Rec Room is a social app in which virtual reality owners can come together, hang out, play games, and just generally be weird with another. Soon, it'll have a new activity, one that takes cues from a burgeoning genre. Rec Room is getting Re...

The box art leak earlier this week was completely correct. No Man's Sky is getting synchronous multiplayer in its next update. No Man's Sky figurehead Sean Murray appeared on today's episode of Inside Xbox to reveal that the Xbox versi...

The Hungering Deep, the first major content update for Sea of Thieves, is set to arrive on May 29. Microsoft and Rare debuted a trailer on Inside Xbox, and if you've been following along, you'll know not to expect anything too concrete from...

Pocketwatch Games have announced that a new update, set live today, will allow multi-platform crossplay for the fuzzy revolutionaries of tactical strategy title Tooth and Tail.The indie release, which launched in the Fall of 2017, sees a re...

No Man's Sky has been working toward proper multiplayer for a long time. It launched in 2016 with players theoretically able to encounter each other in a functionally-infinite world (except not really). Last August, it implemented supp...

After a short delay, Rare has added the ability for Sea of Thieves players to create open and closed crews. Under the old system, the game would try and fill out your crew as needed, so if you had a friend duck out, a random player would mo...

I've been subconsciously looking for a reason to get back into Hunt: Showdown, Crytek's monster-filled PvPvE horror shooter, and I think I have my answer. The studio's first major content update is out. There are a ton of changes and additi...

Traveling back in time to an ancient temple, spilling blood to extend your visit, and killing specific architects to change history and alter the structure's present-day ruins -- the upcoming  Incursion expansion for Grinding Gear's fr...

Sea of Thieves is set to land its first big content update, The Hungering Deep, later this month. We'll know more soon, as Rare plans to come out with a launch date and trailer next week. As previously covered, The Hungering Deep will intro...

I can't say a Han Solo season was on my wishlist for Battlefront II, but that's what we're getting next, and I've come to accept it. One day, hopefully not too far away, Obi-Wan Kenobi will get his due. Speaking more about the incoming seas...

Next on the docket for Rainbow Six Siege is Operation Para Bellum, the Year Three Season Two content update that will bring a pair of defense-oriented Operators, another gadget, buffs for Echo and Clubhouse, a Pick & Ban system, and a n...

Blizzard's massively popular online shooter Overwatch received the latest in a long, long line of updates recently that brings more balance tweaks to the game's cast of wonderful heroes.The imaginatively-titled 1.23.0.1 patch, which should ...

Zen Studios excellent Pinball FX3 came to the Nintendo Switch in December of last year and unfortunately ran afoul of poor visual clarity when docked, as well as framerate issues when in handheld mode.At first there was some back and forth ...

Rust can be a savage, unforgiving place, but with this week's update, players will have just a little more breathing room. Facepunch has added the Compound, a scientist-run area that acts as a safe zone. There's absolutely no weapons, killi...

The original Destiny relied on its Taken King expansion -- the official beginning of the second year of content -- to reinvigorate the game. Developer Bungie significantly reworked nearly every aspect of Destiny to make it a ...

Nintendo have released a new Dev. Talk video featuring Hisashi Nogami; Producer for popular online arena-shooter Splatoon 2 and its Octo Expansion update.In the video, Nogami talks about some of the features coming to the colourful multipla...

Far Cry 5 has a bit of an obsession with shovels, and that fascination goes even further this week with the latest live event, White Collar Job. How many lives would you trade for a gun that launches shovels? I hadn't messed with any of th...

Mexican indie outfit Bromio have announced that their bizarre fighting/puzzle adventure game Pato Box will be receiving a free update next week. This update will add some new features to the Super Punch-Out!!-inspired title.Coming on May 7,...

Screwing around and looking fab on the high seas -- that's the Sea of Thieves way. I've pretty much got my withered pirate looking the way I want, but maybe you're still searching for that perfect outfit. Today, Rare added a number of new c...

I may have lost the will to play, but The Binding of Isaac is still going strong and that's genuinely impressive. Today on Steam, owners of the Afterbirth+ expansion got the fifth and final "booster pack." This video sets the mood. Here's ...

There's an expectation in open-world games that once you see the main storyline through to the end and hit the credits (and then come back to the room a good 15 minutes later), you'll be able to jump back into your world and close out your ...

The rough-and-tumble waters of Sea of Thieves are getting a bit more hospitable. Well, not from other players. They'll still kill you right dead. But the game itself keeps getting more and more polished. Rare has released update 1.0.5 ...

In a new post on their official blog, Battlefield developer DICE have announced that will be bringing an end to the monthly updates that have been rolling out for Battlefield 1 since the game first launched, way back in October 2016.Althoug...

It's a heck of a week for Monster Hunter World. Capcom is prepping a free update for April 18 at 5:00pm Pacific that adds the shiny Elder Dragon Kulve Taroth. The beast will only be around for a limited time as part of a new Siege quest typ...

Deckard Cain is such a fun addition to the Heroes of the Storm roster. As Chris mentioned before, he really does seem like something you'd expect as an April Fools' joke, but Blizzard made it work. The iconic Diablo character has joined the...