Total War: Arena, Creative Assembly and Wargaming’s multiplayer experiment, is coming to a close. Take a gander at his Total War: Arena preview. Putting so many players in a Total War battle doesn’t add much to the experience, except for plenty of confusion, and to achieve this the design has to strip out almost everything that makes Total War special. As a ‘thank you’ for sticking around, Creative Assembly is giving out DLC for other Total War games. Here are the instructions for claiming your

The Razer DeathAdder Elite, which has the distinction of being our number one gaming mouse, is just $40 right now. Last time we covered the DeathAdder Elite during a discount period, it cost $50, so it’s likely this is the best price we’ll see it for this year. “Here’s the important bit: for the Elite Razer chose a sensor based on the PMW-3366 developed by sensor company Pixart in collaboration with Logitech, which I’ve called the best mouse sensor available since it debuted in 2014. Perfect if

Obi-Wan Kenobi is headed to Star Wars Battlefront 2 next week. Everyone’s favourite beardy Jedi mentor will also be accompanied by the Battle of Geonosis map, where clones and droids fight over the barren world. It’s not without other issues, though, which Tyler broke down in his Star Wars Battlefront 2 review. The Geonosis map will also let players take control of new vehicles, including a ridiculous speeder that looks like a floating segway. The Battle of Geonosis update will hit Star Wars Bat

Wreck-It Ralph has snuck into Fortnite, likely teasing a larger Disney crossover similar to the Thanos event for Avengers: Infinity War. So far, it’s just a cameo, but with Wreck-It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet now on big screens in the US, we might be seeing more of the reformed video game villain soon. Ralph appears at the Risky Reels drive-in, briefly popping up on the screen to wave before vanishing again, as spotted by LootLake.net. There is a ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ video promo now playing

The start of Destiny 2’s Season of the Forge next week will see three powerful new Pinnacle weapons added to the game: One for Vanguard missions, one for Gambit, and one for the Crucible that will take a little extra effort to acquire. The weapons are acquired in a manner similar to that of Luna’s Howl, a hand cannon awarded by Lord Shaxx for completing a series of tasks in the Crucible. Once the quest is acquired from Zavala, you’ll need to make 500 fusion rifle kills in any Strike or Nightfall

It was presumably spurred by the backlash against Diablo Immortal, a mobile game announced—to great derision—at Blizzcon. And hidden in its midst is a reference to another mobile game in the works, based on a different Blizzard game that you may have heard of: Warcraft. “The reaction inside the company to Immortal is very different than the reaction outside the company,” the source said. And while I don’t think it’s the most obvious pairing of all time, someone decided to put the two of them tog

When I want to take nice screenshots in Fallout 4 I use console cheats: tfc to enable the freecam and tm to hide the UI. But modder extraordinaire registrator2000 is working on a far more elegant solution, a lovely photo mode for Fallout 4 based on the one from Fallout 76. The mod isn’t available for download yet, but it even the little bit we can currently see looks fantastic. The menu appears to have a character tab, too, which I’m sincerely hoping means we’ll be able to choose from a few pose

The top gunners on Battlefield 5 tanks have a hell of a gun under their control, and play an important role as they deal with any infantry that gets close to harass the tank with explosives. They also die a lot, because they’re sitting on top of a large tank with a big gun, making a lot of noise and not doing what they should arguably be doing most of the time: ducking. A DICE producer confirmed on Reddit yesterday that, in the next patch, machine gunners will learn this vital maneuver. Because

After Blizzard outraged fans earlier this November with the announcement of Diablo Immortal, Zein’s little joke went viral. That’s when players stumbled across playdiablo4.com, saw that it redirected to Pathofexile.com, and thought it must be in response to Diablo Immortal. After several redditors claiming to be lawyers told Zein that the situation could be serious, he became anxious and called Blizzard’s lawyers. [Grinding Gear Games] owns the [Path of Exile] website and they’re a direct compet

The Ninja Gaiden-inspired retro-platformer The Messenger got a big update today that adds “quality of life” changes including remappable controls and “dialog turbo speed,” as well as a New Game+ mode that will give players the option of bringing items unlocked in previous playthroughs into new games. Access to that bonus equipment comes at a cost, however, as New Game+ mode will also serve up significantly increased difficulty. Enemies will do more damage in the mode, and bosses will have increa

