This week, ESL announced a separate military partnership for the Intel Extreme Masters North America 2020 and ESL Pro League Season 11 series, this one with the US Air Force. As the Navy is doing at Dreamhack events, the Air Force will operate on-site content at live events and be integrated into livestreamed Pro League events. Timeouts at Pro League and IEM events will also be officially sponsored as, and I am not making this up, “Air Force Tactical Timeouts.” The Air Force and ESL also greatly

Cyberpunk 2077, barring further delays, is coming to PC and consoles in September. “Cyberpunk 2077 will be available on GeForce Now the day it’s released,” Nvidia wrote in a forum post. Be that as it may, if Cyberpunk 2077 is playable on GeForce Now on launch day and not on Stadia, that’s a win for Nvidia. Cyberpunk 2077 is scheduled to come out on PC, consoles, and GeForce Now on September 17. I’ve reached out to CD Projekt and Google to ask about the Stadia launch date, and will update if I re

After playing several hours last week I wasn’t all that impressed with the state of Wolcen’s launch either, but things have only gotten worse for many players, . Once servers were restored on February 16, players still continued to encounter connectivity issues that made playing with friends unreliable. Game-breaking bugs and infinite gold exploitsThe game is in SHAMBLES. In the short time since Wolcen’s launch, players have discovered ways to earn infinite gold or create infinite stacks of item

That can only mean one thing: you’ll be able to dive into the medieval world of Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord soon. What exactly will be available to play in the early access version of Mount & Blade 2 hasn’t been revealed yet. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord will be released in Early Access on 31st March 2020. Hopefully the early access version offers a generous slice of all of this. TaleWorlds will reveal what will be on offer in the early access version in March, before it drops.

(Image credit: Yahoo)Computer scientist Larry Tesler, who was an instrumental figure at Apple in the ’80s and ’90s, died on Monday at the age of 74, according to Apple Insider. Tesler began his career in the ’60s as a programmer and Stanford AI researcher before joining Xerox in 1973. One of his inventions during his time at Xerox is something so ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that someone invented it. With Tim Mott at Xerox, Tesler created the cut, copy, and paste commands we use daily. In 198

Released last year, Dangerous Driving was an admirable stab at capturing the spirit of the old Burnout games, and it’s no wonder: studio Three Fields Entertainment boasts talent who worked on that series. Now Dangerous Driving is getting a sequel, scheduled to release this year, and based on the scant information we have thus far it sounds a lot like a Burnout Paradise game. Whereas the first Dangerous Driving game was a mostly linear affair, albeit with an abundance of destruction-oriented mode

Or get the Aorus CV27F 27-inch curved gaming monitor for $200 after rebate with this deal. Deals come in too frequently to ever pay full price for a gaming monitor, and to drive that point home, check out the discount on this Aorus CV27F, a 27-inch ‘frameless’ gaming display with a 1500R curvature. In addition, this is a FreeSync Premium Pro monitor. FreeSync Premium Pro is the highest one (formally known as FreeSync 2 HDR). On top of it all, Aorus (Gigabyte’s gaming brand) backs the monitor for

The wireless Oculus Quest made Andy Kelly love virtual reality again, as he wrote last month, and for most people it’s simply the best VR headset option. Adding to the frustration, Facebook anticipates a prolonged delay in getting sufficient shipments out the door because of the Covid-19 coronavirus. “Oculus Quest has been selling out in some regions due to high demand. Speaking with USA Today, Sean Liu, a product manager for Facebook, described the coronavirus as a “wrinkle all companies are fa

A creation of artist Trevor Henderson, Sirenhead is a gangly, forty-foot-tall cryptid whose head is a pole with two large speakers attached. Those speakers blare air raid sirens, emergency broadcasts, static, eerie snatches of music, and garbled conversations as Sirenhead lurches around the landscape doing Sirenhead things. Including, recently, Fallout 4, where Sirenhead has become a part of the Whispering Hills mod, a Silent Hill overhaul. In the mod, the world of Fallout 4 is constantly envelo

The Gothic remake is going into full production. THQ Nordic confirmed today that development is going ahead as the playable teaser got enough attention and positive feedback. The goal is to make a faithful remake of the 2001 German RPG, as to be expected, but with modern graphics and updated mechanics. “There’s more than a whiff of The Witcher 3 about it, surprisingly,” Fraser Brown wrote after taking the teaser for a spin. Apparently one of the biggest requests off the back of the teaser has be

