Bug-beleaguered WWE 2K20, “held together by duct tape and spit,” according to one Steam reviewer, will get patched, 2K Sports says. Sports games typically have bugs at launch, but the quantity and game-wrecking nature of the ones WWE 2K20 players have shared on social media are beyond the pale. To wit:2K Sports/Visual Concepts says:So, that fairly raises the question of why the game couldn’t be delayed even two weeks. Whatever the case, WWE 2K20 is now open to the withering criticism that player

A tweet from Electronic Arts last night appears to tease something PC gamers have been speculating on for a while: that EA’s PC games are coming back to Steam. That’s steam coming off the coffee mug, for those similarly obtuse. Electronic Arts is the biggest publisher of licensed video games (thanks to Star Wars and EA Sports), and those games come with heavy costs, so it’s possible the company wouldn’t want to hand over 30 percent to Valve for something like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Origin

As you’re traipsing through the early goings of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, note the debris in the London electronics store. In this canon, Activision has released a console, and its controller is the most jacked-up take on a twin analog gamepad that you can imagine. Infinity Ward mocked up a console kiosk for the electronics store level, and so it needed a piece of hardware to fit the look. Nice destructible prop for an energetic shootout, but with only 120 GB aboard, it could hold maybe Mode

The text size in The Outer Worlds is too small, and folks are speaking up about it online. Obsidian’s newest role-playing game, which evokes the action of Bethesda’s Fallout 3 while simultaneously evoking the narrative and pacing of the original Fallout and Fallout: New Vegas, is a lot of fun. But the font size is way, way too small. Players on console can use system-level zoom functions on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but that solution can be tedious. Here’s hoping it’s something that can be pat

The preliminary patch notes for Final Fantasy 14’s patch 5.1 released, showing that a lot of old content is going to be tweaked to be a bit easier. For one, Thornmarch, the fight that pits you against Good King Moggle Mog XII (he of the regal whisker) has been tweaked so players can’t just bum-rush him immediately. Most of the confusing crafting skills are also getting tossed this patch, simplifying all the crafting classes. Patch 5.1 for Final Fantasy 14 will release in-game on Oct. 29. The Nie

Payday 2, a game that’s been out for six years and remains astoundingly popular, is getting more DLC. The news comes courtesy of Starbreeze CEO Mikael Nermark, who let fans know that development is going to restart on Friday morning. Despite its popularity, development on the game’s content was wound down in December of 2018, as Starbreeze faced financial troubles. Now, almost a year later, the company is afloat and Nermark says it’s time to look to the future, which includes more Payday 2 DLC.

Homestuck now has an official sequel: Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon. The new series continues the infamous webcomic, following the epilogues that creator Andrew Hussie released earlier this year. The last page of the current update includes a prompt for readers to choose what Dirk should do next — following the original format of Homestuck. Hussie eventually ditched the element of reader input to avoid distracting from the comic’s actual plot, but that interactivity is returning for Homestuck^2. Hom

You can get a Mewtwo in Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! Ahead of Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield’s Nov. 15 release date, it’s giving away Mewtwo to folks that head over to Best Buy with the Pokémon Pass app on iPhone or Android. Launch the Pokémon Pass app at Best Buy and you’ll get a code to obtain Mewtwo. Here’s exactly what you’ll need to do once you’ve got the code, straight from The Pokémon Company:Launch your Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! Elsewhere, the Pokémon Pass app can get you a Shiny Luna

In the latest This Week at Bungie post, the Destiny developer revealed a new multiplayer mode coming to Destiny 2: Momentum Control. While previous Destiny 2 modes like Mayhem put the focus on abilities and Supers, Momentum Control is all about guns. In this mode, which is a variant of the regular Control mode, every weapon has significantly higher lethality, which means they’ll take out opponents much faster than normal. Momentum Control is also going to be a little bit more sneaky since the Tr

With Pokémon Sword and Shield’s November release date around the corner, developer Game Freak has started ramping up the promotions for the monster-collecting game. The latest ad, while short, is a joy to watch — I’d totally play an entire game that mixes retro pixels with realistic backgrounds. It seems that, despite all the controversy about the Galar Pokedex not including the entire roster, Sword and Shield’s compendium is still enormous. Some of the pals you can spot here, such as Remoraid a

