Rainbow Six Siege's next two operators are inbound with Year 5 Season 2

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Rainbow Six Siege’s next two operators are inbound with Year 5 Season 2Meet the new neighbors Meet the new neighbors Rainbow Six Siege’s year 5 plans are marching along. Season 2 for the year is officially titled Operation Steel Wave and as promised it’s bringing two new operators and a rework for the House map. Ubisoft gave a look at Ace the medic and Melusi the tracker and their new gadgets during a reveal livestream today....

May 18, 2020 · 2 min · 301 words · Damon Austin

Solasta: Crown Of The Magister shows off beards, battles, and more in a new trailer

HomeNewsSolasta: Crown of the Magister Solasta: Crown Of The Magister shows off beards, battles, and more in a new trailerBeautiful beard boys Beautiful beard boys Yer local RPG-watcher’s here to report some more RPG goings-on. This time it’s a new look at the character creator and combat in upcomingSolasta: Crown Of The Magister. I don’t know how the rest of the hairstyles hold up, but those beards are seriously luscious. Outside the character sheet, Solasta also shows off another look at its very vertical combat encounters in this new trailer....

May 18, 2020 · 2 min · 330 words · Sherri Davis

The Lego Ninjago Movie game is free to keep on Steam right now

HomeNewsThe Lego Ninjago Movie Video Game The Lego Ninjago Movie game is free to keep on Steam right now"Go Ninjago go Ninjago go Ninjago go!" wouldn’t be as catchy “Go Ninjago go Ninjago go Ninjago go!” wouldn’t be as catchy Hey, parents! Looking to distract the kids with something shiny for a few hours in these trying times? You can currently getThe Lego Ninjago Movie Video Gamefree for keepsies on Steam....

May 18, 2020 · 4 min · 741 words · Kyle Sloan

The Wonderful 101: Remastered review

HomeReviewsThe Wonderful 101: Remastered The Wonderful 101: Remastered reviewPower of the crowd Power of the crowd The transforming, aka Unite Morphing, ought to be the highlight but is sadly a bit broken. Here’s how it all works: during regular play you control a single hero, the centre of a loose-knit comet of costumed vigilantes. Holding right bumper or the alt key freezes time, allowing you to stretch your entourage into a winding conga line with analog stick or mouse....

May 18, 2020 · 4 min · 666 words · Travis Mcconnell

Valorant guns: all weapon stats and recoil patterns

HomeGuidesValorant Valorant guns: all weapon stats and recoil patternsBecome a true master of the Valorant weapons arsenal Become a true master of the Valorant weapons arsenal TheValorant weaponsarsenal is an intricately, painstakingly crafted repository of destructive potential. And perhaps more so than inmost other FPS games, you really need to know what you’re doing with them. OurValorant weapons guidewill offer up detailed stats on each of the 17 different weapons you can purchase between rounds, along with clear recoil patterns so you can start to tame these powerful beasts and become a true master of weapons inValorant....

May 18, 2020 · 9 min · 1862 words · Joshua Jones

Overwatch player discovers long-hidden Diablo reference by punching barrels

HomeNewsOverwatch Crate expectations While Overwatch’s Blizzard World map is one massive navel-gazing reference in itself, it seems one of its quieter easter eggs went undiscovered until this weekend. During a match on the stage, Redditor Owlero accidentally discovered that if you start smashing barrels in the Diablo portion of the map, you might just chance upon the familiar orange glow of a legendary loot drop (cheers,DotEsports). If you break the barrels in the final area of Blizzard World, you’ll rarely get a “legendary drop” (Diablo 3 easter egg)fromr/Overwatch...

May 17, 2020 · 2 min · 228 words · Kendra Watson

Test-drive Star Citizen's ships in a free trial event this week

HomeNewsStar Citizen Test-drive Star Citizen’s ships in a free trial event this weekFly before you buy Fly before you buy It is time, once again, to take a wee trip into outer space. From Friday, May 22nd ‘til June 1st, interstellar sandbox and crowdfunding purgatoryStar Citizenis doing another free fly week - letting you get behind the controls ofStar Citizen’s roster of big expensive computer spaceships as part of the in-universe Invictus Launch Week festival....

