Hence the name, Epic Sax Guy. Lordran might not seem like the best environment for a man to play saxophone, but the Epic Sax Guy is an epic player. Dark Souls is an epic game. Sax Souls is the work of modder Abject, and (rather controversially) it doesn’t just add sax. But it’s the sax that matters most, and the epic guy who plays it.

Scourge of the Arena Vicious Fledgling will appear in Arena 50 percent less. Since Journey to Un’Goro launched earlier this year, Vicious Fledgling has been the scourge of the Arena. At 3 mana, Vicious Fledgling can hit the board on turn two with the Coin, or turn one with an Innervate. Numerous threads on Reddit, Hearthpwn, and the official Blizzard forums have called out the card’s oppressive nature in Arena. In today’s patch notes, Blizzard mentions that Vicious Fledgling will be joining Flam

Last week Andy reported on some slides that had emerged from a Valve presentation at games convention Indigo 2017. The slides indicated that a major overhaul was due for the Steam client, including a user interface upgrade and improved discoverability. Among these is that Valve intends to increase store personalization, which involves completely rewriting their “automatic recommender engine”. For developers, they’ll soon be able to send games to verified Curators within Steam, eradicating the ne

Hello Neighbor is a stealth-horror game about the perils of living next door to a really creepy guy—although the fact that you are the one who keeps breaking into his house to poke through all his stuff makes me wonder who the creepo here really is. The demo is “pre-alpha,” which I assume drops it somewhere between the alpha version that’s available now to anyone who pre-purchases, and the pre-alpha build that we looked at last year. I haven’t tried the Hello Neighbor demo myself so I can’t opin

Here’s the list of notable changes from the IGN story:Points no longer capture faster if multiple people are standing on them. You can activate a ‘power play’ if you capture all points, earning extra points per kill. In tandem with the slimline 4v4 format and maps designed for teams of that size, PvP matches should feel shorter, more focused, and better suited for coordinated team play. As for the Voidwalker Warlock, which is a returning subclass to Destiny 2, we finally got to see its revamped

Warcraft’s lore is intimidatingly complex. It’s a chronicle that spans millennia, from the dawn of time and to World of Warcraft’s latest patch. That’s a shame because the lore, while intimidating, is one of the richer mythos in gaming. WoW Lore TLDR is a website that takes the entire backstory of Warcraft and condenses it into digestible bullet points that you can quickly sift through. If you’re not that familiar with Warcraft’s story, this is hands down the best way to get up to speed.

Img source: Mobygames (Image: © http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/icewind-dale-ii/screenshots/gameShotId,111283/)Beamdog said back in 2014, not long after the release of Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition, that releasing an EE of Icewind Dale 2 would be a “nightmare.” Since then, he has apparently changed his mind, but as he recently told Kotaku, there’s another, far more intractable problem: The source code is missing. “We’ve reached out to our friends at Obsidian, as many of them were the devel

(Image: © HWBOT via SOFOS1990)An experienced overclocker has broken multiple HWBOT records using a heavily overclocked Intel Core i9-7900X processor. The overclock comes barely more than a month after the Core i9-7900X set new benchmark records in Cinebench at 5.7GHz. The Core i9-7900X is part of Intel’s new Core X-series, which comprises both Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X CPUs. For this overclock, SOFOS1990 plopped the Core i9-7900X into a Gigabyte X299 SOC Champion motherboard. Pumping 1.6V throug

Fable Fortune, the Fable-based CCG announced in May 2016 by a team of ex-Lionhead developers calling itself Flaming Fowl Studios, was scheduled to go into Early Access this month—which, as the calendar hounds among you will have noted, is tomorrow. “This is to make sure Fable Fortune releases on PC and Xbox simultaneously, so we can make the most of cross-play between the platforms. Sadly this is an unavoidable slip, however the PC beta is still rolling and we will be giving away more keys over

Free Rift exclusive Echo Arena, launching this summerFor the next six weeks, Oculus is knocking $200 off the price of the Oculus Rift headset , by far the lowest price we’ve seen yet for PC VR. Oculus released an update that blocked the software, then rolled it back after an outcry, and that was that. It is the right way of doing things. It’s safe to say that Oculus is less comfortable with the idea of VR failing. Funding exclusives, in Rubin’s mind, is the best way to push VR forward.

