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Overwatch 2, the free-to-play hero shooter from Blizzard, is now just Overwatch. The game is rebranding and dropping the '2' from its title as part of a major revamp that includes a new year-long story, 10 new heroes, and a host of new content, Blizzard announced Wednesday at its Overwatch Spotlight livestream. The game will get an all-new Season 1 with five of the 10 new heroes on February 10.

Mountaineers and climbers, especially the free-solo kind, are humanity's most fascinating maniacs: single-minded, daring souls who throw themselves into profoundly optional life-endangering feats. It is hard not to be compelled, and appalled, by someone like Alex Honnold. Even with ropes, a single wrong move can mean death in mountaineering, a mad human activity that puts you at the full mercy of nature.

We've somehow almost reached the end of January already, which means it's time for Sony to divulge the list of PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for February. They are Undisputed, Subnautica: Below Zero, Ultros and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. If you have a PS Plus subscription on any tier, you can claim these starting on February 3. After claiming them, these games will stay in your library as long as your PS Plus plan remains active.

PROVO, Utah -- Brayden Burries scored 29 points and made the game-saving block in the final seconds as top-ranked Arizona remained unbeaten by holding off a furious rally from No. 13 BYU for an 86-83 victory Monday night. Jaden Bradley added 26 points for the Wildcats (21-0, 9-0 Big 12), who matched the best start in school history. BYU trailed by 19 midway through the second half before trimming the deficit to

According to the trailer, the game takes place in a land called Philabieldia that's overrun by beasts, where humans must use a spell of safekeeping to keep their only remaining city, the Kingdom of Huther, safe from invasion. The titular Elliot is tasked with exploring a set of newfound ruins beyond the walls alongside his fairy companion Faie. Unknown to them, though, they will come across a door that will take them on a journey that spans thousands of years.

One of Mario Kart World's big novelties is its vast open-world map of race courses that connect to one another. Instead of competing on a series of isolated tracks, racing to the next course across open highways is part of the competition. This has made for some mixed results in traditional Grand Prix mode, where old-school fans prefer the "purity" of traditional closed-circuit loops, but it's also highlighted what's so fun about the game's new Knockout Tour mode.

If you've been enjoying the Pokémon TCG Pocket mobile game-the rush of opening up a new pack of cards-just imagine what it feels like to do it for real? Set your phone down and get back into the card game where it all started. Amazon happens to have a 50+ pack on sale for a couple bucks off. The global retail giant normally sells this collectors set for $10 even, but for a limited time, you can scoop up the pack for just $8.

Who's ready for more bad news for PC gaming? Samsung and SK Hynix are reportedly dropping NAND production to focus on DRAM. That could mean even more expensive SSDs. Bad timing for me to replace the PC I built back in 2015 with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960. Christopher Judge has weighed in on Ryan Hurst being Kratos in the Prime TV series

For a lot of the games I've written about in the C:\ArsGames series, I've come to the conclusion that the games hold up pretty well, despite their age- Master of Orion II, Jill of the Jungle, and Wing Commander Privateer, for example. Each of those have flaws that show now more than ever, but I still had a blast revisiting each of them.

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January is often a quiet month for big video game releases. So this cold, wintry month becomes a perfect time to evaluate your ever-growing backlog of video games and start chipping away at it. That's what many of us at Kotaku are doing right now, and so we figured hey, let's turn our lives into content for the website. Welcome to the start of Backlog Week, a way to celebrate, critically evaluate, and document those massive lists of games we all have.

If you've ever been lucky enough to score a century you'll know how seismic a moment it is when you finally get over the line. Some play the game for a lifetime and never make one, the three-figured kingdom for ever out of reach, a promised land they are destined never to enter. Yet cricket lures you back like a devilish lover. You just can't quit it. Next time might be your time. It could be you. Why not?

The physical edition of Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 is on sale for $59 (was $70) at Woot. The deal is part of the Amazon-owned retailer's Video Game Mega Sale, which runs through January 20. Woot sells a mix of North American and region-free international editions of Switch and Switch 2 games, but the Super Mario Galaxy collection is the North American release.

The Division came out nearly a decade ago. You can still go and play it but it hasn't received a meaningful update since 2018. That could all be about to change. Marketing for " The Division: Definitive Edition " recently appeared in Japan suggesting the Tom Clancy-branded loot shooter could be getting a modern version to bring players back into its snowy, post-apocalyptic New York City.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a game that would make perfect sense on the Switch 2. Nintendo's console has mouse controls thanks to the new Joy-Con 2 controllers, and Larian's award-winning RPG would have been a great fit for its point-and-click capabilities. From the sound of it, the studio was down to bring Gale, Astarion, Shadowheart, and everyone else to Nintendo's platform, but someone got in the way.

Listen, Resident Evil is clearly an influential series. It helped mold the enduring vision of survival-horror video games, and over the course of its nearly 30-year history, it has reinvented itself and the genre more times than one can count. There's even an coming out right around the series' 30th anniversary, which feels like an appropriate thing to promote and throw some weight behind. So explain to me why, instead, there's a Resident Evil knockoff called Ebola Village taking up time and space on PlayStation's YouTube page right now?

Disappointment can be found in all corners of this Ashes series. England's victory came too late. Australia may have secured the urn again but Glenn McGrath's usual prediction didn't hold. It's been a serious letdown for the neutral, never mind that a 3-2 scoreline is still in the offing. This was meant to be the one where England had a shot, where the Sydney finale would actually have something on the line beyond World Test Championship points.

While many were battling big game service outages over the holiday, from Arc Raiders to Steam, I was battling Minecraft for the original Switch, which I bought for my kids because of the Mario add-on but which keeps crashing on startup. It's something fans have apparently dealt with for years, but I'm still shocked that a mash-up of two of the biggest franchises in gaming on the second-most-popular console ever is in such poor shape.