Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the eight best games of Gamescom 2018, reckoned Samuel and Tom. From Cologne, we learned developer CD Projekt Red has “just not been ready” to show off the shooter RPG’s elusive demo footage—but it seems an incomplete version is now playable from start to finish. As reported by Engadget (via IGN), the game’s producer Richard Borzymowski says this playable build is without final assets and is yet to be playtested. Elsewhere, Borzymowski tells Engadget Night City plays in

If you want something done, you’re best doing it yourself. PsykotikKrymes’ The Doppelganger Follower lets you add yourself as a companion in Skyrim Special Edition. And as if that wasn’t narcissistic enough, The Doppelganger Follower lets you marry yourself. More information, including installation instructions, for The Doppelganger Follower lives on its Nexus Mods page. I thought ending this story with something like have fun playing with yourself was too on the nose.

The Elder Scrolls games have a complicated history, is what I’m saying. Each of the mainline Elder Scrolls RPGs is separated by years, sometimes a lot of them, and The Elder Scrolls Online confusingly leaps back in time to fill in a gap. The Dawn EraThere are multiple creation myths in The Elder Scrolls, but the easiest one to grasp is the Anuad, because it comes in a handy children’s version . (The singleplayer campaign of The Elder Scrolls: Legends takes place during this war.) 201Start date o

Tomb Raider Developer: Core DesignYear: 1996Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. In retrospect, maybe Lara should have become a daring zoologist instead. I mean, how much could any ancient cup sell for compared to, y’know, a living T-Rex? The T-Rex living in The Lost Valley didn’t just sit there and take it though, especially in Tomb Raider: Anniversary, where its claws and jaws were coupled with… shudder… crap QTE sequences. You’

On an average day, about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. Between bouts there’s training, management, and opportunities to raid caravans for extra cash and assassinate those you’re in debt to. You play as both apes and humans on both sides of a struggle

The sole suspect was described as a white male and was confirmed dead at the scene. Original story: Four people have been killed and multiple others injured after a mass shooting at a Madden 19 tournament in Jacksonville, Florida today. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, one suspect is dead at the scene. One suspect is dead at the scene, unknown at this time if we have a second suspect. For additional updates, follow the official Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Twitter account.

Marty O’Donnell, the composer for the Halo franchise, has released a video of the original recording session Steve Vai for Halo 2’s Mjolnir mix, which was recorded with the help of guitarist Steve Vai. My favourite part of the video, however, is actually before the recording process begins. The first eight minutes see O’Donnell introducing Vai to the game and its musical score. They watch a few minutes of footage from Halo 2, after which Vai remarks “It’s amazing to see how these games evolve, y

Soulcalibur 6 is the first entry in the series to launch on PC. In an interview with Dualshockers, Okubo stated that the Soulcalibur brand is currently facing a “crisis” and that the reason 6 years have passed since the previous game is that Namco Bandai has little faith in the franchise. “The IP itself of the Soulcalibur franchise had low expectations from the company. It took time for me to convince the company,” Okubo told Dualshockers’ Giuseppe Nelva. Running on Unreal Engine 4, the title’s

Nihon Falcom has confirmed that a new Ys title is in development. RPGSite reported that in an interview with the French website ActuGaming.net, Nihon Falcom President Toshihiro Kondo stated the company is working on a new Ys game, and that it will be a direct sequel to Ys VIII. Translated from the original French, Kondo said “Regarding the Ys series, we are working on a new game. It will be about Adol and it will be right after the events of Ys VIII. No further details regarding the new Ys game

Riot Games has announced a new partnership that lets players exchange their blood for a new League of Legends skin. The partnership is with Dutch organisation Sanquin, a not-for-profit blood bank, and revolves around the #MyFirstBlood scheme, a new blood-drive spearheaded by the company. “Anybody who has watched the EU LCS can tell you that securing First Blood is one of the most important objectives on the Rift. “The organisation is responsible for the blood supply in the Netherlands and is on

