Infinity Ward has joined a growing number of developers and publishers raising awareness about Australia’s wildfire crisis, an annual problem that has been made all the more devastating this season thanks to climate change. The studio has rebranded some Call of Duty: Modern Warfare DLC, the profits from which will be donated to support those affected by the fires. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Outback Pack, now the Outback Relief Pack, will fund the donations, and you can grab it for yourself n

Would you like a free Harry Potter-themed RPG built entirely inside Minecraft? Well, a team of “poor students” called The Floo Network have spent the last four or so years making a sprawling Minecraft map that runs as a complete Harry Potter RPG inside vanilla Minecraft. What first started as a the team’s decision to spend a couple years making detailed models of various Harry Potter locations inside Minecraft—something you might remember from 2017—has become a massive undertaking that gives us…

Speedruns weren’t the only records being broken at this year’s Awesome Games Done Quick, which raised a grand total of $3,133,898.56. That’s more than $700,000 higher than last year’s AGDQ, and $100,000 more than the previous Summer Games Done Quick. The money raised from these 54,160 individual donations goes to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Some of the highlights have been uploaded to YouTube and others are available on Twitch—you can see a list of the complete collection at the GDQ VODs webs

Want to rob more banks? Specifically, want to be able to rob banks in Red Dead Redemption 2 without having to follow the main story? It uses repurposed voice lines and systems from the main storyline bank robbery, simply opening them up so you can dive into a heist at any time. It’s a bit less immersion-breaking than the mod that lets bears ride horses. Here’s our list of the best Red Dead Redemption 2 mods.

Takedown at Maliwan Blacksite is an endgame raid in Borderlands 3 that’s balanced for a full party of four maximum-level Vault Hunters. But for a limited time, it’ll be set to scale down for your party size—though not your level. The scaled version of Takedown at Maliwan Blacksite was initially planned to go live for two weeks starting on December 31, but had to be pushed back due to “technical difficulties”. As part of the recent hotfix update it’s been announced that the raid will be set to sc

What’s your favorite piece of games merch? So I guess that little long-lost pin is my favorite bit of games merch because I got to briefly meet a guy whose work I really enjoyed. Robin Valentine: Art/lore booksFor the most part, I’m a real grinch about games merch. Other than that, I don’t have a lot of game merch floating around. James Davenport: Samus Aran Amiibo(Image credit: Nintendo)I’m against 99-percent of videogame merch.

Been a bit since we heard from Skywind , the mod remaking The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind inside The Elder Scrolls V: Skywind, which is a fancy way of saying ‘fan-made port to an upgraded engine.’ At this point it has clearly gone far, far beyond that humble description, with modders remaking and wholesale reinventing the environments, models, and game mechanics from Morrowind within the Skyrim engine. The team’s work is in many ways indistinguishable from professional material, with impressive

Who wants to ride a giant bird into battle, soaring into fantasy aerial dogfights against dragons, airships, and whatever a razor beetle is? We last saw some of indie game The Falconeer last year after Gamescom, but it has come a ways since then and only looks better. The bird can roll and spin, reverse, tuck and dive, in very engaging looking ways. It feels like the Netherlands are becoming a place to watch for interesting game design—from big developers like Guerilla Games to ultra-indies like

Bethesda and Machine Games have announced that Wolfenstein: Youngblood now has Nvidia’s RTX ray-tracing and DLSS technology integrated, with predictably gorgeous results for the game’s visuals. The update is available now and works for those with a GeForce RTX 2060, 2070, or 2080 GPU. Here’s the look:This is the second major update for Wolfenstein: Youngblood in as many months, with developers adding a new endgame mission, areas, and enemies in November. PC Gamer’s reviewer wasn’t quite as posit

Grand Theft Auto 4’s Steam page no longer lets you buy the game, though there’s no explanation why. As recently as 2018, GTA 4 was patched to replace several songs from Vladivostok FM in advance of their licences expiring. Another possibility is that it’s related to Games For Windows Live, which GTA 4 still requires. There’s also the chance that Rockstar are pulling GTA 4 from Steam altogether in advance of making it exclusive to their own Rockstar Launcher. As always, anyone who has already bou

