Ubisoft has committed the Far Cry: New Dawn system requirements to paper, and it’s no surprise that they’re almost identical to the hardware required to play last year’s Far Cry 5. There are a couple of small changes on the low-end side of the scale, though, which means that I can’t just say they’re the same and move on to something else. Far Cry: New Dawn is the who-killed-the-world sequel that follows nearly two decades after the surprise (and good, dammit) ending of Far Cry 5. Despite being a

Citing a lack of demand, Intel is going to stop selling its Core+ processor packages that come bundled with Optane Memory modules. There are three models—Core i7+ 8700, Core i5+ 8500, and Core i5+ 8400. Each one came with a regular version of the specified processor (Core i7-8700, Core i5-8500, and Core i5-8400), plus a 16GB Optane Memory stick. The benefit of Optane Memory is that it can speed up your system by caching frequently accessed data on your primary storage drive. That said, you can p

Update: Riot has clarified that the bullet points quoted in the original story are a summary of how Riot will make its new values a reality, not the values themselves. The page has been updated, with the values placed more clearly at the top. They’re split into five categories and cover things like Riot’s relationship with players and how employees work with each other. Original story: In August, after allegations of sexism and toxicity, Riot Games apologised and committed to changing its workpl

One of the big surprises at CES came when Nvidia announced it would be bringing G-Sync support to FreeSync monitors with an upcoming driver update for GeForce graphics card owners. This is a big deal because there are far more FreeSync monitors than there are G-Sync ones. Part of the up-charge is to account for the G-Sync hardware, though Nvidia contests that G-Sync monitors undergo more stringent testing. If your FreeSync monitor is not among the dozen listed, you can still manually enable VRR

No download is needed for today’s Rocket League update, which brings it into Sony’s PlayStation Cross-Play Beta program. That means that, starting today, Rocket League players on PlayStation 4 can play with Switch and Xbox players. PS4 players could already play with PC players, but the change does affect us. Previously, we could either match with Xbox and Switch players or PlayStation 4 players, but never a mixed-platform group including all of them. In the meantime, here’s to Rocket League uni

Building anything in Minecraft is an intensive task, and it’s frustrating how few tools the game gives you to play with. Thankfully, modder Requios is here to save the day with their Effortless Building mod that comes packed with some incredibly useful tools so you don’t have to assemble buildings one block at a time. Using Effortless Building, players have access to a special menu screen full of options to speed up building by automating the process of placing blocks. If you’re big into buildin

Celeste was one of last year’s standout games, and we’re all surely pretty excited about the fact that it’s getting a free farewell DLC with some ultra hard levels soon, right? Well, not too soon, because according to developer Matt Thorson it won’t be ready for the game’s anniversary on January 25th, as he’d hoped. The new levels won’t have strawberries, the hard-to-find collectibles that players must hunt down throughout the game in order to change the ending. The DLC levels will, however, hav

A Dota 2 custom game mode designed by China-based Drodo Studio is taking the Dota 2 world by storm, reaching 100,000 concurrent players earlier today and racking up over 670,000 subscribed users. Dota Auto Chess is a strategic, tactically complex mix of board game and Dota custom map. Like Dota 2, Dota Auto Chess is completely free. Dota Auto Chess is a weird name for it, I’ll grant. pic.twitter.com/RTTRucRFVYJanuary 13, 2019You can find Dota Auto Chess here on Steam, or in-game in Dota 2’s work

Every Warhammer fan’s favorite army of biological horrors is coming to Warhammer 40,000: Gladius—Relics of War this week, releasing on January 15th. Tyranids are a swarm of devouring monsters, and play like them, with unique mechanics catered to that theme. Tyranids will apparently build up and expand by stripping biomass from their enemies, their own units, and the environment itself. At release, our Tom Senior called it “a solidly made strategy game, but a bland one” where most of the races di

Need more giant, world-ending cataclysmic monsters for the Dragonborn to fight? It’s also fully voiced, so it won’t be too jarring a transition from the regular game world. I’m not sure I can convey the ambition of this mod without asking you to take a look. Image 2 of 4 Nothing to see here, just a casual dragon fighting something from the aether beyond the stars. Image 4 of 4 Warning: Do not look directly into dimensional rifts.

