Developer Motive Studios has confirmed that while Gunner Wright will return to voice Isaac Clarke in the upcoming Dead Space remake, the main character of the sci-fi series will only have dialogue under certain situations.Isaac in Dead Space from 2008 was voiced but had no real dialogue, with Wright only providing grunts and screams. That changed with Dead Space 2 and 3, which saw Isaac develop more personality and an actual voice. Motive Studios, during the recent Dead Space livestream, revealed that Wright will once again voice Isaac and that he will have more dialogue this time around.But Isaac won't talk all the time, as a key pillar of Dead Space, according to Motive Studios, is the game's isolation. As such, there are two instances that will prompt Isaac to speak during the game: when he's spoken to and "in a situation where it would feel weird if he remained silent" per a screenshot.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

EA is bringing back its college football franchise with a new release at some point in the future, but ahead of that, Madden NFL 22 is offering a glimpse at college football gameplay through a new mode in the professional sports game.10 college football teams are now in Madden NFL 22 through the Campus Legends limited-time event for the game's Superstar KO mode. Of note, this is the first time since EA's NCAA Football 14 that a college football experience is fully playable in an EA title. Madden NFL 22's story mode does include some college football elements, but it's limited in nature. The Campus Legends event, meanwhile, lets you play real games against teams of your choosing and against other people.College football comes to Madden NFL 22 Gallery To promote the launch of Campus Legends, iconic college football players that went on to NFL careers, Vince Young (University of Texas) and Reggie Bush (USC), will compete in the mode at Rose Bowl Stadium inside Madden NFL 22. You can watch it live at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET through the NFL YouTube Channel and Madden NFL Twitch.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Deathloop, the latest new IP from Dishonored and Prey developer Arkane, is just around the corner, promising some high-octane antics within its time-loop premise. It's launching exclusively on PS5 on consoles, which also means it's taking advantage of many of the features the DualSense has to offer.In the latest trailer for the shooter, Arkane does a pretty great job of getting across what you can expect to feel from your DualSense while playing. The first is with the controller's triggers, which will feature different resistances depending on which weapons you're using to give each a distinct feeling. The triggers will also jam when your gun jams in-game, giving you a tactile response to the event before you must watch Colt, the game's protagonist, trying to fix it without dying.Haptic feedback is also being tuned to make all your actions in-game feel realistic as you make them. The trailer shows how the vibration will change when walking through crunchy snow or how it will mimic the heart rate of an enemy you're about to take down stealthily. The controller's speaker is also used to make walkie-talkie chatter a bit more immersive.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Tap-strafing, a player-created, high-skill level movement strategy in Apex Legends, will be removed from Respawn's battle royale. On Twitter, Respawn revealed that tap-strafing will be removed in Patch 10.1.Tap-strafing is a move that allows players to turn on a dime, and can only be done on mouse and keyboard. The move involves a few steps, and includes binding forward movement to up or down mouse scroll.After doing a slide jump, players must hold down a strafe key for whichever direction they want to go.Players then must scroll the mouse wheel up or down while holding the strafe key but without moving the mouse, which will cause the player to be pulled diagonally in the direction the player is strafing.Finally, players need to move the mouse in the direction they are strafing while scrolling the mouse wheel and holding the strafe button to be propelled forward.The mechanic is not an intended feature, but is a skill players learned to do on their own from playing the game. Numerous competitive games, whether it's Rocket League or Call of Duty, often times see players using mechanics that the developers may not have planned for or even knew existed, but become adopted by the community and integral gameplay components at certain skill-levels. Tap-strafing has all kinds of advantages for players who have learned how to do it consistently, and since it's only doable on keyboard and mouse, has been a source of complaints for those playing on consoles with cross-play enabled.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Cheating in Call of Duty: Warzone has been an ongoing issue, and Activision has now rolled out another anti-cheating PSA to discourage bad behavior. A video posted to the Call of Duty account shows off what is claimed to be the real reaction of a player who received a hardware and profile ban, which locked him out of the game on all available platforms for cheating.The video is meant to demonstrate that Activision has no tolerance for cheating in Warzone and will move swiftly and emphatically to ban players, as it continues to do--just recently, the company banned another 100,000 accounts.This is not a drill: If you cheat, we are coming for you 🎯Banwaves are ongoing, and PC anti-cheat is arriving in #Warzone later this year. pic.twitter.com/EUXc3COCIn — Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) August 31, 2021"We know what you're doing," Activision said. "We're coming for you."