I spent plenty of time in State of Decay 2 hacking heads off with a machete, but this is not the zombie game you boot up just to mess around. I never played the first State of Decay, but jumping headlong into State of Decay 2 with no clue what I was doing, I flashed back to the first time I played Capcom’s Dead Rising years ago. I spent plenty of time in State of Decay 2 hacking heads off with a machete, but this is not the zombie game you boot up just to mess around. State of Decay 2 clearly re

Survival game The Forest has finally hit the V 1.0 milestone after nearly four years in Early Access – but studio End Night has promised that it will keep working on the game into the future. A new trailer was issued today (you can see it below), in addition to the previously reported price increase. “Today The Forest moves from early access into a full release,” a spokesperson for the studio wrote on Steam. The announcement also confirmed that the VR version of The Forest will launch on May 22.

Blizzard has big plans to expand the Heroes of the Storm universe this year, beginning with the Dark Nexus content drop that’s set to go live tomorrow. “It will give us this foundation and this canvas to really bring content into the game in a cohesive way,” Dabiri says in the video. That doesn’t mean that Heroes of the Storm will be moving away from the current “playground” of Blizzard characters and settings. It’s not just a “story thing,” he explained: “This is also a visual identity, this is

There are two questions people tend to ask about games: “What’s it about?” Character skills are where you spend points to develop particular abilities, and they’re broken down into three types to help you decide how you want to play. I don’t feel the absence of combat, spellcasting, or the things usually associated with a game carrying skill trees, and that’s exciting. That said, a polite reminder for The Council: in any game with voice acting, it’s important to have good voice acting. The first

Mouse controls like those pioneered by Mount and Blade have deepened and evolved, reappearing in games like Chivalry: Medieval Warfare , For Honor , and Kingdom Come: Deliverance . “There weren’t many action games that played without magic,” Yavuz said. Players picked Mount and Blade up immediately and spread it around, funding development and building a fanbase and a community at the same time. Looking back on 10 years of Mount and Blade, the first thing that Yavuz feels is anxiety. Mount and B

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ is a collection of add-ons for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Afterbirth, respectively the definitive edition of the breakout roguelike shooter and a separate DLC pack. Today, Afterbirth+ received its final update, The Forgotten Update, which adds “new items, new unlocks, new trinkets, new enemies, a new character and over 800 new rooms to explore.” As creator Edmund McMillen said on Tumblr, it also comes with a new boss, plus it’s free to players who own Aft

Fort Triumph has been described as “fantasy XCOM” by BioShock director Ken Levine, who apparently backed its successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2017, and who am I to argue with Ken Levine? Besides, I agree: Fort Triumph is a turn-based tactical RPG set in a world distorted by magic, so I’d say fantasy XCOM is right on the money. A lot of Fort Triumph looks familiar—grid-based, turn-based combat, the three staple fantasy classes with the addition of the wild card savage class—but it stands o

You Left Me is a short, sad adventure game “about loneliness and loss,” as creator Angela He puts it. It was one of 3,053 games created earlier this month at Ludum Dare 41, the group’s latest 48-hour game jam, which focused on combining two “incompatible” genres. For He’s part, she made a stunning, surreal adventure game complete with a “chat-speaking cyclopic cat and moon that tells dad jokes.” As He explains on itch, You Left Me has five possible endings, with an average playthrough lasting fi

Stardew Valley’s big 1.3 update is out today, in beta form at least. For the low low price of 500,000 gold, you can build a home for Pam, the bus driver who lives in a trailer with her daughter Penny. Here’s some other bigger stuff we’ve found so far:New friendship events with Linus, Willie, and Krobus. New “Night Market” event, where a handful of merchant ships come to the Stardew Valley docks. There’s plenty of other small additions (check out this Reddit thread that’s being updated as people

The fan-made Half-Life remake Black Mesa took another step toward completion over the weekend with the release of a Xen engine patch that fixes a number of issues including freezing and crashes on Radeon 300, 400, and 500 series video cards. “We will probably do one more ‘Engine’ release just before we drop Xen, in order to make sure that everything is running smoothly on everyone’s machines,” developer Crowbar Collective wrote. “We want the Xen release to be as close to a simple content release

