HTC announced today that the Vive Pro HMD, with an increased resolution of 2880×1600 and built-in headphones, will cost $799, the same price the Vive launched for in 2016. Note that the $799 is for the Vive Pro HMD headset and does not include base stations or controllers. A complete Vive Pro kit will be announced at a future date. “The Vive Pro comes with dual-OLED displays,” reads the press release from HTC, “making for a crisper image resolution of 2880 x 1600 combined, a 78% increase in reso

The throne and all its power seems to be a natural thing to desire for someone as ambitious as Delilah. But more than this, Delilah shows that she doesn’t simply desire Emily’s throne for the sake of it, but Emily’s entire life and history. In Delilah’s desire for the throne, her imitation of Emily is so explicit that it leads her to try to become her. And when Jessamine is assassinated and that power is handed to Emily, Delilah pursues Emily just as single-mindedly. Motivated entirely by envy,

Image credit: SharkmobWhat do you get when you mix a group of ex-Hitman and The Division developers, who’ve set off on their own and are working on an as yet undisclosed “cult classic”? You get Sharkmob, a new indie outfit comprised of ex-Ubi and IO folks that’s headed by former Massive CEO Fredrik Rundqvist. I guess that also gives you a hint as to what kind of game we’re making.” We felt more safe working together again than we would have if we were just going off on our own. Elsewhere, Rundqv

Sonny Evans’ tongue-in-cheek Attenborough-esque nature documentaries span GTA 5, Battlefield 1, Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. They’re lighthearted and silly and good fun—with the latter leveraging PUBG’s new-ish replay system to great effect. Described as “the scourge” of PUBG, Evans posits “the goal of this creature is to be a general nuisance.” I love the work coming from GTA 5 in this vein, so I hope and encourage more players to pick up the mantle here. If you like the above, E

The optical fiber side is the newer technology, with the data carried via pulses of light through pipes made of glass. While cable could catch up, fiber leapfrogged it and so generally offers faster speeds due to its more modern and recently deployed infrastructure. Some better ones, such as Google Fiber, offer a 1 Gbps symmetrical connection. Here we can see confirmation that while the cable provider does offer a decent connection, the fiber competitor, Verizon Fios, offers lower latency, with

Bandai Namco’s beat ’em up version of Netflix-only anime series Little Witch Academia is coming to PC on May 15, the developer has announced. Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time features an original story following the show’s main character, Akko, who accidentally creates a time loop in a library (as you do). It’s a side-scrolling beat ’em up with RPG elements, and each character will have skills that you’ll be able to level up. You’ll have up to six characters in your party, and you can grou

But if you’re still undecided ahead of the game’s release on Tuesday (March 20), then developer Demimonde has released a free demo in which you can try out a selection of levels from the full game. If you haven’t heard about the game before, then you’re sucked into the nightmarish disco world of Veetragoul and told to escape by constantly moving upwards. You’ll have to avoid a long list of dangers, including spiders and deadly lights that pulse to the techno beat. Jody said it has a nice rhythm

Super Mega Baseball is one of my favourite sports games of the past five years, and the sequel looks like it will improve on the arcadey original in nearly every way. One of the major additions to Super Mega Baseball 2 is online multiplayer, and developer Metalhead Software released a video (above) this week detailing just how that will work. The game pitches two ways to play online. Second, you can play against randoms online in Pennant Race, which is basically a matchmaking mode to play one-of

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is not exactly an easy game, but you can transform Henry from lowly peasant to fearsome knight fairly quickly if you know what you’re doing. Modder Knoxogoshi’s Ultimate Realism Overhaul looks to change that by making the game harder, especially early on. It bumps up the difficulty of combat, slows down progression, and makes Groschen—Bohemia’s currency—harder to come by. The mod slows down leveling and nerfs some of Henry’s perks. Best of all, it’s modular, so you can

After Evan saw it up close he described it as “one part EVE, one part Minecraft”, which means the latest hire from developer Novaquark is probably a good fit. It’s recruited Hrafnkell Oskarsson, one of EVE Online’s original designers. The move, announced on French site AFJV, can only be a good thing for the project. Oskarsson first joined EVE Online developer CCP in 1999, and left the studio in 2015, at which point he was a senior game designer on EVE. If you want to find out more about Dual Uni

