Redout is futuristic racing game inspired by the likes of Wipeout and F-Zero, but its sequel, revealed during E3, escapes the shackles of the racetrack and ventures into space for dogfights and tactical combat. Redout: Space Assault’s a bit different, then, but it’s still very fast. So instead of racing, expect to be flitting around space shooting things, as well as using your nimble Super Orbital Recon Fighter to take control of larger ships. That’s where it gets a bit tactical, developer 34Big

The Forza Twitter account mentioned the unexpected early download yesterday, admitting that it was unintended and that the full game will download automatically when it’s released. Today, some of you noticed Forza Horizon 4 game files preloading on your PCs. If you’d like, you can safely uninstall the downloaded files.June 24, 2018Redditor daten-shi was one of the people able to preload Forza Horizon 4. You’ll be able to download Forza Horizon 4 properly when it launches on October 11. In the me

Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before: Half-Life remake Black Mesa’s Xen chapters should be out very soon. The first chapter, itself called Xen, is mostly done, and the team need to simply “polish one or two rough edges”. The third chapter, Interloper, is playable from start to finish, and the final chapter, Endgame, is locked, and just needs some final minor tweaks. The second chapter, Gonarch’s Lair, still needs some art and design changes, while the fourth chapter, Nihilanth, stil

Fancy playing Fallout 4 with puncture-resistant lungs, armour built into your skin and hard-wired reflexes? Then you might be into a new mod that adds cybernetic implants to the RPG. The mod includes more than 50 implants, which should give plenty of customisation options, and you can also kit out your followers, too. Raven Damara plans to give implants to NPCs in future updates, which should boost enemy variety. If you’re interested, here’s the Nexus page.

One Fallout 4 modder has a particularly grim view of what Fallout 76, due out in November, is going to be like: griefers chasing you around, other players taunting you non-stop and nukes falling from the sky every few seconds. That’s what you’ll get if you install the tongue-in-cheek Fallout 4-76, which SKK50 uploaded this week. To keep you on your toes the mod will launch nukes in your direction occasionally with very little warning. If you fancy a goofy escape from the normal Fallout 4 experie

I’ve been working on a tool to convert animated GIFs to Quake’s sprite format! pic.twitter.com/F95FxEeNwmJune 22, 20181996: the year of both classic FPS Quake and of the famous viral video of a dancing virtual baby, which spawned an equally famous GIF that was emailed across offices around the world. Joshua Skelton, lead artist on first-person rogue-like Delver, has now combined the two, as you can see above. As he says in the tweet, it’s not all about getting the babies into the game: he’s crea

“It doesn’t matter if you’re solo, grouped with one other person, or in a full group of six. Most games contain at least one group: only 16% of matches are made up of all solo players, he said. If you’re in a team of solo players, three in four of the teams you face will be made up of solo players too. But it’s less dominant than I expected: those teams win just under 53% of the time, probably because they’re matched up with teams made of other large groups. Solo players have an average win rate

Annual charity speedrunning bonanza Summer Games Done Quick—little brother of Awesome Games Done Quick—starts today, and you can catch it all on Twitch. The event kicks off at 5:30pm BST / 12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT, and it will last for a full week. I like just sticking it on in the background whenever I’ve got some spare time, but if you’re looking for a specific game or runner, then the full schedule is here. The event follows a record-breaking Awesome Games Done Quick 2018, which raised more tha

Hearthstone modder Whiskey_And_CigarsThis is an emphatically, painstakingly immersive role-playing game with real characters and real emotions. All that being said, the existence of pornographic Hearthstone mods threw me for a loop. It’s as if you were playing Hearthstone directly onto a Playboy pinup. Safe to say, I have never gotten a boner while playing Stellaris. You have to blow through so many red lights, so many well-intentioned warnings and concerns, to arrive at a Stellaris porn mod.

