It’s promoting healthy eating, which is nice, but also murdering your enemies with poison, which is maybe less nice. There’s a new limited time mode, too, where the map is slowly consumed by lava. Nothing here quite as exciting as giant hamster balls, but the ol’ poison dart trap is a classic, perfect for any dungeon or forgotten temple. Epic’s going to be doing more work on it, too, with the ability to shoot through the glass coming soon. Fortnite 8.20 is live now, and you can check out the ful

The retro-brawler Streets of Rage 4 was announced last August, and initial impression were good: A “late ’80s punk rock aesthetic” as viewed through a ’90s brawler that existed only in fantasy, we said in our September preview, with “a ton of beauty and promise.” Now it’s time for the rest of us to see it in action. The reveal trailer contained a brief flash of in-game brawling but this is the first full-on gameplay trailer to be released, and even though I was never a serious fan of the beat-em

Most of the Mortal Kombat 11 trailers we’ve enjoyed over the past couple of months have focused on fatalities—brain ejections, movie magic, whatever the hell you call this—but one of them was all about the story: A “temporal crisis” with an incomprehensible menagerie of characters running around (including two Johnny Cages) that was awfully hard to follow. Luckily, we’ve now got a new story trailer that helps clarify the situation somewhat. It’s great because, in case there was any doubt, it ful

The game’s red-slashed greyscale visual style is striking, but the combat is what it’s all about. But they aren’t invulnerable, and the Steam listing suggests that you might not be able to save-scum your way to a flawless victory. “Experience the tension of every decision with permanent death, roguelite features, deadly missions and limited resources. Every decision counts and comes with a sacrifice, whether it be resources or in blood,” it says. It’s probably too early to say that Othercide loo

One of the most coveted Exotics in The Division 2 at the moment is The Lost Chatterbox. A Hyena-modified P90, the Chatterbox has ludicrous abilities that make it one of, if not the, best SMG in the game. Unfortunately, as you’d expect for such a powerful weapon, getting it can be a royal pain that relies mostly on just dumb luck. In these crates, you’re looking for three parts: the SMG Loaded Canister, the SMG Creative Magazine, and the SMG Modified Mods. As long as you’re patient and a little b

“We’ve just been assuming this risk [by making Dwarf Fortress] ever since I quit my math job. The impetus for selling Dwarf Fortress, and the promise Adams says he’s made to fans, is that he’ll save up enough money to take care of himself. I ask about what I think is a real possibility: Dwarf Fortress sells a million copies at $20 each. His works in a way that pushes him to make Dwarf Fortress, and after more than a decade, it still provides all the fulfillment he needs. I don’t know.

How about a hot date? Or how about a Hot Date Bundle, the latest collection of “visual novels, dating sims, and suggestive party games” from the bundlers over at Humble? But that’s a pretty cheap date. Bump it up to beat-the-average and you’ll also take home the sex game stalwart Ladykiller in a Bind, the feline seduction sim Purrfect Date, and Genital Jousting, the popular party game about dicks. The Humble Hot Date Bundle is available until April 9.

It’s likely you’d heard of Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines before last week’s sequel announcement, even if you’ve never played it. If you missed out at any point between 2004 and now, GOG has it for $5/£3.79 right now in its Spring sale. I’ll admit it, reader: Bloodlines is on my pile of shame, and I’ve owned the GOG version for about three years, installing it on various laptops and never quite setting aside the time to give it a try. Chris’s preview of Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2 r

Spending over a grand and even several thousands dollars potent notebook will always be an option, and if you’re after the best gaming laptop money can buy, those are territories you will find yourself in. The same laptop currently sells on Newegg for that price, and is $705.99 on Best Buy. You’re not getting anything crazy here, like an RTX GPU, but the specs are pretty good for the money. Specifically, this 15.6-inch laptop wields an IPS display powered by a Ryzen 3 3550H processor, 8GB of DDR

The past half-decade has been something of a renaissance for Cyan, the studio best known for creating the Myst series (and inspiring the many, many lookalikes that followed). Today the studio returned to the crowdfunding well once more with a campaign for its new game, first teased a year ago, called Firmament. For a taste of what he brings to the Cyan table, you can download and listen to them free on Bandcamp. Firmament is being developed primarily for VR but will be playable on conventional P

