The Fortnite Season 8 patch notes detail volcanic vents, cannons, and a pretty new UI, but this season’s most prominent new feature is Fortnite’s new ping system. A single ping that isn’t focused on an object spits out a location marker, marked by a blue arrow on the screen, also visible on the map. Problem is, items and weapons are currently the only objects the ping system will pick up. If you’re playing squads with voice comms off, the ping system will go a long way, but Apex Legends this ain

Ubisoft’s released a menacing Dark Zone trailer to whet our appetites before The Division 2’s open beta, which starts tomorrow. The Division ended up with a few neat features, but the Dark Zone’s the one that continues to stick with me. Washington DC has three Dark Zones, all of them able to host up to 12 players. Some loot will also be ‘clean’, meaning you can equip it straight away and use it while you’re in the Dark Zone. Participating in the open beta’s Dark Zone tutorial mission will net yo

In Unity of Command 2, the Western Allies and Axis are duking it out over Europe, with players taking control between 1942 and 1945. Units have proper models that fight on a map that’s full of details, both cosmetic and practical. Along with the new engine, Unity of Command 2 introduces some additional wrinkles and systems. There’s the HQ, for instance, which is a real location on the map that’s essential for organising and supplying your army, or the expanded ability to go behind enemy lines an

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Warsaw is a 2D turn-based tactical RPG set during World War 2. Despite a very different setting, screenshots call to mind Darkest Dungeon, from the character art to how the game displays attacks. The management side sounds closer to something like This War of Mine, where the focus was survival and protecting your home, not fighting. But in Warsaw, it looks like there will be plenty of both. The enemy is lot better armed, so it probably won’t be a walk in the park.

Detailed exclusively in the next issue of PC Gamer magazine, Winds of Magic is the first expansion for Vermintide 2, planned for release this summer. The expansion will bring a new enemy faction, a new endgame mode, new difficulty options, new talents and a new weapon type for each character. In Winds of Magic, Beastmen will join the existing alliance of Skaven and the Rotblood Tribe. The Winds of Magic is made up of what Fatshark is currently calling “Weaves”. Difficulty: As players progress th

Plague Inc., the strategy sim where you create and nurture a pathogen in an attempt to destroy all the pesky humans, is now getting an anti-vaxxer scenario thanks to a Change.org petition. Ndemic Creations noticed the petition last week, which wanted the developer to add anti-vaxxers as a buff. Instead of just adding a buff, Ndemic said it would add an anti-vaxxer scenario if the petition got to 10,000. https://t.co/fYq09awgJc pic.twitter.com/Sof0aJE0ywFebruary 26, 2019Plague Inc was ported to P

On April 9 we’ll finally have the chance to enjoy Phoenix Wright on PC. The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy package contains the 14 episodes that make up the first three games. It’s available to pre-purchase on Steam now for $29.99/£29.99Phoenix Wright started out on handhelds like the Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo DS. It’s a comedy adventure game series in which you snoop around crime scenes and talk to suspects to gather clues. The trilogy is also coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Switch.

BioWare has outlined some imminent changes to Anthem’s loot system, with changes expected to roll out February 28 or March 1, central US time. Posting to reddit, lead producer Ben Irving acknowledged recent player feedback on the matter of inscriptions and masterworks, and the slow grind associated with these. Otherwise the inscription will provide a Javelin wide benefit- For example, an Assault Rifle will not have an item specific +pistol damage inscription. Otherwise the inscription will provi

Just last week, we said that Blizzard needed to blow up the Overwatch meta. His Speed Song has had its power nerfed significantly: the overall speed boost effect reduced from 30 to 20 percent, and the Amp It Up effect reduced from 70 to 50 percent. Next up is the ever-present Zenyatta, who has been a near-constant fixture in professional and high-level Overwatch matches. Again, to compensate, his primary fire Orb of Destruction has increased in damage from 46 to 48 per shot. Overwatch Developer

The Grim Dawn expansion Forgotten Gods was announced in March 2018, with an expectation that it would be out sometime in the second half of that year. Forgotten Gods will take players into a great, scorching desert beyond the lands of the Erulan Empire, a place of “burning sands, lush oases and volcanic wastes,” and secrets best left buried. Grim Dawn, for those who haven’t yet had the opportunity to enjoy it, is an old-school action-RPG, stylistically similar to Diablo 2 but with deeper gamepla

Ghost Recon Wildlands players who have been waiting patiently for a horde mode have finally had their wishes granted. Today’s rollout of Special Operation 4 has added a new PvE mode to the game called Guerrilla that pits a team of four Ghosts, controlled by humans or AI, against increasingly difficult waves of Santa Blanca and Unidad enemies. Before each new wave begins, players will have the opportunity to visit a conveniently-located weapons shop to trade in scavenged gear and change or upgrad

I just started playing SNOW, a free-to-play open world winter sports game that left Early Access this month. There’s skiing and snowboarding on two different mountains, challenges and multiplayer, X-Game events, and other activities. Or, since they all have the same face, perhaps they are all the same balloon man. And oddly, the balloon man is not always a balloon man. What if they hold me down and inflate me and I become a balloon man too?

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But it has been getting better, and the decision to buy two leading PC developers suggests the company is taking PC gaming more seriously than ever. Xbox Game Studios Want to know what each of Microsoft’s game studios is developing right now? I ask him whether we can expect future Xbox Games Studios games to release on Steam as well as the Microsoft Store, to which he’s non-committal. Finally, I ask Spencer just how important PC gaming is to Microsoft right now, as a new gen of Xbox hardware app

Samsung announced the 860 ‘QVO’ series of SSDs late last year. They use quad-level cell (QLC) NAND flash memory chips, but the starting price of $150 for 1TB was a bit high. Now you can get the 1TB model for $117.99 from B&H Photo—$30 less than the price of a 1TB 860 Evo. This drive is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 550 MB/s, and seq. Our friends at Tom’s Hardware reviewed the 860 QVO last year, and found it to be a great SSD.

“We are very excited to announce an exclusive gaming partnership with Legendary Entertainment to develop a line of video games based on the works of Frank Herbert’s Dune,” Casais said. “Dune is one of the world’s best-known science fiction universes and a personal favorite of mine. To work on Dune games is a dream come true for many of us in Funcom.” Funcom said in a separate statement that the Legendary partnership is a six-year deal for a minimum of three games on PC/consoles, one of which wil

Capcom has never had the closest publisher/platform relationship with the PC, but that appears to be changing. And in a statement released earlier this month, Capcom COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto spelled it out more explicitly: The PC is good. “Also, from the viewpoint of promoting digital strategy, expansion of PC platform spread can not be overlooked. The sales ratio of the PC version in our main title has been improved every year, and we will strive to further expand sales as an important platform.”