When Engadget’s UK Bureau Chief Mat Smith attended the first-ever gameplay demonstration of Marvel’s Avengers at E3, he walked away worried. The level he saw was essentially a tutorial, introducing the basic mechanics of each Avenger. It was unclear how all of the characters — Black Widow, Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor and Captain America — would play together, and they each…
Illegal tournaments and rejected visas: Team Vietnam’s long road to the PUBG Nations Cup
August 20, 2019
Bloody and beaten, Nguyen “Leviz” Huu Doan hunkered down on the second floor of a decrepit hospital across from Duong “Sapauu” Cam Hoa, waiting for the right chance to strike. The rest of their PUBG squad had been killed, and neither Leviz nor Sapauu knew how much…
Epic has another way to battle Fortnite’s hated newcomer, giant mechs. Sure, the two-player B.R.U.T.E. mechs have 1,000 health, can travel hundreds of in-game meters in a few seconds and can blast you with rockets or stomp on you. But now, regular players can strike…
When Nintendo briefly mentioned in its barrage of E3 reveals that The Witcher 3 would be ported to the humbly powered — and portable — Switch, it beggared belief. The Witcher 3 PC install (DLC, expansions and all) demands just shy of 50GB of disk space. The biggest Switch cart is 32GB. So, can you make The Witcher 3 work on the Switch? And when the October 15th release date rolls…
Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto’s new project Disintegration was announced in July, but there wasn’t a lot of information about it available. Some plot details have since been shared, but now we have the first gameplay trailer to get our teeth into.
Disintegration…
'Witcher 3' comes to the Switch on October 15th
August 20, 2019
We first heard that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was coming to the Switch back in June, but now, thanks to an announcement at Gamescom, we have an official release date: October 15th.
The Switch version will include the base game, two story expansions (Hearts of Stone and Blood…
Watch the Google Stadia event in 10 minutes
August 20, 2019
Google’s Stadia Connect livestream for Gamescom can give you a bigger idea of what to expect from its upcoming video game streaming platform — and you can watch all the most important tidbits right here. Stadia’s Ray Bautista started off with a reminder to pre-order the Stadia Founder’s Edition, which will serve as your entry to the service as one of its first players. As a…
Giant gaming monitors have a conspicuous problem: all that visual real estate usually swallows up desk space, leaving limited room for your speakers, elaborate peripherals or the PC itself. Samsung might have a simple fix. Its newly unveiled Space Gaming Monitor (aka…
Sony has announced that it’ll be acquiring Insomniac Games, the game development studio behind the Ratchet & Clank series and, most recently, Marvel’s Spider-Man for the PS4.
The news isn’t totally surprising: Insomniac has long had a close relationship with Sony…
Two Halo characters are joining ‘Gears 5’
August 19, 2019
Thirteen years into their shared history, you would think Halo and Gears of War would have already crossed over before today. After all, following Microsoft’s purchase of the Gears franchise in 2014, the two properties are the company’s biggest and most important exclusives. So it’s a bit strange to see it’s not Master Chief, Halo’s main hero, joining the fight…
