The Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord team have revealed a physics-based combat system for the RPG that they say will take all the randomness out of cutting down your foes. While previous Mount and Blade games calculated damage using variables outside of the player’s control, Bannerlord will physically simulate all of a weapon’s characteristics—length, mass, weight distribution, swing speed and direction—and spit out a damage figure. “Swing speed is affected not only by weight but also by the distribu

Riot Games has announced a new champion for League of Legends. She’s called Zoe and she’s ultra-mobile, combining short-distance blinks with sleep bubbles and an ability that lets her travel through portals. By collecting a Flash orb, she’s able to teleport three times in a row. It might be that these orbs actually relate to the abilities of the characters she’s fighting, allowing her to ‘steal’ their skills. Flick to 0:40 again and you can see Jinx drop Cleanse and Flash orbs (thanks to eagle-e

The early 2000s were an amazing time for Japanese games on consoles, and a terrible time for Japanese games on PCs. 2) Emulated original Xbox games look and run fantastic at 4K, and are the first games to have me truly excited for the cross platform potential of UWP apps. But Ninja Gaiden and Crimson Skies are both absent on PC, and are both wonderful in very different ways. From the get-go Ninja Gaiden treats you like the ultimate badass and a pathetic baby. Being able to play a game like Ninja

Motiga, developer of free-to-play hero shooter Gigantic, nearly shut down last year when boss Chris Chung gathered all 75 employees and told them that the studio had run out of money. Unfortunately, Perfect Games has now decided that the developer isn’t profitable enough, and has closed Motiga’s doors once and for all. That’s according to Motiga chief executive Chris Chung, who told Destructoid: “It was a budgetary decision at the highest level. Chung said that “Motiga is not the only Perfect Wo

Today, we revisit Obsidian’s Fallout: New Vegas, which seemingly every comments thread around calls the best one. Left for dead, you wake up in the one-horse town of Goodsprings and begin a quest for vengeance in the Mojave Wasteland. That’s the beautifully simple setup for Fallout: New Vegas, which makes the vault sequence in Fallout 3, where you watch your character grow up, seem needlessly long-winded. It’s a more vibrant post-apocalyptic wasteland, but still tinged with the melancholy, desol

I’m talking to Jake Birkett of Grey Alien Games, developer of Regency Solitaire and upcoming card-based RPG Shadowhand. Whether or not crunch time is necessary to release a game ‘on time’ is a perennial topic in game development circles. Dream Daddy ended up being delayed by six days, but after the resulting exhaustion, the team still worked overtime. Tanya X Short, co-founder of Moon Hunters developer Kitfox Games, explained the phenomenon of consistent overwork thusly: “Crunching can feel amaz

The Xbox One X is the closest any console’s come to the power and functionality of a gaming PC. Are the Xbox One X’s 4K chops and much-improved interface enough to make it a decent living room PC replacement, or the best complement for a desk-bound gaming PC? Is there anything the Xbox One X really does better than a Windows machine? If you already own a gaming PC, and you’re going to buy a console, is this the one to get? Your Xbox will automatically upload screenshots and video clips to the cl

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Call of Duty: WWII is so damn big that I’d be surprised if I didn’t like something it has to offer. World War II 2A return to WWII means you’ll be doing a lot of the same things you did back in Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2. Call of Duty: WWII stops feeling historical beyond appearances pretty quickly. Call of Duty: WWII stops feeling historical beyond appearances pretty quickly, like the abridged version of the abridged Band of Brothers. Call of Duty: WWII complicates its by-now retro shootin

In my opinion – and in the opinion of our reviewer Joe – The Evil Within 2 is a damn fine horror game. But overall, survival horror isn’t particularly huge on the blockbuster games scene anymore. The general message is that survival horror games, and especially big budgets ones, are too big a risk for most publishers to take on. “It’s certainly tricky to make a big horror,” Johanas said. “You realize when you make a AAA horror game that’s big on graphics, you don’t see it come together until the

