We first saw Phantom Brigade , an upcoming XCOM-inspired strategy game about giant robots with memorable pilots, at PAX West 2017. Last week, developer Tetragon Works announced that it has merged with Brace Yourself Games, the creator of delightful musical dungeon crawler Crypt of the Necrodancer, which is also working on an industrial city sim called Industries of Titan. Phantom Brigade is now being developed at Brace Yourself Games, and some exciting changes are in the works! That said, it sou

One of the most coveted emblems is for most damage dealt, which I can only assume inspired modder muriEX to create this mod which not only tracks your overall damage, but also your DPS. As muriEX explained on Nexus Mods , the DPS overlay mod “displays the damage breakdown and DPS of your current team.” After a hunt, you can see how much damage you and your teammates dealt to the monster relative to its overall health, as well as your average DPS. World’s post-hunt damage emblem shows up very rar

The Battlefield 5 open beta begins on September 6, or September 4 for Origin Access subscribers and people who have committed themselves to the cause by way of a preorder. It runs until September 11, and when it’s over, Battlefield 1 owners will be able to grab the full BF1 Premium Pass for free. The Premium Pass covers all maps, weapons, vehicles, modes, and classes from the They Shall Not Pass, In the Name of the Tsar, Turning Tides, and Apocalypse expansions. If you’ve got Battlefield 1 but t

“We cannot have in the Olympic program a game which is promoting violence or discrimination,” he said. “So-called killer games. Bach acknowledged that there’s an irony in the Olympics, which features sports that are actually violent—boxing, wrestling, judo, hockey—rejecting the entirely simulated violence of videogames. If you have egames where it’s about killing somebody, this cannot be brought into line with our Olympic values.” Knowing that those games are absent because the head of the IOC b

As the circle closed in on match four of the $1.5 million Fortnite Summer Skirmish finals at PAX West, something strange, and likely unplanned for, happened. It was near one of these very fields where one of the final circles randomly happened to close in match four, and so chaos was expected. I asked several players in the crowd and attendees watching whether that had ever happened before, and it was new to them all. I’ve been keeping a close eye on the cube myself, and have never seen it behav

GTFO is a multiplayer sci-fi horror game that looks a little (or maybe a lot) like Left 4 Dead smushed up with Aliens. A new nine-minute gameplay trailer released today by developer 10 Chambers Collective showcases that stylistic crossover. Instead of the frenzied run-and-gun of L4D, the four-player squad approaches its task calmly and quietly (relatively, anyway), assessing threats, setting up shots, and even taking down enemies with stealth when the situation allows. Which isn’t to say that th

“The order is as follows: Total Points, # Victory Royales, Total # Eliminations, Average Placement, Coin Flip. We’ve communicated this tiebreaker order repeatedly through both broadcast, Summer Skirmish posts and rulesets, and verbally in briefings to competitors here at the PAX West Summer Skirmish event this weekend. Fogle also said they “aren’t big fans of having to rely on a coin flip for this” and are investigating alternative tiebreakers. For his part, Colton had this to say on Twitter:A c

It’s a little funny how much we’ve come to expect dance emotes in 2018. So we decided to tell a brief history of the dance emote in PC gaming, recorded through the power of 11 gifs. Everquest – 1999Everquest was ground zero for the modern MMO, and also the /dance /dance revolution. Star Wars Galaxies – 2003Star Wars Galaxies will always be remembered as one of the great missed opportunities in the history of video games. Final Fantasy 14 – 2010Of course Square Enix would load up its characters w

While prices for high-end cards like the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 have fallen drastically over the past few months, mid-range GPUs like the RX 580 and GTX 1060 are still at (or above) standard retail prices. If you’re in the market for an affordable graphics card, the Gigabyte RX 580 8GB is just $209.99 with a mail-in rebate from Amazon. This card has a core clock of 1380MHz in OC Mode, and 1365MHz in Gaming Mode. The RX 580 is roughly equivalent to a GTX 1060 in terms of performance, and it has 8G

Late last year, Sam Horti wrote about how the loot box controversy shaped gaming in 2017. It has also asked NBA 2K players who reckon the publisher’s practice now “comply with local laws” to “contact [their] local government representative to communicate [their] opinion.” Here’s the publisher’s statement in full:In May, the ESA president defended loot boxes, and warned against government regulation. Blizzard, however, has since removed paid loot boxes from Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm in Be