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Konami has announced that the online servers for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 will be shutting down at the end of May 2022. The process for winding down the servers has started today with the termination of the game's purchase system.The game also features the third iteration of the franchise's popular online component, Metal Gear Online. Any related DLC to this multiplayer mode will no longer be available for purchase starting on November 30 this year. This mode focused on a class system where players can choose different roles with unique strengths and weaknesses such as the stealthy Infiltrator, balanced Scout, and heavily equipped Enforcer. There were also a variety of game modes, including the deathmatch classic Bounty Hunter, king-of-the-hill style Comm Control, and the capture-the-flag inspired Cloak and Dagger.Additionally, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will be delisted from digital PS3 and Xbox 360 storefronts on March 1, 2022. The final step in the process will end with the official retirement of the game's PS3 and Xbox 360 servers on May 31, 2022.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In Fortnite Season 7, Week 13, you'll need to open a mission kit, then place a jammer outside IO base in a single match. This quest will go live in-game on Wednesday, September 1 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET. As the details stipulate, you'll have to redo both parts of the quest if you fail to complete them in the same round, but don't worry. With this guide, it'll be easy to earn your XP fast. Here's where to find the mission kit and jammer in Fortnite.Fortnite Mission Kit And Jammer LocationsBoth the mission kit and jammer can be found at Corny Complex in this week's challenge. You'll notice a lot of activity in that region these days because it's where Doctor Slone will make her final stand against the alien threat. Placing the jammer is one of the latest steps in her grand scheme following last week's activation of the mysterious countermeasure device.When you drop into Corny Complex, you'll find the mission kit just northwest of the biggest red barn in the area--it's the one next to the lone silver grain silo. Interact with it, then quickly hurry over to the main residence in Corny Complex. Right next to the house's western exterior wall is the jammer prompt. Use that one to finish the quest and score an easy 45,000 XP.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Microsoft's biggest franchise is Halo, a series created by Bungie and now developed internally at 343 Industries. The sci-fi series primarily about an ongoing battle between humanity and the alien Covenant has a long and storied past, and the franchise has seen numerous popular and beloved entries over the years.With Halo Infinite set for release in December, we're looking back at the Halo series overall and ranking the mainline FPS franchise. This list covers only the main FPS games, not offshoots like Spartan Strike or the arcade game Fireteam Raven. We're also not including the Halo Wars series, though it's great for those who want more story context on Infinite. And while Halo: The Master Chief Collection is absolutely the best way to play Halo in 2021, it's also not featured on this list because it is a compilation package instead of one game. You can also sign up for Game Pass Ultimate to play every mainline Halo game as well as numerous spin-offs. Halo: The Master Chief Collection See on Xbox Store Halo 5: Guardians See on Xbox Store Game Pass Ultimate Play every Halo game with Game Pass. See on Xbox Store Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

EA Motive Studios held a Dead Space remake developer livestream on August 31 that showcased some in-progress gameplay, including a look at what appeared to be a muscular Isaac Clarke in a set of updated armor.The one-hour presentation went over several features of the Dead Space remake. Motive Studios illustrated the enhanced lighting and smoke effects that look to bolster the game's claustrophobic atmosphere, and it also highlighted tidbits of the new dismemberment system which lets you peel off the flesh of your enemies for even more gruesome Necromorph kills.Peppered throughout the livestream were glimpses of Isaac and his updated armor. The game is dark, so it's hard to get a discerning look, but it appears as if Isaac's armor is glossier or shinier. It's also more detailed, with the backpack and shoulder pads looking more industrial than the 2008 original.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Armor sets inspired by warriors of ages past are coming to Halo 3 and Halo: Reach in Halo: The Master Chief Collection's next season, and they are unlike anything ever before seen in Halo.Revealed in a new Canon Fodder blog post on Halo Waypoint, the new sets draw inspiration from the armor worn by the Spartan warriors of ancient Greece, the knights of medieval Europe, and the Viking warriors of Scandinavia. The sets will be available as part of Halo: MCC Season 8, titled Mythic, along with new nameplates and weapon and vehicle skins.Gallery Halo publishing team art director Horia Dociu dove into some of the thinking that went into the new skins in the blog post, saying the new season served as a cool way to bring themes present throughout the Halo series to life in a visual way.