If you were playing videogames in the early-mid ’90s, the strapline above might stir feelings of nostalgia. If it doesn’t, perhaps mention of Metal Slug, Alien Breed and Alien Breed: Tower Assault will. In any event, they’re all going cheap in GOG’s latest weekly sale. Worms 2, Cannon Fodder and Sensible World of Soccer 96/97 are all on sale for just £0.89/$1.19. Courtesy of YouTube person Neffets, here’s Real Madrid getting cuffed 5-2 by Danish side Silkeborg in Sensible World of Soccer 96/97:C

Epic has now unveiled everything en route to both Battle Royale and Save the World via update v4.2—including Burst Assault Rifles, Perk Recombobulators, Quad Launchers, and, um, apples. Exclusive to BR, the Burst Assault Rifle uses medium ammo and deals 32/33 damage. From back to the front, the Quad packs four incendiary rockets that “leave balls of fire behind after they explode”. The Perk Recombobulator is unlocked after completing Plankerton Storm Shield Defense 2, and replaces and upgrades p

According to howlongtobeat.com a completionist playthrough of Pillars of Eternity 2 takes 49 hours, while a simple “main + extra” run might be polished off in 42.5. Meanwhile, a speedrunner named Onin has got it down to 26 minutes and 25 seconds, on Paths of the Damned difficulty to boot. That said, this is a speedrun made possible by using blessings that are unlocked during previous playthroughs. And playing on Paths of the Damned rather than Easy makes it possible to lose one specific fight ve

Yesterday we reported on a “gorgeous and terrifying” visual overhaul mod for Stalker: Call of Pripyat that brings a suite of updated visual effects to the cult-classic shooter. Today something a little more interesting happened: GSC Game World, the creator of the original Stalker trilogy, quietly announced that Stalker 2 is now in development. Stalker 2 was originally revealed back in 2010, but it didn’t get very far before everything—the game and the studio—fell apart. GSC Game World came back

Cliff Bleszinski pulled the plug on Boss Key Productions yesterday, after both LawBreakers and Radical Heights failed to achieve the critical mass required to keep the studio afloat. “Basically you were ninja/samurai in airships riding dragons fighting zombies with friends in a PVE “feudalpunk” setting on floating islands. 5 v 5 v 5 v 5 v 5 Zoid looking walkers fighting it out in MP. pic.twitter.com/wNKef9QsS4May 15, 2018″These were not purely my ideas, they were a collaboration between myself a

In the Indie GIF Showcase, we dig up the best-looking new and upcoming indie games and explore what makes them special. Yet Carroto, the protagonist of Blustery Games’ Verdungeon, makes it look easy. But while being a carrot would normally be quite the handicap, in Verdungeon, a roguelike dungeon-crawler with board game-inspired levels and combat, vegetables are heroes. Its turn-based combat is fueled by dice rolls not unlike the skill checks of the tabletop. After playing For the King, I’m pret

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a really good game (we selected it as our game of the year for 2017, remember, and we can be pretty picky about these things), but apparently it’s not quite good enough. Larian revealed the Definitive Edition yesterday with a video introducing Feedback Billy, a new, more interactive system for collecting feedback on the game. The Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition will be similar to the Enhanced Edition of Divinity: Original Sin, which came out roughly eight

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds latest map, Sanhok, isn’t complete. Yesterday, players started finding small golden chests hidden throughout the jungles of Sanhok. Without any perceivable way to open them, the golden chests appear to be a subtle wink at PUBG’s main competitor, Fortnite Battle Royale. Those familiar with the latter will know that the map is littered with golden chests that, when opened, often reward great gear. If you’ve found other golden chests or have your own theories as to wha

Well, there’s one way to have fewer walls to paint, and that is to have fewer walls to paint. I’ve spent nearly every dime on the house, and now I can’t afford to buy kitchen tiles and enough paint to finish renovating it. I visit the house and note with horror it’s just as filled with garbage as the abandoned house I bought. What’s worse, I’m halfway through painting the nursery when I run out of money to buy paint. I mop and wash windows and paint walls, I re-tile the kitchen floor, I replace

The Italians are coming to Rainbow Six Siege, and so is a free weekend—this coming weekend, in fact. Ubisoft announced today that interested but uncommitted gamers will be given full access to all maps, modes, and Operators at 10 am PT/1 pm ET on May 17. Any progress you make during the free period will carry over to the full game, should you opt to purchase it. It’s all fairly standard stuff for a free weekend, but you can dive into the details if you like at ubisoft.com. Ubisoft also said that

