Developer Shoutscion calls Jack and Casie an “inventory action game,” a hybrid of turn-based RPGs and slot puzzles set in an alternative wasteland world. Basically, it’s about collecting, arranging and using items in an inventory straight out of Resident Evil 4’s iconic suitcase. “Jack and Casie is an Inventory Action Game about the misadventures of Jack, a walking talking superdimensional storage closet, and Casie, who can shoot a gun,” the Kickstarter reads. It reminds me of Child of Light as

In the Indie GIF Showcase, we dig up the best-looking new and upcoming indie games and explore what makes them special. Are you a developer with a game to submit? Today it’s Shift Quantum, an intriguing puzzle game from developer Fishing Cactus with a sci-fi noire setting and a focus on altering your environment. Outright changing the shape of the world might sound counter to solving environmental puzzles, but stick with me, there’s more to this. The best puzzle games force you to think in a new

The Dota 2 7.07 update, “The Dueling Fates,” was supposed to be out November 1, which is tomorrow. But in an unxpected turn of events (especially for Valve), it’s actually live now—a full day early. To ensure that the matchmaking rating [MMR] system is “recent and accurate” for everyone, MMR for both ranked and unranked players will now work on a six-month seasonal system, the first of which will begin in two weeks. “At the start of each season all players will recalibrate MMR, seeded by their p

It is never a good idea to skimp on a power supply. That doesn’t mean you need to go crazy with an ultra-high wattage model, but sticking to name brands and looking for 80 Plus certifications is a good place to start. Seasonic is one of those brands, and its 80 Plus Gold certified 750W Focus Plus model is on sale at Newegg today for $80. That is pretty decent for a 750W model, especially one that is 80 Plus Gold certified. If in doubt, you can refer to an online PSU calculator, such as the one a

For the most part, games companies want to entertain you and make a little money doing it. It isn’t hard to find examples, but here are 10 corporate calls that we can look back on as especially greedy, crappy, or just plain boneheaded. Digital distribution before SteamCast your mind back to the early 2000s, when digital distribution was in its infancy—and stank. Insert jokes about Mass Effect 3 not having a good ending here. This turned out to be the deeply underwhelming chance to be ‘God of God

As it currently stands in the US, net neutrality rules exist to ensure a level playing field on the internet, and the FCC is able to enforce them by classifying broadband service as a utility. Net neutrality rules are not regulated in Portugal in the same manner as the US, and at least one ISP is having a field day with that. In Portugal, with no net neutrality, internet providers are starting to split the net into packages. Granted, wireless carriers and ISPs in the US were not this bold prior

Call of Duty: WWII is now right around the corner, and like clockwork Nvidia has released a ‘Game Ready’ driver package that ensures it will run optimally on GeForce GPUs. “Game Ready drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including Virtual Reality games. In this case, the new 388.13 WHQL driver release is also optimized for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (released last week) and Need for Speed Payback (due out November10). As for bug fixes, the new dri

CCP Games, best known as the creators of EVE Online, have announced today that it will be laying off nearly 100 employees as it winds down development on VR games and closes two offices in Newcastle, UK and Atlanta, USA to focus more on PC and mobile games. The two studios are CCP Newcastle, known for EVE: Valkyrie, and CCP Atlanta, which handles the company’s other VR pursuits. “We will continue to support our VR games but will not be making material VR investments until we see market condition

Meanwhile, Bungie was busy in the background rolling out a hotfix that enables owners of AMD Phenom II processors to be able to actually play the game in the first place. Players with those CPUs had encountered serious crash issues, which Bungie identified as being due to the Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE3) instruction set, which the Phenom II doesn’t support. We’ve yet to test the fix ourselves, so if you’re a Phenom II-owning Destiny 2 player let us know in the comments if you

Night in the Woods is an enthralling story-driven adventure game that tackles big, heavy subjects. And this holiday, Night in the Woods is getting “a whole bunch of new content” as part of its new ‘Weird Autumn Edition,’ which developer Infinite Fall describes as the game’s “director’s cut.” The Weird Autumn Edition will be free to players who already own the base game. Additionally, it comes with Longest Night and Lost Constellation, which serve as precursors and side stories to Night in the Wo