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Xbox has had some excellent console exclusives over the past few years, a number that's likely going to grow during the Xbox Series X|S's lifecycle given Microsoft's string of studio acquisitions. But that's the future--we don't know for sure what will and what won't be dope. All we can do is look at what's currently out, and decide which games are our favorites.Our top 20 Xbox console exclusives are detailed below. We've listed them in alphabetical order. For the purposes of this list, we've only included one game from each franchise so that no one franchise can dominate the list. We'll be sure to come back and update this list as new Xbox games launch or if one of the exclusives listed below also releases for additional console platforms.For more Xbox game suggestions, check out our roundups of the best Xbox Series X games to play right now and best Xbox One games. If you're a Game Pass subscriber, you can also take a peek at our list of the best Game Pass games available now.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Next to Halo and Minecraft, Forza is arguably one of Microsoft's most famous and recognizable franchises. The series debuted in 2005 with the original Forza Motorsport, and the racing series has released more than a dozen titles since then. With Forza Horizon 5 debuting in November, we're looking back at the Forza series and ranking the entries in the main series, along with the Horizon sub-brand that debuted in 2012. We also included some other entries, like the mobile game Forza Street.For more on Forza Horizon 5, check out all of GameSpot's previous Forza Horizon 5 coverage and our preorder guide to find out how to secure a copy of the game ahead of launch. You can also check out GameSpot's list of the best Xbox RPGs and the best Xbox One games of all time. Sign up for Game Pass Ultimate Forza Horizon 5 will be available on Game Pass at launch. See on Xbox Store Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

A number of Twitch channels will go dark on Wednesday, September 1, as a form of protest against the platform. This comes after many streamers claimed Twitch has not taken sufficient action against hate raids, which have plagued marginalized streamers for the last several weeks.As reported by The Verge, the #ADayOffTwitch blackout was planned by ShineyPen, Lucia Everblack, and RekItRaven as a follow-up to the Twitter campaign, #TwitchDoBetter. The Twitter campaign was led by RekItRaven as a way to pressure Twitch into providing better tools and protections for streamers on its platform. The issue first came up a few weeks ago when "hate raids" began happening regularly, where a flood of bots would come into a streamer's chat, all spamming the same racist or bigoted comments.While Twitch did release a statement on Twitter about the #TwitchDoBetter campaign, however, it did not provide any specifics about what it was doing. It released a second statement a week and a half later to address the fact that it did not take any action against hate raids. However, all it said was that it's working on it and does not what to let the people organizing these raids know its plans.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Apex Legends has a different character for every playstyle. The squad-based battle royale offers 18 different Legends, each with their own set of abilities and lore. Respawn has also added a new Legend every single season, so the game is always evolving. Below is a complete guide, offering lore details for each Legend and a description of all their abilities.Both of Apex Legends' modes--battle royale and arenas--are traditionally played in squads of three, although there is a duos playlist for battle royales. Each Squad can only have one of each Legend, so players will need to figure out the best combination of three Legends for their own playstyle.Table of Contents [hide]BangaloreBangaloreAnita Williams, also known as Bangalore, is from a military family where she, along with her four brothers, served in the IMC. Anita, along with her brother Jackson, were aboard the IMS Hestia when it was attacked. Jackson died saving Anita, who was stranded on a Syndicate planet. Now, she fights in the Apex Games in an attempt to raise enough money to pay a pilot to take her home to her family.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Zombies have been a staple of video games for decades now, almost becoming an annoying cliche. If you need an easy monster, throw in a few shambling undead bullet sponges and call it a day. But while zombies can be a dull addition to a game in the wrong hands, in the right ones, they can be terrifying, funny, fascinating, or intelligent, creating harrowing stories or leading to brilliant game mechanics.We've compiled a list of zombie games that are next-level--titles that use the monsters to create intense tension, or look at the idea of a zombie apocalypse in new and interesting ways. From real-time strategy titles to horror shooters, these are the itchy, tasty zombie games that you should absolutely check out. Call Of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War For years now, Call of Duty games have packed in a "Zombies" mode, and that mode and its various iterations have turned out to be fun, fascinating additions to the Call of Duty repertoire. While the Zombies mode of Black Ops - Cold War is the latest, each has offered its own unique spin on the inventive mode. It requires players to fend off waves of increasingly tough zombies, earning money from their kills to buy better weapons. But that's only the surface level--your actual goal is to accumulate cash to spend removing barriers that expose more and more of each Zombies map, where you fight to solve puzzles and figure out how to advance further. The entire mode is predicated on figuring things out through repetition