THQ Nordic has announced plans to bring back another old-time THQ classic with another weird, tongue-twisting title: Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered will feature updated graphics with improved lighting, shading, post-processing effects, and support for 4K resolutions. Released in 2009, Red Faction: Guerrilla is an open-world game about a guy who gets a job working the mines on Mars, and quickly ends up at the forefront of an insurgency against the pushy jerks of the Earth Defense Force. It’

In the wake of its fairly sophisticated Atlas Rises update, Chris returned to No Man’s Sky and found a better game that still lacked magic and mystery. The space survival sim’s next venture is due at some point in “Summer 2018”, is billed as its “largest update so far”, is free to existing players, and is named No Man’s Sky NEXT. Coming in Summer 2018 is No Man’s Sky NEXT, a free update for PS4, PC, Xbox and WeGame. It’s our largest update so far, and we’re working our socks off pic.twitter.com/

Prey marks Fanatical’s latest daily Star Deal, which run for 24 hours at a time. ), but it’s still a deal worth highlighting. Attempting to cater to a variety of play styles is laudable, but also means that Prey isn’t as good a stealth game as Dishonored, nor as good a combat game as BioShock. But while the individual parts have problems, Prey is nonetheless greater than the sum of them. Prey is worth playing, mostly thanks to the strength of Talos-I as a setting, and the excellent environment d

Mike Dies is initially quite linear, although you’ll see teleporters that are locked with a number from the outset. “I like to think of Mike Dies not being a story about a gay character,” says Gold, “it’s a story about Mike. Nonetheless, Mike Dies is a game that handles representation well. Eventually, you realize Mike Dies is piecing together a complex picture about who Mike is and what has happened to the ship. I can imagine a perfect playthrough of Mike Dies, but seeing every way a teleporter

The humble shovel, once assumed to be a tool just for digging or clonking people over the head, is far more useful than it appears. Besides giving people exciting new hood ornaments (you’re welcome) you can also nail enemies to trees with a throw of your trusty shovel. One Steam user has even condensed the game down into a review strictly based around shovel-related pros and cons, which are all pros, because there are simply no drawbacks to using Far Cry 5’s shovel:As for me, I’ve mostly been hu

The Sinking City feels like a soggy, nightmarish version of L.A. Noire, a comparison developer Frogwares proudly acknowledged when I spoke to them at GDC. Adding Cthulhu is an overdone twist, but The Sinking City applies Lovecraftian lore in interesting new ways. In this gross, dilapidated town, Harry Evans has gone missing, and his wife wants me to find him. The Sinking City expects you to do more than just follow automatically-placed UI markers. Well, I’ve got some bad news for them: I had a b

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been busy this week with the company’s annual GPU Technology Conference. “The video supply chain is working really hard, and you know all of our partners are working around the clock. And right now, we’re not anywhere near close to that and so we’re just going to have to keep running.” With the surge in demand from multiple vectors, not to mention less GDDR5 than AMD and Nvidia would like, GPUs are set to remain in short supply. Mining profitability has taken a signif

Psyonix is taking new steps to combat bad behavior in Rocket League with a “Chat Bans” system that will be added as part of the upcoming Tournaments Update. The studio said the system is “the new first step in addressing abusive language and toxic behavior in game.” Chat bans will be handed out for the same behavior that currently leads to game bans, but as the name suggests will simply remove the ability of players to chat while they’re in the game. If the player in question was found to be abu

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Cutesy cat game Mewgenics was announced way back in 2012, after which it was delayed, canceled, and then in January of this year, brought back to life under slightly new management. With Team Meat cohorts Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes having parted ways, McMillen is now working on Mewgenics with The End is Nigh co-creator Tyler Glaiel. And despite the glacial pace of development so far, McMillen said they are in fact getting down to work on it. Updates: The remake of Mewgenics is in effect a

A year ago, Blizzard shifted the pool of draftable cards from Wild to Standard, then experimented with the ill-received synergy picks system . “Arena has really been a grounds in the last year where we’re trying a bunch of different stuff,” Ayala said. “The intention there isn’t to make Arena like Tavern Brawl, where we’re just changing things and doing wacky stuff. With the fix through, the 10.4 draft system overhaul has been fairly popular . “It’s funny cause it seems like Velen is the pick, b

The CP1000PFCLCD is one of the better uninterruptible power supplies for the money. This particular model is a less beefy version of our top pick in the UPS category, the 1500VA/900W CP1500PFCLCD. For plugging in hardware, there are 10 outlets, five of which offer both battery backup and surge protection, with the other five offering surge-only protection. You can find this UPS on sale here. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links.

