With its vineyards, theatrics and a cheeky glint in its eye, Summerset is ESO letting loose Summer Break style. Nowhere was this more obvious than in a simple enough seeming side quest in Rellenthil, starring a troupe of flamboyant, masked entertainers. Of course, there is an actual purpose to your arrival in Summerset, and it’s not paddling in the sea or snapping screenshots. That’s for me and my therapist to discuss, but either way, he’s a great spokesperson for the Summerset experience. One o

Activision trotted out Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 earlier this month, and more recently Battlefield 5 got the big reveal treatment. Amidst it all, BioWare has taken a slightly more low-key approach to reminding everyone that it’s got something cooking too. BioWare delayed Anthem into early 2019 at the beginning of this year, although it insisted that it wasn’t really a delay so much as a rescheduling to accommodate Battlefield 5. Whatever the reason, the timing means that, barring an actual delay

EA revealed one such unknown element on Twitter yesterday, a new attack-and-defend game mode called Airborne, in which one team drops from the sky to destroy some artillery, while the other does its best to keep the guns firing. Say hello to Airborne: a new #Battlefield V mode where you’ll parachute into the battlefield and work with your squad to destroy enemy artillery, or defend them and make sure the threat from above is dealt with. Airborne attacks work because they drop guys behind the lin

With regards to the latter, Newegg is offering a nice discount on an Intel Core i7-8700 CPU paired with a Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming motherboard. However, Newegg is knocking $52 off the top as part of a bundle, bringing the price down to $399.98. On top of that, there’s a $30 mail-in-rebate available (on the motherboard), so you’re looking at $369.98 after cashing that in, saving $82 in all. These parts hardly need an introduction at this point, but to quickly recap, the Core i7-8700 is a 6-core

Among the recent crop of 4K and HDR monitors that have shown up in the marketplace, Asus has quietly introduced the ROG Strix XG248Q, a more basic display that focuses almost entirely on speed. “ROG Strix XG248Q is all about speed—making it the perfect monitor for esports and first-person shooters. This Full HD monitor is the fastest ever, with a 240Hz native refresh rate, 1ms response time, and Extreme Low Motion Blur technology for silky-smooth gameplay and ultra-realistic visuals,” Asus says.

AMD is pushing out a new Radeon Software Adrenalin 18.5.2 driver release to Radeon GPU owners, and with it comes a handful of bug fixes. One of those fixes addresses an issue that was causing Sea of Thieves to crash or hang after the initial splash screen. A limited number of Radeon FreeSync enabled displays may experience a blank screen when Radeon FreeSync is enabled in a game. However, AMD decided to still push out the driver release, with several fixes in tow. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt may ex

Depth of Extinction is a turn-based strategy game about assembling a squad of soldiers, cramming them all into a submarine, and exploring the water-logged ruins of a once-prosperous Earth. The influence of FTL is clearly visible in Depth of Extinction’s permadeath, and also in the way it’s structured. From a static starting point, you bounce between locations of your choice, picking up soldiers and resources as you go. However, rather than naval or underwater battles, these play out as standard

Despite its somewhat lacklustre main story campaign, Fallout 4’s wealth of player-made mods continue to impress. Named Spawn Grenade, this creation adds “baseball-like” grenades which generate enemies in large batches of one to 50. In conversation with another Nexus Mods user, GenghisKhanX discusses a scenario—an “evil idea”, as they put it—whereby his mod rigs a settlement’s power, so that it spawns baddies at intervals and numbers decided by the player. Between what Spawn Grenade already offer

Agony is a survival stealth game set in hell. At first Agony was as gross and atmospheric as I hoped it would be. Interacting with weird mirrors scattered around the environment gives you a limited set of respawn charges. You can turn the gamma up, which helps, but the game takes on that artificial oversaturated night-vision look. The darkness feels like a deliberate choice to try and keep you disoriented, but squinting at a monitor isn’t a great survival horror experience.

