(Image credit: Electronic Arts)Since Apex Legends Season 2 has crashed into Kings Canyon and brought both Leviathans and thieving airborne dinosaurs to the arena, who could be more useful than someone who can create electric fences? If you fancy creating your own Jurassic Park, Wattson is an interesting new defensive character who can contribute a lot to a team. Tactical: Perimeter SecurityPerimeter Security will allow you to place down little electric fences to impede enemies. Do note that this

Yep, sounds like a week of PC gaming here in 2019. I don’t think most developers are about to have a change of heart, whatever G2A offers. • Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC is mentioned in the Social Club source codeRockstar still won’t confirm whether or not Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC, but we’re feeling pretty good about the possibility. • The Witcher TV series on Netflix now has a poster, logo and first stillsThey led with butt instead of tub. Around the officeWe finished writing the PC

(Image credit: AMD)AMD is about to launch its Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards to retail, though not before it adjusts the pricing. The new pricing is as follows:Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition—$449 (down from $499)Radeon RX 5700 XT—$399 (down from $449)Radeon RX 5700—$349 (down from $379)AMD shaved $50 off the price of both 5700 XT models, and trimmed a modest $30 off the MSRP of the 5700. In that spirit, we are updating the pricing of our Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards,” A

Nobody can keep a secret in 2019, but SCoRE, a City of Heroes private server, did its best for a very long time. But he’s still extremely aware that as the chairman of a cosmopolitan, highly accessible City of Heroes server, he’s putting himself in legal crosshairs. “Which just shows the collectiveness of the City of Heroes community.” A few years ago, it was nearly impossible to imagine the City of Heroes faithful earning restitution in Paragon City. They’ve already conquered a miles-deep consp

(Image credit: The Raspberry Pi Foundation)The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released a new and burlier version of its mini PC, the Raspberry Pi 4, with a faster processor and up to 4GB of RAM. As PC builders know, heat is the enemy of performance, and the Raspberry Pi 4 is no exception. That may not sound like much, but performance also improved, as the Raspberry Pi 4 did not throttle as quickly. In the site’s 7-Zip benchmark, for example, the Raspberry Pi yielded the following scores:Raspbe

TIGA has asked the government to continue the Video Games Tax Relief, as well as increase the level of relief from 25 to 30 percent. Research commissioned by the trade association suggests that this five percent boost would result in 700 jobs, £95 million in development expenditure and £86 million in taxes. A Video Games Investment Fund has also been proposed to encourage studio growth and get more original games out the door. There’s already the UK Games Fund, which provides up to £25,000 in fu

The developers recently opened the door to more players (and more money) with an alpha for everyone who pre-orders the game. “Preorder Temtem on the Discord store within the next two weeks and get instant access to the on-going Alpha,” the TemTem team posted on June 25. Judging by the frequency of Kickstarter updates, Temtem seems to be progressing well, and this is actually tier 2 of its alpha release. Here’s the caveat from the developers that this version, alpha 0.2, is a long way from final:

We Need to go Deeper is a “a Jules Verne-inspired roguelike set under the sea” that mainly takes place aboard a yellow submarine of the sort The Beatles might go roaming around in. ), when it was still jostling for the thumbs-up on Steam Greenlight. Fast-forward five years, and it’s still not officially released, but it does finally have a release date: We Need to go Deeper will leave Steam Early Access on August 1, a long-awaited launch that will bring about a few changes to the game. We Need t

It’s a core mechanic and you’ll be able to dedicate your life to trading, or join a trading guild and work with pals to make you all richer. You’ll choose a preset first, but you’ll be able put your own stamp on it. Donkey Crew hasn’t decided how many walkers there will be, but they’ll specialise in combat, transport or exploration. It won’t be in the game at Early Access launch, but Donkey Crew does plan to introduce it at some point. Last Oasis is coming to Steam Early Access soon, Donkey Crew

