GOG’s latest sale offers escapes to dungeons, jails and fantasy worlds this weekend. Most notably from now through Monday August 14, Red Hook Studios’ wonderful and brutally-challenging RPG Darkest Dungeon is on sale for £7.59/$10.73 with a 60 percent discount. When the cost is measured in sanity and blood, the most powerful lesson Darkest Dungeon taught me about adventuring is that it isn’t always worth doing. Elsewhere, this GOG weekend sale offers Introversion Software’s Prison Architect for

According to Variety (via Gamespot), Apple has ordered a straight-to-series comedy show from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia stars Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day that takes place in a game development studio. Not much is known about the show beyond its basic premise, but Variety says it will be a scripted comedy with half-hour episodes—similar to the It’s Always Sunny format. Sunny kicks off its 13th season next month, so I presume schedules won’t clash with whatever this new venture is. Throu

Following last month’s first closed alpha, we learned the Battlefield 5 beta will take place in early September. Before it does, the incoming war shooter will run a second closed alpha next week—on Tuesday, August 14. In a blog post, EA says this second closed alpha is built “directly” from the first and will not contain changes to maps, modes, weapons or vehicles. Details on how to join next week’s closed alpha can be read here, while key infor can be gleaned from the image above. Within the al

John Hight: What was fun for us in a way was, this is a time where we’re telling the story in the game and outside the game. We had choreographed it in such a way so that Warbringers and the [Old Soldier] movie could be shown separately. Ion Hazzikostas, game directorIf we had our druthers, we wouldn’t actually reveal any of the story before the game was launched. It’s a way for players to engage with the game anew and to get hyped and get their [alternate characters] caught up. But we feel pret

Most of the fun in VR comes from moving around, whether that’s swinging swords in Skyrim or moving pieces on a game board. But if you’d rather play all your games with a standard keyboard or gamepad, this is a solid deal. The Lenovo Mixed Reality headset (without motion controllers) is just $99.99 at B&H right now. Since this is a Windows Mixed Reality headset, it can play just about every SteamVR game, in addition to VR titles on the Windows Store. You can buy the Lenovo Mixed Reality headset h

That doesn’t necessarily mean all swastikas, all the time, but a hard “no” will no longer be the default. “Through the change in the interpretation of the law, games that critically look at current affairs can for the first time be given a USK age rating,” USK managing director Elisabeth Secker told CTV. “This has long been the case for films and with regards to the freedom of the arts, this is now rightly also the case with computer and videogames.” The German Games Industry Association issued

Publisher Focus Home Interactive announced today that the team-based tactical FPS Insurgency: Sandstorm will be out on September 18. Ahead of that, two “preorder beta” tests will take place, the first of which is live right now. “Preorder beta 1” will feature three maps, dozens of weapons (and hundreds of loadouts), and all planned game modes, with fully-implemented vehicle and fire support systems. The second preorder beta is slated to begin on August 30 and will run right through until the rel

Two days ago, MSI’s RX 580 8GB card was just $220 after a mail-in rebate. ASRock’s dual-fan RX 580 8GB is just $219.99 after a $20 mail-in rebate, and it comes with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Strange Brigade, and Star Control Origins. This card has a base clock of 1380 MHz, with an OC mode that pushes it to 1435 MHz. For connectivity, you get three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0, and one dual-link DVI-D.You can buy the ASRock Phantom Gaming RX 580 from Newegg. The listed price is $239.99, but the

The fifth and final DLC release for the interstellar strategy game Starpoint Gemini Warlords, appropriately entitled Endpoint, concludes the story of the Gemini Protectorate, which finds itself cornered and cut off by the expansive military might and diplomatic prowess of the Solari Concord. The DLC features a “branching narrative” that enables players to direct the story by selecting different courses of action at critical junctures. Endpoint is the final DLC release planned for Starpoint Gemin

Hunt: Showdown, Crytek’s game of competitive supernatural big game hunting, is free to play for the weekend on Steam—and the weekend has already begun. It hasn’t actually begun, obviously, this is only Thursday, but the Hunt: Showdown freebie is live now. Just pop over to the Steam page, click “Play Game” button, and… play the game. The latest update to Hunt: Showdown, released earlier this week, also added new weapons, consumables, traits, and a new tool to the game, brought “accolades” to th

