With November’s halfway point now well behind us, Valve has released its list of the top 20 new game releases for October. Some of them, like Destiny 2 and Disco Elysium, won’t surprise anyone; but others, well, they might. Unsurprisingly, Destiny 2 has huge overlap—nearly 20 percent of Steam users who played other games on this month’s list also play Destiny 2—but there’s community crossover beyond that obvious mega-hit. “While the numbers are not as high, the overlap in people playing more tha

Two years ago, Gearbox halted development on its hero shooter Battleborn after it failed to catch on with audiences, even as a free-to-play game. [2/3] The game’s servers will remain active and the game will continue to be playable until January 2021. However, once servers are deactivated, Battleborn will no longer be playable. Both in-game currencies, coins and Platinum, can be earned through gameplay and spent on whatever Battleborn stuff tickles your fancy. We actually liked Battleborn quite

GeForce RTX 2070 Super graphics cards usually go for between $500 and $600, but for Black Friday, Newegg’s got an overclocked Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super on sale for $490 when you use the promo code BLACKFR34 and redeem a $20 rebate card. The RTX 2070 Super comes close to the performance of an RTX 2080, and using a reference card clocked at 1770Mhz (a little lower than the card Newegg is selling), we managed an average FPS of 95.8 in Forza Horizon 4 at 1440p with Ultra settings. If you want even mor

I also thought I knew body horror in Red Dead Redemption 2. CountCosmology is a dedicated Red Dead Redemption 2 photographer, with a massive library of lovely images growing every day. I’m a big fan of the Red Dead Redemption 2 mods on tap already. I admit, I’m in love with the confident walk depicted up top. One of the top comments in CountCosmology’s post references The Bee Gees’ hit song Stayin’ Alive as the perfect accompaniment to Monster Arthur’s confident walk.

Black Friday is Monday, apparently, and just when you think SSDs can’t get cheaper… they do. While this 4TB version of the Samsung 860 Evo isn’t cheap by any definition, it is a pretty good value at $497.99. This is one of the fastest SATA drives available, capable of up to 550 MB/s reads and 520 MB/s writes. This sale makes the 860 Evo one of the cheapest 4TB SATA drives available, as competing products usually go for more than $500. If you need a whole lot of storage for your PC and don’t wa

Life Beyond, formerly Project C, unveiled its new name today, along with some very early in-game footage. “For all those people who were playing Everquest, Ultima Online—these were real social networks where you had very sophisticated relationships,” CEO Benjamin Charbit told us last month. “It’s funny because everybody is like, ‘oh, look at the power of social networks and social media,’ and we’re like, what are you talking about? I experienced that when I was playing Mankind when I was 16, the

One of the best deals in recent history on gaming PCs was the SkyTech Blaze II desktop with an RTX 2070 Super graphics card for just $1,000. For those of you who missed out on it the first time, the sale has returned, and the PC is still cheaper than every other gaming PC with the same graphics card (at least on Newegg). Most PCs around the $1,000 mark use a GTX 1660 graphics card, making this desktop with a more-powerful RTX 2070 Super an excellent deal. For comparison, the next-cheapest PC on

It’s only Monday, but Black Friday deals are arriving in earnest, including this fast 24-inch KG241P monitor from Acer. At this price, the KG241P edges out Asus’s VG248QE, one of the best gaming monitors (in the 1080p category). The best G-Sync Compatible FreeSync monitors will enable this mode by default, but that doesn’t mean others won’t work fine. With or without it, though, this is a compelling monitor for the price. It’s fast, supports a resolution that is not super taxing on GPU hardware,

They have got an excellent price on a Corsair Pro Wired Gaming Bundle that includes a gaming headset, mouse and keyboard for only $90. The bundle includes the K55 RGB Gaming Keyboard, Void Pro Stereo Gaming Headset, Harpoon RGB PRO gaming mouse, and of course the MM100 Gaming Mouse Pad. The Void Pro Stereo gaming headset alone is currently $60 on sale, so for an extra $30 you’re getting a decent gaming keyboard, mouse and mouse padThe headset has comfy memory foam pads and solid sound. The Harpo

Looking for a great gaming laptop deal? This laptop has hovered around $1100 all year, so you’re still getting $200 in real savings, which is excellent. NVIDIA’s GTX 1660 range of GPUs are optimised for gaming as well as broadcasting, meaning you can play modern games and stream/record without it seriously impacting performance. So if you’re in the market for a new gaming laptop, or this is your first one, this ASUS laptop is a deal worth investigating. If this isn’t for you, check out our other

