Civilization 6: Gathering Storm isn’t just bringing foul weather and climate change to Firaxis’s 4X romp, new Civs are coming, too. Hungary is marching into the game with its leader, Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Croatia. The Huszár, for instance, receives a combat bonus for every active alliance, making the unique unit a powerhouse if you’ve made loads of friends. When units are levied, Hungary also sends two envoys to the city-state, strengthening the alliance. The Black Army is Corvi

Back in June, Epic boasted that Fortnite had 125 million users after only a year. Now it’s 200 million. That’s obviously not 200 million people all playing Fortnite, though certainly a lot of them are. Earlier in the month, Epic Games Korea CEO Sun Chul Park revealed that Fortnite had exceeded 8.3 million concurrent players. It certainly helps that Fortnite is now available on pretty much every platform, from PC to phones, and seems impossible to escape.

Wargaming has announced the acquisition of Fractured Space developer Edge Case Games. The team will be joining Wargaming UK to work on the studio’s unannounced MMO project. “Wargaming and Edge Case Games have been looking for a way to partner for years,” UK product director Sean Decker told GamesIndustry.biz. There’s no mention of Fractured Space’s fate in the announcement, but my guess is it won’t be around for much longer. Check out Chris Thursten’s Fractured Space review and mourn its impendi

The first phase of the Red Dead Online beta kicks off today for the console lot, turning Red Redemption 2’s map into a crime-infested playground. The list includes various jobs, races and, yes, a battle royale mode. It’s not an entirely conventional battle royale, however, as weapons are restricted to bows or knives, depending on where you’re fighting. A cowboy battle royale with no revolvers sounds… bold. In one, Horley tasks players with hunting down a conman and outlaw on behalf of a Police C

Yakuza Kiwami, which we already knew was coming, might be launching on Steam very soon. Yakuza Kiwami will join prequel Yakuza 0, which arrived in August. If you’re not familiar with the series, you’re in for a treat. They’re open-world action games and criminal capers, but couldn’t be further from the likes of GTA. Yakuza Kiwami is a remake of the original game, elevated by Yakuza 0’s engine.

The Steam Autumn sale ends today at 10AM Pacific. You won’t have to wait long for the Steam Winter sale, which a leak (that called the correct date on the Autumn sale) suggests is going to begin on 20 December. This is its usual discounted price. This matches its lowest discounted price. As an action game, though, I think Resi 6’s versatile range of character movements and melee attacks make it a bit underappreciated.

What’s interesting is the possible impact on Dota 2 that Valve teased in the blurb. “We’ll also be releasing a second comic called Call to Arms on launch day, which sets the stage for a series of events that will transform the world of Dota forever.” Valve also rolled out a new update to the beta today, the notes of which you can catch below. Artifact comes out on November 28, and we will have our impressions up the day before that, which is tomorrow. November 26 beta update notes:Features:Added

Miss out on that HP Omen gaming desktop with an RTX 2080? Here is your second chance to claim another fantastic high-end gaming PC at a great discount. This RGB liquid-cooled CyberpowerPC Gamer Master comes with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz, a Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080, 16GB of DDR4 memory, a 1TB SSD, and on-board WiFi. At the moment, the deal is only 4% claimed, but that can change as the countdown ticks on. If you were waiting to get a gaming PC over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, this co

Incredible Mandy is a lovely looking platformer-adventure about the dreams of a brother and sister, who must unlock the memories they hide following a tragic accident. That is an undeniably vague description, and you won’t find a whole lot more on Steam. “Can you pierce through the mist of dreams and discover the unexpected truth?” I’ve played with it a bit—not far enough to get into the underlying themes of loss and recovery, but enough to sample the systems and get eyes on the game world—and i

It’s Cyber Monday though, which means there’s still time to grab a monitor mount to free up some space. There are still some deals on single, dual, and even triple VESA-compatible monitor desk mounts, and even the ones that aren’t on sale are reasonably priced. Computer Monitor Wall Mount | $12Need a simple, reliable, and cheap wall mount for a small work space? Ergotron LX Desk Monitor Mount | $170A non-sale item, but according to Ergotron, it’s passed a 10,000 cycle motion test, which seems li

