Hitman 2 is preparing for a hot, loud summer full of killer musicians and killing musicians, kicking off tomorrow, July 4, with The Babayeva Dissonance. It’s an escalation contract where you’ll be blowing up a noisy band on the Isle of Sgail. On July 4, Agent 47—no doubt wracked with guilt over the last contract—will try to make amends by joining a band himself. Another escalation contract will appear on July 25, sending you back to Santa Fortuna to blow more stuff up. The first mission will app

(Image credit: Asus)Asus has launched a new trade-in program that, in some cases, pays handsomely for certain older generation graphics cards. A GeForce GT 730, for example, qualifies for as much as £125 (~$160) when buying a new card. The caveat is that Asus is only offering its “Christmas in July” trade-in program in the UK at the moment. Buying a higher-end GPU like an RTX 2080 Ti nets you more for your old card than an RTX 2060. Here are some examples:GeForce GT 730 to a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti—

One rather large group of such people is the entire nation of France, which has launched a program called “Join the Game” aimed at promoting the country as an epicenter of game development, and enticing developers who, for one reason or another, might be looking to relocate in the near future. “Proud of its history and dedicated to becoming the leading country in this industry, France has aimed, over the years, to remain an important hub for game development,” it says. ‘Join the Game’ illustrate

Codemasters has tapped the brakes on the new Grid racing game it revealed to the world back in May. Initially slated to come off the line in September, the studio announced today that it’s been pushed back to October 11—although in an unusual twist, the delay apparently doesn’t have anything to do with the state of the game’s development. “With Grid receiving multiple nominations and awards at this year’s E3 event in Los Angeles, including being named ‘Best Racing Game’ by Game Informer and Dual

Dota Underlords, Valve’s Dota-themed autobattler, is due an update this week, with “experimental features” that the team’s keen to test on its Early Access guinea pigs. There are some tweaks and reworks coming, too, along with the first version of the battle pass. We’ll have to wait to find out what’s in this beta battle pass, and you can give Valve feedback on what you’d like to see when the proper battle pass appears with the first season. Dota Underlords’ launch was considerably more successf

Satisfactory’s second Early Access update introduces the awesome power of nuclear energy to the factory builder. If you’ve been watching Chernobyl and are terrified of nuclear power, you’re very sensible, because along with all that power comes the spectre of radiation. Update 2’s nuclear tier will let you make a huge leap in power capacity. Less dangerous are the new electric locomotives that let you shoot around your massive factory complex at lightning-fast speeds. Along with trains and nucle

It’s currently $60 off, $640 at Amazon right now, a price point just $2 higher than its lowest ever. The Asus ROG PG279Q model tops our list for a number of reasons, not least of which is it’s crystal clear 1440p IPS display and remarkable 165hz refresh rate. The PG279Q not only manages that combo, but packs Nvidia’s G-sync technology to reduce the tearing and artifacting that results from mismatched frame rate/refresh rate between your PC and your monitor. (Image credit: ©Asus) Asus PG279Q is $

The 2060 and 2070 Super models will launch on July 9, with the 2080 Super arriving on July 23. RTX 2070 SuperThe RTX 2070 Super is up to 24 percent faster than the RTX 2070 for the same price, and it’s also faster than the GTX 1080 Ti. RTX 2080 SuperWith an increased memory speed to 15.5Gbps, the RTX 2080 Super is about about 10 to 15 percent faster than the RTX 2080 at the same price—and it’s faster than the Titan Xp. You can read our 2060 Super review, but in our tests we’ve found that the 206

Borderlands 3 will send vault hunters across space and to various worlds, but the series mainstay, Pandora, will still be around. Gearbox has put together a video showing off the vibrant wildlife inhabiting the dusty world, all waiting to be riddled with bullets. Over on the Borderlands 3 Pandora page, it’s described as an inhospitable world and the current home of the Children of the Vault. With the recent free Borderlands 2 DLC, I took a trip back to Pandora myself and fell into Gearbox’s trap

