Since Twitch introduced “Cheering” during Overwatch League streams earlier this week , viewers have cheered over 20 million times. These in turn can be used to purchase Overwatch League team skins. Cheer on a team with 150+ Bits using a team’s Cheermote, and you’ll receive that team’s exclusive Twitch emote. The money collated via Cheering doesn’t go directly to your favourite teams, though. “Overwatch League Cheering is part of a larger partnership between Twitch and Overwatch League that suppo

This making of Sam & Max Hit The Road was originally published in issue 22 of Retro Gamer all the way back in 2006, and here it’s presented online in full for the very first time. Whether they were gracing the pages of a comic book, the television screen or a PC monitor, Sam & Max is the strangest of teams. The pair starred in LucasArts’ Sam & Max Hit the Road, a hilarious adventure game in which the two ‘hit the road’ in search of a missing Yeti. “My brother made up a pair of characters called

Brigitte Lindholm, as seen in the Honor and Glory animated short. Earlier this week, a cryptic tweet appeared on the Overwatch account discussing a declassified mission report where Overwatch Chief Engineer Torbjörn Lindholm suffered significant injuries, but was saved due to the bravery of Lieutenant Reinhardt Wilhelm. We assumed it was the first teaser for Overwatch’s forthcoming 27th hero. This unborn daughter almost certainly grows up to be Brigitte Lindholm, who we previously met in the Hon

Dragon Ball FighterZ has been out for a couple of weeks now, but problems continue to plague the online multiplayer components. Publisher Bandai Namco want us to know they’re working to address the issues. In a video , FighterZ producer Tomoko Hiroki said, “We’ve heard all of your feedbacks since the release, and we’re fully aware of the online issues that you’re having, such as the matching in “Ring Match” or being disconnected from the lobby. “Please bear in mind that this first patch might no

A major new update for Warcraft 3 has rolled out for testing. Now old enough to get a provisional driving license, the 16-year-old RTS now boasts 24-player servers and—finally—native widescreen support. “Warcraft III’s PTR is back and ready for your scrutiny,” writes developer Peter Stilwell . “Join us in testing widescreen support, hero balance changes, and updates to Map Pools for 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 4’s and Free-for-All. More evidence that Blizzard will announce Warcraft III Remastered some time s

New Gundam Breaker could be on the way to PC. While a PC version of the game has yet to be confirmed, a ResetEra member noticed that The Brazil Advisory Rating Board had listed New Gundam Breaker as available on PC, along with the PlayStation 4 version already confirmed by publisher Bandai Namco. I know what you’re thinking; advisory boards aren’t always right, and it’s possible this is just a mistake. But given Bandai Namco Europe recently circulated a newsletter with a PC logo next to the Play

Camelot Unchained will launch a closed beta on July 4, 2018. The crowdfunded MMO—which hails from one of the designers of Dark Age of Camelot—raised $2,232,933 way back in 2013, but its since been plagued by delays . Talking to Eurogamer , developer Mark Jacobs, who was lead designer of Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online, said that Beta 1 should not be confused with any kind of Early Access release, which “would be abusing what Early Access on Steam is meant to be.” Beta 1 will only be ava

EA’s latest Origin sale is offering big discounts on a range of its leading franchises, including Battlefield 1 , Need for Speed: Payback , Mass Effect: Andromeda , and Star Wars: Battlefront II . The sale is live now and will run until March 6, 2018. Titanfall 2: Ultimate Edition is available for just £11.66 (67% off), or you can look at the same saving for a Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 bundle, which can be snapped up for £26.66. “This is a game that takes some of the most familiar vocabulary

A closed Alpha test for Immortal: Unchained, the new action-RPG from Toadman Interactive and Sold Out, will go live early next month. To get involved, head on over to the official website , sign up, and await your code when the alpha goes live. “We’re thrilled to offer PC players the first opportunity to go hands-on with Immortal: Unchained next month,” said Toadman Interactive CEO, Robin Flodin. While a formal release date has yet to be confirmed, the game is expected to come to PC via Steam la

This week: do you create yourself in character creators, or someone else? Tim Clark: Judges those who create themselvesTim: I literally never make myself and I consider it a substantial character flaw in anyone who does so. I tend to prefer ladies or robots in terms of character creation, largely because at some point designing any sort of buzzcut dudebro became eye-bleedingly boring. But I’m long since past even trying to make a character that looks even vaguely Jarred-esque. James Davenport: C

