Seeker, Slayer, Survivor, the second major DLC release for Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, will be out on September 25, Obsidian announced today. “Delving into a rich story, exploring fascinating new environments, and unearthing powerful items are still crucial,” DLC game director Brandon Alder said. “But players will experience combat trials like they have never seen before as combatants in the Crucible.” Standalone pricing wasn’t announced but the previous expansion, Beast of Winter, is $10/£

The digital port of mechs and economics 4x Scythe is now out of Steam Early Access and into a proper release. The full version of the game has a number of improvements, including a Hard difficulty setting for the game’s AI. We took a look at the game on its early access launch and called it slick and sharp —it’s a distillation of the 4x that many strategy fans are going to enjoy. Scythe: Digital Edition is a port of Jamey Stegmaier’s board game, developed by The Knights of Unity, and published b

We’ve been waiting a long time to get our first look at Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 battle royale gameplay, and here it is: The debut trailer for Blackout, the BR mode that will go into open beta testing next week. Zombies are in there too, although the trailer does nothing to clarify what role they’ll play in Blackout—it may hint at it, though. Their quick appearance just before a warning about battleground constriction makes me wonder if they’ll be a part of that system. The Call of Duty: Black

If you’re planning on building a decently-powerful PC in the near future, today might be a good day to start buying components. Newegg currently has a combo deal for a Core i5-8600k processor, a Z370 motherboard, and two sticks of 8GB RAM for $499.99—a savings of $114.98 over buying them separately. The first part of the bundle is an Intel Core i5-8600K processor, clocked at 3.6GHz with six cores and six threads. Next is MSI’s Z370 Gaming M5 motherboard, with three PCIe slots and integrated RGB

The Victrix Pro AF gaming headset has been making waves in the PC gaming world since it was announced earlier this year. The company says it’s purpose-built for streamers and e-sports players, and now you can preorder it on Amazon for $299.99. The headset’s main selling point is the four-microphone active noise cancellation, which Victrix says will block out 70% of all background noise. The built-in microphone apparently uses a pop filter originally designed to block out wind in the Cobra attack

Have we taken for granted that squads are good, and that spawning on your squad is ‘teamwork’? As I play the Battlefield 5 beta, I’m starting to wonder if I like the idea of squads in Battlefield at all. As spotted by Velcroninja on Reddit, this guy takes a long time to build, but once he’s up you always know where he’s going to be (unless someone shoots him). He’s also small and very well camouflaged on account of being made of snow, which he is surrounded with. Snowmen aside, if you’re playing

Metadot helped usher in the idea of mechanical keyboards with its Das Keyboard line, the first of which came out in 2005. Now more than a decade later, Metadot is introducing a new key switch and cloud notification system on its two newest Das Keyboard models, the 5Q and X50Q. “Since the Das Keyboard 5Q and X50Q are cloud-connected, users are able to do things they’ve never been able to do with a traditional input-only keyboard,” said Daniel Guermeur, founder and CEO of Das Keyboard. Both models

Rainbow Six Siege’s latest defender is a Scotland Yard officer named Clash. “I think Clash is the typical example of that. The second of Siege’s new faces is Maverick—a hard breacher, who uses a blow torch to create “murder holes” for horizontal shooting. “You say hard breacher, but to us we consider Maverick to be the last breacher, your last colleague,” Athanasoff tells me. “We might pair a hard breacher with Maverick—it’s perhaps your last line of defence, a lost resort to rely on.

Some games are simply played better with a controller, and for those that do, we think Sony’s DualShock 4 Wireless is one of the best options available. It’s also on sale today for just $29.99 through Facebook’s Daily Deals marketplace. If you’re not familiar with the DualShock 4, it’s a sturdy controller with a great feel to the analog triggers. Alternatively, if you prefer the Xbox One controller, the version that comes with a USB cable is on sale at Walmart for $39.99. Go here to grab the Dua

If you plan to play at 1080p, there are some good cheap gaming PCs out there. One that falls into the ‘under-a-grand’ cateogry is this Dell Inspiron desktop that’s on sale at Newegg today. We’ve highlighted this desktop line before in various configurations. This particular one sports a Core i5-8400 processor (6 cores, 2.8GHz to 4GHz, 9MB L3 cache, 65W TDP) paired with 8GB of RAM. This model also has a GeForce GTX 1060 3GB graphics cards and 1TB hard drive (7200 rpm).

