According to developer CCP Games, thousands of players joined together in a single battle in Eve Online just last week. Called World War Bee, it seriously bruised the Imperium and left The Mittani looking for revenge. According to Eve News 24, the recent engagement pits allies of the Imperium, supported by Goonswarm’s own massive fleet, against some of those same mercenaries who fought in World War Bee, including the mighty Pandemic Legion. Late Tuesday night, the mercenaries, led by Pandemic Le

Steam rolled out a sleek new update that totally revamps the chat experience. While old Steam chat was adequate (albeit clunky), more robust platforms such as Discord took over the gaming chat experience. This week, Steam Chat officially moved out of beta and is now available to all users. The new and improved Steam Chat, meanwhile, is lookin’ sharp. Fancy new Steam Chat is available on the Steam web browser too, so check it out and start pinging your friends with cat GIFs today.

Ninja Theory is bringing Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice to virtual reality platforms Oculus Rift and HTC Vive next week. On July 31, the developer will release Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition — a separate version of the game — for Windows PC. In the above video, Ninja Theory explains why it brought Hellblade to VR, and details the challenges in bringing the title to Rift and Vive. The game’s visuals were also painstakingly optimized to boost performance, Ninja Theory said. Hellblade: Senua

The blob can run and jump, but its main ability is throwing itself at walls, floors and ceilings, to dent and shape them. The objective is not to traverse an established world, but to shape and create. Multiple single-screen puzzles make up a branching tree, so that each level can be taken, and left, at any time. The blob is able to change its own shape as the game progresses, offering complex new problems to resolve. Semblance is only a few hours long, but the puzzles are individually challengi

Destiny 2: Forsaken promises all sorts of exciting, new changes for Destiny 2 players. Bungie has recently revealed that some of those game updates will now be coming a week early, in the new Forsaken pre-patch. Bungie’s new development roadmap gives players a detailed look at what’s coming in the Destiny 2: Forsaken pre-patch. While there won’t be any new content to play until the following week, players will be able re-experience Destiny 2’s first year with all new loadouts. Destiny 2: Forsake

Fortnite’s newest weapon, the compact SMG, has only been in the game since Tuesday, but the fan and streamer reaction has been loud and clear: no one likes it. SMG and Compact SMG accuracy bonus reduced from 35% to 15%. SMG damage reduced from 19/20/21 to 17/18/19. Compact SMG damage reduced from 23/24 to 21/22. SMG, Compact SMG, and Silenced SMG damage falloff.

Even a small girl can intuit in the culture around her that boys and men don’t want to be like her, and that being unlike her actually gives them status. Gaming’s toxic men are often keen to display offensive opinions about women and people of color. ):When I first started at GameSpot, there were men, readers, who responded with comments literally saying that women should only exist in the games media to be attractive to men. They pull out all kinds of facts and figures about why white men are t

Dragon Ball fans are heading to the secondhand market to find a limited-edition Funko Pop based on a character from the series’ most recent iteration, Dragon Ball Super. Whis is a popular character in Dragon Ball Super, obviously. He first entered the series in the fourteenth Dragon Ball Z film before going on to be a major part of the Super cast. It was pulling the remainder of the Whis Funko Pop stock, instead fulfilling only those orders placed before the store crashed on Monday. pic.twitter.

The new prestige system for the Destiny 2 raid lairs challenges players in brand new way. Instead of adding new mechanics to each fight, players will need to adjust their loadout in very specific, unique ways. Melee kills buff your weapon damage, and weapon kills buff your melee damage. If you need help with Argos, check out our guide. If you need help with Val Ca’uor, check out our guide.

