Doom (2016), undeniable gem that it was, had one glaring and oft-maligned weakness: The multiplayer. The criticism was near-universal. Doom was a fast-paced and innovative shooter, and the multiplayer was an uninspired shoe-horned...

Parody FPS game Goat of Duty is now available on Steam in early-access. Putting players in the hoofs of a goat, the game is a fast-paced multiplayer shooter where you and other goats try to kill each other with crazy weaponry and lots of b...

A few bad apples, that's all it takes. Some Rainbow Six Siege players have been extraordinarily frustrated this week because of a new exploit that kills the quality of their game. Ubisoft is in the midst of responding to complaints of ...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 just dropped its third DLC zombies map, and it's a doozy. I won't go too far down the rabbit hole, but suffice to say it's going to keep zombies players talking for a while.

Fortnite fans better make sure they steel their rooftops in future, as new update 9.30 brings a frighteningly destructive new weapon to the battle royale phenomenon: the Air Strike grenade.Simply throw this hand-held canister in your oppone...

The zombies of Call of Duty's popular side-mode... er... "zombies", look set to bust out all over Black Ops 4, as a new event will see the living dead invade multiple modes in Treyarch's military shooter.Operation Apocalypse Z, which comes ...

As a reminder, Bethesda gave us an update on how Fallout 76 will evolve throughout the year, and the short of it: eventually it'll be the game it was supposed to launch as. Battle royale is in if you want a distraction (I'm good), and ...

Gearbox is upping the ante with regard to the way dueling works in Borderlands 3. In past games, two group members could consent to a one-on-one fight, with the victor being crowned just a few seconds later. Now you'll have the chance to of...

Although a lot of folks like the harrowing dust-filled setting of the first Division, I found myself actually digging into Tom Clancy's The Division 2 re-creation of Washington D.C. on a more regular basis. Massive Entertainment packed...

Apex Legends is making a splash once again in the battle royale market, as developer Respawn Entertainment just kicked off season two of the shooter, which includes new character Wattson, another series of content drops, battlefield ch...

It's been an age and a day since Crytek's Hunt: Showdown first opened its doors to early access customers, but it appears that the southern gothic shooter is finally preparing to launch full-time."Developing a game alongside such a passiona...

Are you in a video game? I'm not. Fix that with today's Bite the Bullet contest. So full disclosure: Mega Cat Studios is really cool, and they've got some really cool stuff in the works. How do I know that? Because I pay attention, fool. An...

Saber Interactive has dropped its latest update for frenetic multiplayer shooter World War Z. The new "Six Skulls" update brings with it a new difficulty setting for the most hardened zombie killers, along with a few other bits of neat cont...

Although interest in Apex Legends has significantly waned (it went from the top game on Twitch for several weeks to not cracking the top five for some time), Respawn is still keen on supporting it, and EA is very happy with it. The next hug...

It's a four-day work week thanks to Uncle Sam and the fireworks industry. That means we have an extra day for lazing around, eating grilled meats, and blowing things up. What a life. For anyone who plans to do their lazing with video games,...

When Ubisoft announced that the first Division 2 raid would not have matchmaking, despite stating previously that "every activity would have it," it was a shock. Why alienate folks from the most popular endgame activity? Before people ...

If something benefits the playerbase in Destiny, dating all the way back to the original launch of the game years ago: you can bet Bungie will fix it right away, same-day, with hotfix. If an issue hinders players or perhaps makes a fun part...

In case you haven't heard, Bethesda brought the battle royale craze to Fallout 76. It's part of the Nuclear Winter update: the free summer expansion of sorts that's part apology tour, part something that was already promised a while back as...

Following on from its previous stunt-fests and demon invasions, Avalanche's highly-volatile open-world adventure Just Cause 4 continues its run of weird and wild updates. The new update Trials, Toys and Terror, might be the most amusing yet...

I'm reliably informed that it's summer, despite what I'm seeing outside of my window right now. At least the video game world isn't beholden to the whims of weather, which means the sun can beat down 24/7 on the gun-toting, wall-building Fo...

The Menagerie activity has been a hit for Destiny 2 players, and Bungie is expanding it with a heroic (hard) mode pretty soon. That's actually arriving tomorrow, June 25, and it will not feature matchmaking, with a power level requirement o...

In case you missed it, Bethesda is rolling out a new battle royale mode for Fallout 76, which is currently being shown in trial form before the big rollout. It's called "Nuclear Winter," and it heralds the second major free expansion for th...

My Friend Pedro is a ballistic game of skill, timing, reflexes, and, surprisingly, efficient time management. This new title from Swedish indie outfit DeadToast Entertainment falls under the highly-replayable score-attack genre, of which p...

I liked Ghost Recon Wildlands way more in theory than in execution, but with this year's follow-up, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, my mind is at ease. Ubisoft's E3 showing brought me around and, frankly, I'm as surprised as anyone by this turn of ...

This week, from the big bag of retro re-releases from publisher Hamster, comes Taito's Wild Western, an early entry in the golden age of gaming, and credited as one of the first game's (other than Boot Hill) to use the old west as the setti...