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For Honor has introduced the brutal Centurion class with the Shadow And Might DLC and it’s shaking up things on the battlefield. In addition to the rampant cliff side Sparta memes being reenacted, players are finding this brutal character can be very deadly in the right hands but is sometimes difficult to use to its full potential. Hopefully some of these tips will give players a better understanding of how they should be using this mighty warrior and better employing him on the field of battle....

Sustainability is something Ubisoft has seemingly mastered with many of its franchises, able to not only release a game but keep its momentum going strong 2-3 years later. Its best example may be Rainbow Six Siege, which, following a slow start, has gained so much momentum that the game is now well into its fourth year of content updates. For Honor is heading in that direction as well, following a well-recieved crossover with Assassin’s Creed, the development team is now turning to another Ubisoft franchise to make its way into the game of swords and shields....

The ‘Master Chief for Smash Bros.’ movement continues to gather steam. Now, Halo’s former composer has stated that he’d love to collaborate with Nintendo on such a project. Now, there’s no denying that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has provided some outlandish DLC characters. From Piranha Plant with its nightmarish stumpy little legs to Minecraft Steve and his strangely suggestive (and swiftly patched) meat, these DLC additions and Fighter Passes have certainly been a heck of a ride so far....

It’s a sad day for WWE fans, especially those who remember and love former Superstar James “Kamala” Harris. The Cauliflower Alley Club (CAC) tweeted Sunday that Harris, a former WWE wrestler, passed away today at the age of 70, with his cause of death currently unreleased. The WWE published a statement shortly after CAC broke the sad news, honoring Harris and his face-painted monster heel persona Kamala. The article mentions how Harris battled some of the “greatest Superstars in sports-entertainment history” including the recently retired Undertaker and wrestler-turned-actor Andre the Giant....

Fortnite’s Season 5 Week 7 challenges are live in the game, giving players new objectives to complete in exchange for various rewards. This week is unique in that it adds a multi-step challenge that will likely take multiple matches for players to complete, but if they know how to complete it ahead of time, they could speed things up a bit. This multi-step challenge is split into five stages, and is a Battle Pass challenge, meaning only Fortnite players who have the Battle Pass can complete it....

While there have been several problems with Sand Tunneling in Fortnite since its debut at the beginning of Season 5, it seems that developer Epic Games has gotten things fully under control. This means that it is now possible for the mechanic to be used in Fortnite challenges, and indeed it is at the center of one of the latest tasks. Specifically, this task instructs players to spend five seconds within 20 meters of enemies while Sand Tunneling, and this guide details exactly how that is done....

A spaceship has crash-landed in Fortnite. Here’s where to find its missing parts so the astronaut trapped inside can head back home. There are a few things that have kept Fortnite popular and relevant for three years and counting. Epic continues to make wholesale changes to the game while still keeping its core the same so that it doesn’t drive too many of its hardcore fans away. On top of that, it stages crossover events with other mainstream franchises....

Fortnite has garnered incredible attention as of late from fans and critics alike, and part of its success is the developer’s ability to constantly pump out new content for the game. While Epic Games hasn’t been drastically changing the core aspects of Fortnite with each update, the regular inclusion of new events, skins, and weapons gives fans something to look forward to. Now, keeping in line with Season 3’s space theme, Fortnite has released another outlandish skin....

This season of Fortnite is all about secrets: secret passages, secret lairs, and now a secret challenge. While the challenge isn’t listed anywhere, it offers up a very real 40k XP for anyone who can figure it out. All players have to do is interact with some gnomes with telescopes in the Weeping Woods. The Gnomes Along with the other Fortnite changes for the week of April 4th, 2020, Epic games slipped some gnomes with telescopes onto the map this week....

Fortnite vehicles could be getting a rather big update in the very near future. According to one well-known leaker, Epic Games could be getting set to add mounted car guns as well as other vehicle mods to Fortnite. The rumors that weapons could be a reality, followed close on the heels of whispers surrounding Fortnite about Epic planning some serious modding of the Battle Royale’s weapons. Notable leaker HYPEX took to Twitter earlier this week to claim that those weapon mods are coming, but that wasn’t the big news about to be revealed....

