Ubisoft has announced that the Ghost Recon Wildlands PvP mode Ghost War, which recently underwent a spot of open beta testing, will go live on October 10. The new mode will be available to all players as a free update, and Ubi promised that it will deliver “regular content updates” thereafter. “We are excited to continue to refine and expand Ghost War after its launch” lead game designer Lucian Istrate said. “Expect more classes, more maps, and even new modes to be added in the future!”Ghost War

Loot boxes’ ubiquity might be fairly new, but they’ve been around rather longer than you might think. Loot boxes aren’t quite the same as the shower of loot you get for killing an elite monster in Diablo. The psychology of lootWhy do loot boxes provide such a dark compulsion? Loot boxes also plug into another facet of psychology: collection. Michael Heiberg, OverwatchWhichever theory you go with, loot boxes are almost always filled with collectibles.

One that is a little different, however, is Marseille’s mCable Gaming Edition. What separates this HDMI cable from other high-priced offerings is an embedded video signal chip that offers contextual anti-aliasing. While admitting it sounds odd, the site found a “noticeable difference in image quality” when swapping out a regular HDMI cable for the mCable Gaming Edition. The fancy cable works its mojo with a post-process AA algorithm that is applied to the image before spitting it out on the scre

Forza Motorsport 7, a game coming out October 3 that is allegedly about driving cars and not just looking at them, took half a day to download. They’re quite worthy of admiration, too, because Forza looks great and performs extremely well so far. What I can say is that Forza Motorsport 7 plays a lot like Forza Motorsport 6, which is to say it’s very good. As a more straightlaced racing simulation than its goofier open world sibling Forza Horizon 3, Motorsport 7 is about supporting the ultimate c

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP was originally made for iOS, and it shows. Much of Sword & Sworcery’s puzzles rely on the tactile connection between the world, its music and your fingers. Back in 2010, a year before Sword & Sworcery’s iOS release, Superbrothers’ sole member, Craig Adams, wrote a manifesto for the site Boing, Boing. “It tickles the intellect just enough for it to stir, but not enough to irritate it.”This philosophy is found throughout Sword & Sworcery. The bulk of Sword & Swor

SteelSeries has a new keyboard available that offers gamers a bit of durability. The company’s new Apex 150 isn’t afraid to get a little wet—there is an internal membrane sheet that protects and repels liquid from damaging the internal electronics. And if it gets a lot wet, there are two drainage cavities to ensure the keyboard isn’t sitting in an ocean of coffee. “The quick tension keys are designed for fast reaction times; the tension membrane’s design pulls the key into actuation, resulting i

People have beaten Dark Souls with guitar hero controllers and with Dance Dance Revolution mats. Hell, even Twitch has beaten Dark Souls. But I was surprised to find out that, earlier today, speedrunner NaxHPL set the world record for getting every achievement in just under four hours. The previous world record for this category was 4:02:01, but NaxHPL managed to shave a few minutes off for a time of 3:57:29. Simple_one on Reddit sums up my thoughts on this perfectly: “What the fuck I literally

In Far Cry 5 there’s always music in the air. When you’re somewhere safe, an area where the cult has been pushed out, you’ll hear nostalgic country music. In Holland Valley the soundtrack has a glam rock feel; the kind of music you might hear blasting out of someone’s truck. In Holland Valley the music is described as ‘your favourite driving mixtape’, while you’ll hear ‘50s doo-wop and pop while driving through Henbane River. The family at the heart of Far Cry 5 might be a bunch of zealous, mili

After Rockstar’s teaser last week, Andy painted the ideal Red Dead Redemption 2 reveal: A new trailer, a concrete launch date, and confirmation that a PC version is on the way. Sadly, only the former has surfaced. Here’s Red Dead Redemption 2’s latest official trailer:Teasing the story of outlaw Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang, the above flaunts robbing, stealing, and generally unscrupulous cowboy-ing “across the vast and rugged heart of America”. Red Dead Redemption 2 is still without

This is the year that we’re going to give it our best shot to win the hearts and minds of the PC community.” Call of Duty: WWII’s PC beta starts this Friday, and I visited Sledgehammer to try it out a bit early—you can read more about that here. The PC beta is a chance to test how well controller players respond to life without sticky aim. And now it’s in the PC beta, and it’s a great opportunity to see how fans react.” The community did not, so we completely reworked that system, and now it’s i

