In response to demands for a more reasonably priced 17-inch laptop, Razer now offers Blade Pro that falls closer to the middle of the road. Graphical compromiseThe new Blade Pro shaves some of the meatier parts off the $4,000 4K Blade Pro. There are some other minor changes too, including sticking with membrane switches instead of the full mechanical keyboard found in the 4K Blade Pro. In terms of performance and price, the Blade Pro competes with the 15-inch Asus ROG Zephyrus. Both the Blade Pr

Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is free to play for most of this weekend. I haven’t picked up my Grease Gun for a while because, while I loved what I played after it came out, I’ve been waiting for new content. Its map pool is relatively limited, something that players have started to point out in the Steam reviews. With the 25% discount, which lasts until Monday, it’ll set you back £14.24/$18.74. Oh, and its double XP until Tuesday so new players can level up extra fast.

It’s Labor Day weekend in the US, which really just means that some people have Monday off because back in 1894 Grover Cleveland was worried everyone would be mad that he used the military to kill railroad strikers. And, of course, those who don’t have Monday off go on working through the weekend like they always do—you can’t have Labor Day sales without Labor Day laborers. On that note, think of the ‘weekend’ part of this post as being whatever time you have to play games next, whether or not i

Frostpunk is a city builder, but as its first gameplay trailer shows it’s more about making tough moral decisions than planning a pretty road network. When a child is injured at work, do you outlaw child labour or give them some kind words and send them back to the factory? When your citizens are starving, do you bulk up their meals with sawdust and risk them falling ill or let them go hungry? The focus of Frostpunk is the survival of your frozen city, not its citizens, so I’m presuming that if

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is an open-world, isometric action-RPG with more star forts, mutants and daemons than you can shake a Staff of Light at. When it comes out you’ll be able to steer your Inquisitor through the chaos-infested Caligari Sector, completing various mission types as you work through the campaign. You can blast through the hordes solo or form a Cabal with other Inquisitors, which can net you special mission types. It looks suitably grim for a Warhammer game and the c

I’m only one day into PAX West 2017, but I can already tell that Deep Rock Galactic will be one of the best things I see in Seattle. Currently in closed alpha, Ghost Ship Games’ FPS takes the ‘get to the chopper’ setup of Left 4 Dead and imprints it onto colorful, procedurally-generated alien caves. You’re four resourceful dwarves sent by Deep Rock Galactic to mine dangerous worlds for resources. Once you touch down, your team clambers through ragged, polygonal tunnels and rooms in search of a v

“To be cute,” says Brent Kobayashi. But they also produce crafting material (hairballs) in Mineko’s Night Market, a pleasantly strange and extremely cute game coming next year from Brandi and Brent Kobayashi, who Evan had a chance to speak with today at PAX West 2017. Mineko’s Night Market stars a girl named Mineko who runs a market stall on a Japanese island full of cats. You’ll make friends, craft and sell goods, explore the mysterious town, and even grow cats like crops, if you want more cats

We grabbed a few minutes with lead designer Richard Aldridge of Total War: Warhammer 2 at PAX West to discuss the new race, The Skaven. When asked which high-school clique the Skaven would belong to, he didn’t miss a beat: “I reckon they’d be the science nerds,” he said. Watch the full interview above to learn how the mad scientist rodents have been reimagined from their tabletop origins. Total War: Warhammer 2 is coming out this month, on September 28. Check out the rest of our PAX West 2017 co

Dual Universe is a tough one to describe, but we’ll try anyway. It’s a first-person space sim set in an MMO sandbox where the endgame involves mastering the Lua scripting language to customize everything from your ship UI to programming fun toys. You can program a game of Breakout to play on your ship’s UI, for instance. To dig into exactly what you can do with a supercharged, open-ended red stone equivalent, Steve talked with JC Baillie, founder of Novaquark, at PAX West to find out more. Watch

We described the 2006 Petroglyph RTS Star Wars: Empire at War as “a deep and beautifully-rendered take on Star Wars strategy” in our 2015 history of Star Wars on PC. There’s only one problem: When Gamespy was shuttered in 2014, it spelled an effective end to Empire at War multiplayer, and thus a big reason to actually buy and play it. That all changed today, however, as Petroglyph and Disney released an update that re-enables multiplayer support through Steam, in both the core game and the Force

