That’s the main tenant of Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption, an action combat boss battler self-described as Souls-inspired. The original sinnerAdam, the main character, is pitted against seven main bosses and an eighth final boss, each representing a time he’s screwed up. By fighting each boss, Adam atones for his sins and may (but also may not?) I got the chance to take on three of the seven bosses at PAX East: Envy, Greed, and Gluttony. In the name of sacrifice, Adam must give up part of his s

Chugging into Rust in an update this week is its first player-controlled vehicle, a motorized rowboat. Boats require low grade fuel to power their motors, and if left out in the elements a boat will decay in about three hours. If you find one and want to keep it you’ll need to build a boathouse, this post on Rust’s devblog advises. Servers may spawn as many as 64 boats at a time, so it doesn’t sound like they’ll be in terribly short supply, however. To give you a little something to do on your b

Riot Games has said it regrets the “unnecessarily sexualized” design of Kai’Sa, a champion it added to League of Legends last month. During a written Q&A, one player asked why the developer had given Kai’Sa an “unnecessarily deep neckline”, given that it had previously promised to avoid releasing hyper-sexualized champions. In response, Riot’s lead producer of champions Reav3 said: “We’ll be the first to admit that Kai’Sa’s neckline didn’t land well with players and that it made her look unneces

Far Cry 5’s moose-whacking, bear-exploding, shovel-throwing brand of chaos has been a big hit with buyers—in its first week, it has sold more than double what Far Cry 4 sold in the same time period, Ubisoft has announced. It’s the fastest-selling game in the history of the series, and the second best launch of any Ubisoft game ever, behind The Division. The developer didn’t reveal the full sales figures, but investment firm Jefferies Group estimates that the game has sold just shy of five millio

Square Enix will release four new episodes of DLC for Final Fantasy 15 next year, including an alternate ending, it announced at PAX East yesterday. All four are due in the first half of next year, by which time the game will have already added a level editor, singleplayer character customisation and Steam Workshop support, Square Enix said. Later this year, the developer will also start to sell Final Fantasy 15’s co-op multiplayer mode, Comrades, as a standalone package, so you can play it with

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer Bluehole added the team deathmatch-style War Mode to custom games this week, and it plans to roll the mode out to all players as a time-limited event at some point at the future. In War Mode, squads jump into a small zone on the map with a pre-determined set of weapons and kill everyone in sight. The aim is to reach a certain number of points before other squads, and you get points for kills, knockdowns, and revives. Only PUBG partners—certain Twitch strea

This week: what’s the most disappointed you’ve ever been by a game’s ending? Jarred Walton: Shadow of the BeastThis one goes way, way back to the late ’80s and early ’90s on the Commodore Amiga, which probably predates most of our readers. We were so disappointed that we never played the game again. Tom Senior: Every 4X GameI am disappointed with the ending of every 4X game I have ever played. Of course I conveniently left out how awful the game’s actual ending is.

This week we ran a story like that, but it’s a bit different: it’s about Fortnite, the biggest game in the world . Fortnite: Battle Royale is massive, but to these fans, the true Fortnite is the Save the World mode that launched last year. I can’t recall another game world this beautiful and lively that doesn’t feel like some manchild’s superficial satire. Joe Donnelly: An Undertale of two citiesMoving house has consumed my life this week, so I’ve not had much time to play games and/or give thou

One of the rewards offered in the Kickstarter campaign for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a documentary film on the making of the game. That’s still in the works, but developer Warhorse Studios have released an “Epilogue” documentary that follows the final days and hours before the game was released to the public, and the tense time immediately after it went live. He admits that he’d be nervous during the first week of sales, though, a point he comes back to near the end of the video when he says

The first Microsoft Entertainment Pack was so successful that Microsoft went on to release three more, with SkiFree debuting in Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3. The Microsoft Entertainment Packs included games so ubiquitous, like Minesweeper and FreeCell, it’s hard to imagine early Windows without them. In addition to shipping with Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3, SkiFree was included on the Gamesampler, which came with packs of Verbatim brand floppy disks. I remember several times in the 1990s Ke

Deckard Cain, Diablo’s longwinded loremaster, is entering the fray. Why is Deckard Cain so great? Cain is described as a setup healer, strong at healing, area denial, and debuffing enemies, but weak to mobility and silence. His Q ability, Healing Potion, throws a potion bottle onto the battlefield that heals the first ally to pick it up. Deckard Cain should be playable on the PTR soon, before making his way to Heroes of the Storm proper sometime this month.