A higher end gaming router can offer higher throughput speeds, better Quality of Service to maintain a video stream while keeping gaming latency low, and more wired ports, among other advanced features. Red accent stripes and RGB LEDs—which the C5400X has plenty of both—are not what makes a gaming router. This is what enables you to prioritize the gaming traffic, which is so sensitive to latency issues . TP-Link’s took their time to enter the high end gaming router market. The Archer C5400X is a

Image source: City of ChengduA rumor surfaced last month claiming that a new Overwatch League team would be announced for the Canadian city of Toronto. The rumor comes a day after a report that expansion teams will also be coming to Washington DC and Hangzhou, China. Costs for the new franchises aren’t known, but are expected to be much higher than the reported $20 million cost of the original Overwatch League teams. The Toronto team was rumored to have cost $35 million, although that—along with

EVE Online studio CCP Games has been acquired by Pearl Abyss, the Korean developer of the fantasy MMO Black Desert Online. Pearl Abyss said that CCP will continue to operate its existing studios in Reykjavik, London, and Shanghai independently while its “extensive development and publishing expertise” will be integrated into current and future Pearl Abyss projects. They have done an incredible job of engaging and maintaining their playerbase, which we aim to learn from and hope to integrate nati

#FortniteSource: https://t.co/eLAEyuX47g pic.twitter.com/zBR9gbyUNDSeptember 3, 2018Sticking with weapons, update v5.40 removes both the Legendary Bolt-action Sniper Rifle and the Rare Pistol. Likewise, likewise, a number of firearms have had their rarities adjusted—the sum of which can be read here. Elsewhere, update v.5.40 introduces an interesting quirk that affects player-built structures during the storm phase. Update v5.40 also adds Save the World’s Weekly Horde Challenge 5 and introduces

PlayStation Now, Sony’s premium streaming service that brings a host of otherwise console-exclusives to PC, isn’t quite Netflix for games, but it comes close. Its latest batch of streamables includes Project Cars, Exile’s End, God Eater: Resurrection and (YES!) The workaround here is PS Now, which lets you stream console-exclusives on PC, assuming you’ve got a fast enough connection. PS Now comes with a free seven-day trial, and the PlayStation Blog notes a “summer price promotion” runs from now

But if you’re yet to get into the first game, know that it’s free to try on Ubisoft’s U-Play this weekend. The Division’s free weekend kicks off today at 10am PST / 6pm BST and runs till Sunday, September 9 at 1pm PST / 9pm BST. You’ll need a free U-Play account to play, and preloads are available now. Ubisoft notes that this free weekend is separate from The Division’s regular trial offer, both of which are incompatible. Instead, those who play this weekend have full access to its Standard Edit

AMD never officially retired its Athlon brand, it just moved onto newer and better things, namely Ryzen. Why bring back the Athlon brand at this point in time? As it applies today, the Athlon brand takes its place beneath the Ryzen 3 in AMD’s mainstream CPU hierarchy, and is intended to compete with Intel’s Pentium and Celeron lines. AMD’s Athlon 200GE is a 2-core/4-thread chip with a 3.2GHz clockspeed and 5MB of cache. According to AMD’s own benchmarks, the Athlon 200GE manages playable framera

The PC version of Monster Hunter: World is still a bit behind the console versions, but as Capcom announced today, a free update coming tomorrow will help catch us up. Along with a medley of bug fixes, the update will add a new monster: Deviljho, a hulking brute of a wyvern known for its size and appetite. To unlock Deviljho, download the update and reach hunter rank 12 (you don’t have to finish the story, just the quest that unlocks Pink Rathian), then look for an expedition with an unknown mon

PAX Australia will host the inaugural Australian Quake Championships this October, with the winning team set to compete at Dreamhack Winter Elmia, in Jonkoping. Qualifiers for the championship will kick off this weekend, with 2v2 matches occurring online across eight events until PAX, which takes place October 26-28. The good news is, anyone can sign up to take part in these qualifiers, so if you’re keen, head over here . If you get through the qualifiers you’ll be flown to Melbourne for the loc

SCUM has been in Early Access for one week and we can’t thank the community enough for your support! I checked and sure enough, my online character is completely gone. Oddly enough, my singleplayer character is still fully intact. So, it sort of sucks that all online players have been wiped on all servers, but these things happen in Early Access from time to time. On the plus side, the patch notes also include the “first wave of server optimization that should decrease lag,” adds admin commands