From today until January 5, Hitman’s Paris level and accompanying DLC will be free for everyone. And yes, that includes the Holiday Hoarders mission that lets you become a vengeful Mr. Claus. This Hitman Holiday Pack contains the main Paris story mission, all 16 of the Escalation Contracts, as well as all of Paris’ Elusive Targets as they’re reactivated. It’s the best Hitman game, even better than Blood Money, and now that IO is reactivating Elusive Targets, there’s still plenty of life in it. T

The sleuths at Team Guru have uncovered details for a GTA Online scavenger hunt that seems to tie into Rockstar’s next game: Red Dead Redemption 2. And it looks like this hunt—which isn’t live yet—will also answer the mystery of who is buried in that unmarked grave out in the middle of nowhere. Team Guru has made a name for itself by digging through GTA’s game files and solving long-running mysteries. First off, mention of a “headshot challenge” was found in the files, telling players that, by c

Popular Twitch streamer DrDisrespect announced on his channel today that he plans to take time away from livestreaming to focus on his family. And I want to be transparent that I’ve been unfaithful,” said a visibly distressed DrDisrespect. Known for his over-the-top macho identity and boastful catch phrases reminiscent of a WWE character, DrDisrespect exploded in popularity in 2017 in parallel with the growth of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which he plays regularly. With DrDisrespect’s absence

Between Steam’s daily and weekly deals, not to mention a few well-timed individual sales, a lot of indie games are cheap right now. The sales aren’t bundled together and therefore will end at different times, but they’re all good deals on good games. Our review went up earlier today (spoilers: Philippa was quite taken with it). It’s worth noting that the Steam winter sale also starts on Thursday, December 21, so more and likely steeper discounts are sure to follow. Some online stores give us a s

Hey, do you want Company of Heroes 2 for free? So what you want to do is head over to the Humble Store sometime over the next couple of days, and click the button that says “Free!” Company of Heroes 2 is a World War 2 RTS developed by Relic and released in 2013. The Humble Store also has all the Company of Heroes 2 DLC on sale too, except for the British Forces for some reason. The Company of Heroes 2 DLC is on sale until December 18, but the COH2 freebie is only good until 12 pm ET on December

Ragnar Pawbrok is on the front lines without fail, fighting beside the other mountain cats to claim territory. More than once, I’ve spent a whole day and night running about the map to secure land for the mountain cats. More than once, I’ve spent a whole day and night running about the map to secure land for the mountain cats. This is how I have spent every day in Cattails thus far. The forest will be unified under the banner of the mountain cats.

We first heard about the 3D XPoint Technology at the heart of Optane 900P in 2015, and originally it was supposed to hit retail drives last year. Overall, the Optane 900P is 30 percent faster than the second fastest SSD (Samsung’s 960 Pro), and in some workloads it’s up to four times faster. The Optane 900P drives are all rated at 10 DWPD for five years—that’s “Drive Writes Per Day.” The Intel Optane 900P isn’t perfect, however, with a few caveats we need to mention. But If you want to see the f

Memory prices are still higher than they have been in a long time, but at least there are deals to be had on power supplies. There’s also a $25 mail-in-rebate available, bringing the price down to just $50. That’s a sweet price for 750W. Here the connectors it comes with:1x 24-pin main power1x 4+4 pin ATX 12V4x 6+2 PCIe12x SATA4x molex (peripheral)1x floppyThis PSU utilizes a single +12V rail design with 62A available. If you’re curious how much your system needs, use an online PSU calculator fo

A new Adventure Time game is coming next year called Pirates of the Enchiridion that will see Finn and Jake set off on an epic journey of exploration across the flooded Land of Ooo. The open-world game will feature an original story with tactical combat, hero progression, and pirates, all rendered in the familiar Adventure Time visual style and voiced by the show’s cast. “In this brand new game, Finn, Jake, Marceline, and BMO face their most piratical adventure yet after a totally bizonkers floo

While daily quests aren’t likely to ruffle the feathers of gamers in the same way that loot boxes have, they still try to manipulate us. Daily quests aren’t a meta-objective, but a wholly separate activity you have to make time for. These quests are never fun, but MMOs continually leverage their weakest elements, like fetch quests, for use in daily quests. What’s more, world quests act like a Greatest Hits of Legion’s leveling process, letting you revisit wacky and fun quests all over again. Dai

