Hi-Rez Studios announced Paladins: Battlegrounds today, a new battle royale-style game mode for its free-to-play, fantasy hero-based shooter. The developer calls Paladins: Battlegrounds “the first-ever hero shooter battle royale.”Paladins, which has drawn comparisons to another hero-based shooter, Overwatch, will follow the battle royale gameplay popularized by Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds pretty closely. Hi-Rez said that Paladins: Battlegrounds will be built with squads in mind; the hero-based

Hi-Rez Studios announced Paladins: Battlegrounds today, a new battle royale-style game mode for its free-to-play, fantasy hero-based shooter. The developer calls Paladins: Battlegrounds “the first-ever hero shooter battle royale.”Paladins, which has drawn comparisons to another hero-based shooter, Overwatch, will follow the battle royale gameplay popularized by Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds pretty closely. Hi-Rez said that Paladins: Battlegrounds will be built with squads in mind; the hero-based

The next set, called Rivals of Ixalan, arrives on Jan. 19. Today we have new cards to share from the set, along with the original art used to produce them. In September of last year, Wizards introduced players to Ixalan, a Mesoamerican-inspired world. Rivals of Ixalan will be the second and final set in the Ixalan Block. You can download Plane Shift: Innistrad, Plane Shift: Zendikar, Plane Shift: Kaladesh and Plane Shift: Amonkhet right now and start using them in your campaign today.

Earlier this week, 2K Games introduced a new historical leader into its world conquest game Civilization 6. Cree leader Poundmaker (Pîhtokahanapiwiyin) joins the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Queen Victoria and Genghis Khan as characters whose actions players control as they seek global domination. But today’s headman of the Cree — a First Nations people who mainly live across Canada — says the portrayal is insensitive to their values. Tootoosis said he was disappointed that 2K Games had not appr

Officially known as EX Raid battles, these time-sensitive battles are the only way to capture especially rare Pokémon. But EX Raids ultimately operate on a random basis. Legendary Pokémon Mewtwo is only available in EX Raid battles — so no pass, no Pokémon #150. Despite the fairly straightforward criteria, the consensus is that EX Raids just … don’t make a ton of sense. 2018 has only just begun; perhaps we’ll soon find more luck with the EX Raid system as the year rolls on.

Nintendo fans quickly scrambled to archive that content, and thanks to those preservation efforts, you can revisit Miiverse (unofficially) any time you want. The web developer who goes by the name Drastic Actions, with some help from internet archivist Jason Scott’s Archive Team, launched Archiverse this week. The project has backed up hundreds of millions of posts, screenshots and drawings created by Miiverse users — approximately 17 terabytes worth of information. “We have the E3 communities t

More new cards from Magic: The Gathering’s next set, Rivals of IxalanHow the new ‘Ascend’ mechanic adds to the game

2017 saw the rise of Twitch’s contentious IRL section — and the community erupted into chaos. At launch, Twitch’s IRL section didn’t look too different from its standard gaming section — the only thing missing were the secondary streams broadcasting a live game. That all changed, however, as Twitch’s IRL section ushered in bad actors from across the globe. Like a large part of the YouTube community discovered in 2017, Twitch’s community realized that sensationalized drama and intimate relationsh

This year he’s trying something different with a campaign expansion called Scythe: The Rise of Fenris. It blends worker-placement games like Agricola with area-control games like Risk or Axis & Allies. The campaign isn’t exactly a “legacy” style game, Stegmaier told Polygon. Legacy games were pioneered by Rob Daviau, the designer of Risk: Legacy and co-designer of the Pandemic Legacy series. “It’s just a campaign game, as there are no elements of permanence that can’t be undone (that’s the defin

This year he’s trying something different with a campaign expansion called Scythe: The Rise of Fenris. It blends worker-placement games like Agricola with area-control games like Risk or Axis & Allies. The campaign isn’t exactly a “legacy” style game, Stegmaier told Polygon. Legacy games were pioneered by Rob Daviau, the designer of Risk: Legacy and co-designer of the Pandemic Legacy series. “It’s just a campaign game, as there are no elements of permanence that can’t be undone (that’s the defin

Star Wars: The Last Jedi reminded us that Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren was more than just an evil villain tasked with eviscerating any joy left in the world. [Warning: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.] While talking to Rey using the force bond, we see Kylo Ren in his room, walking around with high-waisted pants and no shirt. Eventually, we’re going to be bored by the scores of people taking selfies, trying to do their best to pull off the best Kylo Ren impression they can.