Like a burst fire hydrant on a sticky sidewalk, summer’s biggest gaming day is upon us. And yet, weirdly, there isn’t a big new game release to be seen. Major updates arrived today for Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto 5, No Man’s Sky and Overwatch, all of which are hugely popular game worlds (but games that are one to four years old as of today). Although summer is the dog end of the gaming calendar, it’s a sign of the times that major gaming events are now just as likely to be updates and patches, as

Immigrant Father Studios, founded by Cards Against Humanity’s Karlee Esmailli, launched its first Kickstarter campaign today for a satirical visual novel called The Super Patriotic Dating Simulator. The Super Patriotic Dating Simulator is intended to be an expression of Esmailli’s personal experience, and she wants to make it clear that it is in no way intended to promote ISIS or make fun of Islam or Muslim people. For $5,000, you can be a character in the game, a prisoner of ISIS to be rescued

But the reward for completing this activity is more than worth it: Whisper of the Worm, the exotic sniper rifle. Whisper of the Worm is going to be a must-have sniper for any raider or strike enthusiast going forward in Destiny 2. Enter the AnomalyThe first thing to know about The Whisper of the Worm mission — just called The Whisper — is that it only appears to be available Friday through Monday morning’s 1 p.m. Once all three bosses are dead, you’ll receive the Whisper of the Worm exotic snipe

In the white room, look over to the pile of rubble on the left. Jump to the ledge, look up, and jump to the next one. Look to your right and start moving on the right wall. Look left into the crevice, and jump down to the grass pad here. Jump right into a lit crevice and then over again to the right.

Here We Go Again, the sequel to 2008’s film adaptation of the popular jukebox musical Mamma Mia, premiered with promise, earning over $77 million worldwide. The wink-wink comedy that works as a crutch to so many hyperactive blockbusters is the soul of the Mamma Mia! if we all pray hard enough we can make mamma mia the fast and furious franchise of musicals — miel (@miel) July 21, 2018Sure, Mamma Mia: Kalokairi Drift is probably a distant dream, but the Mamma Mia movies are brimming with captivat

Twitch is introducing a new series called Twitch Creator Camp, as part of a mission to help streamers know when to step away from the computer. Creator Camp is a series of livestreams and videos created in collaboration with top-partnered streamers that Twitch hopes will help its users build an audience. Jessica Messinger, Twitch’s creator marketing manager, told Polygon burnout and other mental health concerns that affect Twitch’s community are important, and that Creator Camp was designed with

Last week, the Fortnite community was enraptured by the elaborate rescue plan of Australian YouTuber Muselk. It all started when Muse found a player who seemed to have gotten themselves stuck off the side of the map with no materials. The player, Chaperdoodle, seemed desperate to escape, and friendly enough not to shoot, so, Muse decided to help them out. Now, in the first update since Muselk’s incredible rescue attempt, Epic has immortalized the mission with an in-game memorial. It’s always goo

A new type of Pokémon — Lucky Pokémon — were announced for Pokémon Go yesterday. But for all the information rolled out about the new feature, Niantic forgot to mention one thing: Lucky Pokémon aren’t actually in the game yet. The official Pokémon Go Twitter later clarified that, contrary to information that was pushed out, Lucky Pokémon are not yet available. According to the initial blog post, Pokémon that are traded have a chance of becoming sparkly Lucky Pokémon, which need less Stardust to

Forsaken, the landmark 1998 console and PC shooter, will be the latest remaster from Nightdive Studios, launching on July 31 for Windows PC on both Steam and GOG.com, and Xbox One, the studio announced today. A big part of the challenge in what Nightdive does is tracking down who now owns the rights to classic games that are long out of print. Kick said that shared pedigree is one reason Nightdive was eager to get its hands on the title. That project, funded with $1.35 million in Kickstarter don

With the Victorian setting, was the title maybe a reference to Peter Pan? “I dislike Peter Pan enormously as a myth and as a story. I am not a Peter Pan man,” he joked. “Sometime around 1895 it started getting a little warped. And now there seems to be a gathering and a purpose and a very strong reaction about that.”The Nevers is an upcoming series from HBO, and does not currently have a release date.

Luckily there’s a trick that makes grinding experience and JP, which unlocks class skills in Octopath Traveler, quite a bit quicker. The thing that makes Bewildering Grace interesting is that it can multiply the amount of EXP or JP you get at the end of the battle. This requires using the BP system, which is kind of like Final Fantasy’s Limit Break system, to power up Primrose’s Bewildering Grace. But you need an alternative plan since Bewildering Grace will disable your item use. Being able to