Dishonored 2’s Death of the Outsider expansion could’ve focused on Whaler captain Daud, but the decision to instead go with protege Billie Lurk seems like a good one. Expect Void Strikes, melee stabbings, her own spin on the game’s signature Blink ability, and Hook Mines, among other things. Game director Harvey Smith reckons Hook Mines are designed to be non-lethal, however can be used in certain very fatal manner. But if you place enough Hook Mines in an area, you’ll eviscerate anyone caught i

I was so taken by my demonstration of Biomutant at Gamescom that I didn’t pay its excitable narrator much mind. Having watched this trailer back just now, I can however see how his at times overzealous cheerleading could get on some people’s nerves. “So if you play one hour and start your second hour on the same session, we decrease the frequency. If you play 10 hours of the game, the default frequency gets lower and lower. Ljungqvist adds that the narrator cannot however be turned off entirely,

Following a report earlier today that Oceania players wouldn’t get access to dedicated first-person servers in PUBG for a while, the creators have announced that, actually, a dedicated server will launch today. Apologising for the prolonged period of silence around the issue, the official announcement reads like this:”We are pleased to announce that first-person only servers for DUO will now be available for players in Oceania. Starting from 3 pm KST / 3:30 pm ACST today, players will be able to

SteamWorld Dig is a charming platformer with some neat procedural generation tricks. Basically, your little playable cowboy robot must dig downwards through the ground in order to unearth stuff, with the whole affair feeling like a Minecraft / Metroidvania hybrid. I lost countless hours to this diabolical game, and now you can too: it’s currently free on Origin. The offer is available “for a limited time only”, but since you know about it right now, go forth and secure it. It’s good timing, beca

And while most exciting hardware gets announced in the first half of the year, at places such as CES and Computex, there’s still some new and upcoming hardware to get excited about in the Fall season. 4K, high refresh rate, and HDR should make the upcoming displays killer products … with a killer price tag rumored to be in the $2,000 range. There will probably be an RX Vega Nano this fall, but it shouldn’t muddy the waters too much. PhonesIf you’re in the market for a phone, the new iPhone 8 wil

For PUBG players in Oceania, those wanting to join first-person only matches have needed to join special FPP servers based in North America and Asian, which naturally comes with connectivity disadvantages. Interestingly, the main concern is a small playerbase – quite an unusual worry for what is probably the most played FPS of the year. “I’ve heard that OCE players are playing FPP on NA or ASIA servers and would like to play on a better environment,” Kang wrote (via reddit). Even if we consider

In development by the Copenhagen-based Flashbulb Games, Trailmakers is an vehicle construction game in the style of something like Besiege. Using modular pieces, you throw together wheeled and jet-propelled machines of your own creation with few limitations. Both modes will have eight-player multiplayer. Trailmakers should hit Early Access on Steam at the end of this year. Hear me chat with creative director Mikkel Thorsted in the video above.

Speaking with him at PAX, Yu gave more me a few more details on the genesis of UFO 50, and what it’s been like to collaborate with four other indies on 50 original, ’80s-style games. “In a way this was a game that was designed so that all of us could work on it together. “And we used to make games together as kids, we’d make small games together over the weekend. So we wanted to make a game again now, and it made sense to go back to our roots and make small games again. UFO 50 will be out first

Do you have a burning legal question about a video game? There’s probably no one better equipped to answer it than Ryan Morrison, also known as the “Video Game Attorney.” At PAX West 2017, Steven rapid fired a number of important legal questions at Morrison that every gamer should know the answers to, such as “How many video games have been sentenced to death?” as well as asking if someday Morrison would like to become a video game judge. For more on PAX West 2017, see the rest of our coverage h

Actually, that would be even worse, because at least aggro decks have the courtesy to end games quickly. Aggressive decks are important because there are people who enjoy playing aggressive decks. Well, aggro decks are often more concerned with the opponent’s life total than the state of the board. “It is logical that aggro decks are easier to play,” says Peter ” Gaara ” Stevanovic, one of Tempo Storm’s players. “Aggro decks focus on ending the game as fast as possible, preferably before turn se

