Eight pieces of fish meat will do, one for each of the heads on the mutated ostrich that’s blocking the path ahead. Eight pieces of fish meat will do, one for each of the heads on the mutated ostrich that’s blocking the path ahead. Its puzzles are inspired by a series of wood engravings from 15th century Europe, and they’re as twisted as anything a medieval artist could muster. The music, from Polish metal band Behemoth, wouldn’t sound out of place in a horror gameIt doesn’t ever explain itself,

Juicy Realm was one of a handful of Chinese games at GDC that I wanted to play but never got the chance to. It’s a cartoony, bullet hell roguelike about fending off killer plants. “Defeat bizarre and colorful fruits while retrieving new gear, weapons, and resources to defend yourself and expand your base camp. I found Juicy Realm thanks to the hooting and hollering coming from its demo station, but it was its art that set the hook. Juicy Realm will release on Steam on May 3 for $10.

The reasonable response to being told that Watch Dogs 3 is in development would be to say, “Of course it is.” Watch Dogs is a major, well-known game series that’s been reasonably successful for Ubisoft and, like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, has virtually boundless potential for more. There was also a tweet that appeared briefly on the official Watch Dogs account stating, cryptically, “This is everything,” which PlayStation Universe suggested could be the beginning of a viral marketing campaign.

Bully Hunters was unveiled last week as a program aimed at combating the harassment and abuse of women in online games, a worthwhile idea that raised eyebrows with its methods. Basically, players encountering abuse in CS:GO were encouraged to contact the Bully Hunters, who would then send one of their players to “infiltrate” the game and deliver righteous justice through a righteous ass-kicking. And while it was under the impression that the Bully Hunters would continue, it “does not align with

SSD prices have been falling lately, to the point where you can score a great drive for under $100. If you’re on a tight budget, or looking to upgrade one of your HDD-equipped computers, HP’s 256GB S700 Pro drive is just $60 right now. As you might expect, the S700 Pro is not the fastest SSD money can buy, but it’s a great value. That’s higher than most other SSDs in this price range, and the 256GB capacity with DRAM cache only adds to the value. This is a great option for replacing the hard dri

Ahead of its upcoming Steam Early Access release, offbeat FPS brawler Sky Noon will hold a closed beta this week from 12 pm Pacific Thursday, April through 12 pm Monday, April 23. In case you missed its reveal earlier this year, Sky Noon is a multiplayer first-person shooter where, instead of hot lead or lasers, your weapons shoot equally lethal air bullets. Levels are set way up in the sky, and the goal is blast enemies off the edge by nailing them with compressed air weapons that range from re

Marie’s Room released on Steam last Friday and has garnered nearly 600 collectively ‘overwhelmingly positive’ reviews since. It’s a free, first-person narrative game where you play as a woman named Kelsey and—you may have guessed—explore Marie’s room. As a game about memories, it may remind you a little of the stellar What Remains of Edith Finch, but Marie’s Room tells a very different story. You can finish Marie’s Room in under an hour, which I did. So there’s my spoiler-free endorsement: Marie

Overwatch League team the Dallas Fuel has released its head coach, Kyle “KyKy” Souder,” and DPS player Dong-jun “Rascal” Kim, the team announced today. https://t.co/fgdK8QgCkmApril 16, 2018The Fuel said that negotiations are ongoing with numerous candidates to fill the head coach position, and the team expects to announce a new head coach within the next week. Assistant coach Emanuel “Peak” Uzoni will serve as interim head coach, effective immediately. Dong-jun “Rascal” Kim was acquired by the F

There has been more than one leak suggesting that Intel is getting ready to launch an 8-core Coffee Lake processor, though the strongest evidence to date is a series of technical document listings on the company’s website. A user on Reddit discovered the listings, of which there are three that reference an unreleased “Coffee Lake S 8+2” part. For reference, CPUs like the Core i7-8700K are listed as being Coffee Lake S 6+2 parts, indicating 6 CPU cores and GT2 graphics. However, since the listing

Mass Effect: Andromeda was an unexpected letdown, and Mass Effect 1 and 2 lead writer Drew Karpyshyn, who returned to BioWare in 2015 and was working on Anthem, departed (again) last month. “When I returned to BioWare last summer, Mass Effect: Andromeda had just been released and there was a significant movement among players asking for a story DLC that would answer questions surrounding the fate of the quarians. That’s the “spirit” that’s driving the development of Anthem, Hudson said: “It will

