Fortnite Season 5 is here and it’s brought with it a lot of major changes including new map locations, a new vehicle and a few new skins. But, the most mysterious new addition to the game are rifts. Fortnite’s new in-game rifts look like small blue shimmers that hover in the air around the map. Their locations are mostly random, though they do seem to crop up around the same spaces more often than not. So far, it seems the area of the map with the most rifts is the new viking ship just southeast

YouTube and Twitch are direct competitors, offering their creators and streamers very similar tools to create videos, but that doesn’t mean people don’t often use both services. A number of creators have tweeted recently about YouTube terminating their accounts following uploads of videos teasing an upcoming Twitch stream. Surny, Linus Tech Tips and Aztrosizt are three YouTube creators who experienced this issue recently, bringing their cases to Twitter and asking people to help them figure out

Read-Only Memory, publisher of fine art books celebrating video game history, has a wild new crowdfunding project. Called Sega Arcade: Pop-Up History, it’s a book filled with paper sculptures of classic games like Hang-On and Space Harrier. The book will feature five arcade games in total: Hang-On, Space Harrier, Thunder Blade, After Burner and Out Run. Read-Only Memory has made a name for itself using Kickstarter to create unique art books that capture the vanishing history of early video games

The 2018 Emmy nominations are here and the competition is stiff. The Emmy eligibility window makes for an eclectic mix of new and “old”; this year’s nominees all premiered between June 1, 2017 and May 31, 2018. Dominating the scene were second seasons of Westworld, Handmaid’s Tale, Atlanta, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The penultimate season of Game of Thrones snuck in Outstanding Drama nomination, along with a handful of technical nods. The winners and losers will be revealed at this year’s c

With Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler, we have the latest modern-day RPG whose creators hope to recapture a little of that 16-bit magic. Happily, Octopath Traveler comes a lot closer to realizing that dream than the hopelessly cluttered Lost Sphear and painfully clumsy Secret of Mana did. This dev team previously aimed for a similar effect with Bravely Default, but Traveler does a far better job of it, thanks to more advanced tech tricks like depth-of-field blur. Octopath Traveler comes together

While you can technically take on Val Ca’uor earlier, we recommend that the entire fireteam is 373 power or above. In better news, much of this boss fight is a slight variation on the first part of the Val Ca’uor boss fight. In this guide, we’ll teach you how to consistently defeat Val Ca’uor, Destiny 2’s most difficult boss. Phase 8: Final standLike Calus and many other Destiny bosses, Val Ca’uor has a final stand. The best way to beat Val Ca’uor here is to take your time, line up your shot, an

To better get a handle on which exact character to choose first, read our Octopath Traveler character guide for a more detailed breakdown of the strengths and weaknesses of each individual hero. SkillsOnce you hit midway through level four (it’s not quite at level four — you’ll need to get a little higher), you’ll unlock skills. Our Octopath Traveler character guide has a full rundown of which skills you should pick up first. But the real secret is that Octopath Traveler keeps track of every mai

Before you dive in, you may want to familiarize yourself with terms like boost and break in our Octopath Traveler beginner’s guide. First recommended skill: RehabilitateCures a single ally of all status ailments and renders them immune to further ailments for two turns. Ophilia (Cleric)As one of the select few that can heal right out of the gate, Octopath Traveler’s Ophilia is a decent choice for a starter character. Octopath Traveler’s Primose is not a beginner friendly character. Like several

It’s fair to say that a pretty accurate golf simulation was not high on that list. Effectively they are emotes, but instead of yielding a goofy dance, they actually generate physical objects in the world: a basketball, a beach ball and, yes, a golf ball. None of these objects seem to have any tactical value — but fun value? The golf balls introduced may be comically oversized, but they do let you play an honest-to-goodness round of golf, thanks to the newly-introduced course of Lazy Links in the

Fortnite’s shopping cart was an interesting addition, but it wasn’t a powered vehicle. The All Terrain Kart, or the ATK, added in season five, has upped the stakes considerably when it comes to Fortnite’s vehicle situation. Fortnite’s map was already appropriately sized for your character’s running speed; a truly fast vehicle could make everything seem a bit too small. This is #Fortnite season 5 in a nutshell: driving a golf cart through a rift and winding up high in the sky. We did, however, fi

