4A Games has said previously that Metro Exodus will be more open than the previous games in the Metro series, but it won’t be a completely open world like that of Stalker. For one thing, individual levels in Exodus will be much larger than anything seen in the previous games. The biggest outdoor level in Last Light was roughly “200 meters to 100 meters,” Prokhorov said,. That means everything from weapons, attachments, and other loot, to “frozen stories” that reveal more about the game world and

Here’s a record for you: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has cracked the 1 million concurrent players mark for the first time since it released in 2012. Eight years of steady rises and falls, dips and upticks, have made CS:GO the game that absolutely, positively will not die. In fact, it seems clear at this point that CS:GO will only become more powerful. At about 14:20 GMT today CS:GO reached a peak of 1,007,062 players, beating its previous records by some 75,000 players. Last month CS:GO bro

Describing the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak as “unprecedented,” Electronic Arts announced today that it is suspending all live events in its competitive gaming series, including the Apex Legends Global Series, EA Sports FIFA 20 Global Series, FIFA Online 4 Live Events, and Madden NFL 20 Championship Series, indefinitely. This suspension of events and broadcasts will start today, March 13th, and will be in effect until the global coronavirus situation improves.” EA doesn’t operate big-mo

Traditionally, FMV games have not been great. The situation has improved in recent years, though, with games like Her Story and Telling Lies (which, not coincidentally, come from the same developer), as well as Late Shift, a fully live-action, HD FMV thriller released in 2017. And it looks like a pretty good ride to be on. I definitely want to finish it though, to see who’s really behind the dastardly super-secret biolab shenanigans which I will not spoil here, sorry. Until then, you can find ou

It’s called The Uncensored Library, and it’s not just an elaborate sculpture made for a coffee table book. The Uncensored Library is a genuine virtual library inside Minecraft built to house journalism from countries where complete press freedoms don’t exist or selective censorship denies access to certain articles. Just pop into the game, load up The Uncensored Library server, and pore through a bunch of books housing republished articles blocked from social media and news outlets in five count

So kudos to Origin PC for kicking off its St. Paddy’s Day sale a few days early—shopping when sober is the financially responsible thing to do. To that end, if you head over to the boutique builder’s website, you’ll see that every single gaming laptop is on sale right now. Origin PC Gaming Laptops | All Models | Save up to $200In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, Origin PC is offering discounts of up to $200 on every single gaming laptop. In order to save $200, you have to drop down to a Core i7

To compensate, professional overclocker Roman “Der8auer” Hartung has designed a clever cooling bracket that helps level things out. As Der8auer explains in his latest YouTube video, Ryzen 3000 series CPUs have a special arrangement of dies underneath the IHS. Therefore, just geometrically speaking, it’s clear that there will be a hotspot somewhere in the center of those two dies,” Der8auer explains. One of the functions of the IHS is to draw heat from the CPU dies (or chiplets), which then gets

When it comes down to it, the Oculus Quest is the best VR headset for most people, with a healthy balance of features for the price. If you’ve been waiting for it to be back in stock, I have good news—the 128GB model is available right now and shipping March 16. But who knows, maybe this is a sign that Oculus will be restocking the 64GB model soon as well. Namely, it now offers hand tracking, and you can plug the Quest into a PC using an optional Link cable (out of stock right now—but third-part

F1 2019 is an extremely good racing sim: “Generous, stable, and thrilling as ever,” we said in our 91/100 review. And yes, I know F1 has a major international fanbase, but when was the last time you watched a race? The point is that the game is free to play on Steam until March 18. One of the big new features in F1 2019 is the addition of Formula 2, which franchise director Paul Jeal said is “consistently been one of the most requested features from our community.” F2 is sort of a feeder league

There are lots of cheeky little secrets that developer Eric Barone has put into Stardew Valley. If you thought you had found all of Stardew Valley’s secrets, its time to boot up your farm again. In reply to a tweet asking if there were more undiscovered secrets in Stardew Valley, Barone replied saying “I think this is currently true, yea.” With a game like Stardew Valley, there are plenty of opportunities to slip in a secret or two (or ten) and then forget exactly how many you added in the first

