One of the best things about Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC—like all games on PC, really—is mods. Or maybe you want to be a Red Dead Superman, courtesy of this trainer mod. That’s where the new Red Dead Redemption 2 Mod Manager on Nexus Mods comes into play: It helps eliminate headaches and confusion by simplifying the process of enabling and disabling mods in the game. Creator Bilago said that the RDR2 Mod Manager is a “direct port” of their Grand Theft Auto 5 Mod Manager, which cut the developmen

Changes are afoot in CS:GO – not only does it now have characters, but it’s getting a little bit of Halo thrown into the mix. Specifically, a Halo Sticker Capsule is now purchasable in-game, and as you’d expect, it’s all Halo-themed stuff. Here are what the stickers look like:Today we’re excited to ship the @Halo Sticker Capsule in CS:GO! As an added bonus, users who purchase and play The Master Chief Collection on Steam will receive an exclusive Halo Music Kit in CS:GO. There are some other sma

(Image credit: Epic Games)The winner of the Fortnite community choice skin contest is who else but Riley, the character we don’t really know and don’t exactly love but who won anyway, sporting a lovely bright magenta jacket, some dope boots, and a tasteful balaclava. On the other hand, I’m sort of astounded she beat the skin that looks like a Sekiro NPC with a candle on its hat. The third skin, an all-black ensemble that looked more Deathklok than Fortnite, was a clear loser. (Image credit: Epic

If you’re looking to score a Black Friday deal on an entire new system, this HP Envy desktop is worth checking out. The specifications are similar to the CyberpowerPC Gamer Xtreme system we have highlighted as one of the best gaming PCs. Other core components include 8GB of DDR4-2666 RAM (expandable to 32GB) and a 256GB NVMe SSD + 1TB HDD (7200 RPM) for storage chores. HP Envy desktop | Core i5 | GTX 1650 | $549.99 (save $300)This is about as inexpensive as it gets for a pre-built system with su

It’s about time, then, that we write about Castlevania, which Netflix Nordic casually revealed was getting its third season next month. Castlevania is one of the best game adaptations around, and probably Netflix’s best cartoon that isn’t about a horse, so a third season was greenlit right after the second aired. The pinned tweet has been up for a day now, however, so if it was posted in error, Netflix Nordic is just rolling with it. According to the tweet, Castlevania Season 3 will air on Decem

(Image credit: Valve)The Steam Autumn Sale has begun, and once again the gang at Valve is taking nominations for this year’s Steam Awards . Nominations will be open through the Autumn Sale, and voting will take place during the Winter Sale, which is expected to begin on December 19. And yes, there’s a sale afoot, too. It doesn’t include the original Half-Life but if you haven’t played that yet then it’s probably best to just let it go. The 2019 Steam Autumn Sale runs until December 3.

The day Stardew Valley fans have been eagerly awaiting is upon us. The hefty 1.4 Stardew Valley update has landed on Steam and GoG, bringing with it scores of new features, hundreds of cosmetics, optimizations and bug fixes, quality of life improvements, and more. The Stardew Valley developer blog highlights some of the biggest additions, including new 14-heart events for every spouse in the game. Some of the quality of life improvements include being able to stack large items such as kegs, and

Over on Amazon, you can snag XPG’s SX8100 1TB SSD for only $102.99 right now, which is $40 below its list price. It’s quite a bit faster than Crucial’s P1 1TB SSD, which we consider the best SSD for gaming (when factoring in performance, price, and capacity), and costs about the same with this Black Friday deal. As far as rated specs go, it does not get much faster until you dive into PCI Express 4.0 territory. You’re not paying out the nose for a much faster SSD. It’s even a few bucks cheaper t

Starstruck is a physics-y puzzle game that you can play by yourself, or with a chum in local multiplayer, with each little astronaut being connected by a cord. ), but, as the game is set in outer space, this is actually more complicated than it appears. So, instead, you should hop from planet to planet, making use of their meagre gravity to anchor yourself in space, for a little bit. The rope-swinging has a great sense of momentum to it, and I’m always on-board for games with proper curved plane

I’ve noticed plenty of people saying that they’ll finally jump on the VR bandwagon because of Half-Life: Alyx, but there’s another game that makes strapping a big ol’ headset to your face an incredibly seductive prospective: Microsoft Flight Simulator. Last month, head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jörg Neumann said that VR hadn’t originally been part of the plan, but the reaction to the E3 reveal and the assumption that it would support VR straight away made Asobo Studio and Microsoft reconside

