Microsoft Solitaire has been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Microsoft Solitaire has been a part of Windows since way back in the 1990’s, when it shipped with Windows 3.0. With its induction into the Hall of Fame, we hope it will continue to be there for bored future generations. The World Video Game Hall of Fame was established in 2015, and includes games like Doom, Pong, The Oregon Trail, The Sims, Tomb Raider, and Grand Theft Auto III. If you think there’s a game that should

Epic’s acquisition of Rocket League studio Psyonix earlier this week resulted in a predictable reaction: A review bombing campaign that hit the game with more than 2,700 negative reviews on Steam since May 1. Yet in spite of that effort, the user review rating, including recent reviews, remains “very positive.” That’s because of the system Valve implemented in March that excludes “off-topic review activity” from review score calculations—effectively an anti-review-bomb shield. An asterisk on the

I ask DC why he thinks the Kickstarter campaign has made so much money. We’ve also made a few small interactive titles within our core team that have been big hits on Newgrounds. The profiles of the team on the Kickstarter page , rife with pseudonyms, make for interesting reading. I ask DC if he thinks it’s important games like Subverse are sold on Steam—it’s listed as ‘adult only’ when you visit the game’s page. Compared to the range of other porn games that are out there, I ask DC what he thin

Back in January we wrote about Daughters of Ash, a long-in-development mod for Dark Souls that adds piles of new material to the game. At the time it was only available for the original ‘Prepare to Die’ PC release of Dark Souls, but now compatible with the 2018 Remastered release of Dark Souls, too. Its core aim is to replicate the feeling of playing Dark Souls for the first time.” You can read a more detailed rundown of what Daughters of Ash adds to Dark Souls in this Reddit post. Setting your

Just a month after its release on March 28 (although it’s not technically released because it’s still in Early Access, but whatever), the third-person roguelike shooter Risk of Rain 2 has surpassed one million units sold. But future updates “will weave in some returning content from Risk 1,” it added, including Risk of Rain 1 survivors. “We hope our first content update plants the seeds necessary to continue growing Risk of Rain 2 into an even better game for players.. “As a reminder, we will st

If you listen closely—real closely—you still won’t be able to hear Corsair announcing its newest mid-tower PC case, the Carbide Series 175R RGB. From a design standpoint, it has more in common with the latter, including an edge-to-edge tempered glass side panel. It has a brushed metal front panel that angles out on each side, with Corsair’s logo stamped on it. The logo lights up, and the case also comes with a 120mm RGB fan, the two of which fulfill the RGB designation in the model name. For add

Fortnite Season 9 is just one week away, and whatever’s in the Loot Lake vault will be revealed soon—but for now, there’s still time to knock out the last few challenges and max out your Battle Pass before moving on to a new season. This week’s treasure map challenge begins with finding the map in the middle of Junk Junction. You need to search the map and start a new game before you can find the treasure, which is found at the bottom-right tip of the “knife” in the “fork-knife” formation found

When Respawn added its widely-requested reporting tool to Apex Legends in the March 19 Season One update, almost half a million players had already been banned for using such cheats. 44 days later, the studio now says that a total 770,000 players have been banned, partly off the back of this new reporting system. As it released this figure, Respawn underlined its commitment to stamping out cheaters. “We take cheating in Apex incredibly serious and have a large amount of resources tackling it fro

After the World Cup Warmup event at the beginning of April, Fortnite’s most skilled players are now hashing it out for a winning position in the World Cup Finals in July in Queens, New York. What’s the Fortnite World Cup schedule? What’s the total prize money pool for the Fortnite World Cup? Who’s playing in the Fortnite World Cup? And since anyone has a shot at the World Cup, we’re going to see a stampede of ‘em.

