Halo Infinite is releasing in Holiday 2020 as a launch title for Microsoft's new and more powerful next-generation console, Project Scarlett, as well as the standard Xbox One in addition to PC.Halo boss Frank O'Connor spoke about this distributed release in an interview with YouTuber Blackmist523. O'Connor said the Halo development team worked alongside the hardware developers behind Scarlett to a... more.

July is wrapping up, which mean it's time for New Releases to tackle a fresh month of video games. Speaking of tackling, Madden NFL 20 releases for everyone at the start of the month. Later on you'll be able to sling bullets and psychic powers in Control and revisit the early days of the world's biggest MMO with World of Warcraft Classic. August wraps up with the action-packed Astral Chain and the... more.

After numerous teases, Team Rocket finally made their debut in Pokemon Go earlier this week. The villainous trainers would "take over" various PokeStops around the world and challenge players to battles using their Shadow Pokemon. Although Rocket sightings up until now have been relatively rare, particularly if you live in rural areas, you'll have a better chance to encounter some Rocket grunts to... more.

The next big Nintendo Switch role-playing game, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, releases this Friday, July 26. If you're interested in the game and want to save a little scratch, Walmart has an offer you may want to consider. The retailer will reportedly sell the Switch-exclusive for $49.94 USD on release day this Friday. This is an in-store deal only, it appears.It's a pretty good deal, as Three House... more.

Following its release in the United States and other parts of the world back in May, the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition will release in Australia and New Zealand on August 1. Ahead of that, Microsoft has started to take pre-orders as of today, 22 July, in ANZ regions.The All-Digital Edition is aimed at people who are looking to move on from discs and save money. There is no disc drive with this mo... more.

The PlayStation Classic's price continues to freefall. Best Buy is currently offering the slimmed-down retro console for only $20 USD. That looks like the lowest it's ever been. Go to Best Buy's website here to buy one or learn more.The PlayStation Classic released in December 2018 at $100 USD. Presumably in response to lower-than-expected sales, various retailers cut the price quickly and deepl... more.

Gears 5 will not feature any depictions of smoking as part of a move to avoid glamorizing the addictive and deadly habit. Rod Fergusson, the head of developer The Coalition, said in a series of tweets that he has been against depictions of smoking in Gears "from the beginning."He pointed out that the concept art for the character Dizzy from Gears 2 was shown with a cigarette. But in the final gam... more.

Ubisoft has once again partnered with actor Joseph Gordon Levitt's HitRecord studio for a unique promotion around user-generated content, this time for Watch Dogs Legion. As part of the collaboration, Ubisoft is looking to the community to create music for the open-world game.HitRecord is asking the community to create 10 songs for Watch Dogs Legion which will play in the game on radio stations an... more.

Gears 5 launches in September, but developer The Coalition is letting people play early through multiplayer technical tests. The studio has now shared more details about the technical test periods, including when they're available, how to get in, what's in them, and more.When It's AvailableThere will be multiple tests, the first of which begins July 19 at 10 AM PT. It runs through July 21, with a ... more.

The main character of the God of War series is Kratos, but Sony almost went with a different name--one that was very close to developer Stig Asmussen. He recalled in an interview with Game Informer that the marketing team didn't like the name Dominus, which is what the developers used as a working name throughout development. "Marketing didn't like that," Asmussen said.To get a bigger pool of pot... more.