Nvidia has released its Game Ready 391.35 drivers for Far Cry 5. We’ve also performed our initial benchmarks and found the game runs about the same as Far Cry Primal. We’re told the new drivers shouldn’t change performance much and mostly focus on bug fixes, but these are WHQL tested and should be safe to use whether or not you’re playing Far Cry 5—or at least as safe as any drivers are. [GeForce Experience]: Memory leak occurs leading to poor game performance when using NVIDIA Freestyle. You ca

I can just about manage that with my Xbox-dwelling friends courtesy of cross-play in Epic Games’ battle royale ’em up—which is something company CEO Tim Sweeney reckons is more important now than ever. “I think it’s in everyone’s interest to support interoperability,” Sweeney tells Glixel. “Whatever the history, it’s really in gamers’ interest to play with all of their friends. Sweeney tells Glixel: “With a game like Fortnite, in middle schools you have classrooms who play together. Who knows, b

Never Alone publisher E-Line Media announced today that it has a new project in the works called The Endless Mission, a narrative-focused “sandbox-style creation game” that sounds like it will be quite a departure from its predecessor. Players will embark on a journey through a world where they’ll “craft games and experiences of their own in the Unity engine—all while challenging forces larger than themselves.” “The Endless Mission explores what it means to shape the technology in our lives vers

Sea of Thieves has had a busy week. Launched last Tuesday, a surge of players forced Rare to temporarily suspend new faces from joining the pirate sim’s servers. This blog post identifies player rewards as the developer’s “key priority from an in-game experience perspective”, and advises players refrain from quitting and restarting during peak times. “If you continue playing,” says the post, “rewards should flow through eventually.” More info: https://t.co/DyRilpdJa3 pic.twitter.com/g3enlI3fQjMa

After Chris exclusively revealed its official trailer in early March, the battle royale ’em up parachuted into Steam’s Early Access initiative on the 23rd of the same month. Now, developer PUBG Corp is celebrating its anniversary by treating players to a complimentary skin. favourite PUBG weapon with a splash of yellow, the number one and the game’s iconic match-winning catchphrase: Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner. Voila:PC players, the live server maintenance is now over and everyone can log in

Trespasser, or Trespasser: Jurassic Park: The Lost World to give it its full, unwieldy title, is a very interesting—and very broken—game. But in the meantime, I thought you might enjoy this video compilation of my last few hours of play. Trespasser is also famous (well, infamous) for its, uh, unique approach to displaying the player’s health without relying on a HUD. I wouldn’t say it was a good game, but it’s certainly worth playing—especially if you’re a Jurassic Park fan. Trespasser was a bol

“We learnt everything from scratch,” says Dan Da Rocha, one of the trio. I spoke to Da Rocha, now the developer’s managing director, to find out. Toxic Games made the original Q.U.B.E. “The same white, sterile environment can get a bit tiring on your eyes, a bit intense,” Da Rocha says. When I ask Da Rocha whether he’s working on a third, he chuckles.

Far Cry 5 in many ways is precisely what you’d expect from the franchise—and that includes performance aspects as well. That’s not to say anyone and everyone will be running at 60fps, but if you played Far Cry 4 or Far Cry Primal, you should be fine. Put another way, you’ll need to average around 45fps at 1080p ultra if you want 1080p low to push you above 60fps. Like previous installments in the series, Far Cry 5 includes a built-in benchmarking utility. So far, Far Cry 5 performance is right i

Shortly after the release of Sea of Thieves last week, Rare announced that it planned to introduce a new penalty upon death. Basically, every (in-game) death would be met with what came to be known as “the death cost”: a fine of (in-game) gold. The announcement was met with criticism, mainly because Sea of Thieves’ in-game gold is hard enough to get as it is. Importantly, the death cost would not apply to PvP related deaths. “Letting everyone know we’ve heard the feedback and the proposed ‘Death

Hollow Knight will get a new update soon, but if you’re keen to get aboard early you can partake in a public beta right now. In addition to a few fixes and tweaks, the Lifeblood update introduces a brand new boss, dramatic upgrades to an existing boss, and the ability to use map markers on the game’s sprawling in-game map. Elsewhere, There are “numerous game balances and tweaks” as well as various bug fixes, optimisations and performance enhancements. “This is a major update to the game that inc

Elevators (courtyard, baskets, bells, etc…) don’t play their sounds. Spiders don’t play their sounds. Gallworms don’t play their sounds. Pressure plates don’t play their sound. Shutters don’t play their sounds when Tilo opens them.