The Gardens Between is a puzzle-adventure game about two best friends exploring a world of “beautiful garden islands.” While wandering these strange worlds, they can move back and forth through time, enabling them to “discover each garden’s secrets and, along the way, reveal a story about friendship, childhood, and growing up.” “Our goal is to encourage careful, mindful and stress free exploration throughout the game while providing in-depth puzzles and challenges,” the developers said. Aside fr

SteelSeries seems to think this a real problem, and so it has integrated Discord chat notifications into its Apex M750 mechanical keyboard, which can be configured through accompanying software. That same feature is also available in a new tenkeyless model, the Apex M750 TKL. Everything else about the Apex M750 TKL is the same, including the QX2 key switches. Manufacturer aside, the QX2 switches have a 4mm travel distance and 2mm actuation point, and are rated for 50 million keystrokes. You can

Football Manager 2018 will include openly gay players—despite the fact homosexuality in modern professional football/soccer remains grossly stigmatised. Despite it being “rare”, the feature is tied to the game’s computer-generated youngsters who bolster the player database year-upon-year as its real life players retire. Jacobson says one of the reasons the feature was included is because real life LGBT football players exist, despite the silence and perceived taboo. He and Sports Interactive lia

The Destiny 2 expansion Curse of Osiris was revealed, intentionally or otherwise, on the Microsoft Store in September. Now, thanks to a trailer released during the PlayStation livestream today at Paris Games Week, we finally got a look at what it’s all about. The Red Legion may be out of the fight, but that doesn’t mean an end to the bad guys of the universe. Sorry, the trailer doesn’t say. Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris is slated for December 5—Bungie said last week that even though we had to wait

During the PlayStation pre-show livestream at the Paris Games Week today, Sony announced that Guacamelee 2 is on the way to the PS4 and even though a PC release wasn’t confirmed, I think it’s a pretty good bet, so let’s have a look. Guacamelee 2 is set seven years after the original, and sets Juan Aguacate and his Luchador mask against an even more dangerous foe: One that threatens the very fabric of space and time! But SteamSpy estimates that close to 900,000 people own Guacamelee: Gold Edition

Update: Developer Mossmouth Games (read: solo developer Derek Yu) has confirmed Spelunky 2 is coming to Steam. Original story:Spelunky 2 was announced during today’s PlayStation Paris Games Week livestream. As you can imagine, it was announced specifically for PlayStation 4, but given Spelunky’s history and origins, the sequel is a shoo-in for PC. Apart from the trailer above, we don’t know much about Spelunky 2. Though we do at least have one big detail: you play as the child of the protagonist

In the past few years, Steam has run into those exact same issues, with Steam Direct adding to the flow of new games. Out of 71 issues voted and commented on by developers, the top 10 offer us insight into where Valve can focus its efforts to make Steam better. “The ‘upcoming games’ list used to be a major way to find out about new titles but there are now so many that it is becoming clogged. For that scene to thrive, Valve has to fully embrace its responsibility to making Steam better for devel

Today, Phoenix Labs have rolled out the first major content update for Dauntless, their free-to-play brawler where players team up in groups of four to fight giant monsters. On Thursday, Phoenix Labs hosted a roundtable to talk about the new update and announce their plans to drop loot boxes in favor of a system they feel is more “player-first.” It was a microtransaction model that Phoenix Labs said it settled on years ago and never revisited. Forge Your Legend isn’t the only major update coming

Eurocom and THQ’s Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy launched on PS2, Gamecube and the original Xbox in 2003 in north America, and 2004 everywhere else. Courtesy of THQ Nordic, the Ancient Egypt-inspired Zelda-like will arrive on desktops next week on November 10. By finding the stolen magical crowns of Egypt, Sphinx can stop Set and save the world. For its time, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy had a pretty sophisticated stealth system, which returns here. Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is due on PC on Novemb

It’s been a few years since I practised my Immelmann turns and barrel rolls in World of Warplanes, but any fears about being out of the loop were put to rest when I jumped into World of Warplanes 2.0 and realised that everyone was in the same situation. Old World of Warplanes was a straightforward dogfighter. Conquest is the new primary mode in 2.0 and it’s objective-based, dramatically changing the flow and focus of the aerial battles. Each team must fight over a variety of ground objectives, l