Superhot VR is one of our favorite VR games, one where “it’s possible to toss a brick at a man, knock his semi-auto pistol into the air, catch it, and bash him over the head with it before shooting three other men out of a helicopter behind you.” It’s done quite well for indie studio Superhot Team, as their director of special projects Callum Underwood boasted on Twitter: “SUPERHOT VR has grossed over 2 million dollars on all platforms in the past 7 days alone. SUPERHOT VR has grossed over 2 mil

Slovakian developers Eastworks Studios have announced they’ll be releasing Gray Zone, a “Narrative driven tactical RTS game”, in 2020. Set hundreds of years in the future, the narrative part of its pitch involves a slave turning against his masters. The Early Access release will contain complete versions of the first five missions, with more to come a few months later. However, our aim with early access is to be able to expand our team and speed up production, which would finish the game sooner,

I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but people really like games about economics. They like them even more so if you put the economics in space. Prosperous Universe is a browser-based space economics MMO that puts you in ownership of a company in newly-settled human space. Image 1 of 15 (Image credit: Simulogics) Image 2 of 15 (Image credit: Simulogics) Image 3 of 15 (Image credit: Simulogics) Image 4 of 15 (Image credit: Simulogics) Image 5 of 15 (Image credit: Simulogics) Image 6 of 15 (Image credit

I now have a headache because I’ve been staring at this gif of a Minecraft texture pack for five minutes:That’s correct: It makes the textures move one pixel per frame in a single direction. It is the experience of having dropped acid without the risk of flashbacks, except every night in your dreams when you recall the experience of this mod. To the creator: Thanks, I hate it. The resource pack, aptly named Moving Blocks Resource Pack, is available for free on Resource-Pack . Imagine the stark c

The latest in Epic’s free games of Christmas giveaway is Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Playing it back in 2016 I wrote, “Saving and loading helps you break each intimidating level of Shadow Tactics up into discrete actions, tiny challenges to be tackled one at a time until you finally triumph over what initially seemed daunting. The levels accentuate this, each sliced up into sections—by walls or water or cliffs—where a set of guards watch over each other. You can add Shadow Tactics to y

Rick Brewster is the creator of freeware graphics editor Paint.NET, but back in the early 1990s he was a precocious young developer of videogames. One of those games, made when he was only 12, was The Golden Flute 4: The Flute of Immortality. Until recently Brewster thought his game was gone forever, the only copy given away to a cousin and then lost. Firing up a Twitch stream and seeing someone play something you made 25 years ago and thought was lost must be a hell of a feeling. You can play T

Tactics JRPG Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions has just released on Steam, marking the first new game from Fire Emblem creator Shouzo Kaga in a decade. Sprawling maps are something that many fans feel Fire Emblem games lacked after Kaga’s departure from developer Intelligent Systems in 1999. Vestaria Saga was initially released in Japanese in September 2016, but this Steam port marks the first time it’s available in English. But Shouzo Kaga is nearly 70 years old and he’s still doing what he lo

Green Hell, the amazonian survival game that made Christopher Livingston so mad he punched an armadillo, now has mud huts with two, even three stories. The Expanded Shelters update brings the ability to make your mud and bamboo buildings into multi-story wonders with new doors, walls, ladders and ceilings. A survival crafting game highlighting the challenges of jungle environments, Green Hell released earlier this year and ranks as one of Steam’s Best of 2019 new releases, according to Valve. Th

I fall into the camp that still prefers the larger 17.3-inch form factor for gaming laptops, and if you do as well, check out MSI’s GL73 at Newegg. This particular configuration is decked out with high-end hardware, and is on sale for $1,099 after a $100 mail-in-rebate. This specific version of the GL73 sports a fast 144Hz IPS display powered by an Intel Core i9-9750H processor, GeForce RTX 2060 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB NVMe SSD. That’s a tantalizing collection of hardware for a laptop that

MSI just added a new 27-inch display to its lineup, the Optix MAG272QR, and because of its aggressive pricing it has the potential to be one of the best gaming monitors for the money. While not cheap, it’s less expensive than most other 27-inch models with comparable specs. It’s not clear if the 165Hz refresh rate is overclocked from 144Hz or is the native rating, but either way, it’s a speedy display. On the ergonomic side, this monitor allows users to make tilt (-5 to 20 degrees), swivel (-75