I just popped into the Whitesprings Resort in Fallout 76 to grab a screenshot of something, but wound up spending a lot more time there than I planned. As you’ll see in the pictures and video below, a glitch spawned a gazillion robot butlers and gardeners both inside and out. If you haven’t played Fallout 76, The Whitesprings is a big hotel (based on the real-world Greenbrier Resort) with lots of rooms and shops and a considerable number of robots patrolling the grounds and hallways. Alas, the u

(Content warning: The video above contains bits of the NSFW language you’d expect from someone who just fell out of a spaceship.) What was apparently a planned ship-to-ship transfer in Star Citizen went very wrong when the pilots involved learned the hard way that they were still within the grip of a planetary gravity well. He pointed his ship straight down, got on the gas, and after roughly 20 kilometers of hard descent and gentle maneuvering, was able to make a perfect catch. Star Citizen’s tr

The Beyond Marketplace’s digital books, such as the D&D Player’s Handbook, aren’t just copies of the text. If you’ve been thinking of going digital with your DMing or playing, now’s the time to do that, as nearly all of D&D Beyond’s digital books are on sale for Cyber Monday. The three primary 5th Edition texts are the Player’s Handbook, the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and the Monster Manual, and they’re each $20 right now, down from $30. And if you want to go all out, the Legendary Bundle for $384.

This has been a great weekend to buy a graphics card, and there are still a few sales left. If you’re building a budget PC, the 3GB GTX 1060 is a good option—especially now that it’s just $149.99 on B&H (after a $20 mail-in rebate). That’s the lowest price we’ve seen yet for a 3GB 1060. This card has a base clock of 1607MH, a boost clock of 1835MHz, 3GB of GDDR5 memory, and a single-fan ACX 2.0 cooler. For display output, you get three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b, and one dual-link DVI-D.

We some pretty strange things as we pick through thousands of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals . Now for the list of shame: deals so bad no one should buy them. These are the worst deals we’ve seen during this fever dream of a sales holiday. Intel Core i7-8700K, nice, nice, that’s good stuff. Basically, you’re probably better off picking pretty much any other portable battery pack.

Early access to the Red Dead Online beta test will begin tomorrow, November 27, beginning with Red Dead Redemption 2 Ultimate Owners, who will be granted admission one day ahead of everyone else. The next day, anyone who played RDR2 on launch day will be allowed in, followed on November 29 by people who played it between launch day and October 29. “The launch of the Red Dead Online Beta is the first step in what will be a continually expanding and dynamic world, and the beta period will allow us

Epic has announced that epic and legendary variants of Fortnite’s notorious pump shotgun are on the way, likely with this week’s update arriving sometime between Tuesday and Thursday. Those details tend to arrive with the weekly patch notes, but if they behave similarly to the pump shotgun now while inheriting the promised shotgun buff, these suckers will have some kick. The way shotguns work now is based on a fixed pellet system. The upcoming 6.31 update will include a Pump Shotgun rebalance to

She was understandably disappointed, then, when The Elder Scrolls 6 was “announced” at E3 with the caveat that it won’t be out for many years yet. Thus, while the petition continues to collect signatures, wheels are also turning on Plan B: Modding Curry into Skyrim. The “Widowmaker” angle is maybe a little weird, but I love the idea of incorporating Curry into the game somehow. She’s a positive, welcoming voice on YouTube, and her Skyrim fandom is obviously beyond question. She knows a thing or

Starting with Intel, you can snag a Core i7-8700K processor and Asus Prime Z370-A motherboard for $444.98, plus there’s a $35 mail-in-rebate available. Core i7 8700K + Asus Prime Z370-A | $409.98The Core i7-8700K is a 6-core/12-thread chip that is more than enough for a high-end gaming PC, and this combo deal pairs it with a respectable Z370 motherboard. If you’d rather save money and go with an AMD Ryzen foundation, Newegg has another combo offer that is worth checking out. It consists of a Ryz

Return of the Obra Dinn, Lucas Pope’s nautical mystery, began as a series of design puzzles. It predated Obra Dinn’s story and only featured four characters whose murders players had to solve. That change happened quite late into Obra Dinn’s design, Pope explained, and hammering out the narrative structure of the game proved to be tricky. A ship the size of the Obra Dinn would have had a crew of 120-200 people, which Pope realised he’d never be able to do. And even when the number was settled on