4A Games has said previously that Metro Exodus will be more open than the previous games in the Metro series, but it won’t be a completely open world like that of Stalker. For one thing, individual levels in Exodus will be much larger than anything seen in the previous games. The biggest outdoor level in Last Light was roughly “200 meters to 100 meters,” Prokhorov said,. That means everything from weapons, attachments, and other loot, to “frozen stories” that reveal more about the game world and

If the latest report from Canon Rumors has any truth to it, then we may see a refreshed EOS R model as well. We first heard about the Canon EOS R Mark II back in October, when it appeared in an internal roadmap alongside an upgrade for the EOS 5D Mark IV. Fast forward to December and a source has told the photography rumors site that the EOS R Mark II is “now in testing by a small group of Canon professionals”. The source claims that Canon plans on announcing the EOS R Mark II in May, in the lea

Of the Netflix films nominated, only The Irishman managed to pick up a Best Director nod for its helmer, Martin Scorsese. That said, the film also received nominations for Al Pacino and Joe Pesci in the ‘Supporting Actor – Drama’ category, as well as a ‘Best Screenplay – Motion Picture’ nomination for Steven Zaillian. The hilarious Netflix Original Dolemite Is My Name earned a ‘Best Actor – Musical or Comedy’ nod for its star Eddie Murphy, along with a ‘Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy’ n

Although the Pixel 4 and 4 XL only launched a little over a month ago, Google has today announced a number of new features are coming to the Android flagships, with “the first Pixel feature drop” of many set to roll out this month. The robocall screening feature is only available in the US to begin with, and it works by screening any unknown number before it even has a chance to ring on your phone. Video calls made with Google Duo will have a few new nifty features as well. Improvements to audio

Update: The preorder bonuses for The Last of Us Remastered are gone. With the release date of The Last of Us Remastered nearing, Amazon has… Read More »Last chance to take advantage of The Last of Us Remastered preorder bonuses

ABOVE: Killing Floor 2’s next seasonal event is revealed in a new trailer with the debut of The Matriarch. The holiday season is once again upon us, and that means it’s time for some extra special festivities Killing Floor 2. But the big addition this year is Rachel Clamely, making her Killing Floor 2 debut as a tough new boss known as The Matriarch. This M91/30 allows a capable sharpshooter to fire at distant threats, stab at nearby threats, and block and parry damage from incoming threats. Kil

Twin Peaks VR is about as trippy, creepy, and disorienting as you’d expect in the new trailer released ahead of its launch this month. Collider Games ‘ (via Welcome to Twin Peaks ) collaborative effort with Showtime and Twin Peaks creator David Lynch will guide the player through familiar locations including crime scenes, the Sheriff’s Department, Glastonbury Grove, and of course the extradimensional Red Room. Beyond the investigations at the core of the Twin Peaks TV series, Twin Peaks VR looks

In a new trailer, Free Guy gives free will to an insignificant NPC in a violent video game, no longer content with leaving video game extras helpless as protagonists and antagonists alike leave them bruised and bloodied in their wake. Starring Ryan Reynolds as the newly-woke AI, Free Guy is a bit like Truman Show with a video game spin, and the video game looks a lot like Grand Theft Auto. When an NPC discovers his peripheral role in an open-world video game nearing extinction, he decides to use

The announcement of the expansion has already been publicly acknowledged by the official Xbox and Nintendo of America Twitter accounts, as well as Xbox boss Phil Spencer himself, meaning Microsoft and Nintendo consoles are likely destinations for MLB The Show. Still, Sony and Nintendo have until at least 2021 to work out these sort of details. It’s a historic announcement ending Sony’s 20-year run developing officially-licensed MLB games exclusively for PlayStation. It’s surreal to imagine Sony

Redbox will no longer be renting video games, the company has announced. Video games will still be sold at Redbox kiosks until year’s end, but by 2020 Redbox plans to completely abandon the gaming market. Shortly thereafter, the Redbox Care Twitter account confirmed that “the Box” would be phasing out video games from its business model entirely. It’s sad news for anyone who’s relied on Redbox to rent games on the cheap without subscribing to a paid video game rental service. With video game ren

