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Going into Metal Gear Survive, I told myself one thing: I would not try to hold this game up to the standards of the previous Metal Gear games. Survive recycles a lot of assets and gameplay mechanics from The Phantom Pain, and it has a pretty fitting theme considering that fact.

Review: Polyarc's PSVR platformer Moss is nothing if not goddamn adorable. The game has you control the adventurous mouse Quill on an epic adventure, but you do so as her mysterious Watcher.

Milestone S.r.l. are known mostly for their exacting racing sims with an insane amount of customization detail. Gravel is not one of those games. Gravel is a pick-up-and-play arcade style racer, and it actually manages to be just that.

Fortnite's Battle Royale mode is getting a new limited time squad mode, which will allow players to come together into 20-person teams. The leak comes to us through a screenshot posted to  Reddit, which gives us a glimpse of the Raptor and Empire Axe as well as a few details on the incoming squad mode.

CD Projekt Red has released the dates for their upcoming Gwent Challenger tournament, which will run April 28-29th in "Wieliczka" Salt Mine, Poland. Wieliczka is hailed as "one of the most valuable monuments of culture in Poland" as it is featured on UNESCO's World Cultural and Natural Heritage List.

Bandai Namco and Dimps' Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet, like most other Sword Art Online games, is something of a let down. You wouldn't think a franchise about video games could get video games so wrong, but somehow they always manage.

EA and Zoink's Fe is a cute pseudo-indie game that essentially requires you to accept that language is a gameplay mechanic.

Drifter Entertainment's VR shooter Gunheart probably shouldn't be as goddamn charming as it is. But Drifter Entertainment really knows how to pull out the stops with the customization tools, and so Gunheart is freaking adorable.

Rockstar Games has announced that this week in Grand Theft Auto Online is Stunt Race Week, which absolutely means epic crashes are inbound. In addition, all of the Rockstar created and verified stunt races are offering double GTA$ and RP through March 12th.

According to a report on GamesIndustry.biz, one of the Senior Producers on Horizon: Zero Dawn is moving to Ubisoft's Toronto studio to head up development on a new, unannounced title. The producer in question is Samrat Sharma, who was part of Guerrilla Games' Horizon team.

Despite being PUBG's zany cousin/knockoff, Fortnite has gone on to become the most-watched game on Twitch. Part of that is likely down to accessibility and lack of cheaters.

Final Fantasy XV's Windows and Royal Editions have launched today, bringing the complete version of the epic boy-band saga to fans on all platforms.

Hearthstone's Arena Draft Mode is getting updated this month, which will bring some interesting changes to the deck building challenge mode. As it stands, The Arena requires players to build a 30-card deck from a random selection of cards, and then go forth and battle other players to test their deck-building skills.

The Xbox Exclusive State of Decay 2 will be releasing on May 22, 2018 but pre-orders for the game are already live. The sequel intends to take everything fans loved from the original State of Decay and create a more dangerous and unpredictable world for players to explore and survive in.

En Masse Entertainment is bringing Tera Online to Xbox One and PS4 this year, bringing the MMO to consoles for the first time. In preparation for that launch, Tera is getting an open-beta test later this week, but we also got a brand new "Console First Look" trailer today.

The Esports League's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Pro League is expanding its reach into the Asia-Pacific region with a brand new CS:GO Pro League Division. The ESL and WESA have partnered up to create the division, which will take part in the CS:GO Pro League's seventh season.

For the sake of fitting in with its hardboiled roots, Detective Pikachu gives us a much older, much more jaded version of the Pokemon mascot.

The UK arm of the Esports League has paired up with Ubisoft to host the very first Rainbow Six Siege ESL Premiership Finals, which will take place on March 10th and 11th at the ESL UK's Studio 1 facility in Leicester, and will be broadcast on Twitch.

2K and Firaxis have been updating Civilization VI since its release, with the game's first expansion hitting last month. But now that Rise and Fall has had some time to sit at the top of Civ VI's update list, its time for some new changes to head to the game.

The Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) will be getting an update on Friday, which you can check out now in Xbox Game Preview. The major change coming with this update is the loss of the starting arena where you spawn at the beginning of a match.

Far Cry 5 is set to hit at a very interesting time in American politics, but it does raise a number of questions about developer Ubisoft Montreal's history with political commentary in previous FarCry games, the Assassin's Creed series, and even in Watch Dogs and Ghost Recon: Wildlands.

If you still want more Life is Strange: Before the Storm, we have some good news for you. The bonus episode 'Farewell' is available now on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

With the Tomb Raider movie hitting theaters next week, publisher Square Enix is looking to promote the franchise. Final Fantasy Brave Exvius will be the home of a Tomb Raider collaboration event that will give players access to Lara Croft as a playable character.

Next week, Slightly Mad Studios is wheeling out the "Porsche Legends" pack for Project Cars 2 which will come with 9 new cars and one very, very iconic race track.

Ubisoft is adding a new ban system to combat the racial and homophobic slurs in Rainbow Six Siege, which is a pretty surprising move considering Ubisoft has a tendency to come off as a good old boys club.

In their latest update for Destiny 2, Bungie has detailed the changes coming to in Update 1.1.4, which includes adding new modes to a weekly rotating playlist, and some Iron Banner changes.

Konami's Metal Gear Survive has taken Monster Hunter: World off the top of  Sony Japan's digital game sales listings, which is a pretty startling upset considering the Western world's reaction to MGS.

Bethesda's official Twitter account for Prey teased what just might be a DLC pack set on the moon. The tweet in question has a short video pan of the moon with some glitching, and a comment reading "Do we really know what's out there?"

The Sequel to EA DICE's Battlefield 1 was revealed as Battlefield V by confidential sources yesterday, and since then, we've gotten a bit more information on what to expect from the game.

Over the weekend, Shonen Gamez unearthed the above advertisement for Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy on the Switch, and Bandai Namco have officially announced the Switch port is coming to the West.