AOC has begun shipping a newer version of its 35-inch AGON monitor with a curved display and G-Sync support. Whereas the original SKU (AG352UCG) has a 100Hz refresh rate, the newer model (AG352UCG6) is capable of running a little bit faster, at 120Hz. AOC also used the opportunity to bake in a couple of additional features, including its FlickerFree technology and LowBlue mode. Everything else remains the same—this is still a 35-inch curved display with a 3440×1440 (WQHD) resolution, 4ms respons

The two-day bash known as BlizzCon will return for 2018 on November 2-3 at the Anaheim Convention Center, Blizzard announced today. “BlizzCon is our favorite time of the year at Blizzard,” co-founder and CEO Mike Morhaime said. As always, this year’s big event will feature developer panels and Q&A sessions, contests, cosplay, exclusive loot and merchandise, and big esports events. Blizzard Opening Week, running October 25-29 at the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles, will lead into BlizzCon with the

After admitting LawBreakers’ failure last week, developer Boss Key Productions has now unveiled its latest project: Radical Heights. Due on Steam’s Early Access initiative tomorrow, April 10, the free-to-play battle royale-style shooter is set in within a futuristic game show-meets-survival scavenger hunt that’s inspired by the ’80s where “cash is king”. We’re huge fans of Battle Royale games along with the bright, inviting irreverence of the ’80s aesthetic. As for the game’s recurring mentions

I say all of this at the start of an article for a site about videogames, reluctantly, because it may explain why I see incredible nuance in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Despite being the game to use the infamous marketing campaign of ‘ mechanical apartheid ‘, in practice, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided treats human prejudice with a sense of the personal typically understood only by those who have lived it. In the world of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a recent catastrophic incident caused everyone with an a

With an estimated 90 million copies sold across all platforms—PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One and PC—GTA 5 is thought to have accrued somewhere in the vicinity of $6 billion since launch in 2013. Speaking to MarketWatch, Cowen analyst Doug Creutz reckons subsequent DVD and streaming sales might add up to $1 billion onto these films’ lifetime values. “I think it’s a wild outlier,” says Creutz. “I think maybe with the exception something Nintendo has made—Mario Brothers—but aside from that there’s ne

Campo Santo—the studio behind the contemplative forest experience Firewatch—is swapping tinder-dry trees and Wyoming fire lookout towers for ancient Egyptian tombs and early cinematography in its next game, In the Valley of Gods. You and a partner scramble through stunning ruined spaces before setting up a shot for your beautifully animated film camera. In the Valley of Gods aims to have Rashida’s filmmaking partner, Zora, meaningfully present in the space. Firstly, there is the real ancient Egy

Fallout: New California is an ambitious standalone prequel campaign mod for Fallout: New Vegas. We first caught wind of its existence in 2013—then known as Fallout: Project Brazil—despite it first being planned for Fallout 3. Against New Vegas’ 65,000 lines of dialogue (a record at the time, says Lee) and Fallout 3’s 40,000 lines, New California has over 14,000 lines of dialogue—delivered by 42 actors for 60 characters. Lee also says in order to break up the Mojave’s vast expanse, the mod introd

Jonathan “DreamKazper” Sanchez, has been indefinitely suspended from his team, the Boston Uprising, and the Overwatch League following allegations that arose on Twitter earlier today. Earlier today the Overwatch League was made aware of the allegations against Jonathan “DreamKazper” Sanchez. Sanchez is the star DPS player for the Boston Uprising, which currently has a 14-8 record and sits in fourth place in the overall Overwatch League standings. The situation is currently under investigation by

I hope you aren’t tired of survival games with hunger and thirst meters, because SCUM has those—plus a reading for every vitamin and mineral your character’s body needs. You can see SCUM’s full character data screen above, which includes caloric intake and usage, muscle mass, and even a stomach volume meter. If you create a heavy, buff character but are unable to maintain a diet high in protein and carbohydrates, you’ll lose muscle mass and weight. Barišić tells me that the tooth counter exists

In Street Fighter: The Miniatures Game you battle across a number of grid-based stages, each of which has destructible terrain and can support versus, free-for-all and team battle game modes. Every player begins by drawing two cards from their fighter’s battle deck and moving around the board. Basically, it’s Street Fighter distilled down to something that’s easy to pick up and play. The base version of the game, which you’ll get for an $80 pledge, comes with 8 fighter figurines, and if you pay

