Author: [email protected] (Morgan Park)
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PUBG is getting an extraction shooter spinoff next year
The house that PUBG: Battlegrounds built is branching out from battle royale. Krafton announced in its latest financial report that its latest game from PUBG Studios is “Project Black Budget,” an extraction shooter planned to release in the second half of 2024. Extraction shooters, a subgenre of shooters typically defined by PvPvE skirmishes in sandbox…
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Rainbow Six Siege is getting a skin marketplace in the style of Counter-Strike
It used to be the case that comparisons between Rainbow Six Siege and Counter-Strike ended at their 5v5 team sizes and bomb rulesets, but Ubisoft is cooking up its own version of a feature that’s become synonymous with Valve’s tactical FPS: the skin marketplace. Simply dubbed the “Rainbow Six Siege Marketplace,” the website will allow…
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Rainbow Six Siege’s next operator has the intimidating ability to press pause on nearly every gadget in the game
Eight years, 32 seasons, 70 operators. In all that time, Rainbow Six Siege players can point to only a few moments where the cornerstone of its meta—breaching—saw upheaval. In 2015 the Bandit trick proved Thatcher could be countered, in 2018 Maverick offered an unstoppable (but risky) option to brute force a wall, then Kaid offered…
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A Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 bug is spawning every player in the same spot, triggering a nonstop bloodbath
Call of Duty spawns are always a little wonky on launch day, but they’re rarely as entertaining as this Modern Warfare 3 bug. Some console folk hopping into multiplayer early (presumably employing the good ol’ New Zealand region switch trick) are getting swept up in a nonstop bullet barrage as the map Quarry will sometimes…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: How to unlock guns faster by playing Zombies
For all the ways that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 feels like an add-on for last year’s game, it deserves some credit for shaking up the standard 1-55 progression system in a major way. Instead of unlocking every gun, throwable, and gadget just by leveling up, a huge chunk of MW3 items are locked…
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Good news, terrible news: You don’t have to launch Modern Warfare 2 to launch Modern Warfare 3 anymore, but now you can’t launch Warzone without first launching Modern Warfare 3
Activision’s rollout of the new “Call of Duty HQ” launcher has been anything but elegant. The HQ, which is really just a rebranded frontend for a single CoD game, is the only way to launch the new Modern Warfare 3, and until yesterday, that process was a real slog. To play MW3, you had to…
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‘If you want to think of it as Hunt 2 you’re welcome to, but I’m not going to charge you’: Hunt: Showdown manager on the extraction shooter’s impending engine upgrade, and the pitfalls of declaring a sequel
Live service games are evolving. The major multiplayer shooters of the 2010s are starting to show their age in the 2020s, leaving their stewards to answer an interesting question: How do you move a service game into the future without disrupting its active player base, or starting completely fresh? In the cases of Overwatch 2…
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Chucky is the next Dead By Daylight killer, and I can’t stop laughing at a 2-foot-tall doll chasing teens
Even though competitive keep-away isn’t really my thing, it’s hard not to admire Dead By Daylight from a comfortable distance. The folks at Behaviour Interactive have cooked up over 30 playable killers over the years, some original to the game and many adapted from classic horror media, with distinct abilities and upsetting methods for slaying…
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Overwatch 2’s next hero is a massive tank packing two chainguns, and he’s free to try this weekend
Overwatch 2 is capping off 2023 with a new tank, and he sounds like an absolute unit. Mauga, who’s soon to be revealed at BlizzCon but was leaked a tad early by a rogue Nintendo Switch ad shared on Reddit, is a beefy brawler packing not one, but two massive chainguns. In a first for…
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Worst fear confirmed: You can’t launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2
Activision’s bold new vision for unifying the Call of Duty experience is off to a bad start. With the early release of Modern Warfare 3’s campaign, players are discovering that launching Call of Duty HQ, the unified front end for current and future CoD titles, is required to access the new game. That might not…