Developer Epic Games announced on Twitter that Playground Mode will return to the game on July 25, with a few new upgrades, as a part of patch v5.10. Playground mode returns on July 25th! Materials in Playground mode were plentiful, but it was far too easy to run out of ammo, shields or even find the guns you wanted. Hopefully, whatever change this tweet might imply will fix those issues, and let players get back to the action even faster in Playground mode. As for the more creatively minded Pla

Ahead of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth’s release on Aug. 14, Blizzard has started a new video series called Warbringers. Each video will focus on one of the main heroes or villains of Battle for Azeroth, starting with Jaina Proudmoore. As Daelin pushed against the Horde, Jaina sided against him, seeing only his hatred for beings he did not know. Jaina abandoned Kul Tiras and her people, who now hated her for betraying the Proudmoore family. Warbringer: Sylvanas and Warbringer: Aszhara ar

In May, Wizard of the Coast announced that the Magic: The Gathering would be returning to the plane of Ravnica. Now, it’s announced a formal crossover with Dungeons & Dragons called Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica. This isn’t the first time that planes from the world of Magic have been ported over to D&D. Since then, Wizards has made each of its new settings available as a fully-produced, free D&D sourcebook. That includes Plane Shift: Innistrad, Plane Shift: Amonkhet, Plane Shift: Kaladesh and P

Fortnite’s Slurp Juice gives you one point of health and one point for your shield every second after consumption, ending when 50 points have been granted in both areas. But the item is being given a significant overhaul in the next patch. “Hey, that’s a neat idea…” Epic Games’ Jshredz posted, but the rest of the news was then broken by Fortnite’s design lead, Eric Williamson. “In 5.10 Slurp will give 75 points (2hp/s), but prioritize HP first. “Our versioning strategy changed very recently so

Developer MercurySteam is relaunching its 4v1 shooter-adventure game Raiders of the Broken Planet as Spacelords, the developer announced today. The game will change names in August, but another major change is already in effect: MercurySteam made the game free to play. When Raiders of the Broken Planet launched in 2017, the game was sold in episodic chunks that cost $9.99 each. A prologue for Raiders of the Broken Planet was made available for free. MercurySteam didn’t detail how its new free-to

The Fortnite founder’s pack was originally released last year, on July 25, as the easiest way to buy Fortnite Save the World. A few months later, in September, when the game’s Battle Royale mode was released for free, fans who had previously bought the founder’s pack were promised skins for the new mode. Now after almost a year of waiting, Epic has announced the release of the two founder’s pack skins. To thank you for your continued support, all founder’s pack owners will receive the legendary

It says “Lucky Pokémon,” a phrase players have never seen used in the game. Mystic7 — zeroed in on the Lucky Pokémon line, there was theorizing as to what that could mean. pic.twitter.com/DUT2g9f9S1 — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) July 22, 2018A Trainer Tips video goes particularly in depth about the image, trying to make sense of what a Lucky Pokémon could be. “Lucky Pokémon seem to have reduced stardust power-up cost [and] reduced candy cost,” he says, after analyzing the stats on the Lucky Chans

Bethesda Game Studios announced on its community forum that the beta for Fallout 76 will start in October. Beta testers will be randomly selected and the pool will start out small, but grow over time before the game’s official release. In order to enter the pool of beta testers, you must pre-order Fallout 76 and then locate the redemption code on the pre-order receipt or confirmation email. The full version of Fallout 76 will be available on Nov. 14, 2018 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. For m

Arc System Works’ Dragon Ball FighterZ is making its way to the Nintendo Switch this fall, and today, Bandai Namco announced on Twitter that an open beta test for the game will begin in August. New multiplayer features, including two-versus-two, one-versus-one, and offline six-member party match modes will be available upon the official Switch release on Sep. 28. Similar to the console and PC versions of the game that were released last January, Dragon Ball FighterZ for Switch will include a wid

Another year, another San Diego Comic-Con has come and gone. That leaves us with nothing but fond memories and a handful of choice trailers to obsess over. Doctor Who finally teased Jodie Whittaker’s 13th doctor in action, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters managed to leave us very impressed. Here are some of the best trailers that came out of Comic-Con this year. It also introduces the main characters: Prince Callum, Prince Ezran, and Rayla the moonshadow elf.