Having played the PC beta, I feel confident in saying that, from a technical point of view, the game will be the real deal—just as PC project lead David Shaw promised . It’s been adorable watching players of the original wake up to how good their game can look on PC, and declaring they can never go back . I’ll have thoughts on the campaign and more early next week, but for me October 24 can’t come soon enough. James Davenport: PvPleaseEven though I put somewhere around 300 hours into the origina

As promised, the Kickstarter for Cultist Simulator, the new game from Fallen London and Sunless Sea co-creator Alexis Kennedy, got underway today. “Cultist Simulator is a narrative game that lets you play a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories. Perhaps you just want the colours beneath the skin of the world,” the Kickstarter pitch sort-of explains. To help flesh out what exactly The Cultist Simulator offers, a playable prototype is availabl

Chucklefish, the developer behind Starbound and publisher of Stardew Valley, is taking some inspiration from the latter for one of its next games. Aside from the Advance Wars-inspired game it’s working on, the publisher-studio told us in January that it’s creating “an RPG/Sim set in a magic school, something like Stardew Valley meets Harry Potter.” Today, Chuckefish CEO Finn Brice tweeted a peek at the game, stating that they’ve “learned a lot of lessons from working with Stardew.” Chucklefish i

Peter Molyneux Peter Molyneux is a long-serving game developer best known his work at Bullfrog Productions on Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Populous and Dungeon Keeper, and Lionhead Studios on Fable. I find that fascinating as a designer to present things that we in the game world have been doing for many years to consumers who have never done this before. Late last year we considered what it would take to make The Trail that could be played by people who enjoyed PC games. Here we are, I’m falling

The fan remake of Tomb Raider 2 using the Unreal Engine 4 has been in development for a while, but now there’s a demo for everyone to clamber all over. The demo of the remake, which is being created by Nicobass and a small team of contributors, features a portion of the Great Wall level that should give you about an hour of playtime. Above you can see video from March of the remake in action, which shows the first cave. Also, for a change, we may not need to fear the wrath of a cease and desist

The latest Titanfall 2 DLC, Postcards From the Frontier, went live earlier this week, bringing with it a new Live Fire map, three new Frontier Defense maps, and a new Execution. To mark the big moment, Respawn is holding a double XP weekend that’s live now and runs until September 5. Uma, the new Live Fire map, features “tight corridors [that] guide combat into three arenas flanked by balconies, doorways, and windows,” Respawn said. There are two new featured modes as well, Aegis Titan Brawl and

As far as graphics settings, Destiny 2 has 17 individual settings you can tweak, along with four presets: low, medium, high, and highest. Testing performance of the Destiny 2 beta was difficult, since there was a limited window for playing on PC, and the multiplayer modes often had lengthy queue times. The GTX 1080 Ti performance drops by 35 percent, while most of the other GPUs drop by 45-50 percent. 4K on the other hand benefits a lot more, with 80 percent scaling on GTX 1080 and 50 percent sc

It was early 2013 when we first heard about Project Brazil, a tremendously ambitious mod that promised an entirely standalone prequel campaign for Fallout: New Vegas. “New California is a superior name for this mod,” project leader Brandan Lee explained in a ModDB update. “It’s opening shot is of California, the intro is all about California, we say California several times in the narration, it’s set in California, within New California Republic territory, about the struggles of New California a

The Advance Wars series is beloved by Nintendo fans, but for whatever reason it hasn’t made its way into the company’s rotation of sequels and remakes since 2008. Enter Japanese developer Area 35, who’s taking advantage of the lack of arcade strategy games with Tiny Metal. Out this fall, Tiny Metal is a 3D, isometric turn-based strategy game built on Unreal. It has a singleplayer focus, with a campaign that’ll last up to 20 hours, according to studio CEO Hiroyuki Yura, but there’ll also be one-o

Forthog Orcslayer is not a character that fans of Tolkien’s Middle-earth lore are likely to be familiar with. That’s because he’s actually a new addition to the universe, created by Monolith for the upcoming Middle-earth: Shadow of War to pay tribute to executive producer Mike Forgey, who died of cancer in 2016. “Mike ‘Forthog’ Forgey was our Executive Producer and great friend here at Monolith. The legendary Forthog Orcslayer is our way to continue having Mike leap into battle and save us when