Consult your local dispatcher for destinations, one of the world’s most popular cooperative board games has broken out on Steam. As myriad vicious diseases rapidly sicken the world’s population, it’s up to an elite team of disease fighters to slow the spread of the infections, gather samples, and ultimately cure—or eradicate—the plagues. It takes a place of honor on my best co-op board games list. As most of the Steam reviews are quick to point out, the digital version of the game does not have

The government plants to curtail the number of online games and discourage play-time, all in an effort to curb a growing number of myopia cases in young children. But the regulations also focussed on a restriction on the total number of online available to play in China, and greater controls over the introduction of new online games into the country. The aim of these new regulations, apparently, is to reduce the cases of myopia in children by at least 0.5% a year until 2023. Unsurprisingly, the

Wonky stealth horror game Hello Neighbor is getting a prequel, publisher Tinybuild has announced. Titled “Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek”, the game tells the story behind your neighborly nemesis and his family. “Hello Neighbor: Hide & Seek follows the tragic story of the Neighbor’s family in this dramatic prequel to Hello Neighbor,” Tinybuild said in their announcement on their website. Hello Neighbor also has a surprisingly active modding scene, currently the 24th most popular game on ModDB (whi

Saturnian colony sim Industries of Titan has received a new trailer, this one showing off the game’s tactical combat system. The trailer shows the player’s “L2 cruiser” trading fire with a pair of “Dowser Tsunami” frigates over one of the game’s gorgeous, Blade Runner-esque city-scapes. The system also shows you where laser fire strikes, and the damage done to the respective vessels. I’ve had my eye on Industries of Titan for some time, though up to this point it’s mainly been because of its spl

As soon as the update went live, players rushed to try what looked like the most OP new builds. Both weapons are best-in-slot and relatively tough to obtain, so the chance to use them together was mouthwatering for those of us who’ve stuck with the game. Its ‘Backup Plan’ perk means that when you swap to it the weapon readies instantly and has reduced charge time. A bold gambitDespite begging for these weapon slot changes in my list of things that would help bring people back to Destiny 2, I did

Ubisoft’s multiplayer swordfighting game For Honor is opening up its upcoming Marching Fire expansion for testing next week. The expansion, which adds playable warriors from China and a new 4v4 “Breach” mode, is scheduled for launch on October 16. But the open test will allow players to get hands-on with most of its new features from September 6 until September 10. The open test is available to anyone, including people who don’t own the game. Presumably these will all be playable in the expansio

When Generation Zero released its gameplay trailer earlier this month, I remarked that its blend of moody landscapes and retro-futurist technology looked very similar to the work of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, the creator of pen and paper RPG Tales from the Loop. The issue has been rumbling on for several weeks, starting not long after Avalanche released its gameplay trailer for Generation Zero. In a tweet, Stålenhag said “Every time Avalanche releases a Generation Zero trailer, I have to an

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 has been delayed into next year, publisher Focus Home Interactive has announced. Originally scheduled for release in September, developer Tindalos Interactive has now pushed the game—which pits Cathedral-sized spaceships against one another in gigantic RTS battles—into January 2019. “More details about the dates and content of these pre-order betas will be communicated shortly,” Focus Home said. Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II aims to expand upon the success of the fir

Razer is refreshing its peripheral line with three new “best-in-class” products, one of which is the Blackwidow Elite, which finally adds dedicated media controls to the company’s flagship gaming keyboard. My daily driver is Razer’s Blackwidow Ultimate, one of the earlier versions of the Blackwidow, and not having a volume knob can be slightly inconvenient at times. The new Blackwidow Elite has one—Razer calls it a “multi-function digital dial”—along with three media buttons controlling music pl

Nvidia’s RTX cards are almost here, but the prices are sky-high. If you don’t care very much for ray tracing, the GTX 1080 is still a great card that will be able to play AAA games for years to come. Now you can get Gigabyte’s triple-fan GTX 1080 for just $430, a $60 savings from the original price. We’ve seen plenty a few GTX 1080 cards around this price already, but this model uses composite heat pipes and Gigabyte’s Windforce 3X cooling system to keep the GPU nice and cool. You can buy the Gi

