The Division had a major new patch roll out yesterday, which made some much-needed changes to the game’s previously dire Dark Zone PvP offerings. Those changes have been welcome, but the patch has reportedly introduced a nasty bug, too: some players are reporting that high-end backpacks are disappearing from their inventory. In letters sent to Kotaku, the backpacks not only...
Last May, we offered you the chance to win access to the closed beta for Orcs Must Die! Unchained, the free-to-play tower defense-MOBA hybrid first announced back in mid-2014. You probably didn’t get in—fortune is fickle, and we only had 5000 codes to give away—but soon it won’t matter, because on March 29 the open...
The Overwatch beta has undergone some big changes thanks to a “massive content patch” that rolled out today. The update adds a new Escort map called Route 66, and a “Weekly Brawl” play mode that rotates in new rules from Blizzard’s Custom Game system on a weekly basis. Taking inspiration from Hearthstone’s Tavern Brawls, Weekly...
Sesame Street has ensured that I will never be able to take Total War: Warhammer’s Vampire Counts seriously, no matter how unspeakably evil they are. Necromancers are a different matter. I don’t know why, really, especially since they’re a lesser form of wickedness than vampires, but they give me the straight-up heebie-jeebies. Maybe it’s because...
For a nearly ten years now, Intel has been on a “tick-tock” processor design schedule. Intel would release a new manufacturing process, increasing the performance and power—this was the tick. Then it would introduce a new processor architecture that improved the efficiency and added new features—the tock. Now though, according to The Motley Fool, this model is being scrapped...
The Viking sim sequel Banner Saga 2 was delayed in late 2015 to sometime in the first quarter of 2016. It’s not actually going to make that promised launch window, but it’ll be close enough that you probably won’t mind: Developer Stoic announced today that it will be out on April 19. #BannerSaga2 hitting PC...
This War of Mine is a game about surviving the horrors of war, not as a thick-necked soldier with an array of guns and a can-do attitude, but rather as a civilian: hungry, sick, injured, alone, and above all else, desperate. It’s obviously not the happiest simulation ever, but as we noted in our review,...
Frontier’s lavish modernisation of the theme park sim, Planet Coaster, is now available to play if you want to shell out on the early bird alpha. In keeping with Frontier’s history of charging high prices for early entry (and thus, the logic goes, getting serious testers in first) Planet Coaster will cost you £50/$75 from the Frontier store....
Dark Souls 3 releases in Japan tomorrow. If you need to live vicariously until it comes our way on April 12, the Japanese launch trailer is out—in English, helpfully. There are a number of new and properly monstrous enemies on show. Miyazaki must have been dredging the darkest trenches of his mind to come up with this...
April 13 will be a crucial opportunity for Battleborn to distinguish itself from the flurry of character-based shooters and MOBAs we’re weathering. Open beta has at last been dated, a week after Gearbox announced that development was as good as done. It’ll offer two of Battleborn’s three multiplayer modes (Incursion and Meltdown), all 25 release heroes and...
