Twitch describes its Affiliate programme thusly:”Affiliates will have access to all subscription options: $4.99, $9.99 and $24.99/month, as well as the Twitch Prime free subscription. They’ll have one sub emote for all subscribers, and two additional slots for $9.99 and $24.99 subs. Today we congratulate all the Twitch Affiliates who will now have the opportunity to forge those lasting connections with their new subscribers.” We are not allowing changes to Affiliate sub emote prefixes at this ti

At its E3 2017 conference, Ubisoft teased the likes of Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Far Cry 5 and, sort-of, Beyond Good and Evil 2. It’s been close to four years since Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher sleuthed his way onto PC however, despite not airing in Los Angeles earlier this month, it seems company CEO Yves Guillemot is still interested. Speaking via the Ubisoft blog, Guillemot addressed the absent series with optimism. “I think you will be able to see something, but you will have to wait for that

“Something is happening with Dragon Age,” said Laidlaw to The 1099 podcast host Josiah Renaudin, before going on to say he and his team are “hiring a lot of people” at present. During the conversation, Laidlaw also admits BioWare had plans for Jade Empire 2—which were ultimately delayed as a result of work on Dragon Age. “We certainly had plans for a Dragon Age 2,” says Laidlaw. Jade Empire 2 was talked about. Skip to the 57 minute mark below for Laidlaw’s Dragon Age-related remarks.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X is a very serious video game, though calling it a “video game” probably undersells it. It is a simulator after all, and as a result it attracts its fair share of avid roleplayers. In this video, the serious pilot (Airforceproud95) is troubled when he discovers that the air traffic controller isn’t serious about air traffic protocol and safety. (A bit of context: in FSX you can play as either a pilot or an air traffic controller, and if these videos are any indication

Titanfall 2 gets its newest content update today in the form of War Games, which, as we’ve already learned, adds two new maps and – importantly – a third weapon slot for Pilots. But now we’ve got patch notes, which explain what other changes are being ushered in other than cool new features. Addressed issue where Pilots couldn’t enter evac while in phase state when using Phase Shift. The trigger to enter the evac will now be activated when the player exits phase state. For the full patch notes,

Back then you could get it on a CD-ROM – which were still pretty expensive back then – or you could get it on five floppy disks. A copy of the latter, without its box or manuals, is currently on eBay with its current bid set at $900. The reason it’s so expensive is that the disks belong to John Romero, id Software co-founder, Doom co-creator, and level editor extraordinaire. Romero had initially set the starting bid to $10, so even he’s probably surprised by how much demand there is. Here are so

You can hear a comparison between my regular MX Red Strafe and MX Silent Strafe above. For streamers who are going to be jamming their keys a lot—playing shooters with lots of jittery movement, lots of crouching and standing—a quieter mechanical keyboard serves a clear purpose. Well before Cherry introduced these quieter switches last year, a DIY community was already modding their keyboards to reduce noise. Now that I’ve tested the silent Strafe, I’m eager to fix and return to my old, loud-ass

The Overwatch League took another step toward becoming a thing that actually exists with today’s announcement from commissioner Nate Nanzer that the league has begun the process of assembling a scouting report of pro players from around the world, which will be available to all Overwatch League team owners. “Statistics, as we know, are only one piece of the puzzle in determining what makes an Overwatch player great, but we wanted to ensure that every great Overwatch player is presented to team o

And that’s why I’m especially interested in this algorithm, posted on Github, that ferrets out Steam’s “hidden gems” using a bit of smart math. The Wilson Score is a statistical calculation that gives a lower bound of the confidence interval, so for example, “We are 95 percent confident that the actual score is at least equal to the Wilson Score.” The more ratings a game has, the more ‘accurate’ the overall Steam score becomes, and the closer it is to the Wilson Score. There’s one pretty obvious

Raphael Colantonio, the founder of Arkane Studios and creative director on Dishonored and Prey, has announced that he is leaving the studio “to to spend some time with my son and reflect on what is important to me and my future.” “The last 18 years have been an amazing adventure—from starting Arkane in 1999, to making our first game, Arx Fatalis, to joining ZeniMax Media in 2010 and releasing the Dishonored series and Prey to critical acclaim,” Colantonio wrote in his farewell message. He also p

