Long War was one of the first XCOM reboot’s most popular and beloved mods, so much so that XCOM 2 ended up liberally cribbing notes from its playbook. Now there’s a Long War for XCOM 2, and it’s a doozy.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Overwatch will be running a thing for Chinese New Year, starting January 25. There will be skins.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Jerzy Janowicz isn’t the most famous tennis player on the circuit, but if you’re a fan of tennis, or even just sport in general, there’s a high chance you may have heard of him. What you might not know is that he’s a massive Counter-Strike player.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

This is Miguel as Ignis, who knows exactly how to season a kill.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Necrobarista is a game about “a supernatural cafe where the living come to mingle with the dead.” It looks like what would happen if Persona took over a coffee shop, which is to say, stylish as heck. It’ll be out on PC in October.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Aaron Reynolds, of @batlabels fame, was playing Grand Theft Auto Online the other night when he ran into some assholes trying to wreck people’s nice cars. So he came up with an A++ plan which would make the game “fun for and awful for them”.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Look at how much postage would be if I wanted this shipped to Australia.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Today was one of those occasions that comes once, maybe twice (but definitely not thrice) in a lifetime. Gabe Newell arose from his Scrooge McDuck-esque lake of knives and cash to conduct an AMA. Spoiler: he likes Portal 2 more than Half-Life, and despite appearances to the contrary, Valve still makes games.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Overwatch’s PTR, or public test realm, is a blessing and a curse for players. On one hand, they get to try out new changes before they go live. On the other, if players don’t love a change, there’s no guarantee Blizzard will do a 180. Right now, D.Va’s staring down the barrel of a big nerf, and they seem pretty set on…Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Civilization V is one of the greatest video games of all time, and one of the oft-overlooked reasons why isn’t its “one more turn” systems or balance, but its cartoon leaders. Despite their exaggerated appearance they feel alive, and it was cool to see this aspect of the game not just retained, but improved for …Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.