The Kinect is well and truly dead now that Microsoft is no longer offering the adapter that allowed players to connect the motion and voice controller to the Xbox One S or Xbox One X, and some fans aren’t happy about the decision. Complaints about how the situation was handled have been trickling into our tips line, with the issue being that Microsoft is making things hard on its most loyal fans. But there should have been some warning that fans were missing out on their last chance to get the a

The Kinect is well and truly dead now that Microsoft is no longer offering the adapter that allowed players to connect the motion and voice controller to the Xbox One S or Xbox One X, and some fans aren’t happy about the decision. Complaints about how the situation was handled have been trickling into our tips line, with the issue being that Microsoft is making things hard on its most loyal fans. But there should have been some warning that fans were missing out on their last chance to get the a

Logan Paul’s younger viewers are trying to cope with the whirlwind of negativity surrounding their favorite YouTuber the only way they know how — by vlogging about it. One young YouTuber, who goes by JT, uploaded a video on Jan. 2 called “What the hell just happened … Logan Paul … Logang … YouTube is the only way I can interact with Logan Paul. Logan Paul is my everything. Another young vlogger, Kid Chatterbox, uploaded a response video on Jan. 2, calling out the “haters” for the way they’

Nintendo fans quickly scrambled to archive that content, and thanks to those preservation efforts, you can revisit Miiverse (unofficially) any time you want. The web developer who goes by the name Drastic Actions, with some help from internet archivist Jason Scott’s Archive Team, launched Archiverse this week. The project has backed up hundreds of millions of posts, screenshots and drawings created by Miiverse users — approximately 17 terabytes worth of information. “We have the E3 communities t

Logan Paul’s fans are reacting to news the only way they know how — vlogging‘He is my hero, who I look up to.’

2017 saw the rise of Twitch’s contentious IRL section — and the community erupted into chaos. At launch, Twitch’s IRL section didn’t look too different from its standard gaming section — the only thing missing were the secondary streams broadcasting a live game. That all changed, however, as Twitch’s IRL section ushered in bad actors from across the globe. Like a large part of the YouTube community discovered in 2017, Twitch’s community realized that sensationalized drama and intimate relationsh

“One quickly learns that the Jedi Code does not give all the answers,” Kreia says, setting the tone for Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords. Truth From ExileKnights of the Old Republic 2 was a bracing, stiff drink in a drought, released at a time when Star Wars couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to be. Surik then meets a beguiling old Jedi Master named Kreia who helps Surik open herself to the Force once more. “It is their code that kills life … their adherence to the will of the F

This week’s Batman #38 is a self-contained, one-issue story, about a newly orphaned young boy seeking out the guidance of Gotham’s Bruce Wayne, the city’s most famous, and successful, orphan. Batman #38 isn’t the first story about Batman trying to solve the murder of the parents of a young boy, either. It takes Robin’s urging for him to stop overlooking the true solution: The murderer was the young boy the whole time. And so the most interesting aspect of “The Origin of Bruce Wayne” might be tha

This week’s Batman #38 is a self-contained, one-issue story, about a newly orphaned young boy seeking out the guidance of Gotham’s Bruce Wayne, the city’s most famous, and successful, orphan. Batman #38 isn’t the first story about Batman trying to solve the murder of the parents of a young boy, either. It takes Robin’s urging for him to stop overlooking the true solution: The murderer was the young boy the whole time. And so the most interesting aspect of “The Origin of Bruce Wayne” might be tha