Just Cause 2’s most enduring feature was undoubtedly its delightfully chaotic fan-made multiplayer mod. And now, after a year of development, Just Cause 3 players are poised to enjoy the same mayhem with the launch of its very own multiplayer mod on July 20. Though early builds have been available since last year, this month will see it hit 1.0 and launch on Steam. Its launch later this month doesn’t mean it’s finished, though. Along with any modes players might want to create, other features ar

ABOUT Ole Søndberg is a Hollywood producer who’s worked on the TV series Wallander and the Daniel Craig-starring The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Ole Sondberg: I was involved with the studio’s first game, prior to Aporia, that never really worked out. We tried to explore different fields of how to tell stories in games, we tried different projects and we looked at different games to try to tell the stories in different ways. We really wanted to put that idea into a storytelling game. But I think

In the first of a series of videos building up to StarCraft: Remastered’s launch, Blizzard looks back at the development of the original StarCraft, including the first time it was shown off and got branded as ‘Orcs in space’. StarCraft alumni like Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime recall a frantic period, where the company had to quickly produce something to reveal at a show and rapidly put together a prototype that’s quite different from the game that was launched in 1998. “We kinda felt like we got o

Destiny 2’s environmental artist, Jeff Horal, plays the role of tour guide in a new video, showing off one of the upcoming multiplayer shooter’s Crucible PvP maps, Vostok. It’s a chilly arena, full of imposing Russian concrete covered in ice and snow—a perfect place for some merciless brawls. If you’ve played the first Destiny, it might look familiar. There are a few sneaky sniper perches too, as well as shortcuts that offer flanking opportunities and a bridge that might make you feel a bit vuln

Qualifiers for all regions have concluded, and the eighteen teams that will attend The International’s main event in mid-August have been decided. Their main worry, though, is that they keep losing their top spots to other teams at events of the highest caliber. With similar difficulty (and the same format) came the Southeast Asia qualifiers, stacked with teams and players passionate about—and fighting hard for—a spot in the main event. While none of the teams in this region managed to snag an i

Now that Rift Rivals is over, Dota 2 is once again dominating the headlines as The International continues to ramp up its prize pool. StarCraft 2: 2017 WCS ValenciaThe World Championship Series continues in Valencia where 80 StarCraft players will compete for the $100,000 prize pool. However, only the most crafty card connoisseur will take the title and the £25,000 prize pool. SMITE: Pro League Summer FinalsSMITE Pro League’s online phase wrapped up this past weekend and teams are now preparing

Instead of throwing out a constant stream of blades at that locked on target, Urgot wants to rely on his W, Purge. If he collides with an enemy champion, he throws them over his other side and locks onto them. If Urgot brings the enemy champion in, he opens his guts, pulls out two sawblades, and executes them. If Urgot successfully grinds an enemy champion to dust, all enemies around him are terrified and flee the scene. The fact that Riot has pleased the old Urgot mains as well seems to be a so

Butcher was rather aptly promoted as a sidescrolling Doom, and when you watch some gameplay footage it’s not hard to see why. But now you don’t need to watch someone else play in order to get a feel for it, because there’s now a free demo on Steam, as well a DRM version available from IndieDB. In addition to the free demo, three new levels have been added to the level – not coincidentally, they’ll also be the levels available in the demo. But if you already own the game and have made progress, y

I’m not the most nostalgic guy in the world when it comes to the 16-bit SNES era, but I very much like the look of the upcoming roguelike dungeon crawler Tangledeep. And unlike most dungeon crawlers, Tangledeep begins underground, and players travel upward in a quest to reach the surface. “For hundreds of years, people have lived in the safety of underground settlements and villages—where the only route to the surface is ‘Tangledeep,’ a mysterious and ever-changing labyrinth,” the Early Access p

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus promises to deliver a fairly comprehensive Nazi-slaying adventure: not only will you shoot at nazis, but you’ll shoot at their robots, and sometimes even their robotic dogs. But this new trailer is fairly restrained in that regard, opting for a clever little live action mood piece instead. As you’ll see, it shows a gameshow aired in the fictional nazi-occupied USA, where the population is forced to absorb German culture in order to, you know, make them more Germa

So with the HCT Spring Championship in Shanghai looming, it feels like this could be his moment. ThatsAdmirableNonetheless, I imagine he’s feeling some pressure with a prize pool of $250,000 and four places at the World Championships on offer. “I edged him out in the ban stage,” Muzzy tells me later. It’s more that it’s a high stakes match and it means a lot to him. I think he genuinely gets more nervous playing at high legend.”I ask him if he thinks Muzzy can turn it around.

