An important thing to remember about Surviving Mars is that it takes place on Mars, a planet that has a relentlessly hostile environment and requires people to mainly stay indoors. Well, no more: Suviving Mars’ second expansion, called Green Planet, is adding terraforming mechanics to the game. The paid expansion will arrive alongside a free update for all Surviving Mars players, and Paradox says this will “bring new layers of mid-to-late-game strategic depth” to the game. Haemimont Games CEO Ga

Saturday Night Live has done a funny about games, and even though it’s now Tuesday, it’s still worth a look if you haven’t seen it yet. Kit Harington from Game of Thrones hosted on Saturday, and features prominently here. The sketch pokes fun at talky NPCs who get all up in your face. While the HUD and badges evokes The Division 2, the subject of parody here is much closer to the experience of playing Anthem, where conversations have you screaming “shut up!” That said: Division 2’s specializatio

The H1Z1 saga has taken yet another bizarre, confusing twist, as developer NantG Mobile has announced that it is giving up on the newly-renamed Z1 Battle Royale and returning it to original developer Daybreak Games. H1Z1 originally went live on Steam Early Access in 2015, and then split into two games in 2016: H1Z1: Just Survive, the multiplayer survival game, and H1Z1: King of the Kill, a competitive battle royale. And after all that dicking around, we’re right back where we started, except wit

Today it expanded on that with details about its content plan for PvP, which will also follow the original WoW release pattern—which is to say that there won’t be a “formal PvP system” in WoW Classic when it launches. Arathi Basin will appear in phase four, and phase six will see the arrival of the world PvP objectives in Silithus and Eastern Plaguelands. World of Warcraft Classic still doesn’t have a release date, but here’s the quick-and-dirty rundown of the PvP content release schedule, relat

Have you ever played Civilization 6 and thought to yourself, this is great, but I really wish it looked a little… older? If the answer to that question is yes for some reason, Civ 6 art director Brian Busatti has come up with just the thing: A Civ 5 “Environment Skin” mod that’s now available through the Steam Workshop. “I was challenged by the team to create an expansive mod using Mod Buddy, and this was the end result,” Busatti wrote. The mod is compatible with all releases of Civilization 6

For anyone who can afford it, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is the best graphics card for gaming, offering comparable performance to a Titan RTX for around half the price. Case in point, EVGA today launched its GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Kingpin Gaming card, a premium GPU with a price tag to match—$1,899.99, if you’re an EVGA Associates member. It’s a hefty markup over a regular or Founders Edition RTX 2080 Ti for sure, though in fairness, there is quite a bit that separates the Kingpin model from other card

EVE Online is usually known for bitter betrayals and catastrophic battles, but that’s all guided by the politics of its massive player-driven alliances. And today, EVE Online is having one hell of a political scandal involving a player who is not only an elected politician in EVE Online, but is also a political lobbyist in real life too. His name is Brian Schoeneman, known in EVE as Brisc Rubal, and he serves on EVE Online’s Council of Stellar Management (CSM). Outside of EVE, Schoeneman is a ma

Several months ago, Microsoft announced it was gutting its Edge browser and rebuilding it around Chromium, the same open source platform that powers Google’s own Chrome browser. The transition is going to take around a year, though you can already test drive an early version of Edge in its new form. Microsoft has released the first publicly available preview build of its retooled Edge browser to developers, along with anyone else who wants to kick the tires. When first installing the browser, Mi

Last week’s rollout of the Apex Legends 1.1 update caused some brief moments of stress for players who logged into the game and discovered that their accounts had apparently been reset. It was, fortunately, a relatively simple problem to correct with no long-last consequences, but it wasn’t the only thing that went wrong. Some players also noticed the appearance, and then sudden disappearance, of a “leaving early” penalty for players who bail out of a game too quickly. There was a piece of scrip

