Death Knights are something the community has talked about for such a long time. ‘When are they adding Death Knights? But it’s also very cool to finally play some Death Knights. What do you think Blizzard need to do with Death Knights to make sure that the mechanic lands properly? On the next page: Avoiding Hearthstone burnout, dealing with chat, joining the Battlegrounds meme market, and being banned by Blizzard…

Just so we’re clear on my opinion: the price increase for Ark is ****ing OUTRAGEOUS.July 6, 2017Ark: The game is nowhere near ready for that kind of price. In his tweets, Hall called Ark’s price change “****ing OUTRAGEOUS” (asterisks his) and attributed it to “greed – pure and simple.” How does Wildcard’s decision to release a paid expansion in 2016 change this price increase? How does a developer determine what’s the appropriate price increase when they’re transitioning from Early Access to a f

Earlier this week, we watched some SGDQ speedrunners surf and fly through Water Hazard , Half-Life 2’s wettest level. They’re redesigning the entire Water Hazard level to be playable from start to finish without a floaty friend. That doesn’t mean they’re just putting out a mod that lets Freeman fly or plops handy planks throughout the entire sequence. I mean, if you take the boat out of Water Hazard, I’d expect it to be quiet. There’s no boat making boat sounds.

That doesn’t mean that I personally don’t think there are some problems with heroes,” he wrote. But making changes to a hero because their pick rate is too high or too low is not my idea of responsible game balance,” he explained. Winston has become a core tank in the current “dive meta.” “I don’t think dive comp is bad but I think what players want is to see more comps in addition to dive comp. He concluded by saying that the dive meta will go away eventually, but Blizzard isn’t going to force

The front covers are illustrated by Firewatch visual director and artist Olly Moss, while the “back-of-book copy” was written by studio co-founder and writer Sean Vanaman. A compliment and an excuse to spend days on a one-off, never-to-be-reproduced piece of merchandise for a fan. The team created a brand new Red Panda Romance novel (although I’m assuming it’s another notebook) entitled Love at First Site. “Love at First Site finds Gina Goodspeed in Orange County, CA as the newly appointed forem

Samuel Roberts: Black holes, everywhereThis week I wrote some impressions of Crackdown 3 , which I played at E3. Joe Donnelly: Lie perfectorActual Sunlight creator Will O’Neill’s latest game, Little Red Lie, lands today and, having spent a few hours with it earlier this week, it’s a good ‘un. In Little Red Lie players control two very different protagonists: one financially compromised woman who struggles to cope with her ever-dysfunctional family, and another affluent businessman who struggles

Update: So close, and yet not quite. With less than two hours before the scheduled unlock on Steam, Grimoire’s release date very suddenly switched to “coming soon.” It’s all on me and it only gets fixed because I fix it, I can’t delegate that bug to a team member.” Original story:Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar is one of the most infamous videogames ever to be (almost, but not quite) created. Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar was not only given the Greenlight, but it actually ha

A couple of big-time shooters are headed to Electronic Arts’ subscription-based Origin Access service: Both Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 will be added to the library later this summer, along with all four Star Wars Battlefront expansions, and The Sims 4. Origin Access Members, get excited for @Battlefield 1 and @Titanfall 2 — coming soon to Origin Access. https://t.co/DeoCYKpHK9 pic.twitter.com/VKxyWyvo0YJuly 7, 2017Origin will also offer subscribers access to the FIFA 18 “Play First Trial”—ess

His gauntlet is actually a boxing glove with a Wiimote motion controller attached and wired up to control the game based on his hand movements. “Throw a punch, punch in game. Uppercut, uppercut in game! “Motion controls still needs fine-tuning, but since Doomfist is in PTR I have time to perfect it. Unlike his Dark Souls drum kit, this Doomfist glove is actually not an inherently terrible idea, and looks like a fun and possibly even effective way to play the game.

