When Wolfenstein 3D released in 1992, the game was missing one crucial feature: the ability to pat dogs. Instead, the dogs in Wolfenstein 3D were prone to biting you, and the only way to retaliate was to brutally murder them. Sure, they were dogs belonging to Nazis, but that didn’t mean the dogs themselves were Nazis. “Sorry, they jump up on you, I hope you don’t mind dog paw prints on your jeans. No, I don’t mind dog paw prints on my jeans.

In this environment, what can Making History, KSP’s first official expansion, offer players that hasn’t already been done? Not its collection of real-life spacecraft, which is a curious inclusion given that space history is one of the most popular subjects for mods. Thanks to Making History, space can be an inherently dangerous place again. Making History is great for the making, not the history. For the price, it’s nice to also get the big dump of new, historical parts, but Making History is gr

Bethesda has dropped yet another tease about whatever it’s got cooking for Prey—DLC is the assumption—and unlike the previous two, this one comes with more than a suggestion that it exists. a Great meMory: thRee thINGs caNNOt be lOnG hidden: the sun, the MOOn, AnD the tRuth. pic.twitter.com/VHQQM2T05nMarch 13, 2018Spoilers below: Don’t continue unless you want me to blow the surprise for you. You’ll likely have noticed that the message contains an odd mix of uppercase and lowercase letters. But

Confirmed: that’s a new Guinness World Record for human cannonball David “The Bullet” Smith! Guinness World Records has confirmed that this is a new world record for the farthest distance for a human cannonball. According to Guinness, the holder of the previous world record was David himself, who flew 193 feet, 8.8 inches in 2011. However, a glance at Wikipedia’s page on human cannonballs tells us David’s father, David “Cannonball” Smith, claims to have flown a distance of 200 feet, 4 inches in

Ghost of a Tale is an action RPG about Tilo, a mouse minstrel searching for his lover Merra in a world populated exclusively by (freaking adorable) animals. Quite frankly, mouse musician is all I need to hear, but there’s also this little tidbit: Ghost of a Tale is now available on Steam for $25. You might find it odd that a game about a mouse—mice generally not being known for their CQC or swordsmanship—is an action RPG. It’s more about exploring the world than cutting your way through it, and

Today, it got a whole lot bigger with the release of integrated mod support and improved modding tools as part of the free modding update. In celebration of the update, A Hat in Time is on sale on Steam for $20 (33 percent off) through 10 am Pacific Thursday, March 15. Developer Gears for Breakfast says the very best mods may be integrated into the main game as well. “The creators of these mods have been compensated and credited for their fantastic work,” Gears for Breakfast said in the update’s

There’s Tom, walking away from me without a care in the world. Before playing the game we got a chance to rap with Gabe Newell, hung out with legendary card designer Richard Garfield, and also took a tour of Valve’s new Bellevue office. Well, there’s the Balloonicorn-themed play area for when kids come in, which is a weekly occurrence thanks to Valve’s policy of hosting family lunches every Thursday. Personal trainers also visit the office to work with employees at their desks, which I sadly can

Battle Royale is the big genre right now. And it sounds like shooter behemoth Activision may be interested in cutting a slice of that pie for itself, too. But the reason that’s of particular relevance to our interests is that Activision is also “keenly aware” of the success that other publishers have had with Battle Royale games, and is apparently making some soft noises about taking a run at it. Activision has a number of avenues at its disposal if it chooses to pursue the Battle Royale action.

Twitch has sweetened its Prime pot with the addition of Free Games with Prime, a new program with a very self-explanatory title: If you subscribe to Twitch Prime, you’ll get free games every month. The program will kick off on March 15 with Superhot and Oxenfree, both very good games, plus two games from the Twitch Prime Indie Amplifier program, Shadow Tactics and Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation, and the top-down brawler Mr. Shifty. All eight games from the Indie Amplifier will eventually be gi

But one thing about those Saturday morning repeats did catch my imagination: the hypersonic vehicles International Rescue used, as showcased in the intro. In Early Access game Stormworks: Build and Rescue I don’t have anything as stylish, but my speedboat and helicopter do the job. There are a lot of great Early Access games that I play and look up to, the greatest was probably Kerbal Space Program. Dan WaltersThere is something really rewarding about getting feedback, and seeing people notice e

