Since Halo: Reach landed by drop pod on PC back in December I’ve been hankering for one particular missing feature — Forge mode. I intend to take up that role once again when 343 Industries gets Forge mode ready for Halo Reach and the rest of the games yet to be released as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It says that “great progress” has been made on fixing bugs and designing both Forge and Theater mode in a way that suits Halo: Reach. Support for Forge and Theater settings in pause

Now a goose can steal your cousin’s mouse cursor, too, thanks to a VR developer who goes by Samperson. Inspired by the avian rascals of Untitled Goose Game and SkateBird, he put together a small program that adds an animated goose foe to your Windows desktop. The orange-beaked criminal waddles around your screen, steals your mouse cursor, drags Untitled Goose Game memes into view, and gets mad when you close them. He keeps honking and stealing my cursor as I attempt to write this. I don’t think

(Image credit: Activision)Blizzard has announced it will cancel Overwatch League matches set to take place in China between February and March. “We have decided to cancel our February and March matches in China in order to protect the health and safety of our players, fans, and staff,” the statement reads. “We hope fans have a safe and happy Lunar New Year, and we remain incredibly excited to play Overwatch League matches in China later this season. “We’ll share more information about when and w

Destiny 2 players who are also Twitch Prime subscribers can now scoop up the first of six in-game reward bundles, each of which will offer four rewards including exotic weapons, Ghosts, ships, Sparrows, emotes, and weapon ornaments from previous seasons. Speaking of which, have you tried our ‘Destiny exotic or craft ale’ quiz?) It’s Prime time, Guardians.Exotic weapons, Ghosts, ships, Sparrows, Emotes, and weapon ornaments from previous Seasons will drop from the new Twitch Prime Rewards.💠 https

I’d always had a very loosely-formed impression of Henry Cavill as kind of a stuffed shirt. Yesterday, Cavill broke down the making of a lengthy single-take fight scene from the first episode of The Witcher, which was a lot of fun. But somehow he seems even more intense in this new video about Geralt’s swords. Witchers carry two swords, one steel (actually meteorite, apparently) for killing men and conventional monsters, and the other silver, which is for magical monsters. Cavill also talks abou

We left-handers usually don’t much choice when it comes to finding a reasonably-priced gaming mouse, so sales are always noteworthy. Right now, you have until the end of the day to save on the popular ambidextrous Razer Lancehead Tournament Edition, which is available on Amazon for only $35. $35 is a great price point for a durable competitive gaming mouse, especially if you play a lot of first-person shooters or MOBAs. It’s a good pick for left-handed gamers who are tired of mice designed for r

AMD is still addressing the mess that has been its RX 5600 XT launch. However, that’s not stopping AMD from forging ahead on a new line of graphics cards that will be based on its next-gen RDNA architecture. “In 2019, we launched our new architecture in GPUs, it’s the RDNA architecture, and that was the Navi-based products. In other words, the RX 5500, RX 5600, and RX 5700 cards will not be reproduced with the next-gen RDNA architecture—only the next new graphics card will be. Su didn’t mention

Bethesda Softworks is holding a 24-hour sale on Bethesda.net and the Humble Store to raise funds for bush fire relief efforts in Australia. To help Australia, we’re having a 24 hour sale starting January 30th on @humble and https://t.co/R4vSjdDRMu. Net proceeds will go to @RedCrossAU to help with fire relief efforts. Details: https://t.co/a4dxnjXbp6 pic.twitter.com/Z6W9kLZRiWJanuary 29, 2020Separately, Bethesda is also offering a Fallout-themed Responders Australia Charity Tee for $25, with all

Sale pricing on this custom Radeon RX 5700 makes it the least expensive around right now. Recent product introductions (Radeon RX 5600 XT) and price cuts (GeForce RTX 2060) have made it a bit more difficult to discern which is the best graphics card for the money. That said, the Radeon RX 5700 offers a lot of frames per dollar, and the value proposition is even better with this deal for a factory overclocked model from XFX. Over at Amazon, you can buy the XFX Radeon RX 5700 DD Ultra for $299.99.