Summer Games Done Quick isn’t over yet, but there’s already a Mad Max-style trail of demolished games lying in its wake. In fact, few PC games have walked away from the event with their dignity intact. There’s the return of some old classics which, while fun, we’ve already covered at Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 and SGDQ 2016 . Dropping it like it’s hot in Divinity: Original SinTime: 23 min 47 secLet’s start strong with my favorite speedrun from SGDQ 2017. Gotta go fast in Freedom PlanetTime: 4

Most all-in-one liquid coolers focus on a single component, either the processor or graphics card. The second generation Hunter Duet II is said to increase heat dissipation for both the CPU and GPU by 50 percent, TechPowerUp reports. Similar to its predecessor, the Hunter Duet II includes two pump blocks, one for the CPU and another for the GPU. It also comes with a cooling shroud and fan for the graphics card, which blows air over the aluminum heatsinks that cover the memory and VRM. As a point

Combo deals are a great way to kick start a new build without paying full price. If that is what you’re looking to do, then check out Newegg’s combo deal for a Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 motherboard and Intel Pentium G4400 processor. The Pentium G4400 processor is not the fastest CPU on the market, but it does offer decent performance for the money. It is a dual-core chip clocked at 3.3GHz with 3MB of L3 cache, and is based on Intel’s Skylake architecture. Some online stores give us a small cut

The wheels have been turning very slowly on the Overwatch League since Blizzard announced it in November of 2016. The buy-in cost for the LA and San Francisco teams was reportedly $20 million, but the prices for the rest weren’t disclosed. Established esports organizations will take the other two US cities, Los Angeles to Immortals and San Francisco to NRG Esports. That partially jibes with a rumor that went up in May, in which sources said the base Overwatch League franchise fee was $20 million

It might already be happening, though at least one company is catering to miners with specialized BIOS updates on a handful of gaming motherboards. That company is MSI and it is now offering custom BIOS files for several higher-end motherboards that it has deemed suitable for mining. They include the Z170-A Pro, Z170A SLI Plus, Z170 Krait Gaming, Z170A Krait Gaming, Z170A Krait Gaming 3X (pictured above), Z270-A Pro, and H270-A Pro. “With the rise of Bitcoin/Ethereum mining, AMD graphics cards o

The newest set, Unearthed Prophecy, is also getting back to some of the ideas that made me fall in love with Duelyst in the first place. Unearthed Prophecy Thunderhorn is one of the previously revealed cards coming in the new set. You can take a look at all the cards from Unearthed Prophecy revealed so far right here. There are only going to be nine Sentinel units total in Unearthed Prophecy—three per faction, each with one of the triggers. You can flip through the nine new Sentinel cards we hav

The Bard’s Tale 4 is the first dungeon crawler that’s really grabbed my interest since I sat on my dad’s lap playing the original Bard’s Tale circa 1993. “We’re keeping the important parts of Bard’s Tale, incorporating that into a package keeping modern sensibilities in mind,” says Brian Fargo, who helped design The Bard’s Tale with his friend Michael Cranford in 1984. Fargo lays out how much of this new Bard’s Tale is staying true to the classic dungeon crawler formula. VP of Development Chris

Season One is about to wrap with the final elusive target, and the future of the series is unclear. Hitman 2016 was at its best when it stopped telling you a story and let you get on with the killing. You only achieve mastery of a Hitman level when—like a bald, evil Jim Carey—you know every movement of Hitman’s manakin-like NPCs. Hitman should always be about exploration and social stealth, and I don’t want Agent 47 to go full Sam Fisher. If we get a second season of Hitman, I hope it keeps up t

Following its reveal at the PC Gaming Show at this year’s E3, XCOM 2’s War of the Chosen expansion has teased its stealth based melee unit, The Assassin, and its human Reaper faction. Unlike previous iterations of XCOM grappling, though, these guys can pull enemies from cover, launch themselves towards unsuspecting targets, and deliver shock attacks at will. Most interestingly, The Skirmisher can employ multiple actions during turns and can even react to their enemies’ moves. “In other words,” s

My guy rocks a white t-shirt, baggy utility trousers and a pair of dark and battered high tops. I rock the look with a pair of shades because, frankly, I’m not very good and have barely unlocked anything. But a closer look at PUBG’s game files would suggest we may be in line (or at least could have been at one time) for a splash of retail therapy. Other users are quick to suggest some of the gear may be placeholder, or even stuff that was canned prior to where we’re at now. This could well be th

Bundle Stars is running a Versus Evil publisher sale today, containing plenty of RPGs and dungeon crawling. The main highlight here though is The Banner Saga, which has a healthy 75 percent discount. There have been two Banner Saga games so far, and which it has a good deal of turn based strategy, it’s the characters and the consequences of your choices along the way that’ll keep you going. Chris’ review of the first game back in 2014 said “there are deeper strategy games, but few where you’ll f