EverQuest hits its 20th anniversary in March. The MMO launched in 1999 and, impressively, persists, with its most recent expansion, The Burning Lands, launching only last month. There will be in-game events to mark the occasion, as well as the addition of a new land. Daybreak’s also working on an EverQuest fan event for the summer, with more details coming in March. EverQuest has been free to play since 2012, so there’s nothing stopping you popping back for a visit.

Roguelike card game Slay the Spire has escaped Early Access—our review is coming soon—after a fairly brisk 14-month stint. An update accompanies the launch, as well as a trailer that you can watch above. The game’s launch means the weekly updates will stop, but Mega Crit Games has plans for more “content”, along with some PC-specific features that the developer didn’t have enough time to finish before the release date. Check out the patch notes here. While you’re waiting for our review, why not

The Sith Lord Count Dooku has joined the roster of villains in Star Wars Battlefront 2 in a free update. Blasterfire, on the other hand, is more troublesome; so if you want to take Dooku out, shoot. Along with the ability to stun groups with a lightning attack, Dooku can target individuals, making them slower and increasing damage taken from Dooku and his allies. Dooku has one outfit right now, his regular Sith Lord look, but a second is due out on January 30, while a third will appear in Februa

I see what happens if I try to skewer myself with a miniature poker, but VR puzzler A Fisherman’s Tale doesn’t allow for that level of freedom. Its story isn’t given enough attention amid the puzzles, and A Fisherman’s Tale fizzles out just as it’s readying a big end-game reveal. The ones in your room are too big, so you have to dip into the model lighthouse to find miniatures. But while A Fisherman’s Tale keeps coming up with smart ideas, each of its five chapters feel like steps sideways rathe

Your framerate seems to be affecting the rate of fire and recoil of weapons in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Youtuber WackyJacky101 has been blasting an innocent wall, for science, to see how guns behave differently at 180 fps, 60 fps, and 30 fps. The results convincingly show that for high rate-of-fire guns, such as the Groza, a lower framerate results in lower rate of fire and more manageable recoil. On Reddit, user MutuTutu theorises that gun performance depends on the weapon’s rate of fire

It was my first real look at how Far Cry would work with layers of RPG mechanics added on. Most of the guys I fought in my four hours with Far Cry New Dawn were just level 1 or 2, and shooting them felt the same as in other Far Cry games. My point is that all the stuff that makes Far Cry really fun was—and still is—detached from the RPG-style progression systems that give New Dawn its structure. And I really like Ubisoft’s tweaked approach to outposts in Far Cry 5. As a kinda-sorta-RPG, Far Cry

The allegations go back to October, when post appeared on Steam, from a third party, listing complaints that the OP claimed came from the voice actors themselves. The list includes originally asking the voice actors to work for free, missed payments and poor communication. Pathea responded in the thread in October, acknowledging that it paid voice actors $50-$100 and there had been some miscommunication, but the developer disputed that payments were ever missed. It started from volunteer work, t

Riot Games has posted a sneak peek at what’s coming to League of Legends across 2019, teasing future game modes, the new Marvel comics, tournament venues and a new support champion. Check out the video below. Get a sneak peek at what’s next for League in 2019! pic.twitter.com/IWmTFb2lkNJanuary 23, 2019Here’s everything that was teased in the video:New game modesUpcoming Marvel comicsLocation of MSI and WorldsPreview of next Versus eventAn update for Kayle and MorganaReturning skin linesNew suppo

Ion Maiden is one of our most-anticipated shooters of 2019, due for completion in Q2. Today a surprise update added its long-awaited second chapter, “Heskel’s House of Horrors,” a sprawling mansion map. Make sure you go into Ion Maiden’s mouse settings (not keyboard bindings) to assign an alt fire mode button. Last year Alex Wiltshire praised Ion Maiden’s expansive Build Engine maps, which are dense with secrets and objects. Ion Maiden remains in Early Access on Steam at $20.

Me, I was a radiator man. Really, really heavy. The best battles start with the first and degenerate through each stage, and the best of these I ever had was with a fellow radiator man. Half-Life 2 Deathmatch is the only one of the three games you get when you buy Half-Life 2 that doesn’t gleam with polish. If you want to imagine the future of deathmatch, imagine a toilet, hitting a human head, forever.

