Every day, they gather in a Slack channel to make Arma 3, Bohemia Interactive’s famously complex shooter, more punishing than anyone could imagine. “[Our] Advanced Ballistics does an extremely realistic bullet simulation with wind, Coriolis and magnus effect, air pressure, and humidity all taken into account. The ACE mod has been around since the first Arma, and their modus operandi has always been the same. In ACE3, players have to clean off their goggles manually when they get dirty . In ACE3,

I’m still waiting for reality to catch up and provide me with my own R2D2, but in the meantime, at least there’s a Skyrim mod that gives me a Dwemer-forged droid companion inspired by BB-8. Snippy, as the droid follower is called, won’t engage in combat, but it does have a number of useful features, including the ability to pick locks. It even comes with a remote control so you can drive it around manually. Once installed, Snippy’s remote control will appear in your inventory. Watch an entertain

And despite the fact this joke has already run out of steam, Black Widow, Winter Soldier and Venom certainly haven’t—that’s if the latest Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite trailer is anything to go by. United by the goal to destroy Spider-Man, they are the fearsome force known only as Venom. As a frightening force on the battlefield, Venom can launch himself across all angles of the screen and has no issue manipulating the opponent’s options to favor his own. Owners of the game’s Character Pass (which

Today Chris kicks an Orc into a thing, then kicks an Orc off a thing, and so on, in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic feels like it comes from Arkane’s adolescence. Yet being tied to a relatively sedentary roleplaying series doesn’t appear to have dampened Dark Messiah’s spirit at all. If anything, these problems highlight just how successful Dark Messiah is at evoking a different kind of fantasy through its combat systems. That Dark Messiah now also has value as a

I have only ever dipped my toe into Final Fantasy 14, but I nonetheless love reading about its in-game theatrical performances, charity drives, and ongoing housing crisis. Its latest update, number 4.14, provides scope for story generation too, by adding a 24 v 24 PvP arena mode. Named Rival Wings, here two teams comprised of up to 24 players will go toe-to-toe in a “goblin-crafted arena in a bid for territorial supremacy.” Rival Wings is available now for players of the base game and its Free T

Star Wars Battlefront 2 launched last week and, as you might have noticed, was met with resistance in light of its now temporarily removed microtransactions. Away from this ongoing issue, though, EA has released the game’s first official patch, targeting a host of gameplay, user interface and HUD issues. Patch 0.2 is now live, within which I count 45 nips and tucks to the existing game. “As you know, we have made several changes to the game already—but this will be our first official patch,” say

Football Manager 2018 is out now, bringing with it a number of features which reflect the real world game better than ever. MILES JACOBSON Miles Jacobson OBE is the director of Sports Interactive—the studio responsible for the long-standing Football Manager soccer management sim series. Photo credit: The ObserverPC Gamer: Would you say this is the most ambitious Football Manager in recent years? In your time, you’ve at varying points been up against the likes of LMA Manager, Premier Manager, you

The PC version will be updated at the same time with an official Safe Mode designed to let players enjoy the game without the constant, looming threat of death. “I’m all for users modding the experience to suit their needs,” says Thomas Grip, Frictional Games founder and director of SOMA. It’s details like this that should make Frictional’s Safe Mode more compelling, and more naturally integrated, than the Wuss Mode mod. But I’ll be playing it again when Safe Mode is added to experience Friction

It’s been over 15 years since BioWare launched Neverwinter Nights on PC. Now, Beamdog—the Canadian outfit comprised of ex-BioWare employees—has announced the third-person role-player is in line for an Enhanced Edition, that’s “coming soon”. Since 2012, Beamdog has worked on well-received enhanced editions of Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate 2, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment—therefore it’d appear this Neverwinter Nights reimagining is in safe hands. “Save games, modules, and mods from the origin

‘Dark Souls-meets-anime’ is the billing Bandai Namco’s Code Vein has so far received, and its latest trailer shows off both in equal measure. In the not too distant future, a mysterious disaster has brought collapse to the world, as we know it. Towering skyscrapers, once symbols of prosperity, are now lifeless graves of humanity’s past pierced by the Thorns of Judgment. At the center of the destruction lies a hidden society of Revenants called Vein. Give into the bloodlust fully and risk becomin

