South America’s premier club football championship, Copa Libertadores, makes its debut in EA Sports’ FIFA series with a free update on March 3. Copa Libertadores will have its own 32-club tournament mode, in which players may take familiar names like Argentina’s C.A. Independiente (seven Copa Libertadores titles), Boca Juniors (six), and River Plate (four); Uruguay’s Peñarol (five championships); and Brazil’s Flamengo (two) and Palmeiras (one). Copa Libertadores 2020 began on Jan. 21 with qualif

The Borderlands movie is officially happening, again. Lionsgate originally announced a feature film based on the Borderlands video game franchise in 2015, and the studio announced on Thursday via a press release that infamous horror director Eli Roth will helm the upcoming adaptation. In a press release from Lionsgate, Roth has this to say about the project:I’m so excited to dive into the world of Borderlands and I could not be doing it with a better script, producing team, and studio. Pitchford

Apex Legends’ original map, Kings Canyon, is making a return, but only for a very limited time. Respawn Entertainment will make Kings Canyon playable as part of a separate playlist in Apex Legends from Friday, Feb. 21, through Monday, Feb. 24. Kings Canyon changed over the course of Apex Legends’ existence, but it appears that Respawn is bringing back the original, season 1 experience for players. Kings Canyon was altered for season 2 of Apex Legends, and players have been battling it out on a n

Sony’s PlayStation team and Facebook, including Oculus VR, have withdrawn from this year’s Game Developers Conference, citing health concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Facebook Gaming and Oculus planned to have booths and employees at GDC 2020, which will be held March 16-20 in San Francisco. We are disappointed to cancel our participation, but the health and safety of our global workforce is our highest concern.” Sony announced on Wednesday that it was also pulling out of thi

The latest is called Operation: Star Wars The Mandalorian Edition, which, at first glance, looks like your best opportunity yet to eviscerate the most beloved character in the Disney universe. However — despite what the core conceit of the Operation franchise implies — in the Mandalorian-inspired edition of the game, you’re not actually performing surgery on Baby Yoda. For the record, this isn’t the first time that Hasbro has slapped the Star Wars brand on the Operation franchise. Operation: Sta

It’s similar to how Showtime and NBA League Pass operate on YouTube TV. As part of the new deal, YouTube TV will also distribute WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming service when it launches in May. “Our commitment at YouTube TV is to deliver TV to our members how and when they want it,” Lori Conkling, global head of partnerships at YouTube TV, said in a press release. CEO Sundar Pichai told investors that YouTube has 20 million paid premium subscribers (a combination of YouTube Premium and YouTube M

We’re used to hankering for the conclusion of a serialized story arc, but The Witcher and The Mandalorian don’t end on cliffhangers. At eight episodes apiece, The Witcher and The Mandalorian are by no means brief in the world of prestige television. Part of that is because flagship streaming shows tend to be expensive. It’s no coincidence that both shows are based on recognizable brands, or that so many streaming shows currently in the development pipeline are similarly high-profile adaptations.

Westworld season 3 premieres in less than a month, and its final trailer shows the series pushing even further into the realm of sci-fi action than it has before. The trailer foreshadows the meeting of Aaron Paul’s new character, Caleb, and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood); the beginning of their campaign to destroy Delos, Inc. by any means necessary; and the opposition they’ll face along the way — namely, Thandie Newton as Maeve. Westworld season 3 debuts March 15 on HBO. The previous trailer finally

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo is bringing back a lot of the beloved nonplayable characters we know and love, while also introducing some new ones. While some of them have appeared in the background of promotional art, Thursday morning’s Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct finally gave names and objectives for most of them. Some of these NPCs are serving a new purpose, but some are replacing old NPCs, which raises the question: What happened to the old NPCs? Regardless, here are the new

The Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition is now available, with the Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection coming to Switch on Feb. 25. Thursday’s eShop update also added four retro games to the Nintendo Switch Online’s NES and SNES emulator. The Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection comes with Mega Man Zero 1, 2, 3, and 4. It also features Mega Man ZX and ZX Advent from the Nintendo DS era. You can find more Nintendo Switch games coming this week listed below.

