Finding Paradise, the sequel to the 2011 tear-jerker To the Moon, has been delayed. “The other would be that the original projections were based more on To the Moon’s production value, but I’m finding that things with Finding Paradise have been a lot more meticulous. “It felt kind of like training with my hands tied; and now that I could transfer what I learned into a full-fledged game akin to To the Moon, I’m trying to bring the best of both worlds to Finding Paradise,” Gao said. A solid releas

A listing for Far Cry 5 that’s popped up on Steam has revealed that it will support two-player co-op action against cult leader Joseph Seed and his siblings, the Heralds. And unlike Far Cry 4, where co-operative play was limited to side quests, Ubisoft said the two-player action in Montana will be available across the entire campaign. And while the promise of “a world that hits back” doesn’t necessarily mean anything, it is intriguing, if only because the bad guys in previous Far Cry games have

The Overwatch Anniversary Event got underway earlier this week, and sadly, not everyone is happy. The complaints stem from the loot boxes that contain all that sweet anniversary swag—108 pieces in total, which according to Reddit’s calculations (via USGamer) cost more than 56,000 credits to buy. To that end, game director Jeff Kaplan took to the Overwatch forums to acknowledge the problem and invite continued discussions about “rewards, loot boxes, and anniversary cosmetic items.” “I just wanted

Episode 1 of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series did not make a super-good impression: “A meandering introduction” to a cast we’re already familiar with, we said in our review, and “a poor fit for Telltale’s simple quicktime events and stiff dialogue sequences.” Can the second episode, entitled “Under Pressure,” turn things around? Telltale announced today that June 6 is when we’ll find out. “In ‘Under Pressure,’ the Guardians just can’t seem to outrun the past (or their tab),

“Oh my god, I’m going to vomit blood,” proclaimed streamer Sean “Day9” Plott nearly 25 minutes into a game of Hearthstone that had already gone to fatigue five minutes ago. The game, which you can watch in its entirety above, is one of the most ridiculous examples of a Hearthstone match I’ve ever seen. It’s a full 30 minutes long, but well worth watching the slow build of absolute RNG clusterfuckery. I don’t want to spoil too much more, because it’s really worth watching to see Plott navigate th

EA may be taking a break from the Mass Effect series, but it’s not walking away from Mass Effect: Andromeda. The video briefing playing above says nothing about it, but the more detailed breakdown at masseffect.com certainly seems to be hinting at the Quarian arrival. “I strongly recommend sending Apex to investigate this Remnant observatory and hack its systems for more complete data. My analysis accounts for attempted auto-translation by Remnant systems and data fragmentation.” The Mass Effect

Now when you put on a Rift headset and walk around, your movements will be captured and duplicated in VR. Oculus has been working on adding room-scale motion tracking for some time now, ever since its Touch motion controllers went on sale last December. Then two weeks ago, Oculus added room-scale motion tracking to its 1.15 update, which at the time was available for public testing. That update is now available as a stable release for all Rift owners, and as such room-scale tracking is now an of

Nvidia is giving its GeForce GTX Battlebox certification program another go, and this time system builders are allowed to an AMD processor inside, provided it’s a Ryzen 5 or Ryzen 7 chip. Systems sporting a Battlebox badge have to meet a set of minimum requirements set forth by Nvidia. Certified Battlebox PCs fall into one of two categories—Essential and Ultimate. To earn an Essential Battlebox badge, system builders have to include the following (or better):GeForce GTX 1060 6GBIntel Core i5 or

The demand for 17.3-inch gaming laptops seems to have cooled a bit in recent years, but if you’re a still a fan of the form factor, there are still plenty of options out there. One of them is the Asus ROG Strix GL702VM-DB74, a relatively powerful 17.3-inch laptop with a GeForce GTX 1060 inside that is currently on sale at Newegg for $1,329. Combined with an Intel Core i7-6700HQ processor and 16GB of DDR4 memory, the foundation is plenty powerful enough to drive the display’s modest 1920×1080 res

Fallout 4 can be a bit spooky from time to time, and often startling when ghouls come lunging toward you, but it’s not a horror game. You can make it one now, though, using a mod called Pilgrim—Dread the Commonwealth. Pilgrim combines a horror-based ENB with an overhaul of Fallout 4’s weather system, citing as inspiration the 2015 film The Witch, directed by Robert Eggers. In the meantime, the mod transforms your pet pooch into a nightmarish hound with glowing eyes. “The ENB features lens emulat

