Rainbow Six Siege’s Operation Grim Sky is officially out, which means there’s some stuff to learn about the new operators and how their gadgets change things for Siege’s older characters. There are much, much safer ways to open a wall without painting a big target on your head. Instead, cut out larger holes or longer lines to add some maneuverability and make the enemy wonder where you’re aiming. Since your shield isn’t quite as sturdy as Monty’s, a melee hit while extended will knock away the s

Friction, and occasional misfortune, are a necessary part of this life—much like No Man’s Sky. At first glance, No Man’s Sky and Animal Crossing seem to have radically different philosophies. However, if Animal Crossing is about the joy and journey of routine within a single, static community, No Man’s Sky is about the joy and journey of routine within an intergalactic community. You log on, collect necessary materials for upkeep and upgrades, and in the case of No Man’s Sky, maybe learn a few a

Specifically, taking away a game’s enemies or threats. “I did find a ‘no alien’ mod, it didn’t remove the alien, but rather spawned it as an inert NPC,” he explains. If it seems outrageous to remove the threat from Alien: Isolation, it might seem downright sacrilegious to remove enemies from Dark Souls. “Given that From Software does not support community content (quite the opposite, in fact), creating mods for the Dark Souls games tends be complicated,” says Jgwman. Removing the enemies and thr

The thing is, hunger and thirst are absolutely critical to survival games, and I realized the reason I was happy to not have to deal with them in Grav was because so many other survival games get them wrong. Having a robust, logical, and interesting hunger and thirst system is essential to most survival games. Here’s how survival games can do a better job with hunger and thirst. Hunger and thirst need to provide a sense of urgency, but too much urgency can be a bad thing. A lot of Early Access s

For example, there was no source code for the Dreamcast libraries, but luckily the Shenmue 2 Xbox version had source for the ported Xbox libraries. The original code was written by Japanese developers, so all the comments are in Japanese. The pressure was immense, both from the expectation of the community and the importance of Shenmue as a brand within Sega. Did you look into remastering extras such as the ‘What’s Shenmue?’ pre-order demo or the Shenmue Passport disc? We did investigate the fea

Itch.ioThis is a desktop client for the popular indie game storefront Itch.io. UPlayUPlay is good for one thing: playing Ubisoft games. But overall you’re not really going to install UPlay unless you want to play a Ubisoft game. If you buy a Ubisoft game on Steam, it’ll launch Uplay and then launch into the game itself. Unless you love earning Uplay points, for some reason, UPlay is just a boring fact of life if you want to play a Ubisoft game.

If your character is malnourished from not eating enough, they’ll lose muscle mass and strength over time. One player is taking that to new heights—and widths—by aiming to become the heaviest character in Scum. “Mainly what I do is lay on the ground and eat fat.” The fat Tojimaru eats is mostly from zombies, which can not only be killed in Scum but chopped up for parts: human steak, bones, guts, and slabs of fat. There may be some hard limits on the percentage of body fat a character can have, e

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ latest limited-time event mode is Silent and Violent. “Scurry through the hills of Sahnok with a fully loaded out VSS and eliminate as many enemies as possible in this squad-based war mode event,” says developer PUBG Corp of the limited-time mode that’s live now through September 9 at 7pm PST / September 10 at 3am BST. The weather is overcast, red zones are disabled—as are care packages, friendly fire and vehicle respawns. Kills make points, and the first team to 1

Courtesy of its substantial PC 1.0 Update #21, the latest offering also brings a new weapon and a new vehicle—the MK47 Mutant and the Tukshai. PUBG’s training mode is teased in the trailer above, and can be joined in-game via the main lobby. Players can join individual sessions up to five minutes after they’ve kicked off, and sessions host a maximum of 20 bodies. Training sessions last for 30 minutes at a time, and players cannot drop below 1hp for the duration. It looks like this:PUBG’s also PC

AOC on Friday introduced a new line of gaming monitors designed for fast-action gaming. Each of the company’s new G1 series models deliver up to a 144Hz refresh rate and support AMD’s Freesync technology for fast and smooth gaming. “Multi-monitor setups have become commonplace in not only productivity setups, but in gaming battle stations as well. The frameless curved design results in thin bezels around the top and sides of the monitors for enhanced immersion. Multiple monitor setups are ideal