Occult Scrim looks like a fun twist on Half Life: it’s not quite a fully top-down shooter, but it’s nearly there, with the camera floating way overhead. It’s still very early days for the mod, and it doesn’t yet have a release date, but it looks remarkably polished. The perspective works well, and your character—a black ops assassin—automatically adjusts their aim up and down depending on where your enemies are. It looks like it plays far quicker than the base game, with lots of enemies on scree

RICO reminds me of F.E.A.R., the solid horror shooter from Monolith Productions, but without the scary bits. It’s a co-op cop shooter in which you and a partner blast through procedurally-generated levels, slipping in and out of slow motion as you bust down doors and shotgun bad guys from three feet away, sending them flying across the room. You’ll be able to play in split-screen or online co-op when it launches this autumn (it doesn’t have a specific release date yet). Variety will be the key,

Developer Arkane Studios tweeted out a picture, below, featuring its employees each revealing a bloodshot eye and holding up cryptic signs. It features multiple references to the moon, mentions Kosma Corp—a rival of mega-corporation TranStar—and asks “What about Peter?” Perhaps that’s a nod to Peter Coleman, a character from Prey that the player discovers dead and disfigured. It also lists the date 06.10.18 at the top, which (if taken in the American date format) is the same date as publisher Be

But what I didn’t see coming and most definitely should have is that players would get meta with it. This clip shared and performed by Reddit user CJLito shows them riding a rocket, kicking off the Rocket Rodeo emote, and then sniping their last bush-camping opponent for the Victory Royale. It’s layers of skill and showmanship on layers of skill and showmanship that I didn’t expect we’d ever see in Fortnite. Now all that’s left is for Epic to make a rocket costume and for a player to get the win

The next installment in the Bit.Trip Runner series, Runner3, will sprint onto PC on May 22, developer Choice Provisions has announced. The camera will even fly behind Commander Video at certain times, and you’ll dodge left and right as he runs forward. The levels branch in a different way to previous games, too. Here, the levels branch side-to-side, facilitated by the moving camera. It only mentions the game’s Nintendo Switch release, but it’ll arrive on PC on the same day.

Judged purely on the the number of new cards released, the Year of the Mammoth was Hearthstone’s biggest year yet, and to hear game director Ben Brode tell it, it was also the best. Knights of the Frozen Throne”The Lich King was so important to both not make bad, and to make interesting,” Brode says. The Lich King The randomness of The Lich King’s card generation keeps him from being OP, much like Ysera. Or does that take away from the idea that we have these nine class Death Knight Heroes? The

The glitch, as detailed in this thread (with a video), shows the player throwing down the Boogie Bomb at his or her feet and busting a few moves. Epic spotted the thread and has removed the item from the game, pending a fix. Due to a bug with the Boogie Bomb, we’re going to be temporarily disabling it until we’re able to fix it. pic.twitter.com/bH2ZoQc9rdMarch 16, 2018No word on when it’ll be back, but I shouldn’t suspect it will take long. A new limited-time Blitz mode featuring shorter matches

Localisation studio Xseed Games has been churning out PC versions of much-loved JRPGs in recent years, including a few of the games in the Ys series and, recently, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2. With one or two exceptions, it’s done a stellar job, and it’s just revealed its next target—Ys: Memories of Celceta. The game initially came to PS Vita in 2012 and a PC version made it to China in 2015, but never to the West. To confuse matters, the events of Memories of Celceta sit betwee

Myst developer Cyan put out a mysterious teaser related to the 25-year-old series last week, and now it’s filled in the details: it’s releasing updated versions of all five of the Myst games later this year. With agreements in place, we’re happy to announce that we’ll be releasing updated (for Windows 10) versions of all the Myst games later this year,” it said on the series’ website. If you haven’t played Myst, then it’s an adventure game series about exploring gorgeous islands, travelling betw

This week: which game actually lived up to the hype? Tom Senior: Deus Ex: Human RevolutionI was dangerously excited when a new Deus Ex was announced. Human Revolution decided that everything would be gold, and full of triangles, and its depiction of futuristic augments was gorgeous. Human Revolution really got Deus Ex. It took more than a decade to get from Deus Ex to Human Revolution, and it was worth the wait.