The first trailer for Warcraft director Duncan Jones’ stylistic, neo-Berlin movie, Mute, is here. Mute is the fourth feature film Jones has directed, following 2016’s Warcraft, 2011’s Source Code and the critically acclaimed 2009 movie Moon. Wanting to work with the actor, he wrote Moon specifically for Rockwell and cast the actor in the lead role. Jones said he got more busy with work, but never stopped wanting to make Mute. A synopsis of Mute can be read below:Set in Berlin in the near future,

The speedrunning community feels more open than ever, and YouTuber Summoning Salt is taking that vibe to the next level. His latest effort is a 20-minute deep dive on Super Mario Bros. infamous level 4.2. Using archival footage and in-depth knowledge of the speedrunning community, Summoning Salt has created a legitimate documentary of the level. It’s a master class in speedrunning a classic Nintendo game, and an excellent entrée into the genre as a whole. If the name Summoning Salt sounds famili

Destiny 2’s servers are currently offline for a few hours, with a big new patch set to go live later today. Bungie is conducting maintenance on the servers and preparing for Destiny 2’s first major patch of 2018, which will bring the game to version 1.1.2. ET; at noon ET, anybody who’s still playing will be kicked out to the title screen. The Destiny community’s morale is at a low point, and Bungie has been promising to roll out changes to the Destiny 2 experience that are direct responses to fa

If you watched today’s Ant-Man and the Wasp trailer, you might have noticed just a glimpse of the film’s antagonist; a stealthy villain in a mask and a hood who bears a striking resemblance to somebody’s Destiny OC. This is Ghost. Ghost is a Marvel Comics villain, created by writer David Michelinie and artist Bob Layton in 1987 for the pages of Iron Man #219. Ghost’s origin story is somewhat murky — we’ve only heard it through an unreliable narrator relating what Ghost told them, and the reliabi

According to Granier, Arkane built levels that combined the progression philosophy of a single-player game with the mechanics and navigation of a multiplayer game. [But] kings are decapitated; it’s not a monarchy anymore.” On the other side, he adds, were slums surrounding the game world — similar to the way Versailles surrounds Paris. “If [we’d tried] after a game like Dishonored then it would’ve been different for Arkane,” Colantonio says. So, I guess there’s karma out there.”“Nothing was wast

Mutant Football League, the spiritual successor to the Sega Genesis hit from 1993, launched on Jan. 19, and it may be one of the last console video games to ship with an old-school, 67-page phat printed instruction manual. For those who have forgotten how to play Mutant League, the manual revisits all of the staples of the classic. When we were designing these things, I was thinking, ‘If I bought that, what would I want?’”Mutant Football League was very much a labor of love. Mendheim made the or

Mutant Football League, the spiritual successor to the Sega Genesis hit from 1993, launched on Jan. 19, and it may be one of the last console video games to ship with an old-school, 67-page phat printed instruction manual. For those who have forgotten how to play Mutant League, the manual revisits all of the staples of the classic. When we were designing these things, I was thinking, ‘If I bought that, what would I want?’”Mutant Football League was very much a labor of love. Mendheim made the or

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds continues its long march toward full release on Xbox One with some small but interesting updates coming this week. The last console patch made vehicles more dangerous for drivers and passengers, and this update continues that trend. The developer is also working on controller input lag as well as visual updates to the scopes. The red dot, holographic and 2x sights will feature improved visual quality, although there isn’t much detail about what that actually means.

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds continues its long march toward full release on Xbox One with some small but interesting updates coming this week. The last console patch made vehicles more dangerous for drivers and passengers, and this update continues that trend. The developer is also working on controller input lag as well as visual updates to the scopes. The red dot, holographic and 2x sights will feature improved visual quality, although there isn’t much detail about what that actually means.

