If it survives, it will be doused in a healthy helping of nacho cheese and oatmeal. Nacho cheese and oatmealI’m no Gordon Ramsay, but our nacho cheese and oatmeal spread is guaranteed delicious. After feeding it some nacho cheese, a good portion of the keys stopped working and the space bar started to glitch. I sucked up the soda using paper towels, and then scooped up the remaining nacho cheese using a folded cloth. Unless an entire refreshments table tilts onto your keyboard, a disaster of thi

VIDEO: Our senior reporter, Steven, takes a quick 10-minute look at Into the Breach, the new strategy game from the makers of FTL. Into the Breach might look like a 16-bit turn-based strategy game from the Game Boy Advance era, but beneath that cute exterior is one of the most innovative strategy games I’ve played. Unlike FTL, the first game from developers Subset Games, Into the Breach is all about deterministic strategy. Not only will attacks always hit their intended target, but you can even

Back in December, Valve made some major changes to the Steam Curators system intended to make it easier to “find and follow Steam Curators that you know and trust.” Now there’s a new option that does precisely the opposite, by enabling Steam users to ignore curators whose suggestions aren’t making the grade for you. You can take that one step further by ignoring all the top curators recommended by Steam, which will cause Steam to stop recommending any curators at all. It’s a fairly small change,

If you’ve ever wondered what the inspiration for Half-Life 1’s ludicrously creepy baby boss fight was, then wonder no more: it was Gabe Newell’s son. Gray Newell (who in case it isn’t obvious, is Gabe Newell’s son) talked about his quasi-cameo during a new interview with Valve News Network, in which he also spoke a bit about his own game project, Fury, and Valve itself. “When my mother was in child birth they were thinking, what’s something really scary? And at the time, having a child seemed re

This is the latest version of the D2 dev roadmap, as of 2/21/18Bungie rolled out a Destiny 2 development roadmap at the end of January that laid out its plans for the future of the game through the beginning of season 3, set to arrive in May. Today it posted a slightly modified version of that map, which has a few of the upcoming features, including unique Nightfall rewards and changes to Exotic weapon and armor balance, pushed farther back in the schedule. The Exotic sandbox changes, originally

Xbox boss Phil Spencer opened the 2018 DICE Summit with a keynote address focusing on the company’s embrace of workforce diversity. “World building makes our world understandable, and makes stories feel real and grounded. To paraphrase writer Chuck Wendig, good world-building starts with the story, but epic world-building serves the story,” Spencer said. “The flipside is when the core mechanics of your own team work, and the team accomplishes great things. Spencer’s full keynote can be seen in I

Stardew Valley might not be Final Fantasy XV in terms of hyper-realistic meals, but its pixel treats are nonetheless tempting. If you’ve ever wanted to tuck into a Farmer’s Lunch or a Miner’s Treat then Everett and Helena, of Stardew Valley Recipes and Stardew Kitchen respectively, have got you covered. Stardew Valley’s food is abstract: you transform a few disparate ingredients into fully fledged meals as if by alchemy. Cooking blogs inspired by games aren’t new—Helena cites the now-defunct Gou

Intel via Victoria Zhislina. Clock tick length (and frequency as well) of the processor should fit the longest step,” Zhislina says. Here’s another diagram that shows this:Intel via Victoria Zhislina. Then, we set a clock tick two times shorter, which would be 250 ps, and everything but the frequency remains the same. Now, what was identified as the longest step is executed during two clock ticks, which together takes 500 ps as well.

Double Kick Heroes caught my eye last year with its flashy shooting, Mad Max-esque world and colorful metal band members (and by being one of the few rhythm games suitable for our Indie GIF Showcase, but I digress). Today, developer Headbang Club announced Double Kick Heroes is Steam-bound: it will launch in Early Access on April 11. Double Kick Heroes stars Lincoln, Snake, Derek, Randie and James, musicians who “live in an apocalyptic world where their favorite rock stars are scattered all arou

It’s a fun little formula, and now everyone can give it a try thanks to Knights of Pen and Paper 2’s newly released free edition. Notably, Knights of Pen and Paper 2 went free-to-play on mobile a few years ago. At the time, players’ save files were wiped to make way for the new version. Luckily, the free Steam version didn’t bring such a cutthroat transition. Elsewhere, Kyy Games and publisher Paradox Interactive have been vague on how the free edition compares to the premium edition.