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is one of two free games closing out the last week of February for the Epic Games Store, beginning today. Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and Faeria replace Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Aztez on the free games roster for February. InnerSpace will be the next free game on the Epic Games store, available Feb. 27 to March 5. Epic announced at the beginning of January that it would continue its free games giveaway for 2020, following a 2019 in which the new storefront handed o

Deadpool will be the Fortnite season 2 hidden outfit, and we know because Deadpool revealed it himself. As it turns out, he was also in the Fortnite season 2 launch trailer, but only for a brief second behind a trick bookshelf. Since there’s no mystery to what the hidden skin will be, Deadpool also gets to be a part of your mission hub, which was newly added with season 2. There’s no official information yet on when the Deadpool skin will actually be unlockable, or how many challenges players wi

Nintendo will reveal more details about Animal Crossing: New Horizons today, exactly one month ahead of the game’s release on Nintendo Switch, during a Nintendo Direct presentation on the idyllic life simulation. Animal Crossing: New Horizons sends players on an island vacation planned by Tom Nook’s travel agency. The Nintendo Switch sequel will add brand-new customization options and support for up to eight players in local and online multiplayer. Nintendo will release Animal Crossing: New Hori

A new short documentary film, Wuhan: The Long Night, seems primed to properly convey the magnitude of what’s happening. Filmmaker Lan Bo initially went to the city of Wuhan to shoot a feature film. The lockdown to try to contain the virus, which occurred on January 23, meant the crew were forced to change their plans. Stranded in Wuhan, they decided to use their time and efforts to document what was happening around them. Spurred on by the success of the short, Lan plans to make a feature-length

After a few months of notable silence from the developer of Biomutant, the upcoming “open-world, post-apocalyptic kung fu fable,” the studio took to Twitter today to confirm that, yes, it’s still making Biomutant. “Let us assure you that we’ve never been working harder and more focused on it than now,” developer Experiment 101 said in a statement. But the team behind Biomutant said it’s still not ready to announce a release date for the game, which is being published by THQ Nordic. Experiment 10

Square Enix added a furnishing item that is a shelf of cheese. A Twitter user pointed out the shelf and I immediately logged on to craft the shelf for myself. If you also want a delightful shelf of cheese, you can make one, as long as you have a high leveled carpenter. It requires five Lignum Vitae Lumber, two White Oak Lumber, four bowls of Cottage Cheese, and four pieces of Cream Cheese. The answer is simple, Final Fantasy 14 tooltip: I want a huge amount of cheese because I will eat this huge

Animal Crossing: New Horizons will still have a museum to fill up, despite being set on a deserted island. It was unlikely that Nintendo was going to cut such an important part of the Animal Crossing series out of New Horizons, but it’s nice to get some confirmation. For those who don’t know, past Animal Crossing games have had museums run by a delightful owl named Blathers. As you donate different things to the museum, Blathers will display it in his museum. Animal Crossing: New Horizons launch

The PlayStation Store is offering discounts on some of its best games with the new PlayStation Essentials sale. The sale is specifically focused on critically acclaimed games, and includes some of the best PS4 games of the last few years. The sale also includes Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which came out at the end of last year. Fallen Order is $44.99 (down from its normal price of $59.99). For a full look at the games included in Sony’s PlayStation Essentials sale you can check out the PlaySta

Star Wars fans anxiously awaiting a Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker rewatch won’t have to wait much longer: The final installment in the Skywalker Saga is coming to home video in March, Lucasfilm announced on Wednesday. Blu-ray and DVD copies will hit shelves on March 31, while digital copies will hit digital shelves two weeks earlier, on March 17. (Home releases of The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and all three Star Wars prequels also featured making-of documentaries.) The digital release has

The team behind Homeworld 3, Blackbird Interactive, has a second game coming to early access this summer. Blackbird used something very similar as the original title for a very different video game. It was a game that ultimately led to the studio’s return to its roots in the Homeworld franchise. Now a proper real-time strategy game, it would go on to become one of the best examples of the genre made in the last decade. The new Shipbreakers is quite the departure from that original “social strate