Jedi: Fallen Order was “a fun, straightforward holiday adventure,” according to our review, and apparently sold pretty well. Unsurprisingly, Respawn likely isn’t done with the wars among the stars. EA still has several years left on its licensing deal with Disney, and recent job postings suggest another Star Wars “action/adventure” game is on the way from the Titanfall and Apex Legends developer. We can’t say for sure if the next Respawn Star Wars game will be a direct sequel to Jedi: Fallen Ord

The Forgotten City is a standalone game based on an award-winning Skyrim mod that sets players off on a murder-mystery investigation in an ancient underground city, where they’ll grapple with themes including morality, modern society, humanism, and time travel. Developer Modern Storyteller announced today that it has signed a deal with Dear Villagers, whose previous releases include Dead in Vinland and Bury Me, My Love, to publish The Forgotten City. “From the start, I wanted The Forgotten City

(Image credit: Valve)Garry’s Mod turns 15 this month, marking a decade and a half of untrammelled Source Engine chaos. According to a press release issued by Facepunch Studios today, 233 million baddies have been killed, 124 million goodies have been killed, 88 million innocent bystanders have been killed, and 34 million balls have been eaten. Initially released as a Half-Life 2 mod in 2004, the sandbox game released as its own title in late 2006. Since then the game has reportedly sold more tha

Warcraft 3: Reforged, announced at BlizzCon 2018, is a complete remaster of the great Blizzard RTS Warcraft 3, built from the ground-up with new art and animations. Today Blizzard confirmed that it’s going to miss that target, but just barely: The full game is now set for release on January 28, 2020. The overhauled game includes the full Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos campaign and The Frozen Throne expansion, adding up to more than 60 missions across seven singleplayer campaigns. Characters, structu

Security-conscious Russian president Vladimir Putin has not heeded Microsoft’s advice to stop using its obsolete OS, apparently continuing to use Windows XP in the Kremlin and his official residence. Russian website Open Media noticed Putin using the OS in official press shots, as if he had no shame whatsoever. Officials aren’t meant to use foreign software, with Windows XP apparently being the last OS certified for use within the government. But it looks like Putin is still using it in at least

Around the middle of each month, Valve releases a list of the previous month’s top-selling new games on Steam, based on revenues generated over the first two weeks of release. With that prelude out of the way, here’s the Big 20 for November:Ratopolis – Cassel Games– Cassel Games Planet Zoo – Frontier Developments– Frontier Developments Pistol Whip – Cloudhead Games– Cloudhead Games Romancing Saga 3 – Square Enix and ArtePiazza– Square Enix and ArtePiazza Kritika:Reboot – ALLM Co.– ALLM Co. These

The deals on gaming keyboards have been healthy over the holiday period, but if you still haven’t found what you want, this sale might interest you. Best Buy currently has the Cherry MX Speed version of Corsair’s K95 RGB Platinum keyboard for just $109.99. This keyboard offers a total of 18 programmable G-keys that can be used for custom macros, an integrated numeric keypad, a detachable palm rest, and a wired USB connection. It uses Cherry MX Speed mechanical switches, designed to have extremel

If you spent a boatload of money building a no-compromise gaming PC, good news: Asus apparently has a monitor that will do your hardware justice. It’s the TUF Gaming VG279QM, and according to the marketing materials, it delivers up to a 280Hz refresh rate. It’s not entirely clear if the advertised 280Hz refresh rate is the native measurement on VG279QM or if that comes by way of overclocking the panel. To actually utilize a 280Hz refresh rate to its fullest, you’ll need a PC that can keep up. Th

(Image credit: HyperX)The HyperX Cloud II is the sister gaming headset to our favorite Cloud Alpha, which holds the holds the number one spot on our best gaming headset list. If you missed out on this deal over Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you can pick up the HyperX Cloud II gaming headset from the Microsoft Store for $69.99, $30 off the list price. The differences between the Cloud II and Cloud Alpha are negligible; the Cloud Alpha has a frequency response range of 13Hz–27,000Hz, while the Hy

In Red Dead Redemption 2, only humans have the privilege of riding a horse, but thankfully there’s now a mod that fixes this inequality by letting every living creature in the game ride them. Pir2’s Horse TP mod lets you teleport animals onto a horse you’ve assigned at the press of a button, at which point they miraculously appear on your horse’s back, probably pretty surprised. Larger animals like bears and boars clip through the horse a bit, making the pair look like some sort of Cronenberg ni

