Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been confirmed by Ubisoft as the next entry in the open-world franchise, just hours after an image of the game’s name and logo were leaked and spread online. The Assassin’s Creed Twitter account posted a short video Thursday evening confirming the game’s name, and an appearance for it at E3 2018. This leak comes hours after French video game site JeuxVideo-Live posted an image of a novelty keychain promoting the hitherto-unannounced title. JeuxVideo-Live’s report cla

A jury has selected finalists for four awards — Best Gameplay, Most Innovative, Most Significant Impact and Best Learning Game — as well as an overall Game of the Year. Developed by PlayBionicMyoBeatz is a music-based rhythm game for neuromuscular prosthesis training. Developed by Cologne Game LabAntura and the Letters is an educational and humanitarian game from the Cologne Game Lab – TH Köln, the non-profit organization Video Game Without Borders and the Lebanese game company Wixel Studio. Dev

But Solo has given me one thing that no other Star Wars movie has managed: It made Chewbacca into a character, not just Han’s pet. Indeed, Chewie’s tacit status as Han’s dog is so complete that Spaceballs parodied him as a literal dog-man. But not in Solo: A Star Wars StoryIn Solo, the only people who treat Chewie like a dog are Imperial soldiers. But it’s not just the characters in Solo: A Star Wars Story that treat Chewie differently, it’s the narrative. Solo: A Star Wars Story might be resoun

In Cultist Simulator, instead of being a lone wanderer within a world, the player is the driving force in a dark quest to ascend beyond mortal ability. Cultist Simulator exists with the influences of Fallen London and Sunless Seas, absolutely, but it shows an evolution beyond these résumé points. Cultist Simulator knows it’s confusing and complex, but it invokes this with increasing difficulty at the appropriate times. Cultist Simulator is a welcome release for genre veterans, and perhaps for ne

Bungie announced today that it will reveal Destiny 2’s second year of content on June 5. The stream will feature Bungie community manager, DeeJ, and several developers, such as game director Steve Cotton and project lead, Scott Taylor. The team will likely reveal the game’s upcoming fall expansion, which will probably be a similar size to 2015’s Destiny: The Taken King. We currently know very little about Destiny 2’s fall expansion, other than it will feature a never-before-seen Destiny mode. Pl

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has been confirmed by Ubisoft as the next entry into the open-world franchise, just hours after an image of the game’s name and logo were leaked and spread online. The Assassin’s Creed Twitter account posted a short video Thursday evening confirming the game’s E3 appearance. This leak comes hours after French video game site jeuxvideo-live.com posted an image of a novelty keychain promoting the hitherto-unannounced title. Jeuxvideo’s report claimed Odyssey will be a foll

Pokémon Quest brings you to Tumblecube Island where you’ll explore, meet some Pokémon friends, cook for them, and fight their wild counterparts. It doesn’t play like a console game (let alone like a Pokémon game), and it follows the design conventions of mobile games. Finding new PokémonYou’ll start your game of Pokémon Quest with just one Pokémon on your team (you can choose from five — Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Eevee). The Waves phase is just your Pokémon wandering around t

Moonlighter may look adorable, but there are a ton of systems at work, and newcomers can easily be overwhelmed. MOONLIGHTER PRICING GUIDEAt first glance, you may think that Moonlighter doesn’t give you any indication of the value of the items you’re picking up, but actually it does. Big store upgrades are at the top, increasing the amount of space you have to sell items. If you have extra cash sitting around, buying the smaller store upgrades like the bed and the cash register will help as well.

Long before I reported on games, I enjoyed gorging on game industry rumors ahead of each E3. Most rumors are just that: rumors. Which is to say, this E3 should be focused not on brand partnerships, media apps and incremental hardware upgrades, but games. Lots and lots and lots of games. E3 2018 should be dense with new, strange, imaginative, shrewd and wonderful stuff.

