Developer Clockwork Giant Games holds a very literal understanding of the term “armed to the teeth,” or so their game Vulpine leads me to believe. It’s a low-poly action game with procedurally generated worlds where you play as animals wielding swords and hammers. You’ve got small animals like rabbits, medium animals like foxes and wolves, and large animals like bears and rhinoceroses. Provided its Kickstarter is a success, Vulpine is slated to release in spring 2019, according to its Kickstarte

What we know is hackers stole 500 million NEM tokens from Coincheck’s digital wallets. Other estimates peg the loss a bit lower at around $420 million, and some have it as high as $600 million. Official: 58 billion Japanese yen or $530 million worth of NEM was stolen from CoinCheck. However, the impact on the cryptocurrency market at large probably won’t be as big, given that the overall market cap is much bigger now than it was over three years ago. While this is the biggest theft in cryptocurr

Rather than protecting your connected devices individually with antimalware software, the Bitdefender BOX takes an alternative approach to protection, at the level of the entire network. The Bitdefender BOX here is a followup to their original device by the same name. The original device offered network antivirus protection, a VPN service, and an overall additional layer of protection to the network, than a traditional router firewall. This latest Bitdefender BOX builds on this previous experien

If you’re planning a new build, you may have decided to roll with a solid state drive for you OS and games, and a hard drive for bulk storage chores. It’s even better when you can grab one or the other on sale, or both, as is the case here. One is for a Toshiba TR200 series 240GB SSD priced at $70 after applying promo code EMCSPERU2 at checkout. It’s rated to deliver up to 555MB/s of sequential read performance and up to 540MB/s of sequential write performance. You can find the Toshiba TR200 240

Mechanical is the only way to go (well, not the only way, but the better way in our opinion), and right now Newegg is selling G.Skill’s Ripjaws KM570 RGB mechanical keyboard for $73. The version that’s on sale uses Cherry MX Brown key switches. You can read more about mechanical key switches here. You can find the Ripjaws KM570 RGB here. If you can do without the RGB backlighting, a red LED version of the same keyboard sells for $60.

NEED TO KNOW What is it A prequel to Life is Strange telling the story of one of its key relationships. Before the Storm takes characters from Life is Strange and digs into their lives a few years prior. While Life is Strange wound its storytelling around a central mystery, Before the Storm hones in on Chloe and Rachel’s story. One key difference between Life Is Strange and Before The Storm is that Chloe is now voiced by Rhianna DeVries instead of Ashly Burch. With that caveat in place, Before t

The Sea of Thieves closed beta isn’t the full game—Microsoft says that “most” of it is being held for release—but it’s seized our imaginations anyhow. For now, though, these are some of the features we’re hoping for when Sea of Thieves releases in full this March. Sea of Thieves is all about building camaraderie—working together to protect your sea home—and what better way to do that than with home cooked meals? Recalling the delight of sea shanties in Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, I’m thinking

That, according to Is There Any Deal, is as low as it’s ever gone—a match for the price in the Doom Bundle launched last year, shortly after Bundle Stars rebranded to Fanatical. Doom now includes all previously-released DLC—Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall—and maps, modes, weapons, and feature updates, so it’s the full package for a tenner. If you’ve got an urge to shoot some stuff this weekend, that’s a good place to start. But it’s not just a Doom sale, it’s a Bethesda sale, so ther

Our near-term focus is on delivering high quality mitigations to protect our customers’ infrastructure from these exploits,” Krzanich said. It will be interesting to see if Cannon Lake is immune to Spectre and Meltdown from a hardware standpoint. After Cannon Lake comes Ice Lake, which will be its second generation 10nm architecture. If Cannon Lake is immune to Spectre and Meltdown, then Ice Lake should follow suit. One other thing to note is that these might not be the last major exploits Intel

Pixel Noir’s strength is in knowing what to borrow and when to not reinvent the wheel. While walking around Pinnacle City, The Detective can enter investigation mode, which highlights nearby clues, interactive objects, and characters. The version of Pixel Noir that’s currently hitting the streets is nearly feature complete but only includes two chapters, with six more in the works. The first area you encounter in Pixel Noir is The Detective’s own turf in the Southside, which has a very “anywhere