Far Cry 5 has a novel tie-in, because of course it does. I don’t get the hero vibe from Will, and I don’t think he sees himself that way either. If the final scene of Far Cry 5 doesn’t involve your good bear friend Cheeseburger revealing that he can speak and move mountains, I’m done. Ragdoll prose is not funnyA man tumbling down a cliffside is funny when I think of it happening in the Far Cry engine. “The far cry of a loggerhead shrike sounded to his right, the bird launched from its perch and

It was just a hair over two weeks ago that we reported on the Capital Wasteland project, a recreation of Fallout 3 in Fallout 4. After a recent discussion with Bethesda, however, the team making the mod has decided to shut it all down. “After some thought it appears there is no fully Legal way for us to continue developing the Fallout 3 in Fallout 4 Portion of The Capital Wasteland. NafNaf_95 added that creating a new, original story in Capital Wasteland isn’t possible because some team members

It’s been awhile since we last got our hands on a Splinter Cell, that being the decidedly okay Blacklist in 2013. But an Amazon listing for “Splinter Cell 2018” noticed today by Reddit suggests that the stealth game with the glow-in-the-dark goggles may soon make a return. The listing is gone so we can’t see it for ourselves; fortunately IGN was able to lay eyes on it before it disappeared. A 2016 rumor that Michael Ironside would return to the role of lead heavy Sam Fisher has probably expired

Free Radical’s Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was reportedly close to completion when the plug was pulled in 2008: Close enough that quite a bit of gameplay footage has surfaced over the years, and also for design work on Battlefront 4 to have begun. Not to be outdone by his mentor (who I guess would be his master in this reality), here’s Dark Side Luke. And so is Maul, sans facial tattoos and with a “mellowed facial expression” that reveals his warm inner glow. But then she joins the Dark Side too, a

If you’re looking for something that cheap to get the job done, DIYPC’s IllusionII-BR can be had for a few pennies shy of $25 at Newegg. The case is on sale for $45, down from its $100 list price. That’s even better than the $40 price-after-rebate that it was going for a few months back when it was also on sale. This is a mid-tower case made from steel and with tempered glass front and left-side panels. For storage, it supports up to three 3.5-inch hard drives and two 2.5-inch solid state drives

Hot on the heels of Spectre and Meltdown, researchers say they have discovered more than a dozen (or exactly a baker’s dozen) new critical security flaws affecting AMD’s Ryzen and Epyc processor lines, CNET reports. The flaws were discovered by CTS-Labs, a security outfit in Israel. “At AMD, security is a top priority and we are continually working to ensure the safety of our users as new risks arise. It’s not yet clear how serious these newly discovered flaws are. It remains to be seen what the

Tomorrow, the developer will mark the occasion with the launch of a microsite designed to encourage players to “celebrate all things Warframe”. In five years, Warframe players have crafted 52,972,344 Warframes and 234,766,197 weapons across its PC, PS4 and Xbox One platforms, Digital Extremes tells us. Parkour 2.0, Damage 2.0, 34 Warframes, an Open World area—the Plains of Eidolon—two story-rich cinematic quests… Kavats and Kubrows! Gosh.”Our development decision to experiment in the open world

That would be the Arctis Pro + GameDAC, which was able to earn a Hi-Res logo from the Japanese Audio Society and is being billed as “gaming’s first complete hi-res audio system.” However, SteelSeries makes a distinction between first to market with a hi-res certified headset and gaming’s first complete hi-res audio system, the latter of which the company lays claim to with the combo of the GameDAC and Arctis Pro headset itself. SteelSeries also introduced two other versions, the regular Arctis P

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, an RPG I’m really looking forward to despite not being as captivated as I’d hoped by the original, has been delayed. “As you have probably guessed, Deadfire is a huge game—significantly larger than the original Pillars of Eternity. “With this in mind, we are taking just a few extra weeks to polish and put those finishing touches on the game. A month is hardly an intolerable wait, but Obsidian promised to make up for it with “plenty of Deadfire-related news and co

But if you prefer getting your hands dirty with genuine, authentic, unadulterated or, um, pure sims, know that Pure Farming 2018 is out now. Pure Farming 2018 has a launch trailer. Look, see:A couple of weeks back, developer Ice Flames described modding support as something it “simply had to have” in its game. Into the future, it’s now promising “at least three updates to modding tools within three months”, alongside “support for steering wheels and peripherals” in the same time frame. On the DL