The system requirements for the recently-announced PC versions of Detroit: Become Human, Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain are now out, and they all recommend a GTX 1080 or equivalent. The minimum requirements for the three games all match, and they include an i5-2400 @ 3.4GHz or equivalent, a GTX 660 or equivalent, and 4GB of RAM. That leaves a big gap between minimum and recommended, so my guess is the recommended specs relate to playing in 4K. The Epic Games Store page for Detroit: Become Huma

Sekiro: Shadow Die Twice’s outstanding combat is clearly a hit with players—as of writing, more than 120,000 people are playing it, and its daily peak is more than 125,000, making it the fourth most-played game on Steam today ahead of Rainbox Six Siege. It’s a monumental launch, bigger even than Devil May Cry 5’s, which was itself Capcom’s second biggest PC launch ever, topping out at around 85,000 concurrent players, according to Steam Charts. Sekiro won’t be climbing higher up the Steam ladder

It’s been a huge week for Apex Legends, which added a new character, Octane, on Tuesday alongside its first Battle Pass. But behind the scenes, the dev team have been improving stability too, and the latest patch should fix the majority of crashes players were experiencing on PC. Thanks to a patch on Tuesday, the game now creates a .txt file in your My Documents folder when it crashes, and that information has helped inform a stability patch released yesterday. Yesterday’s patch should fix these

Into the Breach, our game of the year for 2018, is a masterpiece of simplicity. But it wasn’t always that way: it initially had city building, a tech tree and unit damage that persisted between missions, developer Subset Games has revealed. “So maybe 60 percent of the game, we just dropped it all and [said], ‘Okay, it’s just a bunch of missions in a row. Davis and Ma talked about just how much they struggled during development—the pair were “very close to giving up on the game”, they said. “It w

Blizzard introduced an “endorsements” feature to Overwatch last summer that enables players to rate others who are good teammates. “If you’re not consistently getting endorsements, if you slip up, you’re not going to get endorsements and your level is going to slip,” Miller said. To help ensure that it was on the right track, Blizzard also “put out a server to see if players perceived the endorsement system to be the reason for the decrease in negative behavior,” she said (via Variety). Players

CD Projekt’s big thing right now is Cyberpunk 2077, but in case you’d forgotten, it’s working on another major RPG too. We are currently focusing on the production and promotion of Cyberpunk, so we do not want to comment on further projects.” That strategy was laid down three years ago, in a very vague breakdown of the four-year period between 2017 and 2021: The document says that CD Projekt will, among other things, release Cyberpunk 2077 and “another AAA RPG title” in that time frame. 2021 rea

The Mortal Kombat 11 lineup has grown again, this time with the addition of Noob Saibot, a shadowy ninja who used to be Sub-Zero before Scorpion killed him in the original Mortal Kombat tournament as payback for killing Scorpion. The Mortal Kombat lore hole is a deep one, but the crash-course is that Sub-Zero offed Scorpion so Scorpion, after being resurrected by Quan Chi, offed Sub-Zero. Warner Bros. also announced today that the first DLC character coming to Mortal Kombat 11 will be Shang Tsun

Firestorm is the big blip on the Battlefield 5 radar screen, but Electronic Arts has plans for the game beyond battle royale. It laid out the basics of what’s coming this year in a 2019 roadmap covering the next two chapters of the ongoing “Tides of War,” and teasing the third. Chapter 3, Trial By Fire, gets underway on March 25—that’s Monday—and will include new Combined Arms missions, a new Mediterranean map based on the German airborne invasion of Crete, a Hardcore mode, and of course the bat

And when it does, it will support real-time ray tracing and DLSS, the two standout of features of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX graphic cards. Of course, missing from that announcement is whether RTX features will be available on day-of-launch or added in a post-launch patch. There are far more games that have not implemented real-time ray tracing and/or DLSS support than those that have, though hopefully by 2020, RTX will have extended its reach to a plethora of additional games. And of course, ray trac