Game Informer reports that dangerous villains from the Prison of Elders will infest Lost Sectors in Forsaken, as well as everywhere else. But all of the world events — Public Events included — will now be filled with escaped convicts. Game Informer reports that these escapees can show up in Public Events, Lost Sectors, Gambit matches, world bosses and even strikes as additional minibosses. Game Informer describes — and offers gameplay footage of — two different Outlaw Lost Sectors. By the look o

When we played the E3 2018 demo of Pokémon: Let’s Go! is as much for nostalgic fans as it is Pokémon newbies, because Pikachu Version and Eevee Version look like the cutest series reinventions ever. It’s all beautiful and, frankly, a convincing take on what we’d hope for a Pokémon adventure to be on console. is this grimes pic.twitter.com/dEZdCUcLUc — Adam Moussa (@adamjmoussa) July 12, 2018The Japanese version of the trailer has even more pure, Pokémon friendship. Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!

The Culling 2 is the latest game to get on the battle royale hype train, but developer Xaviant picked a rather bad time to launch. Fortnite Battle Royale’s fifth season began today, and perhaps you have heard about that; PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds maker PUBG Corp. also just reopened its test server with a new update for its Xbox One version. Either way, there’s tons of battle royale action easily found on any platform. So that may be why The Culling 2 has just one (1) player at the moment, ac

The first multiplayer event series for Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery brings the Duelling Club to the halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, matching players up for a chance to show off their magical finesse. In the first event, kicking off July 12, players will receive three tickets inviting them to participate in duels. Though there’s no Dumbledore’s Army to train with, players are invited to practice with other Harry Potter fans around the world. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery,

This is the opening scene of The Bard’s Tale 4: Barrows Deep, setting up a tale of persecution, prejudice, warfare and magic that runs through its 30 hours or so of role-playing adventuring. I played the opening hour and found it to be an engaging turn-based combat game, with plenty of nonlinear exploration, peppered with puzzles, item collection and characters. Unlike those isometric-view games, The Bard’s Tale 4 is a first-person adventure. The Bard’s Tale games feature all manner of potions a

Video game developer Edmund McMillen, maker of Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his first tabletop card game. The Kickstarter drive for The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls met its $50,000 goal in the first few hours it was live. The card game is being produced in partnership with Studio71, a media talent and marketing agency. The tabletop version of The Binding of Isaac features themes, mechanics and items that will be familiar to fans of the video g

Fortnite’s new Season 5 Battle Pass is here, and that means we have a whole host of new cosmetics to check out. Last season’s Battle Pass was far and away the best one that Epic had released up until that point. Season 4’s Battle Pass skins were pretty good at best. So, if you want a small preview of everything that awaits you through the 100 tiers of the Battle Pass, we have you covered. Grid View Balloon Axe, unlocked at level 15 Epic GamesLug Axe, unlocked at level 30 (free pass) Epic GamesTr

Override: Mech City Brawl, a new fighting game that looks like a blend of giant monster battlers like War of the Monsters and Virtual On, is coming to consoles and PC later this year. The game’s debut trailer shows a ton of promise; Override will let players take control of giant robots and duke it out across cityscapes in one-on-one and four-player brawls. The cast of mechs looks pretty varied. Override: Mech City Brawl is in development for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. You can sign

Much like last year, the Season 5 Battle Pass has a few hidden challenge categories to complete before you really unlock everything. The first two relate to the first and last skins that players can unlock in the Battle Pass (just like Season 4’s Carbide and Omega). Thankfully, these challenges will be available for you to complete forever, unlike last season when they disappeared as soon as the season ended. This challenge requires players to complete all the weekly challenges over seven weeks

A Fallout: New Vegas fan recently completed a run that can best be described as taking the path of most resistance. YouTuber Rheteam beat the game, beat the game on its highest difficulty, beat the game with a hardcore survival conditions mod enabled, beat the game with permadeath (so he couldn’t die), beat it without killing anyone and beat it without firing a gun. Again, it shows the enormous staying power of Fallout: New Vegas, which launched eight years ago, even without mods. People keep fi