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Today, Sony and MLB renewed their contract to continue developing and publishing MLB The Show. With the new contract, MLB and Sony have negotiated a deal that will put MLB The Show on other consoles beyond PlayStation. In 2021 (likely with MLB The Show 21’s spring release), the series will break away from its exclusivity. Sony San Diego will continue to develop the baseball series for PlayStation and other consoles. MLB The Show 20 will release exclusively on PlayStation 4 this spring with Chica

For those who do like launchers, though, and to reflect the fact that it also carries some new games, GOG unveiled the Steam-like Galaxy launcher earlier this year. Galaxy has been in closed beta for several months, but now it’s available to everyone in open beta. Start the client, hit the “settings” dropdown, select “add games and friends,” and then “connect platforms.” Hey, open beta is still beta. Minor bumps aside, GOG Galaxy looks very solid at this point, especially if you’re looking to cu

The Logitech G203 Prodigy has earned a spot in our best gaming mouse roundup, thanks to its ultra-low price point. It usually costs around $21 on Amazon and other retailers, but Dell is currently selling it for just $18.99. The G203 is a fairly basic gaming mouse, but still offers a 6,000 DPI sensor, a total of six customizable buttons, a compact design inspired by the classic Logitech G100S, and even lighting (though only blue, not RGB). This mouse doesn’t have the best sensor around, consideri

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition now supports full crossplay across all platforms, following the imminent arrival of that edition to PlayStation 4. It’s great news for PS4 fans, as until now players on that platform have been limited to playing with other PS4 owners. With the PS4 and Xbox platforms constantly at war over marketshare, it demonstrates that an up-to-date Minecraft is important to both stakeholders. Of course, this crossplay functionality only applies to the Bedrock Edition, ie, the editi

Fortnite developer Epic Games is involved in a new legal tussle over one of the game’s emotes, but in something of a twist, the studio is suing the dancer, rather than the other way around. As explained by The Verge, Matt Geiler, better known to the internet as the Dancing Pumpkin Man, sent Epic a cease-and-desist letter in October, demanding that it stop using his likeness in the “Pump It Up” emote, and threatened legal action if it refused to do so. After further exchanges failed to resolve th

He’s not quite so well known to the world at large, though, and so Netflix has released a brief video, featuring series star Henry Cavill, explaining exactly who he is, what he does, and how he does it. Witchers can also throw around very rudimentary magic: The video shows Geralt pasting some unlucky sucker with Aard, which is essentially a high-impact Force push. The video also gives a nod to the dry sense of humor that Geralt occasionally lets slip, and to the sense of destiny that permeates h

There weren’t a ton of great deals on gaming PCs during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, especially when it came to mid-range builds. The specifications on this PC include a 6-core/6-thread Intel Core i5-9400F processor, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card, 256GB of NVMe SSD storage, and 8GB of DDR4 memory. It’s extremely rare to see pre-built PCs with Nvidia’s GTX 1660 Ti graphics card go for less than $800 (most on Newegg are $800-850 right now), so getting this for $579.99 is a heck of

The Xbox One X also has an eight-core CPU, but a markedly slower one at 2.3GHz. This, at least, lines up with the other Xbox Project Scarlett specs we’ve heard about already. Where early SSDs were connected via SATA ports, NVMe (non-volatile memory express) drives go through the motherboard’s PCI express port. For reference, the Xbox One X delivers six teraflops of power, but that’s not to say Anaconda will be twice as strong as the One X. Teraflops are used to measure a GPU’s computational powe

It looks like The Elder Scrolls: Legends is on its way to shutting down. The Elder Scrolls: Legends could always return to a schedule of regular content updates, but such revivals are sadly uncommon for most online games. The Elder Scrolls Online first launched into beta on PC back in 2016 and has since come to consoles as well as Android and iOS. A range of expansions linked Legends back to Elder Scrolls lore established in games like Skyrim while also expanding it. Both worked on the digital c