Bad North sparkles during photo-finish gambles like these. And while its minimalist art gives it a cute look, Bad North is a vicious game. At the same time, Bad North is incredibly easy to pick up, which is developer Plausible Concept’s real magic trick. Observation is key in Bad North. It was a promising demo, and I look forward to more when Bad North launches later this year.

On Sunday, March 25, the stage two finals for Overwatch League played out at the Blizzard Arena in Burbank, California. $100,000 was up for grabs between the Philadelphia Fusion and New York Excelsior (NYXL) after a very exciting five weeks of Overwatch esports action. It took the entire five map set for them to do it, but in the end, NYXL walked away with the cash and bragging rights. With confidence and two maps on their side, Philadelphia strolled into the second half with a chip on their sho

Last week, Free Game Friday gave us F1 2015 for the low price of zero dollars on the Humble Store. That deal has ended but now the Humblers are giving away the 2012 supernatural shooter The Darkness 2, which I guess makes this Maybe-I-Don’t-Want-to-Pay-For-It Monday. “Scarface meets Pinhead” is a pretty fantastic setup for a game in its own right, and The Darkness 2 pulls it off well. You may also want to have a look at the Indie Mega Week Sale while you’re there:There’s a lot more than just tha

But creator Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro pledged to try again on Kickstarter, and today that new, somewhat different effort sprang to life. The Kickstarter campaign has a goal of roughly $647,000, far less than what the previous campaign was aiming for and also slightly less than what it ultimately pulled in. “We’ve decided to create multiple plans for the game volume based on how much funding we end up getting. The risk is that we won’t know whether or not we can really pull this off until we give

On top of Kingmaker boss fights and tainted monster mini-bosses, its nine Dreamer’s Door dungeons, which get more difficult the longer you’re in them, really push your party to its limits. Dreamer’s Door 4Shrine of Pining: southeast from Hydropolis on Makronos island. Dreamer’s Door 6Tidewash Cave: northwest from Capstan-upon-Hull, or south from Goldpaw, buried in the coastDreamer’s Door 7Crooked Cavern: east from the Sky Pirates’ Base. Dreamer’s Door 9Shivery Shrine: north from Broadleaf in the

Roccat’s answer is its new Horde Aimo featuring “membranical” keys. According to Roccat, membranical keys “combine the strengths of mechanical keys and membrane keys,” supposedly giving you the best of both worlds. Beyond the marketing buzz, it’s a membrane keyboard. What differentiates the Horde Aimo from other membrane planks is a lower actuation point for key presses, though Roccat doesn’t get into specifics here. Instead, Roccat says the keys have an actuation speed of 7.8ms, versus 9ms for

The new (and “optional”) driver release contains optimizations for Far Cry 5, which releases tomorrow, and could improve cryptocurrency mining performance on some PCs, according to the release notes. Final Fantasy XV may experience an application hang or crash after advancing in game to chapter 2. As for Far Cry 5, AMD notes that users may experience flickering in some instances, and specifically if switching tasks while playing the game using a multi-GPU setup. Destiny 2 may experience an appli

In a video released ahead of that update, design lead Josh Hamrick talked a bit about why the studio is taking the game in this direction. But instead of nerfing them, which is what would have happened in the original Destiny, the plan now is to “bring everything else to them.” “We’ve also learned the lesson of, ‘Don’t sand the coolness down’,” Hamrick says. As the “Go Faster” moniker suggests, speed is at the core of the update, which Hamrick says changes the flow of matches and enables “ridicu

MSI managed to incense a spate of Facebook followers when a rep for its MSI Gaming page in India suggested that AMD graphics cards are not worthy of its “Gaming X” brand. This would be a huge concern, particularly with the continued shortage of GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia. Of course, when you can sell every card, Gaming X branding or otherwise, naming becomes less important. Adding to the mystery are reports that MSI had previously removed all Gaming X branded Radeon cards from its website, wh