Comcast proclaims on its Xfinity website that it “[does] not block, slow down or discriminate against lawful content,” and is “for sustainable and legally enforceable net neutrality protections for our customers.” But that’s an awfully odd thing to say from a company that recently helped repeal legal enforcement of net neutrality. So while we suffered a major loss in the fight for net neutrality, there are still battles ongoing in the legislature and the courts that could overturn the decision.

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. The Secret World Developer: FuncomYear: 2012Here’s a bad morning for you. If you’re lucky, you’re picked up by the Illuminati, the best secret society. Why would you join any other secret society? The Illuminati probably even has a dental plan.

Space sandbox game Limit Theory has thrown in the towel, with one-man development team Josh Parnell posting a long, passionate goodbye to the project announcing that it’s over. In the post, Parnell blames no-one but himself for the game’s incomplete state. Perhaps most notable about Limit Theory, as opposed to other failed crowdfunding projects of such scope, is that it has seen significant signs of progress and consistent updates over the years. “I don’t imagine it will be of any use to anyone,

MapleStory 2 is launching on October 10th after a series of betas this year, and those who have prepurchased a pack for the upcoming free-to-play game have a ten day head start beginning October 1st. MapleStory 2 is the fully 3D sequel to 15 year-old side-scrolling MMO MapleStory, with new features like extensive creation tools for players to make their own homes and environments taking the center stage. MapleStory made headlines earlier this year with the announcement that it, too, would have a

The honeymoon phase is over for Battle for Azeroth, World of Warcraft’s seventh expansion. But Battle for Azeroth is a much more modest expansion, both in terms of its themes and aesthetics. Legion significantly revamped World of Warcraft’s endgame by adding World Quests and Mythic+ dungeons, both of which are copied into Battle for Azeroth. The core structure of World of Warcraft is as strong as ever even if Blizzard doesn’t stick the landing with Battle for Azeroth’s newest features. Though Wa

Stormland is exactly what I want from a VR game: cool enough that I’d want to play it even without an Oculus headset, but much better because it’s built to take full advantage of being in VR. It’s a pretty straightforward setup for a shooter, but Stormland is really all about execution, and it feels great to play. With the Oculus Touch controllers, I could aim guns and a small blaster on my wrist used to blow up stacks of ore to collect resources. But Stormland also embraces the physicality of V

If you make your own character in Pathfinder: Kingmaker it’s a long process, with tons of class varieties to choose from as well as the nitty-gritty of feats and skill points to get into. This is the face that’s going to represent you for the next 50 to 100 hours. If they manage not to look like one of those “cosplayer pulling a weird face” portraits from Baldur’s Gate that’s even better. Image 1 of 7 Image 2 of 7 Image 3 of 7 Image 4 of 7 Image 5 of 7 Image 6 of 7 Image 7 of 7Fortunately, you c

James Davenport is still playing Fortnite, in fact he may never stop playing Fortnite. Perhaps our entire world is his personal Purgatory and we exist merely to facilitate a state of affairs where he can only play Fortnite, forever. On the down side, the combination of dogs and the skin that makes you look like John Wick raises some questions. The further adventures of Joe Donnelly in GTA Online are always something I look forward to, and last week he jumped into a modded server that recreated L

Party Hard is a 2015 stealth-action game about noisy neighbors and what happens to them after they ignore your requests to tone it down at 3 am. The Party Hard 2 story trailer is a little grimmer than the previous one, too. It’s all very odd, so it’s good that a demo is free to download and play at partyhard.game. The download link says players will get access to the first Party Hard 2 alpha, the “Christmas alpha,” and the final demo, which publisher tinyBuild said is now available. The full ver

Giants Software has dropped a new teaser trailer demonstrating the “new field interactions” coming to its upcoming farming sim, Farming Simulator 19. That’s not all, though. In a dev blog published earlier this week, the studio confirmed what happens if you let newly formed weeds take hold of your crops. “If you don’t tackle your weed problem before your crops are ready for harvest, the field’s final yield will be reduced by 20% – laziness is expensive!” “We expect that weeds will provide an ext