After a bit of a delay, Warcraft 3: Reforged has at last been let loose, remastering the pinnacle of Blizzard’s real-time strategy series. For the uninitiated, Warcraft 3 features the familiar RTS formula of resource gathering, base building and clashing armies, but with two Warcraft games already behind it in 2002, Blizzard decided to throw in more ingredients—most important among them, heroes. (Image credit: Blizzard)Warcraft 3: Reforged isn’t quite as straightforward a remaster as Starcraft R

With the arrival of Warcraft 3: Reforged there was hope that the original game’s thriving custom game scene would be revived. It was through Warcraft 3’s custom games that the idea for what would become Dota 2 and League of Legends was born, after all. As Blizzard forum user ThunderPope points out, that means Warcraft 3 custom games like Anime Fight, DBZ Tribute, and Pimp My Mario cannot be remade. A larger part of Blizzard’s policy details how all ownership of custom games in Reforged belongs t

The Missions Committee mod for Fallout 4 is perfect in that respect. Think of the Missions Committee like a group of shadowy overlords sitting in a conference room with their fingers on the Bat Signal. If the Missions Committee needs you, they’ll send you an alert and some instructions on where to go and what to do. Case in point, a little while later I get another notification for an area control mission. (There are instructions on the Missions Committee mod page at Nexus Mods.)

(Image credit: Ian MacLarty)There’s a big ol’ desert to escape to in Ian MacLarty’s Red Desert Render, a game of Wild West exploration and secret-snuffling inspired by the developer’s out-of-bounds adventures in Red Dead Redemption 2 Online. How will reality distort as you trudge and roll your way around a pleasingly enormous and largely empty tract of land? Obviously, it’s up to you whether you aim for those peculiar objectives, or sack them off and find your own fun in this pleasant, laid-back

Fair play, Star Trek Online, you’ve got me. Since watching Star Trek: Picard, I’ve been yearning to be papa Picard himself, and its new Legacy update is letting me pretend I am. Seven is accompanied by classic Star Trek: Discovery character, Michael Burnham, voiced by Sonequa Martin-Green from actual from the TV show. But that’s just the start of the Legacy update, as its arrival marks the ten year anniversary of Star Trek Online. But c’mon, this is Star Trek, peace doesn’t last here.

After a few weeks on the Rainbow Six Siege test server, Ubisoft has officially released patch Y4S4.3 . He boasts a high pick and ban rate at high-level play, suggesting that he’s a frustrating op to deal with. In the most recent edition of Designer Notes , Ubi shared plans to address Lesion’s dominance. Lesion dodging these patch notes like… pic.twitter.com/ks0KlwHzbPJanuary 16, 2020Everyone has their own version of the “right nerf” for Lesion. Some want Gu mines to stop dealing damage over ti

What better way to brighten up a post-pandemic wasteland than with a trip to Coney Island? That’s where The Division 2 is going next month when Episode 3 of its ongoing free story DLC releases. It’s not going to be a walk in the park (well, some of will be, this being Coney Island), because you’re going there to retrieve a doctor who may hold the secret to solving the virus that has destroyed America. The trailer above gives you a good idea of what to expect: Some nice neon lighting, ceaseless a

Last year, Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins ditched Twitch for Microsoft’s streaming platform, Mixer, hosting a fake press conference to tell the world he was switching sites. In 2018, he was making $500,000 a month on Twitch, so it was assumed he was picked up for a hefty sum. According to Justin Warden, CEO of a talent management agency that works with Ninja, Ader, he can afford to lose a few bucks. For moving to Mixer, he claims, Ninja is getting tens of millions. Even before the deal, Ninja made nearly

I’m lucky enough to have a regular Sea of Thieves crew, but not every pirate is blessed with a winning personality that sees people just flock to them. That’s where the new Affiliate Alliance, just introduced today, comes in. At the moment, there are French, Brazilian, German, Italian and Russian communities, as well as the official community of the Sea of Thieves subreddit. Expect more to appear now that it’s live, however, and if you run a Sea of Thieves community yourself, you can submit it a

Amazon has a hell of a one day-deal on a killer Acer Predator gaming laptop. Nab this 15-inch Acer Predator Triton 500 Thin for $2,000 until the rest of the day. This model of the Acer Predator Triton 500 has an Intel i7-8750H CPU, 16GB RAM, a 512 SSD, and a Geforce RTX 2080 with Max-Q graphics card. This premium thin gaming laptop won’t give you quite the same performance as a desktop with RTX 2080, but you’ll be happy with the performance for a gaming laptop that’s only five pounds. Personally

AMD is pushing out a new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.4 GPU driver, and with it comes a round of optimizations for Warcraft 3: Reforged. Radeon ReLive may fail to switch recording to desktop when Radeon Software is open. Radeon Software may open with an inconsistent size or may not keep its previously set size when opened. Some Radeon RX 5700 series graphics users may intermittently experience a black screen while gaming or on desktop. You can grab the latest driver through the Ra