If you fancy a wee breather, though, let me point you towards Humble’s Curve Digital sale. Live now through Monday, June 18 at 6pm BST / 10am PST, expect savings of up to 85 percent on the indie publisher’s wares—including Bomber Crew (£7.49/your regional equivalent), Stealth Bastard Deluxe (£1.04), The Flame in the Flood (£5.24) and Human Fall Flat (£5.99). The Human Fall Flat four-pack costs £14.99, and, as its name likely suggests, lets you and three mates take on the physics puzzle platforme

The open world of the original often felt oppressive and claustrophic, the streets of Manhattan boxed in on all sides by concrete and steel. Even after just a few minutes in Washington D.C., it immediately feels different. Even after just a few minutes in Washington D.C., it immediately feels different. The demo didn’t cover a whole lot of ground, but even the small area I played got me interested in seeing the rest of DC, and finding out how much the more open open world changes squad tactics,

Since its trailer aired on Sunday, we’ve found out loads about CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. When asked by Eurogamer if Cyberpunk 2077 is “purely” a single-player game, quest designer Patrick Mills answered yes. Mills explains that said multiplayer R&D refers to both CD Projekt Red as a studio, but also Cyberpunk 2077 explicitly. At launch we’re concentrating on the single-player game. In the Cyberpunk world there are these people called Fixers.

Following Anthem’s appearance at EA Play on Saturday, the game’s executive producer has fielded hundreds of questions from those interested in BioWare’s shared-world shooter. I checked back in on Darrah’s Twitter feed, and found this on the absence of player-to-player trading at launch interesting. No trading at launch.We want to ensure control on balance https://t.co/gUdawkPW9mJune 12, 2018Likewise, the following details on matchmaking, playing with random players, handling griefing and reporti

Hyper-popular streamer Ninja and his duos partner Marshmello, a DJ who wears a giant marshmallow mask on his head, have won the Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am. Meanwhile, Ninja and Marshmello were comfortably spending resources on a stable platform above while the storm did its inevitable work. Ninja and Marshmello will split $1 million in winnings between charities of their choice. Notably, the charity money is not part of the $100 million prize pool Epic is reserving for the first year of competiti

During the Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am, Epic Games announced more plans for its first year of competitive play. The 2019 Fortnite World Cup and its accompanying $100 million prize pool is open to anyone who plays the game. Qualifying events will be held around the globe, giving anyone with access to such an event a shot at the World Cup. Epic will be funneling that prize money into more than just pure competitive play too, from the sound of it. “Qualifying for the World Cup will be based on merit,

Fortnite continues to raise the bar for Twitch viewership, bringing in more than 700,000 viewers (and counting) to the official Fortnite Twitch channel during the first Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am tournament. Recently, Ninja set a record with his strange, but entertaining Ninja Vegas event with an approximate 667,000 viewers. A host of streamers were given permission to co-stream the even as well, bringing the total viewership on Twitch to 1.3 million. The Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am is Epic’s first

Intel’s first discrete GPU coming in 2020: https://t.co/s9EPeFifBp pic.twitter.com/n5zmUY2Mc2June 12, 2018The announcement puts the world on notice, and in particular AMD and Nvidia, that Intel is coming. More recently, Intel also hired Chris Hook, another former AMD employee, to be its new “discrete graphics guy.” It seems pretty clear that Intel is headed toward releasing a discrete graphics card for gaming at some point, which is pretty exciting. We haven’t seen a proper discrete graphics sol

Five years after watching a teaser trailer for Cyberpunk , I can finally confirm that Cyberpunk 2077 is a game that exists. Though cutscenes and driving sometimes switch to third-person, Cyberpunk 2077 involves a lot of first-person shooting. In the first few minutes of the demo, V rescued a woman kidnapped by organ scavengers. It’s not the best way to deliver the story, and thankfully Cyberpunk 2077 has massive improvements in this area. We know nothing of the story, but the world looks incredi

Windows XP was a great operating system, but it’s also 17 years old, and its best days are long, long behind it. “Starting on January 1 2019, Steam will officially stop supporting the Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. Upcoming versions of Steam will also be dependent upon Windows features and security updates that aren’t supported in versions of Windows that predate Windows 7. Windows XP and Vista users will be able to launch games through Steam until the end of the year, but other

