BlizzCon returns this weekend for a two-day par-tay celebrating all things Blizzard, and if you’re a Hearthstone player that means you’ve got an opportunity to score some free cards. Log into the game on November 2—BlizzCon Day 1—and you’ll be given a free golden Star Aligner card, and a golden Secret Plans card. Jump in on November 3, the second and last day of this year’s BlizzCon, and you’ll also get a free Boomsday Project card pack. The freebies are completely separate from BlizzCon itself,

Yes, you read that right—Walmart is selling its own line of gaming desktops and laptops, and the specs look pretty good. On the desktop side, Walmart is rolling out three models: OP Gaming Desktop DTW1, DTW2, and DTW3. Walmart didn’t go into great detail on these systems, but did indicate that the DTW1 has a GeForce GTX 1070 GPU, the DTW2 has a GeForce GTX 1080, and the DTW3 has a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. It’s listed at $1,899 and surrounds the Core i7-8700 and GeForce GTX 1080 with 32GB of RAM and

Steam is the big boy of digital storefront seasonal sales, but it’s not the only game in town. GOG is getting in on the Halloween action with its Trick or Treat Sale, which is maybe a little less thematically stratified than Steam’s Halloween Sale, but still well worth picking through. Not sure where to start? As always, I am here with a few suggestions:Do note that there’s quite a bit of crossover between GOG and Steam (they both have Painkiller Black on for $3, for instance, and if you still h

Corpse Party, “a grisly horror game set in a ghost-infested Japanese high school, with a branching story and lots of ways to end up dead,” officially came to PC a couple years ago. The follow-up, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, went live on both platforms today, and it too sounds like a bewildering affair. “An anthology series that serves as a Corpse Party sequel, prequel, midquel, and alternate universe tale all in one, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is a horror/adventure game developed by MAGES.

During yesterday’s Fallout 76 beta session, my character got the marsupial mutation at just the right time. This is when Fallout 76 started to click for me, and I realised I was enjoying myself. People personThe thing I miss the most in Fallout 76 is human NPCs. Without other humans, it feels a little too quiet, and I can’t really work out what Fallout 76 would’ve lost by having them around. So far, I miss the pretend people in Fallout 76, but I can’t complain about the place.

Forza Horizon 4 is a joyous game about racing around the British countryside knocking over walls, and powersliding around Edinburgh. Swindon’s Magic RoundaboutTurn Forza Horizon 4 into a puzzle racer with this spectacular piece of road engineering. Alternatively, put some of those sidecars above in Forza Horizon 4 and have a co-op player dangle off the back. It’s made-up Forza world anyway, we can suspend our disbelief to reach new zones. Forza Horizon 4’s upcoming expansions will add ‘new world

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God Eater 3 will launch in on PC in February next year, publisher Namco Bandai has announced. The release date coincides with a new trailer for the sequel, which showcases a mixture of anime characters talking very seriously about very serious things, and blistering action sequences in which gigantic monsters are air-battered into mulch. I can’t say I’m thrilled by the former, but the latter looks pretty darned excellent, reminiscent of a Platinum game, if slightly cartoonier. God Eater 3 sees t

Games have let players beat the Nazis in countless ways, from organising the entire Allied advance through Europe to shooting Hitler in the testicles. Through the Darkest of Times is a strategy game that puts you in charge of a Resistance group at the heart of Nazi Germany. Originally announced in April, today developers Paintbucket Games announced a new publishing deal with HandyGames that will allow the company to expand upon its original vision. “The cooperation with HandyGames allowed us to

Io Interactive has spoken with Gamespot about its split from Square Enix last year, which “decided to withdraw from the business” despite the studio’s success with Hitman. Square Enix announced that it was divesting itself of Io Interactive in May 2017, a moment Mohl described as, “Oh shit, we’re flying over the Atlantic and we don’t have enough gas to get there. Fortunately, Square did Io the kindness of setting it free rather than putting it down, and let it take the Hitman property with it on

Scary stuff, kids—The 2018 Steam Halloween Sale is live! The four-day dealfest features an array of horror hits, vampires, zombies, and even a spooky smattering of VR, in case you want to strap that stuff to your face. There 2018 Steam Halloween Sale is live now and runs until November 1.