Superhero-comedy anime My Hero Academia is coming to theaters this fall, with select cities nationwide screening the series’ first film. Funimation, which distributes both the subbed and dubbed versions of the popular show, announced that it will bring My Hero Academia: Two Heroes to American fans just two months after its Japanese release. On Sept. 26 and Oct. 2, purists can watch the film in Japanese with English subtitles. Like the TV anime, My Hero Academia’s feature film is set in a world w

Alita: Battle Angel, the highly anticipated adaptation from James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez, finally has a new trailer. Based on the manga series by Yukito Kishiro, Alita: Battle Angel tells the story of a discarded cyborg restored by a doctor who happens upon her body. The manga was released in 1990, and led to a couple of spinoffs called Battle Angel Alita: Last Order and Gunnm: Mars Chronicle. The project was first licensed in 1999, and the project has been in some state of development sin

Pro Evolution Soccer 2019, the latest edition in a franchise many sports cognoscenti consider to be the better of the football series coming out every year, will offer a demo on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. PES 2019 will get an overhaul in the MyClub fantasy football mode — signing restrictions will be lifted and multiple online events and rewards are being added to the mode. It will feature 12 professional clubs including Bercelona, Juventus, FC Schalke, Inter Milan, Liverpool and se

San Diego Comic-Con acted as a reminder they don’t represent all DC fans. The Snyder cut is a theory that sprung up last year. Polygon spoke to a number of DC and Warner Bros. fans ahead of Warner Bros.’ Comic-Con panel in Hall H on July 21. Believers in a Snyder cut will use social media, YouTube videos and internet petitions to rally their base. I think that’s problematic.”At San Diego Comic-Con 2018, though, the crowd acted as a reminder that most don’t know about the “Snyder cut,” and those

Albus Dumbledore’s relationship with Gellert Grindelwald is key to understanding a crucial time in wizarding history — something that Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald will explore. That’s why Warner Bros. and director David Yates upset Harry Potter fans earlier this year when they announced Crimes of Grindelwald won’t address Dumbledore’s sexuality. Dumbledore’s adoration for Grindelwald, Rowling said in 2007, played a key part in a catastrophic turn of events for both friends and the wiz

Valve’s anti-cheat countermeasures just bagged their biggest haul ever — almost 100,000 banned in a single week. Valve Anti-Cheat has been in service since 2002, beginning with Counter-Strike. More than 300 games are supported (including Valve’s major titles, such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2). Get banned by VAC and, under Valve’s zero tolerance policy, the account is as good as toast. The subreddit r/VACporn is documenting the lost skins and tenure of bigtime accounts

The film’s standalone sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web, rewires the original’s premise for with a less supernatural twist. Unfriended: Dark Web, directed by Stephen Susco, tinkers with that conceit by excising the otherworldly. Hewing to the otherworldly gives Unfriended leeway Unfriended: Dark Web lacks. Unfriended: Dark Web functions like a thriller, but it very badly wants to be mistaken for a horror film. The more that Unfriended: Dark Web tries to leverage Unfriended’s genre liberties, the hard

Concerns expressed by critics range from how Twitch viewers talk about passengers, many of whom are women, without their consent. Lyft and Uber passengers are increasingly becoming public spectacles, according to Alex Rosenblat, a researcher at Data & Society, who has written about the issue before. Most Lyft and Uber passengers aren’t aware they’re being recorded, but it’s becoming more of a phenomenon. “The troubling behavior in the videos is not in line with our Community Guidelines,” a spoke

The other, LoveROMS, has taken all of its Nintendo files out of the directory, reports TorrentFreak. “Through the LoveROMs and LoveRETRO websites, Defendants reproduce, distribute, publicly perform and display a staggering number of unauthorized copies of Nintendo’s video games, all without Nintendo’s permission. Defendants know or should know that Nintendo owns the copyrights and registered trademarks for thousands of video games, related copyrighted works, and images that appear on Defendants’

Disenchantment, the newest series from Futurama and Simpsons creator, Matt Groening, is shaping up to be a charming coming-of-age series. The trailer provides our best look yet at Bean, the main character voiced by Abbi Jacobson, who walks away from marriage to try and find herself. She sets out on a journey of self-discovery, jumping into a series of over-the-top, dangerous and charming scenarios. The official synopsis for Disenchantment reads:From the mind of Matt Groening, comes the 10-episod