Middle-earth: Shadow of War’s parade of themed Orc tribes continues today with a new trailer revealing the Dark Tribe, a secretive, stealthy clan of assassins that slips silently through the shadows, slashes through enemies like a laser-sharp scalpel, and then slips away into the night before anyone realizes they were there. Okay, maybe they’re not quite that ninja-like, but everything is relative and relative to, say, the Terror Tribe, these guys are the epitome of surgical finesse. It is kind

AMD has an interesting take on all of this, or at least its desktop CPU marketing manager, Don Woligroski, has an interesting take—he sees Ryzen as a pretty good worst case scenario. Zen, Ryzen, was the worst case scenario. So the worst case scenario we could’ve possibly had, and it’s pretty good. He also said the Ryzen architecture has both clockspeed headroom and room to make tweaks to improve performance going forward. In addition to Woligroski referring to Ryzen as a “worst case scenario,” w

As part of IGN’s First series, our first extended look at Code Vein is out in the wild. Coming from the team that developed God Eater, Code Vein is a darker, more focused action game with clear inspiration. Watch the video to learn more about vampiric drain attacks, the focus system, and the smattering of buff abilities in the bottom right corner. Code Vein also places an emphasis on co-op play, allowing you to play with an assortment of AI co-op partners, each of which carry unique abilities, o

The number of top-shelf motherboards from MSI that are based on AMD’s X370 chipset just doubled with the introduction of the X370 Gaming M7 Ack. It joins the X370 XPower Gaming Titanium as the only two motherboards from MSI that cost more than $200. In this case, the X370 Gaming M7 Ack is available to preorder from B&H Photo for $240. As implemented here, MSI went with Killer DoubleShot Pro solution, which includes a Killer E2500 GbE LAN port and a PCIe Wi-Fi card with antenna. Rear connectivity

Enter Hoya, which believes that glass will play a critical role in pushing HDD capacities to 20TB and beyond, Nikkei Technology reports. Glass substrates are also smoother and flatter, all of which makes it possible to cram more drives together. To that end, Hoya has already prototyped glass substrates measuring 0.5mm and 0.381mm thick. Hoya’s confidence in glass substrates being the new norm is not unfounded, barring some kind of other development in HDD storage. Drive makers have to keep pushi

Animal Farm, the famous George Orwell novel that we all pretend we read in high school, may not be the most obvious source material for a licensed videogame. The Animal Farm team also includes Just Flight co-founder and former Mastertronic CEO Andy Payne, Witcher and Hitman voice director Kate Saxton, and “other exceptional creative and technical talent.” “We are dedicated to maintaining an independent creative process; responsible only to George Orwell’s work and to our audience.” “So I can’t h

At launch, do you think Siege was still trying to find its place within the online shooter spectrum? Alexandre Remy: I totally get what those mixed feelings, receptions and reviews about the game came from—they were within reason. When we conceived the game, we knew we were building a game that was growing in terms of its number of operators, maps, meta, balancing. I might be wrong, but I don’t think leaks have impacted the community too much, they still seem to get excited. When we refer to the

Paradox Interactive has announced that Synthetic Dawn, the expansion to the 4X strategy game Stellaris that will let players take on the galaxy as a renegade “Machine Empire,” will be released on September 21. Machine Empires are “playable robotic hive minds that have overthrown their organic masters and taken to space to expand their robotic civilization,” game director Martin Anward explains in the video. The Ancient Caretakers isn’t a playable empire, but rather a faction that players with th

Here is a heads up that Corsair’s K95 RGB Platinum, one of the more expensive mechanical keyboards on the market is, currently on sale. The version that is on sale is the Gunmetal SKU (CH-9127114-NA) with Cherry MX RGB Speed key switches. If you prefer the black color option with either the same key switches or Cherry MX Browns, you’re still looking at $200. Corsair’s K95 RGB Platinum uses a brushed anodized aluminum frame that the company claims is aircraft-grade. You can find the keyboard on s

Junkrat and Roadhog might be villains in the Overwatch universe, but that doesn’t make their bromance any less meaningful. The best buds have gone on worldwide crime sprees, but how did the pair end up together in the first place? We learn that and more in the latest Overwatch comic: Wasted Land. After a quick encounter in the Australian outback, Roadhog heads into Junkertown, the city (if you can call it that) that plays home to the Junkers. The mischievous demolitions expert apparently has the

