The Tomb Kings are coming to Total War: Warhammer 2 this month, bringing with them some of the most exotic units in the entire Warhammer universe. “Tomb Kings don’t get the same benefits as everybody else from post-battle drops, so you are incentivised to use the crafting system,” says lead designer Gary Aldridge. Defend your cities to the lastThe Tomb Kings have a deliberate rhythm to technological progression throughout the campaign. Losing a city in a Tomb Kings campaign can be devastating de

Radiant Worlds has been acquired by Rebellion, the publisher announced today. The UK-based studio founded by industry veterans and Dizzy creators Philip and Andrew Oliver was working on SkySaga: Infinite Isles, a sandbox MMO, but it was cancelled last year, leaving the developer without a project or income. The acquisition means that Radiant will live on as Rebellion Warwick, along with all 70 employees. “To bring such great people to the company, just after our 25th birthday, is quite remarkabl

Mercury used to be a medicinal staple, until we realised that it was incredibly toxic and doing more harm than good. In the near-future of The Mercury Man, humanity seems to have forgotten all about that, leading to people getting illegal mercury transfusions in an effort to cure all known diseases. As a ‘mercury hunter’, players will find ‘mercuries’ and put a stop to their nonsense. Imagine a Russian Blade Runner where replicants have been replaced by health nuts. The Mercury Man is due on Ste

A new single-player trailer for Metal Gear Survive has popped out of a portal, showing off six minutes of zombie murder, rescues, crafting and base defence. Despite the boring environments, my interest remains piqued. The base-building side of things looks like a lark, and the whole survivor rescue thing looks like an interesting combination of Dead Rising’s survivor system and The Phantom Pain’s staff system. It is my greatest hope that I’ll be able to fill my base with bears, but I’m not holdi

Last month, Crytek filed a lawsuit against Cloud Imperium Games. The suit alleged that CIG breached the game license agreement (GLA) that allowed the company to use CryEngine in Star Citizen at a below-market rate. According to Crytek, CIG tried to undersell the CryEngine’s impact, used it in two games, Star Citizen and Squadron 42, without permission, and finally ditched it in favour of Amazon’s Lumberyard. For instance, Crytek claims that CIG used CryEngine in two games, but the GLA treats Squ

Once you’ve played games on a 144Hz or higher refresh rate display, going back to 60Hz can be painful. That’s Big Format Gaming Display if you’re wondering, though we could come up with a few other creative interpretations. Start with a 65-inch 4K panel, but then add in a 120Hz refresh rate and HDR support. If you’re looking for a living room upgrade to last the next decade, these could well be the best option. Nvidia didn’t reveal pricing or availability, though it’s reasonable to assume pricin

Both 14nm and 12nm Ryzen parts will continue to be manufactured for now, and there will also be 2nd generation Threadripper parts that use the Zen+ architecture. Coming next month, AMD will roll out desktop Ryzen APUs, though interestingly AMD will initially have only Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 parts. Finally, AMD surprised me with the announcement of an upcoming 7nm Vega part for this year. AMD mentions new deep learning operations support for 7nm Vega, which could be something similar to Nvidia’s Ten

Last year, Intel announced that it would be bringing a custom AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics solution onto its processor package, and today marks the official launch of the new 8th Gen Intel Core CPUs with RX Vega M graphics, with G-series branding. Looking at the Radeon GPUs, there are two RX Vega M configurations: GH (Graphics High) and GL (Graphics Low). The two Vega M GH parts will also have a 100W TDP, while the GL models are all 65W designs. Compared to a three-year-old i7-4720HQ with GTX 960

Star Citizen’s slow progress through development has clearly not dampened fans’ appetite for its promise of free-form, open-world space simming. Despite already smashing through all its stretch goals before the start of 2017, it managed to pull in an extra $35 million during the calendar year, bringing its total to $176 million raised. Figures that the development team provided to Polygon put the exact figure raised in 2017 at $34.91 million. That is ever-so-slightly down on the $36.11 million i

Varric, the wise-cracking dwarf from Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition, is arguably one of the best companions in any RPG. Penguin Random House will be distributing it, and it’ll be ready to buy at the end of July. In game, those 19 chapters are very short (around 250-350 words), so this version might flesh out certain bits of the story. Here’s the publisher’s summary:”Twenty years of patrols have chiseled each and every stone of the Kirkwall streets into city guardsmen Donnen Brennokovic. Weary and