(Image credit: Piranha Games)MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries was listed as one of our most anticipated VR games of 2019, but it came with a big “maybe” caveat: Piranha Games president Russ Bullock said in an interview last year that the studio was considering VR implementation. Fast forward to now, and MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is out in the wild, and according to our review it’s very good. It doesn’t have VR support, but in a statement provided to VentureBeat, a developer from the studio spoke abou

Rambler Group, the third-largest internet company in Russia, has filed a lawsuit against Twitch over illegal broadcasts of English Premier League soccer in that country. As reported by Kommersant (Google translated, via VGC), Rambler claims that streams of matches on Twitch violated its exclusive broadcast rights approximately 36,000 times, and as a result it is now seeking 180 billion rubles ($2.9 billion) in damages and a permanent ban on Twitch in Russia. Haji Makhtiev, founder of the Russian

He was a human NPC that players discovered hiding in a secret ‘dev room’ in Fallout 76 back in January. The hidden room contained every item in Fallout 76, including a few that hadn’t actually made it into the game at the time. The room’s caretaker was a lone human NPC named Wooby. Wooby’s discovery was a big surprise at the time because we hadn’t yet learned about Fallout 76’s Wastelanders expansion, which will bring human NPCs to the game next year. At first spawning human NPCs seems pointless

Over the weekend, Epic and Disney released a new trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in Fortnite. After that came a Star Wars glider, a lightsaber, and TIE Fighter crash sites to explore and reclaim. Later this week, the Star Wars content crossover will move into a whole new dimension, as Mark Hamill will join with Ninja to show off more in-game content. After all, you don’t invite Mark Hamill onto your show to showcase his hot gaming skills. Ninja tweeted a few behind-the-scenes shots

None of that seemed like an obvious path toward making TIE Fighter, a groundbreaking flight sim that would have a dramatic impact on the Star Wars universe, and certainly one of the greatest Star Wars games of all time. For the first time, a Star Wars game let you be the bad guy. The book that brought Star Wars back into public consciousnessFor Star Wars games, at least, the dark times were over. Image 1 of 9 Concept art for TIE Fighter (Image credit: Larry Holland) Image 2 of 9 Concept art for

Hello Games has snuck out a pre-holiday update for No Man’s Sky, letting you fill the normally fairly serene galaxy with your own loud musical creations. The synth lets you access the game’s new audio creation suite, and frankly it looks pretty damn intimidating. If you’re feeling bolder, you can take over from the AI and create music from scratch, starting with the maths used to create waveforms. For more complicated compositions, you can also build more devices, rows and rows of them, adding m

Corsair is about to add yet another product to its growing portfolio: game controllers. Rather than design its own models, however, Corsair is planning to buy Scuf Gaming, the company announced on Monday. “Scuf leads the market for performance controllers and are a key ingredient to the success of countless esports professionals.” He noted that while Corsair could build some of these products on its own, it might take several years, versus just buying a smaller company (like Elgato and now Scuf

And while a brand new gaming chair might be a bit too big for a stocking filler, we think the prices make these Homall gaming chairs well worth a look. Homall is currently offering the white variation of its racing-style ergonomic gaming chair for just $89.99, which saves you $110 off the list price. While we haven’t personally tested it yet, it has all the staples we’ve come to expect in a great gaming chair: a freely adjustable lumbar support, headrest pillow, and the usual swivel and tilt fun

What you see above, however, is a prototype NVMe SSD that is much faster—it’s apparently hit 7GB/s in internal tests. The SSD Review was among a small group of press that Lexar invited to its headquarters in China to preview its upcoming products. Current flagship PCIe 4.0 SSDs top out at around 5GB/s (5,000MB/s) for sequential reads, and Phison said this past summer said that SSDs will hit 6.5GB/s in 2020. There is only limited support for PCIe 4.0 at the moment. You can install a PCIe 4.0 SSD

Right now, Western Digital’s SN750 500GB NVMe SSD is just $69.99 on Amazon. This is an NVMe drive, so it offers substantially better performance than SATA-based drives. We tested this SSD at near the beginning of this year and discovered it’s faster than Samsung’s 970 Evo and effectively tied with the 970 Evo Plus. The WD Black SN750 has a read/write speed of 3,470/2,600 MB/s, while the Samsung 970 Evo Plus has a read/write speed of 3,500/3,200 MB/s. There’s plenty of SATA options, if you want t