The latest episode of Inside Star Citizen explains how Cloud Imperium plan to implement survival mechanics, with senior FPS systems designer Jonny Jacevicius saying that, while “Star Citizen’s not a survival game in the traditional sense,” it will have an “actor status system” to cover eating, drinking, and maintaining temperature. Both hypothermia and hyperthermia are potential outcomes of failing to wear the right suit when you explore a planet, with vision effects and then eventual death if y

In a note posted to Treyarch Studios’ Twitter account, co-studio head and zombies mode director Jason Blundell has announced his departure. We wish to thank Jason for his many contributions to Treyarch. pic.twitter.com/Tb8o36VWb2February 28, 2020Blundell acted as producer on Call of Duty 3, but became associated with the zombies mode after directing two maps for its Black Ops 2 incarnation. He served as director for both the zombies and campaign modes in Black Ops 3, and directed zombies mode in

There’s a lot of nostalgia for those, and Core Decay is a game that looks to replicate that look and style of play, but with 21st century sensibilities. Core Decay is the story of an amnesiac cyborg exploring facilities left behind by a mysterious “Contingency Accord.” Along the way, you’ll also collect and upgrade weapons as you explore the game’s levels. Core Decay is set to release an open beta later this year. You can keep track of it via the Core Decay official website or developer Ivar Hil

I have only the vaguest idea what’s going on in the brand new trailer for Atomic Heart, but I am very much in love with it. This trailer contains multiple brilliant things, in no particular order: A flying worm creature that is a mining drill. A cute lil murderous waddling mining drill robot. I like all of these things just as ideas, let alone something that might show up in a game some time. Here’s everything we know about Atomic Heart.

“After close consultation with our partners in the game development industry and community around the world, we’ve made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March,” reads an update from GDC’s organizers. “We fully intend to host a GDC event later in the summer. Though the conference itself is postponed, the organizers will be working to create online versions of some events. Game Developers Conference is the largest developer-facing event of its kind in North Am

Apex Legends’ next Collection Event, System Override, is almost upon us. System Override’s headline attraction is Deja Loot, a new LTM that has fixed loot. Deja Loot will hit World’s Edge on March 3, but for the second week it will be moving to Kings Canyon, Apex Legends’ original map. The shield is exclusive to the Deja Loot event, but Respawn will consider adding it to the rest of the game. Apex Legends’ System Override event will begin on March 3 and conclude on March 17.

(Image credit: Mario8664)If nothing else, you should play Hole and Box for its smooth jazz rendition of Greensleeves, which is chill and cheesy in the best possible way. But the game beside it is equally interesting, and pretty original for the now-established block-pushing puzzle genre. But, rather than swallowing things up, you’re a hole that can attract boxes towards you, because…well, I have no idea. Additionally, the hole can only pull from a distance, so if a box ends up next to you, you

The reason players were so upset was because, as part of this week’s announcement, Bungie noted that power levels would be enabled. This doohickey enables you to grind past the hard power cap to a potentially infinite level (which resets every season when artifact is swapped out and reset). “We will be disabling the Artifact for Power-enabled PVP (Iron Banner & Trials) until we can implement a Power Cap feature,” game director Luke Smith wrote on Twitter. “This cap will allow us to weave Artifac

Thanks to the launch of mod support via the SDK, you can run your old Quake and Half-Life maps in retro shooter Dusk. It takes a little effort—you’ll have to extract the maps from Quake, copy the Quake palette.imp file to the proper location, and do some other stuff that you can read about here—but the net result is, quite literally, Quake in Dusk, albeit a Quake populated with new, thematically-mismatched enemies. The SDK also enables the use of Half-Life maps, if that’s more your thing, and mo

Gaming laptops come in all shapes and sizes, but if you’re looking for something on the thin side, this deal might be for you. Asus currently has one of its ROG Zephyrus M laptops on sale for $1,399.99 on Amazon—a $100 discount from the MSRP, the lowest recorded price yet. While we haven’t reviewed this specific laptop ourselves, it has received mostly-positive responses from other outlets. Our friends at TechRadar said the Zephyrus M GU502 “doesn’t compromise on the essentials.” LaptopMag revie

