Simply sign in between now and Monday, July 2 to join the Guest List. After teasing a star-studded techno summer soundtrack last month, GTA Online confirmed its incoming nightclub-themed update yesterday. “Log into GTA Online at any point between today and Monday July 2nd and you will be automatically added to the Guest List. Qualifying Guest List players can return to GTA Online later in July to receive new and exclusive rewards for logging in each week.” According to this post, the nightclub u

A South Korean man is facing twelve months in jail for creating an Overwatch hack, which made him around $180,000. The hack violates South Korea’s Game Industry Promotion Law, as well as the Information and Communication Technology Protection Law. While previous Overwatch hacking offences have attracted probation periods and hefty fines in South Korea, the profitable nature of this hack is the cause for the jail time, writes SBS News (via Dot Esports). In 2016 South Korea criminalized the creati

The Creative Assembly team responsible for 2014’s brilliant Alien: Isolation is working on a tactical first-person shooter. The news comes via the official Creative Assembly website, where the company is recruiting for a “Senior UI Artist” to work on the “new unannounced IP”. While a sequel to Alien: Isolation seemed possible for a little while, it’s looking pretty unlikely nowadays. There was news back in January about a new Aliens shooter, which will be developed by Cold Iron Studios and publi

Another teaser has just been posted to the Overwatch Twitter account, following up on the cryptic alleyway image that went up last week. This time, a large ball of some sort rolls through the frame. Is Samus Aran joining the Overwatch cast with her morph ball power? Sonic, is that you rolling around at the speed of sound? We think the Boston Uprising is on the right track:

Over the past few weeks, several professional Hearthstone players (and countless Redditors ) have reported frequent unfair matchups. For the Legend players, that makes climbing the ladder and improving their Legend rank nearly impossible. The first 25 ranks of Hearthstone’s ladder use a star system, but once you hit Legend rank, your rank becomes a number. In a perfect world, this is a self-balancing point system, but that’s not what Hearthstone players are actually seeing. Because Legend player

And if you don’t think they’re taken seriously, consider the case of Thomas Hannah, a former Fortnite tester who Epic has sued for allegedly leaking its plans for the game’s fourth season before it went live. During his time there, he took part in secure livestreamed meetings during which the upcoming fourth season was discussed. This was not Hannah, however, but Adam DiMarco, who was sharing the information allegedly provided to him by Hannah. “As a result of Defendant’s wrongful acts, Epic has

Three years ago, a mod team by the name of Datehacks released a Dark Souls boss arena mod which, using the leaked debug build of the game, let players control their favorite bosses and slaughter hapless NPCs. At the time, Datehacks couldn’t manage much more than staged boss fights, but now the mod team is back with Age of Fire, a revamped mod which not only lets you play as every enemy and boss, but take them anywhere. Have a look:Age of Fire is still a work in progress, but it’s already capable

The clothing-optional survival horror game Agony, we said in our recent rundown, can’t maintain its early promise. It doesn’t sound like it sold very well, either: Developer Madmind Studio said today that it is “struggling with financial problems,” and because of that, the planned release of Agony Unrated has been canceled. “Due to technical and legal reasons, Madmind must cancel the development of Agony Unrated. Part of the team will continue to support Agony on Steam and consoles by publishing

Star Control creators Paul Reiche and Fred Ford have launched a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for their defense in a legal battle against Star Control: Origins developer Stardock. Stardock’s lawsuit gained particular attention for stating that Reiche and Ford are not in fact “the creators of Star Control,” as they describe themselves promotionallly. (Original Star Control credits list Reiche as lead designer, artist, and audio engineer, while Ford is credited as designer and lead programmer.

