Yacht Club Games has released two new games in the Shovel Knight series. The first is a local multiplayer titled Shovel Knight: Showdown and the second is a deck-building card-collecting prequel called Shovel Knight: King of Cards. Shovel Knight: King of Cards is a prequel to the Shovel Knight games where you play as the most dashing knight of them all, King Knight. Alongside King Knight’s graceful platforming, King of Cards also includes a deck-building collectable card game called Joustus and

Final Fantasy 7 Remake will only be stuck on PS4 for a year after it launches, the box art has revealed. The long-awaited JRPG will appear on the console on March 3, 2020, and exactly a year later the exclusivity will end. Ultimately this was an error, as it had the same release date as the PS4 version. It also seems like it would be a prime candidate for Xbox Game Pass, as Microsoft is adding every game from the original 7 to 15 to the service next year. Final Fantasy 7 Remake also looks absolu

ABOVE: Killing Floor 2’s next seasonal event is revealed in a new trailer with the debut of The Matriarch. The holiday season is once again upon us, and that means it’s time for some extra special festivities Killing Floor 2. But the big addition this year is Rachel Clamely, making her Killing Floor 2 debut as a tough new boss known as The Matriarch. This M91/30 allows a capable sharpshooter to fire at distant threats, stab at nearby threats, and block and parry damage from incoming threats. Kil

For those who do like launchers, though, and to reflect the fact that it also carries some new games, GOG unveiled the Steam-like Galaxy launcher earlier this year. Galaxy has been in closed beta for several months, but now it’s available to everyone in open beta. Start the client, hit the “settings” dropdown, select “add games and friends,” and then “connect platforms.” Hey, open beta is still beta. Minor bumps aside, GOG Galaxy looks very solid at this point, especially if you’re looking to cu

The Logitech G203 Prodigy has earned a spot in our best gaming mouse roundup, thanks to its ultra-low price point. It usually costs around $21 on Amazon and other retailers, but Dell is currently selling it for just $18.99. The G203 is a fairly basic gaming mouse, but still offers a 6,000 DPI sensor, a total of six customizable buttons, a compact design inspired by the classic Logitech G100S, and even lighting (though only blue, not RGB). This mouse doesn’t have the best sensor around, consideri

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition now supports full crossplay across all platforms, following the imminent arrival of that edition to PlayStation 4. It’s great news for PS4 fans, as until now players on that platform have been limited to playing with other PS4 owners. With the PS4 and Xbox platforms constantly at war over marketshare, it demonstrates that an up-to-date Minecraft is important to both stakeholders. Of course, this crossplay functionality only applies to the Bedrock Edition, ie, the editi

Fortnite developer Epic Games is involved in a new legal tussle over one of the game’s emotes, but in something of a twist, the studio is suing the dancer, rather than the other way around. As explained by The Verge, Matt Geiler, better known to the internet as the Dancing Pumpkin Man, sent Epic a cease-and-desist letter in October, demanding that it stop using his likeness in the “Pump It Up” emote, and threatened legal action if it refused to do so. After further exchanges failed to resolve th

He’s not quite so well known to the world at large, though, and so Netflix has released a brief video, featuring series star Henry Cavill, explaining exactly who he is, what he does, and how he does it. Witchers can also throw around very rudimentary magic: The video shows Geralt pasting some unlucky sucker with Aard, which is essentially a high-impact Force push. The video also gives a nod to the dry sense of humor that Geralt occasionally lets slip, and to the sense of destiny that permeates h

There weren’t a ton of great deals on gaming PCs during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, especially when it came to mid-range builds. The specifications on this PC include a 6-core/6-thread Intel Core i5-9400F processor, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card, 256GB of NVMe SSD storage, and 8GB of DDR4 memory. It’s extremely rare to see pre-built PCs with Nvidia’s GTX 1660 Ti graphics card go for less than $800 (most on Newegg are $800-850 right now), so getting this for $579.99 is a heck of

Ryan Reynolds is reprising his role as quippy action movie man in Free Guy, which probably wouldn’t be on my radar, or PC Gamer, if it wasn’t obviously inspired by the likes of GTA Online. Free City is an MMO where players run around murdering each other, sometimes with with fighter jets, and pulling off heists. Reynolds plays an NPC bank teller who, like the fine people of San Andreas, Liberty City, Steelport and so on, just goes about his routine and ignores the mayhem. The setup reminds me of