And yet somehow our universal familiarity with escorting the payload hasn’t exactly translated to universal acknowledgement that everyone needs to push the payload. Without a balanced team, some objectives in War mode are going to be especially hard to pull off. Moments like that, and the payload, give War mode the chance to swing momentum backwards and forwards that’s missing from most of its matches. Killstreaks, for example, are gone in War mode, replaced by much less frequent air supply drop

Now, Swery has revealed The Good Life -DOGS- a canine variation of the original idea—now known as The Good Life -CATS-. Perhaps it’s best putting you over to Swery himself:We’re currently developing two versions of The Good Life: a cat version and a dog version. In The Good Life -CATS-, the townspeople turn into cats at night, and in The Good Life -DOGS-, the townspeople turn into dogs at night. The Good Life -CATS- is compatible with The Good Life -DOGS-. Here’s a trailer to drive it home:The G

Dark Souls is set to host its annual ‘Return to Lordran’ event next week, with players the world over set to, well, return to Lordran. Due to kick off on October 4, From Software’s original 2011 (2012 on PC) Dark Souls will be repopulated with summon signs, red phantoms and misleading glowing orange messages. This event focused on Dark Souls players, both old veterans and newcomers, playing Dark Souls 1 at the same time of the same day, creating new characters, and enjoying the game as if it had

Epic Games now reckons over one million players “partied on the Battle Bus during the first day” of the co-op survival game’s new mode. Taking to Twitter to share the news, Fornite’s official feed said: “Over 1 million players have partied on the Battle Bus during the first day of Battle Royale! Over 1 million players have partied on the Battle Bus during the first day of Battle Royale! Nevertheless, one million on day one is quite the gathering—although it’s worth noting Fortnite Battle Royale

Despite restructuring its schedule, PUBG has received three updates in the last two weeks—one fog-related, one grenade-related, and now one bug and UI-related. The latter is the battle royale ’em up’s 27th Weekly Update, and it’s now live. Bug fix-wise, the Weekly Update 27 targets a graphics bug that occurred when players left the game while still in the starting airplane, and another which stopped players from seeing the full alias of their teammates. Syncronisation between player aim and spec

The slap has come to define Absolver. Tyler called it “the most useless move in the game: a standing slap that’s hard to land and does 15 damage (players have over a thousand HP). The slap was thrown in as a gag during development, and fortunately the developers thought it was as funny as players do. Absolver’s players have also embraced something else: codes of honor. The code of honor that’s emerging, how much did you plan for that and how much has just been a bonus?

Bethesda has announced it will release a Survival Mode for Skyrim Creation Club, and while it hasn’t released just yet, you can opt into the Steam beta right now. According to the announcement, “both PC and console players will get Survival Mode free for one week once it launches on their preferred platform.” You won’t be jumping into rivers willy nilly in Survival mode, because if the water’s too cold it can kill you. Meanwhile, health won’t regenerate, and levelling up will require sleeping in

2K Games announced a couple of days ago that the upcoming table-smashing sim WWE 2K18 will be released for the PC on the same day that it comes out for consoles—a first for the series. It also made mention of the Deluxe Edition of the game, which includes a few bonus rasslers—RVD, the Beast, and a couple of alt-Cenas—and the season pass, details of which weren’t available but would be announced “soon.” Pricing for the season pass hasn’t been announced, but I’d expect it to weigh in around $30, t

For the second time in less than a week, AMD has another Crimson ReLive driver package available. The new 17.9.3 driver release is optimized for a couple of games that are coming soon—Total War: Warhammer II due out tomorrow, and Forza Motorsport 7. There is no mention of multi-GPU support specific to Forza Motorsport 7. They include:The drop-down option to enable Enhanced Sync may be missing in Radeon Settings on Radeon RX Vega Series Graphics Products. You can grab the latest driver release he

There’s no shortage of pixel art on Steam, but few games take retro graphics as far as Kharon’s Crypt, a dungeon crawler inspired by old Zelda games that directly emulates the Game Boy Color right down to its controls. Kharon’s Crypt is currently on Kickstarter, with five-person developer Andromeda Project asking for $4,925. A cursory play of the demo shows Kharon’s Crypt isn’t overly faithful. It’s unabashedly low-res but uses carefully dithered pixels to create sharp sprites and finely detaile