Thinking about a trip back into Mount & Blade: Warband ahead of the Mount & Blade 2 release later this year? It’s a huge enhancement mod for MBW building on the popular Native mod, targeting where “Native MBW is thin and [aiming] to significantly improve areas in which [the] game hasn’t aged well. Bannerpage overhauls the game’s graphics first and foremost, but deepens systems and improves their interactions with a host of other improvements. The graphics overhauls also include redesigns of the

Warframe, the world’s greatest game about magic space ninjas, is now seven years old. The celebration comes amid what Warframe is calling its most ambitious year ever following the launch of a big update in January. Here’s the 7th anniversary trailer:Warframe also released a huge Warframe Revised patch earlier this week with numerous quality of life improvements—the livestream discussing the patch is an hour long. Finally, Shield Gating has been implemented—which, in short, means you’ll run into

The first teaser, above, doesn’t show off any of the new game, but it does hint at big changes on the horizon. After going on a nostalgic trip through the history of Worms, the teaser literally destroys the old games, making way for this year’s mystery game. It’s Worms as we’ve never seen it before, apparently, with Team17 adding that there’s be “New Worms, new ways to play,” in a tweet. Grab your Bazooka and jump on your Sheep, the Worms are back in 2020 like you’ve never seen them before. New

(Image credit: EA)Command and Conquer Remastered is currently in the works, with 4K versions of both the original 1995 game and its prequel Red Alert. As well as remastered assets for the missions (you’ll be able to toggle back to the original 320 x 200 graphics with a keypress), EA wanted to remaster those classic, cheesy FMV cutscenes. Instead they turned to the community, who were already working on algorithms to upscale the original FMV. On the plus side, material that was exclusive to the P

Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, 2K, and indie studio Hinterland have all pulled games from Nvidia’s streaming service GeForce Now since it left beta and added a paid tier for subscribers. Epic is one company that won’t be joining them, as CEO Tim Sweeney clarified on Twitter. “Epic is wholeheartedly supporting NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW service”, he wrote, “with Fortnite and with Epic Games Store titles that choose to participate (including exclusives), and we’ll be improving the integration over time.

While Crusader Kings 2 is now permanently free on Steam, the DLC is not. However, until March 9 you can grab the Black Death expansion The Reaper’s Due for zero dollars and zero cents if you’ve already got the base game in your account. The Reaper’s Due has a variety of ways you can deal with the plague, like building hospitals or quarantining your castle while the peasants die outside your doors. Oddly enough given the theme it’s one of the siller DLCs, as it also adds the ability to play chess

Murder by Numbers, the new game from the makers of avian dating sim Hatoful Boyfriend, is a campy 1990s murder mystery featuring Honor Mizrahi, the star of a hit television detective show who’s forced to become a real detective when her boss is murdered—just minutes after firing her. Teaming up with a slightly addled flying robot named Scout (it’s the 1990s as seen through the lens of 1990s cartoons, you see), Mizrahi will investigate a string of murders across Hollywood, uncover a dark conspira

If you’re not a fan of blower-style GPU coolers, AMD has good news—it’s getting rid of them for its next-generation Radeon graphics cards based on its RDNA 2 architecture. In its place, AMD will switch to an axial-fan cooling solution, just as Nvidia did when it launched its GeForce RTX series, and later its GeForce GTX cards based on Turing. When it comes to GPU coolers, blowers have the advantage of expelling hot air directly outside the case, since the exhaust vent is positioned in the expans

Classic helicopter sim Comanche is returning next week, though it follows the more action-focused Comanche 4 than the sims of the ’90s. It’s an aerial shooter set in the near future with a focus on multiplayer battles, and you’ll be able to grab it on March 12 via Steam. #Comanche will release on Steam via Early Access on March 12, 2020. Planned features include flightstick and HOTAS support, as well as more multiplayer and singleplayer additions. When it launches next week, you’ll be able to te

Bethesda confirms that the new storyline won’t override the old one, however. “We’ve worked to weave the new Wastelanders story into what’s already there in the base game,” it says. “New characters will still be able to complete all base game content in addition to the new quests. Also, some of what you accomplished in the base game story will have a role to play in Wastelanders.” Last year, Bethesda mentioned plans to do a balance pass for Wastelanders’ launch, but that’s now been pushed back.