I’m paraphrasing, but if you’re after a direct quote, try this—enabling DLSS in Anthem delivers “up to 40 percent faster performance.” Assuming you can check all those boxes, faster performance awaits. Full size PNG DLSS Off (18.1MB)Full size PNG DLSS On (16.6MB)How does DLSS look in Anthem? When we have performance or image improvements quality, we automatically deliver them straight to your machine via Nvidia software updates,” Nvidia says. If you run into any issues with DLSS in Anthem (or ot

HyperX makes some great headsets, like the Cloud Alpha, which has earned a spot in our best gaming headsets round-up. The company’s older Cloud II model is still popular with many, and now it’s $69.99 on Amazon for the rest of today—a $30 discount from the usual price. This is a wired headset, with an included USB audio adapter, a detachable microphone, independent audio and microphone volume control, and even optional support for Surround Sound 7.1. It has two 53mm drivers for great audio quali

I don’t know where to start when it comes to Paradigm Worlds, a mod for Mount & Blade: Warband. It’s perhaps appropriate, though, as the mod itself is in fact many different mods—and universes—flung together. Here’s a snippet of the summary:Steampunk conspiring againt XV century Europe, Aliens fighting Djiniis, Orc fighting Morloks, Uruks fighting agains Alien Pirates! There’s a hint of Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator, but Paradigm Worlds seems to be more than just tossing random armies against e

One of Anthem’s biggest sins, for me, was having to sit through a loading screen just to access the Forge, where I could change my javelin’s weapons and equipment. I want to see my loot whenever I damn well please, and having to walk to a specific location in Fort Tarsis and sit through a loading screen just to access it was aggravating. Available now, patch 1.0.4 includes several great quality of life updates, tweaks to Anthem’s ongoing issues with loot, and some new endgame modes to hopefully

Asus is adding another “overclockable” monitor to its lineup, the latest entry being the ROG Swift PG278QE. Like its IPS counterpart, the PG278QE is a 27-inch monitor with a 2560×1440 resolution and G-Sync support. From what we can tell, this is essentially another updated version of the ROG Swift PG278Q. Further confusing matters is the release of the ROG Swift PG278QR, but some users complained of color banding issues with that monitor. That could be where the new PG278QE comes into play, assu

The Guardian Ape is one of the later bosses encountered in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and can be found in the Bodhisattva Valley located in the Sunken Valley. Guardian Ape strategyThe Guardian Ape has two phases and is unable to block any of your attacks. Phase 1 will end when you execute the Guardian Ape by taking off his head. Phase TwoThe second phase of this fight arguably harder than the first. When the Guardian Ape regains his feet, he is now equipped with the sword that you dislodged durin

Electronic Arts is laying off 350 people across its marketing, publishing and operations teams, as well as reducing its presence in Japan and Russia. Wilson said that the publisher was taking “important steps as a company to address our challenges and prepare for the opportunities ahead.” Unfortunately, those changes will “impact about 350 roles”, which means 350 people will be laid off. Today we took some important steps as a company to address our challenges and prepare for the opportunities a

With the launch of its prequel episode and final bit of DLC, Episode Ardyn, that’s Final Fantasy 15 over as of today. Because this is Final Fantasy 15, you can’t just play the DLC; you’ve got to watch some backstory, too. Luckily, the Episode Ardyn animated prologue isn’t quite as long as the gorgeous and completely rubbish Kingsglaive. Though it was cut short, Final Fantasy 15 had a good run. Episode Ardyn is available now on Steam for £8/$10.

If you’re in the market for a great pre-built gaming PC, here’s a tempting offer for you. Right now Amazon is selling a CyberpowerPC Gamer Extreme with an RTX 2080, an i7-9700K, 16GB of RAM and 240GB SSD/1TB HDD for a very reasonable $1599, saving you $170 off the list price. Frankly, we think you’d struggle to build a PC this powerful yourself, especially as it comes with liquid cooling, Windows 10 installed, and a cheap and cheerful keyboard and mouse. We do know that the RAM speed is 2400Mhz

Tripwire’s Killing Floor 2 and Rising Storm 2: Vietnam are both getting their first major updates of 2019 today, and anyone can check them out on Steam this week. Both games will be free to try from 10 am PT today until 10 am PT on Friday, and both series will be on sale for the duration. Killing Floor 2: Cyber Revolt decks the zed-murdering multiplayer romp in neon lights and transforms players into street samurai and cyberpunks. Take a look at the Killing Floor 2: Cyber Revolt trailer below. O