“The timeline was: I quit my job in 2014 and then a month later Geneshift got Greenlit,” Johnson tells me. “A month into travelling I got an email from Steam telling me the game had been Greenlit and that started the wheels in my head. “Up until I got to Peru, the game was strictly multiplayer—it has single player now but before that it didn’t. Johnson is now back in Australia, Geneshift has now launched into Early Access and feedback so far has been good. “At the same time,” he says, “I also th

The goal of the survivors in Friday the 13th: The Game is mainly to escape the camp while Jason pursues—or at least live until the end of the round. But it is possible to kill Jason. The video above, which claims to be the ‘world first’ Jason kill (the devs have said it’s the first video posted, but not the first time it’s happened in testing) shows the kill being performed, but that’s hardly the whole story. Step 4: Female Counselor presses Q in Proximity of Jason. In the meantime, we’ve liked

Based on what I’ve played so far, Friday the 13th is great fun. Even though it can be a long wait, there’s always a good show to watch after you die. Before I settle down to really review Friday the 13th next week, I want to know a few more things. Now that Friday the 13th has officially launched, I’ll be checking for patches and fixes before the review goes out. I’m more nervous about screwing up my first game as Jason than I am fleeing from him as another counselor.

Sometimes you need a laptop so you can have a portable place to do work on, and maybe a little gaming. But sometimes, you need a laptop that’ll replace your desktop. The MSI GT73VR Titan Pro-003 is one such laptop, with great specs and a pretty good display as well. As for the specs, you get an Intel Core i7 6820HK processor at 2.7GHz, 16GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080. The 17.3-inch display is nice, although a little lacking in resolution as it’s only a 1920 x 1080 panel.

You thought the Humble Store Spring Sale was over? The Humble Spring Sale Encore is now live, and it’s a collection of the best selling games from the past couple of weeks of sales on the Humble Store. Highlights of the encore sale include Dark Souls III Deluxe Edition, Dishonored 2, and The Witcher 3: Game of the Year Edition, all for 50 percent off. Dozens more games are on sale, and you can choose to give part of your payment to any number of great charities. Some online stores give us a smal

A lot of the studio’s focus, post-launch, has been on Stellaris’ mid-game. A lot of Utopia’s concepts were originally developed for an earlier expansion, and the story-based DLC, Leviathans, was made instead. Martin AnwardBut Stellaris is more than wars and politics—it’s a vehicle for intriguing sci-fi yarns and emergent stories. “As we’re doing this sort of thing, we’re adding little bits and pieces and adapting them for the Stellaris universe, so we’re actually building a real setting out of a

Finally, we’ve had our first look at Far Cry 5, and it looks bonkers. Based on my preview late last week, a chat with creative director Dan Hay, and from scrutinizing every bit of media released so far, here’s everything we know about Far Cry 5 so far. I doubt we’ll be able to befriend and ride them like in Far Cry: Primal, but my Uncle Rod tells me stories… It’s a Far Cry game, and without weird upgrade trees, it wouldn’t feel right. After featuring so heavily in Far Cry Primal, it makes sens

Whenever I think of the ever-growing list of permadeath games that line the modern landscape, Klei Entertainment’s Don’t Starve first springs to mind. The Don’t Starve series is now subject to a weekend-long sale on Steam, which means if you’ve yet to experience Klei’s survival ’em up now’s the time to give it a bash. From now through Monday 10am PST/6pm BST, the Don’t Starve base game is going for just £2.74/$3.74 with a 75 percent reduction. Its standalone multiplayer expansion—the aptly named

When GTA Online’s shopkeepers mysteriously abandoned their stores en masse earlier this month, Rockstar failed to explain why. Maybe they were selling dodgy guns, in preparation for the city-spread sandbox’s next Gunrunning update—who knows. In any event, Gunrunning is due next month and will bring an illegal arms trade to Los Santos, specifically in the southern part of San Andreas. Rockstar says we should stay tuned for more on the “specific business and research opportunities” the Gunrunning

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has enjoyed much success since launching into Steam’s Early Access initiative in March, however large numbers of players have reported poor server performance and game-halting lag in their attempts to traverse and commit murder on the island. Luckily, any slowdown I’ve experienced while being confounded by the battle royale ’em up’s doors has been minimal, and it doesn’t seem to have stopped Gil Lawson from generating enduring memories nor Andy from hiding out in pa