Counter-Strike co-creator Jess Cliffe has been arrested in Seattle for sexual exploitation of a child, reports suggest. Kiro 7 suggests Cliffe will attend a bail hearing on Friday afternoon, though Kotaku reports that he was denied bail. Police did not say if an actual child was harmed, writes Kiro 7, while Valve told Kotaku Cliffe has been suspended while it awaits more information. A Valve spokesperson told Kotaku: “We are still learning details of what actually happened. Reports suggest he ha

The Forest, one of many survival games to hit Steam’s Early Access over the past four years, will launch into 1.0 this April. Elsewhere the cold and warmth system will be addressed, most notably with a new warm suit. New buildables are incoming, as well as performance optimizations for both “late game saves” and “multiplayer save games”. The Forest is a survival game about surviving a passenger jet crash and, as you’d expect, fending off diabolical zombie-like creatures on a mysterious forest-co

Despite being made in visual novel builder Ren’Py and containing the possibility of make-outs, Genderwrecked isn’t a dating game either. Each of the monsters of these nameless islands is not only queer, but a product of real-life queer subculture. In the post-apocalypse it still means something to be gay as hell, although it isn’t entirely clear what. In Genderwrecked the social pressure to conform to those categories is mostly gone, but removing that pressure doesn’t mean it has been forgotten.

The rocket-punching hero has never been a top-tier hero, and he’s been all but nonexistent in Overwatch League so far. Effect started the match on Doomfist while defending Eichenwalde in game one, securing a few key picks to lead the Fuel to a hold on Point B. Effect then started the next fight with a devastating surprise kill knocking Neptuno’s Mercy into a closet. Effect struck first, finding Zenyatta in the backline just as Taimou trained his Widowmaker’s scope on Neptuno’s Mercy. The Dallas

Originally scheduled to release mid-year, Red Dead Redemption 2 will now launch on October 26 – but it’s still only confirmed for PS4 and Xbox One. The news came today via an official Rockstar statement along with a handful of new screenshots. If a PC release does get announced at some point, I’d speculate that it won’t release on PC this October. The PC version of GTA 5 didn’t come until after two consecutive console generation releases, but when it did, it did so with new features. I remain co

Henry, the hero of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, is in reality no hero at all. But it looks fantastic—far beyond what anyone could have reasonably expected when the Kingdom Come Kickstarter landed in early 2014. The downside to looking so hot is that it could actually contribute to unreasonable (possibly wildly so) expectations. But the complexity that could undo Kingdom Come: Deliverance is what sells it, too: The potion-making video in the preview hits me like a first-person Darklands, and that,

A pair of former Apple execs are looking to muscle in on Twitch’s territory with a new “social broadcasting” platform called Caffeine that they say will dramatically simplify the process of online streaming. We have put together a world-class engineering and content team that will transform the way the world thinks about live broadcasting.” “Caffeine is a social broadcasting platform, meaning that people, not content, are at the center of the experience. Users find content because of the people

Destiny 2 update 1.1.2 went live earlier this week, as did a “development roadmap” detailing Bungie’s plans for the game over the next few months. In an update posted today, design lead Josh Hamrick revealed some of the Sandbox changes that are currently being tested for what the development team is now referring to as the “Go Fast Update.” Supers (ie your ult) will also recharge faster, while Arcstriders, Sentinels, and Strikers will all move faster while their Supers are active. The changes cu

You probably haven’t heard much about Onrush, because until now, Codemasters’ new arcade racer had only been announced for PS4 and Xbox One. When Sony closed its first-party studio Evolution in 2016, which was responsible for the Motorstorm and Driveclub games, Codemasters recruited a bunch of the talent involved, and Onrush is the result. Anyway, the console versions are set to launch on June 5, but today in a newly published FAQ, Codemasters has confirmed that it will be “blasting its way onto

You are presented with a simple jpeg of one of those titanium, pressure-sealed Overwatch lootboxes. I think LootJunkie can scratch that itch for a lot of people. “I think LootJunkie can scratch that itch for a lot of people,” he says. I mean, right now would you rather play a 15-minute round of Overwatch, or spend 15 minutes cracking Overwatch boxes? When you open them, they burst with the same cosmogonal confetti of an Overwatch box, revealing four more randomly assorted boxes.

