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High ranked Apex Legends players noticed something strange recently. At the end of a hard-fought match they were facing off against six players instead of three. Typically, an Apex Legends game features 20 teams of three fighting on a large map that shrinks a little every few minutes. In at…

OnePlus phones are among the most powerful around and sport high refresh rate displays, so it makes sense to target mobile gamers. There are already a number of titles that can be played at 90 or 120 frames per second, and now Fortnite is joining the list. A new partnership…

Hello and welcome to Replay, WIRED's rundown of all of the week's big videogame news. This week we've got updates from EA and G2A, and some details on that Doom Eternal anti-cheat software that pretty much no one liked. Let's dive right in.Doom Eternal Gains, Then Quickly Loses, Anti-Cheat SoftwareIf…

Developer Infinity Ward has confirmed that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will get a large update introducing new content later this week on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. This includes the return of an old franchise map, which is available to play right now. Hardhat, which was last seen…

Update:Donald Mustard, worldwide creative director at Epic Games, confirmed that the idea for premiering the new Tenet trailer in Fortnite came from a call with director Christopher Nolan himself.According to Mustard, Epic told Nolan that it was sad they couldn't watch the new trailer on the big screen, but suggested…

TIME for Kids received letters from students expressing their feelings during this crisis. Here’s what they had to say: It feels like being trapped sometimes. Then, when we go out of the house, it’s like we’re free, like a bird out of its cage for the first time. —Emma Rich,…

Screenshot: Sega (Phantasy Star Online 2)Japanese virtual idol Hatsune Miku and her vocaloid friend, Meguirine Luka, have been popping by the Asia version of Phantasy Star Online 2 for years. Now North American players are getting their first taste of Miku and Luka’s “Living Universe” performance, and I was there,…

One of the biggest games in the world, "Fortnite," will be available at launch on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.Not only that, but the game will be playable across platforms — PS5 and Xbox Series X owners will be able to play with "Fortnite" players on Xbox One,…

The scale of the landscape and its detail on PlayStation 5 is crazy. Epic Games I've heard the idea before: living film. A game that feels cinematic. This has been every PlayStation's promise since the beginning of the century.Watching Epic Games' first peek at Unreal Engine 5 on PlayStation 5,…

Epic Online Services Launches, Giving Other Games Access To Fortnite-style Cross-play and More (polygon.com) Posted by msmash on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:45PM from the how-about-that dept. Epic Online Services is now available, giving developers free access to the same kinds of tools used to support Epic Games' massive Fortnite…