With the launch of Sonic Forces on PC yesterday, widespread reports of crashing and other technical issues flooded the game’s Steam page. I’ve not played Sonic Forces yet, though it’s downloading as I write. “Forces PC Players – we’ve just released an update that should fix most crashes. Please restart your game to ensure it’s applied, and let us know if you run into any other issues,” the update reads. Sonic Forces is the new 3D installment in the weird blue hedgehog’s interminable quest for co

Toejam and Earl: Back in the Groove, a new addition to the well-loved game series from the early ’90s about a pair of alien rappers who crash-land on Earth, pulled in a half-million bucks on Kickstarter in early 2015. Following that came a partnership with Adult Swim, and the expectation that it would be out sometime in 2017. Sadly for those of you who have been waiting and watching the calendar slowly wind down, it’s not going to happen. “We tried super hard to get ToeJam and Earl: Back in the

As promised last week, Hitman Game of the Year Edition is now live on Steam, with a new four-mission campaign, additional weapons, suits, and challenges, and the reactivation of Elusive Targets. The GOTY will set you back $60, or $20 for anyone who already owns the Complete First Season. More relevant to the future of the series, however, (and therefore our interests) is a launch-day message posted by Io Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak confirming that a new Hitman is on the way. “Five months ago, I

Take-Two Interactive released its FY2018 second quarter results today, showing better-than-expected operating results and leading to a raised outlook for the remainder of the fiscal year. But there’s one very interesting bit of trivia hidden down inside the “Business and Product Highlights” section. “Grand Theft Auto V has now sold in more than 85 million units,” the report says. “According to The NPD Group, Grand Theft Auto V is now the all-time best-selling video game, both in revenues and uni

Last month, we spoke to game director Jason Fader about how Nightdive is progressing on its System Shock reboot, and now you can see what some of the concepts they sent us look like in an early version of the game. Near the end of the video, Fader also shows off the ‘shatter tech’ Nightdive is developing to smash apart frozen mutants, plus a dismemberment system that sends heads, legs, and arms flying—not necessarily in a realistic way, but certainly in a dramatic one. I expect those who’ve back

We’ve seen Logitech’s C920 webcam on sale before, but it’s current price on Amazon is a new low, at $44.52. There is a higher end version of this webcam, the C922, that can do 1080p at 60 frames per second and has a built-in background removal tool. The C920, meanwhile, offers the same fidelity, but at 30 fps and at less than half the price currently. You can grab the C920 on sale here. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links.

Futuremark has partnered with Newegg to offer deep discounts on the Advanced versions of each benchmark. For example, the Advanced Edition of 3DMark gives you access to running the DirectX 12 Time Spy benchmark at 4K. The Advanced Edition usually goes for $30, but is on sale for $4.50. Likewise, the Advanced Edition of VRMark unlocks an additional benchmark and lets you input custom settings. This one usually goes for $20, but is on sale for $4.

Another Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds milestone has gone whizzing by, and this one is a biggie. Just two months after claiming ten million copies sold—a remarkable achievement by any measure—creative director Brendan Greene said on Twitter that it has now moved past 20 million. @PUBATTLEGROUNDS reached an amazing milestone this weekend, passing 20 million copies sold!I know a lot of you are frustrated by issues w/ the game but the team is working hard to deliver a truly great Battle Royale expie

Over 500 games are discounted on Steam this week, a sizable chunk of which are visual novels and cutesy anime games. But if gratuitous violence is more your thing, allow me to direct your attention to two of the sales’ best games and steepest discounts: the Hotline Miami combo pack and They Bleed Pixels. Hotline Miami is a gory top-down action game about murdering gangsters in a chicken mask. Through Monday, November 13, you can pick up the original Hotline Miami and the sequel, Wrong Number, fo

Developer Telltale Games, best known for episodic story-driven games like The Walking Dead and Tales from the Borderlands, announced today that roughly 25 percent of its workforce has been laid off. As Gamesindustry reports, 90 people were affected by the wave of layoffs. Telltale says the layoffs will not affect any of its ongoing games. However, moving forward they plan to make “fewer, better games with a smaller team.” In the past week, Gigantic developer Motiga and Torchlight developer Runic