The 2016 release of ElDewrito 0.5 was accompanied by word that it would be the last major release of the Halo Online-enabling mod from the original development team. That may have slowed work on the project but it hasn’t gone away, and today the current mod team announced that version 0.6 will be out April 20. Halo Online was meant to be a Halo 3-derived free-to-play online shooter, but it didn’t get past closed beta testing in Russia. The ElDewrito mod opened it up to players around the world,

Two of AMD’s upcoming second-generation Ryzen processors have already been overclocked to 5.8GHz and beyond, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that all of the cores on each chip were enabled while it happened. Extreme overclocker “TSAIK” achieved the feat on on AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X. The Ryzen 7 2700X performed a hair better than the Ryzen 5 2600X, reaching 5.884GHz with the core voltage set at 1.76V. AMD’s new Ryzen chips will be available starting April 19. In additi

Source: Wizards of the CoastA Magic: The Gathering player made history over the weekend, as Jessica Estephan became the first woman to ever be a Grand Prix champion at GP Sydney . Estephan is the first woman to claim a championship cup in the 21 year history of Magic GPs, which started in 1997. Estephan and her teammates Ryan Lewis-Jonns and Lachlan Saunders are now firmly ensconced in Magic history. Magic Grand Prix are professional level events awarding cash prizes, though they are open to all

If it’s sunny in your corner of the world, please keep it to yourself in order to spare my feelings)—first we had Fanatical’s Super 6 Sale, and now we have GOG’s Most Wanted Sale. As outlined in headline above, the latter hits over 150 games and offers up to 85 percent off. I’d suggest starting with that for a general overview of what’s on offer—but I’ll also point you at Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines at £3.59/$4.99 with 75 percent off. And I’ll also suggest checking out Darkest Dungeon at

With the latter in mind, Fanatical’s three-day Super 6 Sale kicks off today—showcasing six deals per day, and discounting over 500 Steam games from now through Wednesday. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is my favourite of today’s offerings, which is on sale for £18.39/your local equivalent with a 22 percent discount. Read Steven’s warm words on the action slasher here, and check out his aptly-named ‘Verminguide’ series for tips on how to rule with an iron dagger. Given that last one comes with both Metr

Every so often, we’ll come across a deal for a refurbished item that is interesting enough to warrant overlooking its not-new status. Over at Amazon, there are a handful of intriguing deals to be had on refurbished HP Omen gaming desktops and laptops. One of the more interesting sale items is this HP Omen desktop with a GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card inside (3GB variant). If you are more interested in a gaming laptop, check out this HP Omen 15. It has a Core i7-7700HQ processor, 8GB of memory, G

From its wonderful team montages to its spectacular solo skits, I’m a keen admirer of Grand Theft Auto 5’s stunt subculture. Evolve Stunting is one of most prolific crews on the scene—whose latest showcase exhibits some typically jaw-dropping set pieces within a familiar sunkissed playground. Using a Vice City map mod available via FiveM—the open source community modification best known for housing roleplay servers—the old school, faux-Miami landscape admittedly looks a bit tired against GTA 5’s

I can imagine how digital doctors and directors take a load off in the wake of such situations—courtesy of Two Point Hospital’s latest reveal. Sign ups for the upcoming hospital management sim’s newsletter grants prospective players a free golden toilet. It looks like this:Several weeks ago, Two Point Hospital developer Two Point Studios launched a ‘Hospital Pass’ news feed that grants signees access to exclusive promotions and early in-game footage. “We wanted to wait until we had something rea

Last week, Boss Key Productions revealed and released Radical Heights—an ’80s-themed free-to-play battle royale ’em up, set inside a futuristic game show-meets-survival scavenger hunt. Revealed via Twitter, Bleszinski didn’t specify when the following era-specific fitness instructor-esque models will be introduced to Radical Heights, but did say they’re “forthcoming”. Evan: And there’s also like… prize rooms and gift boxes with randomized loot in the environment. I like the little prize rooms, w

Despite the complexity this suggests, written dialogue in games offers potential for narrative expression unlike any other medium. “I’ve been using dialogue in my games a lot lately,” says indie creator Zenuel. “You could write a basic dialogue system and have it doing what you need in almost no time. Even a basic dialogue system asks a ton of questions: Does your text all show up at once for each text box? The dialogue wheelBioWare’s dialogue wheel changed the way many players viewed, interacte