Fortnite’s co-operative Save the World mode always gets less attention than its battle royale brother, but Epic is promising big changes over the coming months. Most notably, the new Canny Valley campaign, alongside a new biome, will arrive in the “near future”—they’ll be here “shortly after v5.0”, which is due next month. The campaign will arrive act-by-act, and will “take you through the Arid parts of the Fortnite world, with many new and unique places to explore. Save the World players have b

Managing your own jail in Prison Architect just got a little bit tougher. As of the latest update, prisoners can now attempt to escape using a rope fashioned from their own jumpsuits. Prisoners working in the laundry will occasionally try to steal five uniforms to make the rope, and may trade it with other prisoners. Strong prisoners now don’t even need a rope to escape: then can straight-up climb over fences to get out. The update also adds new graphs for your to track the performance of your p

If you’ve got a hole in your Valve knowledge, then the Steam Summer Sale is the perfect opportunity to plug it. You can buy every single Valve-developed game for $15/£11.50 in the Valve Complete Pack, which is a 92% discount. Maybe you’ve played Half Life 2 but not Episodes 1 and 2, for example. Or perhaps you’ve played Half Life but not the remastered Half Life: Source. Note that Garry’s Mod is not included because it was only published, rather than developed, by Valve.

England’s National Health Service (NHS) is set to open its first internet addiction clinic, which will focus on the treatment and research of “gaming disorder”. The clinic will be run by the Central and North West London NHS foundation trust, and will expand its services to other internet addictions in the future. “Gaming disorder is finally getting the attention it deserves,” said psychiatrist Henrietta Bowden-Jones, the founder of the clinic. “We hope that the WHO will reconsider the mounting

“But it doesn’t have to have space marines [to be Warhammer 40,000] in my eyes.” “We decided not to go with cover,” says McKerrow, as if it’s not a big deal to drop one of the genre’s central ideas. The way he talks about it reminds me of another Warhammer 40,000 game, Relic’s Space Marine from 2011. Another way Mechanicus encourages action is that you’re not punished for treating grunts as disposable. When you go into another fight Necrons move faster, Necrons increase damage, Necrons may reviv

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire’s latest update is a big one, rebalancing ship combat, class abilities and weapons. The ship changes are the most meaningful, and could drastically alter the way your party does battle at sea. Ship health has been reduced by 20%, which should make fights faster. The update also fixes some major crashes and updates specific quests so they’re less likely to bug out. If you want to dig into the changes in more detail to see what’s happened to your favourite class or

Larian Studios has revealed more details about how it intends to revamp its excellent RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2 in August’s Definitive Edition, and it will involve a “largely re-written” late game with 130,000 words worth of new story—the equivalent of a chunky fantasy novel. The studio’s writers have also changed 150,000 words to make story arcs tighter, the developer said. He’s been extensively re-written, and he’ll have more to say and do in the game’s conclusion, Vanord said. The Definiti

Online games like Runescape let you team up with like-minded people from around the globe to go on adventures. This week’s question: When did you know you were playing a game way too much? Joe Donnelly: Not this againWhen did I know I was playing way too much of a game? “Joe Donnelly: £99.94, just this year”, I answered when asked ‘ what’s the most you’ve ever spent on a game? ‘ Honestly, I just got bored of the game after 5,000 hours, but there was a moment when I realized I might be playing to

Given the game’s inherent variance, a good win rate in Hearthstone is anything above 60 percent or so. A sustained win rate above or around 70 percent is world champion territory, and more often than not, achieved through blind luck or a small sample size. Caero set a new ladder win streak record while playing this Odd Rogue deck in Wild on his Twitch stream earlier today. So, you know, expect to see a lot of Odd Rogue in Wild this weekend. Tragically, his win streak was shut down by the most fr

It’s naive to read into the vague, short blog post and extract the idea that building is basically going away. Epic wouldn’t clip Fortnite’s wings right before the first $100 million year of formal competition goes underway. I’ve spent much of the week following up on that, listing out what I want to buy, and comparing that budget with what I’m spending on the Steam sale. It’s a game I’ve been playing for years and I love that, even now, it can still surprise me. And if you haven’t played it yet

In Thursday’s This Week At Bungie update , alongside the expected Destiny 2 updates Bungie announced that it’s closing its old Halo forums . The forums will be removed on June 28 at 10 a.m. Pacific. The official Bungie forums were a beloved hub for all things Halo, but ironically, I reckon the off-topic Flood forum is what people will miss the most. It’s the most active forum by a mile: at 19,426,249 posts across 922,428 topics, it dwarfs the runner-up Halo 3 forum’s 11,583,961 posts and 801,483