District 9 director Neill Blomkamp has certainly been making the rounds recently. Just last week we reported that he visited Creative Assembly’s studio for a look at their new but so-far-unannounced FPS game and now it seems he has some involvement in Anthem, if a tweet this afternoon is anything to go by. #anthemgame pic.twitter.com/5SxlTO6W1iFebruary 11, 2019While we have no way of knowing what the tweet is referring to specifically, fans are putting forward any number of suggestions, from a f

An update for Battlefield 5 which is set to drop tomorrow will add four-player co-op as well as Nvidia DLSS support. We first heard about the four-player co-op last year. The mode, named Combined Arms, will let you team up with up to three friends to take on AI enemies in eight different PVE missions with objectives across four different maps. As for multiplayer, Rush mode will be back at the beginning of March, but only for a limited time during Chapter 2: Lightning Strikes. Additionally, the u

Total War: Three Kingdoms has had its release date pushed back and will no longer be out on March 7. Instead, we can expect to see the game released on May 23. The initial release date was revealed back in September, and since then we’ve had a number of trailers detailing various heroes and factions such as Cao Cao and, most recently, the tyrannical Dong Zhuo. A number of features and mechanics have also been detailed, including an overhauled diplomacy system and spycraft. Total War: Three Kingd

An open beta for The Division 2 was all but confirmed by during an official livestream over the weekend. The Division 2’s developers and community team jumped into the private beta and streamed this weekend while chatting with the community and answering questions. In a clip captured by Reddit user TiniestBuckle, one of the devs is heard to say “we’re going to fix that for the open beta” when addressing an issue currently in the game. An open beta would give developers a chance to properly stres

It appears that Mortal Kombat 11 has had most of its remaining roster revealed by way of leaked Steam achievements, last week. The achievement list seems to confirm that Kung Lao, Cassie Cage, Frost, Kotal Kahn, Erron Black, Jacqu, and Jade—as well as a few new characters—will be joining the roster. Mortal Kombat 11 was first announced at the Game Awards last year, with more details revealed a few weeks ago via a live stream by developers NetherRealm. The reveal included both story and gameplay

Valve has been forced to update the Steam VR beta in order to keep up with ‘Beat Saber experts.’ “Increase limits of what we thought was humanly possible for controller motion based on tracking data from Beat Saber experts,” the patch notes stated. One of these checks is the presumed maximum speed that it’s physically possible for someone to move their wrist, but it seems Beat Saber players have proved them wrong, prompting the update. If you’re unfamiliar with Beat Saber, imagine Guitar Hero wi

Eviternity is a massive project put together by the Doom modding community consisting of six five-map episodes which use a new high-quality texture pack. The episodes each explore a different theme, with examples like “Icy castles”, “Medieval”, and “Industrial/Brutalism”. There are a couple of secret maps as well, because what would Doom be without secrets? Though it was initially released in December, Eviternity has just had a final revision, and you can read all about its changes here. Or you

Microsoft Solitaire Collection, the version of Solitaire that comes free with Windows 10, is adding a leveling system. This news has been brought to us via the weirdly good video you can see above, which riffs off the famous “in a world” trailer for Comedian. To quote the video: “Solitaire is going to add a player leveling system with experience points and rewards.” So I guess Solitaire is an RPG now? Anyway, here’s the trailer for Comedian featuring the legendary voice actor Hal Douglas, RIP.

The JRPG series Ni No Kuni is being made into an animated movie by Level-5, and will release in Japan this summer. It’s being directed by Yoshiyuki Momose, who as well as working on both Ni No Kuni games has directed several shorts and commercials for Studio Ghibli. Composer Joe Hisaishi is another familiar name for Ghibli fans, having scored movies including Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. It will apparently tell a new story in the Ni No Kuni setting, about a boy named Yu (voiced by Kento

The Resident Evil 2 Remake gave a facelift to every aspect of the original, including the UI. It’s now much sleeker, and easier to navigate—but that hasn’t stopped some fans feeling nostalgia for the menus of 1998. If you’re one of them, then you should grab a new mod called Classic UI, which reverses many of the changes, giving you a retro health bar, classic save icons with character portraits, and the original Resident Evil 2 logo, alongside other tweaks. You can grab it here, courtesy of mod