Sure, the Shadow of the Colossus of 2018 isn’t technically the same as the Shadow of the Colossus of 2005, but it comes so close — what’s the harm of preferring the newer, prettier version? This Shadow of the Colossus is its own uncanny thingHowever, you still feel — in the stuffy controls, the fussy camera, the unforgivable usage of the Papyrus font — the Shadow of the Colossus of 2005. What’s stunning, today, is that Shadow of the Colossus retains that sense of inventiveness, magic and awe. (T

Sure, the Shadow of the Colossus of 2018 isn’t technically the same as the Shadow of the Colossus of 2005, but it comes so close — what’s the harm of preferring the newer, prettier version? This Shadow of the Colossus is its own uncanny thingHowever, you still feel — in the stuffy controls, the fussy camera, the unforgivable usage of the Papyrus font — the Shadow of the Colossus of 2005. What’s stunning, today, is that Shadow of the Colossus retains that sense of inventiveness, magic and awe. (T

While Dragon Ball FighterZ has a very advanced auto combo system that will turn just about any button-mashing sequence into a spectacular combo, if we want to move ahead we should look at the buttons that we’re mashing. Chaining attacksThis will make itself apparent as you play, but in Dragon Ball FighterZ normal moves can chain into each other. Jump cancelsThe auto combos handle all the movement for you, but when you’re doing combos manually, you have to do the jumping and dashing yourself. Her

Fallout 4’s Boston Commonwealth doesn’t really seem like the ideal place to start a new hobby. I began to find that my actions in Fallout 4 were serving as an almost meditative practice that promoted thoughtful interactions with my environment and helped to calm racing thoughts. But digital spaces like Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are not merely colorful Matrix-esque worlds that we can slip away into. Michael Nitsche posits that there are five

ForsenE is currently the most used emote on Twitch, according to StreamElements, which tracks usage on Twitch chat. Twitch viewers have pushed forsenE to the top of the charts, surpassing “Kappa” and “TriHard,” two of Twitch’s most popular emotes. Tyler1 addresses the nuisance of Forsen’s community spamming the emote in the clip below. Again, the intent isn’t usually malicious, but it causes a disturbance and brings attention to the forsenE emote. The newest Forsen emote — forsenBoys — is curren

Have you ever wanted to build a Gundam model, but don’t have the patience or mass amounts of disposable income? The next entry in the Gundam sub-franchise, New Gundam Breaker, is heading stateside sometime in 2018. Like other Gundam Breaker games, New Gundam Breaker will let players build and customize digital Gunpla (Gundam plastic model) kits of various sizes and scales. It’s the first game in the Breaker series, which started with 2013’s Gundam Breaker for PlayStation 3 and Vita, to make its

Have you ever wanted to build a Gundam model, but don’t have the patience or mass amounts of disposable income? The next entry in the Gundam sub-franchise, New Gundam Breaker, is heading stateside sometime in 2018. Like other Gundam Breaker games, New Gundam Breaker will let players build and customize digital Gunpla (Gundam plastic model) kits of various sizes and scales. It’s the first game in the Breaker series, which started with 2013’s Gundam Breaker for PlayStation 3 and Vita, to make its

Microsoft announced today that it acquired PlayFab, a provider of services for cloud-connected games. The terms of the acquisition are not known, but a statement from Kareem Choudhry, corporate vice president of gaming at Microsoft, said that the company is now part of the Microsoft family. PlayFab describes itself as “the most complete back end platform built exclusively for live games” and touts its ability to support mobile, PC and console platforms. Choudhry said that the acquisition would e

Microsoft announced today that it acquired PlayFab, a provider of services for cloud-connected games. The terms of the acquisition are not known, but a statement from Kareem Choudhry, corporate vice president of gaming at Microsoft, said that the company is now part of the Microsoft family. PlayFab describes itself as “the most complete back end platform built exclusively for live games” and touts its ability to support mobile, PC and console platforms. Choudhry said that the acquisition would e

The goal of our Dragon Ball FighterZ guides is to help with that. By explaining fighting game basics, as well as systems that are unique to Dragon Ball FighterZ, we want to give beginners a leg up against their experienced competition. There are, of course, many more moves and counters than this in Dragon Ball FighterZ, but it’s important to understand the core relationship. These frequently overlooked fighting game basics will not only help you out in Dragon Ball FighterZ, but in most other fig

In our intermediate guide for Dragon Ball FighterZ, we’re going to discuss systems unique to this game and how to beat some common tricks that players like to use. Special energy blasts like Goku’s Kamehameha — along with standard super attacks — blast right through Super Dash. From here, you can often cancel into a super attack, piling on some extra damage. If you really want to make your counter attack hurt, time your crouching heavy attack to crash through your opponent’s Super Dash. In our a