Overwatch 2’s first free hero will be playable for a limited time—before their proper release in season 10—starting tomorrow and ending on Sunday, March 31.
Venture is Overwatch 2’s first non-binary hero, and its first DPS hero since Sojourn was released alongside it in 2022. A lot has changed since then. Everyone in the game shoots bigger bullets and has more health now, which opens the door for a hero like Venture who primarily seems to do damage in close-range.
Their design borrows a lot from Doomfist, a melee-heavy brawler who used to be a DPS hero in the original Overwatch. Old Doomfist played like a fighting game character, launching himself into the face of enemies and gaining shields to survive in the fray. Venture doesn’t have a rocket-propelled fist, but they will similarly ram into enemies with a big drill and gain shields along the way.
Here’s what their kit looks like:
- A primary fire that shoots short-distance explosive projectil…
If you’re looking to get comfy on a Prime Day gaming chair deal, we can certainly recommend the Corsair TC100 Relaxed, which is now on sale at Newegg for $239. This isn’t the best deal we’ve ever seen for this chair, but it’s our favorite budget gaming chair and we think it’s well worth its non-discounted MSRP anyway, so the discount is just a nice bonus.
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Sure, a new gaming mouse or graphics card might make more of an immediate impact on your gaming experience, but spend all your gaming sessions on an awful gaming chair and you’ll quickly long for the comfort of a solid chair like this one.
And make no mistake, comfort is what you get with the TC100 Relaxed. When Katie reviewed it last year she found its fabric to be soft and breathable, and its head rest and cushions to be suitably plushy for its “Relaxed” title. Above all, though, it’s…
Tragedy has befallen Alan Wake. When Alan Wake 2 begins, the horror writer has been missing for 13 years, lost in “the Dark Place,” an alternate dimension of no-good, very bad vibes. Alan Wake was a talented horror novelist, and I think the first game ended with him writing himself out of our reality to keep the Dark Place at bay? Honestly, it’s also been 13 years since I’ve played Alan Wake and I remember precisely three things about that game: Stephen King references, shining my flashlight at shadowy figures, and Alan Wake’s clothes.
The man could layer. Tweed jacket; parka; hoodie under the parka; presumably a shirt below it all. Maybe an undershirt for good measure? The combination expressed a certain combination of erudition, ruggedness, and casual approachability all in one contradictory package. Yet after 13 years in the Dark Place, Alan Wake has somehow reappeared with a wholly different look: a classy—yet almost offensively restrained—sui…
Three weeks after disappearing without word or warning, Quantum Break is back on Steam and PC Game Pass.
Quantum Break was pulled from sale earlier this month as a result of licenses that apparently expired while they were in the process of being renewed. It’s the sort of thing that happens from time to time—in fact, it happened to Quantum Break’s predecessor Alan Wake in 2017, and more recently to the Project Cars games.
Fortunately, while expired licenses can sometimes cause older games to disappear forever (as was the case with Project Cars), Remedy told gamers that all was well, and Quantum Break would be back once things were sorted.
Today’s the day. Remedy hasn’t actually tweeted about Quantum Break’s return yet, but Xbox Games Marketing Vice President Aaron Greenberg did. “Good news everyone, @QuantumBreak has officially returned to Xbox, PC, and Game Pass,” Greenberg tweeted. “Thanks for your patience as team worked to get this addressed.”
The P…
Dark Souls is an interconnected game—if you datamine out a full model of Lordran, you’re able to look at the entire breadth of it like it’s a model train set, from the swamps of Blighttown to the hallowed halls of Anor Londo.
Back when the game first came to PC, its port was pretty shocking—it took about six years before the remastered version sorted most complaints out. But we’re PC gamers. If a game isn’t modded to have rig-melting textures or Dewmer rocket boots, what are we even doing here?
Fromsoftserve and their DSR Graphics Overhaul mod (thanks, Gamesradar) is one such attempt to polish the classic to a mirror sheen. This thing’s really impressive. Far from just a bunch of texture packs, fromsoftserve has been laboriously giving the whole game a facelift: bringing dynamic shadows to Lordran, making Anor Londo’s windows see-through, and even adding new meshes to far-off locations.
