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For the longest time, Crysis set the bar for graphics. Players often joked about the game’s maximum settings, which required some pretty impressive hardware to run. Even by today’s standards, the game looks gorgeous - and with Crysis 3, EA’s giving players the chance to see for themselves. EA and Crytek announced today that pre-orders of Crysis 3 will come with a free copy of the original Crysis. The offer is good for pre-orders on any platform (meaning Xbox 360, PS3 and PC - currently, no Wii U version is planned) with Crysis given out through download codes....

What would happen if Apple designed the PlayStation 5 instead of Sony isn’t a question many would find themselves asking. It’s more likely people would wonder what would happen if Microsoft created the PlayStation and Sony the Xbox. Still, one savvy video editor decided to pose the question and then answer it via an Apple-inspired PlayStation 5 commercial. Obviously, Apple and Sony have two very different ways of approaching their marketing, as is evident by the commercials they’ve done for their respective heavy-hitters: the iPhone 12 and the PlayStation 5....

Under, a brand-new horror title set on a sinking ship that seems to borrow heavily from 2013’s P.T., has just received a brand new trailer. The new game from Globiss Interactive places players in the shoes of World War 1 veteran Alexander Dockter, who must escape a seven-decker ocean liner that is sinking. The player starts at the lower levels of the ship, and must slowly travel up the ship, in order to avoid being entrapped....

Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human, has had an interesting past few months. The studio released Detroit: Become Human to critical acclaim earlier this year but has also found itself wrapped in legal controversy, facing allegations of a toxic workplace which prompted them to sue the news outlets that exposed said toxicity. Now, Quantic Dream has lost a court case against a former employee making similar allegations....

The new event for tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege is now live on the test server. Operation Neon Dawn brings notable gameplay updates, a Skyscraper map rework, and our introduction to fresh-faced Defender Aruni; who has a prosthetic arm fit for weaponizing. Aruni emerged from her native Thailand as Apha Tawanroong; a quick-witted investigator noticed by the Royal Thai Police for discovering a bomb plot in Bangkok. Once part of the Crime Suppression Division, her career came to an abrupt end during an operation in Bangkok with Rainbow’s Thermite....

Ubisoft has officially unveiled its Rainbow Six Siege Year 3 Roadmap in all its entirety, revealing 4 seasons that diverge from the traditional release structure that the studio has previously followed. The third year of Rainbow Six Siege content will once again introduce 8 new operators, but only two new maps. The studio will be reworking several of the existing maps in the game, and is also poised to introduce a zombie mode type of event to the game....

With every big press conference out of the way, we now know what to expect in the next few years when it comes to gaming. Each company had their fair share of surprises and missteps. However, there was only one company who announced a new console to join their hardware lineup: Microsoft. Ever since last year, consumers have wondered what Project Scorpio would become. Now they’ve revealed it to be the Xbox One X....

It takes a certain amount of cojones to remake a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, especially one that nabbed the Academy Award for Best Picture and remains a stone cold classic some 80 years after it first came out. But that’s what British director Ben Wheatley has done with Rebecca, albeit with a film (his first for Netflix) that’s as much a new adaptation of the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel as it a remake of the master’s Gothic melodrama....

The Bounty Hunter role offers some of the most challenging content in Red Dead Online. With its infamous Legendary Bounty missions, players can expect a gruelling, but worthwhile, experience that gets more difficult on subsequent playthroughs. A mission that might be easy the first time is going to be nearly impossible on the fifth attempt. To get started on the hardest five-star Legendary Bounty hunting missions, players will need to be prepared....

Fellow Outlaws, here my call! This week in Red Dead Online is the perfect time to make a ton of cash with bonuses to the Trader role, and a rare chance to nab some of the best-looking clothing that returns for a limited time. If you do not already have the Trader role, it is on sale this week with a five gold bar discount, making this the best time to become friends with Cripps....

Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 is full of gameplay subtleties that are only part of the reason the game is beheld as a masterpiece and one of this generation’s defining highlights. One of these subtleties involves the ability to initiate a quick draw in the style of what has been seen in old western films and the like. The Dead Eye ability is a main focus for Red Dead Redemption 2’s gunplay, which has been tuned since its release for fun third-person cover shooting....

In classic western style, Red Dead Redemption 2 allows players to ride horses across vast landscapes, have shootouts with rival cowboys, and conduct potentially profitable robberies left and right. And within Red Dead Redemption 2, there are a variety of types of robberies. While it’s possible to rob unsuspecting citizens, it’s also possible to scale up your robberies and try and rob a train of its contents. As per VG247, if you decide to rob a train, know that you’re taking a markedly bigger risk than when trying to rob a random pedestrian....

Hunting is one of the most important things players can do in Red Dead Redemption 2, as it’s a great way to make money as well as provide for the Van Der Linde Gang camp, and it’s necessary to craft some of the best upgrades in the game. One of the better upgrades players can craft for the tomahawk, for example, is the Homing Tomahawk upgrade, but it requires an owl feather to craft, and owls are not necessarily easy to find....

Rockstar Games debuted a new trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 that gives insight into the upcoming title, such as its themes and story. Now the game’s box art has begun to circulate, which can now be seen in about every major online store, along with the Rockstar Games website. Anyone who has watched the trailer or seen various online promotional material will notice that the box art is just a rearrangement of those images....

With an added sense of realism, a new protagonist, and new areas to explore, Red Dead Redemption 2 isn’t just a simple sequel. As Rockstar previously confirmed and as players are finding out, the world itself is absolutely massive thanks to a map that is double the size of the first game. Even with such a large area to explore and nearly endless activities to distract, one player managed to find the very ends to the map and discovered what happens when Arthur Morgan crosses over....

[UPDATE: We have removed the images at the request of the game’s publisher.] With just a few short days to go before the official launch of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2, there’s no doubt that myriad gamers are eagerly anticipating this weekend’s arrival so that they will finally be able to get their hands on a copy of the title. While fans wait, though, it seems like they can now get a much better idea of the size and scale of RDR2’s world, as the forthcoming western release’s full map has leaked online....

This Redditor is turning regular Magic cards into great Calvin and Hobbes crossover art. You should totally check them out. For a certain generation of gamer, Calvin and Hobbes were the comic book duo that simply defined a childhood. The serialized comic strip ended in 1995, but books and reprints in local newspapers around the world have kept Calvin and Hobbes alive for almost a quarter-century, bringing them to an entirely new generation....

In our interview with Gunfire Games’ senior technical combat designer Taylor Denison this week, we asked him what he thinks next-gen technology will mean for developers, specifically boss fight designers like him. Taylor most recently worked on Remnant From The Ashes’ final DLC expansion, Subject 2923, designing almost all of the boss fights. Taylor designed many of the game’s most iconic boss encounters, including the bridge fight Ixillis, the body-splitting root monster Riphide, and the optional super boss Iskal Queen....

Sony officially reveals the price and release date for its forthcoming virtual reality gaming headset, PlayStation VR, at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Following the rumors of Sony’s PlayStation VR getting a delay until the Fall 2016, the tech firm has now unveiled the official price and release date at GDC 2016 for its virtual reality headset, as it will be launching in October of this year at a suggested retail price of $399....

Fans of the Killzone franchise have gone without a new entry to the series in over seven years, as the most recent entry was Killzone Shadow Fall on PS4 back in 2013. As upsetting as that may be, it hasn’t been enough to cause fans of the franchise to lose hope, but a recent update to the PlayStation website is giving fans some cause for concern. For those that don’t know, the developers of the Killzone franchise are Guerrilla Games, a studio owned by Sony....