By far the strangest thing though is what lies behind those: former id star Commander Keen… murdered and hanging from meathooks. Everyone plays Poker Night at the InventoryEasily the most ambitious gaming crossover in recent memory… and it’s all about hanging out between games. XCOM defends Civ V: Brave New WorldWhat does XCOM do when there are no aliens to fight? Lightning god Raiden for instance showed up in Unreal Championship, while invisible fighter Reptile could have popped into basically

Can you guess the unifying theme of the Humble Hooked on Multiplayer 2018 Bundle? That’s right—indie games! It normally goes for $20, so it’s a pretty decent deal, particularly as it comes with a half-dozen lesser-known (but still well-rated) indie games. Which reminds me, the unifying theme here isn’t “indie games,” it’s multiplayer games. The Humble Hooked on Multiplayer 2018 Bundle will be available until May 29.

Three years after we first saw it and two years after its Early Access launch , mashup FPS Bunker Punks will fully release on May 28, developer Ninja Robot Dinosaur announced today. In case you missed it: Bunker Punks is an old-school FPS that channels DOOM and Wolfenstein’s run-and-gun fun, pairs it with a base management sim where you upgrade your HQ to upgrade your character, and seasons it with permadeath and procedurally generated levels. “I wanted to make a game that captured the feeling o

Here are the PC games we’re most looking forward to this spring and summer season, with release dates spanning from now through August. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary CollectionDeveloper: Digital Eclipse | Release date: May 29, 2018 | Link: SteamThis compilation includes 12 Street Fighter games, from the original all the way through Third Strike, and four of them include online modes: Street Fighter 2: Hyper Fighting, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Street Fighter Alpha 3, and Street Fighter 3: 3

There are plenty of Z370 motherboards on the market to pair with Intel’s Coffee Lake processors, along with some other options based on a few lower end chipsets that Intel recently introduced. Sometime in the near future, however, Intel will launch a new enthusiast Z390 chipset, as the company inadvertently revealed on its website. So, what can you expect from Intel’s Z390 chipset? To address that market, Intel more recently launched a handful of additional chipsets supporting Coffee Lake, inclu

The second generation of Ryzen chips launched late last month, and while they aren’t as groundbreaking as the first series, they’re still a decent upgrade and cost roughly the same. The Ryzen 5 2600X was initially priced at $229, but now it’s even cheaper. While the CPU is still close to MSRP on Amazon (currently priced at $223.54), it has dropped to $209.99 on Newegg. Other stores still have it priced around or above MSRP, like Fry’s and Walmart, but that could change soon. The more powerful 27

First, a spot of trivia: Discord currently has 130 million registered users, up from 45 million last year, and 19 million daily users, more than double last year’s count of 8.9 million. The peak concurrent user number is also way up, from 4 million in 2017 to 8.2 million as of the third birthday. This leads smoothly into the most recent update, which includes a tip of the hat to Fortnite. Screensharing now includes audio support, which is a big addition (“Your friends can yell at your to kill th

One of the best deals that we have ever seen in the solid state drive category is back, that being a capacious 2TB model for just $268.99 at Rakuten. Rakuten conveniently lists the coupon code right on the drive’s product page, noting that it’s good for a one-time use and expires by the end of tomorrow. As you might expect at this price, the drive is a SATA 6Gbps model. It’s made by Micron, which lists this drive as using 3D TLC NAND flash memory. There are some user-provided benchmarks in the c

This morning Blizzard unveiled the next round of Hearthstone nerfs, and the cards being changed will come as no surprise. At their current costs, Naga Sea Witch and Spiteful Summoner can both create insurmountable board states absurdly early on. Part of the reason Spiteful Summoner is so powerful is due to the relative lack of aggro on the ladder. It’s mostly a midrange and control meta, meaning Spiteful decks aren’t really getting punished for their lack of early removal spells. In the same vei

As seen in the slide above, AMD is now sampling its second-generation Ryzen Threadripper CPUs to customers. In this case, it’s very likely we’ll see new Threadripper CPUs arrive in the third quarter, with AMD possibly making an announcement at Computex next month. According to Guru3D, a previously leaked documented pointed to there being three new Threadripper processors, including an 8-core/16-thread Threadripper 2900X, 12-core/24-thread Threadripper 2920X, and a 16-core/32-thread Threadripper