Let the hunt beginIn the US, going over to a friend’s house requires driving and that right there is enough to change the dynamic of playing Monster Hunter into… not playing Monster Hunter. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (Monster Hunter Portable 2nd in Japan), released three years after the original, is where things took off. By the time Monster Hunter Portable 3rd launched, the entirety of Japan was in full-on Monster Hunter mode. This addressed the issues with Monster Hunter Tri and Monster Hunter

The granddaddy of all space-empire sims, Twilight Imperium retails for over $100 and is delivered to your house in a cardboard coffin. Twilight Imperium sessions begin when you invite your friends over for breakfast, and end when you’ve ordered pizza for the second time. The moddable board game physics sandbox meant that the Shattered Ascension playset could be available to anyone with a PC. PsiComa ran into a similar issue with the planetary tiles that make up the Twilight Imperium board. Last

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 publisher Electronic Arts planned to have sold 10 million copies of the sequel during the holiday quarter, but only managed 9 million, according to CFO Blake Jorgensen. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Jorgensen blamed controversy surrounding its loot box system for the missed sales target. And yet, despite signs that EA and DICE may opt not to reintroduce in-game monetisation, Jorgensen has confirmed that they will indeed return. While 9 million units shifted might

The titular protagonist of 2D Metroidvania platformer Dandara is glued to the floor. Admittedly, I don’t know if it’s actually glue, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t look like it. That might sound like a pretty big problem for the protagonist of a platformer, but two-man Brazil-based developer Long Hat House has worked out a clever solution: bouncing. In lieu of traditional jumps, Dandara bounces between specific surfaces using a billiards-like shot system. Judging from an impressive thread of G

Say howdy to the Rockstar Humble Bundle, which covers just about everything the studio has done on the PC since the turn of the millennium. The $1 entry level tier covers the games that made Rockstar one of the most notorious studios in the business: Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Manhunt, and the best of the bunch, Max Payne. Paying more than the average price, which is already pushing $9, will also get you Bully: Scholarship Edition, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, LA Noire, a

With red gloves, I can turn cubes into extendable platforms. I can’t pick the cube up, but I can push it with red blocks or bounce it with blue blocks. I’ve only been moving myself up until this point, but now I also have to move green blocks onto buttons and in front of ledges and so on. So, as I design routes through levels, I often have to build one route for a green block to take, then modify and extend the path to let myself through. The building block cubes that make up everything are meta

Renowned overclocker Der8auer has tried booting an 32-core/64-thread Epyc server processor in an Asus X399 Zenith Extreme motherboard for Threadripper, and partially succeeded. You may recall that Der8auer questioned how different Epyc and Threadripper really are when delidded a Threadripper 1950X in 2017 and found a similar structure to Epyc underneath. Fair enough, but can an Epyc processor boot in a Threadripper motherboard with a little modding? Der8auer set about trying to get an Epyc CPU t

Lilly Reed is the new sheriff of Sharpwood, a small, remote northern town plagued by smugglers, gangs, and worse. And now there’s a new stranger in town named Warren Nash, who may or may not end up making things even worse. It’s interesting that, while the game is ostensibly about Reed, the announcement trailer is focused entirely on Nash. The debut trailer seems to be aiming for some Tarantino-style tension—”What does Marcellus Wallace look like?” It’s not a disastrous introduction by any stret

World of Warcraft’s next expansion, which has the Alliance and Horde at each other’s throats, is due to be released this summer. While Battle for Azeroth won’t be available for a few months, Blizzard has given some immediate incentives to pre-purchase the expansion. Starting today, preorders will unlock the ability to play as Allied Races —the new variants on existing races like the Lightforged Dranaei or Void Elves. You’ll have to complete a relatively lengthy reputation grind with each Allied

The latest Destiny 2 update went live today, and as tradition dictates, so too did the patch notes. Masterwork Armor is now available, granting a bonus three percent damage resistance per piece (stackable to 15 percent) when your Super is active. But there are one or two more interesting bits stashed in there too. With the update live, we can also confirm all the new Raid armor perks, courtesy of the tireless efforts of Tim, who’s always looking out for your best interests. The full Destiny 2 1.

