How do you get a Fortnite lightsaber? That said, finding one of the various Fortnite lightsaber locations is like finding a droid in a Mos Eisley cantina: that’s pretty dang difficult, and just as perilous. So I’ve gone ahead and compiled all the biggest questions players have about how to find a lightsaber in Fortnite and how to best use it. Fortnite lightsaber tipsAttacking with a lightsaber is as easy as shooting with any other weapon: press the left mouse button and your character will unlea

Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition, which collects almost everything Capcom has released so far, including hundreds of costumes and around 40 characters, is also adding some returning fighters to the roster. Street Fighter 3’s Gill was revealed when the new edition was announced, and at the Capcom Cup another old boss was unveiled: Street Fighter 4’s Seth. Seth will be available along with the Champion Edition on February 14. The Capcom Cup itself was an exciting one. In the second set of matche

Remember Receiver, the indie shooter from 2013 that models every step of reloading your gun with a separate keypress for each action? It’s getting a sequel, Receiver 2, which will be out early next year. Receiver 2 will still be a game about shooting drones while hunting for cassettes in procedurally generated urban locations, but the sequel will have both more guns and more detail in those guns, promising to simulate all of their moving parts. What it won’t have is online multiplayer or VR supp

Dungeons & Dragons may be enjoying a cultural relevance it hasn’t seen since the 1980s, but while its fifth edition has flourished it hasn’t been well represented in videogames. The announcements of new Baldur’s Gate and Dark Alliance games suggest a change, and that’s backed up by Wizards of the Coast. In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, Wizards of the Coast president Chris Cocks explained that this is only the beginning and there are “seven or eight” videogames based on D&D coming out in t

Planetside Arena went into Early Access on Steam in September, but seemed to run into trouble less than a month later when developer Daybreak Games laid off an unspecified number of employees, including members of the Planetside Arena team. “As a result, PlanetSide Arena will formally shut down servers on January 10th, 2020 at 5:00 pm PST. Planetside Arena had an average concurrent player count in September, the month it debuted, of 474, which sunk to 54 in October and 17 in November. Planetside

We collected all of the relevant Game Awards trailers and announcements here. Below are a few highlights, as well as some PC gaming news that didn’t come out of the Geoff Keighley show. Xbox Series X looks like a PC tower, every Microsoft studio working on exclusivesThe new Xbox, which is coming next winter, looks a lot like a small PC tower. Gaze upon him:(Image credit: Maxis / EA)More things we wroteAround the officeOn the cusp of the ’20s, we’ve been looking back at the 2010s in PC gaming. We

Last Year is a 5v1 teens versus monster horror game deeply rooted in B-movie aesthetics. Shortly after launch on the Discord Store, the future of the game became unexpectedly precarious when the shop suddenly closed. The team went dark for months, much to the dismay of their busy Discord community, but Elastic Games has since found a new direction and road map for its debut. Here’s an excerpt from the interview where Vasquez details the early days of signing to Discord and first notice of the cl

As 2019 comes to a close we’ll be looking back at the year’s best games (and looking ahead to the new PC games of 2020) but it’s also worth sparing a moment for the games of 2019 that never actually arrived. There are some big games that for one reason or another didn’t make it out this year. Here are the games that were originally planned for 2019 but were pushed back to next year, along with the reasons why. We got our first look at a bit Spelunky 2’s moon-based gameplay last year, along with

We couldn’t collect all of them in one space, but here are 30 of our favourites. Go looking for them, the next time you mount up Roach and take Geralt out for a quest. You can stumble on the grave of Leo, a relatively minor character from The Witcher 1″A senseless death, could’ve been avoided.” If you keep it, and import your save for The Witcher 3, the tattoo will remain—a constant reminder of a wild night. Watch the world go byIn The Witcher 3, windows are actually windows: you can look throug

Before that, let’s take a look back at what people in 2009 and 2010 thought gaming would be like here at the end of the decade. Hahaha, no: 3D displays are the future(Image credit: Nvidia)An analyst told TechRadar in 2010 that it’s “safe to say that most games and all AAA games will be authored in 3D by 2020.” Also wrong: OnLive is the future of gaming(Image credit: OnLive)Back in 2009, game streaming was an exciting novelty, and possibly the future of gaming for some observers. The early game s