The next two free Epic Games Store games have been announced, and it’s good news for fans of dirty corporate warfare on Mars. Stardock’s Offshore Trading Company will go free from March 6 until March 13, and the 2016 RTS is well worth a look: our reviewer called it “ruthless, immediate and thoroughly rewarding”. Gonner will also be on offer, a sidescrolling roguelite with a distinctively, uh, blobby art style. These will replace the current free game InnerSpace, which is worth picking up if a) y

After that, though, it kind of fell off the radar—until today’s announcement that publisher Annapurna Interactive has picked it up and will release it “soon.” (There’s still a dome, but “drab” is about the last word I’d use to describe it.) The gorgeous puzzles are also now tied together with a narrative layer telling a seven-chapter tale of “love, loss, and acceptance.” It’s not a whole lot to go on, but the fact that Maquette is coming from Annapurna Interactive is interesting in itself. Annap

Many rejoiced upon hearing news that Platinum Games’ Wonderful 101 would be saved from the obscurity of Wii U exclusivity. A remaster of the game quickly met and exceeded its Kickstarter target, and now it has a firm release date: May 19 in the US, and May 22 in Europe. Whatever the case, the wait (as short as it is) will be worth it: the isometric action game has a lovely Saturday morning cartoon vibe to it, and it garnered quite the cult following following its initial release in 2013. It’s be

Predator: Hunting Grounds, which dropped its PS4 exclusive status late last year, is almost upon us. The asymmetrical multiplayer shooter is coming on April 20, but prospective marines and sneaky aliens will also get to take it for a spin early, during next month’s free trial weekend. Despite there only being one good movie, the Predator is an enduring sci-fi monster and a bit of a badass, so I’m surprised that Hunting Grounds has been kind of flying under the radar. He’s a lot less sneaky than

(Image credit: Mahum Najam)If you enjoy Undertale and the colour purple then you’ll love Grimm’s Hollow, a refreshingly short JRPG that puts you in the cowl of a recently hired grim reaper. I say ‘hired’, but really you’ve arrived in a sort of purgatory after dying on Earth, and been assigned the role of reaper seemingly at random. Meanwhile, your little brother has arrived here as a ghost—the same ghosts that reapers are tasked with dispatching to the after-afterlife. Over a couple of hours, an

Destiny 2 is finally getting the original game’s beloved 3v3 PvP Trials of Osiris mode. It’ll arrive as part of the Season of the Worthy, which kicks off on March 10, though the first weekend-based Trials will begin on Friday, March 13. In a short presentation video embedded above, Bungie confirms that three original Trials maps are returning, in the form of Cauldron, Exodus Blue and Anomaly. For one thing, Bungie noted that Trials will be ‘power enabled’, meaning your light level will affect ho

The spread of novel coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on gaming conventions, with more major exhibitors pulling out of PAX East. The convention kicks off in Boston this Thursday, but both CD Projekt Red and PUBG Corp have announced at the last moment they won’t attend. “I just found out my team is cancelling our PAX East trip so I will NOT be at PAX East as previously planned,” she wrote. Gamespot has also confirmed that PUBG Corp has canceled its PAX East and GDC 2020 commitments. GDC 2020 h

The big changes in the full release of Dota Underlords were actually revealed late last week, but an update release today gets into the details. “Many rewards can be earned for free, but for full access to all City Crawl content and all 100 rewards on the Battle Pass, players can purchase the Battle Pass for $4.99,” Valve said. “The paid Battle Pass is not required to play the game, nor does it provide any gameplay advantage.” In Dota Underlords, they’re not strictly cosmetic, but add an additio

For the four years Rainbow Six Siege has existed, colorblind fans have been begging Ubisoft for a visual mode that evens their playing field. But speaking to art director Alex Karpazis at the Six Invitational 2020, he told me that the studio is currently “making efforts” on a solution for colorblind players. Just in the past year, posts from colorblind players have averaged two per month on Siege’s official subreddit. For players with colorblindness, Siege can feel like a different game. Ubisoft

(Image credit: Valve)With so many games on Steam, and no system of quality control in place to filter out the garbage, finding new things to play can be challenging. To help smooth those rough seas, Valve has developed a number of tools, like the Interactive Recommender and Play Next, through “experiments” in its new-ish Steam Labs program. One of those experiments, from September 2019, sought to expand Steam’s basic search functionality with more filters and features. Search results will also b