Life is Strange 2 is only days away from release, so here’s a launch trailer for the first episode, called ‘Roads’. It looks like it will be setting up the basics of the new season, which is about two young brothers, one of whom has mysterious powers, on the run from the police. Chloe and Max, the protagonists of the first season, won’t be showing up, although there may be some nods to free spin-off The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. The soundtrack is ‘Colour to Colour’ by Seyr, so it see

They asked Hideaki Itsuno, director of Devil May Cry 5, for clarification. “With giving people the ability to purchase Red Orbs, it’s something we want to give people as an option. This isn’t the first time a Devil May Cry game has had the option to pay for upgrades with cash. The special edition of Devil May Cry 4 released in 2015 added them as well, with options to pay for red orbs, blue orbs, and proud souls as DLC. Devil May Cry 5 is due on March 8, 2019.

DICE has shared the ways it’s changing Battlefield 5 following the open beta, including giving players more ammo, making it easier to spot enemies and changing the way you bleed out after getting shot. The game’s ‘attrition’ system, which gives players limited health and ammo at spawn to “optimise gameplay tempo”, is first in the crosshairs. Players could damage a tank’s tracks in the beta, but in the full game you’ll be able to target turrets and engines, too. Lastly, some planes are going to b

Little Bug, from debut developer Buddy System, is an indie game about guiding a lost eight year old home through a world of restless spirits, and I think it’s worth knowing about ahead of its release next week. Nyah is on her way home from school when she’s transported into another realm filled with canyons, icy caves and deserts, each of which houses dangerous spirits. Thankfully, Nyah has a floating spirit of her own, and you control it using your mouse, while controlling Nyah with the keyboar

Devil May Cry 5 isn’t due till next March , so if your PC’s not up to scratch you still have time to upgrade. Judging by its minimum demands, though, you may not need to improve by much—they’re pretty modest. You can find the full system requirements detailed below. MinimumOS: WINDOWS® 7 (64-BIT Required)Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4770 3.4GHz or betterMemory: 8 GB RAMGraphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX760 or betterDirectX: Version 11Storage: 35 GB available spaceRecommendedOS: WINDOWS® 7 (64-BIT Requ

A new Overwatch developer update outlines a heap of new changes coming to the game. The most prominent change on the way is a rework to Torbjörn, changing how his turret works, removing his armor packs, giving him a new ability, and revamping his Ultimate. Turret levels have been removed, and the new turret has the same power level as the old “level two” turret. Torbjörn’s second ability has been changed completely. In addition to the Torbjörn rework, Kaplan said that minor changes would be comi

Nearly a week before the release of Last Wish, Destiny 2: Forsaken’s new raid, players not only found a way into the raid area and up to a raid chest, they also happened upon a sketchy method to repeatedly loot the chest, with some players obtaining full raid gear sets before Last Wish was even released. Now that the raid is actually out, players have focused their secret-hunting efforts on the mysterious Wall of Wishes found at the start of the raid, and after a little tinkering they’ve uncover

If you played Shadow of the Tomb Raider all the way to the end, then you know how it ends. But as Kotaku reported today, the game shipped with a very different ending, one that referenced a significant character from Core Design’s original 1996 Tomb Raider. After all, the obvious implication that she would return as the villain for the next Tomb Raider, whatever it might be, is pretty huge. “During the course of development on Shadow of the Tomb Raider, multiple post-credits scenes were explored

To celebrate Fanatical’s Bundle Blast, which features 30 bundles at great prices (we picked out some highlights here, but new ones have been added all week), we’ve teamed up with the online retailer to offer ten lucky readers the chance to win the Steam bundle of their choice. You can see the three bundles on offer in the graphic above. Bundle A includes Cuphead, Monster Hunter: World and Overcooked 2, while Bundle B includes a duo of great Sega ports in Yakuza 0 and Shenmue I and II, as well as

Just before the launch of Fortnite Season 6, six weeks of competition have begun with the Fortnite Fall Skirmish, awarding $10 million over a changing series of competitive and entertainment play formats. More importantly, let’s break down the Fortnite Fall Skrimish schedule and point you to where you can watch it. Where to watch the Fortnite Fall SkirmishWatch the Fortnite Fall Skirmish above, or head to the Fortnite Twitch channel in case you really need to see what Twitch chat has to say (you