Destiny 2 studio Bungie will allow all of its employees to work from home due to the spread of COVID-19. In an update posted today, the studio blames “a particular density” of cases in the greater Seattle area for the move. Bungie is based in Seattle, and as of this morning there were 51 confirmed cases in the Seattle and King County, with ten deaths recorded. Today was the first day of the initiative, which required new “rapidly built” remote work infrastructure. It’s quite a feat to transition

In January, we learned that production company iam8bit was one of several companies working with the Entertainment Software Association to help “reinvigorate” E3 2020 and “shake things up.” The wording of the tweet—mainly “what was to be”—suggests that whatever iam8bit had planned for E3 2020 isn’t what the ESA is moving forward with. “We can confirm that iam8bit is no longer part of the inter-agency group working on E3 2020,” writes the organization. “Given what has been publicly communicated a

If PvP and politics aren’t your thing, though, you can just explore and fight the world’s many monsters—New World doesn’t totally ditch MMO conventions. Below, we’ve summarized everything we know about that world, its monsters, and the PvP aspects of New World. There’s a PvP territory control element to New World, but it isn’t a totally player-driven sandbox. (Image credit: Amazon)OK, but what about that territory control? (Image credit: Amazon)Amazon hopes that if you play New World for a while

Valve just rolled out a News Hub for Steam, a fully customizable feed that pulls news of events, livestreams, content updates and more. It’s currently a Steam Labs experiment, but after a little while fiddling around with it, it seems to work just fine. Using your Steam library, it drags all relevant news including the above mentioned, as well as related releases, sales and other news. You can set it to just show content relevant to games in your library, though it defaults to everything, includ

Riot Games has dropped a new trailer showcasing the combat talents of Phoenix, one of the eight characters who will do battle in its upcoming competitive FPS Valorant. He’s handy with a gun, but his real talent is throwing fire—literally. His other two abilities—the Hot Hands fireball and Run it Back ultimate—aren’t shown. This is the first Valorant gameplay trailer dedicated to a specific character, but given its Overwatch-like approach to characters, I expect we’ll be seeing more soon. Valoran

As far as we are concerned, Logitech’s G502 Lightspeed Wireless is the best gaming mouse around, it’s just not cheap. Amazon has the G502 Lightspeed Wireless marked down to $129.99. The G502 Lightspeed Wireless is a refresh the original G502, which itself has been a favorite of gamers. There are 11 programmable buttons on this mouse, and a hyper-fast scroll wheel that spins like a runaway tire barreling down a hill. You’re not married to a free spinning scroll wheel, though, and can press a butt

InWin is best known for its computer cases, including some downright funky designs, but it’s expanding into the all-in-one liquid cooling realm with a couple of new products: SR36 and SR24. (Image credit: InWin)This is why the dual-pump tower is so large compared to other ones on the market. A single DC motor shaft works the two pump turbines, one on each side, effectively doubling the coolant pressure. “Should one of the pumps fail, the other pump will stay active and your CPU won’t fry,” the r

(Image credit: Larian Studios)I’ve really been up and down about Baldur’s Gate 3 ever since it was announced. I was super-excited when I first heard that it was happening—I love the Baldur’s Gate series—but I was put off by all the illithid and githyanki and flying squid ship stuff, which is far too exotic for my basic dungeon-crashing tastes. I want more Baldur’s Gate, but do I want to risk tainting my sweet memories of the perfect digital D&D experience? Astarion [the character used in Baldur’

Epic’s barrage of freebies continues today with GoNNER and Offworld Trading Company, both scratching very different itches. GoNNER is a procedurally-generated roguelike platformer, while Offworld Trading Company is an economic RTS set on Mars. Offworld Trading Company is very much my jam, even though it makes me feel dirty. Even without armies, it’s still a fast-paced, competitive affair, and somehow watching market fluctuations is just as exciting as watching armies colliding. GoNNER doesn’t of

Seasonic has chosen not to and is finally bringing a cleverly designed PSU to market that it first showed off at Computex in 2018. Initially dubbed SCMD (system cable management device), the new Seasonic Connect comes with what is “essentially a backplane that is mounted on the PC case with magnets.” (Image credit: Seasonic)In short, Seasonic repositioned the modular connectors from the PSU’s body to the backplane, which sits behind the motherboard tray (see image above). The 8-pin/4-pin supplem