Andy Kelly: Buck the trendThis week I accidentally got addicted to a hunting game. But something drew me back to it, and this week I’ve put almost 25 hours into the thing. The main reason I’m hooked are the environments, which feature some of the most atmospheric forests I’ve ever seen in a game. So I’m going to watch the original Predator tonight just to wash the bad taste out of my mouth. If I stop for a few days and go back to Slay the Spire, maybe I’ll finally have moved on from trying to re

The new Hearthstone set Rise of Shadows launches next week on April 9, but you can open your new RoS card packs right now by setting up a private Fireside Gathering. Once your Fireside Gathering is active, you can participate in pre-release Fireside activities, such as opening your packs early, and special Fireside Brawls that let you construct decks with those freshly opened cards. The latter of those two lets you play with new cards even if you haven’t bought any RoS packs. Head here to set up

Devil’s Hunt is a demon-clobbering action game in development at Polish studio Layopi Games that follows a man named Desmond as he kicks all kinds of ass in a war between angels and demons. Now we can see the game in action, thanks to a 19-minute gameplay trailer from PAX East that publisher 1C Company rolled onto YouTube today. The video is set in the halls of Hell and shows off a little bit of everything, including environmental interactions, a spot of conversation, and a boss fight. The annou

Image source: AlifMorrisonudinA couple of weeks ago, Assassin’s Creed Wiki user AlifMorrisonudin noticed something very interesting in The Division 2: A poster in the game that he thought could be an Assassin’s Creed Easter egg. This eventually led to excited conversations on Reddit and at least one YouTube video explaining why it might be significant. If you want to get really deep into the lore, a Viking connection to the Apples of Eden was established all the way back in Assassin’s Creed 2 th

Once the company had the bandwidth to return to its roots, the Astro C40 TR was born from creative, rather than commercial, longing. Where the battery case used to live on the Xbox 360 controller is now an open canvas of blank space on the new controller. Pressing it lets you remap controls manually, absent the need to boot up the accompanying Astro C40 TR Configuration Software I’ll get to in a bit. Luckily, no matter where you stand, cracking open the faceplate on the Astro C40 TR is no diffic

If you’re curious about Assassin’s Creed: Origins but haven’t played it yet because it’s just too damn expensive, today would be a good day to check out the Humble Monthly Bundle, where you can pick it up—along with a bunch of super-secret mystery games—for just $12. That’s a serious steal for $12. This month’s bundle is a great deal on the lead game alone: Assassin’s Creed: Origins still goes for the full $60/£50/€60 on Steam, and has never dipped below $18. And you can cancel Humble Monthly su

The 8GB version AMD’s Radeon RX 580 graphics card has held steady at $200 over the past few months, with some models occasionally dipping below that. Last month, ASRock’s 580 dropped to $169.99 on Newegg, and now you can get PowerColor’s ‘Red Devil’ version for that same price. There isn’t a base clock listed, but most RX 580 cards have a base of ~1256MHz. The 8GB RX 580 is a great card for 1080p gaming, especially for this price. PowerColor RED DEVIL Radeon RX 580 8GB | $169.99 (~$30 off)This 8

For most people, the best microphone for streaming and gaming is the Blue Yeti, from a bang-for-buck standpoint. It can usually be found for around $100 and is worth every penny. BuyDig is offering one of our favorite mics on sale with coupon code APRIL1. The Blue Yeti is a USB mic. In addition to being offered at this price in black, you can also nab it in ‘steel red’ and ‘midnight blue’ for the same price.

Printer filaments are one of the many types of crafting material found in The Division 2. Printer filaments don’t drop from enemies like ceramics, polycarbonate or steel. Printer filaments. To maximise the amount of printer filaments you can get, unlock at least the first tier of the Deconstruction perk from Coop Dennison at the White House. Printer filaments are one of the easiest crafting materials to acquire, it just takes a little bit of planning and consideration, and the benefits are huge.

