World of Warcraft’s new expansion Battle for Azeroth launched last night, and the level cap has already been met. It took just four hours and seventeen minutes for Gingi, a member of World of Warcraft’s hardcore guild Method, to make the jump from WoW’s previous level cap of 110 to the new cutoff point of 120. Gingi livestreamed his race to the level cap on Twitch, playing as a troll druid named Luigingi. You can see the moment Ginji hit the level cap below, or sit back and watch the full four-h

SEGA has re-launched Patch 1 for its PC port of Yakuza 0, after having rolled it back due to complaints from some users about further issues caused. The update, which initially launched last week, primarily targeted a bunch of crash issues in the game, primarily crashes during launch and in several cutscenes. But the patch itself caused problems for players who previously were not experiencing any. In an announcement on Steam titled “THE PATCH IS BACK.” SEGA thanked everyone who provided feedbac

These are some of the in-development indie games that I’m looking forward to playing the most. TransmissionDeveloper Sea Green Games | WebsiteThis stylish, atmospheric driving game promises a chill synthwave soundtrack and is described by the developer as “Euro Truck Simulator meets Jalopy on a rainy summer night in 1986”, which sounds perfect. SpinchDeveloper Queen Bee games | WebsiteThe dazzling psychedelic art of this retro-flavoured platformer comes courtesy of indie comic artist Jesse Jacob

Strategic spy thriller Phantom Doctrine launches today, letting players explore the treacherous world of Cold War espionage through XCOM-like stealth and combat. While predominately a single-player experience, CreativeForge’s game also allows players to compete in head-to-head multiplayer battles. Given how Phantom Doctrine blends spy fiction with tactical strategy, this makes for an intriguing setup for a multiplayer game. According to CreativeForge, multiplayer matches can be played across a t

Along with discussing the Turing architecture, Nvidia also talked about upcoming Quadro RTX cards planned for launch in Q4 of this year. As discussed on Reddit last week, Nvidia filed for a number of new trademarks, including Quadro RTX and GeForce RTX. The Quadro cards also support 100GB/s NVLink connectors, which might make their way onto high-end GeForce cards for 2-way SLI. Instead, Quadro cards have used the same GPUs as GeForce cards, but with modified drivers tuned for professional worklo

The Boomsday Project has delivered a slew of oppressively powerful combos, new aggro options, Mecha’thun OTKs, and broken control decks, making it often difficult to tell what you’re facing each time you encounter a new opponent. In a way, it’s exciting: variety in the metagame is always good, and if multiple decks are broken, well, that kinda makes for a level playing field. Alternatively: If you want a more traditional, control-focused Warrior deck, try out Gaara’s Odd Warrior (AAECAQcMogLQAqo

Clash, a Scotland Yard crowd control specialist, is the first Rainbow Six defender with a shield. And not just a shield, but a massive, transparent, person-height shield with a built-in taser. Her shield, the Crowd Control Electro Shield, is actually a DIY rig put together by Twitch and Mira. “She knows exactly when and where to deploy this shield to deny entry and slow down her opponents.” Clash, and all of Operation Grim Sky including a reworked Hereford Base map that we checked into last week

It’s a dim chance the word ‘unconventional’ will grace any Black Ops 4 review, and I’m thinking Treyarch likes it that way. The end of auto-regenBO4’s biggest change is its new health system. Treyarch upped health bars to 150 but entirely removed auto-regen, banishing an entrenched design pillar 15 years old. Abilities and ultimatesSpecialists, which have returned from Black Ops 3, encourage teamplay as well. His ultimate boosts the health of his teammates, delivering a gratifying rush in clutch

At this rate they’ll have to set up a Steam page.August 6, 2018Over the last year, Motherboard has reported extensively on the presence of hate groups on Steam: groups promoting Nazism or school shootings , among other things. That overly broad language doesn’t really apply to hate groups that merely champion antisemitism or school shootings without threatening individuals. Steam’s punishment for breaking the rules: Neither the conduct page of the guidelines page lays out the consequences for br

Monster Hunter: World is a great game , but its PC port is just OK. Steam modder Kaldaien, who you may know from the ‘FAR’ resolution fixes he released for Nier: Automata, is working to improve the port, and recently released a mod pack containing a medley of fixes and features. It has also been updated to improve CPU usage via controlled threading. “The mod now, by default, limits job threads to the number of logical cores on your system,” Kaldaien said. “It can be configured to use physical co