Willowbrooke Post is an upcoming game where the player returns home to manage their parents’ post office for a year following their “sudden departure,” in the process meeting the local community, learning about them, and stamping lots of letters. Willowbrooke Post will be developed by Dante Knoxx and published by Excalibur, the company behind odd, endearing broken car simulator Jalopy . Willowbrooke Post is a setup that’s familiar to anyone interested in farm life games like Stardew Valley, all

The island floating above Loot Lake is moving, folks. After the mysterious cube kinda… melted into it last season, we’ve now got a floating island above Loot Lake. Reports place it at or near the various runes left by the cube as it traveled the map during Season 5. Conflicting reports place the fugitive island near retail row and salty springs, or maybe in the opposite direction, near pleasant park. The common theory, however, seems to be that it’s heading towards the various runes left by Seas

A trademark filing in the EU has revealed an unannounced Bungie project: “Matter.” Filed by a UK law firm representing the American company, Matter is filed under the classifications for “video game software” and “electronic games services provided by means of the internet or other communication network.”In other words: It’s a videogame. Will it be a PC game? It’s probably worth noting that the second classification can also indicate a service which allows the downloading or playing of games, as

Kalypso has let loose the beta of Tropico 6, but only for those who pre-order the game through its shop. A Steam beta was announced in August, but that doesn’t have a date yet. Tropico 6 returns to a greater focus on the player’s character—the dictator El Presidente—with customizable outfits, palaces, election speeches, and the like. These features, of course, return alongside classic city-builder series gameplay like managing imports, building housing, and having dissenters shot in the street.

If you did not, it’s far more of a gamble and depends on why those games didn’t appeal to you. If you haven’t played any of Life is Strange or its spin-offs, I’d say it’s worth downloading either Life is Strange 1: Episode 1 or The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. But given this is only the first episode, any far-reaching consequences from the first leg of your journey are a way off. Life is Strange season 1 often felt like it could have taken place at any point from the early ’90s to the p

Maybe, but there wasn’t much overlap when five of us were asked to name a favorite Telltale game. So for this week’s question, tell us in the comments what your favorite Telltale game is—or, if you want to be more granular, your favorite episode of a Telltale game. Steven Messner: The Wolf Among UsOK, so technically this is the only Telltale Game that I’ve ever completed, despite having bought all of them. The obsession became about consequence with Telltale games, but it was the individual mome

Not only is it a 20-year-old Half-Life mod. It’s a 20-year-old zombie Half-Life mod. Released in three parts between 1999 and 2001, They Hunger is a singleplayer, story-focussed total conversion for Half-Life. They Hunger crams more inventiveness into its campaign than most bona fide zombie games, while balancing silliness with tension well. It may look a little desiccated and moan when it gets up, but there’s life in They Hunger yet.

It was an unsustainable situation, and last week Adam finally opened up to his fans about the struggles he was facing. In response, the Warcraft community, Blizzard, and even MSI rallied together to help. The best addons Deadly Boss Mods is one hell of an addon for World of Warcraft, but it’s not the only one. After the post was published, it quickly spread to the World of Warcraft subreddit and other communities. “DBM finally has the support for me to finally get additional help and resources t

That much is clear by now, more than two years after the launch of the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. It’s a $400 headset, including a pair of Touch controllers, that offers head tracking closer to the Oculus Rift than cheap mobile headsets. Both run on Android, and so does the new Oculus Quest. That wouldn’t happen with the Vive’s tracking system, or an Oculus Rift with multiple sensors set up. Like other mobile VR the Quest runs on Android, but it’s using a pretty powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 8

Jean-Michel VilainArtifact is not the first digital card game to have an entry fee, of course. For instance, just this year Faeria, a formerly free-to-play card game by independent studio Abrakam, began charging $US25 up front. Brian Kibler, pro card game streamer as well as lead designer Hearthstone’s tabletop predecessor World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, agrees. The simple fact of Artifact being a Valve game gives it an edge, a leg-up that other card games experimenting with the formula don