The Last of Us Part 2 has been delayed to May 29, 2020, developer Naughty Dog and Sony Interactive Entertainment said on Thursday. Naughty Dog and Sony announced a February launch for the PS4 game just last month alongside new gameplay previews and a new trailer for The Last of Us Part 2. At this point we were faced with two options: compromise parts of the game or get more time. We wish we could’ve foreseen the amount of polish we needed, but the size and scope of this game got the better of us

Watch Dogs: Legion has been delayed, Ubisoft said in a note to investors this morning. Originally given a March 3, 2020 launch, the publisher says it will now show up in its 2020-21 fiscal year, which begins in April. Ubisoft billed the delay as a “decision to increase development time.” Also delayed into the next fiscal year are Rainbow Six Quarantine, the followup to the tactical multiplayer series also announced at E3 2019, and Gods & Monsters, a new, open-world role-playing game that seems t

Get The Outer Worlds via Game Pass for PC, Xbox OneOn PC and Xbox One, there’s a way cheaper option than buying the game outright: The Outer Worlds is included in Xbox Game Pass on both platforms at launch. Microsoft also offers Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which bundles access on both platforms with an Xbox Live Gold subscription, for $14.99 per month. There’s an introductory offer where new customers can get their first month of PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate for $1. If you want to play The Ou

Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, one of Twitch’s most popular streamers, is making the switch to Mixer, Microsoft’s live streaming service. Grzesiek announced the move by tweeting out a short video on Thursday morning along with the caption, “same shroud. new home.”This move comes just two months after Fortnite streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, another of Twitch’s most popular personalities, made the move to Mixer. However, as part of the move, Mixer is offering viewers a free month-long subscription to

The launch of Fallout 76’s premium subscription, Fallout 1st, could not be going worse. First, the ostensible reason to fork over money in the first place — long-requested private servers — doesn’t seem to deliver what it promises. One reported bug seems to involve using the Scrap Box in another player’s world, and then finding the deposit has vanished both there and in the player’s own private world. Fallout 1st is described as both a “one-month waste your money membership” and a “yearly cash b

The Outer Worlds has come to Twitch, but probably not in the way you expect. The sci-fi-RPG from Obsidian Games has become the the first pre-release game to have a Twitch Plays stream, and chat has already murdered one poor, unsuspecting NPC. Twitch Plays provides a stream of The Outer Worlds, and other games, that is entirely controlled by Twitch viewers who input their commands through the chat window. Twitch Plays was first popularized with Twitch Plays Pokemon, but has since gone on to sligh

Fallout 76, the latest and most troubled iteration of the Bethesda Game Studio’s post-apocalyptic role-playing franchise, is adding private worlds. Those interested in playing the game alone, or with a small group of friends, will need to sign up for a $12.99 monthly membership, or buy a full year of the service for $99.99. Bethesda announced the subscription service, called Fallout 1st, on the official Fallout website. Related Fallout 76 wearable helmet recalled because of dangerous mold“If you

Over the last 24 hours, social media has been overrun with unflattering videos, screenshots, and GIFs of the latest WWE game, WWE 2K20. As the players tell it, the wrestling title is a barely functional mess full of baffling glitches, graphical hiccups, performance issues, and missing features. While 2K did not immediately respond to a request for comment, the leading theory right now involves a rocky development situation. Longtime fans may recall that longtime Japanese developer Yuke is no lon

Polygon has had its hands on Overwatch for Nintendo Switch for a few weeks now. Now that the experts at Digital Foundry have done a deep dive, it’s clear what sorts of accommodations were made. As a baseline, Digital Foundry discovered that what the developers said about the game’s performance is true. “On closer inspection, there is much more to it,” they write, “with dynamic resolution scaling in play. But the developers have clearly elected to target handheld resolutions as their baseline, sc

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is set to release on Friday, Oct. 25. But if you’re a PC player that date is a little more complicated thanks to time zones and preloading. Modern Warfare will be available for PC players to preload at 10 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, Oct. 22. As for the actual release time: Modern Warfare will be available at 9 p.m. It will release at the same time around the world, but in case you don’t live in the United States here’s a few other cities, along with the times the game will