AMD’s lineup of high-end graphics cards, the Vega 56 and 64, are rarely available at competitive prices. That seems to finally be changing, as Sapphire’s Nitro+ Vega 64 GPU is now $499.99 on Newegg, making it the cheapest custom Vega 64 currently available. The RX Vega 64 is roughly equivalent to a GTX 1070 Ti, which is now priced around $450-500. The Vega 64 may not seem like a great deal in comparison, but this is a much better choice for anyone with a FreeSync monitor. You can buy the Sapphir

Here’s everything you need to know about the RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, and RTX 2070, the Turing architecture, pricing, specs, and more. Here are the launch dates and prices so far:GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition: $1,199, September 20GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Reference: $999, September 20? GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition: $799, September 20GeForce RTX 2080 Reference: $699, September 20? The Founders Edition will also carry a premium price, $100 more on the RTX 2080 and RTX 2070, and $200 more on th

Astera, the main hub of Monster Hunter: World, is one of the biggest hub areas in the series’ history. It’s got blacksmiths, feline chefs and vendors galore, to say nothing of dozens of NPC hunters traipsing about. Thankfully, modder highsouled recently released a mod that adds just that. Dozens of flags are available, and highsouled has added many more following user requests, including the flags for Brazil, France, Malaysia, Germany, Finland and Scotland. If you too want to represent your coun

The G Pro is designed and constructed as part of a collaboration with pro gamers, and the result is a stripped-down $90 model with no RGB lighting or other gimmicks. Special praise must be reserved for the microphone, which is among the best electret headset mic models in production. The G Pro scores well on most of the basics, but those pieces don’t matter much if you don’t have great audio, and sadly that seems to elude the G Pro. Even if that were the case, it still means the G Pro isn’t well

The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen said April’s Forgotten update for The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+, a collection of add-ons for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, would be the game’s final free booster pack. However, earlier this year McMillen told Polygon that he’s “never done” with Isaac, and according to publisher Nicalis, there’s more Isaac in store—in addition to the Four Souls card game , that is. The publisher tweeted a brief teaser for a new game (or add-on) titled The Binding

Electronic Arts has laid out its plans for Star Wars: Battlefront 2 for the balance of 2018, which will kick off in September with a new Squad system enabling players to spawn on squaddies in the Galactic Assault, Blast, and Strike modes. The 91st Mobile Reconnaissance Corps and 104th Wolfpack Battalion—which is a very Star Wars way of saying “new clone trooper appearances”—will also make their debut. October will see the release of a new Dark Side hero, General Grievous, followed by Obi-Wan Ken

There’s an unappreciated art to adventure game backgrounds. He also wrote a blog about art and composition, and last year we called on his expertise in assembling a gallery of gorgeous adventure game scenes from the pixel art era. Now it’s time to celebrate his own work on Wadjet’s latest game, Unavowed. An urban fantasy story set in New York, where a secret society protects the world from various supernatural evils, Unavowed brings some new ideas to the genre. But Unavowed is still a classic po

Every now and then, though, we do get a glimpse into the process, sometimes finding that the games we know today once looked very different. Resident Evil 4Before it became one of the greatest action games ever made, Resident Evil 4 was a very different game—several times over. Between 2001 and 2004, several iterations of Resident Evil 4 were shown off at Tokyo Game Show and E3. Fortnite now refers to Fortnite Battle Royale, which borrowed the shooting and building from the original game, but co

The Rusty Lake game/film crossover Paradox went to Kickstarter in May and more than doubled its €15,000 goal, ending up with more than €34,715 in pledges. The Rusty Lake games are point-and-click puzzle-adventures with bizarre, macabre environments and twists: They’re not exactly horror, but they’re occasionally spooky and always creepy as hell. “Both media compliment and strengthen each other,” Rusty Lake co-creator Robin Ras explained. More information on Paradox (full title Cube Escape: Parad

Today it finally made everything official with the announcement of Subnautica: Below Zero, a standalone story that takes place in a new region of planet 4546B after the events of the original game. The site does hint at what’s coming in Below Zero. “In the coming months, we will release an unfinished, early version of Below Zero in Early Access,” it says. “We will then begin releasing consistent content updates, carefully crafting the game based on your feedback—just like the original Subnautica