We’ve seen some great deals on some of the best gaming monitors lately, and Walmart is running another banger right now. LG’s 27-inch, 1080p, IPS display is all the way down to $149.99 right now, a full $80 off list. It’s a monitor firmly aimed at the gaming market, boasting a Motion Blur Reduction mode that reduces the standard 5ms response time down to a totally imperceptible 1ms. This LG display comes wrapped in a slick looking chassis, too, with slender bezels and a slick, understated black

Without getting into any of the nitty-gritty details, Intel confirmed at GDC 2019 that it’s launching mobile versions of its 9th generation H-series Core processors during the second quarter. “This portfolio of high-performance mobile processors will power the ultimate laptops for gamers and creators. That’s not surprising, since the Core i9 series on desktop are powerful chips. This expectation comes by way of a logical evolution of Intel’s mobile processors, and also from an official document

Years ago, when Star Wars Battlefront 3 (prior to the reboot) was in development at Free Radical, the studio experimented with seamless planetary and space battles—you could be fighting on Tattooine while your mates were above you, grabbing a Tie Fighter from a Star Destroyer. The upcoming Capital Supremacy mode for Star Wars Battlefront 2 doesn’t go quite that far, but it will let you fight on Geonosis and then board a capital ship that’s hanging out in orbit. Capital Supremacy is the largest B

The time to pounce is when they’re on sale, which is the case right now for Microsoft’s Xbox Wireless Controller. Granted, the standard Xbox One controller is not on the same level as the Elite model, which is the best controller for PC gaming if you’re in the market for a luxury option. The controller has a textured grip, a built-in 3.5mm headset jack, and a typical Xbox button layout. It uses Bluetooth, though if your PC doesn’t support that for some reason, you can still connect it via USB. X

Speed Freeks is a new 40K tabletop spin-off that pits two teams of bloodthirsty, gasoline-guzzling orks against each other in brutal, vehicular battles. The orks of 40K love their junkyard vehicles, and you can field a lot of them in the regular tabletop game, where the titular speed-addicted orks fight alongside the rest of the army. I got back into Warhammer 40K a bit over a year ago, and while my painting skills have definitely improved, looking at professionally painted models still makes me

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Of course, beyond color correction, sharpness and other options alternatively adjustable on your monitor itself, the refreshed Graphics Command Center software packs some features ostensibly tailored to systems housing discrete GPUs. Though it is pretty rudimentary in its current state, there are traces of functionality that could later be used for Intel’s upcoming graphics card project. Graphics Command Center is compatible exclusively with Intel Gen 6 processors and above. Image Credit: TechRa

You’ve probably seen players wearing masks in The Division 2 and, and you might be wondering how you can get hold of them yourself. The Division 2 masks explainedThere are 12 masks in total in The Division 2 and you can equip them in the top-right corner of the apparel menu. How to get masks in The Division 2For each of the 12 Hunters to spawn you’ll need to complete a task. Read on to find out everything you need to do to obtain The Division 2’s masks. For the Demon Mask Hunter, you’ll need to

The shrinking boundaries of a battle royale map are normally just an inconvenience. Firestorm is Battlefield 5’s battle royale mode. Free to BF5 owners, it throws 64 players into a map ten times the size of Battlefield 5’s largest. You basically have two choices when you drop from your plane onto a battle royale map. After a few hours of play Firestorm feels like a successful attempt to adapt BF5’s vehicles and weapons to the battle royale format, though it falls in an awkward place in the wider

Swampletics fan art by Legend_ArtsI realized I had to write about Swampletics a few weeks ago while watching an Old School Runescape Twitch stream. Every single episode of the Swampletics series has over 300,000 views, and the latest episode racked up over 200,000 views within nine hours. I speak no hyperbole when I say everyone playing Old School Runescape today has watched or heard of Swampletics. Morytania Morytania is one of the more unique areas in Old School Runescape and has something of

If you’ve ever dreamed of having a pet sarlacc, Pathfinder: Kingmaker has you covered. Owlcat Games released some free DLC today, introducing a bunch of spells that let you summon various pits, including one that bears a striking resemblance to Tatooine’s most famous resident. As well as pits, you’ll be able to cast Rift of Ruin, which opens up an extradimensional tear in reality, and Battering Blast, which lets you chuck a spiky ball of force at enemies. To get these new spells, you’ll need to