I may have been right about Rainbow Six Siege , but I couldn’t have been more wrong about Fortnite Battle Royale. I’m a few weeks in to really playing Fortnite BR, and I’m having a blast. I’m no good at it, but where PUBG stresses me the fuck out, a loss in Fortnite is much easier to swallow. My highlight of the week was from playing the Teams of 20 mode. Once my super speed was fixed in the latest patch, and the thing where I rock back and forth for minutes and can’t do anything and die of star

In terms of level design, the design philosophy in general, it was older games. There’s a lot of good stuff out there about game design in general and 3D design but old school 2D stuff? I want to make a game that’s completely intuitive, has basically no text, no tutorial text—I have two lines of tutorial text in the game, really short, at the very beginning. The octahedron’s part of the Platonic solids, there’s five of them: there’s tetrahedron; there’s the cube; the octahedron; there’s the dode

Kaet is one of the characters from our first, unreleased, Early Access, game Tuebor: I Will Defend. There were some major setbacks for our company throughout the course of development for Tuebor, so I had intended for Kaet Must Die! Our first game, Tuebor: I Will Defend, was intended to be the tent-pole title for our company. So we channeled that frustration and moved full speed ahead with Kaet Must Die!, aiming to make an arguably unfairly difficult game nobody could beat. If players consider K

Maybe my headline isn’t strictly true but damn if Surviv.io, a free-to-play browser-based battle royale game, isn’t a heck of a lot of fun. Surviv.io does it in your browser for free, with simple 2D graphics seen from a top-down perspective. It’s got everything we’ve come to expect from battle royale games: a nice selection of weapons and ammo, grenades, helmets, backpacks, bandages and medkits and pain pills and other gear. Pop in for one round or 10, alone or with friends, do some looting and

For the first time ever, the International Dota 2 Championships are coming to the magical land of Canada, the home of hockey, poutine, telephone poles, and other such stereotypical touchstones. Valve announced today that this year’s big donnybrook will take place August 20-25 in the Rogers Arena, home of the Vancouver Canucks, in Vancouver, British Columbia. If you want to attend for the full stretch, you’ll have to spring for both, and no VIP tickets are being offered this year. Tickets will be

Bungie has posted a new update to the Destiny 2 development roadmap, and I’m happy to say that very little has changed. Just one thing, in fact: Heroic strike modifiers, which were expected to arrive on March 27 as part of the 1.1.4 update, have been pushed into season 3, which will begin in May with the 1.2.0 update. The update also has a rundown of the first six weeks of the Weekly Crucible Playlist, which will see different modes rotated through the Crucible on a weekly basis. Here’s what’s i

We spent some time with MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries in December, and came away optimistic about its potential. The AI was weak, our resident robot jockey Steven declared, but it’s “shaping up to be the mech game I’ve always wanted.” It’s just “pew pew boom” with a few landscape shots, all of it buried underneath a repetitive but appropriately martial (and loud) soundtrack. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is set to come out in December, and my hopes are high. MechWarrior 2 is one of my favorite games o

Having already done Skyrim and Clockwork City, The Elder Scrolls: Legends is ticking off another stop on the tour guide by heading Vvardenfell for its next expansion: Houses of Morrowind. Houses of Morrowind will introduce cards that feature three attributes, and which when included in your deck will enable you to pick from all three of those colors. In order to use three-attribute cards, you must have at least 75 cards in your deck. House Telvanni: Intelligence/Agility/Endurance – The Telvanni

I can think of a lot of things that would’ve made Tomb Raider a much stupider movie. Tomb Raider bears little resemblance to those messy, hilarious, horribly acted movies. I can think of a lot of things that would’ve made Tomb Raider a much stupider movie. All of those crazy, dumb things happen in the original Tomb Raider game, and they would’ve been full-on ridiculous in a movie. Tomb Raider isn’t a terrible movie, but I wish it was.

