Picture: Epic Games The International Committee of the Red Cross has partnered with a number of Twitch streamers to encourage gamers not to commit war crimes in popular shooters like call of Duty. The ICRC hopes its Play by the Rules event will enlighten players on the statutes of actual war. The organization even created ...
Picture: Epic / Square Enix / Boss Key / Kotaku / LadadikArt (Shutterstock) It is almost poetic that in a genre built on many people fighting to stay alive until only a few remain, so many battle royale games have launched, flopped and died in recent years. Not every new battle royale can have the ...
Picture: Respawn / Kotaku No two battle royale matches are the same. Clever, spontaneous tactics born from the generative clash of different skill levels, map layouts, and random items, weapons, and vehicles can lead to theatrical levels of epic and hilarious—often both at the same time. So it only fits during my cityWeek of Battle ...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds assumed a mod for a zombie survival game DayZ (itself a mod for milsim ARMA2) to an instantly successful Steam Early Access standalone in 2017. The game was inspired by Japanese action films Battle Royale, in which a collapsing society sends students out to kill each other until only one remains. It’s a ...
picture: Epic Games / Iron Galaxy Rumbleverse is the latest entry in an apparently endless list of free to play battle royale games. However, this latest take on the aging format is more creative and interesting than I expected Rumbleverse eschews the usual SMGs, shotguns, and grenades for wrestling grapples, melee combos, and high-flying elbow ...