A few of Logitech’s gaming mice can be found for a discount on Amazon, including the G600 for MMO gameplay. Amazon has it marked down to $25 today. The list price for the G600 is $80, and though it doesn’t always sell at that price, it typically goes for more than $25—it usually goes for between $40 and $60 on Amazon. There are 20 programmable buttons on the G600, including a dozen thum buttons. it also has a G-shift ring finger button to double the number of actions of each button.

Developer Iron Galaxy has slapped an April 10 release date on Extinction, the action game about battling towering ogres. And the general high price point will, I suspect, make most people hold off until the reviews pour in. If you want to know more about the game, read our previous coverage—it certainly has some good ideas, but I haven’t been fully sold on the footage I’ve seen. The combat looks a little floaty, and I don’t think the game fully sells the scale of the ogres. Steven enjoyed the pr

The nationalities of the new operators—one from Russia, the other from France—were revealed in November of last year, but today’s tease gives the first details about what they bring to the party. Maybe these nanobots provide a temporary buff to him, or teammates? They’ve been drafted into Rainbow Six as part of a newly formed CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) Threat Unit. The Outbreak event will be open to all Rainbow Six Siege owners, and will feature exclusive headgear, unifor

Or you could look into a spill-proof keyboard like Corsair’s new K68 RGB. This is essentially the same plank as the company’s regular K68, but with RGB backlighting added to the mix. Like the non-RGB version, the K68 RGB thwarts dust and liquid with a rubberized wall around each individual keycap. The K68 RGB has a textured spacebar, dedicated media controls, and a removable palm rest. If you’re interested, the K68 RGB is available now for $120 direct from Corsair.

It feels like it was only yesterday that the last expansion for The Elder Scrolls: Legends launched. Due on 1 February—that’s next Thursday!—the new set is called the Forgotten Hero Collection , and it’s one of those smaller affairs, much like the Madhouse Collection. Forgotten Heroes will cost $10 or 1,500 in-game gold, for which you get full playsets of all the cards, with no need to buy packs. Oh and check out this Endurance action that will Banish a card and all copies of it remaining in you

Razer today announced a new USB microphone, the Razer Seiren Elite, that it hopes will attract streamers who want professional sounding audio with the least amount of fuss. The Seiren Elite is built around a single dynamic capsule design, which Razer says lends itself to a “warmer vocal tone” on par with what you would typically only find in high-end broadcast equipment. “The Razer Seiren Elite solves that problem, letting broadcasters focus on their content and letting the Seiren Elite handle t

They will be led by Lautaro, a revered warchief who escaped Spanish capture before leading a fightback from the native people. The civilisation’s unique unit will be the mounted malón raiders. In Rise and Fall, this translates to a combat bonus while fighting near friendly territory, and a reduced movement cost for pillaging. Alongside the unique unit comes a unique structure—large wooden tombstones called chemamull, which were carved from a single piece of wood to resemble male or female forms.

For the record, I thought No Man’s Sky was fine. I love idly hopping between planets, taking photos, and wondering what the procedural generation will throw up next. For me, the real problem with No Man’s Sky isn’t that it’s procedurally generated—it’s that it fails to use that impressive technology to create a compelling exploration experience. And that’s why, when you find something in No Man’s Sky, it doesn’t actually matter where it is. The hours I’ve spent paddling around in this weird, won

That’s live in the game now, and you can get double experience and $GTA when playing it until 5 February—which is pretty standard with the debut of new competitive modes. These new modes are a decent excuse for jumping back into the game and seeing how easy it is to make a bit of quick money. And you’ll need extra cash to buy GTA’s newest sports car, the Pfister Neon, a slick electric vehicle which will set you back $1.5 million from Legendary Motorsport. If you’ve not done the Red Dead 2 challe

Insurgency: Sandstorm developer New World Interactive has just given us a first peek at the tactical options available in the objective-based multiplayer shooter, many of which never made it into 2014’s Insurgency, of which this is a direct follow-up. The new trailer, above, shows door breaching, close-quarters pistol finishers, and combatants shooting from moving vehicles. The tone of the trailer is a little confusing, with some of the characters seemingly shocked by the horrors of war. There’s