Released 14 years ago, the SoFplus mod’s primary purpose is to resolve a number of bugs in Soldier of Fortune version 1.07f. Yesterday, the admin of the SoFplus website posted this: “After over 14 years, Activision has sent a request to remove or block access to SoFplus files. Specifically, Soldier of Fortune: Platinum Edition was listed on the site on the first of October, as were Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix, and Soldier of Fortune: Payback, the third game in the series. The SoFplus admi

Surviving Mars, a colony-building and management game akin to Sim City except the entire planet is a disaster that never stops happening, will get its first expansion later this year. Called Space Race, it puts the greatest nations and most powerful corporations on Earth against one another in a competition to acquire and control the Red Planet’s limited resources. Each sponsor has its own unique vehicle and building, as well as different challenges to be fulfilled on the road to colonization. S

Descent: Underground was successfully Kickstarted in April 2015, went to Early Access later that year, and then in September 2017 was taken down so the developers could “focus on implementing single-player, tech trees, and the other cool features we’ve talked about.” That was the final update on Steam until yesterday, when publisher Little Orbit dropped a new trailer and said that a Descent beta will begin in November, followed by a release in early 2019. The beta will be open to anyone who preo

CEO Pete Hawley insisted in the wake of the layoffs that Telltale wasn’t actually closing, but would continue operating for the foreseeable future. Today, however, narrative designer Rachel Noel revealed on Twitter that the remaining employees have now been let go. She also said that she, like the employees who were laid off in September, will not get a severance package. We haven’t seen similar statements from other remaining Telltale employees indicating that they’ve also been let go, but we’r

Firaxis’ XCOM reboots are obviously a touchstone for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, but I’m reminded more of the surprisingly good Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom adventure. Both games segue between third-person exploration and turn-based tactical combat, and both feature animals with guns. We get to see the stealth systems, and see some post apocalyptic scenery. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is due out on December 4. Find out more on the official site.

Forza Horizon 4’s Barn Finds require some suspension of disbelief, even more so than the idea that the entire United Kingdom road network has been sequestered for a year-round motorsport festival. “Oh, whoops, I must have left my Jaguar XJ220 abandoned in that barn!” some clumsy billionaire in Horizon Land must presumably have said to themselves one day. Tracking down every Barn Find in Forza Horizon 4 is a series staple, and so is alt-tabbing to a Chrome window of a guide while you do so. 1965

Amid such words as ‘spyware’ and ‘data mining software,’ the furor led to many developers hurriedly removing Red Shell from their games. “We are not in the data business, we’re in the games business, and our games and our players are our be-all and end-all.” But there was a reason Fatshark, along with Firaxis Games, Creative Assembly, ZeniMax Online Studios, and many other leading developers used Red Shell. It’s a ‘marketing attribution’ service, which gives developers an idea of how effective t

To this end, we’ve set out to build a machine that offers the best value for money right now. In order to test StoreMI, we’ve grabbed the recently released Samsung 970 Evo 250GB M.2 and paired it with a 1TB WD Caviar Blue hard drive. This build also showcases Cooler Master’s newest case, the MasterBox MB500, which we’re eager to build in. Next up, we installed the hard drive in the top of the hard drive cage, which can be found in front of the PSU at the bottom of the machine. You can now attach

Despite being another entry in Ubisoft’s nearly annual series, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has enough new systems and stuff to confuse new and veteran players. To help you avoid the same issue, here’s eight general Assassin’s Creed Odyssey tips that I wish I’d known from the beginning of my Odyssey. It takes a few hits of flame to really set someone burning. 8 Photo mode is better nowPhoto mode is now a staple of the Assassin’s Creed games, but Odyssey has refined the mode in a lot of ways. Go to M

Shadow Warrior 2 is free on GOG for the next 48 hours, so go grab it from the homepage. Since Flying Wild Hog’s game only came out in 2016, that’s a pretty phenomenal get. If you’re wondering how we picked those, I chose them all from a big spreadsheet, and couldn’t bring myself to narrow down the choices. Here’s what James Davenport said about Shadow Warrior 2 in his review back in the crazy days of 2016: “No matter how repetitive the environments and loot-tinkering get, Shadow Warrior 2 stays

The new 416.16 WHQL release brings “Game Ready” status to the latest Windows 10 build, which Microsoft started officially released a couple of days ago. (2) DXR adds support for ray tracing to the Windows operating system, so DirectX 12 Windows PCs can now execute the applications that support real-time ray tracing,” Nvidia says. Nvidia has an obvious vested interest in ray tracing, because that’s the primary focus of its new GeForce RTX graphics cards (2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070). All three of the

Intel has gotten in the good habit of releasing timely GPU driver updates, the latest of which is billed as a “launch driver” for the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Similar to Nvidia’s “Game Ready” drivers, Intel’s launch drivers focus on specific games and features. In this case, the 25.20.100.6323 driver brings official support for the latest Windows 10 build. After all, it’s heading towards its first discrete GPU launch, currently scheduled for 2020. Timely driver updates are important to ga

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Northgard, the excellent Viking RTS which launched earlier this year, has released a new and free expansion. Titled Ragnarok, the expansion adds an impressive number of features, all of which are themed around the Norse end of the world myth. The primary addition is the Ragnarok map, a vast expanse of desolate hellscape which you have the unenviable task of colonising in either skirmish or multiplayer modes. Northgard’s strategy involves colonising map “tiles”, which require a certain amount of

Total War: Warhammer 2 is getting another DLC pack next week, the pirate-themed Curse of the Vampire Coast. You’ll see those towards the end of the trailer above, and they must rank as some of the oddest Total War enemy types ever. Luthor Harkon is the first of the Legendary Lords to be revealed, with the rest presumably being discussed later this week. We gave Total War: Warhammer 2 our Best Strategy Game award in 2017. Total War: Warhammer 3 is currently in pre-production as Creative Assembly

Dell today introduced its slimmest Alienware laptop to date, the Alienware m15. Those percentages translate to a chassis that measures 0.83 x 10.83 x 14.3 inches (21 mm x 275 mm x 363 mm) and weighs 4.76 pounds (2.16 kg). The base model ships with a 1920×1080 resolution IPS panel with a 60Hz refresh rate, 300 nits brightness, and 72 percent color gamut. The Alienware m15 can be configured with up to 32GB of dual-channel DDR4-2666 RAM. The Alienware m15 is available now in “Epic Silver” and “Nebu

However, I can confirm reports that a previously known Task Manager bug has hitched a ride with the final release. A user on Reddit noted that the Task Manager is not showing the correct CPU usage after updating Windows. “When I open my Task Manager and switch to more details, the CPU usage of the processes has one more division by 10. For example, when I open Chrome it will show the overall CPU usage to be 100 percent but Chrome’s usage [should] be 3-4 percent,” the user writes. For most users

After the slide into tedium that was the Jurassic World Evolution experience, Early Access dino theme park management project Parkasaurus is a welcome sight indeed. This involves plonking down banana stands and upgrading toilets while I fret over the daily glut of three star reviews. The Early Access nature of the beast is making itself known, although not as aggressively as some other Early Access projects I’ve played. The core loops are there too—build a basic park, then research upgrades eith

After the Blizzcon opening ceremony, on the Mythic stage, Blizzard will host a panel called Diablo: What’s Next. The session is followed by another panel on Sunday November 4 called Diablo: World and Q&A in which developers “explore the world of Sanctuary.” Blizzard has kept Diablo 3 ticking over with the excellent Necromancer expansion and regular free seasonal updates but the structure of the series’ long term future hasn’t been discussed publicly. Diablo skipped Blizzcon last year, but this y