Bungie has repeatedly confirmed that beloved Destiny 2 Vanguard leader Cayde-6 is going to die in the game’s upcoming Forsaken expansion, and that he’s not coming back. His spicy ramen quest seems to start with an innocuous expired ramen coupon bearing Cayde’s recommendation. Destiny hub light.gg has entries for a common and legendary version of the coupon, which suggests you’ll receive an upgraded version after you start the quest. Planet Destiny’s listing also shows what appears to be the firs

Give me a piano-led soundtrack and a heavy-handed shot of “behold my art,” and I’m there—even though I’m not actually very good at platformers in the first place. Thus my interest in The King’s Bird, “an artistic, momentum-based game that seamlessly combines precision-platforming with physics-based gliding.” The game is set in five unique, beautifully-rendered worlds inspired by Mayan, Southeast Asian, and Roman cultures. Story is nice but spectacle is the real attraction here, and The King’s Bi

The team-based (not turn-based) tactical shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm will be out on September 18, and to convince everyone to give it a try, New World Interactive is giving the original Insurgency away for the next two days. Insurgency is a multiplayer tactical shooter that encourages teamwork through a “brutal” commitment to realism, which in the context of videogames means no regenerating health and certain death if you take more than one hit. To get your free game, just pop over to the Insu

Last month, data miners at Fortnite hub Storm Shield uncovered an item entry for a new “heavy” sniper rifle capable of shooting through walls. Yesterday, the Fortnite Battle Royale Leaks Twitter shared some early footage of the gun in-game, confirming that the heavy sniper is not only on the way, but that it can destroy even metal walls in one shot. This Sniper 1 Shots ANYTHING its a BEAST! That said, the weapon stats shown in the video above line up with the stats listed in the entry, so it’s p

Did you play the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer beta over the weekend? Are you looking forward to the second beta, coming in September, which will include the Blackout battle royale mode? If you answered “yes” to questions 1 and 3 (number 2 is optional), then Activision has a helpful suggestion. Thanks for playing the Black Ops 4 Multiplayer Beta! The start date for round two of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 public beta hasn’t been set.

SCUM is an open-world multiplayer survival game that distinguishes itself from the crowd through extreme attention to detail. And it’s coming to Steam Early Access on August 29. Aspects of numerous previous survival and battle royale games appear to come together in SCUM. There’s obviously a PUBG-style competitive element to it, and it’s presented as a voyeuristic near-future game show, similar to SOS or the late Radical Heights. SCUM was the first game featured in Devolver Digital’s incredible

You can buy a gaming laptop with respectable specs for under a grand, especially if you find one on sale. Case in point, Acer’s Nitro 5 is marked down to $699.99 (from $799.99) at Best Buy right now, and it offers enough horsepower to play most games at 1080p on the laptop’s 15.6-inch display. The foundation consists of a Core i5-8300H processor, 8GB of RAM, and a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU with 4GB of GDDR5 memory. It also has a 256GB SSD for faster game loads and a smoother overall experience eve

Cooler Master just unveiled a beastly air cooling solution for AMD’s second generation Threadripper lineup. Called the Wraith Ripper, this dual-tower cooler is actually the official cooler for the newest round of Threadripper CPUs, including the 32-core/64-thread Threadripper 2990WX that became available today. The Threadripper 2990WX is the first of four planned 2nd-gen Threadripper SKUs. Cooler Master’s Wraith Ripper is designed to cool them all, and do so “under the most strenuous conditions.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen GTX 1080 cards drop as low as $430. Now you can get the EVGA GTX 1080 SC for $489.98 on B&H, and it comes with a free EVGA SuperNova 750W modular power supply. EVGA’s SC cards don’t have massive overclocks out of the box, but they are tested to be stable at the advertised speed. This GTX 1080 has a 1708 MHz base clock, and can boost to 1847 MHz. For connectivity, you get three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0b, and one dual-link DVI-D.You can buy the EVGA GTX 108

Monster Hunter: World recently set a record for the biggest Japanese game launch on Steam of all time, nearly doubling the mark set by the previous record-holder, Dark Souls 3. But it may have a tougher time ahead of it in China, where authorities have ordered the game removed from Tencent’s WeGame platform. The removal is a knock against Capcom, but could have an even bigger impact on WeGame parent Tencent. IHS Markit senior research analyst Chenyu Cui said Monster Hunter: World was the first g