Microsoft Sweden via Flickr. “It’s wonky, it’s this, it’s that, but it’s the greatest depth you’re going to get, and it’s accurate,” Ballmer told The New York Times author Andrew Ross Sorkin in an interview. However, Ballmer said people should base their opinions “on common data sets that are believable.” As part of his audit and ongoing data collection, Ballmer launched USAFacts.org. Looking longer term, Ballmer hopes that others will build on top of it and offer more customized reports.

It wouldn’t be the first time Arkane’s incoming sci-fi FPS Prey has been compared to BioShock, however its latest trailer draws some serious parallels between the underwater dystopia Rapture and the setting of this outing: the Talos-1 space station. Previous snippets of life aboard the Talos have shown us our fiercest adversaries and how we might handle them, however the latest trailer gives us a tour of the opulent yet oppressive Talos-1 and the hazards it holds. Despite the fact the developers

Having gone hands-on with various playable segments of Dawn of War 3 recently, Samuel, Tom and Fraser Brown all returned with optimistic reports of Sega and Relic’s incoming real-time strategy affair. Should you wish to learn some of the following first-hand, know that sign ups for Dawn of War 3’s multiplayer open beta this weekend—set to run April 21-24 —are still live in this direction. If you’d rather the professionals showed you the ropes first, though, here’s Boulle and Mastretta in action:

After smashing its Kickstarter funding goal back in 2013, Satellite Reign entered Early Access the following year and launched in full in 2015. Doing so is easy: simply fill in the short form below for your chance to win one of 40 Satellite Reign keys in our giveaway with GOG. Terms and Conditions: By taking part in this competition you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions and the Competition Rules: http://www.futuretcs.com. The closing date will be 21 April 2017. After the closing date, one

In his review of DICE’s Star Wars Battlefront in late 2015, Andy suggested the multiplayer-focused FPS “brilliantly” captured the essence of the Star Wars universe, but that “beneath its cinematic flair lies a pretty generic multiplayer shooter.” “[They tended in Battlefront 1] to drift towards players with the most kills or lucky players, because that’s how it goes in these games,” says Diemer. In a bid to boost personalisation and depth further, Battlefront 2 will also introduce abilities and

Named Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days, the movie’s familiar cast of colour-coded robbers feature alongside a time-manipulating rewind mechanic that’s said to mirror the film’s back-and-forth flashback structure. And with 18 different levels, it would seem Bloody Days serves up plenty of scope for experimentation. “Starring the six iconic characters from the movie, Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days features insane single-player cooperative gameplay that plays out across 18 different levels, including banks

The days are numbered before the Dota 2 world converges in Ukraine for the Kiev Major. Of course, between DAC and Kiev, scrims and internal theorycrafting can radically change the meta and thus how teams stack up. Meanwhile, Wings has also struggled to perform at the very top of the tier-one teams. Last, but absolutely not least, are the European qualifier teams, Team Secret and Virtus Pro from Western Europe and CIS respectively. Each team will have a lot to prove, though, as the local tier-one

Ghost Recon: Wildlands, the tactical shooter that rewards abandoning tactics in favour of explosions and out-in-the-open gun brawls, is getting its first major expansion soon. Dubbed Narco Road, season pass holders already have access to it. If you’re in the latter camp – or indeed, just a fan of videogame trailers – the below footage should give you a taste of the content. But thankfully no such warning arrived, and in the end I had a bit of fun with Wildlands, providing I completely tuned out

The mainstreaming of esports continues apace with news out of Kuwait today that the “Electronic Sports video game phenomenon” will be added to the 2022 Asian Games schedule as an official medal event. Ahead of that, it will also be seen this September at the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, and in 2018 at the 18th Asian Games, as a demonstration event. As to what exactly prompted the inclusion of esports at the Asian Games, “heritage” is a lovely idea but Alisports president Zhang Dazhon

In 2016, a StarCraft patch surfaced on Blizzard’s FTP site with the version number 1.17. Oh, and at the same time Blizzard also just made StarCraft free to download, which is pretty cool. Blizzard promised StarCraft would go free when it announced StarCraft Remastered, an upcoming 4K-enhanced edition, last month. You can download StarCraft and Brood War for PC right here or for Mac right here. Full patch notes are included below!