Blue Protocol, announced last week, is an online action-RPG where you’ll need to team up with your anime buds to stop a very fetching world from being destroyed. The debut trailer gives us a quick look at the place we’ll be protecting, along with a bunch of flashy battles. It’s in good company, too, what with Bandai Namco publishing Ni No Kuni and the Tales series. Team members from Bandai Namco Studios, which develops the Tales series and plenty of others, have teamed up with members of Bandai

The Witcher 3 might not have spawned the sort of mod community that Skyrim enjoys, but four years (!) Along with making the monster slayer’s hair and beard more detailed, BlurredNotions also tweaked the physics values, making the hair more responsive at framerates higher than 60. Download the mod here, and here are the best Witcher 3 mods. A bunch of new snaps from The Witcher Netflix adaptation appeared recently, showing off Geralt and Yennefer. Twitter was a bit mean about Cavill’s Geralt wig,

Today, G2A has responded with a statement where it says it will pay developers ten times the money they’ve lost through chargebacks for keys bought with stolen credit cards, as long as there’s proof. That was a few hours ago; since then, a petition started by No More Robots rep Mike Rose has gone up demanding that G2A stops selling indie games. The post also mentions the current Twitter beef between G2A and publisher No More Robots, and claims that only 8 percent of games sold on the platform ar

Cyberpunk is a deeply political sub-genre of science fiction, and it’s no surprise that Cyberpunk 2077 will be too. Cyberpunk is “inherently political,” Pondsmith said, but not in the commonly-considered sense of left and right, or conservative and liberal. “Basically, it’s all political but a big part of what Cyberpunk talks about is the disparities of power and how technology readdresses that.” Pondsmith now views Cyberpunk as similar to the Star Wars trilogy (the first one, I would hope) or ”

But his description of those themes, which include “power and how power is used against people who don’t have it,” has an awfully political ring to it. The Outer Worlds is about a deep-space colonist whose ship gets knocked off course, and so ends up being awakened from cryosleep decades later than intended, into a galaxy dominated by mega-corporations and rampant capitalism. If you let other people control that narrative, then they can control you to a certain degree,” he said. “The story alway

(Image credit: Ubisoft)Ubisoft certainly hasn’t skimped on the post-launch support for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Weeks after the release of a new quest creator, the publisher has confirmed that the third and final part of the serialised Fate of Atlantis DLC will release on July 16. It’s our first look at Poseidon’s realm, and by the sounds of things, it’ll be the very last DLC pack for the game. Before that, another serialised DLC series released throughout 2018, in the form of Legacy of the Fir

If you’re after a top gaming laptop then this one in particular has been discounted heavily, and it may very well fit your needs. Dell’s Alienware M15 gaming laptop is $1,699, which is $710 down from its typical going price of $2,409.99. In our review we praised the M15 for its “competitive specs,” lengthy battery life, and “exemplary” keyboard. It might not quite make it on to our list of best gaming laptops but it runs those that are on it very close indeed. If you want something different, th

Paradox Interactive has kind of an unusual approach to making DLC, in that it can’t seem to not make DLC. In a series of tweets posted today, former Paradox CEO Frederik Wester, now the executive chairman of the board, defended the company’s DLC policy as “a fair and balanced way to release content.” “Our DLC model is based on the idea that you pay for new content after the full game release. This helps to finance the further development of the game, which is of gain for all players,” Wester twe

Since it’s the 4th of July, enjoy this 2016 article about one of the Independence Day games. Independence Day was the highest-grossing film of 1996, earning over $800 million at the box office on a $75 million budget. But there was another Independence Day game, released the same year as the film, that you might not have heard of. American toy company Trendmasters released a line of Independence Day action figures alongside the movie in 1996. And in the box for each figure was a floppy disk cont

The hint of an Aliens game gets me all frothy, even if it’s just a studio putting out the call for new team members. Cold Iron Studios’ unnamed Aliens game was teased at the start of 2018, and we’ve not heard much about it since. Until this week, the last tweet from the official account was from November, but there are once again signs of life. Cold Iron’s looking for a lead character artist, lead environment artist, concept artist, systems designer, content designer and an infrastructure engine