DeepCool’s Baronkase is an intriguing enclosure because it comes with a 120mm all-in-one (AIO) liquid cooler already installed, along with a specially designed flow rate indicator that’s visible through the side window. As an added bonus, Newegg is throwing in a $20 promotional gift card. If you have more shopping to do, the sale + gift card effectively means you’re paying $59.99 and AIO liquid cooler, which is the company’s Captain 120EX model. For storage, the case has three 2.5-inch drive bay

We don’t have much in the way of cooperative and PvE card games on PC yet, but tabletop players are spoiled for riches in that department. That’ll start to change this summer when The Lord of the Rings: Living Card Game arrives on Steam Early Access on August 28th. The basics are familiar to anyone with experience in competitive card games, all about minions fighting minions, trading off with each other while you toss out miscellaneous other card effects to damage enemies or buff your allies. Ob

Many would consider Sennheiser’s open-back HD 650 to be one of them. As Inner Fidelity noted in 2016, Massdrop’s Sennheiser HD 6XX uses the exact same audio drivers and sounds identical to the HD 650, but offers up a few minor tweaks and one big price cut. For one, the HD 6XX is a “deep midnight blue” instead of gray. It also has a black nameplate in place of the silver one found on the HD 650, and the Massdrop logo is silk-screened on the inside of the headband. If you’re interested, hit this l

As much as I was dazzled by Assassin’s Creed Origins’ incredible setting, I’m not sure the game made a compelling case for the series having a level-based progression system. The levelling system provides essential structure and rewards that mean everything you do in Origins contributes to your progress in some way. High-level regions are still a thing in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. In Origins, level requirements left a lot of room for filler. In principle, though, I don’t feel like 2017’s Assassi

Ubisoft games are, in fact, political. “Our goal in all the games we create, is to make people think,” Guillemot told The Guardian. We want players to listen to different opinions and to have their own opinions. Here’s the thing: I don’t think The Division 2 is really going to present a multitude of political opinions with complete neutrality. The goal is to test new things because as tech is changing, video games can have a chance to experiment with what will happen in the future.

That would be the Live Gamer Ultra, which features full 4K HDR passthrough and onboard video processing. It doesn’t require any special drivers—just plug it in, install the software, and capture your HDR gameplay. With 100 percent lag-free, 4Kp60 HDR video pass-through, the LGU allows you to enjoy the mesmerizing 4K HDR gameplay and record at 4Kp30,” AVerMedia says. AVerMedia also announced the Live Gamer 4K , a PCIe-based capture card with slightly more robust capabilities. It’s the company’s f

Image sourced from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The distinction belongs to Summit, an IBM-built supercomputer running at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). “Scientists around the world have been working to develop supercomputers for years, but scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory just built the fastest one: ‘Summit,’” Sen. Lamar Alexander said. To Nvidia’s point, its GPUs power five of the world’s seven fastest systems, along with 17 of the 20 most energy e

Last month, DJs The Black Madonna and Tale of Us teased a collaboration with fellow artists Solomun and Dixon for something happening this summer in the city of Los Santos. Today Rockstar revealed that all four artists will bring their beats to Grand Theft Auto Online’s new Nightclubs, sweaty palaces of the underground dance scene that also provide a respectable cover for your shadier business affairs. Club management is “honest work,” which is of course what you want in a money-laundering opera

Conan Exiles, which really only features the titular barbarian-king for a couple of minutes, is showing some love to Khitan players, and fans of the Khitan aesthetic with its first piece of post-launch DLC: The Imperial East Pack. Buildings, furniture, weapons and armour with a distinct Khitan bent can all be crafted using the DLC, adding a bit more variety of the Exiled Lands. DLC is only part of Funcom’s post-launch plans for their cock-swinging survival game, and more free updates are being p

The Walking Dead’s final season will fittingly be the last game for the old engine, while the Stranger Things adaptation will be the first Unity title, the sources say. Take a gander at The Walking Dead’s E3 trailer below. Unity is a flexible, popular engine, while the Telltale Tool has been unable to keep up with changes in game development. Still, the studio has made the most of the Telltale Tool, and The Walking Dead’s closing season looks like it will be pushing it further than ever. The fir

Fortnite’s Playground mode, a limited time event announced last month, is coming soon. A private island doesn’t have to be a lonely place, either. All treasure chests and ammo crates will be spawned, try droppin’ in different spots and scope out the loot. Like the 50 vs. 50 mode, it won’t stick around forever, but that might not always be the case. Epic considers this the first step in making a creative mode, which seems like something that would make more sense as a permanent fixture.