Narrative-driven exploration game Gone Home, which is still one of the best indie games on PC, is free on the Humble Bundle right now. Gone Home is one of the 60+ titles in the Humble Monthly Trove, a bank of games that are available to all Humble Monthly subscribers. Occasionally, one of these games gets given away free for a limited time, and Gone Home’s number has been called—you can download it here until May 5. You’ll need to login to your Humble Bundle account first, but after that you’ll

They are lovely, gentle puzzle games that have you open intricate, beautiful puzzle boxes to discover dark secrets of the universe. Tyler Wilde: Kombat trainingAs Fraser and Wes explain in the lows, there are a couple of very good reasons to criticize Mortal Kombat 11 right now. Also this week: tough tower challenges with meagre rewards in Mortal Kombat 11. Earlier this year I wrote about my newfound obsession with League of Legends, a very good game that I am still hopelessly addicted to. In th

So you want to run a little Apex Legends tournament for your pals in the local computer club, but you don’t want to risk the wrath of the EA legal department in the process? “You may not use Apex Legends to generate revenue except as expressly permitted by these guidelines,” the rules state. But since you’re playing Apex Legends anyway, you’ve already read and digested all of that, right? You may also be wondering how exactly Apex Legends tournaments are possible, given that the game doesn’t sup

Capcom has reduced a big chunk of its catalogue on Steam for the weekend, taking bites out of the prices of Resident Evil 2 Remake, Monster Hunter: World, Street Fighter 5 and more. Resident Evil 2 and Monster Hunter: World are both 34 percent off, and getting the PC versions means you get to play with mods. For more zombie shenanigans, you can pick up the rest of the Resident Evil series, including Resident Evil 7, on the cheap. It’s also worth noting that Street Fighter 5 is currently free to

Image source: YouTubeFormer NBA pro Rick Fox is reportedly leaving esports organization Echo Fox, which he founded in late 2015 after acquiring and rebranding the League of Legends team Gravity Gaming. According to Dexerto, Fox is splitting with the outfit over the use of a racist slur, directed at former Echo Fox CEO Jace Hall by a member of Vision Esports, which is part of an investment group that holds a stake in Echo Fox. “There have been incidents in recent weeks in which a limited partner

As I discovered in some recent testing, RAM capacity and speed can make a significant difference to gaming performance, especially under some specific conditions. If you’re working with a GPU that has limited VRAM, for instance, pumping up your system memory (and its frequency) can unlock a lot of horsepower. Luckily, memory prices have continued to fall, and this G.Skill RAM, 32GB at Newegg for $164.99 after promo code ‘EMCTYVB25’, is a great opportunity to give a future-proofing boost to your

The terrible cacophony produced by the rats in the A Plague Tale: Innocence footage above is enough to put me off animals and videogames forever. It’s eight minutes of uncut footage from a new level, showing off a wee bit of everything. While the rats are an obstacle, it looks like they’ll sometimes come in handy. They don’t care if dinner is a guard or a kid, so you can set them on your enemies. A Plague Tale: Innocence is due out on May 14, and a story trailer also went up a wee while ago, so

PhysicsFish’s SkyTrek mod has the solution. SkyTrek is a new autopilot mod that lets you set a destination and automatically walk, ride or fly there. SkyTrek is thankfully compatible with several other mount mods, including Immersive Horses, Convenient Horses, Gypsy Eyes Caravan, Dragonkiller Cart and Audiobooks of Skyrim. If you’re using Skyrim Special Edition, you can download SkyTrek here , while Oldrim users should grab this one . And you can hunt down more mods in our best Skyrim mods list.

Some players have gone to great lengths to acquire these pinnacle weapons. Luna’s Howl requires you to kill 450 opponents in Destiny 2’s Competitive PvP mode, 100 with headshots, and you have to reach Fabled rank in Crucible. To get Not Forgotten you first have to to earn Luna’s Howl, and then use it to kill a further 500 other players in Competitive. Pinnacle PvP weapons put a key Destiny 2 dilemma into focus. Pinnacle weapons sometimes entrench advantage by giving the most highly skilled playe

The animator is your enemy in painterly shoot-’em-up Zoe, as the brush-wielding maniac is intent on creating enemies and bullets to destroy you (you being a gun-toting triangle-thing). There’s a lot going on in Zoe, and you’re dumped right in it, so it will likely take a few goes before you get the hang of it. But, wow, would you look at it: this arcade-style shoot-’em-up that looks and feels and even sounds the part, thanks to the jazzy, old-timey soundtrack accompanying the action. Zoe could d

Unlocking all of Mortal Kombat 11, from fatalities to cosmetics, necessitates a great deal of grinding or a lot of cash. There are four different currencies, a whole mode dedicated to opening loot boxes and progression-halting difficulty. NetherRealm recently acknowledged some of the issues, however, and has announced some changes coming in the next couple of days. The first patch is due out in a day or two, and here’s what it will include:Character tuning to reduce difficulty in Towers of Time.

The next Wild Appalachia update, Ever Upwards, introduces a new faction, the Pioneer Scouts. It sounds like there’s quite a bit of work to do to get something pretty mundane, but the backpacks are more than just inventory expansions. Judging by the concept art Bethesda has released, Fallout 76’s backpacks look pretty nifty, as well. Backpacks aren’t the only thing you can get from joining the Pioneer Scouts. Scouts and backpacks will arrive with patch 9 on May 7, but you might also want to pop i

The first Layers of Fear was about a painter gone mad, and Layers of Fear 2 is about a film director gone mad. The whole “artist gone mad” theme is pretty attractive (at least to me), and taking the role of an actor stranded on an ocean liner at the mercy of said nuts film director is very enticing indeed. The seafaring sequel has a confirmed release date: May 28. Its confirmed for Steam, and as we’ve previously reported, it features narration from none other than Tony Todd, ie, the Candyman guy

Like WTFast, Elite Gamer only isolates game packets. Upon checking the Cox website, it informed me that its Elite Gamer package was not yet available in my area. But an image provided by imgur user KGBatemybread allows you to see what purchasing the service could look like if Cox decides to role out its Elite Gamer service on a mass scale. Basically, the greater number of “hops” your computer needs to make to a game server, lag, packet loss, etc. Services like WTFast use their own private routes

BlizzCon 2019 won’t be kicking off until November, but Blizzard will start selling tickets to its annual fan celebration next week. Tickets will go on sale on May 4, but if you miss out, a second wave will be sold on May 9. Shell out $750 and you’ll get a Benefit Dinner pass, letting you meet Blizzard developers while helping out a children’s health charity. You’ll get everything from the standard and Portal tiers, too. BlizzCon 2019 will take place on November 1 in Anaheim, ending on November 2

Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2’s fleets are already larger than its predecessor’s, but can you really every have too many giant space cathedrals? So developer Tindalos Interactive has bumped up the points cap yet again, at least in the new Massive Fleets mode, giving you a hefty 4,000 points to spend. As well as letting you field lots and lots of ships, the mode also unlocks special ships from the campaign, including the Imperial Phalanx and Tyranid Ancient One. Watch the Massive Fleet mode in acti

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has been making some bold claims on Twitter, which is always fun for spectators and perhaps terrifying for investors. Once again, the subject is the Epic Games Store’s divisive exclusivity strategy, which has ruffled feathers while taking a fair number of prominent games off Steam. Sweeney claims all of that will end if Steam commits to an 88 percent revenue share for developers. He says the goal is an open platform where you just visit Steam to find games and buy them

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