Way to the Woods is an incredibly pretty game about not one, but two deer—a mother and her fawn, to be precise. Developer Anthony Tan has been working on it for around three years, and finally released its official announcement trailer today. “Two deer in a strange, abandoned world without humans must find their way home,” the game’s official description reads. As Eurogamer reports, Way to the Woods first emerged in 2015, when Tan was just 16. Way to the Woods will release in early 2019.

Final Fantasy 15 Windows Edition will make use of the much-unloved Denuvo anti-tampering software to protect it against early-days piracy when it launches tomorrow. In spite of that, according to threads on Resetera and Reddit, it’s already been cracked. With a little bit of fiddling, it apparently works in conjunction with the preload files to bust things wide open. According to other posts in the Reddit thread, Origin has since updated its preload files, so the workaround is now only compatibl

I didn’t land on my feet—caught my knees and slammed face first into the synthetic black material holding me up and rubbed my face raw. All this to say that while the spirit of parkour died in me and many others in the early ’00s, it’s still alive and well in Fortnite Battle Royale. Watch this guy backflip into a rocket-ride like he was born spinning on his X axis. Mark my words, someone is going to get a game-winning sniper shot off the tail of one of these backflipping maneuvers within the mon

The Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds test servers will return this week with a new build of the game incorporating a friend system, voice chat in the main menu, and a “limb penetration system.” PC players, our test servers are going up this week! The in-game friend system should be a big plus too. As for voice chat, well, it’s nice to be able to talk to people, but we know how these things sometimes work out. PUBG Corp said the test server patch notes will be posted in a couple of days.

It took some time and a whole lot of tweaking, but modders have finally figured out a way to get Intel’s Coffee Lake processors running on older motherboards based on Intel’s Z270 and Z170 chipsets. Even though Coffee Lake is pin compatible with older LGA 1151 motherboards, the official word from Intel is that the power requirements differ, and as such Coffee Lake only works in newer motherboards based on Intel’s Z370 chipset. To what extent the incompatibility between Coffee Lake and Z270/Z170

(Image: © Flickr via Lance Fisher)We have bad news if you live in Connecticut and purchased items online without paying sales tax. As you probably noticed, for years many ecommerce sites did not charge customers sales tax for online orders. It wants online vendors to pay up for past purchases, or share purchase records so that it can go after consumers directly. According to WFSB, a local CBS affiliate in Connecticut, Newegg chose the latter route. According to Hartford Courant, Connecticut taxp

JackHammer is a future sport where robots toss a ‘MurderBall’ around an arena and generally try to turn each other into scrap. Battles are frenetic and players can jump and boost their way across the arena aided by their jetpacks and wall-jumping skills. Instead you’ll be working your way through the online rankings and customising your personal sportsbot with robotic armour. When you’re spilling oil, however, don’t forget that you’re fighting for the bad guys. I’m not sure if this will work at

He can double-jump, dash, leap between tree branches and momentarily hover in slow-motion to target ogre limbs and armour pieces with sword slashes. Extinction is a fast-moving game about efficiently dispatching giant beasts before dashing across town to get the next one. If dispatching them becomes rote then I worry there’s not quite enough to the rest of the game to stop it from going stale. It’s particularly technical, but it’s a fully featured fighting game with a mix of grounded combatants,

This week saw Blizzard drop the first details for the Year of the Raven , the next 12 month cycle of Hearthstone expansions. Being a plane full of nature and life, the Emerald Dream is also home to druids who can visit it both physically and in their dreams. Many players already believe that this expansion will focus mostly on the Emerald Dream and, perhaps, expand on game systems like Ysera’s dream cards. While an Emerald Dream expansion seems to be the leading theory, I’m not sold on it largel

In November last year, an EA representative made Reddit’s most unpopular comment of all time in response to an aggravated Star Wars Battlefront 2 player, miffed at the game’s microtransaction-heavy business model. “The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.”It’s a piece of art. And like all great art, it’s been inspiring. Take, for instance, the new lootbox textures available on Nexus mods. Creator Dareedevokl has captured the spirit

