Fortnite Battle Royale looks like it is due for some kind of cosmic event. But a comet in the sky over Tilted Towers has been confirmed by multiple eyewitnesses and there are numerous fan theories flying about might go down. From there, people think this may be a way to close out the current season of Fortnite Battle Royale and introduce some space-themed content. Fortnite Battle Royale is on its third “season,” which began in February. D 5 may reference the portion of the map where Tilted Tower

Battle RoyalesThanks to Playerunknown’s Battleground and Fortnite this is the trendiest trend in video game trends, making it ripe for April Fools’ prankery. Gaijin’s other game, War Thunder, is running a submarine combat spinoff called Silent Thunder which doesn’t sound like much of a joke actually. And loot crates, oodles of loot crates. All the loot crates. No, okay I’ve just been told we’re not doing loot crates.

Battle RoyalesThanks to Playerunknown’s Battleground and Fortnite this is the trendiest trend in video game trends, making it ripe for April Fools’ prankery. Gaijin’s other game, War Thunder, is running a submarine combat spinoff called Silent Thunder which doesn’t sound like much of a joke actually. And loot crates, oodles of loot crates. All the loot crates. No, okay I’ve just been told we’re not doing loot crates.

Fortnite Battle Royale has reached a new phase in its mainstream popularity: brands now need Fortnite more than Fortnite needs brands. Arguably, Drake appearing in Ninja’s Fortnite Twitch stream marked this transition, Fortnite and Drake mutually benefiting from the other’s celebrity. Villanova rained 3s like they were supply drops. So if it rained 3s like supply drops, well, that sounds like not a lot of 3s. Surely the weeks to come will feature similarly non-sensical attempts to hop on the ban

Fortnite Battle Royale has reached a new phase in its mainstream popularity: brands now need Fortnite more than Fortnite needs brands. Arguably, Drake appearing in Ninja’s Fortnite Twitch stream marked this transition, Fortnite and Drake mutually benefiting from the other’s celebrity. Villanova rained 3s like they were supply drops. So if it rained 3s like supply drops, well, that sounds like not a lot of 3s. Surely the weeks to come will feature similarly non-sensical attempts to hop on the ban

Matthew “Sadokist” Trivett, well known as a commentator on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive esports was suspended by Twitch following a personal livestream yesterday in which he used racist invective. David “Davey” Stafford, a professional CS:GO player, said that despite Trivett’s words, he doesn’t believe Trivett is a racist. Trivett’s behavior, which violates Twitch’s terms of service, comes at a time when the company and its community are making headlines for streamers using derogatory and ra

The solstice has come and passed, and Microsoft is helping everyone ring in the spring season by offering discounts on hundreds of games, consoles and accessories. This Microsoft sale is big, but it might not even be the biggest gaming deals event of the week. PLAYSTATION VRSony recently announced it would be cutting the price on its virtual reality sets and bundles. Retailers are continuing to mark down the hardware, making it one of the more cost-effective virtual reality options on the market

Matthew “Sadokist” Trivett, well known as a commentator on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive esports was suspended by Twitch following a personal livestream yesterday in which he used racist invective. David “Davey” Stafford, a professional CS:GO player, said that despite Trivett’s words, he didn’t he is a racist. Trivett’s behavior, which violates Twitch’s terms of service, come at a time when the company and its community are making headlines for streamers using derogatory and racist terms. Tri

Game Dev Tycoon is available on Steam, but it originally launched DRM-free for Windows PC at the end of 2012. Game Dev Tycoon launched on PC and not mobile at the end of 2012 not because the Klugs wanted to avoid biting on Game Dev Story’s turf, but because it was written in HTML 5. “If you knew HTML 5 and JavaScript, you could write mods” for Game Dev Tycoon, Patrick Klug said. The entire idea of Game Dev Tycoon is you have to make compromises. “We wanted to have a different perspective,” he sa

The solstice has come and passed, and Microsoft is helping everyone ring in the spring season by offering discounts on hundreds of games, consoles and accessories. This Microsoft sale is big, but it might not even be the biggest gaming deals event of the week. PLAYSTATION VRSony recently announced it would be cutting the price on its virtual reality sets and bundles. Retailers are continuing to mark down the hardware, making it one of the more cost-effective virtual reality options on the market