Question has released a new video of The Blackout Club, showing off seven minutes of cooperative teen-horror action. The video begins with Thomas and Question’s producer “Patches”, sneaking around a house at night. “The kids in the Blackout Club can’t trust their parents, or their teachers, any of them could be a ‘sleepwalker’,” Thomas says. Known as a “Stalker”, the invader’s job is to track down the Blackout Club and alert the cult to their activities. The Blackout Club will launch early next

The $25 million tournament ended with a five-game grand finals series between the much-maligned European squad OG and storied Chinese team PSG.LGD. While N0tail was well-liked in the Dota community, he had yet to win a championship. Although that didn’t stop fans and analysts from predicting ultimate OG victory in 2016. That’s because OG won two out of three Majors, the highest profile tournaments in pro Dota behind The International, before the big event. OG won its first match of the day just

Brutal Doom’s latest update brings the mod to the Release Candidate phase, meaning that content-wise it is “basically completed.”The update, which brings the game to v2,1 launched earlier this morning on ModDB. The update also introduces changes from an earlier private Beta, foremost amongst which is the introduction of a new weapon—the flamethrower. Oh, and the update also includes new “Hell Knight and Baron of Hell crotch pain animation rotations.” I think I’m going to miss Brutal Doom’s chang

Gaming headsets: Lower quality all-in-one solutionsTraditional gaming headsets can be defined as headphones with a built-in microphone. Typically, you’ll deal with an avalanche of marketing terms and promises meant to distract you from the basics of any good headset: quality sound. If you buy a good gaming headset, that reliability won’t be a problem—the main drawback will be sound balance that’s inferior to a nicer pair of headphones. Headphones: Customizable, high-quality options with separate

It’s a feeling that too few stealth games replicate. As a fan of stealth games, I can’t wait to get my hands on this one. And for games that use RTX or DXR (DirectX Ray Tracing), Turing could be more than six times faster than Pascal. If you think ray tracing— even in hybrid rendering form —isn’t a big deal, I suspect the next 20 years in computer graphics will prove you wrong. Just about every movie now uses some form of ray tracing, and it just became an order of magnitude faster.

Scott Schofield had already been working on his Black Templar Space Marine outfit for three months when he first posted it to a couple of forums back in December of 2016. The rest he would make from scratch over the next two years. The Black Templars are a chapter of the Space Marines famous for their crusades. Rather than having a homeworld they recruit from, they travel from system to system in a warfleet, liberating planets then leaving keeps behind to protect them before embarking on next cr

Dreamcast classics Shenmue I & II were finally released on PC this month, and in his review Andy wrote: “This solid PC version is, happily, incredibly faithful to the source material. I’m glad Sega chose not to dramatically overhaul the visuals, because they’re a vital part of the game’s distinct character. But it has been prettied up a little, with a crisp HD interface, anti-aliasing, and some bloom lighting.” If you would like to overhaul those visuals though, prettying things up even more, mo

Every year, The Dota 2 International championships are home to some of the fiercest competition in esports. And it looks like those human competitors aren’t about to be replaced with robots for the time being. The so-called “OpenAI Five” squad was composed of bots developed by OpenAI, a nonprofit research company funded in part by Elon Musk. The AI typically kept pace on player kills, but very rarely matched the human players on gold earned over time, which is often a better indicator of a who’s

Reigns: Game of Thrones, a crossover between Tinder-like ruling sim Reigns and HBO’s series about sad people wearing furs, might be the best GoT game made yet. But now and then things happen the other way around, and a film or TV show is worked into an established game design idea. So this weekend we’re wondering: Which game would you cross with your favorite TV show or film? Jody Macgregor: Six Feet Under x tycoon gamesAbove: A Mortician’s TaleI don’t think TV gets any better than the first two

Daybreak Games is retiring H1Z1’s survival game, Just Survive. “After careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to sunset Just Survive on Wednesday, October 24 at 11am PT (7pm UK time). The excitement of the game’s promise was palpable and its loyal community is still full of ideas for its future. “Just Survive was part of our first Early Access project, and we learned a great deal during its development,” the post said. If you feel you might be entitled to a refund, Daybreak urge