Cyan, the Myst and Obduction lot, have another adventure in the works, and more mysterious worlds filled with peculiar clockwork contraptions. Firmament will see players explore four different realms, accompanied by a floating clockwork pal and a chatty ghost, calling to mind a steampunk Destiny, minus all the shooting. The teaser shows off quite a bit, though Cyan is keeping schtum about the story for now. “The game of Firmament is a resplendent, magical, journey — a monumental voyage through f

With the impending arrival of the Zandalari Troll Allied Race, however, I might have to ditch my bear for a turtle. Thanks to Wowhead’s dataminers, all but the Zandalari cat form has been revealed, and they’re all pretty big departures from the other races’ forms. With the dinosaurs and turtles, the Zandalari clearly have a thing for reptiles, but it’s the indescribable horror that is the Moonkin form that’s really caught my eye. These Allied Races are going to make my addiction to alts flare-up

StarCraft turns 20 on March 31, and Blizzard is celebrating the venerable RTS’ birthday across the entire month. The event spans all of Blizzard’s titles, so even if you don’t play StarCraft 2 or StarCraft: Remastered, there might still be something to tickle your fancy. On March 30 and 31, a StarCraft anniversary stream will be running on Twitch, presented by StarCraft personalities. Log into StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft 2 after March 6, tomorrow, and you’ll get some commemorative UI ski

This becomes an even greater issue when you take into account the fact that the Save the World and Battle Royale modes sport different control schemes, which you need to get used to switching between without the ability to tweak them. While parity between gamepads and mouse and keyboard is unlikely, Epic is at least looking into making it easier to switch between the Save the World and Battle Royale control schemes. “We’re working on bringing parity to the control schemes between the two modes,”

The Division turns 2 this week, though Manhattan seems no closer to being saved than it was when Ubisoft’s apocalyptic multiplayer shooter launched in 2016. Spotted by PCGamesN, the jobs include environmental artist and gameplay designer. While several of them have been up since last year, the search continues, with Massive Entertainment tweeting out a call for an environmental artist last Thursday. The job descriptions don’t mention a sequel, but several mention “expanding” the game. “I think i

A lot is changing in Rainbow Six Siege: not only will it’s third season usher in a cooperative zombie mode, but what you get when you purchase the game will be different, too. In a new blog, Ubisoft has announced it will remove the Renown cost for the game’s original 20 operators. Meanwhile, the Starter Edition, which previously offered two random operators to those who purchased it, will now offer six random operators. As Evan has already pointed out, Renown costs for weapon attachments will be

The idea is eventually that you’ll be able to load up Skyrim and wander wherever you like. So, I’ve got high hopes, and the first trailer for the Morrowind portion of the project does nothing to change that. If you’ve played Morrowind then you’ll instantly recognise some of the locales, including the giant mushrooms that pop up all over Vvardenfell. By the fourth era, large parts of Morrowind have been destroyed by a combination of natural disasters and, from what I can remember, Argonian invasi

Square Enix has released a mystery trailer related to JRPG Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth that suggests a remaster, or at least a port, could be on the way. The teaser trailer, above, comes with the description: “In 2018, the goddess descends”, and the publisher has launched a Twitter account off the back of it that promises more information soon. Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth was the PSP port of Valkyrie Profile, which originally came out on PlayStation in 1999 to strong reviews. If it is a proper remak

I’m curious about Spectrum Break. It’s a platformer where your objective is not to reach a particular part of each level, but to light up every shape in sight by touching them. Each object is suspended in zero gravity and you move them around with your momentum, so if you get your angles right then you can ride on certain shapes to help you reach others. It’s the first game from developer Jason Hein, and he says the zero-gravity mechanic means you can “reshape a level” as you play. Each block li

Oculus Rift is, for the first time, the most popular VR headset among Steam users, according to the latest Steam hardware survey. The HTC Vive has slipped into second place, with just over 45% of VR users choosing it as their primary bit of kit, while the Rift accounts for just over 47% of the Steam market. It’s worth pointing out that the survey is voluntary, so not every VR headset user would’ve responded. But the fact that the two headsets have swapped places does suggest that opinion might’v