“The new RTX 2060 KO enters the ring with a ONE-TWO Punch to any contender willing to step in. EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 KO and RTX 2060 KO Ultra are the new editions to EVGA’s RTX line up. Both are available to preorder, with the RTX 2060 KO selling for $279.99 (discounted from $299.99) and the factory overclocked RTX 2060 KO Ultra selling for $299.99 (discounted from $319.99). We’ll know for sure how it compares once we get a chance to put the 5600 XT through our gauntlet of gaming benchmarks, but

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne finally arrived on PC yesterday, but it’s not going especially well for everyone. A number of players on Steam and Reddit are complaining that the update has deleted their saves, which in some cases has cost them hundreds of hours of gameplay. After installing the Iceborne expansion, players impacted by the issue are told that a compatible save file cannot be found when the game starts. Another possibility is that long-absent players may have missed an update that

For months, Australia has struggled to deal with devastating bushfires burning across the country. In yesterday’s This Week at Bungie update, the Destiny 2 studio revealed plans to raise funds to support firefighters and conservation efforts through the sale of a limited-edition t-shirt. The shirt will be available for pre-order on the Bungie Store from January 16 until the weekly reset at 9 am PT/12 pm ET on February 18. As reported in November by MCV, the Bungie Foundation’s first Game2give ca

VVVVVV, Terry Cavanagh’s gravity-flipping platformer, is a decade old, and to mark the occasion Cavanagh has decided to make it open source. The news was revealed at AGDQ today, and you can get your hands on the source code now via GitHub. Both the desktop and mobile source codes are available, and Cavanagh has provided some notes to accompany them. “I think even a peek of the source code will quickly reveal that VVVVVV is not a technically sophisticated game! “Maybe the best thing about VVVVVV’

The Radeon ReLive on screen timer indicator during recordings has been disabled by default but can be enabled in Radeon Software settings. CPU usage may sometimes remain high once Radeon Game Advisor has been invoked during a game. The toast message detailing the hotkey to open Radeon Software’s Overlay may still show up in some games after Radeon Software Overlay has been disabled. Factory Reset install may keep previously configured Radeon Software game profiles. Radeon Software may open with

Headsnatchers is a party game for up to four players in which the object is to, as the title suggests, snatch the other players’ heads—literally rip them from the shoulders of your opponents. You’ll need to sign up for the Humble Store mailing list if you’re not already on it; once that’s taken care of, a link to a Steam key will be sent via email. Since you’re poking around there anyway, the Humble Store is currently in the midst of a full-on Winter Sale, with a range of publisher sales, indie

The latest, appearing on itch.io yesterday, is the stylish Blue Drifter, a bounty hunting game set on a miserable, wet planet. As a bounty hunter, you’re just trying to earn enough cash to get off-world, taking jobs and heading to their location in your cute flying car. I much prefer flying around the gloomy, green world in my squat vehicle than the actual bounty hunting, and it’s open to explore. A follow-up is in development, and I’d love to see a bit more from Blue Drifter, too. You can check

I’d totally jam 8TB of portable SSD storage into my pants pocket if (A) such a drive existed and (B) it was reasonably priced. SanDisk did actually build what it claims is the world’s first 8TB portable SSD (I can’t find anything out there to disprove the claim) and has been showing it off at CES this week. SanDisk also offers a portable SSD in a similar looking enclosure. At four times the capacity, the 8TB prototype could conceivably carry a price tag above $1,000. But there is the potentially

The Rusty Lake games, very loosely speaking, are point-and-click adventures, but it’s closer to the mark to describe them as strange, interactive narrative experiences, with hypnotic music, sedate narration, and an aura of death and menace hanging over everything. Rusty Lake Hotel, for instance, features nattily dressed woodland creatures who go for a vacation at a rustic hotel where they are murdered in bizarre, horrific ways, while Rusty Lake Paradise is a game about ancient Egyptian plagues a

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order would have had a very different name and focus if Lucasfilm got its way when Respawn initially pitched the Force-powered action game. According to game director Stig Asmussen, the company had to be convinced to green-light a game about lightsabers and Jedi. “I pitched, ‘Hey what if we do a game about Jedi and Force powers,'” he recalled. It might explain, however, why the two previous attempts to make a brand new Star Wars game, both unfortunately shelved, were about