A new line of Hot Wheels model cars will be launched in August, in collaboration with Forza Horizon. This line will include the likes of the Mercedes-Benz A-Class, Corvette C7.R and Porsche 911 GT3 RS. As spotted by VGC, the news came via acclaimed Hot Wheels blog, T-Hunted, which shared a picture of the Porsche model on it’s Instagram page. A notable thing about the packaging is the desert background, which is in line with news that the next game will be set in Mexico....

About a couple of weeks ago, the publisher Gun Media and developer IllFonic provided fans with a heads up about the next patch for the asymmetrical multiplayer survival-horror title Friday the 13th: The Game, with the update intending to focus on new content and bug fixes. Now, the companies have officially released the new patch and some of its notes, while also teasing the inclusion of the Virtual Cabin 2.0 feature....

Friday the 13th: The Game developer IllFonic previously took steps to deal with people who improperly play the game, including a patch to curb team killing. But the latest update on the horror game has fans saying that IllFonic is actually aiding Friday the 13th players who cheat. On the game’s Steam forums, one Friday the 13th player argued that permanently banning players who had used exploits that have since been patched out is unfair and doesn’t work for multiplayer games like this....

Game Ranter Banter: Assassin’s Creed 3, Mass Effect 3 Hype, Hypothetical Super Mario RPG 2 The gaming community’s been alight this past week thanks to news surrounding the official Assassin’s Creed 3 announcement and the release of Mass Effect 3. Just as the launch of BioWare’s much-anticipated RPG draws near, leaked details and images regarding Assassin’s Creed 3, its 18th Century America setting and new protagonist have split our attention....

Gamescom Opening Night Live makes its return in 2021, hosted once again by Geoff Keighley. The presentation will debut on August 24, the night before the start of the event, and it will showcase several videogame announcements and news, as usual. After the success of last year’s Opening Night Live, the presenter will be back for a second time. While last year’s Gamescom was fully-digital, this year it will return in the form of a hybrid event, offering both on-site and online activities to enjoy from August 25 to August 29, with a Live presentation on the night before the beginning of the event....

UPDATE: GameStop has issued a statement regarding the price increase, stating that the company’s objective is to “create a stronger benefit that appeals broadly to all PowerUp Rewards members, including those that buy digital, collectibles, or choose to buy only new products.” The statement continues, “We recognize that there are gamers of all types that shop at GameStop and we want to give them the opportunity to choose how they want to be rewarded....

Gearbox is tweaking Borderlands 3’s Mayhem 2.0, ‘cause some of it really sucked. At the end of April, Gearbox unveiled its first attempt to change Borderlands 3’s Mayhem Mode for the better. In general, Mayhem was designed to provide an end-game experience that was both challenging and rewarding, and while it got some of that right, it missed the mark when it came to the whole “fun” aspect of the game....

Genshin Impact players often find themselves gathering miscellaneous ingredients and materials as they explore Teyvat. While some of the found objects spawn commonly throughout the map, others like the Jueyun Chili are a bit more temperamental. The Jueyun Chili is one of several cooking ingredients used in Genshin Impact, and is known as a Liyue delicacy. The bright red flower-like chilis found only in the Liyue region are allegedly so spicy that “merely smelling [them] makes one hot and thirsty....

George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” was released on Nov. 23, 1970, as the first single to his groundbreaking and historic solo album. The Beatles were the first band to play stadium concerts, put backwards instrumentation into songs, and the first rock band to put sitar and tamboura drones in pop rock. But Harrison’s first solo release after the band’s break up, All Things Must Pass, was the first triple album coming from a single act in rock....

Just a few days ago, the video game publisher and developer Ubisoft officially teased a forthcoming crossover event in its tactical shooter Ghost Recon: Wildlands that will feature content relating to its other property Rainbow Six Siege. Now, the company has decided to give fans a closer look at how Rainbow Six assets will be incorporated into the title by releasing a gameplay trailer for the content drop known as Special Operations 2....