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Ring of Elysium: How Tencent built a different kind of battle royale

Ring of Elysium: How Tencent built a different kind of battle royale

It seems foolish for any developer to compete with battle royale giants Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. But the rising popularity of Ring of Elysium proves that the crowded genre still has some room for new challengers.

Out for free on PC via Steam Early Access, Ring of Elysium takes place on the wintry mountainside of Mt. Dione, where 60 players have to duke it out in the midst of a…

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The DeanBeat: The most anticipated games of 2019

The DeanBeat: The most anticipated games of 2019

While the movies get scheduled pretty tightly, we often must guess when our favorite games will be coming. The Game Awards last week helped us figure out part of what’s coming in 2019, and game publishers and developers and platform owners have given us other clues. And that’s how I’ve pieced together my list of the most anticipated games of 2019.

Last year, I was really late with my list, which…

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The DeanBeat: The most anticipated games of 2019

The DeanBeat: The most anticipated games of 2019

While the movies get scheduled pretty tightly, we often must guess when our favorite games will be coming. The Game Awards last week helped us figure out part of what’s coming in 2019, and game publishers and developers and platform owners have given us other clues. And that’s how I’ve pieced together my list of the most anticipated games of 2019.

Last year, I was really late with my list, which…

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Activision reveals Operation Absolute Zero content drop

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Activision reveals Operation Absolute Zero content drop

Activision and Treyarch revealed the first major content update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The Operation Absolute Zero will launch on December 11 with new features for PlayStation 4 players.

One of the bigger changes is a new Specialist, dubbed Zero, who joins the nine other Specialist characters that players can choose to play in multiplayer matches.

Zero can appear in multiplayer and…

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Battlefield V’s Tides of War update delayed due to bug (updated)

Battlefield V’s Tides of War update delayed due to bug (updated)

Electronic Arts’ DICE studio has delayed Battlefield V‘s Overture chapter in the Tides of War series due to the discovery of a bug.

The Overture update was due to arrive today. It adds new multiplayer and single-player content for those who bought the game, which debuted on November 20.

But DICE tweeted about the delay. It’s another stumble in a tough launch for the studio, which had to delay the…

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Call of Duty: Global Operations strategy game gets a soft launch on mobile

Call of Duty: Global Operations strategy game gets a soft launch on mobile

Activision and Elex are testing a new Call of Duty mobile game in certain countries on the Android operating system.

Call of Duty: Global Operations is described as “the next tactical [massively multiplayer online] player-versus-player game.” Elex is a mobile game developer in China, and it is best known for its Clash of Kings title, which competes with MZ’s Game of War: Fire Age.

The Elex game…

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Red Dead Online beta — Here’s how the multiplayer open world begins (updated)

Red Dead Online beta — Here’s how the multiplayer open world begins (updated)

Rockstar Games launched the beta version of Red Dead Online for some of its players today.

So far, Red Dead Online is only be available to those who bought the Ultimate Edition of Red Dead Redemption 2. On November 28, those who played the game on its first day of release will be able to play, and the larger groups will get access on November 29 and November 30.

I gave it a whirl this morning and…

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Rainbow Six Siege: Hands-on with Season 4’s Operation Wind Bastion

Rainbow Six Siege: Hands-on with Season 4’s Operation Wind Bastion

Ubisoft‘s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is starting out its Year 3 Season 4 content with a new update dubbed Operation Wind Bastion.

This kind of update is why the five-year-old game still has a big following a couple of years after launch and a grand total of 40 million players. I played the update at a recent Ubisoft preview event, and you can see part of my gameplay in the video embedded in…

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Battlefield V review — An unfinished work of art

Battlefield V review — An unfinished work of art

Battlefield V is one of the prettiest games you’ll see that juxtaposes horrific fighting of World War II with beautiful landscapes. As you wade through the golden grass of Arras in France, or move through the green bogs of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, or walk along the waterfront in Rotterdam, you’ll stop in your tracks and admire the scenery, before you go back to fighting.

Electronic Arts’ DICE…

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Battlefield V’s RTX reflections sure are pretty

Battlefield V’s RTX reflections sure are pretty

Months after the first RTX card hit the market, the real-time ray tracing feature is finally in Battlefield V. This is the very first game to support Nvidia’s and Microsoft’s lauded new lighting technology. So it’s time to take a look at RTX in action. What does it even do? Does it destroy performance? And does it matter?

I captured some Battlefield V footage last night with RTX enabled. In the…

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Battlefield V’s War Stories opening cinematics hook the player

Battlefield V’s War Stories opening cinematics hook the player

I’ve been battle testing Electronic Arts’ Battlefield V for a few days, and I’ve finished the first three available War Stories, or the single-player campaign. I love the opening cinematics of the War Stories, where developer DICE gets to stretch its storytelling abilities.

The War Stories are vignettes about different characters which show off an untold aspect of the war. We all have images in…

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Red Dead’s doing great, but Grand Theft Auto still prints money

Red Dead’s doing great, but Grand Theft Auto still prints money

Red Dead Redemption is having a huge launch, but Take-Two Interactive won’t report the results of that success until next quarter. For now, the publisher still has to rely on Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online — and as far as business-sustaining pillars go, it could do worse.

Take-Two confirmed today that it has shipped more than 100 million copies of Grand Theft Auto V. That makes the 2013…

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Destiny 2 will be free on PC through November 18

Destiny 2 will be free on PC through November 18

Destiny 2 is free to all Battle.net players. The offer goes on from now until November 18. The announcement came as part of the opening ceremonies for BlizzCon 2018 today in Anaheim, California. If you download the game, you will own it. You won’t lose it after November 18.

Destiny 2 released for PC last October, one month after the multiplayer shooter came out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.…

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Prepare for Blackout Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Giveaway

Prepare for Blackout Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Giveaway

Black Ops is back, Call of Duty fans — like you didn’t know that already. As always, the game is full of some down and gritty multiplayer combat that’s as smooth and fluid as a pour of Mountain Dew, the biggest Zombies offering ever and Blackout, where the universe of Black Ops comes to life in one massive battle royale experience where winner takes all the glory.

Suit up for combat that’s…

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Red Dead Redemption 2 impressions — Losing yourself in the epic Wild West

Red Dead Redemption 2 impressions — Losing yourself in the epic Wild West

Red Dead Redemption 2 is about as awesome and immersive as a video game can get, and that’s no hyperbole or surprise, as the game comes from Rockstar Games, which made masterpieces such as 2010’s Red Dead Redemption and 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V. I am confident that this mature-rated game will be one of the mega-hits of the holiday season, if not for years to come, and it will be a strong…

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Red Dead Fever: Social-analytics firm claims y’all are playing hooky

Red Dead Fever: Social-analytics firm claims y’all are playing hooky

Red Dead Redemption 2 is out now, but how do we know if it’s successful? Well, you can use any number of metrics to determine how hot a new game launch is. A publisher may announce early sales figures. Or we can look to Steam’s current player rankings. But I prefer checking social media to see who is calling in sick to work. Thankfully, social-analytics firm Fizziology is tracking that data for…