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Amazon Games’ Crucible Is All About Your Play Style, Not Your Character’s Role

You'd be forgiven if the name "Crucible" doesn't ring any bells. The team-based shooter was among the three PC games Amazon Game Studios revealed at TwitchCon four years ago--and there's been barely a rumbling about it since. Even then, the game's description was a pretty vague mix of multiplayer shooter ideas and battle royale features.Though nobody's heard much about Crucible for the last four years, Amazon's Seattle-based development studio Relentless has been hard at work on the shooter in all that time. And whatever Crucible started out as, it has

XCOM Spin-Off Chimera Squad Announced, And It’s Coming Very Soon

A new XCOM spin-off is coming very soon from developer Firaxis Games, and it's landing at a budget price. The standalone game XCOM: Chimera Squad is coming as a digital-only Steam PC release on Friday, April 24. It will launch at $10, and then go up to its regular price of $20 on May 1.In the announcement, 2K notes this isn't a full sequel or an XCOM 2 expansion, but it is set five years after the events of XCOM 2. Humans and aliens have been working together to rebuild,

League of Legends 10.7 Patch brings the terror with reworked Fiddlesticks

The crows have never looked more foreboding. League of Legends Patch 10.7 has brought the reworked Fiddlesticks with it and all of the terror he represents. Fiddlesticks was always meant to be the unparalleled boogeyman of the League of Legends roster, but as more characters have joined, he lost a little bit of that terrifying aura to bigger threats. Now, Riot is giving the living nightmare scarecrow back his mantle of spookiest champ. The League of Legends 10.7 patch has dropped and with it comes the reworked Fiddlesticks. League of

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Each and every day new mobile games are hitting the App Store, and so each week we put together a big old list of all the best new releases of the past seven days. Back in the day the App Store would showcase the same games for a week, and then refresh those features each Thursday. Because of that developers got into the habit of releasing their games throughout Wednesday or very early Thursday in order to hopefully get one of those coveted features spots. Nowadays the App Store refreshes

Doom Eternal’s Marauders Will Kick Your Ass, And I’m So Glad

Especially if you're playing on a harder difficulty, Doom Eternal's enemies are quite intimidating. Anything more than the lowliest of demons can often prove too much to stand toe-to-toe with, ensuring you stay on the move at all times. Eventually, a unique challenge appears in the form of the Marauder, who won't hesitate to kick your ass. It's great.Partway into the game, you're confronted with a showdown against the Marauder. The encounter feels like a one-off boss fight, both because of the preceding cutscene and because the way in which

Doom Eternal’s Marauders Will Kick Your Butt, And I’m So Glad

Especially if you're playing on a harder difficulty, Doom Eternal's enemies are quite intimidating. Anything more than the lowliest of demons can often prove too much to stand toe-to-toe with, ensuring you stay on the move at all times. Eventually, a unique challenge appears in the form of the Marauder, who won't hesitate to kick your ass. It's great.Partway into the game, you're confronted with a showdown against the Marauder. The encounter feels like a one-off boss fight, both because of the preceding cutscene and because the way in which

Bleeding Edge Guide: 9 Tips For Ninja Theory’s MOBA-Like Action Game

Ninja Theory's new melee-focused action game, Bleeding Edge, is now out on Xbox One and PC. If you're an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, the game comes included in the service on both platforms.At first glance, Bleeding Edge looks like it may resemble plenty of the character-based multiplayer games that have released in recent years (like Rainbow Six Siege and Apex Legends). However, the game has a lot of similarities to multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games too, so there is a bit of a steep learning curve at the start.Once

38 Things Added to Sea of Thieves Since Launch You Have to Try

A lot has changed in Sea of Thieves since Rare’s shared world pirate fantasy first set sail in March 2018. Thanks to a series of major content updates in the first year – including the game-changing Anniversary Update – and a recent commitment to regular monthly updates, the game has grown and evolved at a scale that few other service-based games can match. Even better, all content has been added for free! To celebrate the game’s second anniversary, here are 38 of the biggest things that have been added over

Control: The Foundation DLC – Shape Ability Gameplay

The second of Control's three planned expansions, The Foundation, sends Bureau of Control director Jesse Faden to explore the depths beneath the shifting, supernatural building known as the Oldest House. Beneath the structure is a twisting cave system where Jesse has to solve a new problem. The Hiss have invaded the area, and because of damage to an artifact known as the Nail, the Astral Plane is slowly bleeding into the Foundation, threatening to destroy both dimensions.In practical terms, that means Jesse has to explore the area, shoot some Hiss