People Can Fly, the same developer behind Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgement, has casually announced its next project. The studio formerly known as Epic Games Poland is working on an entirely new piece of intellectual property — a AAA-quality shooter to be exact, published by Square Enix. In 2012, the studio was sold to Epic Games and several key members of the team broke off to create another studio called The Astronauts. He was also unable to say if it’s connected with Square Enix’s commi

Captain America memes aren’t new, or even funny, but the most recent viral incarnation becomes far more charming when compared to Captain America’s first meme. Captain America’s newest meme is based on a scene from Spider-Man: Homecoming, where an old video is being played for a group of kids sitting in detention. Captain America sits down on a chair, and kind of sighs. Fans of Captain America and the Marvel Cinematic Universe will recognize that phrase: “I understood that reference.” It’s a thr

If you haven’t seen Logan, but you’re interested in seeing it — without knowing how it ends — you might want to see it before you see Deadpool 2. Because Deadpool 2 spoils the ending of Logan. There’s really no connection between Logan and Deadpool 2, other than that they both have some X-Men characters in them. Presumably, Logan takes place after Deadpool 2, because Logan is set decades into the future, after a mysterious incident caused the X-Men to disband. If you still want to go into Logan

Lando Calrissian, one of Star Wars’ most popular characters recently reimagined by actor Donald Glover, is pansexual. “There’s a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee’s [portrayal of Lando’s] sexuality,” Kasdan told the Huffington Post. It’s understandable: Solo is full of scenes between Han Solo and Lando that can be deemed flirty. Polygon has reached out to Lucasfilm to inquire whether Lando is canonically pansexual, and what that means for future Lando Calrissian films if they come to fruition. Ka

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will include a battle royale mode called Blackout, Activision announced during the game’s live reveal today. Treyarch says the game will feature class-based character customization that’s set between the events of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Black Ops 3, so expect many near-future weapon systems and platforms to come into play. Tying the mode in with the larger theme of Black Ops 4, Blackout will also feature characters from Zombies lore — particularly those from the

When Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launches on PC it will be exclusive to Battle.net, Activision announced today. The PC version will launch the same date as console editions, Oct. 12. Beenox is handling development of Black Ops 4 on PC. Weapon recoil and knockback for Black Ops 4 on PC was also designed for those playing with keyboard-and-mouse controls, Activision said. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will also support Battle.net friend lists and other social features.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Zombies mode will uphold the series’ tradition: four-player co-op combat against waves of the undead, along with a weird sci-fi story underneath it all, developer Treyarch announced today during a live reveal event for the game. (It’s inspired by Mob of the Dead, a fan-favorite Zombies map from Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 that was set on Alcatraz.) And the last big piece of Zombies is a new mode called Zombie Rush, which simplifies things for newcomers. Call of Duty: Bl

Treyarch is going back to the future — but not too far — for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s competitive multiplayer mode. Black Ops 4 will be set between the events of Black Ops 2 and Black Ops 3, sometime between 2025 and 2065. Like last year’s Call of Duty: WWII, which signaled a return to more traditional Call of Duty multiplayer, Black Ops 4 combat will focus on “boots on the ground” action, Treyarch said. Black Ops 4 will see the return of Specialists, the class-based characters Treyarch intro

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 developer Treyarch acknowledged this week that the game will not include a standard single-player story campaign, making it the first mainline entry in the franchise to do so. The news confirms what Polygon reported last month, based on multiple sources: Treyarch decided to scrap an unfinished Black Ops 4 campaign and focus instead on multiplayer components, in the form of the Call of Duty series’ traditional competitive multiplayer package and its cooperative Zombies m

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 trailers, news and announcements The latest on Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s multiplayer, zombie and battle royale modesDuring its livestream reveal event today, Activision debuted the first look at Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s multiplayer features, details on its robust zombie mode and a first glimpse at a new battle royale offering, Blackout. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is the first entry in the Black Ops sub-franchise since 2015. The sequel is being pitched as a “back to