The next season of HBO’s Game of Thrones is nearly upon us (and presumably, at some point, we might actually see the next book in the series as well), so it feels like the perfect time for a roundup of mods that bring Martin’s world to PC games. Crusader Kings 2—A Game of ThronesDownload from ModDBIt’s hard to find a better match between game and mod than Crusader Kings 2 and the full-conversion A Game of Thrones mod. The mod adds thousands of custom items, naval battles, and a huge map of Weste

Escape From Tarkov, the Stalker-esque online shooter that we said last year is “taking gun customization to absurd heights,” will begin closed beta testing in July, developer Battlestate Games announced today. The beta will be open to anyone who owns a preorder edition of the game, no matter when it was purchased, and will see the rollout of numerous new features, a new location, and “major performance optimizations.” The closed beta will include four locations—Customs, Woods, Factory, and the n

But what if it was made into a VR game? That is sort of the idea behind Icaros, a pricey piece of exercise equipment that has you toning your body while playing games in VR. At present, there are Icaros apps for Samsung’s Gear VR, though support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift will be added sometime this summer. According to Icaros, you can burn 30 percent more calories on its machine versus traditional planking. It will be even more so once support for the Vive and Rift are added.

Dino Patti, the co-founder of Limbo and Inside studio Playdead, left the company in 2016 to “seek new challenges”. Today, as reported by GamesIndustry, he revealed that one of those challenges is a new studio called Jumpship, founded with feature film animator Chris Olsen, which is currently working on a new “sci-fi action adventure” called Somerville. “Dino is a great collaborator and his pedigree challenges every facet of the process. “Our philosophy is to break preconceived notions of what ga

Adjusted loot balance for certain items. Spawn rate of UMP was slightly decreased. Spawn rate of UZI was slightly increased. Increased spawn rate of items in regions and buildings with relatively low spawn rate. Changed the names of certain weapon attachments.

Forget about finding a needle in a haystack, if you really want to challenge yourself, go search for a Radeon RX 580 graphics that isn’t grossly overpriced. That said, if you need a new system to go along with the graphics card, Best Buy has a decent deal on CyberPowerPC’s Gamer Ultra Desktop. That’s about how much a Radeon RX 580 costs all on its own at the moment. That is what’s included in the Gamer Ultra Desktop, as is an AMD Rzyen 5 1400 processor, 8GB of DDR4 system memory, a 1TB hard driv

What separates these latest planks apart is that Cooler Master switched over to using PBT keycaps. That may sound like a minor thing, but one of the benefits of PBT keycaps versus more commonly found ABS keycaps is that they’re more resistant to wear and tear. They are resistant to solvents, mechanically strong and do not ‘shine’ like traditional ABS keycaps tend to do over time,” Cooler Master says. Cooler Master includes a set of seven extra red red keycaps to replace the traditional set of ga

There’s something beguiling about the romantic Hollywood image of the American desert. Of the handful of states released for American Truck Simulator so far, Nevada is by far my favourite. Leave the gaudy, fluorescent bustle of Las Vegas behind and there are miles of desert road to rumble along. Then, when night falls, American Truck Simulator becomes, surprisingly, of the most atmospheric games I’ve ever played. But that’s part of the magic of American Truck Simulator, a game that has no right

The history of the game contributes to Dota 2’s approach to story, events, and updates. After all, the two publishers had come out of a fight over the rights to ‘Dota’, with Valve winning in the end. The developer couldn’t take it for granted, however, and this dynamic has been influential in the history of Dota 2’s storytelling. In early December 2013, Dota 2 had just come out of the controversy surrounding the Diretide in-game event, yet players were already itching for more. Events like Siltb

First off, Global Events are special monthly events which affect the open world on a global level. Completing missions will grant players Global Event Tokens that can be spent on ‘Classified Gear Caches’ from specific vendors. All Classified Gear drops at gear score 256, regardless of World Tier. Gear score at 256 is hard capped at the main stat level, but not 256 Classified Gear.” More on that can be read here, while more on Classified Gear and Global Events can be found here and here.