Today, EA posted a refresher on Battlefield 5’s multiplayer modes, beginning with its replacement for BF1’s multi-match Operations mode. Grand Operations will see teams battle over multiple in-game ‘days’ through different modes including Airborne (one team jumps out of planes) and the respawnless Final Stand. According to the post, Grand Operations is coming ‘shortly after launch.’ The other mode that won’t be available at launch is the battle royale mode, which got just a moment of stage time

The culprit, in the broader sense, is the ‘stat squish’ Blizzard implemented in 8.0 which reconfigured WoW’s underlying maths to make it all a bit easier to read. Players began complaining almost immediately that monsters in dungeons and the open world felt like they took way too long to kill than before patch 8.0. Jolly jungle While patch 8.0 has caused some headaches, the expansion it sets the stage for, Battle for Azeroth, is shaping up to be excellent. But if a stat squish caused this many p

Along with previous Activision licensed efforts like every Transformers game and Deadpool, the two Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games have been delisted from Steam. While James wasn’t particularly impressed by the Ultimate Alliance games when they released with eyebrow-raising prices and other issues in 2016, they were patched in the weeks after release. That didn’t stop both games from earning mixed reviews on Steam before they were pulled. If you’re after a decent Marvel game on PC, the options a

For Honor’s seventh season brings with it a new map, some “major” hero reworks, and an updated ranking system. Named Storm and Fury, it’s due next week, August 2. From front to back, Storm and Fury’s new map, the Secluded Keep, is billed as a “personal retreat of a pious Lord surrounded by water”. Onto For Honor’s ranking system, and season seven promises two new divisions—Master and Grand Master, both of which are “reserved for the fiercest warriors.” Ubi turns its attention to battle attire: ”

To this end, the action role-player’s incoming Story mode might help it refocus as it “de-emphasizes combat”, allowing for more exploration. Alongside a host of optimisation tweaks, publisher Focus Home says Vampyr’s Story mode “places a greater focus on narrative, allowing players to experience Dr. Reid’s journey with less challenging combat.” At the other end of the spectrum, Vampyr is also getting a “cranked-up, more challenging” Hard mode. “Hard mode makes combat much more difficult,” says F

I’m addicted to No Man’s Sky all over again. This cool rockThere are a lot of rocks in No Man’s Sky, but this one stuck out. These massive plantsOfficially the biggest living thing I’ve encountered in No Man’s Sky. This dark systemNo Man’s Sky is defined by its vivid colours, but sometimes you’ll jump into a system like this. This absolute unitI don’t spend much time for looking for interesting creatures in No Man’s Sky, but I had to snap this guy.

Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown himself, has now explained PUBG Corp “can’t provide people with free servers” as doing so is not financially viable. In conversation with PCGamesN, Greene says paywalls are required—be that with real money or in-game currency. “I was a modder for many years, and I didn’t expect ARMA to provide me with free servers to mod on, and it’s the same with this,” Greene says. “We can’t provide people with free servers. “We just can’t provide free servers for everyone, it

Helping Hand is what you would get if you took the exo suit out of that equation. It’s a new game by developer Hubblegum that reminds me of Surgeon Simulator in that you can only move your left hand on account of every other bone in your body being broken. I don’t know, maybe his pants don’t have pockets. My index finger comes off the index finger key, causing my index finger to come off the phone, and apparently that finger was the keystone in this whole operation because I immediately drop the

Enter the Gungeon sits on a growing mound of rogue-lites that I love, but have no real hope of ever completing. There’s a new boss, several new mini-bosses and plenty of new mobs, as well as new room types and synergies. I’m happy to play a game like this for hours and find no victory, but it felt like failure used to come particularly thick and fast in Enter the Gungeon. It’s still possible to end up at the first boss without a powerful weapon, and it’s still possible to feel heavily under-arme

Electronic Arts revealed during an investors call today that Origin Access Premier, a new service announced at E3 that will give subscribers early access to new “frontline” games like Battlefield 5 and Anthem, will go live next week. Current Origin Access accounts will be relabeled as “Basic,” but will offer the same services it always has: A ten percent discount in the Origin Store, time-limited “Play First Trials” for new games, and access to The Vault. Jorgensen cited Madden NFL 19 in August,