An in-depth Kotaku report on the state of things at Blizzard, and in particular the next Diablo game, has revealed a few very interesting, if unconfirmed, surprises, including that the studio had been working on a version of Diablo 4 that was similar in many ways to Dark Souls. Codenamed Hades, the game was being developed as a hardcore dungeon crawler with an over-the-shoulder view instead of Diablo’s traditional isometric perspective. Happily for Diablo fans who didn’t care for D3’s visual sty

Although LastPass has suffered a handful of widespread breaches in the past three years, 1Password has—for the most part—been fairly reliable. If you subscribe right now to either its individual or family plan, you can send a whole year of 1Password Families to a friend or family member in need. So why not passive-aggressively lend them a helping hand with a free year of 1Password? The family plan usually costs $4.99 per month, amounting to about $60 of savings for the year. That said, although

Hitman 2’s first elusive target, Sean Bean, hasn’t been live in the game for long, but there are already dozens of videos out there of The Undying meeting an unfortunate end. There are some real death traps in the area, it turns out, which make for quality viewing for us and an unfortunate number of deaths for Sean Bean. Toilet troublesRock Paper Shotgun’s Matt Castle sets Sean Bean up with a nice steaming cup of poisoned coffee. When 47 detonates the briefcase it comes flying up onto the balcon

We’ve seen a handful of deals on graphics cards ahead of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales that are right around the corner, and here’s one more to add to the pile: a Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 64 for $339.99. Like the GeForce RTX 2080 deal we posted earlier, this is another deal that requires Ebay’s mobile app for Android or iOS. Using coupon code PICKFAST knocks 15 percent off when using the mobile app, up to $100. Sapphire Radeon RX Vega 64 | $339.99Sapphire’s Radeon RX Vega sticks to AMD’

This Walmart-exclusive $99.99 Jetstream AC3000 router has all that good stuff in a spider-like design, and it’s on sale for $135 over its list price right now. Normally this particular router would set you back $235, but it’s $135 off its sticker price for Black Friday. The Jetstream AC3000 is powered by an 800MHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM. A Turbo button sits to the right of the router’s eight status indicator lights, which supposedly offers immediate performance optimizations. For all

Image via publicFunction on TwitterAhead of Star Citizen’s free week, the space sim’s very first planet has gone live, along with VOIP and the fancy face-tracking integration. Hurston is much larger than the moons that players have previously been able to explore and contains multiple biomes, mining centres and a single city. If you’re stuck waiting until Friday, you can still watch Chris Roberts’ guided tour of Lorville and Hurston from CitizenCon. New missions are also available, letting pilot

Razer on Wednesday announced that buyers can extend the warranty on their laptop and phone purchases, adding two more years to the former and one additional year to the latter, for an added fee of course. Taking a cue from Apple and its AppleCare program, Razer is calling its own extended warranty program “RazerCare,” or RazerCare Essential Pro if going by the full name. That’s a bummer, though Razer does offer some perks, such as 24-hour phone support and free two-way shipping. Warranties are a

The new NeueChair is already discounted for Black Friday, and we’ve got a voucher for an additional $10 / £10 off if you buy it directly from the manufacturer. It’s an extremely comfortable, extremely durable chair with great lines and an aesthetic that suits almost any environment. Secretlab NeueChair | $539 (save $260)Already discounted 21 percent for Black Friday, our FutureExclusive10 code nets you another $10 off a great gaming chair. Remember to pop in that FutureExclusive10 code in the bo

HTC confirmed there is a “compatibility issue” between its $299 wireless adapter accessory for its Vive VR headset and some Ryzen PCs, but it’s not sure what exactly is causing the problem. “We have seen and are actively looking into multiple reports of Ryzen incompatibility with Vive Wireless Adapter. HTC’s wireless adapter addresses one of the annoyances with the Vive—having to dangle a series of cords from the headset to a link box, which in turn connects to a PC. Our friends at TomsHardware