Assassin’s Creed: Origins lands one month from today, bringing with it puzzle-filled pyramids, Witcher-like investigation, and Caesar and Cleopatra. If you’re yet to sample what’s come thus far, though, the Assassin’s Creed series is on sale now through Friday on Steam. Despite their age, that means netting both Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed 2 for just £2.71/$3.39 with a 66 percent discount, and Assassin’s Creed Revelations for £4.07/$6.79. Black Flag, Rogue, Unity and Syndicate are also

Announced at the same San Diego Comic Con event last year, Sonic Forces follows Sonic Mania—the retro-inspired gem (emerald?) The former is due November 7, and now showcases one of its grittier, ‘Classic Sonic’-starring 2.5-dimensional worlds: Casino Forest Zone. As someone who enjoyed Mania’s reimagining of a series now over 16 years old, I much prefer Classic Sonic as he appears above. I like my Sonics vibrant and flashy and garish, and if I’m to enjoy Forces it’ll be in the zones that mimic t

Need For Speed: Payback releases in November, so EA and Ghost Games are ramping up the trailer output. This latest showcases Fortune Valley, the Las Vegas-esque open world you’ll be tearing up in obscenely expensive broom-brooms. As the smooth, slightly robotic voiceover relates, there’s plenty of different ways to drive very fast in this game. In keeping with previous Need For Speed instalments, there are plenty of min-games, collectibles, unlockables and car customisation options. Meanwhile, t

Dark Devotion looks kind of like Castlevania, but here’s the thing—as soon as one of its dungeon doors slam shut behind you it’s locked for good. The rest of Dark Devotion’s temple is a series of paths with no doubling back. Dark Devotion is a bleak experience. Hibernian Workshop have been working on Dark Devotion for two years and made it through Steam Greenlight back when that was still a thing, but now they’re crowdfunding the money they need to finish it. I’ve dodged descending spears while

Atlus USA has moved to quash the emulation of Persona 5 using the open source PS3 emulator RPCS3. Requesting the removal of a Patreon page to combat an emulator is strange, and the crowdfunding company clearly agreed. But as a safety measure, RPCS3 has removed all reference to Persona 5 on both its Patreon and official webpages. “We find it very interesting that Atlus would immediately try to shut down the Patreon page without any prior communication,” the RPCS3 statement reads. The RPCS3 statem

Professional esports organization Cloud9 has developed a reputation for something like this, and it’s reached the stratosphere of Overwatch meme-dom. Pulling a “C9” refers to losing a fight because you weren’t on the capture point or payload. Let’s take a look at a couple of recent “C9” failures from Overwatch Contenders, then examine some ways of avoiding them. Immortals vs. EnVisionThere are times where choosing to engage off the payload isn’t the worst idea in the world. They’re mostly the fo

In the Indie GIF Showcase, we dig up the best-looking new and upcoming indie games and explore what makes them special. Are you developer with a game to submit? Hellscreen is a fast-paced Devil Daggers-esque FPS with no shortage of quirks. A blood-red sky blankets its eerie map, pillars and spires sprout from its pebbled blue stone, and gunfire is accompanied by comic-book muzzle flashes. Because Hellscreen has one, which is a fascinating addition for any first-person game, let alone one so clea

You might reasonably think that the orcs of Middle-earth are, in general, warmongers. But it turns out that there is a particular tribe of Orcs in the upcoming Middle-earth: Shadow of War that really enjoys the rough stuff. The Warmongers bring fury, so the trailer says. And of course, they bring war. The Warmongers will presumably be the last of Shadow of War’s Orcish tribes to be revealed.

Fortnite Battle Royale, the 100-player last-man-standing mode that caused such consternation and heartache at PUBG studio Bluehole, is now live and free for everyone. Four-player Squad matches are live now, while the two-player Duos will be activated once there are enough players to support matchmaking in both modes, Epic said. The new update also enables Supply Drops, which will occasionally deliver crates filled with weapons and equipment to the battlefield. We took a closer look at Fortnite B

We’ve seen some really good Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus teasers showcasing characters old and new: The Milkshake Nazi, Big Brother, Blitzmensch, and the “interesting” characters of the new American revolution, to name a few. This video is different: It’s 23 minutes of straight-up gameplay that shows off a little bit of everything, from stealthy silenced pistols to dual-wielded automatic shotguns. A cutscene kicks in at around the 13:30 mark, followed by more gameplay of a slightly different

