After starting out as a Humble Monthly exclusive in April, A Short Hike arrives on Steam and Itch with a free update packed in. This cute little trek starts out with a bird named Claire and her Aunt May getting away from the city to visit Hawk Peak Provincial Park. Apparently unable to give up modern comforts entirely, Claire sets off for Hawk Peak where she can get a cellphone signal. The new Extra Mile Update, which comes included with A Short Hike, brings a few tweaks and changes that develop

Two maps have been added to the Defusal Group Sigma competitive pool, one of which is the popular Seaside map and the other a new one called Breach. Breach is, according to the CS:GO blog, “a defusal map set in a spacious corporate building”. If you want to try the new maps they’re in Deathmatch and Casual, and are also available as Scrimmage maps under the Competitive tab. Scrimmage is a five-on-five mode which doesn’t affect your Skill Group. On the way out is the Workout map, which will no lo

(Image credit: Modder: Zhongyingjie)Nowadays, if there’s a successful and moddable third-person action game, you can rest assured that eventually Nier: Automata’s 2B will be modded into it. you can play as 2B in Resident Evil 2 Remake. The work of modder TXYI, the ‘2B Claire’ mod does what the name implies: it replaces Claire with 2B. The mod replaces the Noir DLC costume, and comes with the warning that using FluffyQuak’s mod manager is “highly recommended”. (Image credit: Modder: zhongyingjie)

While the community reception was largely split, there were even more question marks surrounding the idea of forcing 2-2-2 on professional Overwatch players. After the first week of stage four, it’s safe to say that 2-2-2 has blown life into the stale lungs of Overwatch League. The pacing and general tension that you’d want from an Overwatch League match has been mostly lacking this season up to now. The introduction of Mei to the meta could prove to be one of the more interesting developments f

Halo SPV strikes a careful balance between updating and preservation”Easier” is not the same as “easy,” however. Unlike the piracy gray area of region-cracking that lead to Halo Online , Halo SPV is a totally legal mod that requires a legit copy of Halo to run. I was forced to cruise eBay for an old boxed copy to play Halo SPV. Finally, my PC was ready to install Halo SPV, a mod (for a mod) for an ancient game. A much-younger me had his mind totally blown by the original Halo, but today-me is ol

Beautiful platformer Ori and the Blind Forest remains one of the best metroidvania games on PC, and in 2017, developer Moon Studios teased a sequel called Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Here’s everything you need to know about Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Ori and the Will of the Wisps release date Ori and the Will of the Wisps has a release date of February 11, 2020. Ori has far more options in combat than in the Blind ForestCombat in Ori and the Blind Forest lacked variety: it was essentially

Sunless Skies’ latest update is just a small one, but it introduces the game’s second most requested feature. It’s called the Horn update, so you can probably guess what it is. Failbetter also announced Sunless Skies’ next major update. The most requested feature (above even the horn, if you can believe it) has been a reduction in travel time. Sunless Skies is not a brisk game, and there’s a lot of sailing between cool stories where there’s not a lot going on.

The Surge 2 will let you slap lots of mechanical bits and pieces to your body as you murder your way through the rather unfriendly Jericho City, and judging by the new trailer your ensemble is probably going to get a bit weird. Such is the curse of the RPG hero, always stuck trying to make do with whatever gear is available, even if it means you have to walk around looking like a melted gold statue. I recall a particularly trying time where I was stuck with a pair of purple trousers in World of

World of Warcraft’s vanilla races got a big makeover during Warlords of Draenor, but the newer races were deemed good enough and left alone. Goblins and worgen are both getting a visual update, including new animations. The new look will be tested in the Public Test Realms soon, along with some other new features coming to 8.2.5. “When players activate Party Sync, everyone in the party becomes aligned to the same quest state, including phases,” says Blizzard. The longer your friend subscribes, t

Finally there’s a football game that appeals to me, a sedentary man who likes a bit of soapy drama. Open Lab Games’ Football Drama is a narrative strategy game where off-pitch intrigue plays as big a role as getting people to shoot balls into nets. There’s a karma system, apparently, and you can become wise with the help of the Book of Changes. According to director Pietro Polsinelli, who says he was never a big football fan, it’s inspired by the poets, writers and movies that depict the sport.

