Kinney posted about the raid in a Destiny 2 Facebook group, prompting fellow guardian PXG_S3 to put together a group to help him through the Leviathan. “I don’t ever do sherpa raids in D2, but I just had to for this fellow,” PXG_S3 said on Reddit . Kinney’s background also lines up with PXG_S3’s description of him: he’s a retired writer, poet and comedian who loves videogames. So, after finally clearing the Leviathan with the help of some chivalrous guardians, Kinney took up the pen once again a

Valve announced the Linux-based SteamOS in 2013, just prior to the reveal of the vaguely console-like Steam Machine PCs. Members of the r/linux-gaming subreddit recently discovered text strings referring to, among other things, “compatibility tools” that would enable games designed for Windows—which is to say, pretty much all of them—to run on Linux. As Ars Technica notes, the discovery of the text strings is a long way from an official rollout, and should be treated as such. The ability to run

Image source: City of TorontoThe Overwatch League announced earlier this month that new expansion teams are headed to the cities of Atlanta and Guangzhou. According to ESPN, a third team will soon be announced for the Canadian city of Toronto. “League sources” told the site that Toronto—Hogtown, the Big Smoke, Tronna—will be the home of a team operated by Splyce, an esports organization with teams and players competing in CS:GO, League of Legends, Hearthstone, and more. If the report is accurate

The Shenmue catch-up cavalcade started in earnest last week with a pair of “What Is Shenmue?” More advanced moves will be learned over the course of the game, and your pugilistic skills can be leveled up and transferred to Shenmue 2 when you move from the first game to the second. Hey, you can’t be out there chasing your dad’s killer every single minute of every day forever, right? Shenmue 1 and 2 are available for pre-purchase on Steam as a bundle for $27/£23/€32, and will be out on August 21.

It’s always been a world that flashes between serious and goofy, but Battle for Azeroth embraces that tonal duality with conviction. The two new continents of Zandalar and Kul Tiras are so immaculately crafted, so lovingly detailed, that I’ll take any excuse Blizzard has to let me go there. On Kul Tiras, Alliance players are working with renowned sorceress Jaina Proudmoore to win the support of her family’s powerful navy. It would be a great system if the traits I’m unlocking weren’t so painfull

The PC port of Monster Hunter: World has a few quirks. But one of the game’s strangest habits still remains: Steam won’t stop telling players their friends are playing Monster Hunter. While you’re playing Monster Hunter: World, Steam constantly sends out notifications to your friends which are usually reserved for when you start playing a game. If you’re playing Monster Hunter: World yourself, the notification spam can cover the item wheel in the corner of the screen. But clearly people are: the

I very cleverly described Graveyard Keeper as “Stardew Cemetery” when it was announced in early 2017, based on both its visual style and various gameplay elements, like growing crops and hucking corpses into the river. Today is release day, and based on the lengthy launch trailer released by publisher TinyBuild, I’d say my assessment was accurate—”dead on,” you might say. I haven’t played Graveyard Keeper myself so I can’t comment on whether or not it’s actually “good,” but it sounds like it’s g

Monster Hunter: World has been out for nearly a week now, so it’s time to show off the product of all that strenuous wyvern murder. Share a picture of your monster hunters (and palicos, of course) in the comments, and tell us a little about them. If you’ve yet to capture your character and palico, put on your best digs, strike a pose, and take a screenshot. But if you have an excellent kill screen that also flatters your cool outfit, feel free to share that instead. Chuck, my palico, is based on

Techland’s Chief Creative Officer Adrian Ciszewski has claimed that Dying Light 2’s choices will form the “ultimate vision for the open world”, going far beyond the narrative choice and consequence systems seen in most RPGs. Dying Light 2 certainly made an impression when it made its debut at E3 this year. It’s worth noting that narrative choices will still feature in Dying Light 2. But Techland is keen to avoid creating choices deliberately designed to wrong-foot the player. It sounds ridiculou

B&H Photo is selling an EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Gaming Black Edition with a 650W power supply bundled in for $649.99 today. We all know that Nvidia is getting ready to announce a new round of graphics cards for gamers, presumably starting with the GeForce RTX 2080 with Turing underneath the hood. If you need a graphics card right now, there are deals out there on current generation hardware. GeForce GTX 1080 Ti cards typically sell for $650 to north of $700, so this bundle essentially amount

HWBot via IvanCupa. (Image: © HWBot via IvanCupa)It did not take long for AMD’s burly Threadripper 2990WX to find its way into the extreme overclocking scene. IvanCupa accomplished overclock using MSI’s Meg X399 motherboard and a single 8GB DDR4 module from G.Skill, according to the HWBot entry. For the time being, IvanCupa holds the overclocking record on a Threadripper 2990WX processor. It’s early in the game, though, and we suspect someone will hit and surpass 6GHz before long.

