The latest FIFA Ultimate Team campaign is designed to scare you. While Halloween isn’t mentioned in any of the EA Sports ads, the Ultimate Scream campaign for FUT returns just under two weeks ahead of the ghostly holiday. It features 21 shapeshifting players whose ratings will see periodic boosts throughout the FUT season. The boost
I really enjoyed last year’s Call of Duty: WWII, but one thing that drove me crazy about the game was the implementation of loot boxes. For real world money you could purchase “Supply Drops” which included various cosmetic items, from super lame pistol grip designs to really cool and varied uniforms for troops from myriad different countries.
Only days after telling the world it plans to resurrect Winamp as an all-in-one media player for desktop and mobile in 2019, owner Radionomy has taken a step toward fulfilling its promise. That’s right, Winamp 5.8 has been officially released and finally brings proper support for both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Yea, it’s been awhile! I’m all for
It would be easy to be confused about the name, but take note: this is not Friday Fortnite, the Keemstar-hosted Fortnite tournament that served as the first major professional Fortnite event. Keemstar’s Friday Fortnite was eventually cancelled after Epic kept scheduling Fall/Summer Skirmish events on Friday night, and as a sort of nail in the coffin the developer has
I still remember the first time I fired up Crysis way back when I first started building my own gaming PCs. I’d been playing a lot of Half-Life 2 and the original Far Cry, and both games—as far as I was concerned—were absolutely awesome. Half-Life 2 basically got me back into PC gaming for the first time in years, and inspired my first build. And Far
You could miss it if you’re just dropping in and trying to grab a shotgun and rock your way through Tilted, but there’s a movement happening on the Fortnite Island. For the past few weeks, the Purple Cube-powered Floating Island has been slowly drifting across the map, activating a series of runes left behind by the Cube in
It’s finally fall up here in the northeast, with rapidly plunging Mercury that feels a world away from the sticky humidity we had just last week. And what better way to celebrate that crisp fall air than by getting out there and catching Pokémon? It’s time for our October Community Day in Pokémon GO, where Beldum will
The last 18 months has been a blur of activity from both Intel INTC -1.99%and AMD as each wrestles with higher and higher core counts, frequencies and increasing numbers of CPUs in their product stacks. However, today, things have come to a dramatic head in the mainstream desktop market as Intel has yet again increased core counts for its mainstream flagship,
Did you know that Valve, the company behind Steam and a key partner in the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, used to make actual video games? It’s true! I remember them fondly. I still harbor hope that Valve will once again enter the software business and give us some groundbreaking new titles. Half-Life 3, Portal 3,
Fortnite is trying something new with in-game tournaments that it’s going to be running on the regular, awarding players in-game pins after competing in specific matches during specific times throughout the week, each with their own variable rulesets. This week we saw a test tournament, Fortnite’s “Alpha Tournament,” and like we saw when Summer Skirmish