The concept of a ‘gaming’ phone is relatively new, albeit one Asus has embraced, starting with the original ROG Phone and then the ROG Phone II. As with the first-gen ROG Phone, the ROG Phone II (including the new Ultimate model) employs “Air Triggers,” which are areas you can tap on the side of the phone to serve as shoulder buttons. I’ve spent some hands on time with the ROG Phone II (and the ROG Phone before that). If there’s such a thing as a gaming phone, the ROG Phone II is it. Still, the

In what could ultimately prove to be a game changing feature for VR, the Oculus Quest will soon support hand tracking. Hand tracking enables users to manipulate a VR environment without a controller, for a more immersive experience. This technology approximates the shape of your hand and creates a set of 3D points to accurately represent your hand and finger movement in VR,” Oculus explained at Oculus Connect last September. While hand tracking should lead to a deeper level of immersion, Oculus

The ASUS ROG Zephyrus GU502GV is on sale $1400, $350 off the listed retail price. For a mid-range gaming laptop under $1500, you can’t go wrong with this ROG gaming laptop deal. What really impresses us is the 1TB SSD, since you don’t see SSDs that large on gaming laptops at this price. We collected the best Cyber Week PC gaming deals from across the web last week, from the latest graphics cards to the most comfortable gaming chairs. Cyber Week gaming laptops | Cyber Week monitors | Cyber Week S

If you are still running Windows 10 version 1809 (October 2018 update), be advised that a forced upgrade is coming. I don’t think that’s how it works with older builds, such as version 1809, though I’m not entirely sure. This is different from how Microsoft handled the April 2018 update (version 1803). The October 2018 update was especially problematic, to the point where Microsoft actually took it offline for a bit because it was deleting files on some PCs. Still, it’s always a good idea to bac

Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries, the first single-player Mechwarrior to come along since 2002 and the third in the series to be subtitled Mercenaries (it’s a popular theme), finally arrives on December 10. The minimum system requirement has changed slightly from what was reported earlier this year. CPU and GPU are the same, but the minimum RAM requirement has gone up, while the hard drive requirement has actually gone down. Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries is launching as an Epic Games Store exclusive, but

It’s a great time to buy a gaming laptop, even with the Black Friday/Cyber Monday madness behind us. If you’re still in the market for a portable gaming rig, one variant of the super-popular MSI GL63 with a GTX 1660 Ti graphics card is just $764.99 at Walmart and Newegg. This laptop is a great value for the price, with a 4-core/8-thread Intel Core i5-9300H processor, 8GB of RAM, a 512GB NVMe SSD, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card with 6GB of VRAM. While the MSRP of $1,199 seems inf

Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka is working on a mystery FMV game, Death Come True, announced today. The Danganronpa series only came to PC in 2016, long after it initially launched on PSP. (Image credit: Izanagi Games)While Death Come True’s setup hasn’t been unveiled yet, you probably don’t need to worry about the switch to FMV making it more grounded. This isn’t to be confused with Death March Club, the 2D platformer that’s also being developed by Too Kyo Games. Death Come True, meanwhile,

I’m still waiting patiently for the day when the modding community figures out how to get airplanes and helicopters into Red Dead Redemption 2, but until then this hot air balloon mod by Krank will have to do. The latest version of the mod added inertia and smoother controls, and it even has controller support if you’re playing Red Dead with a gamepad. (Image credit: Rockstar Games)(Image credit: Rockstar Games)Installing the mod is as simple as dropping a file into your game directory. And don’

If you’re in the market for a gaming mouse, or if you’re looking for a holiday present for the gamer in your life still using a 2008 Dell PC mouse from 2011, here’s something you may be interested in. The Razer Mamba Elite wired mouse is $49.99 on Amazon for today only, a discount of $10 from the usual cost. The Razer Mamba Elite covers just about everything you could want out of a mouse: a high-precision 16,000 DPI optical sensor, customizable RGB lights, rubber side grips, a total of nine prog

The IntelliMouse series from Microsoft has attracted a cult following over the years, with many still holding onto their IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 mice from 2006. Microsoft released the Pro IntelliMouse earlier this year, packing a Pixart 3389 sensor into the classic IntelliMouse body, and now you can get it for just $44.99. That’s a $9 drop from the previous price, and $15 below the original MSRP. While we haven’t tried out this model ourselves, it has received great reviews from both the press