If you’re looking for a cheap entry-level gaming laptop that still features decent performance at 1080p, Newegg is offering the MSI GF63 Thin for $599, with a $100 rebate card bringing the final price to just $499. While its GTX 1050 Ti is a few years old now, it’s a great Black Friday PC gaming deal for a respectable gaming laptop. If you’re on a student budget, or just looking to buy a younger family member a cheaper laptop for gaming, this is a great deal. Aside from the GTX 1050 Ti, the lapt

Cyberpunk 2077 will have multiplayer, but CD Projekt Red has been keeping the feature pretty close to its chest. “As far as the monetisation on the multiplayer for Cyberpunk is concerned, we believe right now it’s definitely too early to share any details on that,” he told investors. While Kiciński said Cyberpunk 2077’s multiplayer was a first for the studio, that honour actually goes to Gwent, which seems to have been forgotten. It does contain microtransactions, but unlike Cyberpunk 2077 it’s

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order might only have been out for a little over a week, but modders are already going to town on the game’s visuals. There are plenty of modders focusing on reshades, FX, lighting, outfit visuals, and especially Cal’s appearance for the game. There’s one that tweaks his adult textures , one that makes him Ben Skywalker from the expanded universe , and one that makes him, uh, “less of a ginger.” There’s also some work being done in Cheat Engine as well—like this neat doubl

The Elgato Stream Deck is an extremely helpful piece of technology, giving the user 15 customizable buttons for quickly opening apps, adjusting audio, switching between OBS scenes, and much more. The Stream Deck has 15 keys, which not only can be configured to perform different tasks, but can also have custom icons thanks to the LCD panel in each button. You can even nest multiple actions under the same button, giving you far more versatility. It can integrate directly with Game Capture, OBS, XS

If so, you might not have to wait for Black Friday, as one of our favorite headsets is on sale for its lowest price yet. The Razer Kraken Tournament Edition is now $54.99 at multiple retailers in the United States, a savings of $20 from the usual price and $45 off the original MSRP. In the UK, you can get the headset from Amazon for £68.79, a reduction of around £16 from the typical cost. The Kraken Tournament Edition is a wired headset, with an included USB DAC for use with PC, Xbox, PS4, Ninte

There’s going to be a Destiny cookbook, according to an Amazon listing , which is not something I think I understand at all. World of Warcraft cookbook , okay, that makes a lot of sense: There’s literally cooking in the game. Here’s the official blurb while I try to sort myself out:”Explore recipes inspired by Bungie’s hit franchise in Destiny: The Official Cookbook. Based on Bungie’s acclaimed video game series Destiny, this official cookbook is filled with recipes inspired by the Guardians and

Just when you think gaming laptops with Nvidia’s entry-level GTX 1650 graphics card can’t get cheaper, it happens again. Only four days after an MSI laptop with the same GPU dropped to $650, another model from Asus is now on sale for $579.99 for Black Friday. The specifications in this model include an Intel Core i5-9300H processor, 8GB of RAM, a 512GB PCIe SSD (presumably with SATA speeds, not NVMe), an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, stereo speakers, and an HD webcam. The GTX 1650 is an

A new line of interactive fiction is set to release soon on Steam: a whole bunch of romance novels from publisher Heart’s Choice, a new imprint of prolific interactive fiction publisher Choice of Games. The announcement of the Heart’s Choice imprint came a few years ago, but writing novel-length games takes time to write. You might remember Choice of Games from the first text-only game on Steam, or from seeing any of their releases over the years. This initial Heart’s Choice release has three ga

You may have seen The LowSpec Gamer’s video about getting Red Dead Redemption 2 to run on settings that are lower than low. Well, now he’s back to do the same thing to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Fallen Order hides its low settings from you in the menu (although some players have reported enabling them), with ‘medium’ as the lowest option visible. But open up the GameUserSettings.ini file and you can drop the foliage quality, textures, shadows, anti-aliasing and so on way below that. The LowSp

Star Citizen is running its CitizenCon right now, and developers Cloud Imperium Games have a bit of new stuff to show off. They’ve announced a new 20v20 game mode called Theatres of War. It’s a multi-stage, combined arms, objective-based combat mode in the game’s Star Marine FPS bit. (If you’re interested in Star Citizen, there’s a free period about to begin. ) Seems exciting for those who want a bit of battlefield in their Star Citizen, since it incorporates vehicles, flight, and infantry comba