WarGames is a movie from 1983 about a young hacker almost starting World War 3. #WarGames, however, is a new interactive series said to reimagine the ’80s film and is being headed up by Sam Barlow, creator of FMV masterclass Her Story. The #Wargames series is being made in collaboration with Eko, best known for its proprietary live-action medium “that allows viewers to shape the stories they watch.” Barlow is also working on a new game: Telling Lies, a “spiritual follow-up” to Her Story. A relea

Less than two years after adopting Bitcoin as a payment option on Steam, Valve has announced that it is dropping support for the virtual currency. The decision to eliminate the option comes as a result of both the extremely high transaction fees charged by Bitcoin, and recent, also-extremely-high levels of instability in its value. “In the past few months we’ve seen an increase in the volatility in the value of Bitcoin and a significant increase in the fees to process transactions on the Bitcoin

This can be confusing for shoppers, both because the cut down version was quietly added to the mix, and because it’s not always clearly labeled. “It’s correct that 14 compute unit (896 stream processors) and 16 compute unit (1024 stream processor) versions of the Radeon RX 560 are available. One example is this VisionTek Radeon RX 560 on Newegg. The amount of memory, core/boost clocks, and display connectors are all clearly labeled, but there is no mention of how many stream processors it has. I

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Deus Ex is currently biding its time as Eidos Montreal work on other projects—likely the Avengers project with Crystal Dynamics. Here are some things we do want to see from the next Deus Ex game. In the original Deus Ex you go from Liberty Island to Hong Kong, to Paris. It’s a tough ask given the amount of work it takes to produce open areas with the density of interaction that we expect from Deus Ex. If we end up struggling to design a new protagonist for the Deus Ex series a mobile, heavily au

Update: Destiny 2 community manager David ‘DeeJ’ Dague addressed Prometheus Lens in a tweet:Prometheus Lens shipped with a bug. Little did we know, the expansion also added the most overpowered weapon in the history of Destiny PvP: the Prometheus Lens, a new exotic trace rifle. A sister weapon to Coldheart, the Prometheus Lens also fires a steady laser beam. It is, bar-none, the most overpowered weapon in the Crucible, and it needs to be nerfed from orbit, like, today. Thankfully, Destiny YouTub

The Game Awards takes place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles tomorrow, December 7. We already know PUBG’s desert map gameplay will debut at the event—and now it appears we’ll see more from 4A Games’ Metro Exodus too. Due next year, Exodus marks the Metro series’ first venture above ground, and it incorporates sandbox elements and mechanics along the way. They’re still feel like they’re playing a Metro game. Metro Exodus is without a concrete launch date, but is due at some stage next year

Valve’s ultra-smart, interdimensional puzzle-platformer Portal celebrated its tenth anniversary this year, and its equally intelligent sequel is somehow almost seven years old. Headup Games and Clockstone Software have now announced an official partnership with Valve that’ll see us back at Aperture Laboratories before the end of 2017. Due two weeks from today, December 20, Bridge Constructor Portal combines Headup’s lighthearted engineering sim with Valve’s masterpiece, as it “blends the laws of

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has spent the last several weeks teasing screens of its incoming desert map, and is set to showcase its first in-game footage at The Game Awards tomorrow. Now, developer Bluehole has revealed more on what it’s all about—including its name, and details of its specific regions. Named Miramar, Bluehole notes moving in the “opposite direction” to the greenery and forestry found in the current Erangel map, wherein old strategies and tactics may no longer be as effective

Time manipulation shooter Superhot was well received by Phil last year, with our reviewer billing it “effortlessly stylish, perhaps to the detriment of substance.” In a bid to expand its self-acknowledged “linear nature”, developer Superhot Team has unveiled Mind Control Delete—a work-in-progress standalone expansion that adds roguelike elements to the original formula. Set in the same universe as the base game, Mind Control Delete “distils and expands” on its forerunner’s iconic slow motion com