At PAX West over the weekend, Steven got a chance to speak with Rocket League design director Corey Davis about something that’s been bugging us for a couple years now: how’d a bunch of cars end up playing soccer? In Rocket League, rocket-powered vehicles play a sort of hockey-soccer hybrid in futuristic arenas, and there’s no clear explanation for any of it. We don’t even know if there are people in the cars, or if the cars are autonomous, or maybe even sentient. Steven did his best to get answ

Enter Chucklefish, the studio that helped bring us Starbound and Stardew Valley, who are putting their pixel artists and programmers to work on Wargroove, a turn-based fantasy strategy game releasing next year. I snuck into Nintendo’s indie games area at PAX to speak with community manager Tom Katkus about how the arcade strategy game is coming along. See the newly detailed units that Tom talks about in the video below in gif form, with some added descriptions pulled from the Wargroove blog. Air

It came close enough, though, that I was excited by the announcement earlier this year of a “spiritual successor” called Lifeless Moon, a tale of Apollo-era astronauts who go to the Moon and find themselves back home. Board was the sole developer on Lifeless Planet (“albeit with LOTS of help and support”) but the core team has grown to three for Lifeless Moon, and has access to “more modern game tools” including Unity and Blender. That will enable more advanced gameplay, including first-person p

Either way, Newegg has a good deal on a fast ABS Vortex Andromeda gaming desktop. Goofy name aside, this is a well-equipped desktop that is on sale for $1,150 after applying promo code EMCSRKRE3. This system pairs an Intel Core i7-7700 processor with an GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card. Toss those parts in and you’re looking at roughly a $1,500 system. But the bottom line is the $1,150 sale price is good deal for what you’re getting.

In Songbringer, you type in a six-letter word that’s used to generate a world for a Zelda-style game. It’s a novel wrapping for a game like this, with an explorable sci-fi overworld and dungeons to slash through. I vainly used the word ‘SAMUEL’ as my Songbringer seed, and got lost right away, which seems like adequate punishment for my blatant narcissism. Developer Nathanael Weiss has produced one based on the world seed ‘WIZARD’ to get things started. Songbringer feels authored enough, regardle

One way to avoid that is by taking advantage’s of Amazon’s sale price on D-Link AC1900 (DIR-878) router. The D-Link router normally sells for around $115 to $120 but is currently marked down to $84. Unlike most routers, it lacks USB ports for hooking up external devices. Amazon also has deals on other D-Link routers, which you can access from the same link. It offers a bit more speed, more data streams (4×4), and USB connectivity (USB 3.0 and USB 2.0).

Microsoft recently jacked up the excitement level over upcoming mixed reality headsets for Windows 10 by announcing they would run Steam content. That helped allay our concerns (somewhat) that mixed reality experiences on Windows PCs would end up being gimmicky. Mixed reality headsets are set to debut when the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update rolls out on October 17. All he could really say was that work on bringing SteamVR support to mixed reality headsets has only just begun. In addition to Ste

Resident Evil 7 Biohazard is getting a Gold Edition, Capcom has revealed. Set to arrive on December 12, 2017, it’ll bring with it the forthcoming End of Zoe DLC alongside the previously released Banned Footage Volumes 1 and 2. Capcom has also revealed that its delayed-from-spring Not a Hero DLC will launch alongside the Gold Edition and will be free-of-charge to owners of “any version” of the game. Here’s the skinny on that, which I assume everyone’s forgotten by now:”The free Not a Hero DLC see

Since launching into Early Access on March 23, 2017, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has sold over ten million copies. That’s ten million copies in just 165 days—which is an average of over 60,606 copies sold per day. In case you were wondering, GTA Online’s PUBG-style mode is not as good as PUBG. My own favourite experience of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds involved me seeking a chicken dinner by way of bare knuckle boxing, however I equally enjoyed you guys’ craziest (and stupidest) PUBG stories.

I enjoyed GTA Online’s new Motor Wars adversary mode when I tried it last week, even if it didn’t entirely live up to the promise of a battle royale-style mode in Rockstar’s open world epic. It’s pretty decent for a freebie, though, and this week you’ve got an extra incentive to try it out, as it’s paying out double experience and GTA bucks until the 11th. Matches only last for ten minutes, but it’s nonetheless the closest GTA has got to emulating the successful format of PUBG so far. In other u