It’s been roughly two weeks since Gearbox confirmed that the PC version of Borderlands 3 will be released exclusively on the Epic Games Store, a revelation that led to much wailing and gnashing of teeth among the fan base. Epic will suffer (again) if, by the time Borderlands 3 launches, the customer experience is not good enough. “And so we’re going to swallow the Epic Games Store pill with Borderlands 3. Obviously Pitchford has a dog in this fight: At a bare minimum, Gearbox wants to ensure tha

So Navi 20 will be AMD’s entry into the ray tracing arena, with full DXR (DirectX Raytracing) and Vulkan-RT support. Take the RTX 2080 Ti as the high-end target for ray tracing performance right now. It’s not unusual to see performance cut in half with ray tracing enabled, but a lot of that comes down to the amount of ray tracing hardware. Both AMD and Nvidia should have ray tracing GPUs available by next year, and that will mean more games using ray tracing, perhaps with improved algorithms ove

Mortal Kombat 11 is coming soon, and so is the Mortal Kombat 11 Pro Kompetition, a new professional esports series that will see players battling through live tournaments and online events for a shot at the $100,000 Final Kombat finale in early 2020. Nine live tournaments will be held at venues in North America, Latin America, and Europe, beginning with Combo Breaker 2019, running May 24 – 26 in St. Charles, Illinois. The top finishers in each, plus the winners of online tournaments for North Am

Image source: RedditMustache-and-mullet streamer DrDisrespect has fallen victim to a hack of both his Twitch channel and his Twitter account, which led to a few spicy tweets before control was reassumed. It’s not known what happened at this point: The Twitch channel was completely gone for a while, but is currently back though offline (the viewers are expressing their displeasure in a very Twitch-like fashion) while the hacked tweets have been deleted and the account cleaned up. The hack also re

It appears that there’s a new Lego Star Wars game in the works, according to a comment made by Skywalker Sound’s Matthew Wood at Star Wars Celebration. During the interview, Wood lists off the projects being worked on in 2019 and ends by saying “There’s a Lego Star Wars game we’re working on.” The moment was tweeted by Jordan Maison and you can watch it below. Here’s the full clip of Matt Wood mentioned the new #LEGOStarWars game, including it in a list of things launching in 2019……. #StarWa

Thanks to Ubisoft’s own teasers, we already know a lot about Season 2. But leaks from reputable sources reveal specifics about operator abilities, their names, and even a sneak peek at Season 3. Ubisoft’s teasersPer the Year 4 roadmap panel from the Six Invitational, we know that Season 2 will feature a female Danish attacker and a defender from the U.S. Secret Service. The biggest scoop was a hint at what the Danish attacker’s ability will entail. We also got a teaser for a proximity alarm gadg

A mod released today for Super Nintendo emulator bsnes, called HD Mode 7, shows how much detail you can get out of the faux 3D mode’s graphics. You can see the difference above—the left half of the image is what Mode 7 normally looks like, and the right half is “HD”. Follow this link to see the original and HD graphics for Super Mario Kart, Pilotwings, and F-Zero, with screenshots taken by the modder. The mod is brand new, and Redditor DerKoun offers a bit of detail: This mod lets bsnes “perform

The Russian company behind the plan is called StartRocket, and they’ve apparently tested the idea by using a helium balloon to carry a reflector up into the stratosphere. For an idea what Adrenaline Rush ads look like, and why the campaign would involve videogames, you can watch one of their ordinary terrestrial commercials. This was a one-time event; we have no further plans to test or commercially use this technology at this time.” But, no, Pepsi isn’t currently planning to smear its logos ove

With the action set to kick off tomorrow, Blizzard has dropped a teaser of the takedown, which I have to say doesn’t appear all that terribly well planned. Don’t waste time in a fight: Keep the goon squad pinned, grab your guy, and get out of Dodge. And so of course that’s exactly what the team appears to be doing here, starting a fight just because they like to fight. Storm Rising is a fight through the streets of Havana, Cuba, with Tracer, Winston, Genji, and Mercy. The action begins tomorrow,

