Microsoft has discounted dozens of PC games at the Microsoft Store, with savings of up to 50 percent on select titles, such as Forza Motorsport 7 Ultimate Edition and Age of Empires: Definitive Edition. Combined with Steam’s Winter Sale and discounts at GOG, disposable income doesn’t stand a chance this time of year. There are 89 games in all that are on sale at the Microsoft Store right now. Alternatively, you could just buy a subscription to Xbox Game Pass, which includes most of these games a

Twitch is wrapping up 2019 with a total of ten free games for Prime subscribers in December, plus bonus loot in games including Red Dead Online, GTA Online, Borderlands 3, and Apex Legends. The Games With Prime lineup for December, available until January 2, includes Hue, When Ski Lifts Go Wrong, Hover, Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter, and Toejam and Earl: Back in the Groove. Twitch said the new skin is the first of 12 planned Apex Legends content drops that will only be available to Prime

The holiday season is in full swing, and just about every major game store is taking part in the festivities. Steam’s Winter Sale started yesterday, the Microsoft Store discounted a few games today, and now EA’s Origin store is joining the party. The exact sales vary by country, but here’s some of the best discounts in the US:You can check out all the discounts from the Origin Holiday Sale page. According to the store’s official Twitter account, the sale ends on January 3rd, so you have plenty o

The Samsung HMD Odyssey+ Windows Mixed Reality headset with controllers is currently on sale again for $230 on Amazon. The redesign of the Odyssey headset uses dual 3.5-inch AMOLED screens, which offer better viewing angles and displays in 3K ( 2880×1600). These high-resolution screens reduce the screen-door effect you get in almost all VR and Mixed Reality headsets. This headset uses inside-out tracking, which means you don’t have to worry about setting up any external tracking equipment like s

Ahead of the big event next month, Adata announced it is expanding into some new categories, including gaming laptops, PCs, and monitors. The reason I’m looking forward to Adata’s expansion into gaming PCs and monitors is because it often treads that line between performance parts and bang-for-buck pricing. Ahead of the launch, Adata is pitching it as the world’s first gaming monitor to use Vivid Color Eye-Safe Display technology from PixelDisplay. Adata will be trotting some other products as w

The 1TB model is on sale for $147.99 at Amazon right now. Adata rates the 1TB model as being capable of delivering up to 3,500MB/s of sequential write performance and up to 3,000MB/s of sequential write performance. All that extra speed compared to even a SATA-based SSD is not really going to help load times. Just as importantly, you’re not paying a huge premium when catching one of these drives on sale. It’s a lot easier to justify to splurging on a higher performing SSD when pricing is virtual

In 2017, Far Cry 4 director Alex Hutchison left Ubisoft to launch a new indie outfit called Typhoon Studios, which quickly went to work on a first-person adventure game called Journey to the Savage Planet. Today he returned to the warm embrace of corporate ownership, this time as part of Google’s Stadia Games and Entertainment. Typhoon is a relatively small studio, but its founders have significant development experience, which Stadia boss Jade Raymond told GamesIndustry is what made the studio

The popular mod repository Nexus Mods revealed today that it suffered a data breach in November, during which a “potentially malicious third-party actor” was able to access a small number of user records, including email addresses and password salts and hashes. “We immediately worked to rectify the situation and, as part of the process, brought forward our release schedule for our long-planned new user service to ensure no other potential exploits on the old user service could be used to obtain

Instead, Kali and Wamai are members of the Nighthaven, a mercenary group based out of India. Officially, Nighthaven was invited to join Rainbow Six after successfully stopping the hijacking of a supertanker. Much like Nighthaven’s employment contract, the Nighthaven trailer serves dual purposes: It’s a cinematic introduction to a pair of new operators, but it also promotes the Nighthaven Collection of premium cosmetics that went live today. Available until January 6, the collection will offer 18

The ROG Swift series is one of our favorite gaming monitor lines, so we took note when we saw this Best Buy holiday deal for a 1080p Swift monitor with an 180Hz refresh rate for $250. It’s the right choice if you don’t have the space for a large screen, or the hardware to bump up the resolution to 1440p, but still want the performance of a premium gaming monitor. This feature-packed monitor usually retails around $400, which is a bit of a steep price point for just a 24-inch 1080p display. At $2

