Phil’s review of F1 2017 is informative but accessible, which makes me think this year’s offering is on the right track. “I love playing the F1 game,” he tells Codemasters in this blog post. Speaking of realism, F1 2018 has revised lighting, new skies and clouds—with more realistic cloud formations and jet trails—and “atmospheric systems”, which amplify depth to create “stunning vistas”. Moreover, F1 2018 has improved its car physics system with a new player-managed Energy Recovery System. Codem

In the latest Fortnite ‘State of Development’ blogpost, Epic Games has announced a forthcoming limited time mode in the form of Playground (v1). Departing dramatically from the format of previous Fortnite modes, Playground resembles Minecraft more than it does, say, a battle royale. And there are loads of llamas too, apparently, though stats and challenges won’t be tracked. In other game mode news, Epic is “evaluating” the possibility of adding a 50v50 mode permanently. Or you could go muck arou

Gaming commentator and critic John Bain, aka TotalBiscuit, has died at age 33. The announcement came from Bain’s wife Genna, who tweeted a poem in remembrance today, on May 24. Rest in Peace my Dearest LoveJohn @Totalbiscuit BainJuly 8, 1984 – May 24, 2018 pic.twitter.com/hg9ytHsItJMay 24, 2018Bain hosted the podcast World of Warcraft Radio from 2005 to 2010, before joining a Youtube network making videos on World of Warcraft. He was best known for his Youtube channel TotalBiscuit, which grew in

The idea really intrigued me: Could paying for Overwatch lessons really help make me a better player? He’s an Overwatch pro with half a dozen first place tournament wins under his belt and is easily the most qualified coach on Gamer Sensei. Mousing aboutThe biggest problem that most players have with Overwatch, especially if they’re new, is having way, way too high of a sensitivity. “The biggest problem that most players have with Overwatch, especially if they’re new, is having way, way too high

Apple has rejected, apparently twice, the Steam Link app for iOS that would allow iPhone and Apple TV users to stream games from their Steam library to phones and devices. Valve has issued a press release on the matter, and since it’s a short one, I’ll just paste the whole darn thing right here:”On Monday, May 7th, Apple approved the Steam Link app for release. Valve appealed, explaining the Steam Link app simply functions as a LAN-based remote desktop similar to numerous remote desktop applicat

Hours of Darkness, the first of three planned DLC expansions for Far Cry 5, will be out on June 5, Ubisoft announced today. And as of today, all players, including those who don’t purchase the DLC, will have access to Vietnam-themed assets in the Far Cry Arcade. Ubisoft also shared the Far Cry 5 “post-launch timeline” today, laying out what’s coming after Hours of Darkness. Hard dates haven’t been set yet but the Lost on Mars expansion is set to arrive in July, followed by Dead Living Zombies in

Co-op action RPG Dauntless, the Monster Hunter-style game about tracking and battling deadly Behemoths across an aether-charged wilderness, is now in open beta. We got some hands-on time with Dauntless last year, and found it potentially interesting but not quite up to the asking price. But it’s had nine months to develop into a better experience, and more importantly the open beta is free, so there’s no risk in giving it a go. Dauntless is available for download at playdauntless.com, and if you

UK-based charity Infer Trust is calling on Valve to prevent the Steam release of Active Shooter, a game described as “a dynamic SWAT simulator in which dynamic roles are offered to players”—either as a member of the police, or as the titular “active shooter.” “As I mentioned in steam discussion forums, there are games like Hatred, Postal, Carmageddon and etc., which are even worst compared to Active Shooter and literally focus on mass shootings/killings of people.” The game’s presence on Steam h

After years (okay, months) of stock shortages and lighting sales, graphics cards are finally coming down to normal prices. For today only, you can get ZOTAC’s GTX 1070 Ti Mini for $449.99 on Newegg. That’s the standard MSRP for a Founders Edition 1070 Ti, but with the added bonus of a smaller size. This model has double fans, 8GB of GDDR5 memory, a core clock of 1607 MHz (boosts to 1683 MHz), and all the other features you would expect from a 1070 Ti. You can buy it right now from Newegg, and th

My impression reading online discussions about Dark Souls in September 2011 was this: no one trusted Dark Souls. Overall, my impression reading online discussions about Dark Souls in September 2011 was this: no one trusted Dark Souls. But I’ll always make an exception for Dark Souls games. Talking about Dark Souls and reading about Dark Souls felt just as important as playing it. With the release of Dark Souls Remastered, most will be charting a path they’ve journeyed once or several times befor