Toshiba has been in the SSD business nearly since the beginning, and the Toshiba RC100 is the latest addition to the company’s extensive portfolio of SSDs. That will give you the most storage, the highest endurance, and the best value, and it’s only moderately more expensive than a good SATA drive. If a brand new RC100 can drop to sustained throughput of only 20MB/s, what will the drive performance look like in two years? The Toshiba RC100 lives and dies by its small sizeThe RC100 is an interest

We’re introducing basically a trophy rack to track all the things you’re getting. There’s going to be a few question marks in there where you’re gonna be like ‘I don’t know how to get that?’ But for a lot of weapons in there, you’re gonna see how. I think that’s gonna be really, really cool. You’re gonna want to use it when you want to make sure that your shot lands.

Popular online roleplaying platform Roll20 is adding a character creation app called The Charactermancer to its suite online roleplaying services. Currently in testing, the tool can currently only build level 1 Dungeons & Dragons characters using data from D&D’s free rules compendium and Roll20’s own virtual compendium . Like most of Roll20’s services The Charactermancer will be available for free to all users on launch. Eventually the tool will integrate with character creation for other “Roll2

Valve has released a brand new chat system for Steam, with a bevy of new features including a customizable (and prettier) friends list, group chat options, more seamless voice chatting, an invisible mode, shareable friend request links, and more. In-line images, video, tweets, audio, and other media can now be shared in the chat client, and you’ll be able to share trade offer links as well. “As a result, voice chat uses high quality Opus encoding, voice traffic is encrypted, and all traffic is s

In a demo today, we learned a lot about Cyberpunk 2077: that it’s a first-person shooter RPG, for one thing. We don’t know exactly what cool does, but we’re willing to bet cool is a way of measuring your character’s charisma, albeit in a cyberpunk kind of way. Cool was actually a stat in Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop RPG, as well. One other stat in CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077 that might have a relationship with cool is ‘street cred’ which is a stat found on the main character’s jacket

We learned a lot of things during our demo session with CD Projekt’s long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077 today, including that you’ll be able to play the game as either a woman or a man, each with full voice-acted dialogue. The game will feature a full-on character creation system that will enable gender selection as well as your history and the path you’ve followed through your cyber-life, all of which will have an impact on how you’re perceived, and how the game will unfold. Hair styles, tattoos, body

EA’s decision to include women in the upcoming Second World War FPS Battlefield 5 has generated a lot of heat. He also emphasized that Battlefield 5 is not a history lesson: It’s a videogame that’s going to be played by a diverse audience living in a diverse world. This is not OK.'””These are people who are uneducated—they don’t understand that this is a plausible scenario. But that doesn’t extend to bellowing about the inclusion of diverse playable characters, and I very much respect his willin

If Bloodborne was the metal cover song of Dark Souls, then surely Sekiro was just the traditional Japanese cover ? For the Dark Souls diehards, that list of have nots might be terrifying to read. But for every idea Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice strips away from the Dark Souls formula, a new one is introduced. A whole new worldSimilar to Dark Souls, Sekiro will feature an expansive, interconnected world that you can explore at will. And that deep, gripping sense of mystery is what made Dark Souls so

Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones, due out in 2019, appears to be a pirate game of another feather. A couple times, facing a ship a few levels lower than mine, one ramming ult was all it took. The Skull & Bones demo was fast and furious, with so much combat and so many ships crammed into the small patch of sea I explored it was a bit ridiculous. I enjoyed what I played of Skull & Bones, which isn’t a surprise since I really liked the naval combat of Black Flag and Origins, too. I still have a lot of quest

4A Games says Metro Exodus is bigger than Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light combined. Metro Exodus tells a linear story, so once you have moved on to a new zone, it’s unlikely you will be able to backtrack. It feels like your changing group of companions will be the focus for Metro Exodus’ story, which encompasses a year of your character’s life. It’s beautiful, but hopefully the bugs get fixedThe Metro games look incredible, especially since 4A released ‘Redux’ versions. Metro Exodus is due out