Improbable and Epic Games have announced a surprise new $25,000,000 fund “to help developers transition to more open engines, services, and ecosystems”. It appeared as if the companies were close to a resolution, but the newly revealed Epic / Improbable initiative paints another picture. The $25m fund was announced in a letter co-authored by Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and Improbable CEO Herman Narula, and is presumably targeted towards studios and projects that use both the Unity engine and Spat

Blast Zone! Tournament is a Bomberman-style competitive game which, although it does boast a single-player component, makes no secret of its esports aspirations. It’s been in Early Access for a while, and the studio Victory Lap Games writes that the stint was designed to help gain feedback “to help us turn Blast Zone! Presumably in aid of that goal, Blast Zone! Studio Victory Lap Games boasts talent who worked on Ratchet & Clank, God of War 3 and Twisted Metal, among others.

Described as a “delightful dystopian adventure”, Pikuniku is a vibrantly coloured puzzle game with a cheerful-but-knowing Adult Swim mood about it. As far as I can tell, it’s all about guiding a charming long-legged blob through an open-ended cartoon world. This long-legged blob will need to help various other blob-like characters solve a series of hilarious condundrums. The protagonist blob is presumably more capable of solving problems thanks to the length of their legs (they’re long). In the

This was the only course of action to protect the integrity and value of our technology and Unity developers.” Unity said that it told Improbable that games using SpatialOS would be unaffected by the deactivation, but that Improbable “misrepresented” the situation in its blog post. Unity invited developers using SpatialOS to contact it directly to address any concerns. “All existing SpatialOS games using Unity, including production games and in development games of all developers, are now in bre

Crypt of the Necrodancer is a rhythm-based roguelike that’s already hard-as-nails, but runner Spootybiscuit ramps the challenge up to unfathomable levels by using Necrodancer’s hardest character, Coda, which Spootybiscuit says the developers almost didn’t add to the game because she was too challenging. On normal difficulty, Necrodancer requires you to move to the beat while exploring dungeons filled with monsters that also move to the same beat. When Coda is in play, enemies that drop 0 gold wi

It’s “fast, fluid, and fun,” we said in our 78% review, and it’s also free for the next couple of days in the Humble Store Winter Sale. The sale includes publisher-wide discounts from Sega, Bandai Namco, 2K Games, and Square Enix, markdowns on individual games, and daily “flash deals,” today’s being Human Fall Flat, which is on for $6. The Humble Store Winter Sale is live now and runs until 10 am PT/1 pm ET on January 24. A Story About My Uncle will be free until 10 am PT/1 pm ET on January 12,

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t known for pulling punches, and in a roundtable interview with PCWorld and other outlets he let us know what he thinks about AMD’s upcoming Radeon VII. He goes on to elaborate that “the performance is lousy and there’s nothing new… [There’s] no ray tracing, no AI. We mentioned this earlier today when looking at the additional benchmark results AMD published for the Radeon VII. With 25 games tested on both the RX Vega 64 and Radeon VII, on average the Radeon VII is 28

A surprise announcement out of Activision reveals that it is parting ways with Destiny 2 developer Bungie. Tensions between Bungie and Activision have been simmering for awhile, as evidenced late last year when Activision said that Destiny 2: Forsaken wasn’t “performing as well” as it it had hoped. We set out to build a game that Destiny players would love, and at Bungie, we love it too.” Fast forward to now, and this statement from Activision: “Today, we’re announcing plans for Bungie to assume

Blizzard Entertainment co-founder and former president Mike Morhaime announced in October 2018 that he had stepped down from his long-held position, but would remain as a strategic advisor, expressing love and admiration for the company. “As previously disclosed, on October 3, 2018 Michael Morhaime entered into an agreement with Activision Blizzard, Inc. (the ‘Company’) pursuant to which he would provide strategic advice to the Company in an advisory capacity,” the filing says. “Mr. Morhaime’s e

If Hell actually exists, then surely it is this RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 track that takes 12 real-time years to complete before you can get off. Designed by mad-scientist YouTuber Marcel Vos, this roller coaster is an impressive feat of engineering that pushes the 17-year-old game to its absolute limits. The previous record, also held by Vos, was a roller coaster that took a mere 232 real days to complete. But using some clever tricks and a lot of track, Vos was able to smash that record by a fact