This week’s Quake Champions patch was a biggie, with seven characters receiving a buff and one—acid-spitting alien Sorlag—getting a nerf. Blazkowicz’s dual-wielding ability now fires faster and cools down quicker, while mining robot Clutch receives an extra 25 health points and loses its movement penalty during the Mining Drill ability (which basically turns the drill into a lightning gun). Ice-skating Slash’s damaging plasma trail can now be laid down in any direction, as opposed to just behind

As I mentioned above, you play as a housewife in Hong Kong in the late ‘70s—when the island was still under British authority. It’s menial stuff—laundry, shopping, and cooking—all while your husband is at work and the kids are at school. Playing Oblige is all dictated through a typewriter made up of random letters pasted at the bottom of the screen. That typewriter is directly mapped to your keyboard, so typing “L” might give you “A,” “M” to “Y,” and so on. Oblige is about an ordinarily hard wee

EVE Online’s free-to-play program, which gives non-subscribing players access to a limited set of skills and ships, is about to get a lot more generous. In December, Alpha Clones (free-to-play players) will have access to a greatly expanded set of ships and weapons. First of all, Alpha Clones will have access to power Tech 2 variants of small and medium weapons. Battlecruisers and battleships are significantly beefier vessels than the smaller cruisers and frigates that Alpha Clones currently hav

The scope is much greater than Syndicate and Unity, which both focused on highly detailed, dense urban environments. The desert stretches, with their silky dunes and dynamic sandstorms, are especially beautiful, though lacking in hay bails to somersault into. Samuel Roberts: Battlefront is backI’m always pleased to see people get excited about Star Wars Battlefront 2. Disney has been better for Star Wars than Lucasarts was so far, between the digital release of old games on GOG and Steam, and sm

No, I was simply telling OneShot who I was, and the game was happy to do with that information as it pleased. “In the full version it’s even better because we use your Windows profile name,” says Velasquez. Velasquez tells me one of her biggest influences was Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. They’re calling it a “metaphysical puzzle game,” something that truly encourages you to experiment with weird stuff. OneShot is available on Steam right now, and it’s at the top of my list when I get bac

Start with a blank slateOne of the most daunting tasks for new Stardew Valley players is the absolute mess of a farm you start the game with. Coal is the next thing you’ll need for crafting machines and smelting metal bars (we’ll need a lot of those too). But you’re going to need a lot, and money might be tight on your farm. Ancient Fruit Wine. Once that operation is running smoothly, you can expand with more kegs supported by Fruit Trees.

Building on last month’s Oktoberbrawl offer, Blizzard announced today that Twitch Prime subscribers will get a free Golden Classic Card Pack as part of the Prime gaming loot from November to January. Announced last year, Twitch Prime includes monthly “game loot,” like the Golden Classic Pack, plus discounts on physical games sold on Amazon, exclusive Twitch emotes, ad-free viewing, and more. It’s offered as part of Amazon Prime subscriptions, which goes for $100 per year, or $11 per month if com

The space combat roguelike Everspace didn’t make an especially good impression when it debuted on Early Access in September 2016. Developer Rockfish Games aims to build on that success with a major new expansion called Encounters, announced this week and expected to be ready by the end of October. The expansion will also add new story characters with unique quests, new enemies, factory space stations offering “on-the-fly services,” and you’ll be able to visit the Okkar homeworld. In total, Encou

Despite the odds being stacked against it—it was Earthwork Games’ first release and didn’t receive much coverage in the press—Forts has sold around 120,000 copies since its April release. Earthwork Games are based in Queensland, a state that leant its name to a type of house perched on stilts to allow for greater airflow in hot weather . Ultimately, what does 120,000 sales mean for EarthWork Games? In Forts’ case this often boils down to people wanting more weapons and features to interact with,

“Wolfenstein has been a decidedly anti-Nazi series since the first release more than 20 years ago. We aren’t afraid to embrace what BJ stands for and what Wolfenstein represents,” Hines said. #NoMoreNazis #Wolf2 pic.twitter.com/52OESypw4POctober 5, 2017The Wolfenstein series actually debuted way back in 1981 with the top-down stealth game Castle Wolfenstein, and its 1984 follow-up Beyond Castle Wolfenstein. But it became more widely known as an FPS series in 1992 with id Software’s Wolfenstein 3