The “tech-noir tactics game” All Walls Must Fall is set in the Berlin of 2089 and tells the tale of an alt-future Cold War that never ended. The project easily hit its Kickstarter goal of €15,000 ($16,100) last month, and with just a handful of hours left in the campaign it’s now trying to nail down a couple more stretch goals. The next one in line, at €35,000, is called “Discrimination,” which aims to bring “more diversity to our NPC and player character cast.” The “Discrimination” stretch goal

Good news for anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a real-life Ethan Hunt but doesn’t have the stomach for flying bullets, vicious fistfights, ear-shattering explosions, and premature death: As reported by VR Focus, Virtual reality developer VRWerx, the studio behind the Paranormal Activity VR game that made Tim scream like a schoolgirl, is working with Paramount Pictures on a VR game based on the Mission: Impossible movie series. “Virtual Reality is the perfect platform to offer fans a truly imme

The Warrior Quest works because the condition is something the class does normally. Playing against a Quest deck lacks a sense of agency. Imagine, for example, if the Warrior Quest involved reaching a certain amount of armor. Bouncing backAnd so, to Quest Rogue . Yes, Quest Rogue frustrates me and Quest Warrior bores me to tears, but there are always going to be some matchups I don’t enjoy.

Respawn has revealed more details about the upcoming Titanfall 2 DLC A Glitch in the Frontier, which will include two new maps, a new faction, tweaks of various sorts, and a new Execution move called “Get to the Point,” a name that will seem perfectly appropriate once you’ve made it to the end of the announcement trailer embedded above. The “Glitch” map is a “medium-sized map designed for objective modes,” with “vertical drops and long, twisting paths … perfect for chaining together long wall

Hot on the heels of announcing its refreshed Polarish line, AMD has made available a new set of Crimson ReLive drivers that add support for its newly minted Radeon RX 580 and 570 graphics cards. They include:The Xbox DVR application may cause conflicts with Radeon ReLive, users are suggested to disable Xbox DVR if Radeon ReLive is experiencing issues. Radeon ReLive may intermittently fail to work after performing task switches of applications. Radeon ReLive may exhibit corruption in recordings w

But as well as being a useful yardstick for comparing games, The Witcher 3 is a convenient stick for beating them with. However, when it comes to Mass Effect: Andromeda there are a surprising number of things in common. Andromeda also has a voice in your ear: SAM, the deathly dull AI who reminds you about mining for minerals. Both Mass Effect: Andromeda and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt play in a broadly similar way. ‘All In’ is an exceptional mission in Andromeda, one in which everything comes toget

There are two main Pro models, the 15.6-inch GP62MVR X Leopard Pro and 17.3-inch GP72VR X Leopard Pro. Ports consist of a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C, two USB 3.0 Type-A, a single USB 2.0, SD card reader, and HDMI and mini DisplayPort outputs. MSI also announced three non-Pro models, the GP62 X Leopard, GP62M X Leopard, and GP72 X Leopard. The GP62 X and GP72 X will be available starting today starting at $1,099 and $1,599, respectively. MSI did not say when the Pro models will be available or for how m

A leaked email making the rounds on Reddit and NeoGAF says that Twitch will soon give streamers the option of offering their followers two new subscription tiers, at $10 and $25 per month. The stated priority is making life better for streamers, but subscribers will see upsides too. The obvious question, as seen in the comments on both sites, is whether any individual streamer is worth $25 per month. Will Twitch take a deeper cut from the higher subscription tiers? In the meantime, here’s one mo

The uptick might have had something to do with this recent Reddit post, in which Retro21 runs down the many benefits of smoke grenades. It seems smoke grenades are catching on, and they should be. It’s not as if no one was using smoke before. There may be no tick tick tick as you deal damage, but frustrating snipers is even better. To everyone who’s been using smoke all this time: I’m sorry I didn’t join you earlier.

GigabyteGigabyte also offers two Radeon RX 580 cards under its own branding, the Gigabyte Radeon RX 580 Gaming 8G (GV-RX580GAMING-8GD) and Radeon RX 580 Gaming 4G (GV-RX580GAMING-4GD). SapphireArguably one of the nicest looking RX 580 cards out there is the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 580 8GD5 Limited Edition model. Finally, Sapphire offers two Pulse models, the Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GD5 and Pulse Radeon RX 580 4GD5. MSI offers this same card in non-X+ variants (Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8G and Radeon