CD Projekt Red has announced a “long-term strategic cooperation” on Cyberpunk 2077 with an outside development studio. That studio is Digital Scapes, which bills itself as “a video game development studio specialising in bespoke PvP gameplay for AAA PC and console titles.”The press release from CD Projekt Red says that Digital Scapes will be cooperating on technological solutions for use in the development of Cyberpunk 2077, but does not otherwise say precisely what the Digital Scapes team has b

Peak concurrent players for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey reached nearly 62,000 on Steam yesterday, making a considerable gain (about 33%) over last year’s Assassin’s Creed Origins, which reached a peak of just over 41,000 concurrent users in October 2017. Critical reception to Odyssey has been very strong , with many noting that it feels like a more mature, refined version of Origins. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey follows the journey of Alexios and Kassandra, two proto-assassins during the ancient war be

There are dozens of treasure maps hidden in Fallout 76 which bear an uncanny resemblance to the ones found in Red Dead Redemption. Each map depicts some crudely drawn scenery complete with an all-important X, and that’s basically it. During a recent gameplay event Bethesda held in West Virginia, we found and completed our first treasure map, “Forest Treasure Map #08.” The treasure was a short walk from the mine we found the map in, and the target scenery was pretty obvious. Treasure maps are a f

Fortnite creator Epic Games has purchased Kamu—a security firm based in Helsinki whose ‘Easy Anti-Cheat’ provides players with a “holistic anti–cheat service”. According to its company website, Kamu serves over 100 million PC players around the world and has worked with Epic on Fortnite for the past several months. According to gamesindustry.biz, Epic’s Tim Sweeney strives to make Fortnite “fair for all players”, while admitting “building and launching games today is incredibly challenging, and

Perhaps one of the most famous jet fighters of all time, the F-14 Tomcat, is making its way into DCS World this winter. A pre-order on the plane is currently 10% off until it launches into an Early Access phase in winter. The plane is multiplayer compatible, a feature that will be available immediately on launch, with a second player sitting RIO behind the pilot. Digital Combat Simulator World, or DCS World, is a sprawling free-to-play digital battlefield simulator. A lot of people are familiar

Bethesda was worried that since Fallout 76 was multiplayer, you would freak out and assume that they’d stop making cool single player games. He continued: “So that people didn’t start spinning off on, like, that’s the end of singleplayer games from Bethesda Game Studios.” It’s not a surprising thing to hear from the studio, given many gamers’ negative reaction to BioWare, a primarily singleplayer RPG studio, making upcoming multiplayer game Anthem. Multiplayer experiences in Bethesda games, he s

More than 8 million people play Counter-Strike every month. Weapon skins. How has the addition of ultra-rare knives and questionable anime guns lured so many people to Counter-Strike? Part of the explanation lies in how elegantly these decorated guns and knives integrate with fundamental aspects of Counter-Strike despite being purely cosmetic things. But after weapon skins were added, taking your opponent’s AWP or AK-47 took on a new meaning: it became a visual trophy.

Director: Tarsem SinghStarring: Finn Cole (The Kid), Morgan Freeman (Rucks), Saoirse Ronan (Zia), Lee Pace (Zulf)If you can nail “Kid just rages for awhile,” the rest will follow. First, that requires a director who can render Bastion artist Jen Zee’s vibrant, dreamlike landscapes, a world broken but still beautiful. A voice that can carry a film, speaking when the protagonist is silent. Morgan Freeman is the perfect Rucks and the perfect narrator. Just give Cole a hammer and let him wail on dud

Most importantly, the gameplay “ebbs and flows” based on the music that’s playing: and that music is selected by you. It’s currently in Early Access, but only for fine-tuning. It’ll be in Early Access for “at least” four months, with the final version expected to feature more chapters, more environments, and other stuff. Fans of horror and visual novels will no doubt be interested, but this will probably appeal to anyone interested in unusual games. The game will remain in Early Access for the n

Tom Senior has been playing an Early Access spaceship game called Nimbatus , which involves constructing your own craft out of blocks. On the subject of spaceships and also Toms, freelancer Tom Hatfield has been playing Shortest Trip to Earth , an FTL-ish space game that’s about to have its Early Access launch this week. But I did take the time to try out a few new things, including jumping into the pre-order beta for Space Hulk: Tactics. I do miss the option to speed up the walking speed of the

