The centerpiece of Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 marketing campaign – Peter Stormare's The Replacer – is coming to the game as a playable character in the upcoming Season 1 update. The Replacer Tracer Pack Operator Pack comes with two skins for The Replacer, including a standard version and a bonus version for … Read more
An upcoming indie game inspired by action films like The Raid appears to offer the brutal hand-to-hand combat the film is known for. It may even evoke some comparisons to 2012's underrated Sleeping Dogs. It's called Acts of Blood, and while it doesn't have a release date yet, it recently received a free demo on … Read more
Nintendo's new Alarmo is solely intended to be an expensive digital alarm clock with themes and graphics taken from popular Nintendo Switch titles. But some very talented hackers seem very determined to turn the Alarmo into something that can also do other things. Now, just under a month since its release, someone has put a … Read more
A new multiplayer turn-based FPS, Blindfire, was announced during Xbox's latest partner preview, and while multiplayer shooters are a dime a dozen, this one has a unique twist that helps set it apart: it takes place almost entirely in darkness. Blindfire will be available today in Early Access through the Xbox Game Preview program on … Read more
This Playable Futures series of articles looks at how the design, technology, people and theory of video games inform and influence the wider world. All previous Playable Futures articles can be found here. When a major esports event rolls into town, there's an instant contribution that goes far beyond the walls of the arena. The … Read more
Sony has apologized to Australian gamers after allowing Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number to be played on PlayStation consoles after it was denied classification in 2015. Despite the controversial failure to secure the Australian Classification Board due to themes of sexual violence, the game has been available on PlayStation Plus Extra and through the Hotline … Read more
World of Warcraft players who upgrade their new land characters do so without having to fight monsters or complete a single quest. Instead, they simply fly around the world exploring and racking up XP along the way. The Terrans, the new playable Dwarf-type race introduced in WoW's recently released The War Within expansion, became playable … Read more