Xiaomi has made a living selling smartphones, but starting next month, it will look to generate a new stream of revenue from PC gamers with its Mi Gaming Laptop, its first high performance laptop and only its second notebook model ever. The Mi Gaming Laptop features a 15.6-inch display with a Full HD 1080p (1920×1080) resolution. The lower end model features a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB solid state drive paired with a 1TB HDD, whereas the higher end model bumps the specs up

ASRock hinted a couple of weeks ago that it would soon be muscling in on the graphics card business, and today it made the move official, unveiling a new lineup of Phantom Gaming display adapters based on AMD’s Radeon RX 500 series GPUs. “ASRock finally expands into the graphics card field,” CEO LL Shiu said. Phantom Gaming cards will be available in four flavors to start: The 2GB/4GB Radeon RX 550 and RX 560, and the 8GB Radeon RX 570 and RX 580 models. “The new ASRock Phantom Gaming Series, ba

It’s equipped with 16 Tesla V100 GPUs based on the company’s Volta architecture. From Nvidia’s vantage point, this makes the DGX-2 in effect a single GPU. Nvidia didn’t build the DGX-2 to run Crysis, though it surely could without breaking a sweat (with appropriately optimized drivers, of course). Each of the Volta GPUs inside the DGX-2 has 32GB of HBM2 memory, for a total of 512GB. Fully equipped with 16 GPUs, the DGX-2 is powered by a 10kW power supply (redundant 5kW, probably), according to A

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden came to our attention last month by way of a Stalker-scented countdown that was ultimately revealed as a tactical combat game in the style of XCOM, set in a post-apocalyptic world populated by mutants that look like Fallout versions of Looney Tunes. Wes took a closer look at it earlier today and not to put too fine a point on it, but he think it’s going to be “really fucking cool.” Also out today is a half-hour gameplay video covering the basics of stealth and comb

What’s the secret sauce of Into the Breach’s incredibly readable UI? How do the Vek decide what to attack? What percentage of players have managed to clear the game on hard? Justin Ma and Matthew Davis sit down to talk about the long four year development that led to Into the Breach, and Chris Avellone joins to talk about writing one of the best PC games of the year so far. Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podcast RSS feedYour flapping heads for this episode:Wes FenlonJustin

That’s because Foxconn, a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Belkin for $866 million, the company announced. Assuming the deal goes through, this will not be the first time that Linksys has changed hands. In 2003, Cisco acquired Linksys for $500 million, then sold the brand in 2013 to Belkin, along with its home networking division. I am thrilled to take our brand portfolio of Belkin, Linksys, Wemo and Phyn to new heights,” said Chet Pipkin, CEO and founder

Far Cry Arcade’s map-making tools have already been put to good use. Mythic Counter-Strike map de_dust2 now exists in Far Cry Arcade’s competitive multiplayer map pool, an impressive recreation by user Izoolee. Have a look for yourself in the video below, in which YouTuber Widdz plays a match on the custom map. You can see him look for the usual sightlines and, impressively, most of them are there. While you can’t play the usual bomb-defusing objective mode, team deathmatch with Far Cry’s showy

Total War: Arena a free-to-play online RTS built around 10 vs 10 battles, in which each player controls three units. I love a bit of Total War, but it’s impossible to escape the sense that this one should have stayed on the ‘mad ideas’ whiteboard. It looks as though the game is built out of an earlier iteration of the Total War battle engine, but the maps in particular look great and it runs well. Putting so many players in a Total War battle doesn’t add much to the experience, except for plenty