Forthog would be available for $5 as DLC, and funds raised prior to December 31, 2019, would go to Forgey’s family. So today, Monolith changed the plan entirely: The Forthog Orcslayer DLC will be free for everyone, and instead of raising funds, WBIE will make a donation to Forgey’s family. We hoped this approach would raise as much money as possible for the Forgey family in compliance with the law,” community admin GypsyWB explained. “For absolute clarity; our intention was always to give all pr

Two rare qualities distinguish the Kickstarter campaign for Celestian Tales: Realms Beyond. Second, it has a free demo that you can download and try. Realms Beyond is the sequel to Celestian Tales: Old North, which was successfully Kickstarted in 2014. If you’ve played Old North, Realms Beyond will read your save and shape its world to match your past choices. Celestian Tales: Realms Beyond is expected to release this December.

To the delight of countless smog-choked digital civilians, an eco-friendly expansion is coming to Cities: Skylines next month. The Green Cities expansion will cost $12.99 and arrive on October 19, publisher Paradox Interactive announced today. As previously reported, Green Cities adds 350 objects and assets to help you clean up your no-doubt horribly polluted cities, including self-sufficient buildings equipped with solar panels and rooftop gardens, sustainable power plants and spiffy little ele

173 games were removed from the Steam store yesterday, which may be a record. As Polygon reports, the removed games include titles such as Fruit Candypop, Rage Parking Simulator 2017, SHAPES4, SHAPES5, SHAPES6, and, who could forget, SHAPES7. “These fake developers take advantage of a feature we provide to all developers on Steam, which is the ability to generate Steam keys for their games,” wrote Valve. “They generate many thousands of these keys and hand them out to bots running Steam accounts

If you’re looking for a full-size ATX motherboard for Ryzen that costs less than $100, Newegg is offering MSI’s B350 Gaming Pro Carbon for $90, after a $10 mail-in-rebate. As the model name suggests, this is based on AMD’s B350 chipset, which sits one peg below the X370. You can still overclock with a B350 motherboard, it just offers a few less connectivity options and less PCIe lanes. MSI’s board offers up a pair of PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, one of which is reinforced, and three PCIe 2.0 x1 slots. Fo

At that point, the match tries to start, fails, returns to “waiting for players,” and remains stuck in that loop. The rarity of the bug makes it difficult to verify, but the redditor who posted about it, Chromega1231, shared images indicating off-a-cliff SR reductions that, he said, should be impossible. I let the game stay closed for a few minutes then loaded it back up, only to be immediately thrown into another competitive match after loading the game. A player named Dave5gun claimed to have

We’ve seen early footage of what a battle looks like in Phoenix Point. The modern XCOM has shown how amazing turn-based tactical games can be, and we are evolving on that with Phoenix Point, for sure. What the new XCOM game has allowed me to do is make Phoenix Point, because without it, I doubt I even would’ve attempted it. But what the new XCOM game has allowed me to do is make Phoenix Point, because without it, I doubt I even would’ve attempted it. One thing that’s very important in Phoenix Po

Hot on the heels of Microsoft announcing a programming language for quantum computing, Intel today introduced a first-of-a-kind self-learning chip that mimic how the human brain works. According to Intel, Loihi is an extremely energy-efficient chip that uses data to learn and make inferences. Intel did not get into the nitty-gritty details of the design, though it did say the chip is built on a 14nm manufacturing process. Perhaps some of the concepts built into Loihi could be ported over to cons

With Call of Duty: WWII preloading now live, Sledgehammer Games has revealed details about what players can expect when they dive into the action. “We’ve worked hard to tune the gameplay experience to PC, and throughout Beta and after, we’ll continue to optimize gameplay for PC. For this reason, we have disabled Aim Assist during the PC Open Beta,” Sledgehammer explained. The Headquarters “social experience” won’t be active for the beta, nor will supply drops or loot. The Call of Duty: WWII PC m

On the desktop, it shows AMD launching “Pinnacle Ridge” as a successor to current Zen-based “Summit Ridge” Zen processors in 2018. This coincides with rumors of AMD moving to a denser 12nm node for its next generation Zen processors, versus 14nm for its current chips. Looking further down the line, the roadmap shows AMD releasing Zen 2 processors in 2019. There is no mention of core count, so it remains to be seen if Zen 2 keep the same 8-core/16-thread design as current Zen processors, or if AM