Overwatch’s Winter Wonderland event returns with new Mei content
It’s beginning to look a lot like seasonal-event time for online games, and Overwatch is showing up with the return of its fan-favorite Winter...
Xbox Live is down and has taken many games with it
Update 3 at 11:30 a.m. on December 9: Xbox Live continues to have intermittent problems. Xbox One owners and PC players are encountering connection...
2017 was huge for Discord, and it wants to do even more in 2018
Discord is one of the fastest growing gamer software tools. It has 87 million registered users and more than 14 million daily active users....
Donkey Kong gets his own Christmas special in the form of a fan-made arcade remix
It’s the season for holiday specials, but game developers don’t make many of these for their properties. Sure, you can go back and play...
Two guys, a girl, and a Poképlace: Ryan Reynolds is Detective Pikachu
Hollywood studio Legendary has hired Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds to play the lead role in its upcoming Detective Pikachu film, according to Hollywood Reporter. Nintendo and The Pokémon...
Steam drops Bitcoin support due to volatility and $20 transaction fees
Bitcoin is causing too many complications for Valve, so the company has announced that it will no longer accept the digital cryptocurrency. Valve runs...
Bridge Constructor Portal revives Valve’s murderous but lovable GlaDOS
Crossing rivers with suspension bridges or steel rebar is folksy and quaint, but those methods are too old fashioned for Aperture Science. And in...
YouTube’s top game-trailer ads of 2017 — Minions get more hits than Star Wars: Battlefront II
The various Google brands are looking back on 2017, and YouTube is revealing its top videos of the year. That includes the “game trailer”...
Star Wars: Battlefront II should teach publishers to drop the sales pitch
Electronic Arts has an authenticity problem, and, in my opinion, it stems from how it talks to us about its games. Star Wars: Battlefront...
Warhammer 40K’s first VR game puts you into The Horus Heresy
The Warhammer 40K universe is expanding into virtual reality with the turn-based tactical adventure The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth, which is entering the...