Long Gone Days is a modern military RPG which developer Bura describes as an eclectic mix of visual novels and shooters. It will launch on Steam Early Access in March and fully release later this year, and it already has a free Steam demo you can try. Starring Rourke, a soldier who deserts the military after learning “the awful truth about the operation he’s part of,” Long Gone Days tells a story of inescapable war, Bura says. Bura says there are “no random encounters or grinding,” which sounds

Only these operators will be playable in Outbreak—”We made a selection of Operators who are the most adapted and relevant for this specific game mode, from a design standpoint,” Ubi writes. Anyway, these alien organisms have transformed the population into “horrific creatures”—Ubisoft seems to be studiously avoiding the word “zombies”—spread across five unique archetypes, each with its own unique abilities. In response, the government has cordoned the town and issued orders for a team of three O

Card game roguelike Slay the Spire is hot on Steam and Twitch right now, and for good reason. There are currently two character decks in Slay the Spire—The Ironclad and The Silent—with a third on the way. According to Mega Crit’s Anthony Giovannetti, the game “will almost certainly have more than three characters” given a little time. In particular, they’re targeting more “transformative” events like the game’s vampires, which come with special healing cards. Slay the Spire is expected to offici

Nearly five years after the debut of Dota 2, lead developer IceFrog has decided that it’s time to try something different. Instead of big patches a couple of times a year, we’ll be releasing small patches every 2 weeks on Thursdays. More significant changes would appear in major updates, like the Dueling Fates update that went live last November. Nobody likes to wait, but having a Big Thing to look forward to is arguably more engaging than routine bi-weekly maintenance. As for which Thursday wil

It’s hard to escape the buzz surrounding Monster Hunter: World right now. If the wait for Monster Hunter: World is killing you, consider giving one of these games a try. What’s great about Toukiden 2, however, is that it’s set in a large open world every bit as interesting to explore as Monster Hunter: World. Like Monster Hunter, breaking certain monster parts, like stabbing a cyclop’s eye, rewards you with rare materials to use on your adventure. While Rage Burst is decidedly easier than other

Another episode of “Dontnod presents Vampyr,” an aptly titled series of dev diaries exploring the studio’s upcoming vampire action-RPG, is out today. “The most effective way to get stronger is by killing and feeding on the various citizens living within the game’s four districts,” Dontnod says. Dontnod says every NPC in Vampyr was individually crafted. Vampyr’s moments of death sound like an interesting way to game-ify loss, and they dovetail neatly with its different districts, which were detai

The one below is very rare indeed: It’s the “Cutting Edge,” and it’s only available with the purchase of certain Razer products. You send them the money, and they in turn send you a code that can be redeemed on your Bungie account. But speaking of saving a few bucks, consider this: One of the products that includes the Cutting Edge emblem is the Deathadder Elite mouse. That is significantly cheaper than what most Cutting Edge emblems are listed for on eBay. The Cutting Edge emblem sales aren’t n

Action-combat title Extinction has been confirmed for the PC Gamer Weekender, and the Maximum Games title will be playable to all those attending the show. Extinction sees players controlling a warrior named Avil—“one of the world’s last defenders“. Your character is one of the few people in the game’s world capable of taking on the 150-foot tall ogres blighting the land. Well, it’s called Extinction for a reason. You can find out more about Extinction—the game, not the concept—over on its offic

But now that Spectre and Meltdown are public knowledge, you can expect that to change. A report at Bleeping Computer points to several instances of security researchers recently finding malware samples based on the newly disclosed security flaws. Fortinet analyzed a large chunk of available malware samples based on Meltdown and Spectre and found they were all experimental in nature. Playing it safe, Fortinet also updated its antivirus definitions to include protections against the malware sample

Over at Newegg, there is a really nice bundle deal available that pairs Acer’s 27-inch XG270HU monitor with G.Skill’s Ripjaws KM570 RGB mechanical keyboard for $329. The keyboard is also on sale, for $79. Acer’s monitor uses a TN panel with a 2560×1440 resolution at 144Hz. As for the keyboard, it uses Cherry MX Speed keyswitches built for fast-aced gaming. There are no dedicated macro keys on the Ripjaws KM570 RGB, though you can bind macros to any of the regular keys and save your settings to t