If you’re a speedrunning fan then you should mark June 24 in your calendar, because that’s when the annual Summer Games Done Quick charity event is due to kick off. The organisers have just released the full list of runners alongside the games they’ll power through, which you can browse here. It follows a record-breaking Awesome Games Done Quick 2018, which raised more than $2.25 million for charity. Summer Games Done Quick takes place in Bloomington, Minnesota this year, and if you want to atte

Skyrim VR launched earlier this week, giving Oculus Rift and HTC Vive owners an excuse to jump back in and slay dragons for the umpteenth time. Reddit user tyrielwood has created this handy guide for getting mods to work with Skyrim VR using the Nexus Mod Manager, and you can find it in video form at the bottom of this post. Alternatively—and potentially an easier option—you could use Vortex, the new go-to mod manager for Nexus mods that was released in February in an attempt to address some of

A lot has happened since Hi-Rez Studios announced Battlegrounds, a battle royale mode for hero-shooter Paladins, in January. A month and some player testing later, the developer decided to rename the mode and split it off as a separate game, called Paladins Realm Royale. Hi-Rez says that it will be “accepting sign-ups for more testers soon”, so keep your eyes peeled on the Paladins forums. However, Hi-Rez gave us a peek at the game’s weapon crafting system and its map in a forum post yesterday.

Putting together a balanced team in Overwatch has always been a problem. That’s led some to propose a system whereby players pick a specific role—tank, healer or DPS—before queuing up for a game, guaranteeing a reasonable team composition. In an interview this week, game director Jeff Kaplan said that the idea is a “good starting point”, but that he isn’t keen on putting it into the game. “Neither is fully satisfactory to me,” Kaplan told Kotaku, adding that the more rigid system “hurts the spir

Open-world zombie smasher State of Decay 2 will shamble onto our screens next month, and developer Undead Labs has released a new trailer showing us what to expect from the game’s combat. Away from that, there’s all the stabbing, shotgunning, and running over hordes of walkers that you’d expect. If the first game is anything to go by, then it should be fun. State of Decay 2 will have three separate open-world maps, each featuring “slightly different” environments, and each roughly as large as th

Acer once again brought the party of the year to PAX East! Getting the word out with the help of PC Gamer and GamesRadar, the Acer Predator After Party filled Boston’s Royale Nightclub with PAX attendees from all around the world. The event gave guests, press, and VIPs the chance to grab a drink and check out the latest gaming hardware from the Acer Predator line. Attendees grabbed drinks, took pictures at the photo booth had a chance to play games on Acer Predator hardware like the Predator Ori

Disco Elysium begins with these amnesic questions. Disco Elysium is being developed by Estonian studio ZA/UM, from its new location in London. A very particular set of skillsRather than lengthy exposition, Disco Elysium delivers the bulk of its information through dialogue. Making a mockery of yourself is a recurring theme in Disco Elysium. It’s an ambitious thesis, but one which makes Disco Elysium feel different from your standard RPG even in the short time I spent with it at PAX East.

Nearest I can tell, a very peculiar apocalypse has befallen the world of Steel Rats. I’m not sure what happened, but whatever it was, only bikers survived it, apparently along with legions of death machines. Developer Tate Multimedia calls Steel Rats a 2D “motorbike combat game,” and it’s newly released gameplay trailer looks the part. It looks like meets Mad Max meets Max Dirt Bike: you ride a motorcycle through 2D levels, swerving between lanes to avoid obstacles, kill robots and hit sweet jum

After nearly four years in Early Access, survival game The Forest finally has a release date: April 30. As previously announced, the full 1.0 release will be accompanied by a price increase, from $14.99 to $19.99. The premise of The Forest is that you’re the lone survivor of a plane crash, trapped on an island full of man-eating mutants. I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve heard good things about how it’s expanded since Andy played it in 2014, especially about its co-operative mode and its solid b

Ghost Recon Wildlands’ tactical shooting seems like an ideal home for a battle royale mode, and we put it on our list of games that could replicate the success of PUBG and Fortnite with the right changes. But Ubisoft put any such hopes to bed this week by saying that building a battle royale mode in the game would be too large a technical challenge. Responding to a fan on Twitter, it said that it “understand[s] the allure” of the battle royale genre, and that it “may seem like a natural directio