pic.twitter.com/oZIKMCFHLpOctober 31, 2019The intriguing image above was posted by developer Red Barrels very appropriately on Halloween, with a promise to reveal more soon. Red Barrels is the developer of first-person horror games Outlast and Outlast 2, but this tease doesn’t necessarily mean we’re about to get an official announcement about Outlast 3. Messaging about Red Barrels’ next game has been mixed. “It won’t be a sequel to Outlast or Outlast 2, but it will be a distinct experience set i

AMD’s resurgence began with the introduction of its Zen architecture. However, now in its third generation, Zen 2 (which follows Zen and Zen+) is the first to employ a 7nm process node. She was asked to break down how much of AMD’s current advantage is really related to process technology versus the underlying architecture. “Going forward, we are not relying on process technology as the main driver. We think process technology is necessary.

This week’s Epic Games Store freebies are excellent Halloween fare, but they couldn’t be more different. Costume Quest and SOMA will both keep you company during the spookiest part of the year, one comforting you while the other tries to freak you out. Costume Quest is a Double Fine RPG set, conveniently, on Halloween, that pits costumed kids against monsters in turn-based scraps. It’s a survival horror game set in an underwater base where you’re being stalked by grotesque mechanical monsters. T

After recapping the content and schedule of the current round of testing, the update goes into detail about how crossplay and cross-platform progression will work in Halo: Reach. Crossplay between the Steam and Windows 10 versions of the game will be supported, but crossplay between PC and Xbox will not. It’s a little confusing, so 343 made a chart:(Image credit: Microsoft)The update also has a preliminary rundown of the minimum system requirements for Halo Reach on Steam. (Image credit: Microso

Case in point, Crucial (a division of Micron) has added a 2TB model to its BX500 SSD series. Marketing aside, the newly introduced 2TB BX500 SSD is offered in the 2.5-inch form factor with a SATA 6Gbps interface. What is listed are the performance ratings—Crucial says the 2TB model offers sequential read and write speeds of up to 540MB/s and 500MB/s, respectively. Pricing at the outset is $214.99 for the 2TB model. That’s roughly on par with other 2TB SSDs on the market, though it’s not the abso

(Image credit: MSI)As the company previously promised, it has begun rolling out firmware updates based on AMD’s latest microcode (AGESA 1.0.0.4), for its X570 motherboards, some of which are on our list of the best gaming motherboards. According to MSI, these BIOS updates bring with them over 100 improvements and fixes, and can shorten boot times as well. Compared to BIOS releases based on the previous microcode, MSI says it has seen boot times improve by as much as 8 seconds, after clearing the

(Image credit: Valve)The updated Steam library that went into beta testing in September is now live for everyone. The Steam library update is really impressive: It looks better, makes information like playtime and achievements more clearly visible, and offers more organization and customization options than the old joint. Free to Play games will now remain in your Steam Library when uninstalled. Titles that are hidden in the Steam Library will now be hidden in the recently played UI in SteamVR H

The rise of the machines drew one step closer to reality today, as researchers announced that the Google DeepMind-powered AlphaStar AI has now achieved Grandmaster ranking with all three races in StarCraft 2. AlphaStar dominated pro StarCraft 2 players in January, but only as a Protoss player, and under more favorable conditions. We evaluated our agent, AlphaStar, in the full game of StarCraft 2, through a series of online games against human players. AlphaStar was rated at Grandmaster level for

Originally introduced as part of the Season of the Forge, this exotic energy sniper rifle enables players to combine four bullets into a single super-powerful ‘Honed Edge’ shot. It’s the current king of burst damage, and has become the go-to weapon in loadouts for much of the game’s most difficult content. Players are reporting that three different steps in the Izanagi’s Burden quest aren’t registering upon successful completion of the required activity. Fully understand the frustrations here, a

Today’s cheap Alienware PC deal is the Aurora R8 with an RTX 2080 8GB graphics card, an i7-8700 CPU, 16GB of RAM, a 256GB NVMe SSD/1TB HDD combo. At first glance, it’s going for $1,749.99 after the $355 instant discount: not bad for a build that normally goes for $2,100. We’ve seen a similar build on sale a while back but this seems the cheapest price it’s been this year. With all the money you saved you should consider looking at some of the best gaming monitors to complement your new PC. It’s