However, the ways horror, melodrama and porn overlap can teach us a lot about how emotion is depicted across cinematic genres. All three categories fall under the header of “body genres,” which means they privilege provoking a physical sensation over plot development or narrative closure. The purpose of a body genre is to provoke a specific emotional response in the audience, be it fear, sadness or arousal. Despite how popular body genres are, they’re broadly considered low culture, largely beca

Elite Dangerous: Beyond will get a second chapter on June 28, continuing the story of the Thargoid incursion into human-controlled systems of the Milky Way. Beyond, which began February 27 with the first chapter, represents the third season of content for Elite Dangerous. A news release from Frontier Developments promised that the second chapter is more than just a narrative continuation. The Thargoids get a new Scout ship to buff existing scout ships and increase their combat effectiveness. And

The biggest change with this update — called patch 1.0 update 14 — are tweaks to several different types of grenades. Meanwhile, stun grenades will now prevent players from seeing, hearing or being able to shoot accurately if they are hit by the grenade’s flash. According to developer PUBG Corp., these changes were made to help keep frag grenades strong, while making stun grenades and Molotovs a little more appealing to use. But grenades aren’t all that’s changing in this update. For a full look

In strategy mobile and browser game Granblue Fantasy, most new characters and summons are flashy anime characters. However, the newest super super rare (SSR) summon is a little bit different. Gorilla plays a part in the game’s latest event, Handsome Gorilla. While most Japanese gacha games featuring cute girls all have wedding-themed gachas right now, Granblue is heavily focusing on Gorilla right now. Bonito is a SSR summon that’s just a plain ol’ bonito fish.

Turns out that microphone is actually a permanent marker too, and Jigglypuff is not afraid to use it. Using “Sing” to knock all the haters out, Jigglypuff goes to town on the sleeping audience. Available now both on its own and as part of an exclusive online bundle, Build-A-Bear Jigglypuff includes a trademark microphone that can hook onto one of its delightfully tiny arms. Each of these items, except for the card, are sold separately, or you can buy the bundle for $52. If you just want Jigglypu

PAX West, the popular everything-nerdy convention, currently has tickets on sale. The con, which takes place Aug. 31-Sept. 3 this year, will be located in the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington as usual. Attendees can purchase tickets and a variety of assorted PAX goodies on the PAX West website. Finally, for those interested in tabletop gaming, an aluminum dice stand — which comes with twin anodized die — will go for $75. PAX convention tickets tend to go pretty quickly,

Lunastra — a blue, lion-like Elder Dragon — has arrived in Monster Hunter: World. While Teostra has been in the game since launch, Lunastra is just now making her Monster Hunter: World debut, having most recently appeared in Monster Hunter: Frontier Z in Japan in 2016 and Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite worldwide in 2009. For the first time in Monster Hunter: World, these weapons will come with armor skills attached to them. Alongside the addition of Lunastra, the Monster Hunter: World 4.0 update

Three more Rockstar Games are joining the list of Xbox One backward compatible titles: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Midnight Club: Los Angeles and Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis. Both the original Xbox and Xbox 360 versions of GTA: San Andreas will be backward compatible, Rockstar said. Similarly, both versions of Midnight Club: LA — the original version and Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition — will be playable on Xbox One. Those three additions to the Xbox One backward compatib

The best parts of the Pokémon Gold demo leaks are the early Pokémon designsShare The best parts of the Pokémon Gold demo leaks are the early Pokémon designsPokémon Gold and Silver was released in 1999, introducing us to the Johto region and a new set of lovable pocket monsters and trainers. The demo includes the original region map, some unseen story elements (the protagonist’s big brother is named Ken, apparently), removed moves, and other details that didn’t make it into the final cut. But arg

People wait in line because of scarcity; if you don’t wait in certain lines for certain amounts of time, you may not get the thing. People give up time and energy because they think the thing at the end is worth it. The stream went on for 24 hours. The thing that was going to happen, whatever it was, would be made available to everyone almost instantly. If Bethesda wanted to see how far they could push the edges in the other direction, who can blame them?

It combines Fortnite’s new shopping cart, the popular “Shooting Stars” meme and even some Nyan Cat vibes. ProtoFTW’s video is easily one of the better memes to come out in the past 24 hours, but other people found their own way to have fun with Fortnite’s shopping cart. Players are discovering new gameplay methods to use with the shopping cart — including equipping and firing off an RPG backwards to get more speed while riding the cart. Still, it’s hard to contest Fortnite’s best use of the shop