Electronic Arts and DICE are beginning to roll out changes to Star Wars Battlefront 2’s progression and in-game economy systems, as promised just before launch. An update is now live in the game that alters the amount of credits, the game’s currency system, that players win in various modes. “Today, an update went live that includes some adjustments to the economy and progression,” wrote DICE on the Star Wars Battlefront 2 blog. The most successful players will especially see bigger buffs in cre

Jason Roberts’ illustrated, inventive (and long-awaited) puzzle adventure game Gorogoa will be released on Thursday, Dec. 14, publisher Annapurna Interactive announced today. In each of the game’s hand-illustrated scenes, players are presented with four tiles, which they can move, stack and zoom in and zoom out of. The game’s story, described as a “subtle and complex fable,” unfolds as players explore Gorogoa’s visual illusions. Gorogoa will be released on iOS and Windows PC via Steam and GOG.co

Jason Roberts’ illustrated, inventive (and long-awaited) puzzle adventure game Gorogoa will be released on Thursday, Dec. 14, publisher Annapurna Interactive announced today. In each of the game’s hand-illustrated scenes, players are presented with four tiles, which they can move, stack and zoom in and zoom out of. The game’s story, described as a “subtle and complex fable,” unfolds as players explore Gorogoa’s visual illusions. Gorogoa will be released on iOS and Windows PC via Steam and GOG.co

Ubisoft will release new content for Assassin’s Creed Origins in December, including a new difficulty level and a new Horde mode-style quest. In a recent post on the Assassin’s Creed website, Ubisoft announced Nightmare mode, a new difficulty option that will throw “more resilient … and more dangerous” enemies at the player. The two companies announced a collaboration between Final Fantasy 15 and Assassin’s Creed Origins this summer, which has already manifested in Square Enix’s role-playing g

Ubisoft will release new content for Assassin’s Creed Origins in December, including a new difficulty level and a new Horde mode-style quest. In a recent post on the Assassin’s Creed website, Ubisoft announced Nightmare mode, a new difficulty option that will throw “more resilient … and more dangerous” enemies at the player. The two companies announced a collaboration between Final Fantasy 15 and Assassin’s Creed Origins this summer, which has already manifested in Square Enix’s role-playing g

Next time you load up Pokémon Go, you might find the in-game map looking a lot different. Niantic quietly updated the game to use a different source for its landscapes, switching from Google Maps to an open-sourced mapping service. Players first began noticing that the visual overlay of the world in Pokémon Go looked different late last week. The rollout appears to be gradual, with just a handful of countries deriving their maps from OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced world map. That means that while

Next time you load up Pokémon Go, you might find the in-game map looking a lot different. Niantic quietly updated the game to use a different source for its landscapes, switching from Google Maps to an open-sourced mapping service. Players first began noticing that the visual overlay of the world in Pokémon Go looked different late last week. The rollout appears to be gradual, with just a handful of countries deriving their maps from OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced world map. That means that while

Destiny 2’s first expansion, Curse of Osiris, launches Dec. 5 — that’s tomorrow! Curse of Osiris launches tomorrow across all three platforms on which the game is available: PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. After the installation of Curse of Osiris, Destiny 2 will take up 44 GB of storage on PS4 and Xbox One and 68 GB on PC. Once Bungie has brought Destiny 2’s servers back online, Curse of Osiris will be ready to go. Curse of Osiris is the first half of Destiny 2’s Expansion Pass, which c

Is he wearing a hat, or is his head, in fact, one big mushroom cranium? The article winds up with a striking, immediate case that the mushroom is in fact part of Toad’s head, and it stems from Mario’s ability to posses— er, “capture” other living things and inanimate objects using Cappy in Super Mario Odyssey. Anyway, in the video at top, YouTuber Shesez takes matters into the games themselves and discovers some powerful evidence that Toad’s head is intentionally a mushroom, too. Even allowing f

Is he wearing a hat, or is his head, in fact, one big mushroom cranium? The article winds up with a striking, immediate case that the mushroom is in fact part of Toad’s head, and it stems from Mario’s ability to posses— er, “capture” other living things and inanimate objects using Cappy in Super Mario Odyssey. Anyway, in the video at top, YouTuber Shesez takes matters into the games themselves and discovers some powerful evidence that Toad’s head is intentionally a mushroom, too. Even allowing f