and exploration, with no waypoints and few hints to tell you what to do. Add to that Zombies' penchant for bringing in famous actors and big names in horror and Hollywood--like Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero--and you've got something that's wholly different from every other zombie game out there.Read our Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War review. See at Amazon DayZ Beginning its life as a mod, DayZ really tapped into the "survival" side of survival-horror. The game drops you on an island overrun with zombies, tasking you with finding everything you need to survive when you get there. While the computer-controlled undead are a major problem, your real worry is the fact that you might run into other player-controlled survivors. They might choose to help you, or they might try to kill you and take everything you've got. Never knowing what you might face is part of DayZ's appeal, and it left such a strong impression that it helped give rise to the survival genre of games, and later, battle royales. See at Amazon Dead Rising 2 The Dead Rising games take the opposite approach to titles like The Last of Us, Resident Evil 2, and The Walking Dead. These titles put you in places overrun by zombies, but the atmosphere is a little campier and there are quite a few more ridiculous costumes at play. Navigating through the hordes is less about terror and more about creatively overcoming a big, mindless obstacle--and you get some ludicrously fun ways to do that. Dead Rising 2 lets you craft ridiculous weapons to shred, cook, electrocute, explode, and otherwise dismantle zombies, while also offering a big world with lots of other characters to find and rescue. It's a funny, overwrought take on the end of the world, and if you like killing zombies in ridiculous ways, this one's for you.Read our Dead Rising 2 review. See at Amazon Dying Light In video games, it seems that there are quite a few places overrun by zombies. Dying Light drops you onto an island swarming with the undead and tasks you with making your way through its open world by running and parkouring across its half-destroyed buildings and deserted vehicles. There are all sorts of missions to complete as you run around the game's island, working with different factions and trying to save survivors and procuring weapons to help you stay alive. But the best part of the game is undoubtedly its movement system, and the terror you face as night falls and the really frightening monsters come out.Read our Dying Light review. See at Amazon The Last Of Us Series The Last of Us is about a world overrun by "infected," and while they're not actually zombies--the mindless humans have fungus growing in their brains and that's what turns them into killing machines--the game is basically set in a zombie apocalypse. What makes The Last of Us work is its well-drawn characters and the realism and intensity it brings to its setting and premise. It's hard to separate the two games in the series, since their narrative and mechanics are so essentially intertwined. In both The Last of Us games, developer Naughty Dog has created a story that feels populated by real human beings stuck in an impossible situation. Both games are incredibly emotional and often raw, while also putting you into frightening, violent fights for your life.Read our The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part 2 reviews. See The Last of Us at Amazon See The Last of Us Part 2 at Amazon Left 4 Dead Series When you think of quintessential zombie game experiences, it's impossible not to come up with the Left 4 Dead series. Developer Turtle Rock Studios used a zombie apocalypse to define a whole subset of multiplayer games, placing you both in the role of a group of survivors fighting their way through the horde, and in that of some vicious special zombie creatures that can ravage those poor humans. The essential part of Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 is teamwork, whether you're the human crew blasting your way through hordes of infected enemies, or you're the monsters themselves, trying to lure the humans away from one another to pick them off. The zombie apocalypse is a perfect setting for a cooperative game, and Left 4 Dead created some phenomenal gaming moments by leveraging it.Read our Left 4 Dead review and our Left 4 Dead 2 review. See Left 4 Dead at Amazon See Left 4 Dead 2 at Amazon Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 Zombies make for solid opponents in the tower defense genre. Their insatiable hunger and one-track minds make them great cannon fodder, and Plants vs. Zombies allowed players to use a variety of fun, goofy plants as weapons to fend off brain-munching foes. With Garden Warfare 2, developer Popcap mixes tower defense with a third-person class-based shooter, allowing you to take on the roles of a bunch of different plants and zombies in a huge battle for the neighborhood. There's a whole lot of content here, with lots of multiplayer shooter options, giving a whole other spin to the idea of fighting zombies--and that of having a green thumb.Read our Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 review. See at Amazon Project Zomboid With Project Zomboid, the zombie apocalypse gets a sandbox survival approach. You're a survivor of the zombie apocalypse, as usual, but here the work of staying alive requires a whole lot more effort. You not only have to deal with hordes of the undead, you also have to construct buildings and defenses to protect yourself, craft items so you can make food, and stave off other problems, like depression or infections. Project Zomboid brings a whole lot of additional depth