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Dive into cheaper-than-Steam prices While the PC gaming world is focused on Steam’s 2017 Summer Sale, it may be easy to miss what’s going on at other digital retailers. Earlier today, GamersGate ramped up the savings on Ubisoft titles inits own Summer Sale. We’re seeing historic low prices onTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands,Rainbow Six Siege Complete,Watch Dogs 2,The Division, and more. The savings on these new titles replace the old Ubisoft discounts GamersGate was running....

Biggest holiday games for cheap (er) Starting Sunday November 8 and going through November 14, most video games sold by Target (online, too) are buy two, get one free. Of course you will get the cheapest of the three for free, but you may cheat the system* by buying two brand new releases and getting the third free. Think of some games that will be out when this takes effect:Fallout 4,Call of Duty: Black Ops III,Rise of the Tomb Raider....

Hands-on the new co-op FPS from the makers of Payday Things can quickly go to shit inOverkill’s The Walking Dead. I came into my E3 demo expecting as much, but I didn’t know what form the cooperative first-person shooter would take, structurally. I got to play two missions: one was offense oriented and had us gathering resources, while the other was a defensive mission to protect said resources back at base....

Jurassic Park, you say? Cue the theme song and show the helicopter flying over the island! Hamza haswritten aboutTelltale Games’ episodic series before, but I know we have got some “TL;DR”-dropping individuals in the audience, so this one’s for you. It’s part behind-the-scenes, part “here’s what our game is about,” and the final bit involves the designers gushing about the film.

The offer lasts until March 15, so don’t procrastinate Celebrating a whole decade ofMetro– oh my gosh, it’s really been that long? – developer 4A Games has decided to give outfree PC copiesofMetro 2033on Steam this week. It’s free to keep for good. All you need to do is claim the game byMonday, March 15at 10:00 am Pacific. In a fun twist, 4A Games is giving out the original version ofMetro 2033from 2010, not theMetro 2033 Reduxrelease that showed up four years later – so if you ever wanted to go back,now’s the time to act....

It’s for charity Last year Half Empty E-Tank ran a nobleMega Manathon for charity, and they’re back again with MAGFest 12 this January — once again they will be supporting Child’s Play. If you want to get involved you may actuallyhead over to their site right nowand take a look at someMega Manmusic bundles that are being offered. There’s three tiers of music, with Tier 1 running at $1, Tier 2 at $10, and Tier 3 at $20, and it includes artists like Mega Ran and DJ Cutman....

Square Enix never on-board with concept There was someexciting news recentlythat the originalTomb Raidertrilogy was in line for a facelift on Steam, with studio realtechVR announcing that they were remastering the ’90s classics for PC, complete with VR functionality and a new engine. Unfortunately, it appears that these plans have been squashed before they even got off the ground, with publisher Square Enix never even giving the go-ahead for such an idea....

The best of the bad I’ll be upfront here; I likePokemon Scarlet & Violet. They move the series forward in several important ways, and there are moments here that are the highest highs of the franchise’s history.Pokemon Scarlet & Violetare also ridiculously buggy. The performance issues are so rampant that theywillimpact your experience, regardless of your tolerance for low framerates. This is unacceptable for the largest multimedia franchise on the planet....

Super New Kool rumor [Image from41 Strange] Push DustinandNew WabiSabijust dropped a bomb on theSmashcommunity and the speculation train is already running at a fever pitch. According to a now-deleted listing on Nintendo UK’s website, the nextSuper Smash Bros. UltimateDLC carries a copyright from SNK, creators of theNeo Geo consoleand developers ofIkari Warriors,Metal Slug,King of Fightersand other iconic franchises. It would add up that SNK would eventually get representation inSmash....

Two C-notes and a Grant Long gone are the days of Microsoft’s $500 console. The machine that was revealed in May of 2013 has undergone several price cuts, some temporary and some permanent. The frequent discounts feel like an implicit admission that half a thousand dollars was just too much to charge. Starting yesterday, the Xbox One got another promotional price. New units with 500GB hard drive are down to $249....

Yep, all three houses Fire Emblem: Three Housesis out, and there’s just one problem: the cover has all three major houses on it. For those of you who are choosing one and shunning the others completely that can get awkward, so Nintendo is proposing a solution, and it involves arts and crafts. You can log into your My Nintendo account now and hit up theFire Emblemsection to print new box art featuring each house (Blue Lions, Golden Deer, Black Eagles), prominently showcasing their house leader (Dimitri, Claude, Edelgard respectively)....

First impressions The magnitude ofAssassin’s Creedis as great as ever this year.Syndicate‘s London is said to be 30 percent larger thanAssassin’s Creed Unity‘s size, and it feels every inch of it. Upon unlocking the open world, simply navigating to the map and zooming out makes seeing everything seem like an unconquerable task. Fortunately, it’s notthatbad, due toAssassin’s Creed‘s newest and most notable addition: a grappling hook. This device is acquired early on, and it makes traversal much easier....

Haha, so rad One of my favorite things to do on YouTube is watch those “split-screen” music videos the likes of whichSmooth McGroovehas recently made more famous on the video game side. Swedish band Wintergatan just put out an amazing video in the same style as well, and it somehow makes the relatively played-outMega Man 2Wily Castle theme fresh again. In addition to using a typewriter and a book of matches, they also utilize a “Modulin,” which is a sort of geeky electric violin....