The best Acer laptop for gaming truly stands out in a world overrun by three-headed snakes and exasperated dragons. Therefore, pinpointing exactly which of its products constitutes the best Acer laptop for gaming 2019 has to offer is a daunting task. Because of the sheer breadth of specs, styles and price points in its portfolio, finding the best gaming laptop to suit your needs isn’t as obvious as it sounds. Still, it’s a relatively inexpensive gateway to ray traced graphics rendered in real-ti

SSD prices have been dropping like a rock in recent months, and now 1TB SATA SSDs can be commonly found for around $130-150. If you don’t have the budget for one of the best SSDs for gaming, or you’re just looking for a cheap upgrade, SanDisk’s 1TB SSD Plus is $95.99 for today only — $24 off the usual price of $119.99. This specific drive has sequential read speeds of up to 535 MB/s, and sequential write speeds of up to 450 MB/s. It’s not clear if the current batch of 1TB drives comes with DRAM,

A single-player Star Wars story for those of you who are ready to become a Jedi. Who is going to feel grateful about those things not being in a Star Wars game? The thing is, people probably didn’t need more reasons to be excited about Jedi: Fallen Order. Jedi: Fallen Order offers the chance to start turning that around. Just make some great Star Wars games.

Above you can see a Twitch clip of streamer sodapoppin roleplaying Kevin Whipaloo in GTA 5. Then he pauses for a moment before suddenly and shockingly lunging onto the sidewalk and punching Kevin in the face. And despite everything else going on in GTA 5 roleplay—the drama, the heists, the chases, the relationships, the tragedies, the comedies, the stories—people accidentally punching each other is my absolute favorite thing. And below, a minute later outside, Payne accidentally returns the favo

Reigning Dota 2 world champions, OG went up against a virtual AI team in San Francisco this past weekend. OpenAI is the research organisation behind the fully AI team and has spent the last four years working on an artificial intelligence that can replicate human-level skill in Valve’s Dota 2. OpenAI Five lost out at last years World Championships where it failed to defeat the two pro teams it was put up against. The hard work paid off though and culminated in success this weekend at the OpenAI

Fortnite’s v8.30 update has supposedly been datamined, resulting in discovery of two new items. Even if the files are present, they might not end up getting used in an update. Shadow Bombs, uncovered by Skin Tracker, reportedly have a connection with Challenges as well as a string with “Use a Shadow Bomb in different matches” attached to it. You can also check out a couple of related audio files that were shared by Fortnite News, one of which sounds remarkably Kevin-the-Cube-esque. The second it

You can cure every character’s dragonrot at once with a Recovery Charm. Veteran restorer of cut content, Lance McDonald, has discovered that the system didn’t always work this way. Using patches to restore lost code, McDonald finds Dragonrot Pellets that let you restore characters’ dragonrot one by one. Plus, who knows what other cut content can be restored as players dig into the game’s code. In addition to restoring cut dialogue, modders have been busy with Sekiro.

Ubisoft has detailed its ongoing plans for The Division 2 in a rather lengthy post over on the community forums. The aim is to ‘share not only updates on present issues but also contextualize some of our design decisions.’ A fix is also planned for the True Patriot gear set bonus and the Revive Hive is also getting a couple of tweaks, with more expected in the future. They’re currently looking to reproduce the problems players have been experiencing and have requested more feedback on these issu

Mortal Kombat 11 has released a reveal trailer for Kitana, officially confirming her place on the roster. Kitana’s trailer shows off her trademark fans, along with her blue outfit as she does battle with D’Vorah, We also get a look at her Fatality, which is a suitably gruesome slice-and-dice affair. Kitana’s return in Mortal Kombat 11 wasn’t entirely unexpected. She was first noticed as a placeholder in the recent roster leak and, along with her appearance in a TV trailer last week, we can’t say

Destiny 2’s Arc Week brought some pretty big improvements to the game’s pre-Forsaken Arc subclasses, but it may be working a little too well. Bungie said in yesterday’s TWAB update that a bug in how damage modifiers are applied means that Arcstriders are hitting (a lot) harder than they’re supposed to. “We are looking intro Arcstrider supers and their ability to achieve higher-than-intended damage against bosses when mixing certain perks. The 2.2.1 update enabled the Arcstrider’s Combination Blo