All of the world record times for each stage of GoldenEye 007, on Agent difficulty, were set more than 12 years ago and Dam, the first stage, is the oldest of them all. Dam, Agent difficulty, was run in 53 seconds by Bryan Bosshardt on Sept. 27, 2002. Karl Jobst ran it in 52 seconds on Dec. 2, 2017, which you can see above. It’s a seven-minute video but the payoff comes 1:48 in when Jobst gets the official word from the game itself: 52 seconds. Speedrun.com likewise lists 12 with 53-second Dam A

All of the world record times for each stage of GoldenEye 007, on Agent difficulty, were set more than 12 years ago and Dam, the first stage, is the oldest of them all. Dam, Agent difficulty, was run in 53 seconds by Bryan Bosshardt on Sept. 27, 2002. Karl Jobst ran it in 52 seconds on Dec. 2, 2017, which you can see above. It’s a seven-minute video but the payoff comes 1:48 in when Jobst gets the official word from the game itself: 52 seconds. Speedrun.com likewise lists 12 with 53-second Dam A

We may be seeing the last days of the free games — Games With Gold, PlayStation Plus — as we’ve known them over the past eight years. And even if there were some under-appreciated indie gems sprinkled into each month, the Metacritic averages for PlayStation Plus are decisively bad. It still obviates the premise of the free games under PlayStation Plus, which are kept forever as long as the subscription is active. So Sony would have to figure out how players would maintain access to those if PS P

Cyber Monday may have ended days ago, but there’s still a ton of great deals you can get at major online retailers. We’ve combed through our favorites and rounded up the 30 best gaming deals you can still buy, including laptops, controllers and video games. Consoles & BundlesComputingAudioAccessoriesGamesMiscellaneousThinkGeek Star Wars sale: Get up to 70 percent off hundreds of Star Wars-themed productsExploding Kittens NSFW edition for $15.99 (usually $20) at AmazonLooking for tech deals? Poly

We may be seeing the last days of the free games — Games With Gold, PlayStation Plus — as we’ve known them over the past eight years. And even if there were some under-appreciated indie gems sprinkled into each month, the Metacritic averages for PlayStation Plus are decisively bad. It still obviates the premise of the free games under PlayStation Plus, which are kept forever as long as the subscription is active. So Sony would have to figure out how players would maintain access to those if PS P

On Wednesday, PlayStation announced the last batch of free games to PlayStation Plus subscribers for December, bringing to 74 the number of titles it offered in 2017. Getting StartedIn all, there were 74 games in PlayStation Plus’ free games offerings for 2017 (two were PlayStation VR bonuses, and counted among the averages and totals here), with an average Metacritic score of 71.3 and a combined retail price (currently) of $1287.25. Apples-to-apples with Xbox Live Games With Gold (PS3 and PS4 o

On Wednesday, PlayStation announced the last batch of free games to PlayStation Plus subscribers for December, bringing to 74 the number of titles it offered in 2017. Getting StartedIn all, there were 74 games in PlayStation Plus’ free games offerings for 2017 (two were PlayStation VR bonuses, and counted among the averages and totals here), with an average Metacritic score of 71.3 and a combined retail price (currently) of $1287.25. Apples-to-apples with Xbox Live Games With Gold (PS3 and PS4 o

Last week, Xbox Live announced its schedule of Games With Gold for December, bringing to 48 the number of free games it offered in 2016. All Xbox 360 games in Games With Gold are compatible with Xbox One. No publisher gave more to the Games With Gold cause and here are two open-world franchises in the same month. What does feed the bulldog, however, are four months in which the average Metacritic score is over 80. Lowest price Xbox 360 games: Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, Heavy Weapon, Night

Last week, Xbox Live announced its schedule of Games With Gold for December, bringing to 48 the number of free games it offered in 2016. All Xbox 360 games in Games With Gold are compatible with Xbox One. No publisher gave more to the Games With Gold cause and here are two open-world franchises in the same month. What does feed the bulldog, however, are four months in which the average Metacritic score is over 80. Lowest price Xbox 360 games: Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, Heavy Weapon, Night

Cyber Monday may have ended days ago, but there’s still a ton of great deals you can get at major online retailers. We’ve combed through our favorites and rounded up the 30 best gaming deals you can still buy, including laptops, controllers and video games. Consoles & BundlesComputingAudioAccessoriesGamesMiscellaneousThinkGeek Star Wars sale: Get up to 70 percent off hundreds of Star Wars-themed productsExploding Kittens NSFW edition for $15.99 (usually $20) at AmazonLooking for tech deals? Poly