Chucklefish’s turn-based strategy game Wargroove has at last got a release date: 1st of February. We knew the game was on-course for an early 2019 release date, but we didn’t realise it would be this soon. The game has a refreshed Steam page to celebrate—though you can’t preorder it yet, Wargroove will cost a nice and lean $20/£16. “Chucklefish hasn’t made a strategy game before, but this shows the team is on the right track to me. It’s turn-based strategy as we know it, but presented in a very

Life is Strange 2 launches tomorrow, January 24, but you can get a taste of the teen drama, tragedy and superpowers in the launch trailer above. Keep your eyes peeled for the return of Captain Spirit, protagonist of the free Life is Strange spin-off, too. I love Life is Strange, but damn those games are heartbreaking, and I’ve heard 2 has been pretty devastating so far, in that regard. Episode 2 continues the misadventures of brothers Daniel and Sean as they attempt reach their grandparents’ hou

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ new snow map, Vikendi, has been given some extra attention today. Along with bug fixes and quality of life tweaks, you’ll be able to get your hands on a new weapon, new attachment and the nimble snowbike. Vikendi’s loot balance has also been changed, and you can see how that will affect weapon spawns in this developer letter. The Bizon is an exclusive 9mm SMG for Vikendi and Erangel. There are some minor UI and UX changes, too, as well as a new BattleStat weapon sk

In that time, Cloud Imperium has spent over $193 million, and almost $50 million just in 2017. If you’ve thrown your own money at Star Citizen, or if you’re just interested in how all this money we keep writing stories about is getting spent, it’s pretty informative. One of the graphs shows costs split up into salaries, publishing and marketing, developer costs and more. Salaries became the largest expense in 2014, with contracted developer costs being the highest the year before. Star Citizen i

Resident Evil 2 Remake is getting very favourable reviews, especially from us: Andy called it a “tense, challenging, and beautiful remake of a classic survival horror game”. But it does have one glaring problem, and that’s its flagrant lack of chunky, eerily robotic-looking 1990s polygons. As the image above suggests, ye olde skins for both Leon and Claire are currently available for Japanese PS4 owners, though apparently they’ll roll out free for everyone on March 22. According to a user on Res

Over the weekend, Blizzard confirmed that they had removed Jason “Apxvoid” Coen from the competitive field at the HCT Americas Winter Playoff over allegations of cheating. As he was waiting, he typed the words “do I play for hard fatigue in the Warrior matchup” into the chatbox that links players back to the tournament administrator without hitting send. You can’t ask anyone else in a tournament for help piloting a deck, and Apxvoid admits that he did skirt the code of conduct. He wasn’t asking

The Humble Caffeine Bundle is not about coffee (or whatever stimulant delivery vehicle you prefer), but the “social broadcasting platform” that debuted early last year. Pay $12 or more and you’ll also get the Obsdiain RPG Tyranny, and the extremely good stealth assassination game Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun. The Headlander and This War of Mine soundtracks are also included at their respective levels. The default charity in the Humble Caffeine Bundle is Take This, “a mental health nonprof

It’s fair to say that Fallout 76 did not get off to the smoothest start in the history of videogames. But it was persistent enough that Bethesda nipped over to Twitter to officially shoot it down. There is no truth to this rumor.January 22, 2019Bethesda hasn’t commented further, and there’s really not much more to say. It could happen someday, sure—multiple MMOs have made the switch over the years, some successfully and others not—but two months after release? Bethesda may have biffed the Fallou

Back in 2016, artificial intelligence researchers at Google’s Deepmind turned their attention to StarCraft 2, an effort that picked up steam the following year when Blizzard released tools that enabled them to build bots capable of taking on human opponents. Even though that was in November 2018—less than three months ago—it’s already time for another update. “It’s only been a few months since BlizzCon but DeepMind is ready to share more information on their research,” Blizzard said today, remin

We were highly impressed with the TP-Link Archer C5400X when we originally reviewed it, and it’s still obvious as to why it remains on our of favorite gaming routers. So, of course it’s a good day when it goes on sale. But what makes this a great gaming router is what TP-Link dubs their ‘dynamic optimization engine.’ The Archer C5400X splits web traffic into five categories: gaming; steaming; surfing; chatting; and downloading. This is a nice option for those gamers who like a little bit of cont