You probably don’t think about Ubisoft Club points (which they insist on calling ‘units’) very often. Recently, I used some to fill my ship in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey with an army of female assassins, so I’m generally pro Ubisoft Club points. “After 24 months, these Club Units will expire and will automatically disappear from your Ubisoft Account. Each time you redeem Club Units, the oldest Club Units will be redeemed first.”Ubisoft will compare everyone’s point balance on March 31, 2017 with t

No longer was Liberty City simply an impressive backlot to recreate Dan Houser and co.’s favourite action movies. Even in the original, though, GTA 4 made it worth taking some time to actively live in rather than simply finish. GTA Online wasn’t a monster hit at the time, but GTA 5’s improvements would later propel it to rake in billions of dollars. It raised the bar while showing what games could aspire to be, and that’s worth all the praise in the world. We really, really don’t want to go bowl

Available for just $599 from Amazon, the Acer Aspire E 15 features Intel’s Core i5-8250U, Nvidia’s GeForce MX150, 8GB of DDR4 RAM and a 256GB SSD. Although Acer doesn’t specifically market it as a gaming laptop, we found it offers more than enough for simple gaming on a tight budget. On our quest to find the best budget gaming laptops, we came across countless machines equipped with Intel or AMD integrated graphics. While the Aspire E 15 doesn’t exactly offer stellar gaming performance, it reall

If you haven’t been following the Fallout 76 news, there was a rather large uproar about the duffel bag that shipped with the $200 Power Armor Edition. The bag was advertised as canvas, but it was replaced with a cheap-looking nylon version with no warning from Bethesda beforehand. Now, it looks like Bethesda is going to make good on its original promise of delivering a canvas bag, though there’s still a certain amount of work customers will have to do to make it happen:We are finalizing manufac

Ghost Recon Wildlands Special Operation 3 will kick off on December 11, Ubisoft announced today, with a new PvE mission, two new PvP classes and two new maps, new items, updates to the Prestige Economy, and a Photo Mode, which somehow hasn’t been added to the game already. (The lack of a pre-existing Photo Mode is curious because Wildlands is a very picturesque game. The new PvP classes will be “inspired” by the theme of Special Operation 3, and there will be a new pack of customization options

Ghost Recon Wildlands Special Operation 3 will kick off on December 11, Ubisoft announced today, with a new PvE mission, two new PvP classes and two new maps, new items, updates to the Prestige Economy, and a Photo Mode, which somehow hasn’t been added to the game already. (The lack of a pre-existing Photo Mode is curious because Wildlands is a very picturesque game. The new PvP classes will be “inspired” by the theme of Special Operation 3, and there will be a new pack of customization options

Ubisoft announced today that Rainbow Six Siege’s Operation Wind Bastion will be launching tomorrow, Dec. 4, on all platforms. A one-hour scheduled maintenance will occur for the PC version at 9 AM Eastern Time that will deploy the patch. During the test server period of the last two weeks, new operators Kaid and Nomad have already seen some significant nerfs . The new ACOG-equipped .44 magnum (already lovingly nicknamed the “pocket DMR”) carried by both Kaid and Nomad is also getting a significa

THQ Nordic, which has previously breathed new life into games including Darksiders, Red Faction, and Jagged Alliance, announced today that it has acquired the game from original developer, Stainless Games. THQ Nordic has been growing at a remarkable pace over the past year. The acquisition is only for the Carmageddon series, and not developer Stainless Games, which will presumably carry on with other things. The announcement says nothing about what THQ Nordic plans to do with the series, or when

Seagate just laid the HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) down in the storage space by unveiling the world’s first formatted and fully functioning 16-terabyte hard drive, the highest-capacity HDD ever produced. Built for the enterprise market, the new 16TB model conforms to the standard 3.5-inch HDD form factor and, in theory, should work just fine in any modern desktop. While not intended for the consumer market, it’s only a matter of time before Seagate (and others) bring 16TB to home user

While it’s not officially on sale yet, the official Titan RTX product page is now live at Nvidia. If you thought the RTX 20-series prices were off-putting, the Titan RTX is going to be a bitter pill. Titan RTX also marks a return of SLI (NVLink) support to the Titan line, after it was missing in the Titan V. Like the 2080 Ti, it uses the full 100GB/s NVLink connection if you pair up a couple of Titan RTX cards. Nvidia effectively doubles down on the RTX 2080 Ti pricing of $2,499. In terms of per

