Unlike the 2015 reboot, this year's Star Wars: Battlefront II has a single-player campaign. It puts players into the role of Iden Versio, a female soldier fighting for the Imperial side after the events of Return of the Jedi. After EA's E3 event today, I watched a demo of an early portion of the campaign game and then got to play myself. While the production values in the sequence I tried are outs... more.

E3 is officially underway, as Electronic Arts today hosted its EA Play press conference. Much of the news concerned previously announced games, such as Star Wars: Battlefront II, Need for Speed: Payback, and FIFA 18. It also had some surprises in store--even if they were leaked shortly beforehand--like BioWare's new IP, which is called Anthem, and an exciting-looking co-op action game named A Way ... more.

The Black Panther trailer has been released, and you should just watch it in the video embed above. Go ahead, we'll still be here when you're done.The next big Marvel adventure isn't coming out until next year, but this first trailer gives us a look at the overall direction the film will take. Last year, Boseman suggested that the movie will adopt a different tone to many of the other movies in th... more.

Capcom grabbed headlines when it announced Monster Hunter XX exclusively for Nintendo Switch last month, and it's also working on a Western version of Monster Hunter Stories. However, these may not be the only Monster Hunter projects in the pipeline: Capcom recently filed a trademark for "Monster Hunter: World."The trademark application was submitted on June 5, and Capcom will likely have to wait ... more.

The latest Nvidia graphics driver is now available for download, version 382.53 WHQL. It gives users of GeForce video cards optimal performance in the new rally racer Dirt 4 and isometric shooter Nex Machina. There are also multi-GPU SLI profiles for Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.On top of the optimizations are a few fixes to lingering issues from past Nvidia dri... more.

This year's Xbox E3 press conference will run longer than usual. Xbox boss Phil Spencer has revealed on Twitter that the show will be more than 90 minutes in length. According to him, this is to make room for all of the games that the company hoped to showcase, though it's unclear exactly how much of the show will be dedicated to games and not hardware."Had some games that just didn't want to leav... more.

A new trailer and a 40-player live gameplay demonstration for Star Wars: Battlefront II will debut tomorrow, June 10, during EA's E3 2017 briefing. Ahead of that, EA today released a very brief teaser trailer for the video, showing B1 Battle Droids preparing for war.According to the video, this is game engine footage that is representative of the PlayStation 4 edition. You can watch the teaser bel... more.

Turtle Beach announced two new headsets today that are geared towards console gamers: the Stealth 700 and Stealth 600. Both models will have separate SKUs for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles and offer wireless connections. While the PS4 model connects through a USB dongle, the Xbox One version will be one of the first headsets to connect to the console directly.Turtle Beach touts virtual surro... more.

The latest weekly all-platforms charts for Australia and New Zealand have arrived. For the week ended June 4, fighting game Tekken 7 was No. 1 in both countries. It didn't have much in the way of major competition for the week, but that doesn't take anything away from the achievement.Rounding out the top five in Australia were Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Injustice 2, Grand Theft Auto V, and Overwatch.... more.

Sony today released the top sales charts for the PlayStation Network in May, showing that fighting game sequel Injustice 2 came out on top for the month on PS4.Rounding out the top five best-selling digital games of the month were Friday the 13th: The Game, NBA Playgrounds, The Order: 1886, and God of War III Remastered. April's top-selling PS4 game in US, Persona 5, fell out of the top 20 altoget... more.