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Right now, next to nothing is known about the Ubisoft’s upcomingFar Cry 6and Electronic Arts’Battlefield 6. Each game won’t even likely release until 2021, asEA PLAY just briefly teasedBattlefield, and there’s no telling what Ubisoft will show off at Ubisoft Forward. However, there’s a lot of buzz around one key word for each game: location. Insiders have seemingly indicated over the course of a few weeks thatFar Cry 6’s locationwould be “interesting” andBattlefield 6will be modern....

New gameplay fromCrash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Timekicked off Sony’s latest State of Play event. The lengthy trailer saw developer Toys for Bob reveal several new features for the highly anticipated sequel. For example, playable characters will have a variety of fun cosmetics inCrash Bandicoot 4, but no microtransactions. It’ll also have several new playable characters, including Dingodile, but perhaps the most exciting reveal was the confirmation of N. Verted Mode, an actual inverted mode, forCrash Bandicoot 4....

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, GameStop has enforced a number of strange and controversial decisions that have turned many against the slowly declining video game retailer.From declaring the store as an essential businessto literally instructing employees to wrap their hands in plastic bags while working, it’s clear the company is desperate to remain open amid the current global crisis, however, it seems their efforts may have been in vain....

Iron Harvestcould be called a dark twist on post-WWI Europe, if the reality weren’t already just as dark. It has a well-realized dieselpunk setting dubbed “1920+” by its makers, with fictionalized versions of Poland (Polania), Russia (Rusviet), and Germany (Saxony) acting as the three factions of the game. Players will command massive diesel-powered mechs, colorful hero characters, and hapless infantry units in a medium-complexity RTS with robust campaigns and engaging multiplayer....

Hideo Kojima’s recent release,Death Stranding, has been met with a myriad of different reactions since its release in early November. Yet, many significant members within the video games industry expressed praise for the title, the team behind it, and Hideo Kojima for the ambition and direction ofDeath Stranding. The praise has been reflected in the game’s large number ofnominations for this year’s Game Awards, although somewhat controversially. Now, another major figure within the games industry has praisedDeath Stranding, this time being the director of theSuper Smash Bros....

Telltale Games miraculously came back from the dead at the tail end of 2019,revealing a trailer at the 2019 Game AwardsforThe Wolf Among Us 2. Now that the game has been (re-)announced, the discussion turns to when players will be getting their hands on it. When Telltale Games shuttered its doors in 2018, it lost its license to theWalking Deadand Netflix took back the rights toStranger Things. One property was the biggest hit for the company, the other a series everyone was talking about and one that seemed a perfect match for the Telltale format, respectively....

There was a time whenthe JRPG genre used to reign supreme on the PlayStation, with pretty much every second game released for the consolebeing a JRPGin some way or the other. It was a golden age for the genre, mainly fueled by the dramatic and unprecedented success ofFinal Fantasy VIIon the console. RELATED:The 10 Best JRPGs Of The Last Decade, According To Metacritic This led to the development ofsome truly stellar JRPGs, which have gone down in history as some of the very best to have ever graced the genre....

In this day and age, it has become somewhat rare for a desirable JRPG to not be localized. That’s not to say it never happens, but Japanese publishers have grown more confident when it comes to western markets. Back in the days of the SNES and PlayStation 1, it often felt like games were localized at random. RELATED:10 JRPGs With The Deepest Lore, Ranked While quite a few fantastic titles never officially made it out of Japan, some pretty questionable games somehow made the cut....

Apex Legendshas tons of cosmetics for both Legends and weapons that players strive to unlock over the course of a given season.Apex Legends' recent Chaos Theory eventoffered up some really great skins for Legends like Caustic, Wattson, Loba, and Revenant, but only for a limited time. There are plenty ofApex Legendsplayers who spend their free time coming up with interesting concepts for potential Legends skins, which are often times very impressive....

Fans have been hoping for a newSplinter Cellgame for years now, but they may have just walked themselves into a monkey’s paw situation. At today’s Facebook Connect presentation,Ubisoft announced newSplinter CellandAssassin’s Creedgames, both of which are VR titles made exclusively for the Oculus platform. TheSplinter CellandAssassin’s CreedVR games will be developed by Ubisoft Red Storm, who is best known for working onUbisoft’sTom Clancygames, with support from Ubisoft Reflections, Dusseldorf, and Mumbai studios....

The recent release ofBravely Default 2proves that the old-school JRPG formula can still be innovative as it comes to the new generation of consoles. Featuring in-depth mechanics and a compelling narrative,Bravely Default 2manages to build upon its predecessors without losing any of its charm. In particular, the job system inBravely Default 2is complex and consistently evolving as players will alternate between different combinations of main jobs and sub-jobs depending on the situation....

Call of Duty: Modern Warfarehas recently entered Season 2. While additional features will be scattered across the Season, the launch came with three new maps, theCall of DutyLeague Ruleset, and a new Battle Pass with two free guns and the premium Operator “Ghost.” Season 2 also launched alongside alarge update patch, tackling many of the game’s bugs and issues. However, it seems that the patch’s notes didn’t disclose everything that it contained, and that there may even be an entirely new game mode hidden in the files, waiting for an official release....

When theFinal Fantasy 7 Remakecover art came out, it evoked a sense of nostalgia that left fans craving to know more about the game. It captured thecharm of the original artwork and still managed to show off the new realistic art stylethat represents the game’s adaptation into the modern-day. Square Enix could have gotten away with just the original art alone, but the company instead decided to give the game two, offering fans another visual to choose from by inversing the box art....