Driving this point home is an iBuyPower gaming PC that’s on sale at Amazon right now. The iBuyPower Elite Gaming PC is marked down to $799 from its $1,249.99 list price. What you get in this setup is a AMD Ryzen 7 1800X processor paired with 16GB of DDR4 RAM and a Radeon RX 580 graphics card. On the storage front, this rig comes with a 120GB solid state drive for primary storage duties, and a 1TB hard drive for backups. Also be sure to scroll down the listing and add the free AMD graphics games

With a cast of professional actors flitting in and out of character during lengthy D&D livestreams, Critical Role is prone to ambiguity. In narrative-heavy campaigns like Critical Role’s, characters are more than stats, and Mollymauk was an extension of Jaffe’s experiences and values. “The first few times I had [a character die], it was in shorter games in high school so they were less sophisticated,” says Jaffe. The good thing about fictional characters, says Jaffe, is that they don’t really di

Childhood is also a time of life filled with fears and traumas that can leave lasting imprints on the subconscious mind. That, very generally, is the setting for The Inner Friend, a strange first-person horror game that debuted today on Steam. The Inner Friend leads players (literally) on a surreal journey through an “Alice in Wonderland-type world,” filled with creatures that must be evaded and escaped. It reminds me of games like Inside and Among the Sleep, which were both quite good, and so I

It’s time to dig up all those Dell gift cards—the company’s annual site-wide sale has just started. For the next few days (and while supplies last), you can get 17% off desktops, laptops, and other electronics. You can see most of the discounted products on this page. Some PCs (like the Dell G7 15), all third-party electronics, all software, all gift cards, and some other products are not discounted. Still, if you’ve been waiting to pick up a PC or laptop, this is a good opportunity.

Carbine Studios, the maker of the free-to-play sci-fi MMO Wildstar, is being shut down. The closure, reported by Kotaku, will also bring about the end of Wildstar itself. “Today, we are closing Carbine Studios and will begin the process of winding WildStar down to ultimately shutter the game,” Wildstar parent NCsoft said in a statement. We are also in the process of identifying the teams that will be doing the work to bring WildStar to a close. But its peak player count on Steam was just over 50

Earlier today, Treyarch and Activision revealed the first trailer for Blackout, the battle royale mode in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. EA did the same this week, finally letting us in on more about Battlefield 5’s battle royale mode, called Firestorm, in a new post. EA also revealed a Firestorm-themed preorder bonus for Battlefield 5, although it will be usable in all parts of the game. The Firestorm Ranger Set includes goggles, light battle fatigues, and the MkIII(S) Elite Combat Dag

To this end, Frost, Castle and Thatcher are in the process of being reworked. “I think that’s something that makes working on Siege completely differently from working on another game. But when you work on a multiplayer game like Siege, it’s really different because the player’s experience is carved by the nine other players. “Instead, what we are doing is crafting tools that help the player to build their own player experience. We could add certain tools that make one player’s experience better

What are the chances of Red Dead Redemption 2 coming to PC? Given the enduring success of GTA 5 and its Online counterpart on desktops, we reckon it will—and that’s without taking June’s Linkedin résumé mishap into consideration. Rockstar has now followed up last month’s in-depth gameplay showcase with a catalogue of character art. Here’s that rundown in full:Red Dead Redemption 2 is due on consoles October 26. Let us know when you reckon it’ll come to PC in the comments down south.

TP-Link’s initial entry into the mesh network arena was their Deco M5 model, which debuted in 2017. Moving ahead with a pure mesh design, TP-Link keeps the ‘style moderne’ art deco design language for its new Deco M9 Plus mesh router. The process is repeated for each additional disc added to the mesh network, which is done wirelessly. The rear of each M9 Plus disc has a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports. App integrationThe TP-Link Deco app offers quite a bit of control over the network.

THQ Nordic has acquired Kingdoms of Amalur, as well as a number of other assets from developer 38 Studios. Kingdoms of Amalur, for those unaware, is an action role-player that Tom scored 74 back in 2012. Earlier this year, THQ Nordic (once known as Nordic Games, before acquiring the original THQ in 2013, and rebranding in 2016) bought Saints Row outfit Koch Media and developer Deep Silver. “The acquisition itself is being handled by THQ Nordic AB, based in Karlstad, Sweden, and daily operations