Nvidia has a new ‘Game Ready’ driver available that is further optimized for Battlefield 5, but what’s interesting about the latest release is that it purportedly helps deliver up to a 50 percent boost in ray tracing performance. The GPU maker says it’s been working closely with EA and Dice to optimize ray tracing performance in BF5, which is reflected both in the latest GPU driver and tomorrow BF5 content update. “In addition, Chapter 1 also includes DXR Ray Tracing optimizations, improving per

While the bug was apparently squashed quite quickly, the impact has remained, with a significant number of indie developers reporting a reduction in traffic and sales. “I compared full price sales before and after the October bug (being careful to avoid week-long sales and Steam sales) and my total units sold have halved,” Birkett said in his blog post. Some indie developers he’s spoken with have not been affected, and some of them have even seen increased traffic, but the one thing that is cons

The Walking Dead’s Negan got his proper Tekken 7 unveiling at the Tekken World Tour Finals. Bandai Namco recreated a scene from the show, with Tekken characters replacing the cast of The Walking Dead, aside from Negan. His fighting style is pretty simple: he hits things with his bat and he hits them very hard. In a game that’s had demons, robots, dinosaurs and kangaroos, a man with a bat is pretty conservative. “When it purely comes to fighting, Tekken 7 is glorious fun,” Dave Houghton said in h

Epic Games has posted the first teaser for Fortnite season 7, and it looks like it’s going to be a chilly one. Which also happens to be the date of the The Game Awards. There will be all sorts of announcements taking place at The Game Awards, so it makes perfect sense that Epic would use it to kick off a new season of Fortnite. We already have a pretty good idea about what’s coming in Fortnite season 7, which is to say that James has whipped up a messy conspiracy corkboard that you can dive into

My Favourite Magazines is offering all subscriptions for 15 percent off today in its Magazine Monday promotion, but only until 22:00 GMT/14:00 PT. After that, the discount will drop to 10 percent for the rest of the day. Obviously you should get PC Gamer, which is chock-full with game and hardware reviews and previews, along with features you won’t see here on the site. You can get a Retro Gamer subscription, too, with its classic developer interviews and game retrospectives. The sale is live no

Elite Dangerous: Beyond’s final chapter launches this month, bringing with it some nifty additions to mining and exploration and, perhaps even more importantly, formal in-game groups, known as squadrons. You’ll be able to team up with big groups of your space mates when Chapter 4 launches on December 11. Between trade runs, exploring is mostly what I do in Elite, but the scanner has never felt particularly engaging. In a future update, they’ll also be able to get fleet carriers that act as mobil

Top Gun and Star Citizen don’t have much in common, one being a sexually charged story of macho rivalries and volleyball, the other being an in-development space sim. In between practicing for regionals, the Top Gunners occasionally fly around in jets, and fans of the film have recreated some of those scenes in Star Citizen. Star Citizen hosted a free week last week, letting everyone take the game—and all of its ships—for a spin. The free week saw a crowdfunding jump, too, with backers flinging

Publisher and developer Starbreeze announced today that it has filed for reconstruction due to a shortage of cash. This comes not long after Starbreeze told investors that low sales revenue from Overkill’s The Walking Dead meant that it would have to cut costs, but the forecasted revenue has been reduced further and a shortfall was predicted for next month. “The decision is based on a shortage of liquidity and deemed to be a necessary step to give the Company the time needed to negotiate a long-

On an average day, about a dozen new games are released on Steam. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. The game supports a fair bit of improvisation when it comes to how you’ll navigate its “semi-randomized” levels: objects can be picked up, moved, lobbed at enemies and used as cover, among other things. Goat PunksSteam pageRelease: November 30Developer: Alberto SantiagoPrice: $9.99

Thief: The Dark Project turned 20 years old this week—if you missed Richard’s piece on how it defined the stealth game, then you should really give it a read. To celebrate the occasion, the community over at Through The Looking Glass released 24 new fan-made missions as part of a design contest, and you have until March 1 of next year to vote for your favourite. The creators all had a year to build their maps using the game’s level editor, and could only use stock assets. From that page, you’ll