Cue Star Wars Battlefront’s humble Hero Blast mod . The files pertaining to a Hero-only version of Battlefront’s team deathmatch Blast mode were first discovered last year by dataminer uninsipired_zebra. Nearly six months later, a mod crafted by creator BDangercat using a custom launcher enables Hero Blast via invite-only matches. The deathmatch nature of Hero Blast is as straightforward as it gets. The chat box lights up with compliments, taunts, memes, and genuine conversation about hobbies, f

More specifically, have you ever thought about who owns it? Fortunately, NBC Left Field is here to break down the basics, complete with illustrations and animations, all of it rendered in Minecraft. WATCH: We explain ‘moon law’ with Minecraft. #MakingOfAnAstronaut pic.twitter.com/W4f3rsVx85July 21, 2017Launched last month, NBC Left Field is a “social video unit” that “aims to reinvent storytelling for viewers who primarily get their news from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram,” according to Variet

Chris Chung tells me he’s an optimist. “It took a tremendous amount of effort in order to get us here,” Chung tells me. And yet, Chung tells me that Gigantic, despite the similarities, was never meant to compete with games like Overwatch. McBee tells me that, originally, Gigantic had been built with a web-based front-end somewhat similar to what EA’s Battlefield 3 and 4 used. “We’ve been through some tremendous ups and downs throughout the history of Motiga,” Chung says.

Star Citizen fans have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Alpha 3.0, currently scheduled for a release in late August. To whet your appetite even more than it is presumably already whetted, take a look at a cinematic sizzle reel of Star Citizen footage above, which shows many of the new features due to arrive in 3.0, like moon landings, planetary rovers and outposts, and the Nox hover speeder. Yep, I landed a ship on the moon of Daymar—and according to Chris Roberts, I’m the first person outsi

Overwatch weapon skins are tired directly to character skins: The only way to change the look of your gun is to change your entire outfit. But some sharp-eyed Overwatchers on Reddit noticed a couple of very interesting details in the recent Doomfist hero preview video suggesting that Blizzard is working on making separate weapon skins for the game, and possibly even new weapons. The prongs can be easily seen in this blowup posted by Nyxxic, who also noticed that Sombra’s SMG doesn’t match up eit

(Image: © AutoPhoto via Wikimedia Commons)Some Verizon Wireless customers made a fuss after discovering that video streamed from Netflix was being capped. “We’ve been doing network testing over the past few days to optimize the performance of video applications on our network,” Verizon said a statement to Arstechnica. What Verizon calls an optimization test seems more like a hard cap at 10Mbps, according to tests performed on Netflix’s own speed testing tool. The Verge also reported the apparent

THE HIGHSJoe Donnelly: Terry loves PC GamerThis week I interviewed ex-NFL linebacker-turned-Hollywood actor-turned-PC gaming enthusiast Terry Crews. Oh, and he also said this: “I’m a big fan of PC Gamer, you guys are rocking.” Am I gushing here? Andy Kelly: Wolf at the doorThis week I played an hour of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus . A large chunk of the new game will be set in a Nazi-occupied United States, which makes for some striking imagery. They’re not games, sure, but they’re available

Blizzard has revealed that Garrosh Hellscream, son of Grommash Hellscream and former chieftain of the Warsong Clan, will be the next hero added to Heroes of the Storm. The studio said on Twitter that he’ll be playable at the ChinaJoy conference next week, and it aims to have him on the HotS PTR for the week of July 31. Garrosh, Son of Hellscream, will soon devastate all those who stand against him in the Nexus! Death does not seem to have slowed him down much, but some players, based on the reac

Sorry Joey, the first free content update for the online fantasy combat game Mirage: Arcane Warfare, called the Gladiator Update, does not actually add a Gladiator class to the action. “Bot-assisted servers” are a “much-requested new feature,” developer Torn Banner Studios said. “This new update has been in the works for a while, so we’re excited to see players enjoying some new maps and abilities. The bots are also quite fun to battle against, in group fights they just blend right in.” A full b

Just Cause 3, for some reason, does not support multiplayer shenanigans. That’s a shortcoming that the Just Cause 2 Multiplayer mod team aimed to address, until the wheels came off when its lead developer took a job with Just Cause studio Avalanche. Fortunately, another multiplayer mod, created by another team, continued to push forward, releasing its Nanos JC3:MP mod in January. And now it’s available on Steam under the smoother-sounding (and easier to parse) name of Just Cause 3 Multiplayer Mo