This adds to the game’s feeling of interconnectedness, lettin…
Ever since Bungie added Forge to Halo 3, Halo Karts has been a thing. The inspiration of Nintendo’s all-conquering Mario Kart was obvious, but the various Halo Karts were built from Halo elements and played on Halo maps. Now the prophecy is upon us. A Halo Mario Kart mod as ludicrous as it is amazing.
Cursed Halo Kart, to give it the proper title, is a part of a much larger mod called Cursed Halo Again, which is a campaign sequel to the multiplayer map pack Cursed Halo. The Mario Kart ‘campaign’ here is based on that prior mod,Halo Karts, and tasks players with winning Mario Kart races in Warthogs against various comedy Halo duos to progress (this is, after all, a ‘cursed’ campaign). Everything mentioned here was created by modder InfernoPlus and the whole overarching project is equal parts bizarre and impressive.
The mod’s shown off below by Youtuber Mint Blitz, and it’s where I took the above absurd gif from.
Like, it almost seems one of thos…
Bad news, folks: The imminent release of Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC might mean we all have to start beating Malenia by ourselves. Let Me Solo Her, the jar-headed, dual-wielding hero who’s helped countless players overcome the game’s toughest boss, says it might be time to call it quits.
Speaking to IGN, LMSH confesses that—having “probably defeated [Malenia] 6,000-7,000 times now”—he’s “had [his] fill of fighting Malenias,” and could be ready to bow out of his two-year career as a legendary rent-a-hero. With 1,200 hours of base Elden Ring under his belt, he wants to make time for Shadow of the Erdtree, and is confident that “Mr Miyazaki will give us another masterpiece to enjoy” when the DLC hits. You and me both, LMSH.
So it sounds like our hero’s comforting, bejarred presence might no longer be a staple sight outside Malenia’s boss room in the near future, but that doesn’t mean you won’t see his ghostly apparition taking on Shadow of th…
Solve today’s Wordle in record time—just click or scroll straight to the July 20 (761) answer and we promise we won’t tell anyone. Prefer to work through your daily game at a slower pace? No problem. Spend some time with our tips and guides, or take a peek at today’s clue.
I didn’t put as much thought as perhaps I should have into today’s opener, choosing to go with my gut instead—and that left me without much of anything to work with. That terrible start was the jolt I needed to kick my game into gear though, and after that early wobble I ended up with today’s Wordle answer in four.
Today’s Wordle hint
A Wordle hint for Thursday, July 20
You’ll want to come at today’s Wordle sideways. The answer can refer to the sides of a person or animal, as well as any sort of manoeuvre where a group or individual approaches another from the side, such as in a sports game. There’s one vowel today.
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Fool’s Theory is a Polish studio headed by Jakub Rokosz, formerly senior quest designer on The Witcher 2 and 3 at CD Projekt Red. Relations must still be good between them, since Fool’s Theory is currently working on the remake of the first Witcher game, with CDPR having “full creative supervision.”
In addition, Fool’s Theory has an original game in the works, which it recently revealed. The Thaumaturge is an isometric RPG set in a version of early 20th century Warsaw in which spirit beings called salutors are summoned and tamed by occultists for their own ends. We’ll be playing one such salutor-botherer, who can be seen in the gameplay trailer commanding a couple of spirits, as well as getting in fistfights and jogging around various parts of Russia-controlled Warsaw.
Those spirits are a bukavac—the eyeless four-armed one with all the hooks and chains—and an upyr—the friendly looking skull-faced chap with the fur hat, who is apparently the ghost of a v…
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A new Goat Simulator game is on the way and this time it’s a remaster that’ll be releasing later this year. We got to see this announcement along with a trailer during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live.
“The greatest simulation game known to man and goat returns with familiar caprine chaos, upgraded graphics and lighting, many intentional features that definitely aren’t bugs, and fan-favourite DLC, all in one package,” Coffee Stain Publishing says in a press release.
Other than the graphics there aren’t a massive amount of changes, something that Coffee Stain pokes fun at in the trailer as it revolves around a prison named Cash Grab Penitentiary. After some generic suit gets led through the remasters ward, past Ralof from Skyrim along with a couple of other characters, we finally come across the goat Pilgor that’s somehow broken out of a maximum security holding, just in time for its own remastered game and all the cash that’ll come with it.
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