I’m noticing a trend, readers: dinosaur park sims. Prehistoric Kingdom is the latest game to pick up this suddenly popular torch. Shadow Raven says Prehistoric Kingdom features intricate habitat and structure building inspired by previous sims like Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis and Zoo Tycoon 2, as well as brush-based terraforming. The through-line is ranger mode, which “will allow you to walk through your park as one of the park’s wardens” in any of the main modes. Judging from its Kickstart

The holiday season is almost upon us, here in the real world and also in Destiny 2. Mayhem is a Crucible mode from the original Destiny in which abilities recharge faster, heavy ammo drops more readily, and point values are much higher. Bungie didn’t explain exactly how it will operate (a breakdown of the original Mayhem mode is available from the Destiny Wiki), but said, “It’s anarchy—and it’s awesome.” And because it is better to give than to receive, Dawning Gift Schematics will be available

If you’ve been building PCs for a bit, you might remember a wavy case that Cooler Master released over a decade ago, the Wave Master. Thermaltake’s new View 22 Tempered Glass Edition reminds us of that case, but with a modern twist to account for modern amenities and current trends. The biggest difference visually between the View 22 and Wave Master is the addition of a large, 4mm thick tempered glass side panel. Thermaltake did not say when the View 22 will be available or for how much. We’re c

There’s also the possibility of action at the state level: California state senator Scott Wiener pledged to introduce a bill to adopt net neutrality regulations in the state, and New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman, who sounded the alarm on the corruption of the FCC’s commenting process last month, said he will file a lawsuit to stop the “illegal rollback” of net neutrality. Congress has the power to reverse the FCC’s regulation dismantling net neutrality protections. #NetNeutrality http

Your Steam client can now help load certain games a little more smoothly. The new shader pre-caching feature, which went into beta in November and now comes to all users via the latest stable client update, allows Steam to download pre-compiled shader code for OpenGL and Vulkan games. With Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus and a variety of other games installed, one of our Steam clients was holding onto just 9 MB of shader data. The update also includes a host of controller support improvements, i

Welcome to the terrifying and stressful period of time on the internet when a new Star Wars film is out and all you want to do is avoid spoilers until you see it. You have nothing to fear from me—I haven’t seen it yet myself, and my only purpose right now is to show you this mod that will let a cute Jawa follow you around in Skyrim. The mod carefully calls this fellow a Ja’wa (another mod by the creators at Haem Projects adds a BB-8 inspired droid called Snippy). In the original Star Wars movie,

You Must Build A Boat and 10,000,000 creator Luca Redwood revealed a new game today: Photographs, a five-part puzzle game built on branching, interwoven stories, with art by Octavi “Pixelshuh” Navarro (best known for Thimbleweed Park) and music by Ben Prunty (best known for FTL). “Photograph’s big secret is that it’s not a puzzle game,” the press kit says. “It’s five puzzle games. The varied puzzles on display in its announcement trailer are the most striking thing about Photographs considering

But then this morning Atari put the word out that it’s delaying the launch. “The countdown to the Ataribox launch on Indiegogo has been officially paused. Building Ataribox is incredibly important to us and we will do whatever it takes to be sure it is worth the wait,” Atari said. Outside of Ataribox, that’s all anyone knows at the moment. Atari is attempting to capitalize on the retro gaming craze, as Nintendo has done with its NES Classic and SNES Classic consoles.

As the effort to gut net neutrality regulations in the US comes to a head, FCC chairman Ajit Pai has created and shared a video reassuring concerned consumers that they’ll still be able to do all the things they love to do on the internet—and smugly mocking anyone who might think otherwise. How much extra will you have to pay for it? It’s a remarkably unserious display from the guy at the head of an agency charged with overseeing, regulating, and protecting all levels of communications in the US

Samuel spoke fondly of Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus in his review, but was less taken by its The Freedom Chronicles: Episode 0. While acknowledging the latter serves to tease the base game’s three-part DLC, he reckoned it’d have benefited from showing more. Part one—The Adventures of Gunslinger Joe—is however out now. I expect each episode to be built around that one ability, then, rather than all three like in the main game’s later stages. At the time of writing, a handful of Steam reviews a