Fortnite now lets you assassinate Peter Griffin and steal his powers, but players are miffed about new running animations

The page has turned on another chapter of Fortnite Battle Royale, with Chapter 5 Season 1 beginning today after the conclusion of the game’s hugely successful 2018 throwback season. The new season brought not only a new map and weapons, but also a somewhat contentious revamp of the game’s movement animations. I’m just stuck on…

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This indie fuses the structure of Hades with the horde smashing action of Vampire Survivors

A new indie roguelike is taking the metagame and plot structure of Hades and fusing it with the wave survival of the horde-battling genre popularized by Vampire Survivors. Death Must Die, the Early Access sophomore game from developers Realm Archive, has you undertaking successive expeditions into the underworld and fighting Death’s minions.  As fight through…

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s new epilogue bucks RPG trends and gives you a chance for an honest-to-god happy ending, and that just makes more sense than grim ambiguity for its own sake

When I loaded into Baldur’s Gate 3’s new epilogue, what I found was extremely sweet, almost saccharine. After parting ways with my true companions in the OG ending, some seemingly going off to their deaths or assorted metaphysical torments, it felt like a real “the Fellowship has failed” moment. Now though? All my buds came…

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Fortnite’s 2018 throwback map was so popular, Epic’s bringing it back again next year (after blowing it up)

Fortnite’s OG throwback season ended with a literal bang today, as Epic’s Chapter 5 event wiped the slate to replace it with a new one tomorrow after scheduled maintenance⁠—a cycle of eternal recurrence not unlike that central to several religions. Never fear though, nostalgia addicts: as reported by Eurogamer, Epic Games has promised to break…

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