Video: The latest trailer for Underworld AscendantUsing a physics engine to throw a box at an animated skeleton’s head isn’t a particularly exciting or new idea, but it’s being presented as an exemplary expression of player freedom in Underworld Ascendant. It’s the same assortment of simple chemistry and physics magic we’ve been performing in games since Half-Life 2 made boxes cool. But for all the talk OtherSide Entertainment’s marketing has generated about how Underworld Ascendant will move th

With the latter in mind, Japanese developer Arc System Works has announced new streaming restrictions, in tandem with the launch of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. As detailed in these guidelines (via gamesindustry.biz), players are encouraged to stream local or online matches “to your heart’s content”, and to post tutorial videos. “If you have to, very short clips of Episode Mode content up to Chapter 2 are permitted for video content only. We want to make sure fans get to experience the Episode Mo

Billed as a digital sequel to The Lost World, Steven Spielberg’s second Jurassic Park movie, Trespasser was both groundbreaking and a complete disaster. Trespasser is set on Isla Sorna, where John Hammond’s dinosaurs were created in a secret laboratory before being shipped over to Jurassic Park on nearby Isla Nublar. But it’s worth noting that Trespasser was released six years before Half-Life 2 wowed us all with its crate-stacking physics puzzles. And because everything Anne does is governed by

From now through Monday, June 4, Steam hosts the Skulls for the Skull Throne sale—a roundup of discounted Games Workshop games, including Total War: Warhammer 2, Blood Bowl 2 and Vermintide 2. Fantastic new Skulls themed content and updates for many of your favourite Warhammer games,” reads the sale’s Steam news post. “The Bone Giant comes to Total War: WARHAMMER 2, earn a Skull portrait UI in Warhammer: Vermintide 2, unleash the Legion of the Damned in Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf and deploy ne

But while we’re severely lacking in Outrun, we do now have Slipstream, and it’s almost as good. The trick to being good at Slipstream is smoothly controlling the drift, and navigating around traffic as you skid. It’s tricky to master, but feels good regardless. In those situations it’s handy, but not so revelatory that it feels worth naming the entire game after. After all, it’s basically Outrun, and Outrun is great.

For his money, there’s more mileage in baseball management sims. The brilliance of baseball is that it’s a team sport and a single sport at the same time. It’s the pitcher against the batter and then it’s a team game at the same time. It’s like a team-based football game, only with penalties. What would it take for Paradox to develop a baseball management sim, then?

League of Legends’ Rift Rivals tournament will hit Australia for the first time next month. Rift Rivals 2018 will take place across five events, with two or three regions represented at each event. Tickets for the Sydney Rift Rivals are on sale now with entry starting from $49. There are also limited VIP tickets which include backstage meet-and-greets and the opportunity to actually play on the Rift Rivals stage, which doesn’t sound daunting at all. You can buy tickets for Rift Rivals on the Sta

If you’ve yet to play Square Enix’s action set piece simulator Just Cause 3, now is probably the best time to do so: it’s only $4.49 on Steam right now. Or, if you want to lash out and get all associated DLC as well, that’ll set you back $6.74. You can also get Just Cause 2 for $2.99, and the original Just Cause for a measly 97 cents. A recent Walmart Canada E3 leak suggests that Just Cause 4 is currently in development – if it actually is, we’ll likely hear more about it in early June. As for J

Blame Wes Fenlon. Our features editor casually floated the idea “Hey, why don’t we do an indie zine?” For those who aren’t familiar: zines are small-circulation hobbyist publications, often photocopied, black-and-white, and distributed free or for a token amount. I thought it sounded like a perfect fit for the Indie section, which, like zines, is motivated by a scrappy love of things that not enough people care about. You can read the pdf in the embed below, but in the true spirit of the zine, w

Today Bungie announced that the promised reveal will take place next week, during a livestream set for 9 am PT/12 pm ET on June 5. The stream will feature members of the development team including game director Steve Cotton and project lead Scott Taylor. Join us on June 5th at 9am PT: https://t.co/g1ExcEjMgM pic.twitter.com/Xt81e9VVVZMay 31, 2018No details were revealed, but the Year 2 reveal image does contain a hint. Finally, Bungie announced an immediate nerf to the Escalation Protocol activi

Mod use will be enabled in a separate “Modded Realm” that can be selected from the Vermintide 2 launcher. The studio does have plans for ‘sanctioned mods,’ however, which will be allowed on the Official Realm. “Since Warhammer: Vermintide 2 contains progression systems, we cannot allow mods that ‘cheat’ or make the game easier in ways that go against our design philosophy,” Fatshark explained in a mod creation guide. “The type of mods we will allow (sanctioned mods) are quality of life mods, cer