Well, in honour of the developers changing McCree’s name after Jesse Mcree was implicated in California’s lawsuit against the company, you’ve got a limited amount of time to change your own Battle.net tag, too. “As we introduce a new name, you might have the desire to do the same,” the developer noted in a blog post. “Starting 22 October, 2021 and continuing through 5 November, 2021, all players will be offered a free BattleTag name change....

In a lengthy interview with IGN, Xbox boss Phil Spencer discussed a wide range of topics, including how the gaming side is handling the coronavirus pandemic across its departments. To begin with, Spencer was clear that the safety of his various teams is the most paramount right now. “There’s no decision that I will make - or frankly anybody at Microsoft would even ask me to make - that would compromise the safety and security of the teams for a near-term financial or product gain,” said Spencer....

Monster Hunter Rise is out now on Nintendo Switch (with a PC version coming next year), and as with all mainline Monster Hunter games it can be a little overwhelming at first. If you’ve picked up Rise and are finding that this is the case we’ve put together a quick video rundown of 10 useful bits of info we’d love to have known before we started playing. If that doesn’t answer all your questions, elsewhere on the site we’ve got loads of Monster Hunter Rise guides....

EA games that will support this feature include Star Wars Battlefront 2, Titanfall, and three Plants vs Zombies and Battlefield games. The games will be getting support for 120hz, and the list is as follows: Battlefield 1 Battlefield 4 Battlefield 5 Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 Star Wars Battlefront Star Wars Battlefront 2 Titanfall Titanfall 2 Unravel 2...

Somehow, while Crackdown 3 is on Xbox Game Pass, Crackdown is not. It’s better than that. It’s just inexplicably free on the Xbox Marketplace. I paid £40 for it back when it first came out and I was a student. I probably skipped a few meals to pay for it. I’d do it all over again too. Who needs food when there are orbs to collect, right? It felt like a breath of fresh air back then....

The sequel to the critically acclaimed A Plague Tale: Innocence follows Amicia and her brother Hugo on a new quest, as they try to survive an uncaring world as a terrifying curse hunts them down. Set six months after the first game, with Hugo’s curse seemingly under control, the siblings head south seeking both to start a new life and find a cure for Hugo’s affliction. But, when his powers reawaken, all hell breaks loose forcing the duo to run once more....

Dropping one heck of a stealth announcement, the forum post said: “As we take GeForce Now to the next step in its evolution, we’ve worked with publishers to onboard a robust catalog of your PC games. “This means continually adding new games, and on occasion, having to remove games – similar to other digital service providers. “Per their request, please be advised Activision Blizzard games will be removed from the service....

In The Last of Us and The Last of Us 2, Marlene is the head of a resistance movement called the Fireflies, and it’s nice to know fans of the series will have a familiar voice in Dandridge to help immerse them in the HBO series. Dandridge has had many video game gigs over the years having voice Alyx Vance in the Half-Life games and as Legion Commander and Winter Wyvern in Dota 2....

When many thought Anthem had been all but abandoned by EA and BioWare, the developer officially announced earlier this year that the game would be substantially reinvented. The developer said at the time that there’s a dedicated team working on figuring out exactly what that looks like. It’s been quiet on that front ever since, until now. Christian Dailey, studio director at BioWare Austin - the studio responsible for Anthem’s live service, and the one currently working on overhauling it - posted a development update to explain what’s been going on....

Not only are these majestic dinosaurs rad as hell to look at, but when tamed they’re incredibly useful as transport and when taking on offensive roles in combat. How to tame a Shadowmane in ARK Genesis 2 There is a unique, non-violent method you need to use when taming Shadowmanes. The main item you need in order to bring a Shadowmane on-side is simply a Fish Basket containing any fish weighing 0....

Call of Duty: Warzone developer Raven has disabled the recently reactivated Armored Royale mode as a result of a widespread invisibility glitch. The glitch, which currently involves truck-mounted turrets, is not actually new, but it seemingly wasn’t completely fixed when it was previously discovered. Even though the original glitch involved the helicopter miniguns, players found that they could replicate it in Armored Royale to become invisible. To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

Revealed in September last year (after a series of leaks), Assassin’s Creed Mirage was a welcome announcement among fans of the series. The last few iterations like Valhalla and Odyssey moved the games more towards the RPG genre rather than the stealth-focused gameplay the first game brought to the table. But Mirage is going to the series roots, and according to a recent interview from GamesRadar with Ubisoft creative director Stéphane Boudon, part of the reasoning behind scaling down is thanks to the fans....

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was officially revealed yesterday with a suitably epic eight hour livestream in which BossLogic painted the first look at the setting and character design for an action adventure set in the Viking era. Now the official trailer is live at and you can watch it right here - hit the play button. Go on! You can read about the main plot points, the setting, customisable main character and special editions right here....

With Title Update 1.6.2 you can expect new content for the game, including The Last Chapter, that will provide a “touching and intimate” conclusion to Eivor’s saga. The epilogue will tie up some of the storylines developed throughout the game and offer closure to your time among the Raven Clan. The Last Chapter releases on December 6 and key parts of the game need to be completed before you can access it....

According to Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot, revenue for the game surpassed $1 billion as of December 2021. It is the first game in the series to reach such a sum. The game has been a big hit since it was released in 2020, and during its first week of availability, it sold-through more units than any other Assassin’s Creed game during the same period. It is also the top-selling Ubisoft PC launch ever, driven by record Ubisoft Store sales performance....

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Siege of Paris The Count of Paris | How to confront Odo When you go to confront Count Odo, you have two options: seek out Nolwenn the smuggler, or choose a different path. The different path is in the north of the city. Use your Odin’s sight and look for a standard bearer with a key. This unlocks a gate to a guard post that has a zipwire on top that leads over the palace walls....

Battlefield 2042 is certainly not short on innovative and impressive new features. If the explosive reveal trailer didn’t get you hooked, some of the other reveals DICE made will. At a pre-reveal event attended by VG247, DICE was particularly excited about one key feature that’s going to completely change how people play the game. Battlefield 2042’s All-Out Warfare game modes can be experienced entirely without real players. In other words, anyone can launch a game of 128-player Conquest or Breakthrough, on any of the supported maps, and immediately play alongside and against AI....

If you’ve been keeping with the goings-on in Battlefield 2042, you won’t be surprised to learn that Season 2 is bringing a similar amount of new content to the game as we’d seen with Season 1. Like Zero Hour, Master of Arms adds one new map, a new Specialist, three new weapons, and two vehicles. Taking it from the top, the new map is called Stranded, and it takes place in Panama in a drained lake....

Some of the best Ashes of War like Bloody Slash and Hoarfrost Stomp can make all the difference in Elden Ring’s most difficult fights, and it’s well worth seeking them out. Dwindling flame has always had power in FromSoftware games, whether it’s the end of the Age of Fire in Dark Souls or here in Elden Ring, where you could say the knowledge of these battle-forged techniques are the ashes left by wars long since finished....

I’ve finished Rift Apart three times and also watched my son finish it. It’s fair to say that I enjoyed it a lot. A lot of this is no doubt down to the fact that Insomniac’s game was one of the first proper PS5 games. It wasn’t also built for PS4. It was a PS5 game. And it shows. There have been plenty of great looking games released in 2021, but I don’t think any of them can match Ratchet’s PS5 debut in terms of delivering that coveted animated movie-like experience....