Back to School: 10 PC Games to Play With Your Roommates
School is almost back in session, and with it comes new friends and potentially awkward introductions. What better way to break the ice and bond with roommates than over the frantic screams of a great game? We’ve put together a list of 10 PC games that are perfect to play with your roommates, new and old alike. Most of them can be played with local multiplayer, meaning you can forgive your friends if they don’t have a gaming PC, but a few are just too good to pass up for being online-only.
Starting this list off right, Rocket League is one of the ultimate dorm hangout games. Short matches and local multiplayer make it easy to drop in and out between matches, and Rocket League’s ‘easy to learn, hard to master’ design makes it fun to play with people of any skill level. Like physical sports, you can start feeling out your roommate's style as you play more together, and you’ll start making wordless passes and setting up shots for each other before you know it.
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Amazon Are Currently the Cheapest Place to Preorder Super Mario Odyssey for the Nintendo Switch
Cheapest price for this game so far - if you're a Prime member you can pre-order this game for £40 now. If you're not an Amazon Prime member yet, you can sign up to Amazon Prime here for a free 30-day trial.
Despicable Me Now the Highest-Grossing Animated Film Franchise Worldwide
Illumination’s Despicable Me franchise has edged past DreamWorks Animation’s series of Shrek films (including Puss In Boots) to become the highest-grossing animated franchise of all time worldwide. According to Deadline, Despicable Me 3’s latest international weekend gross has nudged the series to a worldwide total of USD$3.528B across the three Despicable Me films, plus Minions. The global box office figures for the four Shrek movies and Puss In Boots reportedly sits at USD$3.51B.
Animated by Paris-based Illumination Mac Guff, the Despicable Me series was an immediate hit from the release of the highly-successful first film in 2010. It was followed by a sequel in 2013 and the lucrative Minions spin-off in 2015. Minions would go on to outperform the Despicable Me films and is the second highest-grossing animated film of all-time (behind Frozen). It’s also the most profitable film in Universal’s history.
Dota 2 Card Game Artifact Announced
Artifact, a new Dota 2-based card game was announced today by Valve at TI7.
A brief teaser trailer was released for the game ahead of its 2018 launch. Watch it below:
As reported by Polygon, Artifact differs from traditional card games in that it involves three boards. While Valve didn't share too many details about the game, it appears to feature a number of elements from the studio's popular MOBA, including creeps, barrack building and multi-lane strategies. Naturally, a selection of characters from Dota 2 will be featured as well.
Artifact will almost assuredly be compared to Blizzard's wildly popular card game Hearthstone, a new expansion for which launches later this week.
All of Today’s Biggest FOX Stories
Fox hosted its Television Critics Association summer press tour day, bringing the talent and teams behind its biggest returning and brand new shows.
The day's panels included news about The X-Files, The Simpsons, and much more, so read on for a recap of the biggest stories, and stay tuned to IGN for continuing coverage of the TCAs.
FOX President of Entertainment David Madden offered a number of teases about what The X-Files' next season will hold, including how much the mythology will be present. Madden also discussed what lessons the creative team learned from the season 10 revival, the returning faces on screen, and the new faces joining the show's creative team.
Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville Isn’t a Star Trek Parody
Upon first viewing of the trailer for FOX's new Seth MacFarlane series, The Orville, it might be easy to assume this is a straight Star Trek parody. But The Orville is actually a far cry from Family Guy, much closer to being Star Trek itself than any sort of parody.
For MacFarlane, a self-professed sci-fi nerd, that homage was intentional. With the rise of dystopian science fiction over the years, MacFarlane wanted to create something that was more of a return in the style and tone to the sci-fi shows he loved from the '90s and earlier, something he thinks is missing from the current television landscape.
"What's happened is it's left open a space that has been relatively unoccupied for a while in the genre. ... For me, it's a space that's kind of waiting to be filled in this day and age when we're getting a lot of dystopian science fiction," he said at the 2017 summer TV Critics' Association press tour. "This is sort of an attempt to fill that void in that genre."
Amiibo Not Required for Metroid: Samus Returns Hard Mode
Nintendo revealed amiibo are not required to access Hard Mode in Metroid: Samus Returns.
During a demonstration with Nintendo in which we tested out all the Metroid amiibo functionality in the upcoming 3DS title, we learned Hard Mode is accessible to all players after they complete the game for the first time.
This comes after speculation access to harder difficulties was only available through the new squishy Metroid amiibo, announced at E3 this year, unlocking Fusion Mode after the game's completion.
No Man’s Sky Teases New Update to Add Quick Travel
No Man's Sky will apparently receive a new update this week, bringing quick travel and story improvements to the game.
Hello Games founder Sean Murray announced the Atlas Rises update for No Man's Sky in an email for fans, which has been posted on Reddit. He said "it focuses on improving the central story of No Man’s Sky and adds the ability to quick travel between locations using portals."
Back in June, Hello Games teased the arrival of quick travel via portals with a No Man's Sky cassette tapes ARG.
Pokemon Go: Niantic Working to Resolve Premiere Ball Bug
In the wake of the Legendary raid events, Niantic is looking to fix a bug that occurs while trying to catch raid Pokemon.
The Premier Ball bug is an issue where a Raid Boss will always break out of the last Premier Ball granted to a player for that raid. This is especially frustrating when limited time Legendaries such as Zapdos are currently available. The fix Niantic is currently implementing for this bug is to simply give players an extra Premiere Ball.
Borderlands Developer Gearbox Reveals New Game
Gearbox Software has revealed a new game codenamed Project 1v1.
It's a shooter that Gearbox says "combines the action of fast-paced 1v1 first-person combat with the metagame strategy of a collectible card game."
Project 1v1 will see a closed technical test in the coming months. The early look at the game will offer three modes: ranked, challenge and arena. Signups are available at Project1v1.com.
Now Gearbox is busy with other games too, most notably Borderlands 3. Earlier this year at GDC, the studio showed off a Borderlands 3 early tech demo with Unreal Engine 4.