It’s my first day as a police officer in Flashing Lights, and I’ve just received my first call. “Aggressive driver in red vehicle seen in area, locate and stop,” the dispatcher says. My second call tasks me with catching another red car, which I do, but with less enthusiasm. “Aggressive driver in red vehicle…” I don’t read the rest. The red cars have won.

Far Cry 5’s Hours of Darkness DLC focuses on stealthy survival in the Vietnam War, said Chris earlier this week. Rather than the perk unlock system of Far Cry 5, you’ve already got four perks at the start of the DLC, but you need to make stealth kills to activate them. Make four stealth kills in a row, and you’ll have all four perks active. If you’re detected by enemies you’ll instantly lose those perks until you’ve made four more stealth kills to regain them all. Look, see:Check out Chris’ earl

At AMD’s Computex press conference on Wednesday, the company shared the first details on what’s coming with Ryzen’s second generation Threadripper CPU. Threadripper is the big daddy of AMD’s new CPU line: it’s not a gaming CPU, but it’s a multithreaded, multicore monster. AMD is leaning into some “heavy metal” imagery to market Threadripper, and the CPU looks like it’ll earn it. Threadripper 2 will run on a 12nm Zen+ architecture and have the new features of Ryzen second gen. AMD demonstrated 24

At a press conference at Computex 2018 today, AMD showed off the small form-factor version of its high-end Vega 56 graphics card, available today. The graphics card is designed by PowerColor, and AMD showed it off by demonstrating the card running games on a FreeSync Samsung 4K TV. AMD says the card is available today; we’ll update this story with more information on price, availability and performance when we get it.

On April 30, the last official add-on scheduled for The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ was released. “Without revealing too much information, yeah, there’s stuff on the horizon.” When people ask what would you do to improve the game, there’s a bunch of stuff that I would do. “When people ask what would you do to improve the game, there’s a bunch of stuff that I would do. The ending of IsaacThough he loves The Binding of Isaac and loves working on it, it eventually became work.

I’ve never seen a keyboard that looks like the Roccat Vulcan. A recent trend in mechanical keyboard design has been cutting back on the housing for a bare key look, like the Blackwidow Chroma X , but Roccat’s designers did something dramatic with the Vulcan. Roccat’s new switch has a slightly higher actuation point than a Cherry Brown, so it’s a bit faster, but still feels pretty similar. That’s a lot of detail to get to the point that it feels fantastic to type on, and I use a Cherry Brown keyb

I’m a 41-year old man, so I don’t really get ‘hype’ about anything, but friends… I’m close. James: I don’t know where bows fit in Destiny’s arsenal, or how they make sense thematically. Maybe not too much, but I’m going to need more convincing that the changes in Forsaken justify the price. If Destiny 2’s end game is a puddle, the Osiris patrol area is a fuckin’ Dixie cup. We also don’t know how the ammo economy will work if you’re running, say, the three-shotgun meme loadout referenced in the r

Ubisoft confirmed today that Rainbow Six Siege’s next expansion, Operation Para Bellum, will launch this Thursday, June 7 (or June 8 if you’re in Australia). In addition to the two new operators and map, there will be a lot of quality-of-life tweaks to the game itself. In an update today, Ubisoft presented six reasons for the removal. It’s worth presenting them in full here:Tower’s overall balance is not where we want it to be for a Ranked playlist. For the full list of tweaks, additions and upd

In a new developer update, game director Jeff Kaplan outlined a huge patch coming to Overawtch soon. In addition to the extensive Symmetra rework, a number of social features are coming to the game. The next is an endorsement system that will let players recognize players for sportsmanship, shotcalling, and being a good teammate. “The defenders’ spawn room had a problem with its main exit that allowed defenders to quickly duck back inside and regain health while attackers shot at them without do

Overwatch’s long-awaited Symmetra rework is now playable on the Overwatch PTR. This change, in turn, allows the weapon to deal significantly more damage and have increased range. The projectile speed has also significantly increased, making it more reliable to use the weapon at longer ranges. However, the new Teleporter works significantly differently than the original one, and it will be used in very different ways. “Whenever we come out with a new hero or rework abilities, it can take some tim