May 17, 2020 · 5 min · 1012 words · William Rivera

Ubisoft are suing Apple and Google over alleged Rainbow Six Siege knock-off

HomeNewsTom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Ubisoft are suing Apple and Google over alleged Rainbow Six Siege knock-offBreach and clear Breach and clear It’s not that you can’t make a game similar to Rainbow Six for mobile. Ubisoft doesn’t own the market on high-lethality, precision team shooters (hello,Counter-StrikeandValorant). But from glancing at theGoogle Play listing for Area F2, the similarities are striking and immediate. Not that I’d know what the victory screen looks like....

May 17, 2020 · 2 min · 236 words · Jesse Taylor

Colonel Croesus: Turn 15

HomeNewsCombat Mission: Fortress Italy Colonel Croesus: Turn 15 The Comment Commanders have a mere minute left in which to convince me that they control the soggy end of the subterranean submarine base (My verdict, along with sundry stats, will appear in tomorrow’s epilogue - ETA midday). They choose to use that minute aggressively. While Crabmeat 2 ventilates the U-boat and 3rd Squad occupy the two-storey GOLD HQ, almost everyone else left standing is ordered to focus on the one landmark still in enemy hands - the gatehouse in the north-west....

May 16, 2020 · 3 min · 500 words · Courtney Hughes

Half-Life: Alyx gets proper mod tools and Steam Workshop support

HomeNewsHalf-Life: Alyx Half-Life: Alyx gets proper mod tools and Steam Workshop supportHammer something out Hammer something out Half-Lifeand modding are basically synonymous. Whether it’s painstakingly remaking the original inBlack Mesaor spawning entirely new multiplayer genres inCounter-Strike, Gordon Freeman’s misadventures are as much a platform for new works as they are solid shooters in their own rights. This weekend, Valve broughtHalf-Life: Alyxback into that lineage with Steam Workshop support and the beta release of HL:A’s editing tools....

May 16, 2020 · 2 min · 337 words · Billy Norton

2K tee off their take on the PGA with PGA Tour 2K21 in August

HomeNewsPGA Tour 2k21 2K tee off their take on the PGA with PGA Tour 2K21 in AugustGrab your clubs, kids Grab your clubs, kids The PGA Tour is returning to the digital green after former stewards Electronic Arts took to the bench after 2015. 2K have taken over and put this year’s golf ‘em up in the hands of HB Studios who didThe Golf Clubseries. HB are bringing their teexpertise toPGA Tour 2K21and some other fresh simulation bits on August 21....

May 15, 2020 · 2 min · 273 words · Breanna Allen

Before We Leave is a chill interplanetary citybuilder that offers too little flexibility

HomeFeaturesBefore We Leave Before We Leave is a chill interplanetary citybuilder that offers too little flexibilityMy First Factorio My First Factorio Matt and Nate have been playingBefore We Leave, an aesthetically pleasing, non-violent citybuilder which nobody can seem to mention without also mentioning space whales. It’s about little peglike people emerging onto the surface of a hexagon-covered sphere, after centuries living in a shelter underground. And it’s also, inevitably, about gathering resources....

May 15, 2020 · 7 min · 1387 words · Anthony Chapman

Destiny 2 capping gear levels doesn't sound so bad, as long as Bungie reduce grind to get it

HomeNewsDestiny 2 Destiny 2 capping gear levels doesn’t sound so bad, as long as Bungie reduce grind to get itNew opportunities! New opportunities! One of many changes planned forDestiny 2’s next year is a time limit on how long players can keep boosting their gear’s level to remain viable. Legendary-rarity weapons and armour will get one year to shine, and then they’ll be left to fade away. Bungie say it’ll make the game stay fresh over time, get players chasing new loot, and let them make things powerful knowing that they won’t stay around forever....

May 15, 2020 · 11 min · 2316 words · Katie Collins