Bungie has been legendarily tight-lipped about Destiny’s raids ahead of time, but that’s changing with Curse of Osiris. The studio spent nearly a quarter of its hourlong livestream discussing its plans for expanding on Leviathan, the raid that launched with Destiny 2. Instead, the expansion will introduce a new kind of raid exercise that Bungie is calling a “raid lair.”“A raid lair is a brand-new six-player raid activity,” said Brendan Thorne, senior game designer at Bungie, during today’s lives

Bungie has been legendarily tight-lipped about Destiny’s raids ahead of time, but that’s changing with Curse of Osiris. The studio spent nearly a quarter of its hourlong livestream discussing its plans for expanding on Leviathan, the raid that launched with Destiny 2. Instead, the expansion will introduce a new kind of raid exercise that Bungie is calling a “raid lair.”“A raid lair is a brand-new six-player raid activity,” said Brendan Thorne, senior game designer at Bungie, during today’s lives

Rocket League launched on Nov. 14 on the Nintendo Switch, and the game’s first day of operation was the kind of non-event that many developers pray for. But Rocket League didn’t have that issue; there were over 80,000 concurrent players on the server that first night. The secret is that Switch players are entering an ecosystem that includes other Switch players, Rocket League players on the PC as well as the Xbox One players. Rocket League fans on the PlayStation 4 have been isolated, but that w

The Black Friday ad for Toys R Us is finally online, courtesy of Best Black Friday, and the retailer seems to be offering the same kinds of video game deals that are available elsewhere. Most Toys R Us locations nationwide will open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and will remain open all the way until 11 p.m. on Black Friday — 30 hours later. Toys R Us will offer some of its Black Friday deals online starting at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 22, although it’s unclear which discounts will be availabl

[Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Justice League.] In Justice League, Superman is “dead” and Bruce Wayne is preparing for an impending attack of some kind. Here’s the gist of it: Cyborg and the Mother Boxes share the same technology and, because those Mother Boxes were created on Apokolips, Cyborg has insight into how the Mother Boxes work. Cyborg is the unspoken hero in Justice League, and carries the burden of carrying alien technology around with him at all time. As a charac

[Warning: The following contains major spoilers for Justice League.] In Justice League, Superman is “dead” and Bruce Wayne is preparing for an impending attack of some kind. Here’s the gist of it: Cyborg and the Mother Boxes share the same technology and, because those Mother Boxes were created on Apokolips, Cyborg has insight into how the Mother Boxes work. Cyborg is the unspoken hero in Justice League, and carries the burden of carrying alien technology around with him at all time. As a charac

Marvel Heroes, Gazillion Entertainment’s free-to-play action-RPG featuring a cast of Marvel’s superheroes (and the occasional villain), is shutting down. “We regret to inform our Marvel Heroes fans that we have ended our relationship with Gazillion Entertainment, and that the Marvel Heroes games will be shut down,” a statement from Disney reads. The game was later re-released under the names Marvel Heroes 2015, Marvel Heroes 2016 and Marvel Heroes Omega, the game’s current incarnation. A version

Marvel Heroes, Gazillion Entertainment’s free-to-play action-RPG featuring a cast of Marvel’s superheroes (and the occasional villain), is shutting down. “We regret to inform our Marvel Heroes fans that we have ended our relationship with Gazillion Entertainment, and that the Marvel Heroes games will be shut down,” a statement from Disney reads. The game was later re-released under the names Marvel Heroes 2015, Marvel Heroes 2016 and Marvel Heroes Omega, the game’s current incarnation. A version

Frustrations continue to brew on Star Wars Battlefront 2’s subreddit, where members of EA DICE, the game’s developer, took part in a heated Ask Me Anything session today. Chief among the concerns: How long does it take to unlock all of the game’s content? He continues with a breakdown of how much money all those loot crates could cost if they choose to spend real-life funds: $2,100, a number derived from the cost of the paid currency, crystals, used to open all of those loot crates. (Players can

Frustrations continue to brew on Star Wars Battlefront 2’s subreddit, where members of EA DICE, the game’s developer, took part in a heated Ask Me Anything session today. Chief among the concerns: How long does it take to unlock all of the game’s content? He continues with a breakdown of how much money all those loot crates could cost if they choose to spend real-life funds: $2,100, a number derived from the cost of the paid currency, crystals, used to open all of those loot crates. (Players can