Update: Bohemia PR manager clarified the DayZ engine situation in an email, saying that the studio has been reworking the technology for the past four years. “It’s basically the reason why we are in Early Access for so long,” he said. ” Bohemia started a development of a new Enfusion Engine along with DayZ standalone—an engine that’s meant to empower our future games.” “We’re releasing DayZ on a new engine in a couple of weeks on PC, and it’s gonna be coming to Game Preview on Xbox this year,” l

Intel’s announcement of a partnership with AMD to produce a single CPU package with integrated Vega graphics made waves in late 2017. Intel’s NUC serves as something of a proof of concept, showing what we can expect from the new processors. Radeon RX Vega M GH graphics performanceThe real star of this show is the integrated Radeon RX Vega M GH, which is the most powerful integrated graphics solution we’ve ever seen. This wouldn’t be a problem, except all six video ports are routed through the Ve

Two-man Swedish developer YCJY describes Sea Salt as “a reversal action strategy game” where you lead a swarm of Eldritch monsters through inlet settlements, plundering coastal cities and expanding your army as you progress. YCJY says Sea Salt was inspired by Eldrich and Lovecraftian lore as well as From Software’s Bloodborne, which is reflected in its freaky, dreary setting. Sea Salt plays like a top-down 2D action game where, instead of one character, you control entire groups of minions led b

Nightdive’s System Shock remake was put on hold in February so the studio could “reassess our path” and return to the vision and goals that were laid out in the 2016 Kickstarter. A Kickstarter update posted today suggests the same thing, describing the re-envisioned project as “a high quality game that adheres closely to the vision of the original System Shock,” rather than the “reinterpretation” that it evolved into. “What we’re left with is a concentrated team that consists of the original dev

Back when PCs were referred to as “home micros,” British Thames Television had a regular show called Database all about the computer industry and incredible emerging technologies. It’s full of imagery of 80s Japanese shopping malls and electronics stands, and a close-up look at an Apple II knock-off or “pirate computer.” It’s true: Japan’s PC industry always did its own thing, as we’ve written about before with the history of the MSX. I hope someday Thames TV uploads the next week’s program—at t

Strikes are co-op events for up to three players that run through a pile of enemies and culminate in a big boss fight. They’re routine for experienced players, but they’re also required for weekly milestones, through which Guardians acquire powerful equipment and loot. Unfortunately, with the good news comes the bad, and here it is:Iron Banner 6v6 is being postponed due to a late-breaking issue. Iron Banner will return as soon as we can deploy a fix. A fix won’t be ready in time for the schedule

In May 2017, an ESRB Rating Board listing suggested Disgaea 5 Complete, the latest and greatest edition of the once-PS4-exclusive strategy JRPG, was coming to PC. It took awhile, but today NIS America quietly confirmed this: Disgaea 5 Complete will release on PC on May 7, 2018 according to its newly minted Steam page. For the uninitiated: Disgaea is a series of proudly over-the-top strategy JRPGs with turn-based, grid-based combat. Disgaea 5 in particular, with its wealth of characters and featu

Having played Super Meat Boy Forever at PAX East yesterday, I am certain that automatically moving left or right does not make it bad. That prototype sat around for a few years before development on Super Meat Boy Forever began in 2014. Super Meat Boy Forever is still hard. So the lore behind the Betus guys is their blood sugar is low, so they eat Meat Boy, and Meat Boy has no carbohydrates so their blood sugar can’t come up, so the Betus are confused and walk right into death.” It’s different t

Newegg is running a special ‘Gold Tag’ sale for subscribers to its newsletter, with savings of up to 80 percent on select gear. Not everything is as heavily discounted, of course, but there are some good bargains to be had. Newegg’s sale price is the lowest we’ve seen for this plank. It’s marked down to $1,050 (from $1,250), and if you punch in coupon code EMCPTER39, the price drops to $1,000. You can subscriber to Newegg’s newsletter here, and browse the Gold Tag deals here.