So far, only AT&T has announced plans lift its data caps. An AT&T spokesperson told Vice that the ISP’s customers “already have unlimited home internet access, and we are waiving internet data overage for the remaining customers.” Quite frankly, broadband data caps feel like an archaic concept that should be shuttled altogether, regardless of whether there is a health pandemic or not. However, it has not said anything about data caps yet. Meanwhile, Cox also issued a statement related to the cor

Ubisoft’s Spring sale has started, putting most of its recent games on pretty decent discounts. The base game, which includes none of the DLC, is £8.58/$9.99, which is nowhere close to the hefty 80 percent off it’s seen recently. However, the editions that include the recently-released Warlords of New York expansion are 32 percent off. If you want everything, the ultimate edition includes all currently-released season passes and a pre-order for the upcoming Year 5 pass. Many of the Rainbow Six S

Instead of being just a series of fights connected by cutscenes, Them’s Fightin’ Herds is hoping to include a top-down dungeon crawler element, minigames and even branching dialogue options. Them’s Fightin’ Herds started out as Fighting is Magic, a fan-made fighting game based on Hasbro’s My Little Pony series. After the notoriously cease-and-desisty Hasbro did its thing, the studio that was going to become Mane6 went away and came back with Them’s Fightin’ Herds. Them’s Fightin’ Herds takes the

For Honor’s latest event is bringing back a face we haven’t many years now, with a crossover between it and Prince of Persia. Starting March 12 and ending on April 2, the Blades of Persia event is being released in waves. Set in a “transformed Harbor map”, this is ostensibly the Dominion game mode with a Prince of Persia twist. From March 19 onwards, the Prince will be replaced by the Dark Prince from Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. I’d have rather have had a Prince of Persia 2008-themed outf

Today it dropped a new one for Viper, who uses a secondary resource called fuel to deploy acid pools and poison gas bombs. “#VALORANT pic.twitter.com/oDo8jEEDfKMarch 12, 2020From our Valorant character guide, here’s the quick rundown of what Viper brings to the party:Every shooter needs a fighter who loves the smell of their own noxious gas, and Viper is Valorant’s. Poison Cloud – Throw a gas bomb that emits a cloud of poisonous smoke at the cost of fuel. You can retrieve the gas bomb and throw

Today, however, it updated the plan again to eliminate audiences and press attendance for the rest of the Spring Split, including the finals. “For any fans who have already purchased tickets to the LEC you will be contacted shortly about a refund. ESL, which yesterday announced that the ESL Pro League Season 11 will be played entirely online, pulled the plug on the ESL One Dota 2 Major planned for Los Angeles. “While we were all very excited to bring the first-ever Dota 2 Major to Los Angeles, t

(Image credit: Epic Games)Like the wheel of a normal, properly functioning mouse, the calendar has turned over with a click, a new Thursday has arrived, and it’s now time to grab some more free stuff from the Epic Games Store. A trio of critically-acclaimed indies are up for grabs this week: Anodyne 2: Return to Dust, A Short Hike, and Mutazione. Next up is A Short Hike, a game about taking a short hike around a very interesting island. A trailer:Last but not least is Mutazione, “a mutant soap o

Acer’s 27-inch Nitro VG271 gaming monitor tends to go on sale every so often, though it has only dipped as low as $199.99 one other time that I can recall (in early December of last year). This is a 27-inch monitor built around an IPS screen. Generally speaking, IPS (and VA) panels offer better image quality and more flexible viewing angles compared to TN screens. This sometimes comes at the expense of speed (refresh rate and response time), though that’s not the case here. The VG271 offers a fa

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey has been winding down after previously doling out a slew of DLC and updates, but there’s still life in it. Today Ubisoft released a new update that addresses some small bugs, but more important it also gave us a sneak peek new set that will let you dress up as Assassin’s Creed 2’s Ezio. The patch for PC versions of Odyssey is live right now. Ezio’s Roman Set is much more flashy than some bug fixes, but right now we’ve got to be content with the teaser. Ubisoft has yet t

Ahead of the online event, Nvidia teased an announcement on Twitter, then spurred further interest when the tweet was deleted. Foveated rendering is something Nvidia demonstrated at SIGGRAPH 2016. To maintain a fluid VR experience, we must continue to find new ways to optimize VR rendering performance. Nvidia points out that the human eye only notices “maximum details” in the fovea, a very narrow region of the eye. Nvidia’s deleted tweet may have been teasing a commercial launch of foveated rend