Origin Access subscribers were able to get a ten-hour head start on Mass Effect: Andromeda earlier this year, thanks to a “Play First” trial that went live roughly a week before the game’s release. Now, four months down the road, that trial mode is being made available to everyone. The Mass Effect: Andromeda Trial is now available on all platforms! pic.twitter.com/t4r2kvyencJuly 13, 2017We noted back in March that the initial early access trial of Andromeda probably did it no favors, because of

The current Overwatch PTR has a lot going on. First and foremost, the Russian weightlifter Zarya is receiving a big buff to her ultimate ability, Graviton Surge. In addition to sucking in and trapping all enemies caught in the vortex, Graviton now also disables all movement abilities of affected targets, similar to how Junkrat’s trap affects abilities. After this change, any hero caught in Zarya’s ult should expect to be stuck there the whole time. As always, balance updates on the Overwatch PTR

David “Allied” Hance was a professional Smite player for teams including Cognitive, Complexity, and Team EnvyUs before retiring in early 2016 and becoming a caster for Hi-Rez Studios. Shortly after that, however, he was diagnosed with cancer; he was declared free of the disease in February of this year and briefly returned to playing Smite. But the cancer soon returned, and he died in May at the far-too-young age of 25. According to the Smite subreddit , the statue, a Greek-themed sculpture with

However, if you’re not looking to spend $799 on a processor and want to go in the complete opposite direction, and oldie but goodie is on sale across the web—the FX-8350 Black Edition. Previously a fan favorite, the FX-8350 Black Edition (Vishera) is marked down at several places online, though none cheaper than Monoprice where it’s listed for just $90 with free shipping. The FX-8350 is an 8-core processor, sort of—it has 4 modules, each with 2 integer cores and 1 floating point unit, with resou

Looking ahead, Facebook has tasked Oculus with building a self-contained VR headset that will retail for $200, Bloomberg reports. Today’s solutions fall into one of two categories: smartphone-based VR solutions, such as Samsung’s Gear VR, and ones that are tethered to a PC, like the Rift and HTC Vive. However, today’s mobile solutions pack a fair amount of horsepower, especially for whatever resolution this headset ends up shipping with. It’s said to look like a compact version of the Rift and w

Ryzen 7 was a good introduction to AMD’s Zen architecture, followed by Ryzen 5, which brought a bit more balance to the price/performance ratio. AMD is readying a Ryzen 3 release to complete its mainstream desktop lineup, and for enthusiasts, Threadripper is right around the corner as well. Both are set to debut within the next couple of months, with AMD today announcing release time frames for Ryzen 3 and Threadripper, and pricing information for the latter. Starting at the top, Threaderipper i

Peter Molyneux said in April that he was working on something new, and this, presumably, is it: The Trail: Frontier Challenge, a “rebuilt and redesigned” version of the 22cans mobile game that was released last year. Players in The Trail will “walk down the single track path of destiny” and “take part in a variety of fun challenges” as they make their way to their ultimate goal, the town of Eden Falls. “Our goal with The Trail: Frontier Challenge was to take the core gameplay and narrative of Th

Creative Assembly has released a new Total War: Warhammer 2 cinematic trailer that takes an up close, and not very pleasant, look at the game’s (and high fantasy’s) most obvious and reliable bad guys. The High Elves may be “paragons of virtue,” the studio said, but the Dark Elves, “their closest kin, represent all that is foul and depraved in the Elven soul.” The Dark Elves move fast and hit hard, and are “capable of tearing down an enemy’s defenses in a trice, provided they sustain their Murder

If capacity is king, then all hail the new 50TB solid state drive from Viking Technology, the most capacious SSD on the planet. While not for home use, it is nice to see companies push the envelope like this in hopes of higher capacity SSDs trickling down into the consumer space. Plenty of faster SSDs exist, though for clients wanting both speed and capacity, the UHC-Silo series is an interesting solution. “There is no higher capacity SSD solution available today than the UHC-Silo SSD,” said Ham