There is a hacking group that is actively mucking with trusted downloads, and nobody can seem to figure out the group’s exact identity. According to a detailed Wired report, the hacking group that infiltrated Asus is the same one that also infected a previous version of CCleaner, a popular PC cleanup utility. The hacking group responsible is conducting what are known as supply chain attacks because they exploit the software distribution channel. Supply chain exploits of at least half a dozen com

Epic Games has dropped the hammer on more Fortnite World Cup Online Open competition cheaters, and this time around it cost pro player Damion “XXiF” Cook a spot in the $30 million finals in July. Whatever Gestyy did during the world cup qualifiers and his actions have nothing to do with me. “Based on an internal investigation, we have concluded that a group of players attempted to undermine the Week 3 Fortnite World Cup Online Open competition on April 28 by colluding across several matches,” Ep

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, which we’ve been eagerly anticipating for the better part of a decade, will be making an appearance at Gamescom this year, and not just behind closed doors or in hands-off demonstrations. When TaleWorlds introduced skirmishes in March the developer also teased an upcoming closed beta. There’s still no date for that, nor launch, but apparently all the work being done on the Gamescom demo brings the team “ever closer to the release of the game”. More details about Game

Fallout 76’s next and final Wild Appalachia update, Patch 9, has piqued my interest with the promise of player-run shops. Player shops are another type of vending machine, which can be placed in your camp to turn it into a post-apocalyptic marketplace for your fellow West Virginians. With your vending machine plonked down, you can assign items from stash and choose their cap prices. Players can also see these vending machines on the map, along with your name, player icon and what’s for sale. The

What, exactly, is “trash talk?” A little trash talk is an expected part of competitive multiplayer action, and that’s not a bad thing. But hate has no place here, and what’s not okay is when that trash talk turns into harassment,” the site says. “Trash talk includes any lighthearted banter or bragging that focuses on the game at hand and encourages healthy competition. Not content with merely defining the term, Microsoft also shared multiple examples of acceptable trash talk, and “going too far.

Update: Sorry, folks, but mere minutes after our story went live, Valve confirmed that the teaser is in fact a fake. It could be—Valve did recently tease a new “flagship” game coming this year, after all, and this wouldn’t be the first time we’ve heard whispers of Left 4 Dead 3—but the far greater likelihood, sorry to say, is that it’s a fake. I think the presence of real-world products in the game, like Pepsi and Life, also points toward fakeness. So it’s possible that this could be a surprise

AMD is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary as a company, and as part of the festivities, Newegg is selling the Ryzen 5 2600 at a discounted price of just $149.99. The Ryzen 5 2600 is effectively AMD’s ‘budget’ 2nd generation CPU part, and it includes a Wraith Stealth cooler. Even with the Wraith Stealth, 4.0GHz overclocks are possible. Overall performance from the Ryzen 5 2600 is excellent, especially considering the price. AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | $149.99 (save $50)This is one of the best barg

I really didn’t expect yet another zombie game, especially one based on a book that already had a movie adaptation six years ago, to amount to much. But it turns out World War Z proved me wrong, selling ‘well above expectations’ on PC and topping a million sales across PC and consoles. Now that WWZed is established as a legitimate success, developer Saber Interactive has laid out its plans for post-release updates, which will begin later this month with a new mission set in Tokyo. Also in the wo

The Hunt: Showdown 6.0 update is now live, and that means that the Assassin, a new boss announced at the beginning of April, is now roaming free in the Louisiana swamps. Early iterations of the Assassin behaved much differently from the final version, as ideas that sounded cool in theory proved “unreadable and annoying to play” when the bullets actually started flying. “Now players will have to consider whether it makes sense to burn a downed player. If they don’t, that player’s partner might ha

Choosing the best gaming laptop for your budget is sometimes a matter of timing. I bring this up because at the beginning of March, I highlighted a deal on an Aorus gaming laptop with a 144Hz display paired with a GeForce RTX 2070 GPU for $1,879. Aorus 15.6-inch Laptop | RTX 2070 | $1,679 (save $320)This is one of the best deals for a gaming laptop right now. It has a fast process, a burly GPU, and a good amount of storage for your games and other data. Buy at NeweggThis is a sweet deal for a fa

While VR never took over the gaming industry as many expected, there’s clearly still quite a strong interest in it: The Valve Index VR bundle, which is priced at a cool $1,000, was completely sold out on day one of pre-orders. Currently you can only reserve the kit on Steam, which includes the Index headset, two controllers, and two base stations. Currently, here’s what I’m seeing in the US as options to reserve (not buy) the various bundles:The Index VR kit (headset, controllers, and base stati