Snap the I/O shield into placeParts used: PC case, motherboard I/O shieldIt’s time to open that shiny new PC case you bought. Install the motherboard standoffs in the PC case and screw in the motherboardParts used: PC case, motherboard standoff screws, motherboardYour case should’ve come with a box or bag full of screws, zip-ties, and other odds and ends you’ll use for installation. Connect all the appropriate case wires to the motherboardParts used: PC case, motherboardThis is often the trickie

Such messy encounters are how Hitman levels typically play out for me on the first attempt, while I’m learning enemy patterns and how the level is structured. I’ve played a more-or-less complete run through the two revealed Hitman 2 levels now, including the Miami racetrack revealed at E3. If 2016’s Hitman gave you everything you’d wanted from the series since Blood Money, this is very much more of the same so far. There’s more options in terms of how you approach the level, and you’re not alway

This resulted in it looking like thousands of rain particles were being spawned, when in fact it was only hundreds. “For Airships: Conquer the Skies, I made a really basic 2D rain system,” says developer David Stark. Without any input, time stands still … The rain system occurs during a childhood memory, and although a bit primitive, the rain needs to pause and play backward depending on the player’s input. So much codeWhether it’s raindrops, rain sheets, or splashes, VFX and particle systems re

A listing at a food service information website has leaked that Kellogg’s is most likely making real one of Overwatch’s best in-game jokes: Lucio-Ohs cereal, based on everyone’s favorite hover-roller-blading DJ. First noticed by the folks over at The Junk Food Aisle , it seems like the cereal is not only real, it’s coming December 3rd, and you can earn a Loot Boost from each box. (A loot boost, for those unfamiliar, gives you a bonus loot box when you next level up.) Aside from The Junk Food Ais

Antec has shifted the water pump away from the top of the CPU block and instead installed it into the radiator, which means that the CPU block is thinner than what you may be used to (it’s well under two inches thick). Slide the bolts into the backplate, screw the offsets into place, clip the bracket over the CPU block, then use the thumbscrews to hold it in place. The installation is impressive—no doubt about it—but when it comes to cooling, the K120 is held back by its size. If you’re looking

After five and a half years, Ludeon Studios will finally release the 1.0 version of RimWorld on October 17th. However, the announcement post does say that they can think of “a variety of interesting directions to go with the game.”Here’s what’s in the update:“1.0 is mostly the same as Beta 19, with a lot of bugfixes. The only significant new feature is a new food restriction system that allows you to determine what your colonists and prisoners are allowed to eat.”RimWorld is a survival or colony

An interesting-looking new strategy game popped up on Steam in the last few days: The Maestros. It’s an RTS that focuses on using a single hero and a handful of troops to get victory in an arena map with other players and NPCs. A round of Maestros sees you first defeating neutral monsters to get a bunch of basic troops. You then take those troops to transform stations, where you mutate them into more advanced ones with more powerful abilities—which is when the game gets pretty nasty and action-o

This Devil May Cry 5 gameplay shows Dante hitting demons with his motorbike. The following DMC 5 gameplay footage shows the silver haired slayer beating baddies with his hat. Recorded at the weekend’s New York Comic-Con (via Eurogamer), Dante is seen wearing the Faust Hat, which gives the star man a host of superhuman powers. The hat itself looks like a nod to Devil May Cry 4’s hat-donning Faust—a lower-level demon who was considered a relative of the Mephisto. In practice, the Faust Hat is powe

Our biggest screw-ups from Into the Breach illustrate just how challenging Subset Games’ turn-based strategy game can be. Despite this, one speedrunner has beaten the game in under 12 minutes in a breathtaking display of fast fingers and quick wits. Competing in the Custom Squad, ANY bracket, speedrunner Darn beats two islands on easy mode to customise the mechs for maximum impact. Beating the entire game in less time than it takes to cook an oven pizza is astonishing. For more Into the Breach-i

An Elite Dangerous player has been suspended from Twitter after posting a poem about the online space trader’s alien Thargoid race. As reported by Eurogamer, Belgian Elite Dangerous player Tim Wellens was banned after his reply to this poem from the game’s official Twitter account was deemed to violate the platform’s rules “against posting violent threats.” “I explained that Elite is a space game and that thargoids are a fictional alien species in a game, and that I never ever threatened a real