I know this all too well—my office chair is ready for a one-way trip to the dumpster, and I’ve found a replacement thanks to a $50 discount on Maingear’s Forma R and Forma GT chairs (yes, I just bought one). The best gaming chairs tend to be expensive, and the Forma series is no exception. The Forma R is available in two color options: black with red trim, or white with black trim (Forma R Limited Edition). Maingear’s Forma GT, meanwhile, comes in all-black with a diamond pattern. The only cavea

It goes without saying that you can’t have a good cyberpunk experience without some good cyberpunk music backing it up. To that end, CD Projekt has dropped a teaser showcasing some of the musical talents contributing tunes to its upcoming cyber-RPG Cyberpunk 2077. It’s also recording a “greatest hits” EP as Samurai, featuring music “heavily inspired by the original source material, as well as original tracks created by the band exclusively for Cyberpunk 2077.” Grimes will also appear as the voic

Microsoft released a new trailer for Ori and the Will of the Wisps at The Game Awards last night, and it looks really great—and also really challenging, as you’d expect. But the really interesting bit is at the very end, when a release date of March 11, 2020 is revealed. If you’ve been following along, you’ll recognize that as a delay: Microsoft said at E3 this year that the new Ori would be out on February 11. A reason for the delay wasn’t provided, but developer Moon Studios confirmed the new

In 2013, Apple designed a very sleek, cylindrical Mac Pro that looked like Darth Vader’s trashcan. Disappointing, but not as disappointing as this 2019 Mac Pro redesign. The new model was immediately christened the cheese grater Mac Pro thanks to its heavy grille. An average cheese grater costs about $10, and is very good at grating both cheese and knuckles. The $6,000 Mac Pro, on the other hand, doesn’t so much grate the cheese as just slice off chunks of it, which get firmly lodged in the gril

The corporate nightmare sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds was a big hit for Obsidian. “We want to take this opportunity to thank the incredible team behind The Outer Worlds. The reception to The Outer Worlds has been unbelievable to see, and even just being nominated means a lot. “We just wanted to personally thank our team for doing a wonderful job and our fans for their tremendous support,” The Outer Worlds co-director Leonard Boyarsky said. Despite its healthy state at release, The Outer Worlds was

The Epic Games Store is ramping up the free games for the holidays, giving away 12 of them between now and the new year. The cavalcade of mystery games will start rolling out on December 19. If none of the freebies end up tickling your fancy, the Epic Games Store’s festive sale will be kicking off at the same time. Speaking of The Game Awards, check the trailer below to see the exclusive games coming to the store next year. It’s now been a year since the launch of the store, and it looks like th

Windows 7 users have been seeing pop-up notifications that require a click to get rid of (users can choose between “Remind me later,” “Learn more,” or “Don’t remind me again”). As the end date approaches, however, Microsoft is ramping up its effort with larger notices to encourage users to upgrade. “Based on that feedback, we’ll send reminders once a month at most as we approach this important end of support date,” Microsoft explains. “Microsoft made a commitment to provide 10 years of product s

At The Game Awards last night, though, it was brought back from the dead, and coincidentally or not (and I’m pretty sure it’s not), the original is now free on the Epic Games Store. The Wolf Among Us joins The Escapists, which was announced yesterday as the usual Epic weekly freebie. It spins off from there, but like other Telltale games, details and outcomes depend largely on the choices players make over the course of the game. The Wolf Among Us will be free until December 19, the same as The

Best Buy has a ton of holiday deals going on right now, especially if you’re in the market for large stocking stuffer in the shape of a gaming laptop. Right now, the 15-inch Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop is $600, down from the usual $830 list price. This Acer Nitro 5 has 9th Gen Intel i5-9300H CPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD/128GB SSD, and a Geforce GTX 1650 graphics card. It’s well suited for games like Overwatch, and the Nitro 5 features a nice 1080p IPS panel. At this time of year, discounted gaming lapto

If you’re always fiddling with game settings to get playable framerates, it’s a sign you’re ready for a new GPU. For example, Newegg is selling MSI’s factory overclocked GeForce GTX 1660 Ventus XS OC model for $189.99 after a couple of discounts. The regular GTX 1660 is still a very good card for 1080p gameplay. At that resolution with the settings on medium, Jarred found the GTX 1660 to be around 12 percent faster than a GTX 1060 6GB, and 20 percent faster than the 3GB model. If you’d rather no