So I spoke with a psychiatrist and a researcher who study games to apply some science to the question: When should I let my kids play Fortnite? Kids, games, and researchIt’s useful to remember that today’s games are different than the ones we grew up with. The truth, which makes it difficult to put an age on when it’s okay for kids to play Fortnite, is that psychologists don’t really know. “I really love Fortnite, and I cannot imagine my ability to multitask the way these children do when they p

Noita, the “action roguelite” in which every pixel is physically simulated, is headed to Steam Early Access on September 24. To mark the big news, developer Nolla Games dropped a new trailer showcasing how that simulation translates into gameplay. James described Noita in a preview last year as a “hilarious, horrifying wizard death experiment,” because magic is necessary but the results of using it are unpredictable—often dangerously so. I’m not sure what Noita is actually about, but I don’t thi

John Carmack, wearing a t-shirt that reads “I don’t get older, I level up,” was recently interviewed on an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. The co-founder of iD Software and CTO of Oculus discussed—among other things—the release of Rage, one of iD’s less well-received games. “By the time it got out the world had changed around us,” Carmack says. “The technology decisions that were made for some earlier systems weren’t necessarily the right thing for the very latest ones. Be less ambitious wi

In order to combat the enormous queues to get into its World Of Warcraft Classic servers, Blizzard has announced via the official forums that it is “substantially increasing the number of players that can be simultaneously logged in and playing”. There’s no specifics on exactly how many more players are being let in, but it sounds like the capacity hotfix was deployed last night. Players on the WoW forums are reporting that there are still up to 10,000 player queues to enter some popular servers

The gore-soaked, darkly religious world of Blasphemous is yours to tour today, although you’d best get in quick. The time-limited demo vanishes on Sunday, September 1st, with the full game launching on September 10th. This one’s a little bit heavier on the gore and horror than the likes of Hollow Knight, though. From my brief time with the demo, I was struck by how little the game’s elaborate, detailed animations get in the way of combat. Grab the Blasphemous demo via the side-bar on its Steam s

When it comes to Total War, and especially Warhammer games, bigger is always better. It’s good news, then, that The Hunter & The Beast DLC for Total War: Warhammer 2 is upping the ante on September 11th with the game’s biggest and most absolute unit yet; the Dread Saurian, which you can see in the trailer below. There’s a bunch of other new units coming too, including Kroxigor Ancients, Razordon Hunting Packs, War Wagons and Huntsmen. As per the title, The Hunter & The Beast also adds a pair of

In the days since Lawhead made the allegation against Soule, more members of the industry have come forward to share their own experiences of abuse, accusing several industry men of unwanted advances and sexual assault. “He talked about the mystical power women hold over men with sex,” she writes. Since the blog post was published, other members of the industry have come forward and spoken publicly about alleged abusers. I’ve also reached out to Quinn, Holowka, Lawhead and Soule, and will update

Back in March, an image of Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima doing some voice recording “for the other Sam” made the rounds on Twitter. Sam is the name of Norman Reedus’ character in Death Stranding, but who was the other Sam? Turns out it’s Sam Lake, the creative director at Remedy, and his performance was for a weird little Easter egg in Control. The scientist, Dr. Yoshimi Tokui, is Kojima and the translator, according to video maker dragonddarkPSN (via MP1st), is Kojima Productions communi

Respawn kicked off an Iron Crown Collection event in Apex Legends earlier this month that landed with a thud for a lot of fans. The biggest issue was that some in-game items, particularly Legendary skins, were only available through event-exclusive Iron Crown packs. Today, it began the follow-through on that with a broad overview of the three types of events—Season Launches, Collection Events, and Themed Events—coming to Apex. There may also be a “town takeover” or small map changes, and possibl

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint is coming on October 4, which is close enough now for Ubisoft to commit itself to some PC system requirements. There are five tiers of hardware in all, ranging from basic 1080p at the low end (it still feels weird to me to consider 1080p as a low-end spec) all the way up to Ultra 4K “Elite” option, but you’re going to need some serious hardware to play at that level. Ghost Recon Breakpoint is available for pre-purchase on Uplay and is also headed to the Epic G

It also insinuated GlobalFoundries is acting like a patent troll. We are disappointed to see a foundry peer resort to meritless lawsuits instead of competing in the marketplace with technology,” TSMC said. While TSMC did not use the words “patent troll,” it’s easy to come to that conclusion by reading between the lines. According to the lawsuits, semiconductor technologies used by TSMC infringe on 16 of the company’s patents. This is a big deal because TSMC produces chips for several prominent t

SonicFox may be the best fighting game player on the planet, winning championships for Mortal Kombat, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and more. He’s not, as it turns out, quite as good at singing, but that’s one of many things he did over the weekend during a 72-hour livestream, raising money for The Trevor Project. Over the course of three days, SonicFox’s viewers donated more than $22,000 for the charity, which provides support to LGBTQ youth. SonicFox spent a good chunk of the weekend playing through t

The Intel Core i7-9700K CPU is currently sitting pretty at its lowest ever price on Amazon in the US, and you can pick up the 8 Core 4.9 GHz Turbo unlocked variant for $350 . As we mentioned in our guide, the i7-9700K is a “balancing act between price, performance, and features”. Specifically, it’s got more cores than the i7-8700K and has done away with the Hyper-Threading you’ll find on Intel Core i9 models. That means it doesn’t run as hot, saving you cash longterm on the best CPU coolers . In

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Consider PvE servers if you don’t care about world PvPIn general, PvP servers have been leading the WoW Classic queue times, though plenty of PvE servers are also ‘Full’. That’s partly because, unlike live World of Warcraft, players can’t opt into or out of world PvP. Those include Bloodsail Buccaneers (RP) and Myzrael (Normal) servers. High servers, which are probably still usable, are Firemaw (PvP, English), Flamegor (PvP, Russian) and Mirage Raceway (Normal, English.) If you must, consider Ev

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Control is an excellent game, largely for its weird stories about secret government agencies, dimensional rifts, and inanimate objects come to life. See for yourself as I ruin a lunchroom, pulverize some toilets, disassemble some desks, and bounce a body. I expected the cart to be a single physics object, but after tossing a fire extinguisher at it, tons of smaller objects flew out from within. Even if you can’t toss every object across the room, there’s usually some kind of reactive animation i