If you really want to make the Amazon Prime Day PC deals work for you, though, you need a plan. We’re going to run down the best PC upgrades you can make on Prime Day, based on the likelihood that they’ll be on sale and the market right now. If something is currently overpriced, or rarely sees price cuts, you know it’s something to invest in on Prime Day. These are almost guaranteed to be on sale during Prime Day and are wonderful additions to any PC build. Luckily, Logitech is generally a big P

My Friend Pedro, a 2D bullet-time score-attack action-platformer, is almost entirely the work of one developer: Victor Ågren, aka DeadToast Entertainment. Publisher Devolver Digital recently announced that his game sold 250,000 units in its first week (across both PC and Switch), so Victor’s probably pretty happy about that. Watch the whole thing embedded above. Among the nuggets of information the interview reveals is that Pedro, the player’s mentor, was almost a flying gnome, “but bananas are

It’s a shame to see ThinkGeek’s own website go, but you’ll still see them via their new relationship with GameStop. However, the good news is that this offer’s a last big hurrah from the retailer, so jump in now. There’s so much going on there in terms of video game and entertainment merchandise, you’re very likely to find something just right for you. This makes it unclear whether that includes tomorrow or not, so we’d encourage you to click through and capitalise right now to avoid disappointm

I’ve spent hundreds of hours exploring Skyrim across countless saves and multiple editions, and not surprisingly I’ve been on dry land for most of it. Of my many downloaded mods, only a couple affect water, and then only the surface, but Depths of Skyrim, uploaded last week, changes a great deal more. Depths of Skyrim is an underwater overhaul that gives the game’s damp areas the same sort of attention that’s been lavished upon its mountains and forests. I recently confessed to a friend that I n

Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard’s all-star MOBA, hasn’t been looking too healthy lately. According to Blizzard co-founder and former president Mike Morhaime, the mistake was not leveraging Dota’s popularity early enough. The original Defense of the Ancients mod sprouted out of Warcraft 3, making Blizzard indirectly responsible for the rise of the genre. “First of all, I think the Heroes team made a great game,” Morhaime told VG24/7 at Gamelab Barcelona. It took a further six years for Blizzard to

Paradox Interactive’s former CEO and current executive chairman, Fredrik Wester, called the 70/30 revenue split used by platform holders like Valve “outrageous” at a Gamelab panel on Epic’s revenue model last week. Before the cavalcade of exclusives, the Epic Games Store’s more generous 88/12 split was its most notable feature. While Paradox Interactive has a long list of games on Steam, so far it looks like only Bloodlines 2, which is only available for pre-purchase, is on the Epic Games Store.

Telltale’s The Walking Dead concluded this year after four seasons, ending Clem’s seven-year saga. Now that it’s all wrapped up, Skybound is releasing The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series, which collects all four seasons and their spin-offs in one bundle. Picking up the definitive series will net you all of Telltale’s undead adventure games, including The Walking Dead: Michonne, the 400 Days DLC and various bonuses. Despite being called The Telltale Definitive Series, Telltale Games

An alleged Grand Theft Auto 6 ‘leak’ appeared on Reddit on the weekend and, while it is quite detailed, it’s probably bogus. We’ll visit Vice City again, apparently, and South America, and we’ll even get to visit Cuba. Reddit user JackOLantern1982 is apparently getting their information from people who have worked at PC Gamer and Kotaku. The ‘leak’ was followed up by another one, this time from gfk53, who apparently has an “inside source”. GTA 6 is almost certainly coming, but if it bears a rese

The Witcher on Netflix, which is coming later this year, now has an official poster that showcases star Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia. It makes a slightly better impression than the initial costume test from last year, and features the series’ tagline: ‘The worst monsters are the ones we create’. In addition, stills from the series have been released:Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Netflix) Image 2 of 4 (Image credit: Netflix) Image 3 of 4 (Image credit: Netflix) Image 4 of 4 (Image credit: Netfli

Apex Legends’ ping system is one of this year’s best FPS mechanics—and now PUBG has its own version. When you ask for ammo, the message will include the ammo type for the weapon you’re holding. The wheel menu has eight messages in total plus a central ‘ping’ option—you can see them all in the screenshot below. (Image credit: PUBG Corporation)The patch also adds a new weapon, a ledge grab mechanic and an amphibious vehicle. The last major addition is the ledge grab, which will let you traverse ur