Curation, as Itch.io explained in a recent blog post, “is the act of selecting games to highlight and present to customers.” But Itch.io, content director Spencer Hayes explained, is “not super-interested” in taking that approach. “An over-reliance on algorithms typically narrows down recommendations to only the most ‘profitable’ games and has historically worked to the detriment of marginalized groups. Itch.io content director Spencer Hayes: “An over-reliance on algorithms typically narrows dow

Hearthstone is in rude shape right now, with a good amount of deck diversity on the ladder and a spooky expansion waiting around the corner. That’s changed with the launch of the Official Companion App for PC, which offers a comprehensive suite of features for the competitive player. As with other deck trackers, the official one will even help you eliminate which Secrets your opponent might have in play. Though it’s currently in beta, Zhihong says the app has “largely been working great” despite

When I was 18, I had enough time on my hands that I could finish Devil May Cry 3 eight times, mastering the different weapons and styles. This collection brings the PS2’s first two Devil May Cry games to PC for the first time, along with the third entry, which was previously the subject of an apparently dire port . The action isn’t vastly different to the first, but the enemy types are less interesting, and it’s strangely easy. You’ll never be in any doubt that you’re playing some old PS2 games,

Dead in Bermuda is a “survival management game with RPG and adventure elements” in which a plane crash leaves eight people stranded on a desert island, and it falls to you to keep them alive. More relevantly, it’s free—totally free—on Origin right now as an “On the House” game. That means you can hit the Origin page, click the “Add to Game Library” button, and it will be added permanently to your game library. If the low price of “free” doesn’t quite convince you, you can learn more about the ga

If you’re in the market for a new gaming mouse, you can snag G.Skill’s customizable Ripjaws KM780 on Amazon for $32.50. One of the nice things about this rodent is it caters to both left-handed and right-handed gamers with interchangeable grips. This allows you to slap the thumb rest on either side of the mouse, effectively changing its orientation. It also features Omron switches, four-zone RGB lighting, eight programmable buttons, and onboard storage to save up to five customizable profiles. T

Echoplex, Output Games’ quirky and creepy doppelganger puzzler, first caught my eye in late 2016. Launched in full yesterday after a stint in Early Access, Echoplex now packs a full-motion story alongside its maze of neon-bleached, shadow-stalking levels. Built by a modest-sized team, I’m impressed with how far Echoplex has come—a process which is outlined in this behind-the-scenes making of trailer. And that’s very challenging,” says game director Tyron van Vuuren there. If you think Echoplex i

With James playing Fortnite on his phone and Steven trying out PUBG’s mobile version, I guess I’m feeling a little left out. I want to play some PC games on my phone too! I do have a hard time even imagining how a fast-paced game like Fortnite can be played on a phone screen or how to manage headshots in a game like PUBG on mobile. As it turns out you don’t even have to wait for developers to make mobile versions of their games: there’s an app called Remotr that streams PC games to your phone. I

The graphics card market is getting a new player, or at least it appears that way. In a video posted to Twitter, ASRock shows what clearly looks like a custom cooled graphics card with its own branding attached. It also appears that ASRock is creating a Phantom Gaming line for its graphics cards. We wouldn’t be surprised if Phantom Gaming came to envelop an entire line of gaming gear, similar to what ASUS does with its Republic of Gamers (ROG) and Strix categories. Last week, however, news and r

As part of a temporary addition to its bug bounty program, researchers stand to earn up to $250,000 for the discovery of certain vulnerabilities. “Speculative execution is truly a new class of vulnerabilities, and we expect that research is already underway exploring new attack methods. Here’s a breakdown:Tier 1: New categories of speculative execution attacks. Windows speculative execution mitigation bypass. With its temporarily expanded bug bounty program, Microsoft appears to be trying to get

If you’ve ever played Grand Theft Auto 5, you’ve probably stolen a car. You’ve probably owned an illegal gun. And you’ve probably pulled the trigger. iLLo’s work-in-progress Pickpocket Script has you covered. More information on Pickpocket Script, including installation instructions, can be found on its GTA5-Mods page.

Scavengers is the debut venture of Midwinter Entertainment—a studio led by ex-343 Industries studio head Josh Holmes. Inspired by Halo 5’s Warzone mode, the game bills itself as a multiplayer “co-opetition” survival shooter. It combines exploration and survival with combat elements, while weaving teamwork and co-op mechanics across multiple servers in the cloud. Large and unpredictable AI populations, combined with the balance of co-operation and competition between the human players, will creat