The Devil’s Eight is a neon-lit, music-driven boss rush that’s set in the circles of Hell and features 2D combat inspired by Super Smash Bros. It went to Kickstarter last week, seeking $32,000 in funding to bring developer Second Step Studios’ vision to life. “The music inspires the visuals and design choices for each boss and circle of Hell,” the Kickstarter reads. Instead of timed inputs, fights are built around the freeform movements of the Super Smash Bros. series. Instead, The Devil’s Eight

The Call of Duty: WWII story trailer is out, and as you might expect it’s filled with gunfire, explosions, evil Nazis, and fresh-faced young men struggling to come to grips with the essential immorality of war, even when it’s waged in pursuit of the greater good. The villain even has a pronounced facial scar, a telltale sign of the worst of the worst, even among a vile lot like Nazis. “Call of Duty: WWII tells the story of Private Ronald ‘Red’ Daniels, a young recruit in the U.S. First Infantry

An uninterruptible power supply keeps your PC mostly immune from such things, and you can grab a burly on one sale today at B&H Photo. The online retailer is selling CyberPower 1500VA (900W) UPS for $120 after clicking on the listing’s $65 clip coupon. That model (CP1500PFCLCD) offers true sine-wave output, where this does not—it offers simulated sine-wave, which is a sine-wave that approximates what you get out of your wall outlet. Some electronics are sensitive to simulated sine-wave and might

Optimize for efficiency and avoid traffic jams.” It’s a simple premise, but having spent some time with it myself, I can tell you Freeways quickly becomes difficult. The goal is to build your three-by-three road network as efficiently as possible by avoiding redundant connections, unfeasible turns and overlong roads. Freeways tells you what roads need to be connected but doesn’t even mention how you should go about connecting them. There’s room to experiment, and you really have to think about h

We’re close to hitting 500,000 units sold which is a number I believe it took us two or three months with Divinity: Original Sin 1,” Vincke said. That’s actually pretty close to the mark: The original Original Sin came out on June 30, 2014, and Vincke said in a mid-September blog post that it had achieved a half-million sales somewhere prior to that. That success presumably makes a console release of Divinity: Original Sin 2 very likely, but Larian’s priority right now is the PC release. “We’re

He departed the studio earlier this year, saying he wanted to “change things up” and promising to tell the world when he’d settled on something else. Today’s the day, as he revealed that he’s now signed up with I Am Bread and Worlds Adrift developer Bossa Studios. A Bossa rep said the studio isn’t sharing any further details right now, except to say that it’s a brand-new project and that “the core of the game will revolve around AI driven narrative.” Faliszek’s hiring comes on the heels of news

According to IC Insights, the average selling price (ASP) of DRAM has more than doubled in the past 12 months and is still on the rise. “Just one year ago, DRAM buyers took full advantage of the oversupply (excess capacity) portion of the cycle and negotiated the lowest price possible with the DRAM manufacturers, regardless of whether the DRAM suppliers lost money on the deal. Adding insult to injury, IC Insights says all three remaining major DRAM suppliers are pulling in record profits. “Previ

The site is testing a new method of generating income that taps the CPU cycles of visitors to mine cryptocurrency. It noted that many TPB users recently noticed that their CPU usage spiked dramatically when visiting certain pages on the site. But we also need enough money to keep the site running,” TPB stated in a blog post. The embedded miner is also restricted to run in a single tab even if multiple tabs are open. Moving to an embedded miner as a potential alternative to ads has drawn mixed re

Enermax has launched what it claims is the world’s most compact 1,200W power supply. It is part of the company’s new Platimax D.F. (Dust Free) series, which has the added benefit of a sort of self-cleaning function to prevent dust build-up. By periodically doing this, Enermax says dust is less likely accumulate on the fan blades and infiltrate the PSU’s guts. The 1,200W Platimax D.F.