Before anyone asks, yes, it’s a slow news day on the hardware front. It involves a 60,000 PSI waterjet, a bunch of old computer hardware, and Batman. One of the videos posted last month involves a care package containing a hard drive, power supply, and a few other PC parts that were sent from a fan of the channel. It can be a little nerve wracking to see computer hardware being destroyed, though at least nothing inside the care package was cutting edge. One of the more popular uses of old CPUs i

The Ghost Recon Wildlands four-on-four PvP mode that Ubisoft announced in March (but somehow didn’t include with the original release) will begin open beta testing later this summer, the publisher announced today. Barring unforeseen disaster, the full release of the new mode, called Ghost War, will follow sometime in the fall. The mode is a “team deathmatch experience,” with six classes of soldiers doing battle on “large-scale, open maps,” Ubisoft said. “Ghost War will also integrate new PvP mec

Much has happened to Starpoint Gemini Warlords since we first (and last) looked at it in March 2016, just ahead of its launch into Early Access. It went into full release in May, for one thing, and seems to have been pretty well received overall by both fans and critics. More recently—as in, today—developer LGM Games (that’s Little Green Men, by the way) released a teaser for the upcoming Titans Return DLC, which will see the arrival of the massive Titan class ships that made their debut in Star

We will always prefer to roll our own rigs, but if time constraints or other factors have you shopping for pre-built systems, you can get a pretty good deal on relatively powerful Asus desktop at Best Buy. The Asus G11CD is on sale for $830, compared to its normal selling price of $1,100. And if you’re willing to run with an open box model, you can pick one up for just $747. Even so, this is still a pretty good deal. If you’re interested, you can grab this desktop on sale here.

You may not immediately recognize Russell Brower’s name, but if you’ve played a Blizzard game over the past decade you’ve almost certainly heard his music. That run has come to an end, however, as he announced on Facebook today that his job has been eliminated. The good news—for players, that is—is that there’s “an excellent chance” that Brower will be able to continue to work on Blizzard games in a freelance capacity. “I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to EVERYONE reading this: all of

The Federal Communications Commission has a lot of reading to do if the agency wants to take the commenting period on net neutrality seriously. After introducing a proposal in May to roll back existing rules that were implemented in 2015 under the previous administration, the FCC opened the subject up to public comments. It is no coincidence that millions of comments were filed in the days following the campaign. Companies that participated in the event attempted to educate the public from the p

This how things work in Kingsway, an RPG roguelike from Adult Swim that delivers its fantasy adventure by emulating an Windows 95-ish operating system. It’s all done on a virtual desktop, where movement and combat are represented with progress bars and everything from the map to your inventory to your friendly and enemy encounters appear as movable (or moving) windows. As you travel between locations, more icons appear on your map: dungeons, towns, spooky cabins, mysterious shrines, and random e

Fire Pro Wrestling World, out now on Steam Early Access, is different. While mainstream wrestling games were busying themselves with improved likenesses, entrances, and subsurface scattering, the Fire Pro series was diligently learning to be a more thoughtful experience—a trend continued in Fire Pro Wrestling World. By giving us less, Fire Pro Wrestling World somehow encourages players to be more creative. The Universe mode has been the most consistently worthwhile element of recent WWE games –

In February, Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard unveiled a sponsored programme that would pay mod creators on a monthly basis for their work. To this end, I spoke to the developer’s Jesse Stieglitz about how he and his team plan to grow the initiative post-launch. “But we recently put out our next official mod called Ragnarok with a mod team that’s now officially supported and we’ll continue to have servers up for it and we’ll have updates and more polished applied. Stieglitz sugges

When League of Legends first came out, champions tromped happily over the bright green fields with pizza feet and enormous, clunky hair. In the July 2017 Champion Roadmap , we found out the next champion to get a VGU: Swain, the Master Tactician. I had just first started playing regularly after Xin Zhao’s release; Swain was the first champion I was cognizant of. He stepped up as Grand General, LeBlanc whispering over his shoulder as his greatest advisor. Swain is now sitting in Noxus’s throne wi