The Radeon RX 5700 is one of AMD’s best graphics cards right now, with comparable performance to Nvidia’s RTX 2060. If you’ve been looking for a new GPU, one dual-fan version of the RX 5700 from Asus is just $290 right now—making it the cheapest 5700 on Newegg right now. The model on sale has 8GB of GDDR6 memory, a core clock of 1565 MHz, a boost clock of 1750 MHz, and 2304 Steam Processors. The RX 5700 is a great option for 1440p gaming, and can even handle some games at 4K—though the 5700 XT i

Ever wanted to butcher some Lovecraftian horrors because they stepped too hard on your turf? SHRINE is a total conversion for Doom 2 that turns you into a grumpy red demon with a lot of guns who doesn’t like the various monsters of cosmic horror that are hanging around one bit. Modder scumhead released the game in November, but gave it a nice balance tweak just this month. It has a unique art style with a color palette that really stands out from other Doom mods. It also features organic looking

For the most part, virtual reality experiences have focused on the sense of sight, which is obviously the proper starting place. That’s where Teslasuit and its new VR glove come into play. The “Teslasuit Glove,” as it’s called, combines several different technologies to detect hand and finger movements, and provide various types of feedback to simulate the sense of touch. VR is already being employed in that capacity—researchers have been leveraging VR to treat people with arachnophobia, the fea

RetroArch is an incredibly popular application that can run classic games using “cores”—plug-ins that add emulators for many different platforms. It allows people to play games for countless platforms all in one place, and now, people who are blind or visually impaired can give it a spin, too. Where possible, the software will use AI to read in-game text and say it out loud. With more work, RetroArch (and projects working on similar goals) could open up more games to a greater audience. The feat

There have been a lot of attempts to recreate the FEAR games over the years, with varying success. With a recently released demo on Steam , Trepang2 is one of the more promising that I’ve played. The 2018 demo was voted top 100 for 2018 on IndieDB. You can download the demo and watch a trailer over on Steam. You can also check out the Trepang2 official website.

Slowly but surely, NVMe solid state drives have become more affordable for the masses. The WD Black SN750 is a high-performance NVMe SSD, offering speeds close to Samsung’s top-of-the-line 970 Evo Plus in independent reviews. For comparison, the 1TB 970 Evo Pro currently costs $200. You can expect sequential writes of around 2,500 MB/s, and sequential reads of roughly 3,500 MB/s. If you don’t need an SSD that fast, and you’d rather save a few more bucks, check out our SSD deals roundup.

The DS4Windows utility fixes this by emulating an Xbox controller when a DualShock is connected, and now the incredibly-useful program has received a major update. DS4Windows 2.0 was released yesterday, and as you might guess from the major version change, this is a big update. Old routine will be replaced, if it exists, upon the first run of version 2.0.0New translation system is in place. If you already have DS4Windows installed, just run the built-in updater to get this latest version. You ca

Both will sport custom AMD silicon, and if Nvidia’s recent claims hold true, neither one will be faster than a current-generation gaming laptop with a GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q GPU inside. According to Huang, this is what led Nvidia to create the Max-Q line: to enable more nimble form gaming laptop form factors. “We’ve made it possible to put the highest end GPUs into sleek, beautiful, gaming notebooks,” Huang added. Whether an RTX 2080 Max-Q laptop will truly be able to push more framerates than a

More affordable headset options have helped VR make inroads into the mainstream market, and the Oculus Quest is especially proving popular, thanks to some recent announcements. So popular, in fact, that it’s backordered until February 18 or later for new orders when buying direct from Oculus. If you’re interested in the Quest, it’s worth pinging Amazon from time to time. The Quest is the best VR headset for most people who are looking to make the leap into VR. While we like the Quest as it origi

If you’re looking for a monitor upgrade, the 2019 version of Alienware’s AW2720HF display is a solid option. It’s a better option than ever right now, because it has dropped to $349.99 on Amazon. That’s $50 below the usual cost, and matches the previous all-time low price from Black Friday/Cyber Monday. This display boasts a 240Hz refresh rate, “AlienFX” RGB lighting, and a 27-inch 1080p IPS panel. You get one DisplayPort and two HDMI connectors for input, as well as four USB 3.0 pass-through po