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. This week we’ll be talking about the lack of interesting incentives in Destiny 2’s endgame, how Assassin’s Creed: Origins won us over, and we’ll end with our usual Twitch chat Q&A. This week’s topics:A short Now playing Tim preaches Destiny 2’s endgame issues Chris talks Assassin’s Creed: Origins Twitch cha

Deadbeat Heroes is a co-op brawler about B-list superheroes in the swinging London of 1970. The golden age of do-gooders in capes is over and a new brand of criminals have arrived, bringing guns and accents and a distinct lack of class to the world of crime. New heroes are needed to fight them, which is where you come in—a band of schmucks with rocket gloves that let you zoom around and also give you the ability to steal powers from supervillains. like a low-rent cross between the Flash and Rogu

Assassin’s Creed: Origins, as I said in my review, is a big game within a huge world. Yes, he’s only level one, but you’d think he could manage to hit the haystack he knows I’m hiding in. Breakin’ 2: Assassin BoogalooI didn’t experience much in the way of glitches in Assassin’s Creed: Origins. I didn’t even fall through the map, which I think I’ve done in just about every AC game I’ve ever played. You can see it below, as I’m taking a passenger home during a side-mission, and my horse is auto-fo

The Assassin’s Creed: Origins 1.03 patch is now live, and for Nvidia owners the news appears to be good, as our early testing indicates a performance increase in the neighborhood of 10-15 percent over what it offered out of the gate. People with AMD GPUs, on the other hand, don’t appear to be so lucky. While GTX 1080 Ti numbers jumped considerably, the numbers on an RX Vega 64 stayed almost the same, and actually slipped very slightly at some settings. But a number of Ubisoft forum users have sa

Sure enough, Deep Rock Galactic is as much about blasting away a variety of hostile bugs with your friends as it is about collecting valuable ore from its randomly-generated, voxel-based levels. Balancing your team’s attention and resources between extracting ore and killing off waves of enemies is what makes Deep Rock engaging, and sets it apart from other horde shooters. In the spectrum of Early Access games, Deep Rock is very early at the moment. At this early stage, Deep Rock Galactic is an

It captures the feeling of playing a board game on a table, with an opponent in front of you. Brisbane-based developers Defiant Development are back with their sequel to 2015’s card-driven brawler, Hand of Fate. The original married attack-attack-counter action reminiscent of Batman: Arkham Asylum to the framework of a tabletop game like Arkham Horror or Warhammer Quest. Hand of Fate 2 has a raft of new features, keeping the tabletop conceit and addressing the original’s flaws. Hand of Fate 2 al

The good news: The clan bug has indeed been resolved. A quick glance at the big Destiny 2 community sites reveals many players complaining of the exact same thing. The current most updated post on the Bungie Help forum is titled ”1.0.6.1 Patch Random 1 second Stutters” . A typical comment reads: “Ever since this hotfix, I’ve been getting very sudden freezes. On a more cheery note, the bug that led to public events often being empty has been resolved.

Legion TD is a very popular mod for Warcraft 3 that also happens to be very old, having originally been released in 2009. Which is why the people behind it went to Kickstarter last year to seek support for the creation of a standalone sequel, Legion TD 2. Legion TD 2 is a multiplayer tower defense game in which two teams of four players each defend opposite sides of a symmetrical map against hordes of AI attackers. Whichever side holds out the longest, wins—a simple concept that’s obviously not

In the Indie GIF Showcase, we dig up the best-looking new and upcoming indie games and explore what makes them special. Next came Pinstripe, a grim 2D adventure game about an ex-minister following his kidnapped daughter into Hell. Now Brush has gone back to his roots with Once Upon A Coma, a 2D adventure game about “a sad little boy in a terrifying coma.” The playable character is also considerably more complex than Coma’s little black gremlin of a protagonist. You can learn more about it on the

Crown of Leaves is “a mix of a visual novel and a point-and-click” adventure game, to hear developer The Broken Horn tell it. It’s hard to get a feel for Crown of Leaves’ adventure side from the short demo alone. But its visual novel half seems pretty strong. The Broken Horn alludes to an episodic structure on Steam, with each episode containing multiple possible endings. Crown of Leaves is slated to fully release on Steam this month.