Which means no Black Flag 2. The Burnout comparison also gets slightly ridiculous when you consider that manipulating wind is more of a thing in Skull & Bones than it was in Black Flag. But unlike Black Flag, you don’t get to swing across as the skipper and start putting yourself about with a cutlass. Right now Skulls & Bones feels like a relatively amusing diversion, rather than the spiritual successor to Black Flag I really want. Splicing those two wildly disparate genres was what made Black F

The first of Neill Blomkamp’s promised experimental short films has just released on Steam, and while I haven’t had the chance to actually watch it yet, the screenshots are very cool. Dubbed Rakka, the film is “the story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species.” “Bleak harrowing and unrelenting, the humans we meet must find enough courage to go on fighting,” the description reads. The free 22 minute film can be streamed for free over on Steam, but as

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus can be played either stealthily or with brute force, but either way the game encourages you to kill – not evade – your Nazi enemies. It’s one of the take aways from this new trailer, which has several developers from MachineGames discussing BJ Blazkowicz’s new outing. The trailer may also contain hints that BJ… has a new body? Watch until the end and note the weird metal ring around his neck. Evan had a look at the game earlier today, and came away pretty impre

If you were expecting Assassin’s Creed: Origins to boast cooperative play or any other kind of online multiplayer, then it’s time to drop that hope. Assassin’s Creed: Origins will be a single-player experience, the game’s director Ashraf Ismail confirmed during an E3 panel (via VG 24/7). And yet, it will feature some online functionality, though the nature of that functionality has yet to be announced. These will simply be enhancements, apparently, and are thus unlikely to resemble Watch Dogs 2′

Dauntless is a free-to-play online co-op game about hunting huge monsters called Behemoths, inspired by games like “Dark Souls, Monster Hunter, and World of Warcraft,” that was revealed late last year. In March, developer Phoenix Labs began taking signups for a closed alpha test, and the next month began offering Founder’s Packs, one of which includes access to an “exclusive pre-beta event” called the Founder’s Alpha. All of which leads us to today’s news: The launch of the Founder’s Alpha, and

The developers of OpenIV, a popular modding tool for the Grand Theft Auto series for nearly a decade, posted today on the site gtaforums.com, claiming they received a cease and desist letter from Take-Two Interactive. OpenIV is an editor and archive manager for GTA 4 and 5, and Episodes from Liberty City, as well as Max Payne 3. It was first released in 2008, and has been an essential tool for both the creation of GTA mods and for installing and playing them. However, the developers of OpenIV sa

Minutes into Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, Nazi grandma Frau Engel has already won. This whole control scheme is a small wonder, and I hope it lasts beyond these opening 10 minutes. I watched pairs of Nazis get zapped to mush as they stumbled into microwave fields scattered around the submarine. In another taste of The New Colossus’ dark humor, I watched pairs of Nazis get zapped to mush as they stumbled into microwave fields scattered around the submarine. Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus wil

Subsequent Assassin’s Creed games never quite steered back to the creative assassination fantasy, piling up systems on systems to compensate. After playing Assassin’s Creed: Origins at E3, I don’t get the impression it’s a perfect knife-in-the-dark simulation, but after a much needed year off, Assassin’s Creed is finally getting back to the point: killing jerks in cool ways. Is Assassin’s Creed: Origins taking a page from Hitman? My favorite stealth game memories are from when I’m backed into a

Far Cry 5 and Assassin’s Creed: Origins have plenty in common, but one of their more understated similarities is that both Ubisoft teams decided to drop the mini-map. When you’re running around the world in Assassin’s Creed your cool eagle friend is your only immediate form of navigation, and in Far Cry 5, it’s your trusty binoculars. Personally, I’d love to see every open world embrace this style of navigation. If the world isn’t naturally notable, maybe it shouldn’t even be an open world to be

Blizzard has officially unveiled the Overwatch Open Division, a new league that will provide amateur players around the world with “a more formal, structured tier of competition” than regular Competitive play, “where the demands of esports elevate players with true grit and skill.” Players on teams who complete all of their Open Division regular season games will earn $10 in Blizzard Balance, “with more in store for those who make it to the playoffs.” “And, in the future, top finishers in the Op

