We described Songbringer when it was announced back in February as “a Zelda-like with galactic war and hallucinogenic cacti.” “Songbringer is an action RPG inspired by the original Zelda games with real time combat, a wide range of weapons and a ton of hidden secrets. World maps are generated from a six-letter world seed, which determines the layout of the overworld and dungeons,” publisher Double Eleven said. A “roguelike-inspired permadeath option” will enable higher scores and faster runs, an

Fancy playing a side-scrolling cinematic platformer about surviving in a zombie apocalypse? Well you’re in luck, because Deadlight: Director’s Cut is currently available free on GOG – no strings attached, just go over here and grab it. The game was originally released exclusively for Xbox 360 (remember that thing?) This is the director’s cut, which adds a bunch of content and looks marginally better, and which was released last year. At the time of writing, this offer will expire in just over 37

Every Monday, Build of the week highlights a unique rig from the web’s most dedicated PC building communities. The hills keep getting steeper, the custom computers losing purpose in favor of defying expectation with no end in sight. But with my final moments, I might as well list off some of the cool features of this custom PC, this beautiful computer built to kill me. Between all the guns on guns on guns, a custom liquid cooling loop threads and weaves around like an intricate spider web, also

A study published recently in Molecular Psychiatry has found a possible link between playing first-person action games and the loss of grey matter from your brain’s memory center. “The hippocampus is critical to healthy cognition, yet results in the current study show that action video game players have reduced grey matter within the hippocampus,” reads the introduction to the report. “A subsequent randomised longitudinal training experiment demonstrated that first-person shooting games reduce gr

In the wake of violence committed by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend, Discord has responded to user reports and shut down a server launched in June by the website AltRight.com, as well as accounts it says were “associated with the events in Charlottesville.” Members of the rally were seen displaying Nazi and Confederate symbols, as well as chanting Nazi slogan ‘blood and soil.’ The server for the website Daily Stormer was also shut down after being reported to D

If you’re active on 4Chan or Reddit, chances are you’ve encountered the horror that is the Crash Bandicoot ‘whoa’ meme —and you’re probably sick of it. Well, finally there’s a way to fight back against the internet’s terrible obsession with running memes into the ground with this Doom mod that transforms every enemy into a whoa-ing Crash Bandicoot for you to murder. Crash Bandicoot Doom’ is perfect if your ideal evening would be spent assaulting your eardrums with hundreds of whoas as hundreds o

The trouble is that Battle.net is a really good name with a lot of history behind it, and so the change never really took. Even Blizzard opted to call it Battle.net when Destiny 2 was revealed. We understood that Battle.net stood for something special—it represents years of shared history and enjoyment, community and friendship, for all of us and our players,” Blizzard wrote in the re-renaming announcement. “Battle.net is the central nervous system for Blizzard games and the connective tissue th

A website is claiming to have in its possession a prototype 480Hz display that will dish out buttery smooth visuals. The original author of the article article points out that the display is actually a 120Hz 4K panel that’s capable of higher refresh rates at lower resolutions. We’re guessing that the display, if real, will be capable of doing 480Hz at 1080p resolution. 4K 144Hz panels are already on the way from Acer and Asus, so it might be interesting to see what those panels are capable of if

As steadfastly retro and stylish as Dusk is, I can’t get over the density and elaborate design of its handcrafted levels. Wanting to stock up on ammo and health first, I circled around the barn to see what I could find, which unfortunately was nothing more than a locked blue door. In Quake or Doom, I’d hopelessly circle areas I already visited while praying for a blue door frame to appear at random. Secrets and speedAs memorable and curious as Dusk’s levels are, the pacing pulled me through them

Over the weekend, Ubisoft hosted a For Honor tournament with $10,000 going to the best duelist. But many are upset because the victor won the prize by spamming an exploit that made his attacks unblockable. Many in the For Honor community are, understandably, pissed. Multiple posts over on the For Honor subreddit criticized the tournament as ” a disgrace ” and ” shameful ” for how poorly it represented the game. Beyond Palen’s exploit abuse, many players found the tournament to be a disappointing

