following artists:Run The JewelsGrimesA$AP RockyGazelle TwinIlan RubinRichard DevineNina KravizDeadly HuntaRat BoyTina GuoThe most high-profile artist in the world of Cyberpunk, however,

Known simply as the Xbox Wireless Controller, the device looks almost identical to the Xbox One’s gamepad except for two elements. One is the Share button, which sits between and slightly below the View and Menu buttons. But the PS4’s DualShock 4 controller featured a button dedicated to this feature — the Share button, which replaced the Select button — giving players instant access to capture functionality. An Xbox Wireless Controller will ship in the box with every Xbox Series X, of course. T

WolfEye Studios was founded earlier this year by Arkane’s former creative director Raphaël Colantonio and former Arkane executive producer Julien Roby. At The Game Awards tonight, the new company showed off its first game, Weird West. It’s a stylish-looking top-down role-playing strategy game set in an alternative American frontier populated by supernatural beings, as well as Wild West standards like gunslingers and lawmen. A statement from WolfEye said that players can “form a posse or venture

Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima will be released in summer 2020, the developer announced during The Game Awards in Los Angeles on Dec. 12. The developer showcased new gameplay and cinematic footage for the third-person action game, followed by a live orchestra playing music from the game. In Ghost of Tsushima, players will be able to explore an open-world island set during the 13th century. The game is centered on a samurai named Jin Sakai as he’s learning the way of the Ghost to def

The latest patch for The Sims 4 added new music, fixed some bugs, and also added … Baby Yoda. Yes, Baby Yoda from The Mandalorian was added to The Sims 4 as a furnishing item. Called “The Child Statue” in-game, it’s simply a statue that you can place and tell your sims to “view.” I have since re-sold the Baby Yoda. What is surprising is how fast Maxis added the item to the game, following all the Baby Yoda hype.

On YouTube, iam8bit finally offers a peek at what RealDoll was making for the Inside collector’s edition. [Note: Spoilers for Inside and the Inside collector’s edition follow.] If you want your own Inside collector’s edition, the bad news is that it’s sold out. Inside fans can sign up to be on a waitlist for a “final chance” to buy the Inside collector’s edition and will be notified by February 2020. Here’s a more in-depth look at everything that’s include in the Inside collector’s edition:

YouTube star Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg has a free new game out today, but you can only play it on Android as of this writing. Apparently, the poop-oriented title was too much for Apple, which Kjellberg says rejected his venture onto the App Store. Poopdie is a low-key gross-out game that seems to take some cues from The Binding of Isaac. The Swedish entertainer uploaded some footage of the game today, where he jokingly tells viewers that Apple thought the game was too “stinky” to appear on the

A surprise update for Mortal Kombat 11 will bring crossplay support to the game, but the feature is currently limited to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of NetherRealm’s fighting game. The feature is not yet live, but when crossplay is enabled for Mortal Kombat 11, it will be limited to Online Kasual game modes and available in designated Krossplay Online rooms. Please note, friends on opposite platforms will need coordinate outside of the game ecosystem, then meet up in a specific Kross

Grand Theft Auto Online’s new Diamond Casino Heist is available starting today, and Rockstar Games has shared more about the activities players may pursue in the big run-up to robbing the Diamond blind. The arcade is a front operation for planning the heist and getting the crew together. The games, whose marketing copy Grand Theft Auto: Vice City fans can probably recite from memory, are Defender of the Faith, Monkey’s Paradise, and Penetrator. Rockstar Newswire has much more (including detailed

Geoff Keighley’s annual video game awards show, The Game Awards, will broadcast live from Los Angeles on Thursday, Dec. 12 at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT. The Game Awards 2019 will also stream live on Twitch, Mixer, Facebook, Twitter, Steam, and other platforms. This year’s edition of The Game Awards promises new game reveals — “around 10 new games/projects being revealed,” according to Keighley. And, hey, maybe we’ll see something more from the new Dragon Age game that BioWare teased at last year

But because The Sims attempts to simulate real life, the developers knew that they had to incorporate student loans, which unfortunately are often a pillar of the university experience. The question then became: How much pressure should student loans actually place on the player? In an early crack, student loans weren’t particularly burdensome, but the team realized that designing them that way wouldn’t make things challenging enough. “The intention with debt wasn’t to make student loans feel pu

Darksiders Genesis looked like another bizarre evolution of an already near-perfect game — like Darksiders 2 and 3 before it. To my delight, Darksiders Genesis takes the franchise back to its roots, despite the top-down view making it look like the largest departure yet for the franchise. Darksiders Genesis isn’t trying to make a similar play to be a stealth sequel to a Diablo game, even though that’s how it appears. I play as either War or Strife in Darksiders Genesis — two of the four Horsemen

But as I write this in November 2019, as scientists declare a climate emergency and the world’s biggest philanthropist fretted that his money might be taxed away, the game that most holistically describes our current moment is Obsidian Entertainment’s The Outer Worlds. The Outer Worlds is an action role-playing game situated squarely in the Elder Scrolls/Fallout mode. The Outer Worlds denies us that simple consolation. It’s clear from the very beginning of The Outer Worlds that the Halcyon syste

I spent weeks playing Red Dead Redemption 2 before I discovered the second half of the world. This essay on Red Dead Redemption 2 was written as a companion piece to the video above, also created by Jacob Geller. Blackwater itself was present in the first Red Dead Redemption, so maybe I should have expected what would come next. But when I think about Red Dead Redemption 2 now, I don’t think about the ending. And in Red Dead Redemption 2, my cowboy daydreams were best fulfilled by nights spent a

Wasteland 2 is free to download and keep forever on GOG.com until the end of tomorrow, Dec. 12, as it kicks off the PC marketplace’s annual Winter Sale. The freebie is the Director’s Cut Digital Classic Edition, which adds the original 1988 Wasteland. GOG.com is touting another 2,500-plus discounts for those who visit to claim the game, with some titles discounted as much as 95% until Jan. 2, 2020. Other highlights:

Psyonix announced the new rate structure in a community note today, acknowledging that the first pricing scheme “did not meet community expectations.” But in the Blueprints’ first week, players blanched at the high cost of some items — including ones costing 1,000 or 2,000 credits. In the new price schedule, rare items will cost 50 to 100 credits; very rare items are 100 to 200 credits, import-class items are 300 to 500 credits, and exotic items are 700 to 800 credits. Furthermore, the paint and

Forza Horizon 4 is getting a battle royale mode. It’s called Eliminator, and involves 72 cars in an open-world arena that involves head-to-head racing and shrinking boundaries. In the mode, players zoom all over the British countryside, engaging in spontaneous head-to-head races with one another. That earns them the prerogative of taking their car, if it’s better (or selecting an upgrade, if it’s not). Players started noticing ads for the Eliminator on the side of NPC box trucks in Forza Horizon

Capcom’s recently revealed Resident Evil 3 remake will include an asymmetrical multiplayer mode called Resident Evil Resistance, in which a team of four survivors must try to escape a deadly experiment overseen by an opposing player controlling a character known as the Mastermind. Crucially, one of those survivors — Capcom has confirmed six of them so far — is named Martin Sandwich. Meet Martin Sandwich, one of the Survivors in Resident Evil Resistance, a 4v1 asymmetrical multiplayer game includ