Bethesda banned players who snuck into Fallout 76’s ‘dev room’ last month—so it’s no wonder one player that accidentally accessed the sealed Vault 63 this weekend was worried about the developer taking action against their account. So far they haven’t been punished, and they managed to grab plenty of photos from inside the vault before fast travelling out. The player, posting on McStaken on Reddit, said the game warped them into the vault during a Rad-Rat Horde event. Vault 63 is sealed in Fallo

As a tree, you can become a therapist, sprout a jetpack and blast into space, or conquer humanity, jumping over tanks and toppling skyscrapers. It’s a platformer with a branching story that will take you to one of 16 surreal endings. It’s a short game: creator Jimmy “Zaphos” Andrews posted a 46-second speedrun on YouTube this week. Most playthroughs will take a lot longer, but you could probably find all the endings in two to three hours. And if you’re a tree lover, you should read Matt’s histor

Battletech Extended 3025 adds plenty of lore-friendly mechs and variants to Battletech, and looks like a good excuse to jump back into one of the best PC games you can play right now. “This mod mostly adds a ton of mechs, vehicles and variants, including new mechs you haven’t seen elsewhere that are all Lore compliant for 3025,” reads the Nexus Mods description. It’s heavily based on another mech variant mod called JK_Variants, which adds 67 new mech variants plus new weapons. Battletech Extende

Freeform medieval city builder Foundation entered Early Access earlier this month, and modders are already hard at work creating brand new game modes. It’s a completely grid-less city builder in which you paint zones on the land and watch your citizens fill in the gaps naturally. Bear in mind that the Early Access version only contains around 40% of all the planned content, so it might seem fairly basic at this stage. Developer Polymorph Games says it will remain in Early Access for around a yea

Abstract puzzler Ethereal, one of the games nominated for excellence in audio at the 2019 Independent Games Festival, will be out on March 7, developer Nonsense Arts has announced. It’s hypnotic, and everything in its series of levels has a corresponding noise, which makes it feel reactive. The puzzles look surreal and unknowable: even after watching the trailer I’m not fully sure of all its mechanics. At any rate, it’ll be one worth watching out for. The game will be out on Steam, the Humble St

The Dragon Age is the ninth of these named centuries, before which there was a millennia-long Ancient Age. This gives the Dragon Age games a wealth of history and legends to draw on, like the classic fantasy they emulate. It’s surprisingly detailed for a world whose name, Thedas, was originally a placeholder abbreviation of “The Dragon Age Setting”. -203After a hundred years of trying, the Grey Wardens learn of a way to permanently kill an archdemon. The Dragon Age9:30Dragon Age: Origins beings,

We asked for it, and it happened. After people started making videos that overlaid the 2003 DMX single X Gon’ Give it to Ya over the appearances of Mr. X in the Resident Evil 2 remake, we were all waiting for an enterprising modder to make it real. And now, DJ Pop has done exactly that. You can find instructions for how to download and install the mod on Steam. As per the mod’s description, it’ll play when Mr. X appears in these locations:Raccoon Police DepartmentParking Garage (Claire)Orphanage

When Blizzard decided not to continue the Heroes Global Championship last year, the competitive league for Heroes of the Storm, many pros were understandably not happy about it. Among those affected were Team Liquid, who had put together a squad for the 2014 BlizzCon Exhibition Tournament, and had a roster make it to the HGC finals in 2018. The team was kept on contract by Team Liquid for an extra month to help smooth over the transition to whatever they choose to do next, and have now been let

TaleWorlds Entertainment has detailed the complex crime and punishment system for its upcoming medieval sandbox RPG Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord—expect to bribe guards, throw your political weight around to get charges dropped and, if you fail, visit the executioner. Every crime you commit will contribute to a Crime Rating that’s specific to that territory. The rating of a crime depends on its severity—smuggling goods will get you into less trouble than murdering a trade caravan—and the world w

Frontier Developments, the studio behind Elite Dangerous and the RollerCoaster Tycoon series, will launch the first game based on a new “unannounced IP” before the end of the year, it has revealed. “The development of Frontier’s fourth game franchise, based on the company’s own unannounced IP, is on track, with release planned for later in calendar year 2019,” it said in its interim financial results this week. We already knew the company was working on a fresh franchise, but this is the first t