Big Robot’s upcoming procedurally-generated survival romp, The Light Keeps Us Safe, looks like quite the blood-curdling misadventure for anyone who is rightly suspicious of robots and things that lurk in the dark. The Light Keeps Us Safe is set after the sky has gone dark and machines have taken over. They’re not fans of the light it turns out, so it’s the one thing that can save you. The Light Keeps Us Safe hits Steam early access on October 11. Disclosure: Big Robot’s Jim Rossignol worked for

With the PC beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale mode only a few days away, Treyarch’s released minimum and recommended system requirements. They’re almost the same as they were in the multiplayer beta, not surprisingly, so if you were fine then, you should be all set. Minimum:OS: Windows 7 64-Bit or laterCPU: Intel Core i5 2500k or AMD equivalentRAM: 8GB RAMHDD: 40GB HD spaceVideo: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2 GB / GTX 1050 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7950DirectX: Version 11.0 compa

Amid the vacancies for existing games like World of Warcraft and Overwatch are stacks of advertisements for unannounced projects. Some, like the senior quest designer position, specifically mention mobile games, while others mention console and PC. Some of the requirements and ‘pluses’ include things like a “passion for co-op games, RPGs and board games” and a “real passion for action games”. Common threads include action, not surprisingly, and there’s mention of both first-person and third-pers

“I am happy to confirm Negligee: Love Stories has completed the steam review process and will be our first every 100% uncensored game on steam, no patch needed,” writes the developer. Sexual content is hardly new to Steam. “If you’re a developer, we shouldn’t be choosing what content you’re allowed to create. In the coming weeks, expect more games along the lines of Negligee to be approved for sale on Steam. The first game to be outright rejected under this new policy—that isn’t an obvious scam,

It is, to this day, a fond memory for many a nostalgic World of Warcraft player, because we all remember Scarlet Monastery. For WoW players, Scarlet Monastery became a rite of passage. Similar to its plotline of zealots deep in devotion to their cause, Scarlet Monastery required you to commit to it. The quests for Scarlet Monastery required players to ‘cleanse’ the monastery of the rabid cult members, playing directly into the ways in which the Alliance players had already interacted with religi

Shadow of the Tomb Raider has an excellent photo mode, with all the usual options: depth of field, field of view, and so on. But it has one unique feature. No matter what’s happening, whether Lara is swinging over a bottomless ravine or machine-gunning some Trinity mercenaries to death, you can change her facial expression. There are a few to choose from, but ‘happy’ is my favourite because it makes it look like she’s on a really intense gap year. And it got me wondering what her Instagram accou

When Destiny 2 director Luke Smith sends an email, his signature reads a little differently than you might expect. “Luke Smith, Scarab Lord”—an honorific given to just a few hundred WoW players out of the tens of millions who have played since it launched. “Aganathyre, Champion of the Bronze Dragonflight, has rung the Scarab Gong,” read a broadcast to every player in Azeroth in that moment. Because only one version of it dropped for the 40 players in the raid team, Smith took it for safekeeping.

An ultra-traditional Japanese RPGExpect to pay £40/$60Developer Square EnixPublisher Square EnixReviewed on Intel Core i5-4440 CPU, 8GB RAM, GeForce GTX 645Multiplayer? NoLink Official siteFrom its glossy CG intro to its quaint pastoral villages, its range of regional British dialects (with the odd cod-European accent) to its slightly tinny MIDI soundtrack, Echoes of an Elusive Age is a Dragon Quest game, all right. For better and worse, this is a stubbornly orthodox JRPG: even if you’re not fam

When the original Metal Gear Solid launched, I was not a stealth aficionado. They would have been fonder still if it looked like Erasmus Brosdau’s Unreal remake. Brosdau, an art director who worked on Crysis, Ryse and Star Citizen, recreated the scene using Unreal Engine 4, using marketplace assets and tweaked audio from the original. It’s spot —gorgeous in comparison to the original, but still undeniably Metal Gear Solid. So if you want to play Metal Gear Solid again, I’m afraid you’ll have to

PUBG’s numbers have been slowly declining since its 3.2 million peak at the start of the year. Even when it went below a million players yesterday, 960,000 people is still a considerable number, along with over 90,000 people watching on Twitch. It’s been teetering just above one million daily players for most of the last month. PUBG Corp is trying to “fix PUBG” in the face of this competition, though officially it’s because the developer feels that it hasn’t met expectations. Whenever big games

