We had hoped to get a look at some Age of Empires 4 footage at Gamescom this year, but that, alas, won’t be the case. However, Xbox says they’ll have gameplay ready to show the public later this year at XO19 in London. That event is set to run November 14-16 at London’s Copper Box Arena, and Age of Empires 4 will be shown off the first day during the Inside Xbox presentation, Greenberg has told Germany’s GameStar. We’ve been subsisting on little bits of information since the game was announced i

Thinking about the words “medieval grand strategy,” most people will probably jump straight to Crusader Kings 2, the essential example of the form since 2012. THQ Nordic is stepping into Paradox’s demesne next year by resurrecting a franchise that’s been dormant for 15 years: Knights of Honor. Knights of Honor 2—Sovereign is a modernized take on the original game, and THQ says they plan on making it an accessible entry point to the grand strategy genre. While it’s THQ Nordic publishing the game

The Destiny 2 cross save system lets you carry on with your spacefaring regardless of your chosen platform, and that includes Google Stadia. Activating cross saves is one part of the Destiny 2 Steam transfers process as Bungie moves away from Blizzard’s Battle.net. Here we’re going to walk you through each step in enabling cross saves in Destiny 2 so your long-lost Guardians can be reunited once more. How to do Destiny cross savesFirst, you need to log in to Bungie.net. That said, that doesn’t m

Submarines, a wholly new, fourth class of vessel, have just been announced at Gamescom, and the game will never be the same again. “It took a while to work out, because the game was not mature enough,” Artur Plociennik, World of Warships executive producer, said during our pre-game briefing. No matter what nation you hail from, though, submarines are going to be a whole new threat. Submarines are, of course, not without their own powerful attack, and that attack has changed considerably since th

Here’s everything we know about Kerbal Space Program 2, from its release date to what new features you can expect. Kerbal Space Program 2 is due out on Steam and—according the the press release—”other digital storefronts” in spring 2020. For Kerbal Space Program 2, new animations will detail everything from delta-v to docking—ensuring players are armed for success. As with Kerbal Space Program, you’ll be doing a lot of learning through failure. Kerbal Space Program 2 (Image credit: Private Divis

The none-more-gloomy Eris Morn returns as the key quest giver in Destiny 2: Shadowkeep (Image credit: Bungie)Last week Destiny 2 game director Luke Smith dropped his own version of the dead sea scrolls. (Image credit: Bungie)2. (Image credit: Bungie)3. (Image credit: Bungie)4. (Image credit: Bungie)5.

Nvidia’s latest 436.02 GPU driver is an exception. Specifically, Nvidia’s driver team tuned the 436.02 release for Apex Legends, Battlefield V, Forza Horizon 4, Strange Brigade, and World War Z. Raw performance aside, the latest driver release adds a couple of beta features. (Image credit: Nvidia)The image above compares a 4K screenshot with traditional scaling versus Nvidia’s GPU Integer Scaling. If you’re ready to jump on the new driver, you can update your GPU driver through GeForce Experienc

Modern Wolf is a brand new games publisher out to make a statement: that video games can be developed without subjecting developers to crunch or other practices that can take a toll on mental wellbeing. From NEO Scavenger developer Blue Bottle Games, there’s Ostranauts—a “noir spaceship life sim” that’s billed as a cross between RimWorld and FTL. That’s from Cinder Cone and the creative director of Smoke & Sacrifice, and Modern Wolf expects it to launch late next year. Finally, there’s Rogue Sta

Instead, these are Comet Lake processors built on a 14-nanometer manufacturing process. Should you find yourself shopping for a laptop during the holiday season, you’re bound to see models touting Whiskey Lake (8th gen), Ice Lake (10th gen), and Comet Lake (also 10th gen) processors. The new Comet Lake parts are essentially an upgrade to Whiskey Lake with added features, such as support for Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) connectivity and faster LPDDR4x RAM. As far as multi-threaded workloads go, Ice Lake do

It’s been through a spot of controversy and a rerelease which changed the name, first to Spintires: Mudrunner (which also included a major update to the game itself) and more recently to just Mudrunner. Niche though it is, it was successful enough to warrant a sequel, announced last year as Mudrunner 2. And even though it’s not out yet, now it’s been renamed, too: Focus Home and Saber Interactive announced at Gamescom today that the new game is now called Snowrunner. Snowrunner promises a “huge