Steamworld Dig 2 developer Image & Form is merging with Fe developer Zoink to form a new studio, Thunderful, the pair jointly announced. Both indie studios are based in Gothenburg, Sweden and have been working together for some time, Image & Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson explained in a statement. This merger is a formalization and natural extension of that relationship, Sigurgeirsson said, and will not hamper their individual operations going forward. When we spoke to Sigurgeirsson on the making

Earlier today, I dialled things back with Yunus Ayyildiz and Ozan Çelik’s Puzzlement—a neat, minimalistic puzzle game about shifting perspectives that’s due next week. As is the case with most puzzlers, the game’s first few levels serve as a tutorial. Here, you’ll learn how to pull yourself over blocks, how the game applies gravity, and that wandering off a level’s blacked out walkways will spill you into a different side of the cube. Before long, levels comprise multiple cubes and coloured squa

Throughout my life, I’ve faced many of my own end-of-the-world situations. Luckily, I don’t think Stellaris: Apocalypse features the latter—but it will contain convoys of existence-threatening space pirates, planet-destroying weapons, and gigantic Titan capital ships when it arrives next month. Here’s an inspiring story trailer, no matter how you opt to tackle Doomsday. Let’s just make sure we take two full weeks off at new year, though, yeah? Stellaris: Apocalypse is due February 22.

Ark: Survival Evolved spinoff PixARK will come to Steam Early Access this March and officially release later this year. Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard provided “design and technical input,” Snail Games says. Outside of crafting and building, players will also be able to train and ride “over 100” dinosaurs, many of which will look familiar to Ark: Survival Evolved players. Last November, Studio Wildcard creative director Jesse Rapczak said Ark: Survival Evolved “needs to have a s

Earlier this week, GTA Online introduced the classy Cadillac Escada Con—um, I mean, the Ubermacht Revolter to its Legendary Motorsport car dealerships. If my prior GTA Online misadventures are anything to go by, I’ll be far more reliant on the latter scenario. Then again, with less in the way of squad cars, lampposts and, you know, brick walls, perhaps I’m better heading skyward. The same two-for-one bonus applies to GTA Online’s newest Air Quota adversary mode during the same window. After a fl

Two Point Hospital got a huge response when it was announced earlier this month. A modern spiritual successor to Theme Hospital is exactly what fans of the old Bullfrog games are looking for—and attendees of the PC Gamer Weekender on February 17 and 18 will be the first to see more of the game. Two Point Studios will take to the Developer Stage on the Saturday at 11AM to show off loads of previously unseen footage of the game, including a world exclusive gameplay reveal of a new in-game illness.

Black Desert Online is a game I’m always on the cusp of buying. From now through Monday, January 29, you see, Black Desert Online boasts a 50 percent reduction. I could spend the next paragraph waffling about what I think Black Desert Online is about, but it’s almost certainly better for everyone if I defer to my colleague and MMO aficionado, Steven Messner. Here’s why BDO worth your time:[In Black Desert Online] you can be a merchant, a fisherman, or invest all your time into building a massive

So far, so Far Cry. This exciting nonsense happens all the time in Far Cry 5, as it so often does in all Far Cry games. Rolling with NPC teammates is funCo-op NPCs aren’t totally new to Far Cry, but I especially enjoyed rolling with them in Far Cry 5. Far Cry games have always been shooters first really, but Far Cry 5 feels like it wants to be played as an all-out shooter all the time. However, as a play space I found it to be the least exciting of any Far Cry game since the very first game.

Behind-the-scenes database issues meant it didn’t return for 14 hours, and when it did, it came bearing bugs tied to reloading, key binding, building UI, and untoggle-able ADS (aim down sight). Some bugs were introduced with this weeks patch,” said Epic in this forum post. Here’s how that looks:And here’s Epic on what it’s all about: “Low HP? Give yourself a fighting chance with the all-new Chug Jug! Find a safe place to Chug this Jug for 15 seconds and gain max Health and Shields.”

The Sea of Thieves closed beta arrived yesterday, but many players who were granted access after pre-purchasing Rare’s first-person open-world pirate game found themselves unable to play. Rare rolled out a temporary fix today and is working on a longer term solution, and to compensate for the trouble the closed beta has been extended by a couple more days to ensure players get enough time in the game. The beta, originally scheduled to end Monday, will now finish on Wednesday, January 31, at 8am