Assassin’s Creed typically flings map markers and icons at players. Ubisoft managed to rein it in a bit for Syndicate and Origins, but in Odyssey a different approach is being taken with its new exploration mode. Guided mode is the more traditional of the pair; it doles out map markers and quest objectives so you always know what you can do and where you have to go. The new mode, exploration mode, seems to get rid of all that clutter; as the name suggests, assassination targets and quest objecti

This year’s a bit different: Not only will Black Ops 4 not be releasing with a traditional singleplayer campaign, it’s sliding onto the battle royale bandwagon with its Blackout mode, which went into beta this week. The ‘traditional’ battle royale game starts with players dropping from the sky, parachuting into the open world. In Blackout, players are going to get a lot more opportunities to put CoD’s sniper rifles to use at the range they were meant for. It’s still the same weapons, shooting me

General] [Ahanu]: in bed with chuck norris lol[1. General] [Revara]: Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep. It was a vast, unavoidable corridor, through which most Horde players would inexorably be funnelled. The area was always under attack, becoming a hotspot for world PvP as high-level Horde players returned to clear out the cackling gnome Warlocks. Whether through design or accident, constant Alliance attacks made the Horde players feel like a persecuted faction.

Big naked Zeus served as a fast-travel point from that point onwards as I followed the main quest onto a boat (high seas sailing is back!) I spent eight hours exploring two districts of this absolutely huge world map, which stretches from Kephallonia to Lesbos. Story-wise Odyssey gets going a lot faster than Origins did, though if you found the level gating requirements restrictive in Origins, Odyssey has the same issues. Instead of Origins’ landmass Odyssey is broken up into islands, and you ca

Teeth were gnashed even harder when the patches that Intel and AMD rolled out to fix these vulnerabilities were reported to decrease system performance. Get your storage drive fighting fitMeltdown and Spectre’s fixes don’t just impact CPU performance in a vacuum. Observe the difference, weep into handsThe differences in your numbers will vary from system to system. Probably, they represent a 3–15 percent decrease in performance with Meltdown and Spectre protection enabled, with your decompressin

Rhetorically triangle-choking my lizard brain and limbic system into submission through a series of dialogue-tree-based skill checks is how my journey into Disco Elysium begins, and it’s the perfect tone setter. Disco Elysium is a hardboiled detective mystery RPG set in a neo-noir urban fantasy setting, and unpacking my own baggage appears to be just as important as solving the mysteries around me. What they do and what they represent about your character can seem slippery, but that quality also

And besides having the biggest guns, it’s money and efficiency that drive the conflict in Industries of Titan. Industries of Titan differs from FTL in that each ship’s interior is completely customizable. Industries of Titan isn’t just a ship combat game. You can avoid ship combat altogether, I’m told, but none of the city-building is available in the build I played. Releasing sometime in 2019, Industries of Titan is something of a dark mirror reflecting our industrial civilization.

While Valve and Blizzard have complied with Belgium’s anti-gambling laws and removed loots boxes from their games in that country, EA isn’t being so cooperative. When it comes to FIFA 18, EA is keeping its randomized card packs in the game, and plans the same for FIFA 19 which releases at the end of September. According to a machine translation of this article in Metro, the Brussels public prosecutor’s office announced it is conducting a criminal investigation into EA for failure to comply. EA,

Last week, publisher THQ Nordic surprised us when it scooped up the nearly-forgotten intellectual property rights to Kingdoms of Amalur from now-defunct 38 Studios. It’s exciting news for fans of the 2012 action RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, as the series has sat idly in purgatory since its developer 38 Studios declared bankruptcy shortly after its release. What THQ Nordic intends to do with their new acquisition remains to be seen, but at least one of those options—any kind of remaster or

With the $8 million Fortnite Summer Skirmish wrapped after eight weeks of competition, Epic has already announced the next batch of competitions, and they’re coming soon. The Fortnite Fall Skirmish ups the stakes and shrinks the window with $10 million at stake over six weeks of competition. Details are coming soon, but if the Summer Skirmish is anything to compare it to, expect six weeks of varying competitive formats featuring popular streamers, pros, and members of the Fortnite playerbase tha