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The next Destiny 2 raid will go live shortly after the launch of the game's next expansion, Lightfall. Bungie has announced that the Lightfall raid will go live on March 10, giving players enough time to familiarize themselves with all of the expansion's gameplay changes and the Strand subclass. As usual, there'll be a race to see which Destiny 2 fireteam can score bragging rights--and possibly some incredible real-world loot if previous raids are any indicator--for the title of World's...
History was made at the Grammys last night, as the music industry's biggest awards show featured a category reserved for video games. Stephanie Economou took the prize and bragging rights for being the first-ever winner of this award, for her work on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Valhalla and the Dawn of Ragnarok expansion. Or as presenter of the award, comedian Randy Rainbow, said, Assassin's Creed Valalaha. Hey, it happens to the best of us when we're up on stage in front of thousands of...
Whether you're a Hitman veteran or a more recent convert who just got their start in this World of Assassination, the new roguelite Freelancer mode is gonna force feed you a slice of humble pie and make you feel like a fake gamer. That's a good thing--this mode is, in essence, the endgame for this rebooted Hitman trilogy. Short of actual new maps, Hitman Freelancer is a great way to tie this experience off because it's extremely tough in some brand-new ways, and the overall structure is very...
Fortnite is several weeks into the first season of its fourth chapter. In real time, it's been going strong since the summer of 2017, and though Epic doesn't share player counts, by any available metric it seems to still be doing incredibly well. But in the live-service world, Fortnite's success feels increasingly rare. While there do exist other major successes in the pocket of the games industry where studios operate one game for years on end, many others are closing their proverbial doors...