The Windows 10 April Update is here, bringing with it new features like Timeline, security and accessibility improvements, and some visual tweaks from Microsoft’s new “Fluent Design.” There are a few ways to install the latest Windows update right now. One: type “check for updates” into Search to pull up the Windows Update settings menu, where it may already be available. But Microsoft gradually rolls the automatic update out to the millions of computers running Windows, so there’s a good chance

Amazon is running a sale today on select PC gaming products, with deals of up to 35 percent off. It’s a one-day only sale, so if there’s something that catches your eye, you’ll want to pounce sooner than later. One of the more attractive buys is an 15.6-inch Acer Predator Helios 300 laptop, our favorite budget gaming laptop. It’s selling for $949 and features an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, 16GB of DDR4 memory, GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU, and 256GB solid state drive. Here are a few other items

Unlike most new GPU driver releases, this one doesn’t contain any game optimizations, though it does introduce initial support for the April 2018 Update that Microsoft has begun pushing out to Windows 10 PCs. Also known as Redstone 4 (and previously referred to as the Spring Creators Update, a name that was never official), the April 2018 Update is the first of two major upgrades to Windows 10 scheduled for this year. Call of Duty: World War II may experience corruption during gameplay on some R

A class-action lawsuit (PDF) filed in California alleges that Samsung, Micron, and Hynix colluded to raise the price of memory products by artificially restricting the supply of DRAM chips used in PCs and mobile products. “Instead of playing by the rules, Samsung, Micron and Hynix chose to put consumers in a chokehold, wringing the market for more profit.” Samsung, Micron, and Hynix are the three largest memory chip makers in the world—it’s estimated the trio held a 96 percent share of the DRAM

The 2013 Wild West FPS Call of Juarez: Gunslinger was removed from Steam (and Xbox Live and PlayStation Network) at the end of March. Now it’s back, and flying the flag of Techland Publishing, a division of developer Techland, which has acquired the game from original publisher Ubisoft. “We would like to thank Ubisoft for its incredible work publishing the Call of Juarez games,” Techland Publishing CPO Adam Lasoń said. The status of the Call of Juarez series overall isn’t entirely clear. The Tec

It enters ‘First Access’ on Itch.io today, and developer Monothetic marked the occasion with a kick-ass new trailer showcasing Freja’s armaments and augmentations, as well as the game’s lovely world. The game’s new trailer really gives you a sense of how Freja changes as you progress. We get a look at her ordinary, long-dead clone and immediately jump to a new Freja sporting massive horns, body spikes and even a tail. A nice range of weapons is shown throughout the trailer, too, from riot shotgu

(Image: © Facebook via Chris Hook)Another familiar face has landed at Intel’s discrete graphics division. Chris Hook, the former director of global product marketing at AMD, updated his social media profiles to reflect his new role as Intel’s “discrete graphics guy.” More specifically, he’ll oversee discrete GPU marketing efforts at Intel. However, Jason Evangelho (also a former AMD employee) at Forbes claims “some of those discrete GPU products will be in the enthusiast space.” So starting tomo

A Polish website said at the beginning of the year that Cyberpunk 2077, the long-awaited new RPG from the Witcher folks at CD Projekt, will be shown—and be playable, behind closed doors—at this year’s E3. CD Projekt Red is definitely going to be there: It’s listed as a “participating company” on the E3 website. More telling is the Map Your Show listing, which has the CD Projekt Red entry as a role-playing game for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Of course, this is all entirely unsubstantiated, and CD

The product list (PDF) now shows a “401 unauthorized” error when trying to view it, but Videocardz managed to grab some screenshots before it was taken offline. It contained three Threadripper SKUs:YD295XA8UGAAF (Threadripper 2950X)YD292XA8UC9AF (Threadripper 2920X)YD290XA8U8QAF (Threaderipper 2900X)There are no other details about the chips, such as clockspeeds or core counts, but we can reasonably surmise from the 2000-series branding that they’re second-generation parts. The product list also

In November last year, Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone told us work on the sedate farming sim’s much-anticipated multiplayer component was “coming along great”. Now, alongside the base game’s 1.3 update, Stardew Valley’s public multiplayer beta is go. A scalable difficulty level means profit margins can be tweaked to suit high production—while a new chat box and custom emoji suite (which stocks 200 custom Stardew Valley emojis) let you communicate with your pals. As for its single-player fe