The multiplayer tactical FPS Insurgency was released by New World Interactive in 2014, and it was quite good. The studio followed that up with Day of Infamy, a standalone expansion released earlier this year that converts the game from the modern era to the Second World War. Now a third game is on the way, Insurgency: Sandstorm, a proper sequel to the original that will feature a new Story Mode, playable either solo or cooperatively in groups of up to four. Despite the option to go alone, it’s c

Call of Duty: WWII’s multiplayer is, for the most part, Call of Duty as you’ve played it for the past 10 years. War Mode is the biggest and most promising addition. Other than that major movement tweak, War Mode is the biggest and most promising addition. Completing War Mode’s grab-bag of objective types, we had to plant a bomb on the ammo depot, then protect it from Axis defenders. War mode is essentially a smorgasbord of COD modes.

First, the upgraded Razer Blade weighs slightly more before—2.93 pounds versus 2.84 pounds. Razer’s 13.3-inch Blade Stealth comes with a single display option, that being an IGZO touch panel with a 3200×1800 resolution. With the 13.3-inch Blade Stealth, Razer is now offering a “gunmetal gray” variant with a tone-on-tone Razer logo and white backlit keyboard. You can also add an external graphics box (Razer Core) to the Blade Stealth. The box alone costs $500 and comes with a 500W power supply, G

Some of the top wireless routers can run a couple hundred dollars, or more. While they’re generally feature packed and fast, you don’t have to spend a king’s ransom upgrading your home network. One example of this is Trendnet’s AC1900 (TEW-818DRU), a relatively fast wireless router that is currently on sale at Dell for just $50. Trendnet’s router offers speeds of up to 1,300Mbps on the 5GHz band and up to 600Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. You can grab the router on sale here.

Drew Karpyshyn spent 12 years at BioWare, working on as a designer and writer on everything from Baldur’s Gate 2 to Star Wars: The Old Republic, and of course the first two Mass Effect games, on which he served as the lead writer. He left in 2012 but returned in 2015, saying that he was going back to work on The Old Republic. Earlier this year, however, Karpyshyn acknowledged that he was working on a new game. I speculated at the time that it might be a new KOTOR game that was rumored to be in d

Hot on the heels of the E3 reveal of Ori and the Will of the Wisps, sequel to the fantastic 2015 platformer Ori and the Blind Forest, we are getting even more Ori! Indie Smash Bros-style fighting game Rivals of Aether has announced that Ori will be coming to the game as a new fighter. Ori will come alongside a new “Spirit Tree” stage in a $5 DLC pack that will be purchasable later this summer. Developer Dan Fornace has worked with both Ori developer Moon Studios and publisher Microsoft to bring

But a host of subtle changes and a major step up in presentation makes the action more satisfying than it ever did in Mount & Blade: Warband. Taleworlds was only showing off the combat, which is a small portion of everything that comprises a Mount & Blade game. A host of subtle changes and a major step up in presentation makes the action more satisfying than it ever did in Mount & Blade: Warband. Oh captain, my captainBoth of those changes are small and will only be fully appreciated by Mount &

Intel formally introduced its Kaby Lake-X and Skylake-X processor lineup at Computex last month, but at the time it didn’t say anything about a specific release date. Starting on June 19 (this coming Monday), some of Intel’s Core-X series CPUs will be available to preorder. In it, Intel says it will make available 4-core, 6-core, 8-core, and 10-core to preorder on June 19 with shipments commencing the following week. Beyond more cores, threads, and cache, the Skylake-X CPUs add more PCIe lanes t

In 2017 alone, Sega has delivered both Vanquish and Bayonetta to desktops which has us wondering: which games might be next? Speaking to John Clark, Sega Europe’s senior vice president of commercial publishing, at E3, our Samuel asked that very question. “If I asked you to write me a list of ten games you want Sega to bring out on PC, it probably isn’t any different from the list [we have],” says Clark. “I could ask anyone at Sega: write me a list. Nothing confirmed, then, but I’m suddenly very

Rats are pretty annoying, chewing and scurrying and generally looking suspicious, but it could be worse. They could be killing everyone off again, like they are in A Plague Tale: Innocence, a game that sounds interesting, but mostly harrowing. It’s 1349 and France is having a pretty awful time, what with the whole apocalyptic plague being spread by rats. “They will have to join forces with other orphans and evade swarms of rats using fire and light,” says publisher Focus Home Interactive. “Aided