After a day with Monster Hunter: World on PC, we’ve had the chance to test it out on four different builds and and compare notes on performance and reliability. On most of our systems, Monster Hunter: World has mostly run well, but we’ve experienced a few crashes and infrequent stuttering, plus a few quirks in how Monster Hunter translates from PC to console. System requirementsQuick recap: here’s what Capcom lists as the minimum and recommended system requirements for Monster Hunter: World. Mon

The resurrected White Wolf , purchased and set loose by Paradox Interactive, has finally put the venerable world of urban fantasy and horror back on the tabletop with Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. They have big plans for the future of the setting on tabletop, PC, and even beyond that. Vampire: The Masquerade, the game that for so many had revolutionized the very idea of what you did in a roleplaying game, was gone. Symbolically, 2004 is the same year that Troika’s Vampire: The Masquerade

A digital version of Isle of Skye, the tile-laying strategic board game, is now available on Steam. Released in cardboard back in 2015, Alexander Pfister and Andreas Pelikan’s Isle of Skye was quite well received, netting a load of awards nominations and taking Best Boardgame at the 2016 UK Games Expo. (That is to say, a “real gamer’s game.”) The digital translation was developed by DIGIDICED and published by Asmodee Digital. In Isle of Skye players are chieftains who compete to build a kingdom

Turn 10 Studios announced today that prize crates—Forza’s take on loot boxes that deliver a randomized selection of cars, mods, gear, and badges—will be removed from Forza Motorsport 7. “While we’ve never charged money for prize crates in Forza Motorsport 7, their presence in the game has continued to be a source of controversy. After careful consideration, we have decided to completely remove prize crates from Forza Motorsport 7,” Turn 10 studio head Alan Hartman wrote. “Similarly, paid tokens—

(In case I haven’t mentioned it previously, I would pay real money for a good game based on Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.) Maybe it’ll happen someday, but not today: Today we have word of a new game in development called Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, “a role-playing game of horror, loss, and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft.” Publisher 1C described it as “early,” and it did seem pretty bare-bones in the little bit of time I spent with it. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is curren

It’s a cop game that looks and plays like Hotline Miami but has more in common with the slower, more tactical first-person SWAT series in practice. The same goes for a suspect that’s carrying a gun but has yet to raise it to you. But these are pretty minor things in a game that’s shaping up really well. Police Stories has the potential to be a cop game that handles its genre with some nuance. It’s an action game that leverages the tension and finality of death and makes it the enemy.

60 fps support is great, but unlocked framerates that can take advantage of high refresh displays are even better. When we first got a look at the PC version of Monster Hunter World , there was a lot of talk about 4K, 60 fps performance, but we’re happy to confirm that World offers an uncapped framerate option on PC. Specifically, there are three framerate options: a 30 fps cap, a 60 fps cap, and “no limit.” During an introductory fight between two of the big beasts in a smaller corridor, the fr

With Destiny 2: Forsaken (and Cayde-6’s demise) drawing closer day by day, Bungie has released a video showcasing some of the new exotic gear coming in the expansion. That would be the Antaeus Wards, a pair of Titan boots that reflects incoming projectiles if you slide into them. Your mileage may vary, but in the trailer we see a rocket being returned to sender with expectedly lethal results. (And to be clear, I don’t actually have anything against people who use Wardcliff Coil in the Crucible.

Everyone knows that Nvidia is getting ready to launch its next-gen GeForce 11 series, though exactly when is the big question. In the meantime, vendors are clearing out existing GeForce 10 series. That opens the door to some nifty deals, like EVGA’s custom-cooled GeForce GTX 1060 that’s on sale at Newegg today. You’re not just getting a graphics card with this deal—Newegg will also toss in a $20 store gift card. On top of that, if you register the card, you’ll also get Destiny 2.

Such is the bane of forced updates on Windows 10. They’re not disappearing, but Microsoft is employing machine learning to train Windows 10 not to update itself at inopportune times. Both builds feature a predictive model aimed at accurately predicting when it might be a good time to restart your PC. The company also points out that it can update its predictive model with minimal turnaround time based on insights it collects, and its cloud infrastructure. This feature will show up for all users