Just prior to the weekend, a new complaint appeared on the Stadia subreddit: A user reported that in the midst of a Destiny 2 session, their Chromecast Ultra suddenly shut down, apparently as the result of overheating. Several others said that they hadn’t had problems with shutdowns, but that their Chromecast Ultras were running uncomfortably hot. “We know any sort of heat on a device can be worrisome, but we can confirm there is no thermal overheating issue with Chromecast Ultra. The difficulty

If you’re building a PC, or if you’re looking to upgrade the storage in your existing rig, one of HP’s 2TB NVMe SSDs is just $209.99 at Newegg. That makes it one of the cheapest 2TB NVMe SSDs on the market right now. This drive was originally released earlier this year, and is rated at sequential read speeds of up to 3,500 MB/s and seq. In real-world testing by our friends at Tom’s Hardware, the drive performed similarly to the best NVMe drives around, like the Samsung 970 Pro. Now that this dri

Ubisoft wants plot and character to be a bigger part of its multiplayer FPS in 2020. Over the course of the game’s standard quarterly updates, Rainbow Six Siege presentation director Alexander Karpazis told IGN in a recent interview , Ubi aspires to tell a continuous story. In February, Ubi unveiled Rainbow Six Universe, a team dedicated to telling more stories in Siege’s world. Outbreak is now being spun into its own game made by a separate team, Rainbow Six Quarantine. After the 2019 Siege cin

While SSDs and traditional hard drives have continued to fall in price, the price gap between them remains large. If you want some of the speed benefits of SSDs at a price closer to hard drives, this early Black Friday deal might interest you. One 2.5-inch 2TB ‘hybrid’ drive from Seagate is now $60 in the US ($27 off usual price) and £68 in the UK (about £17 off). Regular 2TB SSDs usually go for around $200 these days, so this 2TB hybrid drive for a fourth of the price is awfully tempting. That’

If you’re looking for a new headset this Black Friday, the HyperX Cloud Alpha is a great pick, and it’s on sale for $79.99 on Amazon. It sits comfortably in our number one position for best all-around gaming headset, and while this isn’t the lowest price it’s ever been, it’s close. We love the Cloud Alpha for its bombproof build quality, wide frequency response range (13Hz-27,000Hz), and aviation-style design. You can’t go wrong with the HyperX Cloud Alpha, especially at this price. If wired hea

Selecting “related apps” for individual listings of banned games reveals how they’re connected: Sly Pigs, for instance, is five steps removed from Running Sausage, but only two from BattleStar Mazay. A cached version of the Dagestan Technology Steam Curator page lists 48 games and 4 DLCs, but the live page is now empty. Original story:Something strange appears to be happening on Steam, where, as chronicled by Steam Tools, roughly 1000 games have been suddenly removed from the system. None of the

Black Friday technically isn’t here yet, but the sales are already flowing. If you’re in need of a new gaming monitor, one recently-released model from Alienware has dropped to $349.99 at multiple stores, a discount of $100 from the usual price. The Alienware AW2720HF was released back in September, and combines a high-quality IPS panel with a super-high 240Hz refresh rate. The only catch is that it’s a 27-inch monitor with a 1080p resolution, when most other displays this size have a 1440p or 4

Walmart has got a rainbow of Xbox One Bluetooth controllers on sale for Black Friday. Right now you can pick a number of different color controllers Xbox One Bluetooth controllers for $39.99 , a $20 discount of its regular retail price. The Microsoft Xbox One Bluetooth wireless controller has been the standard fare in PC gaming controllers for a good long while now. Of course, if money is no option and you want the best, the Xbox Elite wireless controller series 2 still remains the absolute best

For those of you who’ve been holding onto, your, uh horses before deciding to tackle Red Dead Redemption 2 due to the various performance issues it has suffered since launch, that time may be nigh. Or indeed neigh. A new patch promises to fix no fewer than 12 problems that have been causing the game to crash, and improve stability when running with Vulkan. Straight to the patch notes for what is officially know as RDR2 Title Update 1.14.1:Improvements to address an issue that resulted in a crash

Sea of Thieves added pet monkeys and parrots when its Pirate Emporium went live back in September. As of today, however, you can get a pirate pet for free if you’re a Twitch Prime member through your Amazon Prime membership—which costs $13 per month or $120 per year. But if you’re already shelling out that monthly money for your Prime membership, an otherwise-free purple monkey awaits you. All you need to do is link your Amazon Prime account to Sea of Thieves by following the instructions here a