Players will create Companies of soldiers, weapons, and vehicles, all of them customizable and available in all multiplayer modes and Combined Arms. Players can have one Company per faction, beginning with the British and Germans, the two multiplayer factions that will be available at launch. New Archetypes will be added as the Tides of War rolls on, and “exotic Archetypes” like Paratrooper Recon will enable even more focused specialization. “Tides of War will be an evolving journey featuring a

In order to bring Evolve to a publisher, Turtle Rock needed a unique hook to lead with, so they hedged their bets on 4v1 multiplayer, which Colville says they “100% believed in.” “A friend of mine said very early, and I think he was right, ‘The reason it works is because we’re all role-playing playing Evolve,'” Colville said. “It causes more problems than we ever imagined, and we didn’t really have a team to make a competitive shooter. It didn’t help that Evolve, a game “that only really works i

The Humble Daedalic Bundle 2018 features a very nice selection of games from (surprise) Daedalic Entertainment, and what’s actually a little surprising is that they’re not all point-and-click adventures. (Shadow Tactics is pretty good too.) There’s also a Warframe in the bundle for the Foxglive Syandana cosmetic item, 200,000 credits, and three-day Affinity and Resource boosters. Funds dedicated to charity will go to support the American Red Cross, unless you choose something different—personall

Shadowrun and Battletech studio Harebrained Schemes is now a part of Paradox Interactive, which announced today that it was acquired by the developer in total for $7.5 million plus a percentage of earnings over the next five years. Paradox’s publishing partnership on Battletech, Harebrained’s most recent game, was “a fantastic collaboration,” Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester said. “Harebrained Schemes have proven themselves as a world-class studio with a very talented team within a genre where Paradox

After a leaked keychain (really) revealed the existence of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Ubisoft went ahead and tweeted out confirmation that a new round of assassinating, and possibly escort missions, is indeed on the way. We don’t know a lot about Odyssey yet, but we’ll be updating this page with all the footage and details from E3 2018. We don’t know, but Assassin’s Creed games used to be yearly releases. What is Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’ setting? Kotaku’s sources say that Odyssey will feature di

Multiple job listings on the Blizzard careers site say the studio is seeking environment, technical, and “dungeon” artists for a new Diablo game. “The minions of Hell are growing stronger,” the Dungeon Artist listing says. “We’re working on a new, unannounced Diablo project. Are you a skilled Dungeon Artist? Blizzard, unsurprisingly, isn’t inclined to spoil the surprise: “We’re always exploring different ideas at Blizzard,” a rep said.

If you’re looking to build a budget gaming PC, a good option is AMD’s Ryzen 5 2400G, a quad-core CPU with integrated Radeon RX Vega graphics. It’s an even better option right now, as Newegg is selling it as part of a discounted combo deal. Newegg is pairing the chip with MSI’s B350M Gaming Pro motherboard and selling the package for $199.99. That’s a good deal for the hardware—if purchased separately, you’d bee looking at $218.99 after rebate (it applies to the motherboard). The graphics on the

There appears to be an arms race between AMD and Nvidia for the living room. FreeSync support is now available on Samsung’s 2018 QLED lineup throughout the 55-inch to 82-inch range, and on the NU8000 / NU8500 models in the same size range. “We launched FreeSync technology with a mission to end frame tearing and dropped frames, as well as improve the experience for gamers around the world. We’re thrilled to bring the power of Radeon FreeSync technology to Samsung TVs for players around the world.

Bungie revealed Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion, which will kick off the Year 2 content on September 4, in a livestream earlier today . The big finale is the Solstice of Heroes update, which is scheduled to drop on July 17 and comes bearing several highly requested PvP and PvE changes. Crucible enthusiasts will be happy to hear that 6v6 quickplay modes are returning in the July update, as is a permanent (and presumably six-player) rumble playlist. The raid lairs added onto Destiny 2’s central Lev

Extreme overclocking is wild enough as it is, with liquid nitrogen the go-to cooling source for chasing crazy-high clockspeeds and setting benchmark records. Even more wild, however, is a semi-closed loop that EVGA’s engineers and a couple of professional overclockers developed. In a video posted to YouTube, well-known overclockers Vince ‘KINGPIN’ Lucido and Illya ‘TiN” Tsemenko talk about designing the contraption. What they developed is a semi-closed loop that is somewhat similar to a self-con