The Nommo Pro is one of three Nommo speaker systems Razer sells, the other two being the Nommo and Nommo Chroma. Where the Nommo Pro separates itself from pack is by adding a 7-inch, down-firing subwoofer to the mix, making it a 2.1 system. “The Nommo speaker range was engineered to aid gamers with sensing environmental factors. Additionally the Nommo Pro features Independent tweeters for enhanced highs to catch minute details in gaming audio,” Razer says. That represents a significant pricing p

When DOOM Eternal’s gameplay trailer debuted at QuakeCon last week, one element that surprised me was the “Extra Life” powerup that briefly appeared on-screen in between DoomGuy’s demonic eviscerations. While I’m all for DOOM’s newly old style of play, surely re-introducing the concept of “lives” is going a bit far. Luckily, Marty Stratton, Doom Eternal’s executive producer, has since explained how DOOM’s extra lives work. “It’s just like our checkpoint system,” he said in an interview with VG24

There have been a ton of deals over the past year or so from Dell’s online store, and they usually involved giving people free Dell gift cards. If you still have some of those cards laying around, now you can get a high-end GPU at a good price. PNY’s GTX 1080 is just $429.99 right now from the Dell.com store. This card has a very basic black exterior, but reviews on Amazon and Newegg are mostly positive. For connectivity, you get three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b, and one dual-link DVI-D.You

Epic has made another update to Fortnite, this time introducing the long-awaited Heavy Sniper Rifle. The Heavy Sniper Rifle has been known about for several weeks, as it was stumbled upon by StormShield.One dataminers back in July, but it hasn’t been formally added into the game up until now. Intriguingly, alongside the rifle’s addition, Epic has removed scopes for assault rifles. The update also introduces two new limited-time-modes, including the return of Sniper Shootout, which limits players

Old Free Radical series TimeSplitters and Second Sight have been acquired by publisher Koch Media, it was announced today. TimeSplitters was a cartoon-y early ’00s FPS series that never came to PC, but Second Sight, a third-person shooter with awful box art where you had psychic abilities, did. It’s noteworthy because the announcement mentions that “full details of future Timesplitters and Second Sight products will be revealed in due course”. We have many fans of the Timesplitters series among

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey will require more of a time investment than Origins, according to game director Scott Phillips. Speaking in the video above to Game Informer, Phillips is asked if the game is about the same length as Origins, and answers “No, much longer.” Phillips doesn’t elaborate on that, but he does explain that the map is bigger and more packed with things to do. Odyssey’s map of Greece will of course feature numerous islands, and the return of naval combat. I’m not sure about you,

China has frozen all approvals of game licences amid a government shakeup. Bloomberg reported that it has been four months since China’s regulators approved any new games for sale in the market. Meanwhile, the freeze has sent shockwaves throughout the industry, as Tencent distribute games in China for some of the world’s biggest publishers, including Activision Blizzard and EA. The Japanese games industry has suffered too, with Capcom’s shares dropping 2.7 percent and Konami falling 4.2 in the w

These touches sound very much geared towards people who want a traditional Fallout game, who were maybe wary of human interaction. The GTA problemThis made me think about the challenges of turning a traditionally singleplayer game into an online experience. That’s not how I want to play a Fallout game. Fallout 76’s anti-griefing instead sounds like it’ll create the opposite kind of experience, where you’ll have to think hard about the fights you pick. Part of Fallout 76’s promise to me is the in

Hi-Rez Studios has announced that it is establishing three new, separate developers. The three new studios are Titan Forge Games, Evil Mojo Games, and Heroic Leap Games. Titan Forge Games will man the helm of Hi-Rez’ MOBA Smite. Evil Mojo games will oversee the Overwatch-like shooter Paladins, while Heroic Leap games will develop Realm Royale, its Battle Royale spinoff originally known as Paladins: Battlegrounds. Chris Larson, formerly the executive producer of Smite and Paladins, will act as ge