In more recent years, these have been rolled into one long sale that runs through the weekend. Razer has decided to get a head start on the action by temporarily discounting several mice and mouse pads as part of its Cyber Weekend VIP preview. One of them is the Razer Naga Hex V2—Razer has it marked down 56 percent to $35. Likewise, the Naga Chroma is also marked down 56 percent to $35, versus $60 and up elsewhere on the web. Our favorite gaming mouse, the DeathAdder Elite (with Chroma lighting)

Craving more Wolfenstein after finishing the second game, I recently replayed The New Order’s The Old Blood standalone expansion. The problem is, considering Wolfenstein 2 came out two weeks ago and is therefore fresh in the memory, they don’t compare particularly well to the excellent cutscenes from the main game. It’s a sequence of three short missions that collectively last for well under an hour. If this is meant to sell you on what’s to come, though, I wouldn’t drop money on the season pass

I’ve never used a Steam Controller, and I’d be willing to bet that most of you haven’t either. “We’re looking into making a highlight video of the Steam Controller in action/shooter games to be included in the Store page. Preference will go to videos that utilize trackpad + gyro configs,” Valve wrote in the Steam Controller forum. “We’re hoping at least a few videos submitted would include a camera shot of the controller in the players hand. That’s definitely not required, though please be sure

We don’t know if Nvidia is phased by Intel and AMD working together on a new multi-chip module for thin and light gaming laptops, but we do know it won’t roll over and play dead. Case in point, Acer has a new ultrabook in the works that combines an 8th generation Core processor with Nvidia’s GeForce MX150 GPU. The new Acer Aspire A615-51G features an all-metal body and measures just 19.95mm (0.78 inches) thick. Both models sport discrete GeForce MX150 graphics with 2GB of GDDR5 memory for gaming

With the weekly reset, Destiny 2’s first Faction Rally has kicked off on PC. You can find the full explainer here, but the basic gist is this: choose a faction, earn tokens, and turn them in for faction specific gear. Previously, players could run the same Lost Sector over and over, destroying supplies for fast token drops. But this time around, Bungie removed the supply drop reward, rendering Lost Sector runs moot. For those who can’t watch or listen, here’s how you can get all the tokens you’l

Now a year later, it is pitching a Arctis 3 Bluetooth headset that plays audio from over Bluetooth and wired connections at the same time. “This is the first time that you can simultaneously have wired gaming audio and wireless Bluetooth. That is why this is a wired headset for gaming and Bluetooth for everything else,” SteelSeries says. “SteelSeries makes that whole process easy with this product and let’s more gamers use Discord with their friends.” According to SteelSeries, every Arctis heads

Like a Jedi mind trick, Nvidia today told us what new collector’s edition Titan Xp cards we have been waiting for, after teasing us with a short video last week. It turns out we wanted Star Wars-themed cards. Other than their appearance, the collector’s edition cards are the same as the vanilla Titan Xp with 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz, and 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4Gbps. Image 1 of 4 Image 2 of 4 Image 3 of 4 Image 4 of 4Nvidia designed the collector’s edition cards with sever

We put out a call for your best Assassin’s Creed Origins screenshots from the open world game’s excellent photo mode. You answered with reams of beautiful landscape shots, pictures of Bayek in action, some wildlife photos, and a few amusing glitches. By KakonaKakona has lots of amazing shots, including this ornate elephant throwing down with Bayek. The shot above is a great photo highlighting the most lonely and barren regions of Origins’ Egypt. Stab, stab, then jump into the hay!

Vlambeer’s Nuclear Throne, a “lightning-fast top-down roguelike shooter in which squidgy mutants vie for possession of the eponymous throne,” came out a couple of years ago to widespread acclaim. We scored it 90/100 in our review, and it enjoys an “overwhelmingly positive” user review aggregate on Steam. “Nuclear Throne took a lot out of us, and when we finally released the current U98 over a year and a half ago, we were all entirely exhausted,” Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail said last week. “S

Death Coming, a new “non-linear puzzle game” according to developer Next Studio, begins with your death. From there, the story escalates to you assuming the role of death himself and using your environment to kill as many humans as you can. “While you can’t personally interfere with humans, your powers extend into the environment,” Next Studio said in a press release. The variety of Final Destination-esque deaths on display is perhaps Death Coming’s strongest hook. After a stay in Early Access,