It’s a Skyrim mod that lets players reunite the three items and restore them to their former glory. If you install the mod, you’ll receive a letter from a courier soon after you obtain Keening. At the end of the dungeon crawling, you’ll have Keening, Wraithguard—an enchanted guantlet—and the weighty hammer Sunder. The mod will only work if you own all the game’s DLC, and you can find full installation instruction on its Skyrim Nexus page. I’ve posted some screenshots below so you can take a clos

I’m attempting a non-lethal playthrough of Fallout 4 with the Knockout Framework mod , which lets me punch NPCs unconscious and carry them around in a sack on my back. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4Using mods can get messy, especially when a mod changes a major aspect of a game system, like the knockout mod does. Last time, I tackled Preston Garvey’s Museum of Freedom quest, which resulted in me leaving Concord with an unconscious deathclaw stuffed in my backpack. So, I head to Red Rocket Tru

The magic-wielding Enchantress will arrive in NetherRealm Studios’ fighting game Injustice 2 next week for some players, the developer has announced, and you can watch her supernatural move set in action in her first gameplay trailer, above. On Tuesday she’ll appear in the roster of anybody that bought the game’s Ultimate Edition, Ultimate Pack, or Fighter Pack 3. A lot of fans have noticed the similarities between her and Quan Chi, who featured in Mortal Kombat, another NeatherRealm game. You c

If you’ve played Rainbow Six Siege in the past few weeks then you’ve probably come across Jäger players exploiting a glitch with his deployable shield. The glitch makes him nearly impossible to kill, and Ubisoft has been rushing to fix it. Their view is not obstructed by the shield, so they can still shoot as normal, but nobody else can shoot through it. If the Jäger player crouches behind cover then they are virtually impossible to tag, but they can still kill any attackers that come into view.

More than 18 million people were logged into Steam at the same time yesterday, and more than seven million of them were in-game—both new records. Those are pretty abstract, albeit impressive, numbers, but if you compare it to this time last year then you’ll see the number of concurrent Steam users has shot up by about 30%. In April Shaun was impressed about Steam pulling in 14 million peak users a day. Having seven million of those players in-game is also mighty impressive, and Valve can probabl

This Cairo-inspired map, courtesy of Overwatch fan and self-taught 3D artist Joshua Llorente, is so good that it’s caught the attention of game director Jeff Kaplan. Llorente initially posted art from the map on Reddit last week, to which Jeff Kaplan said: “Amazing work! Arguably, it’s less focused than an Overwatch map should be, especially a payload map: there’s more passageways than I can keep track of. Below is the initial video Llorente posted of the map, and you can click here for more hig

Lab Zero, the folk behind 2013 fighting game Skull Girls, announced Indivisible way back in 2015, promising an RPG that was heavy on platforming and inspired by the likes of Valkyrie Profile and Super Metroid. I knew its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign was chugging along nicely but I didn’t quite think it’d do as well as this, closing earlier this week with more than $2.2 million raised in total. The game, which will feature a soundtrack from Secret of Mana composer Hiroki Kikuta, set an initial

It’s potentially costing Second Life’s virtual artists tens of thousands of real dollars and highlights the nightmare of defending your intellectual property on the internet. Second Life’s creators were on track to take home $60 million USD collectively in 2017. But it’s also unique in that, unlike most MMOs, players can exchange Second Life’s ingame currency (called Lindens) for US dollars. A lot of artistry goes into Second Life’s virtual products. Like Magic: The Gathering, it’s a market valu

One of them is the Switch 7 Black Edition, a 2-in-1 laptop with integrated liquid cooling and discrete graphics. Acer is looking to buck that trend with its Switch 7 Black Edition. Heat is dissipated through a continual process of evaporation and condensation of the liquid,” Acer explains . Acer Predator Orion 9000Way over at the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Acer is finally ready to start shipping its monstrous Predator Orion 9000. The Predator Orion 9000 will start shipping in Februar

OGN, founder and broadcaster of the prestigious Overwatch Apex tournament, has cancelled season five of the competition and will not be involved with Contenders Korea, one of the development leagues for the Overwatch League. The company has run four reasons of OGN Overwatch Apex, pulling in the best Korean and international teams. Last year, Blizzard announced that the Apex tournament would be re-branded as Contenders Korea, one of the development leagues for the upcoming official Overwatch Leag