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Montgomery Markland wants to adapt one of the most storied American movies of all time, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, into a video game that the team describes as “like Fallout: New Vegas on acid in Vietnam.”

“Barcades” like Button Mash in Los Angeles, California, are returning 80’s and 90’s kids to the bleep-blooping domains from whence they came — with the addition of trendy craft beers to sweeten the deal.

They may be bad, but the Agents of Mayhem are the only ones who can put a stop to the evil LEGION.

Developer Creative Assembly returns players to the battlefields of the Warhammer universe for strategic warfare on a grand scale with Total War: Warhammer 2.

Starlord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot face off against villain Thanos in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series.

In response to a lack of communication from both the publisher and developer about For Honor’s most pressing issues, members of the game’s community are planning a boycott of the game on April 3, 2017.

The Last City has fallen before the Cabal Empire. Gather the surviving Guardians and fight back to retake Earth in Destiny 2.

The Australian Classification Board has rescinded the effective ban on Outlast 2.

People Can Fly’s gonzo first-person shooter gets a remastered release with all previous DLC included and new content courtesy of Gearbox in Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.

Four more multiplayer maps are now available for purchase for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered players on the Playstation 4.

Developer Bungie invites players to “enter Destiny’s Age of Triumph and celebrate your legend” with the final live event for sci-fi shooter Destiny.

The latest free content update for Titanfall 2 brings a new map, weapon, and more customization options for players.

The developers of the flawed but original medieval brawler For Honor are getting a lot of heat from the game’s player base over its progression system and microtransactions.

Contrary to consumer reports, Nintendo claims that Nintendo Switch issues are not widespread and fall in line with past hardware launches.

Ghost Recon Wildlands is a strange game that feels more like the errant love-child of Just Cause 3 and The Division than any previous title in the Ghost Recon franchise, but unfortunately it doesn’t pull off the best parts of either title.

First-person survival horror game Outlast 2 has been denied classification by the Australian Classification Board, effectively banning it from sale in Australia.

The launch of the Nintendo Switch is looking strong, buoyed by consumer enthusiasm for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

The latest chapter in the Legend of Zelda series is a masterclass in elegant design, filled with interlocking gameplay systems wrapped in a gorgeous aesthetic and played over one of the most endearing worlds Nintendo has ever created.

We Are Chicago by Culture Shock Games seeks to depict the truth of a city drowning in its own blood in an effort to stanch the flow.

MOSCOW (AP) — A trial for the blogger who is accused of inciting religious hatred for playing “Pokemon Go” in a church has begun in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

Set 600 years following Mass Effect 3, players take on the role of Scott or Sara Ryder in Mass Effect: Andromeda, members of the Andromeda Initiative, a colonization mission made up of various species from the Milky Way sent to establish new homes in the Andromeda Galaxy.

The Spring Update for Homefront: The Revolution offers gamers who haven’t bought the game a huge free trial while bringing improvements to existing players and the “Beyond the Walls” expansion for Season Pass holders.

Fight to take back the Earth as android 2B in a desperate bid to reclaim a home for humanity in Nier: Automata.

Horizon Zero Dawn straddles the past and future in much the same way as its post-apocalyptic setting, falling just a little ways short of its full potential when it leans too heavily on tired mechanics. It’s a good game, removed from true greatness only by its adherence to tired formulae.

A study published in Frontiers in Psychology has once again provided evidence that playing violent video games does not decrease personal empathy.

The Xbox One port of Funcom’s fantasy survival simulation Conan Exiles will not feature a “penis slider” in the character creation tools.

Get a first look at Middle-Earth: Shadow of War’s gameplay, the upcoming sequel to 2014’s award-winning Shadow of Mordor.

Despite reports of “tremendous” consumer demand, the launch of Nintendo’s newest console has been a bumpy ride.

“They Shall Not Pass” is the first expansion for EA and DICE’s World War I 1st-person shooter, Battlefield 1.

Take on the Santa Blanca Cartel as elite special forces operators in the Wildlands of Bolivia in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands.

For Honor is a simultaneously rewarding and frustrating experience, innovatively blending team-based multiplayer design with fighting game mechanics but unfortunately held back from its full potential by technical issues.

Microsoft announced a new subscription program that will give access to a significant portion of its back catalog, and Wall Street apparently took it as a bad omen for brick-and-mortar retailer GameStop.

The darkly comedic stalking sim Yandere Simulator just picked up a publisher in tinyBuild.

Facebook is trying to shore up their faltering venture into virtual reality with serious price cuts across the board on Oculus Rift hardware.

Last Stand, the final expansion for Tom Clancy’s The Division, adds a new player-vs-player mode to the game and a new Incursion for agents to tackle cooperatively.

Mega-popular streaming service Twitch.tv is cutting out the middleman and allowing viewers to directly purchase the game they’re watching.