(Image credit: Mediatonic)When Fable studio Lionhead closed in 2016, it seemed for a very brief moment that the Fable series was gone for good. But mere months later, Fable Fortune was announced, a card game based on the series that was in active development at the time of the studio’s closure. Following that closure, a crew of former Lionhead talent formed Flaming Fowl Studios to keep it alive, and a year later, Fable Fortune launched into Early Access. Fable Fortune exited Early Access on Febr

If you haven’t played The Sims in a while, or haven’t upgraded to Sims 4, there’s no better time to do that than right now. The Sims 20th birthday celebrations are still going strong, and you can pick up The Sims 4—and certain expansion, game, and stuff packs—for up to 85 percent off. You’ll save the most on the base game, as it’s currently $5.99, but you’re getting the best deals on expansion packs. If you want to save the most amount of money, I’d stay away from the bundles; adding the cost se

There is a new ‘Raise the Game’ offer from AMD, and buyers of qualifying Radeon RX 5000 series graphics cards can score one or two free games, along with three months of Xbox Game Pass for PC at no cost. Have a look:(Image credit: AMD)Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition (full game + expansion) and Resident Evil 3 highlight the refreshed promotion. Anyone who purchases a qualifying 5700 XT or regular 5700 can claim both games, plus three months of Xbox Game Pass for PC. Buyers of a 5500

If you want to just keep things cheap, though, have a look at AOC’s 27-inch display (27B1H) that’s on sale at Staples. That’s a tantalizing price for a 27-inch monitor. You’re just not going to find a 27-inch monitor with G-Sync selling for less than $100. At this price, cheaper (and lower quality) TN screens are far more common. Typically, IPS screens offer better color accuracy and wider viewing angles (178 degrees) than TN displays.

Last week Asmodee Digital confirmed three of its digital board games would hit the Epic Games Store on February 20: Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne and Pandemic. In a statement, Epic Games has confirmed that Pandemic will no longer be free during that period. “We’ve shifted the release of Pandemic as a free game in our store schedule to a later date,” the statement reads. “Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne will still be available as the free games of the week from February 6 – February 13.” Meanwhile,

Warcraft 3: Reforged has not quite lived up to expectations. Online features including leaderboards and clans, which impact all Warcraft 3 players, will be addressed in a more distant update. As with Remastered, these and other features will be included in a major patch for Reforged, which will also address the issue for players of the original game,” Blizzard said. The cinematic cutscenes that bookend the campaigns, meanwhile, are the exact same ones from the original game.” “We know this updat

Ubisoft has announced the acquisition of Kolibri Games, a mobile game company that develops and publishes free-to-play idle games. The idle game has been downloaded more than 104 million times since its release. “We are strengthening our ‘idle’ games portfolio with the acquisition of Kolibri Games, one of the leaders in the segment,” said Executive Director of Ubisoft Mobile Jean-Michel Detoc. “Whose flagship game Idle Miner Tycoon has grown steadily since 2016.” If you’re not familiar with idle

Google Translate is the greatest poet of our age, capable of turning the most mundane sentences into evocative prose. That’s what modder SausageEggs did for all the dialogue and text in Half-Life. For the dialogue, SausageEggs re-recorded the audio with some help, so security guards and scientists will now happily spout complete nonsense at you. Other security guards offer important advice. SausageEggs was inspired by Fatguy703’s Book of Mario series, which uses Google Translate to make the Pape

“With the latest Game Ready driver, we’ve incorporated community feedback asking for the limits to be extended. “Enable Max Frame Rate and set your power management mode to ‘Prefer maximum performance’ to reduce latency. You can find the ‘Max Frame Rate’ setting in the Nvidia Control Panel, within the ‘Manage 3D settings’ section. Battleye][Low-Latency Mode]: Launching Battleye with NVIDIA Low Latency Mode set toUltra may cause DWM to reset[SLI+G-SYNC Stutter]: User may experience minor stutteri

Big screen TVs have come down in price quite a bit over the years, to the point where bringing home a 65-inch model does not have to set you back a grand or more. Over at Walmart, you can buy a Vizio 65-inch M-series (M656-G4) 4K TV with HDR support for just $498 right now. That’s $250 below the list price Walmart advertises, and while it doesn’t usually sell for that amount, it’s $201.99 less than Vizio’s price. It’s an excellent bargain for a big screen TV. For other options, be sure to check

