State of Decay 2 will be available on Steam sometime next year, joining Gears 5 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection as Microsoft Game Studios titles moving over to Valve’s marketplace. Undead Labs said yesterday that the Steam version will support cross-platform play with Xbox Live, same as the version available on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10. The first State of Decay launched in 2013 as an Xbox/Windows exclusive, but was (and still is) sold on Steam. Microsoft acquired Undead Labs last

Warframe players can start work on their flyable, fightable spaceships with the game’s Rising Tide update, available now on PC. First, players must construct a Dry Dock to build the mighty Railjack, the vessel revealed back at TennoCon 2018. The update also introduces four new resources to help with ship construction, and players may start collecting them now. Once Empyrean launches, players may use these resources to fit their Railjack with different weapons and upgrades. The Orbiter — the main

Diablo 3’s 19th season — the first after the reveal of Diablo 4 — starts on Friday, Nov. 22, at 8 p.m. EDT. Players who complete every Diablo 3 challenge in season 19 can pick up the Valor Portrait Frame and the Angelic Treasure Goblin pet. Both of these new sets are available this season, with new sets for the other Diablo 3 classes coming in future seasons. (PC Only)ItemsDeveloper Note: With Patch 2.6.7, we are beginning to roll out new class sets for every class in Diablo III. New Monk Set: P

Balancing games isn’t easy, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has already had a slew of issues to work out. Players have been complaining about the fact that footsteps were too loud since the game’s release. Footsteps are an important part of spatial awareness in Call of Duty games. The latest patch, which Infinity Ward released on Friday morning, adjusts the volume and sound type for crouch walking and walking while aiming down sights. For a look at all the changes coming to Modern Warfare in th

Pokémon Sword and Shield have some of the most imaginative monsters in the series — there’s a creature, for example, which takes on a new form when it’s hangry. But perhaps the wildest inclusion in the newest installments has to be Polteageist, the ghost Pokémon that inhabits a tea set. Sure, a tea Pokémon creature is creative idea in of itself, especially for a game that seems to take place in Pokémon’s version of England. According to Pokémon website Serebii, most “standard forms” found in the

A team of modders has created a rudimentary zombie mode up and running for Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC, and it looks tremendous. One of the first glimpses of the mode showed up on YouTube just yesterday on the channel of one jedijosh920. They’re not yet biting and slashing with claws; instead they go after players with hunting knives. Some fans claim to have seen teases of an official Undead Nightmare mode in the game on consoles, but there’s been no official announcement of such a thing. In the

To make things a little more interesting, Epic is introducing a fishing tournament to see who can catch the most fish in battle royale. The fishing tournament, called Fishing Frenzy, will select one winner in each region from a variety of different categories. Any player that catches a Mythic Goldfish during Fishing Frenzy will receive the Bottom Dweller Pickaxe. The Fishing Frenzy tournament will start on Friday, Nov. 22 at 8 a.m. Anyone who uses a fishing rod during that time will automaticall

As promised, Valve officially unveiled a new Half-Life game on Thursday: Half-Life: Alyx, a full-length game designed for virtual reality. In other words, Half-Life: Alyx will not move the Half-Life story forward after Episode Two, but will fill a gap in the story during which protagonist Gordon Freeman was in stasis. Half-Life: Alyx is priced at $59.99, but will be free for owners of Valve’s Index VR headset. Images released for Half-Life: Alyx show off environments that will be familiar to any

Final Fantasy 14 producer Naoki Yoshida apparently wants to bring the online role-playing game to PlayStation 5, according to a tweet from a Final Fantasy fan twitter account, but it doesn’t appear to be a done deal just yet. Yoshida spoke at the Final Fantasy 14 Fan Gathering in London, where he reportedly said that the game is in development for PS5. This isn’t particularly shocking news, as Final Fantasy 14 made the transition from PlayStation 3 in 2013 to PlayStation 4 the following year. Th

Eight new fighters join the lineup of anime-crossover fighting game BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle with the 2.0 Expansion Pack, available now. That would be Blitztank, who is paired with Akatsuki from their namesake fighting game Akatsuki Blitzkampf, a 2007 Japan-only release by Subtle Style. Arc System Works’ fighting game, which launched on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Windows PC in June 2018, has been a goldmine for fans of esoteric anime and fighting game characters. Grid View ArcSystem Wor

