Knockout City is a competitive third-person team-based take on dodgeball where the player can even turn themselves into a ball in order to mess with the competition. The game offers free-for-all, as well as 3v3 and 4v4 modes, and has previously been announced for PC on Origin and Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S via backwards compatibility. Today, though, Xbox and EA have surprised us all with the revelation that the game will be coming to Xbox Game Pass on May 21 – the day it launches....

At launch, Knockout City was fairly easy to play for free. Though this is a premium game, the full version is part of EA Play and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on all platforms. EA even made the game free to play for the first ten days of launch. Now that Knockout City’s launch trial is over, EA returned with another promotion to keep the party going. Knockout City is now free for the first 25 levels (Street Rank) across all platforms....

Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft might be showing her face in Fortnite. That’s according to data miner Mang0e, who took to Twitter to show that a skin for a female character - codenamed Typhoon - was being prepped for Epic’s free-to-play romp. It’s also going to be a reactive cosmetic, meaning it will change when players do something in Fortnite. The current Fortnite Chapter 2: Season 5 content is focused on hunters, with characters including Halo’s Master Chief, the God of War himself, Kratos and movie alien the Predator showing their faces in Fortnite’s battle royale romp....

Earlier this month, Microsoft started testing a family plan of Game Pass in Colombia and Ireland, which lets you share Game Pass benefits with your family. However, as reported by The Verge, some branding for the scheme has leaked which suggests that the plan won’t just be limited to family members, but to friends too. As shared by leaker Aggiornamenti Lumia, shared the branding, quite simply called “Friends & Family,” which strongly suggests the branding will be more broad than just family members whenever it does launch....

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a whistle-stop tour through all 9 core films in the legendary series, pulling together nearly 400 characters and more mechanics than a pod racing pit-bay to create a galaxy’s worth of vibrant, interactive sandboxes to explore. It’s another in the long line of LEGO extended universe movies and games that manages to have a lot of appeal for both kids and grown-ups with a mixture of an almost perfect vibe recreation of the series it’s tying into and, ironically, a really loose story structure....

It features special blue and green Joy-Cons and an image of the Nook family proudly standing on the dock. The standard version does not include a copy of Animal Crossing New Horizons, but GameStop is offering a couple of bundles with a download code for the game thrown in. That way, you can ensure that your devotion to Animal Crossing doesn’t just end there. Not only that, but Nintendo America has announced the full series of Animal Crossing Amiibo Cards are also making a comeback this November at select retailers....

Loop Hero, which you may remember attracted over 150,000 players after being out for one day and bringing in over half a million in its first week, is coming to Nintendo Switch later this year. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, the premise is simple: the world has been thrown into a timeless loop, plunging its inhabitants into chaos. Using an expanding deck of cards, you will position enemies, buildings, and terrain along the path of each expedition to piece together your hero’s memories and restore balance to the world....

You’ll need these points to upgrade your best players and have half a chance at succeeding in Madden Ultimate Team mode. Fortunately, you’ll likely end up with plenty of cards to sell for training points the more you play. Madden 22 training values | How to get Madden 22 training points You can earn training points through completing MUT challenges, but this isn’t the best or easiest way to get points....

The original Mafia had a very particular approach to open world. The game’s police system is its most memorable, but it’s also why so many couldn’t get into it. In Mafia, you were expected to be on your best behaviour at all times. Simply going above the speed limit, or running a red light could get you in trouble. It forced a certain pace that set it apart from its contemporaries....

With the addition of Wave 3 courses, 24 of the 48 courses in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass will be available to play. Wave 3 tracks include Peach Gardens (Nintendo DS), and Merry Mountain, which features seasonal sights and sounds as you cruise around the track’s snow-kissed peaks and tall pines. There’s also the London Loop track from the Mario Kart Tour mobile game, along with the Rainbow Road course (3DS), just to name a few....