But because this is Siege, what seems set in stone tends to be smashed open with a hammer. Liquid knew Border was PENTA’s map, and they also knew how they like to attack it. Liquid set up mostly in the Office and Archives, leaving the sensitive Locker site vulnerable with only S3xyCake on Echo to fend it off. PENTA approached the office wall with three of its members ready to push in while one covered the nearby window. Liquid’s win here gave them momentum to eventually win in overtime and take

The launch of AMD’s second generation Ryzen lineup has led to some interesting deals and sales on the company’s first generation parts. One of them is a combo offer that is currently available on Newegg—you can score a Ryzen 7 1700X processor and an MSI X370 Gaming Plus motherboard for $299.98 after cashing in a couple of mail-in-rebates. What makes this a better deal, however, is that both products have a mail-in-rebate available—$30 for the CPU, and $20 for the motherboard. It doesn’t have all

The bullet-hell FPS Mothergunship is a game about making guns and firing guns being co-developed by the guy who made Tower of Guns. A taste of how those various gun parts will come together can now be had by way of a “Gun Crafting Range” demo that went live today on Steam. The demo begins with a simple bit of gun-upgrading and a quick trip through the FPS gun range, but ramps up in a hurry with more and different attachments, and more and different things to shoot at. Guns become increasingly co

AMD has begun dishing out is Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1 driver release with improved support for the April 2018 Update for Windows 10, along with support for PlayReady 3.0 and ‘Raven Ridge’ Ryzen APUs. This latest driver release unlocks that capability for Radeon RX 400 and 500 series graphics card owners. Netflix playback through a web browser may experience corruption or hangs when using multi GPU enabled system configurations with Radeon RX 400 series or Radeon RX 500 series gra

Called VPNhub (naturally), the free version for iOS and Android offers unlimited bandwidth, though there’s a catch. “So please subscribe to premium on your mobile device to able to use the desktop version,” Pornhub states. Plenty of other VPN services cost around $10 per month, so that’s a pretty standard price for a premium VPN. The premium version lets you select any of the available countries, and also strips out ads and offers faster speeds. I installed the free version on an iPhone 6S Plus

The Steam Spring Sale—that is, the Steam Spring Cleaning Event—is now live, with Daily Tasks and Projects to complete, trophies and a profile badge to earn, and some pretty good deals on games, too. This one looks a little more complicated than the previous activity-filled Steam sales we’ve seen. Instead of just blindly blasting through your Discovery Queue, you’ll need to actually play some of those never-before-touched games in your backlog, including some chosen for you by Valve. Speaking str

Named the Rum Runner’s Pack, it’s free to owners of the base game and is out now. The Rum Runner’s Pack is among “several” planned complimentary add-ons and adds Mirke, a new female sidekick. She looks like this:The Rum Runner’s Pack also adds six new alcohol-themed items to a merchant in the Deadfire, and introduces a new ‘Drunken’ personality setting. “[This] will be released alongside the next free DLC, the Beard and Hair Pack, early next month.” More on Pillars of Eternity 2’s Rum Runner’s P

In addition to The Crew 2, Nvidia’s new 397.93 WHQL driver package is also optimized for State of Decay 2, which launched earlier this week. [NVIDIA Control Panel]: When Windows HDR is enabled, some color formats are missing from the NVIDIA Control Panel->Display->Change Resolution page. [Pascal GPU + Kepler GPU]: After installing the driver and rebooting the system, the driver may fail to load. [Far Cry 5]: Green flickeringThere is always the risk of something going wrong when installing a new

I love the Grand Theft Auto mod scene—particularly the hobbyist projects that reach into the series’ back catalogue. To this end, Xrtist//’s incoming Grand Theft Auto Advance PC Port brings 2004’s Grand Theft Auto Advance to GTA 3. With reworked colours, location and asset tweaks, the mod—due June 1, with a downloadable beta out now—follows the original game’s timeline, set after Liberty City Stories but before the event of Grand Theft Auto 3. Xrtist// adds that the mod contains edited versions

A recent trailer for upcoming changes to multiplayer shooter Battalion 1944 promised something dramatic. It’s deliberately over-the-top, playing up one of the smaller aspects of what is actually a major update coming to the WWII fps in June, full of changes suggested by the Battalion 1944 community. Further down the line there’s a tournament called the Blitzkrieg Major coming in September, with a $50,000 prize. Are these changes part of getting Battalion 1944 ready for the Blitzkrieg Major? But