Nvidia’s RTX cards are almost here, but the prices are sky-high. If you don’t care very much for ray tracing, the GTX 1080 is still a great card that will be able to play AAA games for years to come. Now you can get Gigabyte’s triple-fan GTX 1080 for just $430, a $60 savings from […]
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Killing Floor 2, Rising Storm, Road Redemption going cheap in Tripwire sale
Tripwire Interactive are the Roswell-based studio known for developing the Killing Floor series and the Rising Storm series. It also published Road Rash successor Road Redemption. And from now through Friday at 6pm BST / 10am PST, games from the above and more are on sale. With savings ranging from 50 to 85 percent, the […]
Steel Division 2 trailer shows off new units and Eastern Front warzone
Steel Division 2 keeps the WWII RTS battles of the previous game, but wraps them in a much bigger turn-based wargame on the Eastern Front. Its latest trailer shows off some of that in practice. Cue tanks, fighter jets, soldiers pegging it through long grass and, of course, a fair amount of explosions: More specifically, […]
Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay reveal was viewed by almost half a million people
You can finally watch the full Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay demo. I mean, you probably already have. And if you watched it live via CD Projekt Red’s Twitch stream the other day, you did so alongside nearly half a million others. That’s according to videogame statistics site Githyp, who reckons Monday’s showing makes Cyberpunk 2077 the […]
There's an HD texture pack mod for Shenmue I & 2
Dreamcast classics Shenmue I & II were finally released on PC this month, and in his review Andy wrote: "This solid PC version is, happily, incredibly faithful to the source material. I’m glad Sega chose not to dramatically overhaul the visuals, because they’re a vital part of the game’s distinct character. But it has been […]
Blizzard says 'no plans' to enable user-created Hearthstone puzzles, but it's a 'cool idea'
Image via hearthstonetopdecks.com If you’re anything like me, you feel more stupid now than you did at the start of the week. And for that we can thank Hearthstone’s new Puzzle Lab mode, the single-player component of The Boomsday Expansion, which went live on Tuesday. It contains more than 100 puzzles, each of which is […]
PC Gamer UK October issue: Metro Exodus
The Metro series has always been a bit out there, what with its irradiated mutants, post-apocalyptic underground sprawl, and Red Line communist regime. But its latest entry, Metro Exodus, actually goes out there—venturing out into the great outdoors for the first time. We sent Tom to talk with 4A Games about Metro’s wildest ride yet […]
Cyberpunk 2077 shows off new batch of concept artwork
Update (August 27): Even better than concept art, we now have a 4K Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay video. Original story: Cyberpunk 2077 dropped a handful of new screenshots at Gamescom yesterday. Developer CD Projekt Red has now shared some new concept artwork. Similar to the art that surfaced in the immediate wake of E3, these new […]
The Division 2 will visit the White House, Air and Space Museum, Roosevelt Island
Our everything we know about The Division 2 roundup tells us Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment’s sequel is 20 percent larger than its forerunner. Set in summertime D.C., that play area will stretch to some of the US capital’s biggest tourist spots—including Roosevelt Island and the Air and Space Museum. The former has already been teased […]
No Assassin's Creed game in 2019, Ubisoft says
Ubisoft will not release a new Assassin’s Creed game in 2019, chief executive Yves Guillemot has confirmed. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is due out this October, less than a year after the release of 2017’s Assassin’s Creed Origins. But this quick turnaround was only possible because the two games were being worked on simultaneously, Guillemot said. […]