Marvel’s Avengers will feature a battle pass style system, but only on cosmetic items, and in a breakdown on the official website, Crystal Dynamics outlined how it will work. Any content purchasable with real money in the game will be “aesthetic-only additions,” which the studio says will help “keep the game fresh for years to come.” The real-world currency in Marvel’s Avengers was implemented due to future playable updates being free....

You can expect the new-gen release of Marvel’s Avengers and the next DLC drop to occur on March 18. Players who own the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One version of the game can upgrade to the full next-gen version at no additional cost and transfer their save game to keep their progress. Upgrading from PlayStation 4 disc version will require PlayStation 5 console with a disc drive. Upgrading from Xbox One to the disc version requires an Xbox Series X console....

Smaller than last week’s patch, it includes a fix for Marvel Avengers players being unable to accept Faction Missions/Villain Sectors. Because this bug prevented players from being able to earn specific rare rewards, the team at Crystal Dynamics is granting the following to all players: 250 Polychoron and 500 Uru. These rewards can be claimed from today until Thursday, October 1 at 10am PDT. You will need to view one of your Challenge Cards to activate this reward....

Today, Crystal Dynamics has provided a roadmap of upcoming content for Marvel’s Avengers which covers now through the end of the year. According to the developer, it recently rolled out two new permanent quests that reward players with resources for regular play in the Avengers Initiative. The daily quest - “Rise & Shine” - offers up Fragments and Upgrade Modules for completion. The weekly quest - “Up for the Challenge” - will reward a Fragment Booster, Hero’s Catalyst, and Units....

Details include information on graphics features and a list of PC specs covering various options. Insomniac said its goal with Spider-Man Remastered on PC was to create a “visual stunner” with extensive configurability available to those with varying hardware. On PC, the game features ray-traced reflections with varying quality levels, one of which is a new, higher-quality ray-traced mode that offers even more city detail. The game supports Nvidia DLSS and Nvidia DLAA, the latter of which is an AI-based anti-aliasing mode for GeForce RTX gamers with GPU headroom to spare....

It appears that McDonald’s has found a market of gamers that it’d like to tap into, and as a result, the McCrispy Ultimate Gaming Chair has been born. Now, I joke about McDonald’s appealing to gamers, because let’s be real, we’re all ordering from McDonald’s on a more regular basis than we’d often like as is. Sometimes, you’re on a roll, and there’s just no time to stop and make food; you’ve more wins to secure....

A new trailer for Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond brings impressive VR multiplayer action to Oculus, Vive and Valve Index headsets. Respawn Entertainment’s VR shooter has been quietly building behind the scenes. The game pops up from time to time and often looks pretty impressive. We’ve seen a story trailer recently for the game that looks genuinely interesting, but for there to be a AAA VR multiplayer game with an engaged community - that could really push the form forward in a considerable way....

The move means that Microsoft will have ownership of massive franchises like Fallout, Doom, Dishonored, Wolfenstein, The Elder Scrolls, Prey, Quake, and more besides. Some of the development studios that will now be owned by Microsoft include: Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios. According to Microsoft, it paid $7.5 billion for the acquisition. “Bethesda’s games have always had a special place on Xbox and in the hearts of millions of gamers around the world,” reads a press release from Microsoft, written by Xbox head, Phil Spencer....

Microsoft Flight Simulator, The Ascent, and more are coming to Xbox Game Pass to round out the month of July. Available from today is Battlefield 5 via the cloud with EA Play, and Cris Tales for cloud, console, and PC. Just released today, in Cris Tales, you play as Crisbell, a newly awoken time mage. The game is an era-bending JRPG where past, present, and future come together. In it, you can use Crisbell’s ability to slip between time periods to both aid citizens across the kingdoms and perform surprise attacks on enemies....

According to Mestas, the previous Flight Simulator title simulated more than 24,000 airports. The new Flight Simulator features “all the airports in the world,” including 37,000 manually designed airports. You will find small bush and island runways as well as international airports adjacent to large cities covered. This means you can expect grass, dirt and concrete runways. Life is also supported in each of the airports according to the size....