Razer is expanding its lineup of broadcasting peripherals with the Ripsaw HD, an external multi-platform capture card that records video in Full HD 1080p at 60 frames per second. That’s the same as Elgato’s Game Capture HD60 S, which for newcomers is the best capture card for PC gaming. The 4K passthrough means you can play games at 4K, if your hardware is up to snuff, while sharing 1080p gameplay with your audience. Note that the 4K passthrough only allows you to play at 4K, and not actually re

Fantasy General was a 1996 wargame for people who rightly felt that the otherwise excellent Panzer General didn’t have enough dragons. More than two decades later, it’s getting an unexpected second wind in the form of Fantasy General 2 later this year. The original Fantasy General flung its universe together, but Owned by Gravity says its taking the world and story seriously in the sequel. Wagner says the team want to create the Fantasy General that existed in their heads. Fantasy General 2 is d

Mortal Kombat 11’s string of ultra-violent, gloriously silly trailers have got me ready to crack some skulls, completely unlike this subdued TV spot. Expect a proper Kitana trailer soon, but in the meantime you can watch the TV trailer above. Kitana died and was then resurrected as a Revenant at the end of 2011’s Mortal Kombat, returning as one of Quan Chi’s minions in Mortal Kombat X. We might also get to see pre-Revenant Kitana, since Mortal Kombat 11 is full of time travel shenanigans. Mortal

Since The Division 2’s huge Tidal Basin update, players are finding ammo for signature weapons—weapons specific to each of the three end-game specializations—hard to come by. It appears to be a bug, and Ubisoft has confirmed it’s investigating the matter. Some players say they haven’t found any signature weapon ammo drops in hours of play, while others are saying they’re finding much less than usual. The team is looking into the Signature ammo drops. Thanks for reporting!April 6, 2019As a workar

Dolphin is an emulator for GameCube and Wii games that has been going for years and still receives regular updates. The latest adds a server browser so that people playing online can host their own server lobbies, both public and private, and search for games to join. This update also adds a new feature called ‘Golf Mode’ which removes latency for one player at a time, and can be passed to another player when it’s their turn. Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour is the example game for this feature, which

The last of Chaosbane’s four heroes now has her own reveal trailer. The Warhammer action-RPG isn’t blazing new trails by having an elf archer as a character, and yet having seen her Legolas her way through some beastmen then dodge-roll out of the way and summon some dryads I will definitely play her in the full game. Characters with ranged attacks are usually my favorites in action-RPGs with characters who roam around with gangs of pets a close second, so combining both in the one class seems pe

As shared on ResetEra and Reddit , the cheaters have been turning to forums for ways to bypass or remove the hardware ban that bans not just accounts, but also the very hardware running them. Changing IP addresses and other such “fixes” are not effective, as the HWID code is unique to your computer’s hardware. “I am HWID banned,” lamented Chunk . Respawn banned over 355,000 cheaters on PC last month, confirming it was scaling up the anti-cheat team, and also planning to add a report feature that

The next fighter officially confirmed for Mortal Kombat 11 is The Kollector, one of the characters revealed via a roster leak a few weeks ago. “A proud servant of the Outworld Empire”, the Kollector “cares only for his wealth and status and will kill anyone to keep it”. At first glance he seems to have just the one extra pair of arms, but a minute into the brief teaser video shows another pair of limbs clinging onto his backpack. “As more of a corrupt, mafia enforcer than a government official,

Valve’s efforts to mitigate the impact of Steam review bombs are working thanks to a new system that prevents “off-topic reviews” from affecting a game’s review score. Steam users unhappy at 2K’s decision to enter into an exclusivity partnership with the Epic Store for Borderlands 3 have been review-bombing its prequels, Borderlands 1 and 2. A new default filtering system, however, prevents those reviews—which number around 4000 in this case—from being included in the aggregate score. Of course,

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On Steam, Early Access means that a game is still in development. And for other games, Early Access is simply an “Under Construction” disclaimer meant to fend off reviews and final judgments that might negatively impact the game. Early Access games such as Subnautica bring us joy even before they’re ‘done,’ while also funding their developers’ efforts to improve them. It’s great when it works, and I wouldn’t have Subnautica, or Slay the Spire, or other Early Access games I’ve liked do anything d