In the meantime, you can cut the cords with a TPCast wireless adapter, which is now available to preorder in the US. The TPCast adapter boasts easy installation. It consist of an HMD receiver that mounts directly to the Vive headset, which then wirelessly communicates with an included PC transmitter. And with no cable getting in the way, you have even more freedom to lose yourself completely in VR,” TPCast says. UploadVR tested the wireless adapter and said it is “pretty capable” overall, though

The award for most descriptors for a game at PAX West might be Survived By: it’s a free-to-play indie open world bullet-hell MMO with instanced dungeons… oh, and it’s got permadeath to boot. In the video above, Steven talks with producer Ryan Jackson about Survived By, which is being developed and published by Digital Extremes and Human Head Studios. “When they die,” Jackson explains, “the things that they’ve accomplished, the challenges they’ve completed, those will turn into cards and points

Perhaps somewhere in a parallel universe, AMD does not have a Ryzen Threadripper line, leaving Intel all by itself in the high end desktop (HEDT) market. And that could have been the case in the universe we live in, had it not been for a group of AMD engineers who worked on what would become Threadripper in their spare time. The story behind Threadripper is a rather unique and interesting one, as uncovered by Forbes in a series of interviews with AMD employees involved with Ryzen. “My boss was s

Titanfall 2 is in the middle of a double XP event to celebrate the expansion of the horde mode Respawn added last month. Sometimes the robots are man-sized; sometimes they are miniature titans; sometimes they are ‘nuke’ titans that explode when you destroy them. The best thing about the mode is that it’s a relatively low-intensity way to enjoy all of Titanfall 2’s systems. Titanfall combines the best first-person platforming in games with the roaring immediacy of Call of Duty’s guns. Titanfall d

Last week, the first live action trailer for Destiny 2 came out and I didn’t hate it, which surprised me because almost all live action trailers for videogames are god awful. But, shucks, now I hate the US live action trailer because the Japanese take is fucking incredible. Adults in fancy guardian cosplay have a dance-off, one-upping each other by busting out their supers abilities, glow sticks, and a soccer ball. Destiny 2 isn’t really about mild space drama and ‘saving the puppies’—it’s about

“Mirage launch sales were poor,” wrote developer Torn Banner Studios in an update posted today. In an attempt to jump start Mirage, Torn Banner is making it free on Steam for 24 hours starting September 6th at 10 am Pacific. It’s not just a trial: If you grab Mirage on Steam during the 24-hour free window, you can keep it forever. After the free promotion, the price of Mirage will drop to $10 permanently. And as for the future of the studio, Torn Banner says it’s “doing fine,” and that it will ”

Today on Newegg you can get yourself a great deal on the AOC G2460FQ monitor, where it’s down to $150. The sale ends later tonight though, so make the decision quick if you want to purchase. AOC describes it as an “extreme gaming monitor,” but really it’s on the lower end of the scale. What you do get though, is a high refresh rate of up to 144 Hz, which is something missing off a lot of monitors in this price range. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our

After Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption teased its Souls-meets-Shadow of the Colossus-meets the Divine Comedy makeup a few weeks back I was intrigued. “The name of the game is boss-battling,” Ajay from Another Indie tells me. “There are seven people in the Dark Star Games team in Shanghai, who’ve worked with bigger companies like Konami and Sega, Ubisoft and Blizzard. Dark Star are big fans of Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls and they want to have a very narrow scope, where they make great boss battl

A seed is plantedSpeedTree is a middleware solution for videogame developers and, more recently, filmmakers who need to make realistic trees en masse, quickly. Beyond the time and energy saved making so many trees, SpeedTree’s vegetation is also designed to conserve as many system resources as possible. “It’s a misconception that Speedtree generates these procedural trees on the fly, when in fact, it is an offline procedural tool. King can’t disclose everywhere you’ll see SpeedTree used next, bu

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is the first of its kind to take place in America. Despite the fact developer Machinegames reckons it “isn’t a commentary on current topics”, it does have scope to offend, given its sensitive subject matter. game show segment featured above terrifies nevertheless—both because it sounds genuinely horrifying, and also because it sounds like something Nazi Germany could have enforced. “This game is all about liberating the U.S. and creating a platform there to libera