Valve continues to tinker with how reviews are sorted and displayed on Steam, with its latest change concerning “helpful reviews”. Instead, we are seeing more and more feedback from players that the helpful reviews shown on store pages aren’t representative of how well people are actually enjoying the game.” These users also tend to rate up just the negative reviews while rating down the positive reviews (or vice-versa) in an attempt to distort which reviews are shown by default.” This can resul

An interactive art game with no goals or objectives, Nour lets you play with animated food presented in beautiful, bubbly hues. I watch a lot of anime and Japanese cartoons, and they tend to portray food really well. Another part of it is that I watch a lot of anime and Japanese cartoons, and they tend to portray food really well. Then they would share it with folks they knew, so it was just an amazing snowball effect of finding the right people who would like this weird art food game.” From its

Our all time favorite gaming headset, the Kingston HyperX Cloud Revolver, is on sale right now for $88 on Amazon. This makes it $32 less than what it usually goes for, a full 27% drop. It’ll even ship in one day with Prime if you have a subscription. In our extensive test of the Revolver, it beat out all other headsets due to audio quality and comfort. The audio quality of the Revolver easily goes toe-to-toe with even higher-end headphones.

A new Overwatch update is now playable on the PTR, and the big news this time around is the arrival of Blizzard World, the theme park hybrid map that was unveiled earlier this month at BlizzCon. “An amusement park celebrating the universes of Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo, Blizzard World is a brand-new hybrid Assault/Escort map,” Blizzard said in the patch notes. “Charge the gates of Stormwind, sneak through the Nexus Experience, and guide the payload through areas filled with high ground, fla

Clicker Heroes, released in 2015, is a (very) slightly more interactive version of Progress Quest, the faux-RPG that plays itself. Despite this, we found that some number of players spent many thousands of dollars on rubies. “As a result, Clicker Heroes 1 is kind of a frankenstein of a game, our hands always having been tied by the fact that we couldn’t easily change things that people paid for.” As a premium-priced game, Clicker Heroes 2 can be updated “without too much regard to player process

Take the ongoing Star Wars Battlefront 2 clown show, for instance. “We view the negative reaction to Star Wars Battlefront 2 (and industry trading sympathy) as an opportunity to add to Electronic Arts, Take-Two, and Activision Blizzard positions. “Gamers aren’t overcharged, they’re undercharged (and we’re gamers) … This saga has been a perfect storm for overreaction as it involves EA, Star Wars, Reddit, and certain purist gaming journalists/outlets who dislike MTX.” “Quantitative analysis show

Get ready to rock out with your Jack Black out: For the next two days, Brutal Legend is free in the Humble Store Fall Sale. Go to the game page, add it to your cart, and check yourself out for a free Steam code for Double Fine’s heavy metal action-RTS. As always, though, before you head on your way, allow me to suggest a few things you might actually want to spend some money on:There’s lots more (ooh, Samorost 3 is $6, that’s a deal) so I’d suggest poking around if you haven’t already. The Humbl

SteamWorld encompasses a series of great games from developer Image & Form, the most recent being the charmingly destructible SteamWorld Dig 2. Naturally the series includes the original SteamWorld Dig (which is also quite good), but there’s also SteamWorld Heist, an unabashedly XCOM-esque strategy game about steam-powered robots. All of these games are currently quite cheap on Steam as part of the SteamWorld Complete Bundle, which runs through Tuesday, November 28. The $23 bundle represents a 5

With help from Kibler’s trusty sidekick, game designer Peter Whalen , we got a look at plenty of interesting new stuff, not least two new legendary cards. The stream, which you can watch in its entirety here , kicked off with what’s certain to be the sets new meme card of choice: Feral Gibberer. If there isn’t already a soundboard dedicated to its super-annoying attack sound, then the Hearthstone community has let itself down badly. That said it is bound to make for some funny videos, and that’s

In many ways, last night’s CS:GO grand final at IEM Oakland was a battle between two opposing philosophies on how to build a top-tier esports team. On one side of the match you had FaZe Clan, a team created by buying out contracts from other top teams and assembling an all-star roster of talent from across Europe. All of a sudden the score was 15-9 courtesy of a string of inventive rounds from NiP. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the tournament was the performance of 19-year-old REZ, the newest