On paper, its DDR4-3600 Neo kit looked like the best RAM for a high-end Ryzen build. If I was building a top-tier Ryzen PC today, however, I’d be eyeballing G.Skill’s newest DDR4-3800 kit. That said, if splurging on a high-end Ryzen PC, this latest Neo entry looks like a great option. Unfortunately, G.Skill does not typically announce pricing for its RAM kits, because of the fluctuating costs. So, it’s not clear how much the new DDR4-3800 kits will cost when they become available.

Mavericks: Proving Grounds, first revealed to the world in 2017 as Project X, was intended to be a tactical shooter supporting up to 1000 players at a time, with a 400-player battle royale mode. “Paul Cooper and Paul Appleton were appointed joint administrators of Automaton Games Limited on 30th July 2019. The joint administrators act as agents of the company and act without personal liability. “Please be advised that due to insufficient funding, the development of the Mavericks: Proving Grounds

What is a new in 2017? PASS Refined comprises biological activities that are the most important for medicinal chemists, pharmacologists and doctors. We are working on the integration of our predictive services, to allow you either select the set of activities of interest or to get prediction of all activities/properties in one click. One will be able to choose:

(Image credit: Thermaltake)Certain types of add-in cards like a sound card are about the only things left that have yet to be water cooled. In the meantime, Thermaltake reminds us that practically everything can be given the liquid-cooled treatment with its new WaterRam memory. I feel like it should be written WaterRAM (all caps on the RAM part), but whatever, I’ll stick with Thermaltake’s labeling. In any event, this is exactly what it sounds like—a kit of RAM that is water cooled. Outside of n

(Image credit: Rivsoft.net)Diablo, the 1996 mouse-destroying hack-and-slash original, is now playable in your browser. According to the page, the port is based on source code “reconstructed” by two programming teams, which retains all the “bugs and badly written code” from the original game. If you own the game already (it’s available on GOG), you can search for a particular file and drag it onto the browser page to access the full game. But the shareware version should suffice if you just want

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor—Martyr was a middling action-RPG that’s been tinkered with by developers NeoCore since its release, with a 2.0 update that addressed concerns with the combat and made the entire campaign playable in co-op, and now a standalone expansion. Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor—Prophecy adds a new playable class, a tech-adept who is the pet-summoner of the Inquisition. Only those pets are a variety of robots. The tech-adept will be playable in Martyr’s campaign for those who own

NVMe alternatives are even better and, as luck would have it, the Samsung SSD 970 EVO 2TB model is currently on sale over at Amazon. It’s just had its price slashed to $479 (the lowest we’ve seen for a while). That’s a bargain on one of the best NVMe SSDs you can currently get your hands on, and it’s around $120 less than we’ve seen anywhere else. As things stand, the Samsung 970 Evo is our overall favorite NVMe SSD. As we mentioned in our review , “Samsung’s 970 Evo is one of the fastest NVMe S

Instead of tweeting a teaser for Fortnite Season 10, the Fortnite Brasil Twitter account briefly gave us a look at the full Season 10 trailer, which of course was captured before anyone could realise the mistake. THE SEASON 10 TRAILER. So it’s a time travel season, but the trailer poses a lot more questions. It’s gone now, replaced by the same teaser you can see on the rest of the Fortnite Twitter accounts. Luckily, there’s not long to wait for Season 10, which kicks off tomorrow.

PC Gamer: This is probably the first Total War to explore a new era or timeline since Attila, with the exception of Warhammer. And when we first got in touch with the Three Kingdoms period, we realised very quickly that, basically, it was the perfect Total War setting. It’s basically the perfect Total War setting. (Image credit: Sega)The Total War series has visited so many eras and timelines, from Shogun to Rome and even Warhammer. And it feels like each setting brings a different size and scop