For Dragon Quest 11, the PC was part of the plan from the very beginning. I asked Horii, along with Dragon Quest 11’s director and producer, about making the first Dragon Quest for PC, and to look back at the PC scene of the 1980s. We also chatted a bit about what it’s like working with Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, who’s been doing art for the Dragon Quest series since the beginning. “For Dragon Quest 11, it seemed like Toriyama-san was very particular about the accessories, this time,” D

Now that Nvidia’s GeForce RTX cards have launched, the worst kept secret in tech passes on to Intel’s 9th generation Core processors, namely the Intel Core i9-9900K and i7-9700K. Codenames, architectures, and process nodesLet’s start with talking about what Intel’s 9th generation Core lineup is, and is not. 9th generation Core processor SKUsWhile it’s rumored there will be a couple of 8-core options, Intel hasn’t officially tipped its hand. Videocardz claims the new chips will launch in October,

But the best car in the Grand Theft Auto series is the Bravado Banshee. Following its first appearance in Grand Theft Auto 3, the Banshee has featured in every GTA game since—including Grand Theft Auto Advance, and the crime sim’s Liberty City and Vice City Stories spin-offs. Grand Theft Auto’s Beast GTSFor me, the Beast GTS epitomised Grand Theft Auto’s sense of greed. Despite GTA:SA taking place years before Grand Theft Auto 3, its appearance in both is largely the same. Grand Theft Auto 5’s a

This little slip of paper is the first breadcrumb leading to one of World of Warcraft’s most involved and time-consuming secret quests ever. Discord user ‘Super,’ one of the main secret-finders, told me that the sort of elaborate, long-form secret quests their community has been chasing are a fairly recent addition to WoW. After reading the conspicuous note, secret hunters traveled all around Zandalar, Kul Tiras, and even zones from previous expansions looking for answers. Almost every step of t

Tencent’s battle royale game Ring of Elysium is now available on Steam (in certain parts of the world). Being as it’s both free and puts a couple twists on the standard battle royale experience, you should definitely give it a try. Battle Stations Ring of Elysium is only the latest entry in the massively popular battle royale genre. Look, we’re battle royale players. Ring of Elysium is a smooth and fun experience that makes enough changes to what I expect from battle royale to feel a bit fresh.

With the Toyko Game Show currently underway, it’s a good time glance at Steam and check out some of the offers from the show’s participating publishers and developers. There aren’t tons of offers, but some of the higher-profile deals are well worth looking at. Final Fantasy 15, a lads’ road trip pretending to be an RPG, is half price at $25/£17.50, and the deeply upsetting (in a good way) Nier: Automata also has 50% off, priced at $30/£20. If you’re looking for something more brutal, the Nioh Co

Twitch saw a tremendous uptick in popularity in China last month, becoming the third-most popular app on the iOS App Store, according to Abacus News. The surge was reportedly driven by the presence of esports at the 2018 Asian Games, which weren’t carried by state broadcaster CCTV but were available on Twitch. That potential win for Twitch has turned sour, however, as Chinese authorities have responded by blocking Twitch outright. The website is no longer accessible in the country, and the app h

Two Overwatch League teams hope to establish something similar with the California Cup, an off-season event that will pit the Los Angeles Valiant and the San Francisco Shock against one another in the league’s first home-and-home competition. The winner of those matches, and of regular season Overwatch matches that follow, will hold the California Cup until they’re beaten by the other team. “We love the concept of finally bringing our matches to our home market in the Bay Area,” NRG Esports and

Users of third-party Overwatch apps like Visor and Pursuit may soon find themselves in hot water with Blizzard, which is sending out warnings to players saying that the use of unauthorized third-party programs could lead to penalties, including a possible permaban. “Recently, we’ve investigated third-party applications designed for use while playing Overwatch and we’d like to reiterate which of these applications are not permitted in Overwatch,” Powers wrote. “To provide more clarity, any third-

“Further to yesterday’s announcement, we can confirm that none of our players’ bank or card details were compromised,” it said. “We work with an industry-respected, fully compliant third-party payment processor, to purposefully avoid staff having access to players’ full bank or card details. Original story:A couple of months ago, an Old School Runescape player who goes by mazrim_lol on Reddit claimed that a “serious data breach” had caused him to lose 45 billion coins on his main account. Jagex