It didn’t take long for AMD to push out an incremental update to its completely retooled Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 2020 driver package introduced last week. They include:Game and boost clocks may be incorrectly reported for Radeon RX 5500 XT graphics products in Radeon Software. After disabling Radeon Software Overlay users may still see the toast messages for the overlay shortcut while in fullscreen games. CPU usage may sometimes remain high once Radeon Game Advisor has been invoked dur

Since its launch back in September, most of the Borderlands 3 Shift codes Gearbox has trickled out have rewarded Golden Keys used to get rare weapons. But this month it’s all about the holiday spirit, and Gearbox has gotten festive with a whole pile of Borderlands 3 Christmas Shift codes which unlock a range of holiday skins. Here are all the Borderlands 3 Christmas Shift codes that have been released so far. Borderlands 3 Christmas Shift codesThese Christmas Shift codes are all good until Janua

Distant Worlds 2, the sequel to one of the best 4X games, has been in development for four years, but we’ve heard very little about during that time. The first Distant Worlds is many things, but a looker isn’t one of them. If that’s not your cup of Earl Grey, hopefully Distant Worlds 2 will have the same approach to automation as its predecessor. Distant Worlds can be extremely complex, and diving straight in is not recommended, even if you’ve got some 4X games under your belt already. (Image cr

“At home, I get to sit playing games for ridiculous amounts of hours and escape there,” he told GQ, “because going outside has the opposite effect.” Cavill says he grew up playing games like Delta Force and Half-Life, and even hosted LAN parties at his childhood home. And when he learned Netflix was creating a show based on The Witcher, Cavill jumped at the chance to play Geralt. Once cast as Geralt, Cavill lobbied for the inclusion of more of Geralt’s magic powers in the show. But that doesn’t

The Epic Games Store has kicked off its big Holiday Sale 2019 with discounts of up to 75 percent, a $10 coupon that can be rolled into more $10 coupons when used on eligible games, and, as announced last week, the first of 12 free games that will be given out one per day until the end of the month. The 12 Days o’ Free Games kicks off with Into the Breach, an outstanding minimalist strategy game from FTL studio Subset Games. Bear in mind that these are daily giveaways, not weekly as Epic has done

PowerColor is apparently selling a mini-ITX version of AMD’s Radeon RX 5700 in Japan, and I really hope the company decides to make it more widely available. If so, this could end up being the best graphics card for small form factor (SFF) builds. The site claims the mini-ITX model is exclusive to that region. PowerColor has opted to stick with AMD’s reference blueprint, meaning the mini-ITX model features a 1,465MHz base clock and 1,725MHz base clock. The GPU is the primary challenge, though, a

Cooler Master released the CK552 mechanical keyboard last year for $79.99, and it has gradually dropped in price since then. If you’ve been looking for a new keyboard, the CK552 is a particularly good option right now, as it’s just $49.99 on Amazon—the lowest price yet. This keyboard uses Gateron Red mechanical switches, which offer rapid response times and feel similar to Cherry MX Red switches. Cooler Master CK552 Gaming Mechanical Keyboard | $49.99 (save $10)This mechanical keyboard with Gate

Now that all our end of year and decade reflections are going up, I’ve realised I forgot about one recent trend: the survival city builder. Since Banished, we’ve seen a few of them pop up, perhaps most notably Surviving Mars, which has since been followed up by a post-apocalyptic spin-off. Now it’s got a bit of competition in the form of Endzone: A World Apart, which you can watch in action above. Like the Epic Games Store early access game, Endzone gives you a group of survivors to nurture on a

In early Early Access on Steam, Session’s bizarre control scheme matches a foot to each stick for the most realistic skateboard manipulation yet. Even with its buggy physics and imperfect animations, the result is a skateboarding game that doesn’t just look like the real thing, it feels like the real thing. The same communities have also figured out how to make Session an infinitely bigger game. I put together a Session modding tutorial for the curious, but the Illusory and Session Modding Disco

After four years, Rainbow Six Siege’s core team is moving on, though still staying at Ubisoft. Creative director Xavier Marquis, brand director Alexandre Remy and other members of the team will be hopping onto new projects, leaving the game in the hands of a new squad of Rainbow Six Siege veterans. It’s led by Leroy Athanassoff, who was lead designer on For Honor before he joined Rainbow Six Siege. While it’s a new core team, they’re not new to Rainbow Six Siege, having worked on the game for so