There’s a new Half-Life game on the way, Half Life: Alyx, and it’s only playable in virtual reality. Here are the minimum specs for the game, as noted on Steam:OS: Windows 10Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600Memory: 12 GB RAMGraphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 – 6GB VRAMHoly moly. Half-Life: Alyx will be released March 2020 on Steam. The game is powered by Valve’s SteamVR software and is compatible with all PC-based VR headsets, including Valve Index, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality

But while I do recommend this marvelous game, I also think the price tag is too high. The Civilization 6 game itself is the standard console game price of $59.99. As I argued when I reviewed the most recent update, Civilization 6’s DLC prices are too high, and the entire package should be offered at a much lower price. The total package price is too highTaken as a whole, these post-launch improvements are fundamental gameplay advances on the original design. At this point in its lifecycle, Civil

The Toyota Supra — a street-racing icon that returned this July after a 17-year hiatus — comes to Forza Horizon 4 next month in a free title update. The model has been missing from several big-name racing video games since 2017’s Gran Turismo Sport launched. Turn10’s official Forza Motorsport account yesterday tweeted out the news, saying the 1998 Toyota Supra RZ will be included in Forza Horizon 4’s series 17 update on Dec. 12. Since Gran Turismo Sport launched on PlayStation 4 in 2017, Toyota

Magikarp appears to be a favored pick for NPC combatants entering raids. (@polaroidclear) November 20, 2019When you get into the raid and one of your team members is a Magikarp. The NPC who brings Magikarp into raids tends to be a young schoolgirl. Did this little girl really bring a Magikarp to a Max Raid Battle! Reports indicate that one favored tactic involves bringing Magikarp with a Focus Sash into raids, which ensures that it can’t die in a single hit.

Legends of Runeterra, the in-development collectible card game from the folks at Riot, is good. And I say this as someone who knows painfully little about the lore behind League of Legends. After spending a long weekend with the game, all I know so far is that it’s a very good CCG, and that’s enough for me. The result is a game that’s fun to watch, and that’s made putting in the time to learn the high-level game even more appealing. Compared to Hearthstone or Magic: The Gathering Arena, Runeterr

“Housewives fans are like sports fans,” remarked Kyle Richards, a Beverly Hills housewife, during the WWHL taping. Yes, the stereotype of the Real Housewives being about a bunch of wealthy middle-aged women screaming at each other has some basis in truth. These issues are also what give the Real Housewives themselves a degree of relatability despite their fabulous wealth. Though Bravo shows include a breadth of racial and sexual diversity, Housewives has always been mostly segregated. As much as

Oh, and Appletun — the evolved form of Applin that children “used to” eat as a snack, according to the Pokédex description. Once you’ve got an Applin, you need to find an item to evolve it into Appletun or Flapple — a Sweet Apple or a Tart Apple, respectively. He’ll thank you for giving him the Applin by giving you either a Sweet Apple or a Tart Apple, depending on your game version. But sometimes, you’ll find your respective apple, Sweet Apple or Tart Apple. To do that, open your Bag, scroll ov

David: You know what I’m going to say here. I’m going to say that this makes no sense. And we don’t know who Extra Robin is. And we still don’t know why Batman pretended to blow up a dog. Laura: You know what I’m going to say, David.

Since its release in October, Joker has proven itself a box office juggernaut, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. Though the critical response was divisive, Todd Phillips’ reimagining of the infamous Batman villain’s origins won the top prize at this year’s Berlinale, as well as generating serious awards chatter for next year’s Oscars. It should come as no surprise, then, that a sequel is in the works. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Joker director Todd Phillips (who ha

After two years of work, developers at Sony’s SCE London Studio had to say goodbye to Eight Days, an ambitious narrative action game Sony had just canceled. At the time, the Eight Days team didn’t have a name, story, or gameplay to show. SCE London Studio also revealed The Getaway 3 at the event, which was in development on the floor above the Eight Days team around the same time. The next year, in March 2006, at the annual Game Developers Conference, SCE London Studio gave attendees their secon