Prison escape ’em up sequel The Escapists 2 launched back in August, and has since served fans outer space cellblocks, transport lockups, and themed DLC. Now, a new update lets players build their own correctional facilities. The game’s Prison Map Editor has players dragging and dropping a host of rooms, equipment, cells and more as they craft their ideal jailscapes—with optional multi-floors and, crucially, ventilation space wedged between them. Here’s a trailer:Most interestingly, finished fac

Announced in October, Rumu is a point-and-click adventure starring a sentient vacuum cleaner, set in an eerily abandoned sci-fi Smart Home. If that’s not a perfect elevator pitch, I don’t know what is. There’s also a cat in it. Oh, and it’s releasing next week, on December 13. But if you didn’t read that or don’t want to, Rumu stars a vacuum cleaner by that name, navigating an isometrically-viewed Smart Home “littered with semi-intelligent devices to hack into and get to know”.

Oh My Godheads, a game best summarized as “capture the flag only with the heads of angry deities instead of flags”, has left Early Access. In doing so it’s gained two new levels (Lost Island and Viking Town) as well as two new godheads (Kali and Badb) and a launch trailer, as you can see above. A purely local multiplayer game, Oh My Godheads is the creation of indie studio Titutitech. You can read our interview with them for the story behind the development of this unusual game and why it featur

A major DLC update for The Surge released today in the form of A Walk in The Park. As the name implies, it’s set in a park: an amusement park. As the name doesn’t imply, the amusement park is in ruins and is full of things that want to kill you. To celebrate the launch of the pack, the base game is currently 50 percent cheaper on Steam. With A Walk in The Park going for $14.99 and the base game $19.99, you’ll be saving an additional $5.

But the side-effect of PUBG’s popularity—combined with Steam Direct, which now lets anyone with $100 list and sell a game—is an increasing number of games trying to capitalize not on PUBG’s features but simply on its name. “If you are ready to dive into the world of terrible creatures, collecting weapons and other things from boxes then this game is for you,” the game’s Steam store page adds. I haven’t played it—it’s coming to Early Access in a couple of days—and for all I know it’s a highly ori

It also includes a link to a “Predatory Gaming Letter” template, for people not comfortable crafting their own, which unsurprisingly portrays the issue in a rather alarming light. In the wake of the recent loot box blowup there has been some call for the game industry to regulate itself in order to avoid government involvement. “Unsurprisingly, the ESA and ESRB have taken a position defending the lucrative revenue streams generated by these predatory mechanisms, claiming that predatory loot boxe

Hello Neighbor is a game about stalking your neighbors. More specifically, a game about stalking one particularly creepy neighbor, a neighbor who appears to be hiding something in his home. But who’s the real creep, here? But who gives a toss about real world moral dilemmas, because Hello Neighbor is a video game – a promising one – and it’ll release this week. Read that while you wait, or else watch the trailer below.

With Destiny 2’s first expansion, Curse of Osiris, we don’t just get some new, probably dumb, excuses to shoot stuff in space. Aeon Safe titan gauntlets gives big buffs to nearby ‘Aeon Cult’ allies, whatever that means, including grenade energy to warlocks, barricade energy to titans, and dodge to hunters. Aeon Soul warlock gauntlets buff Aeon Cultists in the same way Aeon Safe titan gauntlets do. Ophidian Aspect warlock gauntlets turns up the speed on weapon ready and reload times while extendi

CCP has released a new update to EVE Online called Arms Race that promises to dramatically enhance the experience of the game’s free-to-play pilots. The Arms Race update was actually announced in October, although without the catchy name. “The Arms Race release will also contain additional iteration on Resource Wars, with the introduction of the support role, as well as some balance changes to rewards. The rollout of the EVE Online Arms Race update also marks the beginning of an Arms Race event

The past 6-8 months have been rough in the world of computer graphics cards, with GPU prices elevated well above the original MSRPs. The profitability of mining is going back up, and graphics card prices may follow suit. If that’s the case, we could be in for another rough couple of months on graphics card prices. If you’re thinking about buying a graphics card for yourself, or you’re hoping to find one in under the Christmas tree, you should probably pull the trigger sooner than later. Graphics