Activision unveiled Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, this year’s entry in the annualized shooter franchise, during a livestream at 1 p.m. We also got to see the initial set of Zombies mode maps, which includes three different missions that will launch alongside the game. In addition, Activision revealed the rumored Battle Royale mode for Black Ops 4, called Blackout. Black Ops 4 will also be exclusive to Battle.net on Windows PC, a first for the series. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will launch Oct. 12 on

Just describing State of Decay 2’s genre takes a lot of words — it’s a survival horror resource management base-building stealth(ish) role-playing game. At its most basic, the point of the State of Decay 2 is to survive in a post-apocalyptic zombie world. It’s all about survival (“Life, uh, finds a way”)It’s right there in the genre’s name, but State of Decay 2 is a survival horror game. Resources versus consumablesThere are two kinds of things you need to survive the apocalypse in State of Deca

State of Decay 2 manages to simulate this gray, dispiriting life so fully that my denouement was self-annihilation. But in the doing of State of Decay 2’s endlessly dreary tasks, I became too sad and too tired to continue. State of Decay 2 is set in an American landscape dominated by the walking dead. But in State of Decay 2, I never experience a crawling of the skin, a raising of the arm hairs. In its urge to expansion, State of Decay 2 reminds me of a certain kind of scratch-the-itch mobile ga

The Xbox Adaptive Controller is the strongest, clearest expression yet of Microsoft’s commitment to reaching people with disabilities, and it sprang in part out of a controller that’s on the opposite end of the accessibility spectrum. In late 2015, Microsoft launched the Xbox Elite controller, a high-end gamepad designed for the most demanding customers out there, like esports athletes. Before it launched the Elite controller, Microsoft began working on the device that would become the Xbox Adap

Opening YouTube is a risky game when it comes to spoilers, which can pop up in YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, clickbait thumbnails and even search results. Unfortunately, there aren’t any foolproof ways to avoid spoilers. It’s a bit easier to avoid spoilers on Tumblr and Reddit, though. Video Blockers (Google Chrome extension)Video Blockers is one of the highest-rated extensions in the Chrome marketplace that avid YouTube users employ as a defense against spoilers. uBlock OriginuBlock Origi

But today Bungie dropped a new, detailed development roadmap on the next few months of Destiny 2. Starting in two weeks, on May 29, Bungie will release three new features: Faction Rally improvements, exotic armor tuning and something called Crucible Labs. The exotic armor sandbox update suggests something similar to the exotic weapons tuning pass we just saw in the v1.2.0 update alongside Warmind. More exotic changes, PC clan chat and a Year 1 triumph activity will also be added in July. Some of

Once all six of your players are in the fan room, head right and into a small room with a control panel and a lever. In this fan room, there are two chests that drop raid-level loot, making them worth getting each time you run Spire of Stars. You’ll need to throw the ball between each checkpoint room and carry it with you all the way through the fan puzzle. The hidden chestThe hidden chest is far less time-consuming than the puzzle chest. Once you hit the third checkpoint room, jump up onto the

This week’s Fortnite update has been released after a short delay, so we can take a good, hard look at whether the last 24 hours of waiting have been worth it. Here are the top five things to look out for in today’s patch. This isn’t a huge change, but having a snack in the middle of a match is rarely a bad idea, so enjoy. New sounds for players above you in Battle RoyaleThis is going to be interesting in practice. The Impulse Grenade Drop Rate has been increased by five percent, and damage deal

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth’s new allied race system will push players all over Azeroth (and beyond) to recruit allies. One of the newest allied races will have us traveling back in time to World of Warcraft’s alternate-universe Draenor, where things have taken a turn for the weird. Under Yrel, one of the main Alliance heroes from Warlords, the Draenei have created a sect of fanatics called the Lightbound. While there were alternate reality versions of characters players already knew,

Since the beginning of April, Sokpop has released three games and a photo editor for your phone. In the same time frame, I have released no games and maybe done my laundry twice. For three dollars a month, patrons are sent two short games, usually playable on both Mac and Windows. These games range from chill, experimental games like driftwood to spell-casting brawlers like Hoco Poco. And for just two weeks of turnaround, Sokpop’s games are consistently high quality.