to the usual tasks of scoring headshots on zombies, and while it's still not a "complete" game, it's constantly being updated with new features as it goes through the development process. See on Steam Resident Evil 2 In no small part, the popularity and straight-up terrifying nature of the Resident Evil games is responsible for the zombie trend that has lasted for more than two decades. Several of the games in the franchise capture the best and most frightening parts of the horror subgenre and are worthy of your attention--including Resident Evil Remake and Resident Evil 3--and others aren't quite "zombie" games but are still excellent riffs on the genre. But the remake of Resident Evil 2 might just stand above the rest. It puts you in the midst of a city tearing itself apart as it's ravaged by a horde of zombies, and while there are plenty of other creatures vying to scare the hell out of you, there's nothing quite like the realization that the entirety of Raccoon City is shuffling toward you, arms outstretched and hungry.Read our Resident Evil 2 review. See at Amazon State Of Decay The bigger the world, the more frightening the zombie apocalypse that annihilates it, which is what makes State of Decay work. It puts you in a huge open world that's filled with zombies, in which you have to think seriously about risk and reward if you want to survive. Fighting the horde is never advisable, so what's the best path to your next objective? How can you avoid the undead to keep yourself safe? You can address your problems in different ways, especially as you meet more characters and add them to your group of survivors--and control them as you see fit. Each character has their own stats and capabilities, requiring you to harden them through combat and allowing you to use them to their strengths to help your entire group survive. Having access to lots of characters fighting for survival gives State of Decay a different strategic spin on surviving the undead.Read our State of Decay review. See at Amazon Stubbs The Zombie In Rebel Without A Pulse Lots of games let you fight zombies, but few let you be one. Stubbs the Zombie was the imaginative tale of one such member of the undead just trying to get by in a society that hates him. In order to keep from being killed, uh...more, you have to use Stubbs' various powers to snack on the living and create your own zombie horde, while fighting off police and the military and slowly taking over a 1950s town on a quest for revenge. Stubbs is a goofy game with a lot of fun ideas and some interesting spins on the comedic elements of the zombie genre, and does a great job of making you feel like patient zero, creating your very own zombie apocalypse.Read our Stubbs The Zombie review. See at Amazon Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 1 Before The Walking Dead had quite become a full-on television phenomenon, there was Telltale's take on the iconic comics. Another story of the zombie apocalypse as it unfolded all over the country, the point-and-click, narrative heavy adventure game followed Lee, a former convict, as he worked to care for and protect Clementine, a young girl who'd lost her parents. The bond created between Lee and Clementine, as well as the often terrible choices the game would put to players as they fought to stay alive at the end of the world, turned The Walking Dead into a classic, and one that works to make the zombie apocalypse something frightening to play through.Read our Telltale's The Walking Dead review. See at Amazon They Are Billions Zombies are useful to a lot of genres of video games. In They Are Billions, zombies are the antagonists of a real-time strategy game in which you're tasked with protecting the colonies of the last surviving humans. As the title suggests, however, the zombie hordes are enormous and overwhelming. You've got steampunk technology at your disposal, though, allowing you to fight back the enemy with some unconventional approaches. And while They Are Billions is a real-time strategy game and thus requires you to act on the fly to use tactics to stop the zombie advance, it also allows you to pause so you can think about your actions before you commit to something that might get you and your colonists turned. See on PlayStation Store Zombi While it originally showcased the Wii-U in some cool ways, Zombi (or ZombiU as it was previously titled) eventually made it out to other platforms, where it revealed that it wasn't just the Wii-U's singular controller that made the game cool. The first-person title sends you into a zombie-infested London where you fight to survive, but each time you die, the character you were controlling is lost for good--along with all their stuff. While all the progress you previously made remains, you'll have to find your past character's corpses to recover your old gear--and you might have to fight them as a zombie as well.Read our Zombi review. See at Amazon Zombies Ate My Neighbors Way back in 1993, Zombies Ate My Neighbors pitted players against all sorts of brain-crunching undead as they worked to save their suburban neighborhood. What makes the top-down action-adventure game is its sprawling levels that are all themed after classic horror movies like Night of the Living Dead, Them!, Tremors, Dracula, and a whole bunch more. With some inventive kid-themed weapons, fun level design, and a whole lot of movie Easter eggs and callbacks, Zombies Ate My Neighbors became a classic for anybody who loves old horror and sci-fi movies. It recently received an update to bring it to modern consoles, so you can enjoy the old-school shooter on just about any machine. See at Nintendo eShop Info from Gamespot.com