One of these reveals was essentially a glimpse into the future of what open world games might look like. Unity showed off the potential results of this with a short video demonstrating the tech in action. In the demo, the player explores a gigantic cyberpunk city inside a flying car, weaving between endless rows of skyscrapers hundreds of feet high. According to Unity, this demo was created in two months by the ECS team, with help from just two artists. Unity also showed off a visual effects gra

There are indications that the Chinese version of EVE Online might be about to take an unusual approach to punishing players who cheat in the game. Initially, CCP announced that it was making changes to the test server for both the International and Chinese versions of the game. However, after enquiry by Kotaku for comment, CCP clarified that the changes were intended only for the Chinese market. That local version of EVE Online will be “synchronized” with NetEase’s existing Guardhouse System, w

Hello Games has revealed new details about its new update to No Man’s Sky, which launches today. Titled the Abyss, the update focusses on overhauling exploration and play within the oceans that cover many of No Man’s Sky’s procedurally generated planets. First off, Hello Games has spruced up No Man’s Sky’s underwater biomes, increasing both the frequency and variety of underwater flora and fauna. Alongside new reasons to delve beneath No Man’s Sky’s waves, the Abyss update also offers new tools

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. But it’s not about bars and charts and circulation figures: overall, Headliner feels closer in spirit to a visual novel. The Mirror LiedSteam pageRelease: October 26Developer: Freebird GamesPrice: FreeUnusually for this column, The Mirror Lied actually released ten years ago. But no

A new live action trailer for Fallout 76 aired during the “Saints vs. Vikings” game earlier today which, for the benefit of anyone living outside of the United States, was some kind of football match. The official Fallout Twitter account tweeted as much, and you can see the trailer itself above. There’s a woman standing in a lush green field, slowly and blissfully rotating as she fires off indiscriminate rounds from dual-wielded pistols. Later, two heavily-armed fellows in Power Armor are also e

Desert Bus is notoriously one of the most boring games of all time, and that, I suppose, is what’s so good about it. That’s what’s so good about it. Revenant Bus is a bit different. It’s basically the Desert Bus experience brought to Doom 2, but with one major twist: a revenant spawns in the back of the bus every seven seconds. Given the lack of weapons (you have to punch the revenants to death) and the 24 hour duration of the bus trip (you need to go back for your wallet), that’s a very monoton

The IPS monitor (right) has no such issueAfter many hours, you’ve finally finished selecting the parts for you perfect gaming PC build. Compared to other panel types, they also offer the fastest response times, which can be as low as 1ms. TN panels also feature the highest refresh rates of all panels types, and currently reach as high as 240Hz. While TN panels offer response times as low as 1ms, IPS panels can go as low as 4ms. In other words, they’re somewhat of a step between a TN panel and an

The sequel to the brutally simple rhythm game One Finger Death Punch will arrive on PC in April, and will contain hidden versions of both the first game and a secret cancelled project, according to developer Silver Dollar. We already knew the game was coming at some point in Spring next year, but this news narrows it down. As for the hidden games within a game, Flook said: “We have some real awesome stuff in there for our old fans. Our first game is hidden in One Finger Death Punch 2, as is our

Bioware has released another chunk of gameplay footage for Anthem, this time taking us through the first mission of the game and showing off the ultimate abilities of some of the characters. We get a look at the ultimate ability of the Storm Javelin—it’s a huge elemental storm concentrated in a small area. It looks pretty impressive, even on low settings, which the team are using to show off this alpha build of the game. You can see the Storm ultimate at 13:45 and the Interceptor ultimate at 24: