PowerColor is releasing another Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card, this latest one under its Red Dragon branding with a custom air cooler and an ever-so-slightly overclocked boost clock. The new Red Dragon RX Vega 56 is listed as having up to a 1,478MHz boost clock, which is just a hair faster than AMD’s reference 1,471MHz setting. Still, the model number (AXRX Vega 56 8GBHBM2-2D2HD/OC) bills this as an overclocked part, more likely because its 1,177MHz base clock is 21Mhz faster than reference. L

Frostpunk is a survival sim about managing a city in a wintry post-apocalypse by rationing resources like heat and food, passing hard-knock laws and, if you’re Chris, mandating soup. “In Frostpunk, citizens ask for solutions to various situations. It’s a long-term strategy, and like most long-term strategies in Frostpunk, it’s a gamble. Frostpunk is set in an alternate 19th century where the world froze over just after steam engines were invented. Likewise, if you run out of hope, your citizens

Strange things sometimes happen in Dwarf Fortress. Talking to Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams about the latest updates to his vast, rich and absurd simulation is always one of the highlights of my week at GDC, and this time is no exception. We also talk about what’s coming in the next few months (and few years), what it’s like to connect a new intricate system with the existing systems in Dwarf Fortress, and why the UI is still utterly baffling. For more on Dwarf Fortress, read last year’s fea

And the fact it’s where the Independent Games Festival Awards are held—whose 20th annual ceremony took place in San Francisco yesterday. There, Infinite Fall’s gorgeous and heartfelt Night in the Woods won the $30,000-worth Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game, and also netted Excellence in Narrative. Elsewhere, Amanita Design’s quirky point-and-clicker Chuchel took home Excellence in Visual Art, whereas upcoming student game Baba Is You secured Excellence in Design and Best Stud

Ni No Kuni 2 is about more than just uniting the great kingdoms of the realm. It’s also about building your own kingdom, Evermore, and for that you’re going to need a Kingmaker. The second trial is a good old-fashioned boss fight, but the first is an intriguing series of three puzzles. Collecting all of them earns you a sword, wand, and consumable for Evan to use in the boss trial, so it’s worth doing. How to beat the first puzzleHow to beat the second puzzleHow to beat the third puzzle

Well, the HS50 Stereo feels almost like an echo of that revered design style that we once knew. But let’s face it: all the good looks in the world don’t make up for poor sound quality. The HS50 comes in at that bog standard 20 to 20, meaning sound isn’t as crisp as I’d like. Ultimately, Corsair’s HS50 headset is a nice return to form, for a company we’d feared had gone far too deep down into that rabbit hole of RGB illuminated fun times. The materials used, the versatility, and the well-rounded

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting an Event Mode, which developer PUBG Corp describes as “a periodically changing preset Custom Game where we will be trying new things and experimenting with different game parameters.” Okay, back to the Event Mode. “Anyone who owns a copy of PUBG can enjoy the Event Mode. To play in the Event Mode, please use the relevant UI in the bottom left of the main menu.” No hard release date for any of this just yet, but PUBG Corp expects to move from test to live

OMEN by HP and FACEIT have announced the OMEN UK Open—a new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament set to run from next month through November, 2018. The UK-exclusive contest promises a total prize pool of $30,000, with $12,500 of that in cash and $17,500 of OMEN by HP hardware. Further to the competition itself, OMEN by HP will also run the OMEN UK Open Community Caster Challenge—an initiative that gives talented commentators the chance to win $2,500 worth of OMEN by HP products, and the p

Had it not been free-to-play, BR might not have justified the steady stream of features, mechanics, weapons and modes it’s received since September—the latest of which is the Heavy Shotgun. The Heavy Shotgun releases tomorrow, March 22 at 8am ET (12:00 GMT).There will be no downtime and no update required. pic.twitter.com/INh3zByKDoMarch 22, 2018As reported by Andy yesterday, Fortnite is also in-line for a new replay system which promises camera customisation options—such as aperture, focal leng

We had just about lost interest in Fortnite, a mildly-popular PvE building game when it launched, by September of last year. That’s according to Epic’s Ed Zobrist, who dropped some details on the development of Fortnite’s ultra-popular Battle Royale mode at a GDC panel today. “Two months in development, launched in September 26. So let’s do some math: Save the World, the PvE game, launched July 21. [Battle Royale] comes out September 26.”That’s a total of two months in development, most of which

Epic Games delivered its annual State of Unreal presentation at GDC today, giving the audience an updated look at what’s been done with the powerful, popular game engine, and where it’s going next. You can watch the whole thing above if you’d like. First up is Andy Serkis, famous for his mo-cap performances as Gollum, Kong, Caesar, and Snoke, who finally gets to play himself—although ironically, it’s still a digital proxy. Finally, and to my eyes most impressively, the Reflections trailer demons

Two separate sources are reporting that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered will release later this year, following similar treatment for the first Modern Warfare in 2016. Unlike that reissue, though, Modern Warfare 2’s remaster won’t include its multiplayer component. The former has reportedly received confirmation via a Raven Software employee (the studio responsible for the Modern Warfare remaster), while the latter also claims to have independently verified the rumour. When Modern Warf

Yoko Taro wearing his usual mask, surrounded by fans after his talk. One part of Nier: Automata, one of our favorite games of last year , drew inspiration from a much weirder source: a Coca Cola ad campaign called A Small World. “The truth is, this genius idea is not mine,” Yoko Taro said, speaking through a translator. Cameras and touchscreens built into the Coca Cola machines let people in India and Pakistan see each other in real time and play simple games. “That project left an extremely str

“Instead of giving you a new, loose release window, we will be going dark while we take the time that we need to complete Below without compromise,” the studio explained. “The next time you see a major Below update, that means our game has a firm release date, which we’ll share.” “I still can’t say the exact date, but we are aiming for this year—although we’ve said that over and over, so…” Piotrowski said. It’s not exactly a “major update,” and so I guess we can let slide the fact that it’s no

Bethesda announced today that the ancestral home of Tamriel’s Altmer—the High Elves—will be the setting of the next Elder Scrolls Online expansion, Summerset. Summerset is a lush, lovely place, “but trouble is hiding in the shadows, and corruption threatens to destroy High Elf society from within,” Bethesda said. That may be why Queen Ayrenn has opened the borders to outsiders for the first time in Altmeri history, and also why she’s not actually living there right now. Instead, her cousin, Alwi

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Hearthstone’s next expansion, revealed last week as The Witchwood, will feature two new keywords, Echo and Rush, a Dungeon Run-style game mode called Monster Hunt, and 135 new cards. Blizzard announced today that the process of revealing those cards to the world will kick into high gear (since we’ve already seen a few of them) during a livestream on Twitch set for March 26. How their card reveals will be handled for English audiences isn’t clear, but it’s fair to assume that the majority of card

Recently joining that list is Pathway, which sounds like Indiana Jones if it was a turned-based tactics RPG. German studio Robotality, the developers of Pathway, have form in this genre—they previously made sci-fi strategy game Halfway, which Chucklefish also published in 2014. Simon Bachmann: “Choose your own adventure” events with squad-based tactical combat all nicely presented in a ’30s pulp story scenario. This is certainly something we’ve spent a lot of time trying to get right in Pathway.

Maelstrom is a game of “fantasy naval combat” set on an inundated world where land is at a premium and wars are fought constantly to control what little dry territory remains. At first glance, Maelstrom sounds quite a bit like Sea of Thieves, but it’s a faster-paced game, with ships controlled by single players rather than crews. “Maelstrom will launch on Early Access regardless of the funding goal but we’re really behind on our community building,” the studio said. “The Kickstarter is meant to

Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom is filled with secrets to sniff out, from powerful Higgledy allies to good old-fashioned treasure chests. Despite appearing early in the story, it took me 40 hours to figure out how to open these blue chests. You don’t unlock spring lock the way you do spells like quicken growth—just complete the research like you would any other. You can now open all the blue chests you’ve found in the overworld. Note that this spell won’t work on the blue chests found in the Drea