For the next few days, Psyonix is testing Rocket League’s upcoming Tournaments mode—which is releasing in full in the Spring Update—and you can join the brackets now to test it out. To join in, right click on Rocket League in your Steam library, navigate to the Betas tab, and opt into ‘tounramentsbeta.’ An update will automatically download, and the next time you launch the game the Tournaments menu will be there for you. Note that you’ll have to opt back out of the beta if you want to keep play

Countless years pass and you, one such Starmancer, awaken to find your Ark in dire need of some tidying up and some new colonists. Such is the premise for Starmancer, a space sim proudly inspired by Dwarf Fortress. It’s shaping up to be an exponentially dense game, but Starmancer is fundamentally about two things: building your space station and managing your colonists. You can sample some of these features in Starmancer’s free Kickstarter demo (download links are at the top of the page). Here’s

In Divinity: Original Sin 2, that’s a big mistake. We each controlled a character, selected from Original Sin 2’s presets. If you haven’t finished Divinity: Original Sin 2 and intend to, you’ve been warned! Or would’ve been, if Divinity: Original Sin 2 wasn’t a game built for save scumming. That’s the essence of Divinity: Original Sin 2.

We’ve seen some SSD deals lately that take advantage of the form factor, one of which is a 512GB Western Digital Black SSD for $163. The drive is on sale at Newegg for $193, but if you use promo code EMCXPRRP3 at checkout, it will shave $30. At $163, Western Digital’s drive is a good chunk cheaper than Samsung’s 500GB 960 Evo that’s on sale for $200. WD’s drive isn’t as fast, but is still respectable—it has a max sequential read speed of 2,050MB/s and max sequential write speed of 800MB/s. In ou

Blizzard has published a summary the Overwatch League Rules of Competition and Code of Conduct, belatedly making public its expectations for OWL teams and players. Blizzard said that the Code of Conduct “is designed to ensure the integrity of the game; to safeguard the public image of the league, its players, teams, and owners; and to provide a competitive game environment that is free from harassment and discrimination.” The Code of Conduct summary is open-ended, leaving Blizzard with “broad di

From today, with the beginning of Overwatch League stage two, viewers will earn League Tokens—the in-game currency used to purchase Overwatch League team skins—by watching OWL matches. “Also, a percentage of lucky fans viewing the live broadcast when a match ends will be awarded 100 League Tokens, enough for a home-team skin of their choice!” Each Overwatch League match consists of four maps, with an additional fifth tiebreaker map if the teams are tied 2-2. Overwatch League has been averaging a

The case is on sale for $49, down from its $130 MSRP, and there is a $20 mail-in-rebate to boot. Accounting for the rebate, this is a $29 case. This is a big case that measures 23.23 x 9.13 x 22.24 inches. There’s room to add another in the bottom, if you want. There are four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, and separate headphone and microphone jacks.

You’re basically caring for and expanding a fledgling colony of humans, but when you log off from the game, the game will continue without you. It’s not entirely clear what our role is in all this—how we’ll actually interact with Seed as players—so we asked Klang Games about that aspect at the PC Gamer Weekender. Here’s Klang co-founder Mundi Vondi explaining how you’ll order your colonists about—and how they won’t always follow your directions to the letter. As you can see in this exclusive See

Burnout Paradise Remastered, a hi-res redo of Criterion’s 2008 open-world racer bundled with the eight DLC packs from the ‘Year of Paradise,’ is coming to consoles in March and PC sometime after that. It sounds like a pretty sweet package, but enthusiasm was dampened somewhat when someone noticed that the PlayStation Store listing had a line stating, “in-game purchases optional.” It was a notable inclusion because Burnout Paradise Remastered, like the original release, is being published by EA,

In acknowledgement of this, Fractal Design has introduced a pair of new Meshify C mid-tower cases to stand alongside its existing one, with these new models giving users different side panel options. The original Meshify C – Dark TG came with a darkly tinted tempered side glass panel. Fractal Design’s new Meshify C – TG dials down the tint to make it easier to peer inside at your handiwork, while the new Meshify C says ‘Screw it, here’s a regular side panel to hide your messy cabling.’ Fractal D