Vampire: The Masquerade—Coteries of New York is another chatty undead game with a very long name, but it’s otherwise shaping up to be rather different from Bloodlines 2. Developed by Draw Distance, it’s a narrative adventure with lots of pretty, but mostly static, backgrounds and plenty of text. In Bloodlines 2’s videos, we’ve mostly been treated to city streets and underground warrens, so this is a nice change. There are worse gigs than working for some hot immortal goths, but it looks like you

The Storm King is apparently a bad dude from Save the World, Fortnite’s original and often overlooked mode, but now he’s causing a ruckus in the battle royale. As is traditional for Halloween, you’ll need to bad together with other reckless players and kill the king. If you want to take on the Storm King and his minions, you’ll need to pop into the LTM. Fortnitemare Storm King locationLook dead center in the Chapter 2 map and you’ll notice a suspiciously purple blotch. Turns out the island that

What spurred this whole situation was a series of lawsuits filed by GlobalFoundries in August against rival TSMC. As part of its litigation, GlobalFoundries sought an import ban into the US and Germany on products it deemed were using semiconductors produced with allegedly infringing technology, including some of Nvidia’s GPUs. “The semiconductor industry has always been highly competitive, driving the players to pursue innovation that enriched the lives of millions of people around the world. A

BlizzCon takes place this weekend, and this year promises to be an interesting one, for a couple of reasons. It isn’t explicitly connected, but their departure came shortly after the cancellation of a StarCraft-based shooter codenamed Ares. “Yes, Eric, Dustin, and Jason made the decision to move on from Blizzard a few months ago. They have been and always will be considered members of the Blizzard family, and we’ve loved working with them over the years. We wish them the best for the future,” Bl

Kingdom Come: Deliverance already has plenty of mods, the most popular being unlimited saving, but most of them are small, convenient tweaks. Warhorse Studios has released modding tools on Nexus Mods, giving tinkerers a trio of tools called Storm, Skald, and Swift, that will let them fiddle with everything from text to AI hobbies and routines. As well as the modding tools, Warhorse has released its modified version of the CryEngine Sandbox Editor and more than a dozen tools and editor extensions

Earlier this year, Nvidia launched its new GTX 16-series with the GTX 1660 Ti, GTX 1660, and GTX 1650 seeking to join the ranks of the best graphics cards. With Black Friday deals looming on the horizon, I expect we’ll see some GTX 1660 Ti cards actually drop below the newly released GTX 1660 Super. (Image credit: Future)Meet the EVGA GTX 1660 Super Ultra SCThat sets the stage for our benchmarks and analysis of the GTX 1660 Super. Image 1 of 12 (Image credit: Future) Image 2 of 12 (Image credit:

And then I went back to playing Disco Elysium, the real reason The Outer Worlds was leaving me lukewarm. I started playing Disco Elysium before The Outer Worlds and would highly recommend not doing that. Disco Elysium, meanwhile, turns empathy and substance abuse into attributes and will gladly murder you with a ceiling fan in the first minute. The action in Disco Elysium will stick with me more because it was used sparingly and given appropriate weight. I’ve finished Disco Elysium, but there ar

This year’s version of Football Manager appears tailor-made for the players who invest hundreds, if not thousands of hours into the series each and every year. In my four hours with the game, I wasn’t properly able to sample the true impact of Club Vision across multiple seasons. And this year, more than ever, it feels as though the true test will come through multiple seasons of play. In particular, Club Vision boasts the potential of affecting the entire structure of the game, increasing both

There’s an alpha test for people who have signed up on the official site, running until November 2, but for those of you not playing, you can watch the developer playthrough above. The monsters are numerous and seem to be pretty good at killing heavily-armed humans, so stealth is the name of the game. GTFO can transform into a frantic run and gun shooter if you cock up and wake up all the monsters. Presumably, a level-headed team will be able to work together and survive even if stealth fails; r

Like a few previous iterations of Windows, Windows 10 still has both the ‘run as administrator’ and ‘troubleshoot compatibility’ options. There’s a few specific reasons why older games won’t run automatically on Windows 10, even in compatibility mode:64-bit Windows 10 no longer supports 16-bit applications. Some older software depends on old Windows libraries that are no longer included with Windows 10. Since Windows XP, all versions of Windows no longer run on top of DOS. Unlike Windows 7, Wind