According to hardware marketplace Massdrop, the high prices of graphics cards as a result of cryptocurrency mining won’t be alleviated anytime soon. “All new cell phones coming out by Apple and Samsung (and others) last year started using the same memory as graphics cards,” Hutchins writes. This has created a shortage of memory for the much smaller companies like MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, and EVGA to make graphics cards.” Most modern graphics cards (including all Nvidia 10-series and AMD Vega/Polaris

The Overwatch League is in its first season, and just concluded its quarterly championship with the London Spitfire besting the New York Excelsior in a nervy reverse sweep. Ronald LyThat’s the thing I found most enchanting about the Overwatch Fiesta Bowl. The advent of the Overwatch League has recontextualized these events as potential feeding grounds for the future. The framework promised by the OWL has, at the very least, lit an optimism among college-aged Overwatch players that they could be

At last week’s PC Gamer Weekender, Square Enix teased what we’re in for by way of adorable civilian Cactuars . With its PC launch just weeks away—March 6—I can’t wait to see what the game’s modding community has in store for us. What I want from Intel is about ten times (or more) the performance of the HD 630. The current HD 630 is about one third of the Kaby Lake die, which pegs it at roughly 750 million transistors. If all goes to plan, a graphics card using this chip could be 15x faster than

I recently finished the soundtrack for Into the Breach, Subset Games’ follow up to FTL: Faster Than Light. Here are some of the decisions involved in making a game soundtrack. Like FTL, we decided that the soundtrack for Into the Breach should be something different than is expected for the genre. The art of implementationOne important thing I learned while transitioning from ‘game music fan’ to ‘game music professional’ is the importance of implementation. In the game, the player chooses a miss

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a true PC game. It’s buggy as hell, demands high-end hardware to run properly, and despite it all, thanks to its depth and attention to detail, it’s really good. Looks like we sold 1,000,000 copies of Kingdom Come: Deliverance in less than 2 weeks! #kingdomcomedeliverance pic.twitter.com/ZOHDPHLYyEFebruary 22, 2018Other signs that Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a real PC adventure:And if that doesn’t convince you, here’s an interesting bit of trivia: Of the million-plu

Legendary Gary is a modern RPG about playing a fantasy RPG. I get a similar sense of satisfaction from watching carefully tuned strategies play out in Legendary Gary. Again, Legend of the Spear is only half of Legendary Gary. Lessons from the game help Gary in real life, and the names of real people turn out to be solutions to in-game puzzles. It didn’t take long for me to start hunting information and clues in the real world that might help me in the game, and vice-versa, which livens up both h

Tala’s mentor, the Town Guardian, is stranded in the woods, and she’s on a quest to rescue him. The game’s official site pegs it as a combination of traditional animation and nature photography. But it’s not just nature photography. It’s macro nature photography, which is infinitely better. Tala’s simple, hatchy animation (that’s Tala the game, not Tala the character, though I’m sure Tala can animate just fine) is a perfect match for the colorful, detailed backgrounds.

The FCC cleared the last hurdle on the path to eliminating net neutrality regulations earlier this week, starting a final 60-day waiting period that sets the effective date of repeal to April 23. “It’s a Kentucky handmade long gun,” said the NRA’s Carolyn Meadows, “and you’ll love it.” Regardless of what you think about net neutrality, there’s no ignoring the obvious question: Why would the NRA give someone a gun for repealing FCC regulations? As we said in our earlier report, what will happen i

The end result of its tangled plot has him stealing from a god of chaos and changing the world. Mafia 2, meanwhile, focuses on Vito Scaletta and his best friend Joe some years later. This meant that, as an open world game, GTA had less moments of large-scale, thrilling chaos than we’d eventually see in GTA V, but the flipside of that was a more interesting story. The tragedy of Niko is that you sense he knows it’s the one thing he’s best at. The series has some of the best personalities you’ll f

Ubisoft has dropped a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Origins DLC Curse of the Pharaohs, showcasing where you’ll go, what you’ll do, and who you’ll have to deal with once the silverware starts flying. “Curse of the Pharaohs’ map is a vast new territory filled with surprises. Across the Nile, you’ll find the Valley of the Kings, pitted with the plundered tombs of Egyptian royalty,” Ubisoft explained. Unfortunately, this Curse of the Pharaohs also comes with a spot of bad n