Something very interesting happened in the world of Dota 2 this weekend, and it wasn’t The International. As reported by The Verge, a self-taught AI bot took on pro player Danil “Dendi” Ishutin of Natus Vincere—and won convincingly. The bot was designed by OpenAI, a non-profit AI research company founded and funded by, among other people, Tesla and SpaceX guy Elon Musk, who shared his satisfaction with the outcome on Twitter. In fact, that’s the only type of game the bot is capable of playing. P

The free-to-play hero shooter lost players after an initial surge, but still pulls in around 2,000 concurrents at its peaks. Enter Gigantic’s first major update, Corruption, which will release tomorrow. The biggest addition coming in Corruption is a new hero, Oru, “a mid-range damage dealer who excels in teamfights.” The update will go out tomorrow—Tuesday, August 15—just about a month after Gigantic’s initial release. With a new hero coming so soon, Motiga is setting a pretty good clip for itse

At some time in the future, Nvidia will cook up new graphics cards based on its next-generation Volta GPU architecture. Vega also consumes a lot of power to reach parity with the GTX 1080. And by parity, we mean Vega 64 is generally slower, but within striking distance. To be fair, the GV100 GPU that is found in Nvidia’s Tesla V100 accelerator was never going to be in a gaming card. If we had to guess, we’d say Volta cards for gamers will launch next spring.

Harebrained Schemes’ turn-based tactical combat game Battletech has never had a firmed-up launch date, but as we noted with the release of the debut trailer in May, it was expected to be out sometime this year. Today the studio pushed it into “early 2018,” however, saying that the delay will give developers “the time they need to deliver the type of quality experience the company is known for.” Weisman said Battletech continues to make “solid progress,” and that the open-ended mercenary campaign

Update: It was fun while it lasted, but just like that, the purchase links have been made invalid. Update 2: At least some of the Destiny Silver purchases made through Steam (including mine) have been automatically refunded. Original story:The good people of NeoGAF noticed something strange and interesting earlier today: Silver, the in-game currency used in Destiny’s microtransaction system, can now be purchased on Steam. I tried it and it works, although as far as I can tell there’s nothing in

Nvidia’s latest “Game Ready” 385.28 WHQL drivers are optimized for Agents of Mayhem, the Saints Row spinoff that is due out this Tuesday, August 15 in North America, and Friday, August 18 in Europe. “Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases, including virtual reality games. Beyond those two games, Nvidia’s latest drivers introduced a handful of bug fixes. [GeForce Experience]: “Any file is missing” error message appears when installing new drivers

I’m a few missions into an XCOM: War of the Chosen campaign and nothing is on fire. They really do dominate, though, which makes War of the Chosen feel like an overhaul rather than a straightforward expansion. If you don’t disrupt the Chosen using covert actions and missions they can enact some nasty plans. The Chosen need to gather ‘knowledge’ before they can put a plan into action, which they accrue by kidnapping and holding XCOM soldiers. Covert actions are an integral part of the expansionYo

Loot boxes in their many forms are big business for video games these days, but they’re not just limited to in-game hats and boosts. GOG has started up Piñata Madness, where you pay a bit of money, smash open your piñata, and see what game you’ve received inside. Each piñata costs $3 / £2.39 / €2.69, and there are over 100 possible games you can get. The cheapest game available is $6, so you’re getting a deal either way, but you might get a brand new game worth up to $45. If you think the risk i

I don’t have the liquid cooled Vega 64 available for testing, but it should be up to eight percent faster than the air-cooled Vega 64, based on boost clocks. Based on pricing, the direct competition for the Vega 64 is Nvidia’s GTX 1080, while the Vega 56 will take on the GTX 1070. The Vega 56 manages around 31MH/s for Ethereum, and the Vega 64 does 33MH/s. The RX Vega 64 is available starting today. This is typical of new hardware launches, as we’ve seen the same with GTX 1080, 1080 Ti, 1070, RX

The few trailers we’ve seen of The Evil Within 2 so far have erred on the psychological side of survival horror—yet we don’t know all too much about the game’s cast beyond returning protagonist Sebastian Castellanos. Stefano is billed as a killer, STEM user, and “flashy photographer with a proclivity for ‘unconventional’ beauty”. Bethesda has now revealed a selection of his rather disturbing “masterpieces”, that our Sebastian can check out in-game. “But Stefano’s mind has been warped, and his pu