Titanfall 2’s sixth add-on, The War Games, will bring in two new maps and a game-changing feature when it launches June 27, developer Respawn Entertainment announced this week. The main map, War Games, is an urban environment created in a pilot simulator pod. It features a mix of wide-open city streets for titan combat and multistory buildings with large windows for pilot battles. But perhaps the most intriguing new feature in The War Games is a third weapon slot for pilots. The War Games, like

I feel the need to start this column by saying that you have to stop saying you are tilting or are tilted. Somehow, saying that you are tilted has become a way of saying “I did bad this game, but it isn’t my fault.” First off, we all know you did bad this game. Jumping into chat to yell at a teammate for tilting you is a shitty thing to do. Not only because yelling at teammates is bad, but because you are blaming them for something that is impossible. The nature of League requires the cooperatio

Riot’s Lead Producer of Champions, Reav3, released the champion roadmap for 2017 just a few days ago. However, easily the biggest news to come out of this post is the discontinuation of the major class updates during mid and pre-season. Now, with 136 champions in the roster, the team has decided to devote less time to new champions and class updates, and more time to completely reworking old champions. Class updates also caused us to neglect champions that needed reworks but weren’t in a specifi

After three weeks of play, the NA LCS couldn’t be any less clear. Week four seems tailor made to answer that question, or at least, begin to. The week begins with a match up between Immortals and Counter Logic Gaming. Immotals will face off against the other top three team — Team Dignitas — at the end of Saturday as well. Team Dignitas will face another top tier opponent when they take on Cloud9 to close out the week.

By night, Ruhnke is an acclaimed designer of commercial board games best known for the COIN Series, published by GMT Games. The game revolves around hidden information, with each side playing on their own hidden game board behind a screen. Central Intelligence AgencyOn the shared game board, police units are represented by blue pawns. Central Intelligence AgencyThe law enforcement player uses white pawn to represent their ability to gather intelligence in the field. The law enforcement team’s ga

In a statement released on Wednesday, Ninjas in Pyjamas announced that they would be leaving the competitive Overwatch scene and would be releasing their current roster of players. According to the statement the reason for this departure is due to a lack of information from Blizzard on the future of the competitive landscape of the game. This includes the team being given, according to the statement, very little information about the state of the upcoming Overwatch League or any details surround

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After debuting with an all-Danish roster in the spring, Splyce made just one change before the successful summer: swapping in Slovenian support Mihael “Mikyx” Mehle. Turns out he was a perfect fit for the Splyce bottom lane, and they left the lineup untouched going into Spring 2017. At Splyce, he has been replaced by Fayan “Gevous” Petijs, who recently led RED Canids to a somewhat surprising CBLoL Spring Split title and looks to do the same with Splyce. Splyce has been handed essentially the sam

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David Lynch’s bizarre, unsettling and strangely seducing world of Twin Peaks is back, and with it, a number of familiar faces from the original ’90s series. The best part about the return, however, is arguably a new character, played brilliantly by Michael Cera. [Warning: The following contains spoilers for the fourth episode of Twin Peaks.] It’s revealed during Twin Peaks’ season three premiere that Lucy and Andy, two staples of the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department from the first season, had a s

The Long Journey Home is a game of great ambition — an ambition that pulled me in before I realized the limited scope of its mechanics. The Long Journey Home contains some colorful ideas, but it’s dragged down by an overwhelming dependence on repetitive, discouraging tests of mechanical patience and skill. The Long Journey Home is dragged down by dependence on repetitive tests of mechanical skillThe Long Journey Home stylizes itself as a more scientific, literary roguelike. It’s extraordinarily

This is The Arena, one of the very first commercial installations of Zero Latency Virtual Reality in the United States. It’s a full-body, untethered, free roaming VR system and one of the first of its kind to be deployed commercially. One fish, two fishThe first piece of the Zero Latency solution is, of course, the head-mounted display (HMD). It makes use of a product sold by OSVR, a widely-available open source VR system, that clocks in at about 2160×1200 pixels. But these two colored balls are

This worries me, and so I restrict the amount of time my kids can play games, while also taking careful note of the games they play. This is why I want to recommend A Parent’s Guide to Video Games to other parents who are concerned about games. It’s a well-balanced look at video games, broken down into chapters based on the most common concerns parents have about games. Her previous work includes The Video Game Debate: Unraveling the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video Games (20

Despite that success, FlyQuest decided changes needed to be made to their roster. It’s unclear if these changes were within the team’s long term plan, but when Team SoloMid substitute AD Carry Jason “WildTurtle” Tran became available, FlyQuest moved to add him to the roster, replacing AD Carry Johnny “Altec” Ru. Despite FlyQuest having fewer kills than TSM, WildTurtle ended the split with fewer average kills a game than Altec, along with Altec having a better overall KDA. Similarly, Altec had fe

Rek’Sai will now be able to tunnel more freely in and out of team fights. Rek’Sai is unstoppable during both the cast and the leap, dealing more damage the lower her target’s health is. Now, when Rek’Sai ults, she leaps at her target—only a target she’s damaged recently—doing damage if she hits them. Now Rek’Sai can dive in for the enemy’s backline with a more clear focus and she can get out with her tunnels easily. The goal is to have Rek’Sai be the scariest land-shark-queen she can be without

Artist Matt Anderson, a graphic designer and illustrator who specializes in a simple, geometric art style, has an ongoing series called RetroMill, where he takes video game characters and reimagines them in colorful, minimalist prints. In a new spinoff of that series called RetroMill: Wild, Anderson has focused exclusively on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with some incredibly beautiful results. However, he is hoping to have time to make more in the future, citing Zelda, Mipha, Urbosa,

Something like five years ago, Andrew Wilson, who was then the president of EA Sports and not yet the boss of the whole shebang, offhandedly mentioned to me playing video games on Internet-enabled kitchen appliances. It’s not as simple as bolting a tablet or a screen onto the door of a microwave. Furze had to integrate the usual RCA ports on the front of the sucker, and then had to insulate the door (significantly thickening it) because consumer electronics and microwave roasting don’t play nice

It’s a painterly image that could serve just as well as a recruitment tool for a domestic terrorist cell as it does for upcoming game Far Cry 5. In blending the iconography of Christianity and American militia to create a sort of homegrown bad guy, Ubisoft is tapping into decades of anxiety over militia groups like the Montana Freemen, Branch Davidian-like cults, and a President Donald Trump-fueled Era of Fear. Fear of zealots, of militia, even fear of a president is nothing new in America. In F

And, for at least a few of the developers included in this article, it enabled game making to become a passion. Miller singles out two other early game development efforts as milestones, each inspired by other entertainment products. One time, he made a game called Morzag in Time and Trouble with help from an older friend who would sometimes babysit him. With Cocoa, Gage remembers he made a space game called Escape from Pluto, which he put up for sale through a website. They made racing games, t

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