(Image credit: AMD)For the most part, AMD’s existing high-end desktop (HEDT) Threadripper family is far less interesting now than it was prior to the recent launch of third-generation Ryzen CPUs. After all, the mainstream Ryzen lineup culminates in the Ryzen 9 3950X, which wields 16 cores and 32 threads of computing muscle. The challenge AMD faces is building a line of Threadripper CPUs that offer enough extra oomph to warrant a presumably higher price tag than the latest Ryzen processors. “If m

(Image credit: G.Skill)In a refreshing change of pace, G.Skill unveiled a new mechanical keyboard that mostly sticks to the basics, and is relatively affordable to boot. Well, most of the keys use Cherry MX Reds—the space key uses a heavier (but still quiet) Cherry MX Black switch. While there is no RGB lighting to speak of, the KM360 does have white LED backlighting that can be adjusted to 25/50/75/100 percent brightness, or turned off entirely. Take note that this is a tenkeyless (TKL) keyboar

It’s now official: The DLC characters included in the Kombat Pack for Mortal Kombat 11 have been revealed in a new trailer. All the names on the list were already leaked in a Reddit Thread from June but now we’ve got the faces to go with them. Remember, the Kombat Pack isn’t an instant unlock. Even after buying it, characters are being released one at a time, though owning the pack gets you access to DLC characters a week early. You can pick up the Kombat Pack on Steam, which comes with some oth

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Rainbow Six Siege’s character artists seem to be getting ready for Halloween early, as a new leak appears to show off a new round of horror-themed operator skins likely coming with this year’s holiday event. The leak, which comes via obutu3_, shows Halloween skins for Doc, Kaplan, Bandit, Ela, Vigil, Smoke, and Frost. Each of the new epic skins looks pretty great, although for my money, Frost’s is the most upsetting. Smoke’s skin turns him into an alien sewer monster of some kind, and Ela’s is c

Players who pre-order the Deluxe Edition of Frontier Developments’ upcoming Planet Zoo will get a chance to try it out early. The studio announced the beta and unveiled a new trailer at Gamescom this week. The early access beta will be available exclusively as a pre-order bonus for the Deluxe Edition, and it’s set to run from September 24 to October 8. During that time, players will be able to try out the first Career Mode campaign scenario, and use one biome in Franchise, Planet Zoo’s sandbox m

The first of ten planned free DLC expansions for Steel Division 2 is out today, and it adds two new divisions to the battlefield. I’ll repeat that: it’s a heavy flamethrower tank. Top that off with two new songs for the soundtrack, and Steel Division 2’s first free DLC pack is a healthy injection of new content for the wargame-flavored RTS. You can find it on Steam, although if you have Steel Division 2 installed, it should be included with an automatic update. For more, check out our Steel Divi

The Yakuza games are wonderful things all to themselves, and they’ve found an eager audience on PC since the port of Yakuza 0 last year. Sega has announced that Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 are getting remastered editions for the PlayStation 4, all combined into a single package called The Yakuza Remastered Collection. After all, PC players have now gotten a chance at Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, and Yakuza Kiwami 2. Add to that the fact that after finding success with the Yakuza series on PC, Sega now consid

(Image credit: Rare)If you log in to Sea of Thieves between now and the end of August 24, you’ll unlock a “Halo inspired” Spartan ship set. If you’ve always dreamed about sailing the open seas, flaunting your love for an entirely different game universe, well, you’re in luck. Players need to enter an active game session for five minutes in either Adventure or Arena modes. The pack includes skins for the figurehead, flag, sails, hull, wheel, capstan and cannons. I’m no expert when it comes to boa

Remedy have been showing off the ray tracing in their new game Control in recent trailers, but this time it’s a trailer for the rest of us—a straight-up launch trailer highlighting just how weird this game of X-Files/Twin Peaks/SCP Foundation action-horror is going to get. Did that gun just whisper to the guy whose temple it’s pressed against? Is that a worm monster or an evil flower? Is that guy about to be electrocuted or pushed down the stairs? Control will be out August 27.