(Image credit: Kaigan Games)On an average day, about a dozen new games are released on Steam. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we’ve gathered the best PC games you can play right now and a running list of the new games of 2019. The game looks fun though: if you’re after a first-person take on hardcore Souls-like combat (the developer’s ref

I played some games after launch last night and didn’t notice as much stuttering, but it was unbearable when I tried playing on a larger map this morning.” You can be a loser in ways that are funny or illuminating, and sometimes more enjoyable than success. It hadn’t occurred to me that some players might not get this, might keep reloading and trying not to fail. It came out on console the same year as Monolith’s F.E.A.R., which did a much better job combining horror and action. Or have you been

Urtuk: The Desolation has a solid intro: After being experimented on you break out of an evil underground laboratory and into the light of day. It’s a tactical RPG with a grim art style, something like a cross between Battle Brothers and Darkest Dungeon. An armored character might be given the power to automatically critical hit on a counterattack, or a berserker the power to heal when it kills enemies. Urtuk is currently in early access, and a bit rough around the edges in the UI and mechanics,

(Image credit: XGen Studios)We’ve known since 2017 that Adobe intends to kill off Flash at the end of 2020. Few will likely miss it, but the announcement didn’t bode well for the countless Flash games that proliferated online throughout the 2000s. That launcher is called Flashpoint, and it’s an impressive initiative, especially if you harbour a fondness for quaint browser games of days gone. You’ll need the launcher to play the games, because the emulator tricks the games into functioning as if

Warcraft 3 Reforged has the lowest user score of any game on Metacritic, currently sitting on a 0.5. While this dubious record was previously held by Day One: Garry’s Incident, a number of drive-by 10 out of 10s have pushed it up into second place, inflating its user score from 0.4 to 0.7. According to user bob4ever, Warcraft 3 Reforged is the “Worst remaster in the history of remasters.” And Encore 22 is upset that, “Blizzard has a paragraph in the user agreement for this game that they have ex

Bandai Namco has made a job listing that hints at a possible English release for action MMO Blue Protocol . Blue Protocol is an online action RPG set in a world “on the brink of devastation.” It’s developed by an internal team at Bandai Namco Online and Bandai Namco Studios that worked on Tales series of RPGs, Tekken, and Ace Combat. Here’s the sole released trailer :Cheers to the eagle-eyed Reddit users of the Blue Protocol Online community for the tipoff. Here’s the official Blue Protocol webs

Flames of Old is an upcoming graphics mod for Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin that reworks and overhauls the game’s look, profoundly changing the game in the process. Modder Stayd is changing lighting, shaders, and map design, and the result is a striking upgrade to the game’s visuals. Stayd is inspired by the pre-release renders for the game, and wants to bring the graphics “on-par with what was shown pre-release.” Much of the lighting work changes how the game looks fundamentally, lesse

Steam ‘s concurrent user count passed 18.8 million earlier today, peaking at 18,801,944 according to tracker SteamDB . The previous record was 18.5 million just about two years ago on January 6th, 2018. As noted by SteamDB, this concurrent user record did not coincide with a record number of players in game, with only 5.8 million today against 7 million two years ago, about 1.2 million fewer. The previous record was boosted by the huge number of players in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. Previous

Whether they’re Steam achievements or mounts in MMOs or whatever badges, titles, and gubbins games hand out to keep you engaged, this weekend we’re asking: What achievement did you go to ridiculous lengths for? Stanley Parable has the weirdest and best achievements in any game, and right now I’m about a week off of the “Go Outside” achievement. Rensje: I’m not sure if this qualifies as ‘ridiculous lengths’, but one of the hardest and most time-consuming achievements I’ve ever gotten is the Knigh

Well, that’s convenient, because Beacon has gotten a lot of new guns and weird body parts recently. Beacon is a gorgeous sci-fi shooter with a stylish aesthetic that can’t be beat. With this update, Beacon now has 100 weapons and I can assure you that they are all extremely fun and good except for the flare gun. I get killed every time I pick it up so I can only assume it is the flare gun’s fault and not mine. The Pathfinder update also overhauled the game’s pickup items, adding neat new passive