Monster Hunter: World is off to a roaring start on PC. There was no preload option for Monster Hunter: World, so that concurrent peak may continue to grow throughout the day as more people download the game. That number has already put Monster Hunter: World on the list of the biggest launches in Steam’s history; it’s eclipsed No Man’s Sky and Civilization 6, and sits below GTA5 and Fallout 4’s massive launch day numbers. For comparison’s sake, Final Fantasy 15, another big Japanese RPG, had a pe

The map will still feature plenty of nods to the old Hereford however, something that the developers hope will retain the “soul” of the map, while making it far more visually interesting. Hereford Base was the first map ever prototyped for Siege, and since then the game has shifted significantly, leaving Hereford behind. Nowadays, it feels clunky and bland to play on, in stark contrast to newer maps like Villa or Theme Park. Overall, these changes are so significant that it looks like the new He

Newegg is bundling Corsair’s Bulldog (2.0) barebones PC kit with an Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake processor and 16GB (2x8GB) of Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3000 RAM for $669.97. The Core i7-7700K is a generation old at this point, but still plenty fast. It’s a 4-core/8-thread part with a 4.2GHz base clock (4.5GHz boost clock) and 8MB of L3 cache. As for Corsair’s Bulldog kit, this is a newer revision of the original Bulldog, which we took a look at in 2015. As long as you avoid doing that, you’ll hav

AMD is expected to flesh out its second generation Ryzen processor family with additional SKUs, specifically the Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X, neither of which have officially been announced yet. In this case, Lenovo listed the two aforementioned CPUs among several other options for its ThinkCenter M725 line of small form factor desktops. Lenovo has since removed the Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X designations, though not before Hexus.net could grab a screenshot. There are more details that

“I’ll admit it: our game’s weird,” says Matt Jackson, as I process the match of Deathgarden we just played. I think we’ve just found a way to package this weird emotional thing that creates not only moments, but very watchable moments. “I think the game is as much genuinely a game of psychology between the Hunter and the Runners,” says Senior Creative Director Ash Pannell. Rescues at the Blood Post can get the whole Runner team killed, if you aren’t careful. A smart, coordinated Runner team can

Epic Games kicked off the Fortnite Android beta test today, with the first round of invitations going to owners of Samsung Galaxy devices. The beta is currently support on the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge , S8, S8+, S9, S9+, Note 8, Note 9, Tab S3, and Tab S4, and anyone who buys a new Note 9 or Tab S4 will also get a swanky new Galaxy outfit. Support for voice chat and Bluetooth controllers won’t be available at release but are coming later, and rooted devices won’t be supported either, but may be in

In tandem with its Summer Sale contest, digital storefront Fanatical has launched the Fanatical Assistant—a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox designed to help unearth the cheapest game deals. Likewise, the Assistant finds and applies coupon codes on Steam games, and identifies when they’re selling for less on Fanatical. Bethesda’s QuakeCon 2018 Steam sale kicked off this week, for example, which has 2016’s DOOM on sale for £7.49/$10. “Another great feature from Fanatical Assistant is the

Acer is getting serious about gaming mice and other PC peripherals. So serious, in fact, that it plans on spinning off its PC gaming and smart accessories business into a wholly owned subsidiary to capture a larger share of the market. This is not brand new territory for Acer, which has its line of Predator peripherals, and last year debuted an ambidextrous mouse and a new gaming headset. This is not a surprising move by Acer, given its interest in the PC gaming segment with its Predator product

If you plan on playing Monster Hunter: World (and you should, it’s great), heed this warning. There is a song you’ll hear almost immediately, and once you hear it, your life may change forever. It is transportative music that completes Astera, granting static NPCs acting as storefronts and crafting interfaces some semblance of life beyond twitching lips and tilting heads. As I try to pull away from Monster Hunter: World in the slow endgame grind, I’m called back in against my will by the gallant

What are the chances of Red Dead Redemption 2 coming to PC? Particularly when its first glimpse of in-game footage looks so enticing. I say glimpse, but the following six minute-long trailer shows off everything from exploration to combat, the consequences of Arthur Morgan’s actions, and hunting and trade. Saddle up, partner:Above, Rockstar bills its ‘lawless frontier’ as a “living world that’s not simply open, but deeper.” Red Dead Redemption 2 is due on consoles on October 26, 2018.