It’s called Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and you play as a Cutter: a blue-collar worker at a space station orbiting earth where you slice up derelict spaceships into spare parts. It’s planned for a Steam Early Access launch this summer, and you can check out the announcement trailer above. “With true-to-life physics and demolition effects, a sandbox of creative destruction lies before you this Summer on Steam Early Access,” says Blackbird Interactive and Hardspace: Shipbreaker’s publisher, Focus Home

Yep, Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto 4 will return to Steam on March 19, 2020, but it will be missing multiplayer and online leaderboards. That’s not all that’s missing, either, as the radio stations RamJam FM, Self-Actualization FM, and Vice City FM will be temporarily unavailable. If you already own GTA 4 then you’ll be able to download an update to keep playing from March 19. It’s a necessary download as GTA 4 and its DLC, Episodes from Liberty City, are being replaced with GTA 4

What if Dig Dug were more Columns-y? The answer to both these questions is Blocked Up, a match-3 game where you also control a little man, a man who’ll be crushed if the top of a screen, or a falling block, lands on his head. So, as in Dig Dug, you have to constantly move downwards, but by matching coloured blocks rather than shovelling them out of your way. Interestingly, you can only swap blocks horizontally, adding another layer of thought as you (increasingly frantically) clear a path for th

Zombies Ate My Neighbors released in 1993 for 16-bit consoles, and it was as straightforward as games come: you kill a bunch of monsters (not all of them are zombies) and rescue survivors. That very same year another game concerning the slaying of monsters released, and while it was arguably even more straightforward, it was a much bigger deal. That game was Doom, and now in 2020, Doom and Zombies Ate My Neighbors are together at last. Modder Dude27th has been working on a Zombies Ate My Neighbo

(Image credit: Playnite)Playnite is a free open source PC application designed to be an all-in-one answer to the growing number of game launchers we’ve all got on our desktops. I should emphasise the “free” above: it is available straight from the source here and, according to the site, “no features are locked behind a paywall and the complete source code is available under the MIT license”. The MIT license basically surrenders the software to any kind of use with no restrictions, including resa

With Kentucky Route Zero finally released in full, another long-awaited adventure through American decay has caught my eye: Norco: Faraway Lights, a point-and-click mystery that takes place in a pixel art rendition of Louisiana’s swamps, suburbs, and oil refineries—with robots. A Norco demo has been around on itch.io for years, and the first act is finally scheduled to release this year. Developer Geography of Robots (made up of pixel artist Yutsi and composer Gewgawly I) frequently posts art on

(Image credit: Microsoft)Five more games are on the way to Xbox Game Pass for PC, the subscription-based service that offers unlimited access to more than 150 games. Microsoft said today that Indivisible, Reigns: Game of Thrones, Two Point Hospital, Wasteland Rematered, and Yakuza 0 will be added to the lineup “soon,” presumably later this month. Two Point Hospital is an outstanding place to work, Reigns: Game of Thrones is a Westerosi take on the hit “swipe-em-up” from 2016, and even though a 3

Project Nova, the in-development FPS spin-off to EVE Online, is officially dead according to CCP Games. To anyone who has followed Project Nova, the news probably isn’t surprising. But, amazingly, CCP Games still isn’t giving up on making an EVE Online-based FPS. Project Nova team members based in Iceland have been moved onto other projects at our Reykjavík studio.” Kellion also said CCP Games would refrain from revealing projects too early in the future.

The absolute best gaming monitors check a lot of boxes, and the more of them there are, the higher the price tag. It doesn’t show up directly after punching in the coupon code, but you should see it when you get to the payment page. This is a 27-inch monitor with a 1920×1080 resolution. Connectivity options consist of an HDMI 1.4 input, a VGA input, and a 3.5mm headphone-out jack. Nothing mind blowing, but certainly serviceable and ultra-affordable for a 27-inch display.

After a decade of service, Arctic is retiring its popular and affordable Freezer 7 Pro CPU air cooler and replacing it with an improved model, the new Freezer 7 X. Like it’s predecessor, the Arctic Freezer 7 X is $19.99. I’d be interested in seeing the Freezer 7 X and Hyper 212 Evo duke it out. New for the Freezer 7 X is a full heatsink cover that mostly hides the aluminum block behind it. As for compatibility, the Freezer 7 X supports AMD’s AM4, AM3/AM3+, and FM2+/FM1 sockets, and INtel’s LGA 1