It turns out that Super Mario Odyssey is almost as fantastic when it’s broken as when it works. This glitch let them do just that in co-op mode, where one player accidentally killed off Mario while Cappy was able to live on. I found a glitch in #SuperMarioOdyssey’s 2 Player-mode that lets Cappy kill Mario when capturing a Piranha Plant. I found a similar glitch that soft-locks the game when Mario possesses an enemy at the same frame that enemy dies to lava. I’m obsessed with these Odyssey odditi

Destiny 2 developer Bungie is finally ready to delve into Curse of Osiris, the game’s first expansion, in the studio’s typical fashion: a series of reveal livestreams. Bungie will kick off its schedule today, and you can watch the first livestream on the studio’s Twitch channel (or below). “New Stories to Tell,” the first reveal livestream for Curse of Osiris, will begin at 2 p.m. “Learn about the places you’ll go, the characters you’ll meet, and the enemies you’ll fight,” said Bungie in its des

Destiny 2 developer Bungie is finally ready to delve into Curse of Osiris, the game’s first expansion, in the studio’s typical fashion: a series of reveal livestreams. Bungie will kick off its schedule today, and you can watch the first livestream on the studio’s Twitch channel (or below). “New Stories to Tell,” the first reveal livestream for Curse of Osiris, will begin at 2 p.m. “Learn about the places you’ll go, the characters you’ll meet, and the enemies you’ll fight,” said Bungie in its des

DC Comics fans have been fascinated by the Batman Who Laughs, the most prominent villain in the company’s fall crossover event, ever since he was revealed this summer. Except the whole trick of the Dark Multiverse is that nothing ends the way it’s supposed to. And when the moral compass of the DC Universe’s master planner gets bent in the wrong direction, everything ends badly. And as painful as this is to read, what the Batman Who Laughs does to the family of his Superman might be even worse. T

When it first came to Switch in September, Kingdom: New Lands had a simplistic icon: a pixelated crown on a black background. This goes against Nintendo’s reported guidelines for what a game’s menu icon should look like, but it also just … doesn’t look very good. While not all Redditors were against the icon, Raw Fury changed it yesterday as part of a larger version update. Plus we’ve updated the game’s icon! We even made a trailer about itFull patch notes over here: https://t.co/P3R44h8Bh6 pi

Call of Duty: WWII has dedicated servers again. The dedicated servers returned to all platforms alongside an update to Call of Duty: WWII’s PC version. STATUS UPDATE: Global Dedicated Servers are currently live on all platforms. In a message to Call of Duty players this weekend, the studio called dedicated servers “our highest priority.”However, Call of Duty: WWII’s Headquarters, the game’s multiplayer lobby, still isn’t working as Sledgehammer had intended it. Call of Duty: WWII’s online proble

Developer Arika’s new fighting game, originally unveiled on April Fool’s Day but very much a real thing that’s actually coming out, finally has a name. The game formerly known as the “Mysterious Fighting Game” is officially titled Fighting EX Layer. Arika founder Akira Nishitani announced the final title in a post on the PlayStation Blog, explaining why the fighting game had a tentative name until now. “(Although there were a lot of people already calling it this whenever we streamed…)”Nishitani

Rocket League launched on Nov. 14 on the Nintendo Switch, and the game’s first day of operation was the kind of non-event that many developers pray for. But Rocket League didn’t have that issue; there were over 80,000 concurrent players on the server that first night. The secret is that Switch players are entering an ecosystem that includes other Switch players, Rocket League players on the PC as well as the Xbox One players. Rocket League fans on the PlayStation 4 have been isolated, but that w

DC Comics fans have been fascinated by the Batman Who Laughs, the most prominent villain in the company’s fall crossover event, ever since he was revealed this summer. Except the whole trick of the Dark Multiverse is that nothing ends the way it’s supposed to. And when the moral compass of the DC Universe’s master planner gets bent in the wrong direction, everything ends badly. And as painful as this is to read, what the Batman Who Laughs does to the family of his Superman might be even worse. T

It turns out that Super Mario Odyssey is almost as fantastic when it’s broken as when it works. This glitch let them do just that in co-op mode, where one player accidentally killed off Mario while Cappy was able to live on. I found a glitch in #SuperMarioOdyssey’s 2 Player-mode that lets Cappy kill Mario when capturing a Piranha Plant. I found a similar glitch that soft-locks the game when Mario possesses an enemy at the same frame that enemy dies to lava. I’m obsessed with these Odyssey odditi