The workshop, entitled “Inside the Game: Unlocking the Consumer Issues Surrounding Loot Boxes,” will cover the origin and evolution of loot boxes and the roles they play in videogames, examine research into consumer behavior (including children and adolescents), and discuss consumer awareness and education about digital transactions, particularly “the mechanics, marketing, and financial commitments associated with loot boxes.” Loot boxes of various sorts have been kicking around in games for yea

Remember that $900 motherboard from Gigabyte we told you about last December? Well, starting soon you’ll have the option of buying it with a binned Core i9-9900K processor (which is the best CPU for gaming) for an eye-popping $1,600, with a guaranteed overclock of 5.1GHz. For the upcoming bundle, Gigabyte is sorting through and stress testing Core i9-9900K processors based on their ability to overclock. Only the ones that can maintain a stable 5.1GHz on all cores make the cut and are included in

Vampire computers: They’re a thing. Dwarf Fortress players have long been just as wildly inventive—the Dwarf Fortress wiki even has a page for Computing , explaining how to use the game’s pressure plates, open or closed doors, animals, and other elements to reproduce binary code. As I learned recently by talking to Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams, vampires actually make for very effective computer operators. When I asked what could make for a really ridiculous, obscure Steam Achievement for th

It will do that by no longer shoving monthly and biannual updates down the throats of Windows 10 users, starting with the next big one. Beginning with the Windows 10 May 2019 update, users will be more in control of initiating the feature OS update. Beginning with the May 2019 update, Windows 10 Home users will join their Pro and Enterprise brethren in being able to delay updates for up to 35 days, in 7-day chunks. “To further enhance active hours, users will now have the option to let Windows U

Update: Valve has responded to the European Commission’s Statement of Objections in regards to geo-blocking games with a statement of its own, refuting the Commission’s allegations. “The region locks only applied to a small number of game titles,” Valve said in a press release. “Approximately just 3 percent of all games using Steam (and none of Valve’s own games) at the time were subject to the contested region locks in the EEA. The elimination of region locks will also mean that publishers will

Warframe’s Plains of Eidolon, the game’s first open-world space, has been updated today. Since then, Warframe has only grown, both in size and ambitions, so Digital Extremes has returned to Eidolon to give it a visual overhaul, new enemies and even more diversions. As for new things to do, you can now track and trap animals in the Plains, either finding them as you walk around or using Echo-Lures to call them. Apparently they don’t have an obviously vulnerability, so taking them down will involv

Danny Dyer, Eastenders actor and descendent of King Edward III, is lending his distinct vocal talents to Rage 2. The Diamond Geezer voice pack will be available, like the others, as a cheat that all players will be able to use. Up until now, Rage 2’s tone hasn’t really done it for me—it’s trying way too hard—but I can sort of get behind this. The sixth in line to the throne and famous ginger reckons Fortnite should be banned , though I think it’s more likely we’ll ban the monarchy first. And if

Octopath Traveler, Square Enix’s absolutely gorgeous Switch RPG, could be jumping the fence and launching on PC, if a rating from Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee is accurate. The rating appeared today and the page has since been taken down, but ResetEra member Rodjer managed to capture it before it vanished into the ether. Octopath Traveler launched on Switch last year, where it’s gathered quite a large audience. So far it’s only appeared on Switch, though a mobile prequel was a

Sekiro isn’t the worst of FromSoftware’s PC ports, but its graphics and display options are few and its limits many. This mod from uberhalit unlocks the frame rate, adds custom resolutions with 21:9 widescreen support, lets you tweak the FoV and lots more. Oh yeah, and it also lets you change world and character speed, making the game considerably easier. There’s already a fella you can train with, so this seems a bit more in the spirit of the game. Use the mod to display in-game stats and your

Super Meat Boy Forever was meant to launch exclusively on the Epic Games Store this month. But in a statement issued on Twitter, Team Meat announced it’ll be pushing the game until “after but not too far after April 2019”. “We’ve been knocking out the last bits of Super Meat Boy Forever at record speeds while keeping a healthy and sustainable pace,” the update reads. Team Meat isn’t some studio owned by an Evil Asshat corporation that has say over what we do and how we do it. Tyler played it a w

The use of AI neural networks to up-res classic PC games has gained traction of late. We’ve seen it done for Doom, we’ve seen it done for Morrowind, and a whole host of emulated PlayStation games have been given the treatment. But now, thanks to modder grandgreed, there’s a neural network-created texture pack for the underrated FPS classic Heretic, taking in all surface textures, as well as enemy and pick-up sprites. Grandgreed was also responsible for the recent Hexen Neural Texture Pack. For n