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Godzilla’s no stranger to gaming. The towering reptile has starred in games dating back to 1983, with their eponymous Commodore 64 debut. Since then, they’ve remained a prolific presence in video games, starring in over 50 releases spanning every generation of consoles. Out of those games, however, fewer than five use Godzilla’s Americanized moniker in the title: King of Monsters. That title was first foisted on ‘Zilla back in 1956, when Embassy Pictures released a heavily edited and truncated version of Toho’s 1954 Gojira....

Fortnite players think the circled date on the calendar is Deadpool’s office reveals when the anti-hero’s skin will arrive in-game. The launch trailer for Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 revealed that Deadpool would be joining the games colorful cast of characters. Marvel’s favorite anti-hero is hidden out in a bathroom of the new Fortnite HQ and has been setting challenges for Battle Pass-owning players each week. Players who complete the challenges earn themselves a reward....

Epic Games is doing things a little differently this week in its wildly popular game, Fortnite. While new challenges appear each week inside the Battle Royale mode, the game appears to be taking a short break before season 8 begins officially. This week marks the start of Overtime Challenges, which are a set of three tasks arriving each week that all Fortnite players can attempt, regardless if they’ve previously purchased a Battle Pass or not....

It was almost three weeks ago that Fortnite fans caught wind that a new sniper rifle weapon was nearing release, with Epic Games finally confirming its impending arrival today. The Fortnite in-game menu now teases the Heavy Sniper, which will come in both a legendary and epic variants. At the same time, FNBRLeaks has simultaneously shown off the legendary heavy sniper in a leaked video, revealing a weapon that will be truly devastating to fort and foe alike....

It’s been almost six months now since Fortnite re-invented itself with the Chapter Two update, and Epic’s insanely popular Battle Royale is still evolving. The latest update is 12.20, which comes in the middle of Chapter Two’s second Season, and brings Spy Games and bug fixes, as well as a new mode of transportation never before seen in Fortnite. The Choppa is the Battle Royale’s first helicopter, and has been anticipated ever since it appeared in Season 2’s promo....

Fortnite has another set of challenges for players this week as the Marvel-themed crossover event continues into Chapter 2, Season 4, Week 6. One of these challenges is to eat a legendary fish during a game. Legendary Fish Fishing was added to Fortnite about a year ago, but until recently, all fish had the same rarity level. Now, fish are ranked from gray common fish to the golden mythic fish, just like loot and weapons....

One of the standout aspects of Fortnite Battle Royale is the ever-changing customization items. Since the mode’s launch last year, Epic has managed to continually create and add new items from character skins to pickaxes to emotes. Players have plenty of ways to earn the content as well, either through level progression on the seasonal battle pass or by spending V-Bucks at the in-game store, which updates with new content every couple of days....

Fortnite Season 6 officially kicked off a couple of days ago, introducing a host of new skins and cosmetics for players to earn through the Battle Pass. The battle royale has practiced the tradition of adding character skins from popular video games for a while now, sometimes hiding them as bundles in the Season Pass. Like the Predator from Season 5, Brazilian football star Neymar Jr. is the Battle Pass skin for Season 6....

Although Week 6 doesn’t officially start until next week, Fortnite’s latest set of challenges have already surfaced online. So those players looking to knock out all of the objectives for their Battle Pass as quickly as possible can plan their week and scout locations. Most of the Fortnite challenges are fairly straightforward. Players should only need a few matches to complete all 8 of them, depending on how lucky they are with loot and if they land in the correct spots....

There was once a time when the most successful mobile games were bite-sized, but that has long passed. There was also a time when collectible card/online battle games were niche genres, but that, too, has changed. With iOS and Android gaming growing by the year, and titles like Netrunner and Hearthstone only gaining momentum, Epic Arena looks to combine the genres in a free-to-play showdown played asynchronously from a mobile device or PC....

Friday Night Lights is now back on Netflix and you have to watch it. Just to be clear, that isn’t a request – it’s an order. The NBC football drama is simply one of the most affecting, thrilling American TV shows of all time. Though premiering in 2006, the show can mark its lineage all the way back to a true story from the late ‘80s. In 1990, sports journalist H....

Although Friday the 13th: The Game was one of the most anticipated horror games of 2017, the title’s full release has proved troublesome for players. Alongside the numerous server and connection problems, another issue for many users has been the actions of other players in the game, which has impacted on the exciting asymmetrical multiplayer experience. Now, developer Gun Media has released a list of actions that will get players banned....

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege may face an impacted content release schedule as its development team begins to work from home in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic; following the lead of EA, Bungie, and other giants in the gaming industry. Ubisoft put out a Tweet telling its fans that work-from-home policies are being implemented “in all affected regions” to protect its developers while “ensur[ing] you can keep playing.” The official Twitter account for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege followed up on Thursday saying “the day-to-day play experience” will remain unchanged as its team works from home, but smaller patches in the short term will be cut....

Pokémon is a series that has gone strong since the late 1990s thanks to a brilliant marketing strategy of keeping it both appealing to kids and nostalgic at the same time. It’s a series with a fanbase that ranges from children whose first experience with the series was the Eevee Let’s Go and Pikachu Let’s Go games, to adults in their thirties who played the original Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue games....

When it comes to JRPGs, few titles hold as much weight as Dragon Quest. The latest entry in the series is one of, if not the best, entry in a legendary gaming franchise. It’s highly regarded as one of the best JRPGs of the past decade as it provides a gameplay experience that both veterans and newcomers will enjoy. It’s rare to find a game that captures the same feeling that a classic Dragon Quest game can, especially these days....

The Pokémon video games also seem to exist in the world of Pokémon, as fans have noticed a reference to Pokémon Quest in the Isle of Armor expansion for Pokémon Sword & Shield. One of the long-running aspects of the Pokémon series is real-world Nintendo consoles appearing in homes across the land. This started with a Super Nintendo in Red’s room in Pokémon Red & Blue and continues with a Switch in Pokémon Sword & Shield that changes color, depending on the Joy-Cons attached to the system....

One of Genshin Impact’s first event of version 1.3 is called Five Flushes of Fortune. Instead of focusing on simple combat like daily requests or exchanging items like with Marvelous Merchandise, players are charged with taking pictures. Each day during the event a specific color and item will be unveiled for players to take pictures of. Every time the player takes a picture, a colored photograph will be given to them....

Directly after Genshin Impact’s festive winter events, players were introduced to an entirely new set of spring celebrations with the Lantern Rite Festival featuring Xiao, one of the game’s latest playable five-stars. Since then, Travelers have also had the chance to meet a powerful new form of “Vishaps” that have been appearing around Teyvat, along with yet another Genshin Impact character. As players may well know, Hu Tao was ultimately introduced as part of the game’s Version 1....

If you enable two-factor authentication on your Activision account today, you can get double battle pass XP in Call of Duty Warzone and Black Ops Cold War. The way it works is that, when activating two-factor authentication, you’ll be gifted two one-hour long double XP battle pass tokens with one redeemable in Call of Duty Warzone while the other works in Black Ops Cold War. These timers, unfortunately, include menu times and loading, however, so it won’t be a full hour in-game....

Ghost of Tsushima has a new box, and while it’s mostly the same as the old box art, there’s one thing missing. As VGC first reported, the “Only on PlayStation” label is gone from the new box, which might mean there’s a PC port on the way. The same update happened to both Days Gone and Horizon Zero Dawn in the days leading up to their PC ports, so there’s a chance that this means Ghost of Tsushima will make the journey to Steam, Epic, or other PC platforms....