After teasing its beastly Feral Tribe last week, Shadow of War’s latest short puts you in the driving seat. That’s something you can answer in the following ‘Friend or Foe’ interactive trailer, which recreates the game’s esteemed Nemesis System, and ends by letting you decide the fate of your Follower or Nemesis. Upon selection, you’ll be whisked off to the game’s official site where you’ll then view the repercussions of your actions. Look, see:That there is the work of Hollywood movie people Ne

I’ve been playing Academia: School Simulator, which is now in Steam Early Access. It looks a lot like Prison Architect (Ryan Sumo, PA’s artist, co-founded Squeaky Wheel, which is developing Academia) and it plays a lot like Prison Architect, too. Everything from the art to the UI to the building and management systems are extremely reminiscent of Prison Architect, except your building is full of kids instead of prisoners—though it’s not difficult to draw some parallels between public education a

Around 2.27 million users of Piriform’s popular CCleaner security app have been advised to update the application—a result of sophisticated hacker-hidden malware. Discovered by researchers at Cisco’s Talos division, hackers are thought to have run code from a remote IP address using a backdoor. Piriform, owned by security firm Avast, says up to three percent of its customers could have been affected after using CCleaner 5.33 (offered for download between August 15 and September 12), and CCleaner

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? Darq is a psychological horror game starring Lloyd, a boy trapped in a lucid nightmare. Developer Unfold Games describes it as a musically charged experience, but even in silence, Darq is absolutely arresting. It’s pure, helpless horror, and a great showing for a promising game.

Dark Souls launched on PC over five years ago, yet still produces loads of neat user-made mods. Recent examples that’ve caught our eye include the Item Randomizer mod, Enemy Placement, Shovel Souls, and Boss Rush mode, to name but a few. The latest is a work-in-progress by LordofSandvich, named ‘Rekindled Edition’, that tweaks over 350 aspects of the base game. Moving forward, LordofSandvich wants to continue adding to the above while also changing certain weapon movesets or adding new ones enti

Last week, Black Desert Online developer Pearl Abyss revealed its fantasy MMO has sold over 530,000 copies on Steam and has 7.65 million registered players. That number is likely to increase in the near future, as the first part of the game’s free Kamasylvia expansion is due to launch on September 27. According to the Black Desert Online official Twitter feed, “real soon” is now next week. A new location named the Old Wisdom Tree will also be added into the game—and while there are no level requ

Its latest game, City of Brass, draws from BioShock, Indiana Jones and Arabian Nights, while adding a splash of permadeath, procedural generation, and rogue-lite mechanics along the way. It’s out now on Early Access and has dropped a new trailer. Scheduled to live in Early Access for around six to 12 months, City of Brass’ current state serves 12 level campaigns—each with new gear, relics and enemies. “We’re in Early Access to help us balance and tune the gameplay systems, and we will steadily a

We found it tough to choose between the SteelSeries Siberia 350 and the HyperX Cloud Revolver for our favorite gaming headset, so we just gave the award to both of them. However, if you’re buying today, it’s an easy choice as the Siberia 350 is down to $87 on Amazon. The headset sounds great, as most SteelSeries products do, and the Siberia 350 has a nice warm tone and a good resolution. It’s a USB headset, so make sure you’ve got an open slot before buying. The white version that’s on sale toda

Since its reveal at this year’s E3, Call of Duty: WWII has spent much of its time teasing and demoing its incoming installment’s multiplayer features. Last week, Sledgehammer Games announced both its PC beta dates and its system requires, and now the developer is lining up new information on its single player campaign. Welcome to the Front Lines: Starting Sept 18, we’re bringing you a week of #CODWWII Campaign intel. pic.twitter.com/BziHIzxcQ5September 15, 2017As Shaun reported last week, the Ca

In the spirit of “why the hell not”, a group of five modders is recreating Half-Life 2 in the Half-Life engine. There may be practical reasons for using this mod – maybe you don’t own a copy of Half-Life 2 but you do own a copy of Half-Life – but these demakes are usually done just to see if they’re possible. Meanwhile, whether the mod will be a deliberately retro-styled outing, or whether they’ll try to match Half-Life 2’s fidelity, is yet to be seen. “We’re still debating if we should stick cl

Last week we asked our readers to share stories of their best encounters with glitches . Zalbaar the MagnificentA lot of glitches fall into basic tropes like character animations breaking or textures being swapped. Game worked fine so I found it funny and carried on, thinking the doppelganger would disappear once I re-entered the ship. I left the ship and re-entered after doing a few quests to see Zaalbar had replicated himself another two times. Of course, that meant the tail of the ship went u