Some who’ve held off on purchasing the game are unwilling to pay double the Early Access price. There’s a lot to unpack here, so we reached out to several prominent Early Access developers to hear their take on how Early Access games should be priced. Many Early Access games see a small price increase when they officially launch. —Hugh Jeremy, Unknown Worlds“A price increase coming out of Early Access makes a lot of sense to me,” Sigman said via email. More than a sign of greed, he sees it as a

If it is a monster laptop you’re looking for, MSI’s fully loaded GT83VR Titan SLI-055 is currently on sale at Newegg for $2,199, down from its original price of $3,299. There is also a $300 mail-in-rebate available that knocks the final tally down to $1,899. The Titan is not a thin and light laptop by any means—it measures up to 2.52 inches thick (1.66 inches at its thinnest point) and weighs a hefty 11.59 pounds. That heft is to accommodate a large 18.4-inch display and not one, but two GeForce

Back in March, EA announced a new Battlefield 1 feature called Premium Friends that enables everyone in a multiplayer group to play on expansion-exclusive maps as long as at least one person in the group actually owns them. The new Premium Trials feature comes at the problem from a different angle: It will give all players access to a limited selection of expansion maps, for a limited time, regardless of ownership status. The first Premium Trials event will take place later this month with the r

Every Monday, Build of the week highlights a unique rig from the web’s most dedicated PC building communities. At a glance, it looks like an innocuous chassis, a bit bulky and poorly decorated, but pull on the sides and it pops open, revealing a cozy chair and a PC fit for a king—a king of a very small, tight space, but a small, tight space that kills Crysis. If you truly want to forget about the outside world, the Krazy Case is the next best option to living inside a vacuum—which it would be, i

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is set to come out on November 17, but ahead of that there will be a public multiplayer beta, which EA announced today will begin on October 6, or October 4 for anyone who preorders the game. The beta will include two separate scenarios: A classic, fan-favorite Star Wars clash between Republic clone troopers and Separatist battle droids on the planet Naboo in the new Galactic Assault mode, and a deep-space throwdown between the snubfighters of good and evil in the also-ne

The end of the 2017 Steam Summer Sale also marked the end of the line for more than 40,000 Steam users who were hit with the Valve Anti-Cheat banhammer. The big swing took place on July 6—the Summer Sale ended on July 5—and is far and away the biggest single-day ban wave in the history of Steam, nearly tripling the previous mark of 15,000 bans that was set on October 12, 2016. It’s no great trick for a banned Steam user to set up a new account, but the cost of re-purchasing lost games can add up

Based on the Steam data alone, the typical gamer is sporting a system with a quad-core CPU from Intel, an Nvidia graphics card, and Windows 10. In the CPU category, more than half of all Steam users are running a processor with four physical cores. Steam’s audit also shows that around 81 percent of its users have Intel inside, versus 19 percent who are running an AMD processor. Nearly two-thirds of all Steam users are running an Nvidia graphics card, versus 20 percent who have an AMD graphics ca

The original Deus Ex is arguably the best the series has to offer from a narrative perspective, however it’s not aged well since its mid-2000 release. Adam Jensen now flies the flag for the action role-playing stealth ’em up, however modder Totalitarian has spent the last five years reimagining JC Denton’s turn of the millennium debut via his or her GMDX overhaul mod. That’s now launched its latest and final version 9.0. Billed as a “large-scale” modification that offers the “definitive Deus Ex

Are you looking forward to Middle-earth: Shadow of War? James took a look at how it’s shaping up to be a “violent Tolkien fan-fiction generator” at E3. If you haven’t played its predecessor, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor yet, then you’re missing out on one of 2014’s best games. You’re in luck, though, because you can find it for a huge 85 percent off today on Bundle Stars. Leif’s review of Shadow of Mordor says it’s a great action RPG with a memorable vendetta system.

As PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ popularity continues to skyrocket, developer Bluehole has announced a new weekly exclusive Facebook livestream series that aims to “showcase different elements” of the open-world battle royale MMO. From thereon livestreams will alternate hosts “between content creators from the PUBG community” and some of Bluehole’s community managers. “This new initiative with Facebook will bring our passionate fan base closer to our development team,” says Bluehole VP and exec