Game Dev Tycoon is available on Steam, but it originally launched DRM-free for Windows PC at the end of 2012. Game Dev Tycoon launched on PC and not mobile at the end of 2012 not because the Klugs wanted to avoid biting on Game Dev Story’s turf, but because it was written in HTML 5. “If you knew HTML 5 and JavaScript, you could write mods” for Game Dev Tycoon, Patrick Klug said. The entire idea of Game Dev Tycoon is you have to make compromises. “We wanted to have a different perspective,” he sa

Lindsay Lohan’s lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive, regarding a parody character in Grand Theft Auto 5 that she said was an unlawful use of her likeness, has ended in New York state’s highest court. Like Lohan, Jonas is someone notorious for a fast rise to fame who becomes a popular subject in tabloid media. But a New York Supreme Court judge (New York Supreme Court is actually trial-level state court) ruled against Lohan. That decision was affirmed in the state’s appellate division, and then

Lindsay Lohan’s lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive, regarding a parody character in Grand Theft Auto 5 that she said was an unlawful use of her likeness, has ended in New York state’s highest court. Like Lohan, Jonas is someone notorious for a fast rise to fame who becomes a popular subject in tabloid media. But a New York Supreme Court judge (New York Supreme Court is actually trial-level state court) ruled against Lohan. That decision was affirmed in the state’s appellate division, and then

Far Cry 5’s for hire system lets you recruit nine specialists — six humans and three animals — to fight alongside you. In this guide, we’ve compiled information on each specialist, and you can use it to pick a partner. Specialists have two abilities, which you can see when you highlight one in the Far Cry 5 roster menu. They’re the elite type of companion in Far Cry 5, and their two unique abilities tend to be a bit more powerful than the regular fighters. Far Cry 5 specialists and abilities

The streaming community is under the magnifying glass once again after Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, arguably the biggest Fortnite streamer, dropped a racial slur during a Twitch stream. Welp…looks like Ninja already dropped the N-word…smh and I had high hopes for him ughh @Nadeshot get ya mans ‍♂️ @Ninja pic.twitter.com/tETY8OunYQ — J.D. “44 More” doesn’t include the word Blevins used. If someone is rapping along to a song and drops the term, Twitch’s moderation team will take that into context. T

It also helps that he directed the 2017 critical darling action game Nier: Automata. TT: I think that it’s just because a lot of people like being in the public eye. Did that have a ripple effect where the rest of the game changed because of the script arriving late? The game only tells you that you can move between the tabs with the circle button and the X button. Polygon: Do you have any final thoughts on the last 12 months of Nier?

The newest map in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which is now being called Codename: Savage, is going to be revealed in a few short days with the map’s first private alpha test, developer PUBG Corp. announced today. Unlike the two existing PUBG maps, which are both 8 km by 8 km, Savage will be the game’s first 4 km by 4 km map, creating the conditions for a much more intense and fast-paced game. Because the map is in such an early alpha state, PUBG Corp. will only make the first test available t

The anniversary of Beetlejuice reminded me of another quirk about the movie: Developer Rare — of Banjo-Kazooie and Sea of Thieves fame — was behind the NES video game adaptation of the film. It’s definitely not Rare’s best work, but that was par for the course when it came to licensed video games of the 8-bit era. And Rare was busy; the studio pumped out at least nine games in 1991, including Battletoads, the year the Beetlejuice video game was released. Unlike the other Beetlejuice video games,

If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly exotic item merchant. This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur exotics on your highest level character. 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. 44 Stand Asides are new exotic Titan boots in Curse of Osiris.

Far Cry 5’s for hire system lets you recruit nine specialists — six humans and three animals — to fight alongside you. In this guide, we’ve compiled information on each specialist, and you can use it to pick a partner. Specialists have two abilities, which you can see when you highlight one in the Far Cry 5 roster menu. They’re the elite type of companion in Far Cry 5, and their two unique abilities tend to be a bit more powerful than the regular fighters. Far Cry 5 specialists and abilities