NVMe SSD pricing is coming down, too. Case in point, you can snag a fast Adata XPG 960GB NVMe SSD from Rakuten (formerly Buy.com) for just $203.99 today. The coupon code knocks an additional $36 off its sale price, resulting in the lowest price we’ve seen for this drive. However, if you move a lot of files around your PC, the added speed of an NVMe drive can come in handy. You can still find better prices-per-gigabyte in SATA territory, though if you’re in the market for an NVMe drive, this is a

Earlier this year, GTA Online’s After Hours update added player-owned nightclubs, real-world superstar DJs, and banging tunes. Jedijosh920’s After Hours SP mod, on the other hand, brings the experience to the crime sim’s singleplayer mode. From what I gather, Jedijosh920’s project does not let you promote your establishments in the same way GTA Online does, however it does let you play your own custom tunes. “After Hours SP brings a fully scripted nightclub from GTA Online ‘After Hours’ DLC into

Devil May Cry 5 arrives in March, and when it does it’ll come with a photo mode, a gallery and a training mode. Shortly after that, Okabe—via Walker’s translation—confirms a training mode, which has become a well-requested feature among prospective players. Okabe says that “[a training mode] is something people have been asking for for a long time, and so we’ve tried our best. There were certain titles where we weren’t able to get that done correctly, but this time we made sure to make the effor

GOG’s Back to School Sale slashes prices on over 400 games. Live now through September 10, expect discounts on loads of games—and a number of extra savings on daily Flash Deals. With so much on offer, I reckon this sale will be more about searching for your own favourites and reporting back in the comments down south. A quick gander at the GOG website’s ‘on sale’ tab alone, though, does uncover some gems. Again, have a leaf through GOG’s Back to School Sale at your leisure and please share your

Some of the best Fallout 4 mods apply new textures, shaders and dynamic shadows to the Boston Commonwealth. Fuse00’s Synths Revamped makes the wasteland’s automaton wanderers way prettier than before. With new 4K face, body, eyes, and teeth textures for synths, Synths Revamped draws from Detroit: Become Human to craft gorgeous cyborgs that look like this:This:This:And this:Moreover, here’s the mod’s creator—who’s also responsible for Ghouls Revamped—talking us through how it works:As outlined th

Fortnite’s High Stakes event rolls out this week, bringing with it a new limited-time mode, new challenges and a new outfit. It also appears Battle Royale’s next item is a grappling device, that lets players zip over buildings and rooftops. According to Fortnite Battle Royale News, it looks like this:And as clipped by Twitch person KairuCS, here’s the suction device in motion:Here’s our first look at the new Grappler item in-game! I’m a sucker for stealth in Fortnite too, therefore the idea of g

Just Cause 4 will be set in Solis, a “vast” South American island nation. The map is 1024km squared, which means it’s roughly 32 x 32 kilometres. There are “four biomes”, but it’s kinda hard to see these distinct palettes from afar. There’s definitely trees, water, hills, rivers, and a massive snowy mountain, as well as a region in the north-west that looks drier than the rest. You’ll find some other fascinating tidbits strewn across the map, but not much that we haven’t heard about before.

On an average day, about a dozen new games are released on Steam. Now in Early Access, you’ll “guide a fledgling civilization through the obstacles of life”. The game boasts online and local multiplayer, and looks worth a shot if you’re into richly stylized fighting games. It’s in Early Access, and currently has six maps, 60+ mods, six bosses and 20+ enemies. Studio Vindicate Games reckons the game will stay in Early Access for between 6-10 months.

Eight years after the critically-panned Front Mission Evolved, we find ourselves in the Aspen Room of the Sheraton in downtown Seattle watching a behind-closed-doors showing of Left Alive, Square Enix’s upcoming survival third-person shooter. No effort is being made by Square Enix to conceal the setting for Left Alive: It takes place in the Front Mission universe, though they’re keeping tight-lipped about where in the timeline it falls. I haven’t been bleaching my brain with an overload of new g

DotEmu delivered a one-two punch of nostalgia with the recent announcements of Windjammers 2 and Streets of Rage 4. Even hearing the placeholder music—assorted tracks from Streets of Rage 2—feels like moving back into a childhood home. Motions are fluid, the colors are vivid, and Axel’s fiery special moves dazzle and act as the perfect show piece for Streets of Rage 4’s new aesthetic. That’s one of the ways in which Streets of Rage 4 seems to encourage high-risk, high-reward play. Streets of Rag