If you know someone that is still using a keyboard with mushy key action, let them know that G.Skill’s Ripjaws KM570 RGB model is on sale at Newegg today for $80. Normally priced at around $100, the KM570 RGB is full-size mechanical keyboard that isn’t too loud in its design, unless you go crazy with the RGB backlighting—it’s essentially a toned down version of the KM780 RGB, currently our pick as the best overall gaming keyboard. Check out our guide on mechanical key switches to see how it comp

Other shared features between EVGA’s new Z370 Classified K, Z370 370 FTW, and Z370 Micro include a six-layer PCB, reinforced PCIe slots, dual BIOSes with an onboard switch, and Intel Optane Memory support. The Z370 Classified K separates itself from the pack with HDMI 2.0 connectivity and a pair of Killer DoubleShot Pro Gigabit LAN ports. Both the Z370 Classified and Z370 FTW are full-size ATX motherboards with three M.2 slots, including two 80mm slots and a shorter 32mm slot. As the name implie

The third patch for Larian’s hit RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2 is now live on Steam, and it’s a big one. “But big is good because this update should address the most important issues you’ve been flagging,” Larian wrote. “In addition to the obligatory bug fixes and balancing changes, this patch contains a number of content changes that should make your journal clearer and your journey through Arx smoother.” ); reduced the Chicken form running distance to six meters; and “made Siwan bleed because d

Intel’s Core i7-8700K processor seems to be in hiding at the moment, unless you go the prebuilt route. If that’s your game plan, you can score a reasonably well-equipped Coffee Lake gaming desktop from iBuyPower for just shy of $1,469. Without any configuration changes, the iBuyPower Gamer Paladin Z350 sells for $1,546. The iBuyPower Gamer Paladin Z350 is available to configure and buy here. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links.

Core i5-8400 gaming performanceTake your existing Core i5 processors and add 50 percent more cores, and what does that give you? Core i5-8400 application performanceWhat about for non-gaming purposes—how does the i5 Coffee Lake fare in CPU intensive workloads? Image 1 of 11 Image 2 of 11 Image 3 of 11 Image 4 of 11 Image 5 of 11 Image 6 of 11 Image 7 of 11 Image 8 of 11 Image 9 of 11 Image 10 of 11 Image 11 of 11This time the newcomer i5 falls just behind the i7-7700K, but it’s mostly thanks to

On the off-chance you’d forgotten, the Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta test is now open to everyone. The beta includes three multiplayer modes, each in a unique setting, as well as access to single-player combat in the Arcade mode. All four classes—assault, heavy, officer, and specialist—are available in the beta, as are ground and air vehicles, and Han Solo, Boba Fett, Darth Maul, and Rey hero characters. The download is about 23GB (despite the recommended specs below calling for 15GB of hard driv

Ever wanted to drive the Batmobile in GTA Online? The GTA community has known about the Vigilante, pictured above, and other vehicles coming in this wave of updates for a while now, but today Rockstar has officially teased it for the fall. Also coming to GTA Online is Coil Cyclone super car and the Hunter chopper. It looks pretty cool, although this decal is just asking for trouble in a public server:In other GTA Online updates, the previously teased transform races are coming to the game later

For example, its flagship Coffee Lake chip, Core i7-8700K, is sold out pretty much across the board. Over at B&H Photo, you can preorder the top-end Coffee Lake part, but there is no indication of when it will ship other than it’s “coming soon.” You may have better luck at your local Micro Center store, though that will depend on the location. For a short while, OverclockersUK had available Core i7-8700K processors that it personally binned based on the ability to reach or exceed 5GHz. The Core

Telltale’s episodic Batman: The Enemy Within series launched earlier this year. Its second episode landed this week, and appears to feature a real life image of an assassinated Russian ambassador. Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, was shot dead at point blank range last December while giving a speech at the opening of an art gallery. Graphic images of the diplomat and his assailant were reported at the time, one of which now appears to feature in Telltale’s Batman: The Enemy Withi

During my hands-off demonstration of Star Citizen at Gamescom, Chris Roberts told me the then estimated September 4-8 due date for its 3.0 alpha was doable. It wasn’t, clearly, but it now seems the long-awaited and much-anticipated update is live on the game’s Public Test Universe for its Evocati Test Flight volunteer members. Also, in addition to all of the new features and updates that 3.0.0 brings, we’re also testing the launcher and patching system. Publishing a first build to Evocati is alw