The war horns have sounded and warriors around the world are answering their call: For Honor is out today! The Samurai, the Knights, and the Vikings have finally begun their war in earnest, and there are 12 Heroes with unique movesets to help you carve out your place on the battlefield. Whether you’re wading into the fray as the Shugoki, swinging your heavy kanabo, or darting in with painful dagger strikes as the Peacekeeper, it’s up to you to declare your allegiance and join the Faction War.

Every multiplayer match you play versus humans or AI, from 4v4 Dominion clashes to 1v1 Duel showdowns, will contribute war assets to the Faction War, the persistent metagame that chronicles the overall conflict between Knights, Vikings, and Samurai. In-game rewards and intangible glory await those who fight well during each 10-week season of Faction War, and the more you play, the more you will be able to level up your Heroes, unlocking new feats, earning new gear, and discovering new customization options.

For Honor’s innovative melee combat system also fuels the story campaign, in which players will experience the war from each of the three factions’ perspectives and confront the sinister machinations of the bellicose Apollyon. The campaign can be played solo or in online co-op. For Honor is available now for PC, Xbox One, and PS4, and season pass holders can look forward to new Heroes, maps, modes, and gear in the coming months.

From the streets of Rio to the clubs on King’s Row, Lúcio’s beats bring the party to life, and drive the people to action! Now he’s on tour in the Nexus, ready to break it down, and to continue fighting for what’s right.

Read on for a breakdown of a few of Lúcio’s talents, a spotlight video, and some tips and tricks around drafting Lúcio, Freedom Fighting DJ!

Apocalypse Now is going to be a video game.

You are an assassin. You've been given the most dangerous, most secret and most controversial special forces mission in U.S. History.

But this game is not Call of Duty: Vietnam. You will sneak. You will hide. You will gather resources. You will build your character. You will kill when necessary.

To maintain creative freedom and produce a daring and intense game about the horrors of war, the project is being financed outside the traditional system. We want your support, please back this game.

Eden is a human colony far from Earth. To develop a better society, settlers made an artificial intelligence, BOOR, to help them, but this machine turned against them. When a little girl accidentally lands on the planet of Eden, she discovers BOOR has taken over and there are only a few survivors left. With her special ability to multiply herself, she'll help them destroy BOOR and reclaim the world.

Virtual reality developer Sólfar Studios’ EVEREST VR is now available for Oculus Rift with support for the recently released Oculus Touch controllers. EVEREST VR, developed in partnership with Nordic visual effects and animation house RVX, is an immersive and interactive recreation of summiting Mt. Everest that is both realistic and emotionally stunning. Following its successful launch in August 2016 for the HTC Vive, EVEREST VR has earned critical acclaim for its impressive visual quality, with UploadVR calling it, “nothing short of breathtaking,” and Polygon stating that “the views are amazing.” Rift owners can immediately download the experience via Oculus Home for $14.99.

“Our team has worked tirelessly to optimize EVEREST VR for Oculus Rift,” said Kjartan Pierre Emilsson, co-founder and CEO of Sólfar Studios. “We’ve made numerous content updates to ensure that users have the most visually accurate experience of ascending Mt. Everest, including an expansion to our ‘God Mode’ and the addition of The Lhotse Face ascent. We’re particularly proud of the addition of the 1953 Hillary expedition photographs to the experience, which brings an entirely new documentary lens to the experience of being on the mountain in VR.”

To mark this milestone, Paradox will dedicate much of 2017 to celebrating Crusader Kings II and its community. The first step in this year of modern medieval pageantry is to give away a free portrait pack to everyone that owns Crusader Kings II. This South Indian portrait pack will add more color and personality for those who fight for control of the great subcontinent. The pack is available here.

And then tomorrow the celebrations continue with a celebratory video from LongGameShort. His humorous animated videos are firm favorites of the Dev team and the community, so it seemed only right to involve him in our celebrations!

• All Stars 8 Bundle. Save 98%.
• Final Fantasy Franchise 30th anniversary sale on Steam. Save up to 50%.
• Heroes of the Storm Weekly Sale- Feb 14 - 21, 2017.
• Humble Software Bundle for PC Lovers (pay what you want and help charity).
• SEGA - Management Collection on Steam. Save up to 50%.
• Tactical RPG Bundle on Steam. Save 15%.
• Victoria II on Steam. Save 75%.

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive » Release Notes for 2-14-2017.
• Team Fortress 2 update released.

• Anew- The Distant Light by Resonator — Kickstarter. "An open-world action game for fans of single-player adventures. Battle, puzzle, and explore an exotic alien landscape. Anew: The Distant Light is an indie game currently in pre-alpha. It is being created by veteran developers Steve Copeland and Jeff Spoonhower, with an original soundtrack by Wilbert Roget II." Also on Steam Greenlight. Here's a trailer.

• DiRT 4 devs interested in PS4 Pro update.
• Project CARS 2 probably not coming to Nintendo Switch.
• SNES preservation project "dead" after $10k of games lost in the post.

• Razer Blade Gets Core i7-7700HQ, Adds 4K Touchscreen, 1 TB SSD Options.
• HMD Global will launch the Nokia 3, 5, and 6 at MWC, plus a 3310 homage. Thanks HARDOCP.

• Apple Unveils Its First Two Original TV Series. Thanks Ant.
• Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance. Thanks Hypothermia.
• Caavo's Set-Top Box Fixes Everything Wrong With Watching TV.

• Humans must become cyborgs to survive, says Elon Musk.

• Microsoft February 2017 security update release. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.

• "Bioshock" & GTA Creators Plan Several Films. Thanks Ant…

Minimum Requirements

• OS:64-bit Windows 10
• DirectX version:DirectX 12 (feature level 11)
• CPU: Intel Core i5-2500
• GPU:GeForce GTX 650 Ti
• Memory: 6GB
• HD space:25 GB

Recommended Requirements

• OS:64-bit Windows 10
• DirectX version:DirectX 12 (feature level 11)
• CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K
• GPU:GeForce GTX 1060
• Memory: 8GB
• HD space:25 GB

Discover unrivalled sniping freedom in the largest and most advanced World War 2 shooter ever built. Experience tactical third-person combat, gameplay choice and epic longshots across gigantic levels as you liberate wartime Italy from the grip of Fascism.

Set in the aftermath of its award-winning predecessor, Sniper Elite 4 transports players across the beautiful Italian peninsula, from sun-drenched Mediterranean coastal towns, to ancient forests, mountain valleys and colossal Nazi megastructures.

Covert agent and elite marksman Karl Fairburne must fight alongside the brave men and women of the Italian Resistance and defeat a terrifying new threat with the potential to halt the Allied fightback in Europe before it’s even begun.

We’re happy to share with you some of the features we’ve been working on the last couple of months. In the Battlefield 1 Winter Update we’re bringing back the ever-popular ribbons from previous Battlefield titles. We’ve also heard your request to up Class Rank caps from 10. The new max Class Rank is now 50. Oh, and there will be unlockables on the way to maxing your Class Rank.

There are plenty of other new features and improvements, both big and small, in the Battlefield 1 Winter Update. We look forward to seeing you on the Battlefield!

Starting February 17, it will be necessary to log in with a Korean Battle.net account at the country’s PC bangs. Meaning? It won’t be possible to use those freebie accounts.

Korean Battle.net accounts require more personal information, including a Korean social security number. That means if someone is banned, then they’ll have to find another social security number to enter, which should deter hackers who previously could easily create another free one.

Blizzard announced that it will roll this same practice out for Diablo III and StarCraft II in South Korea at a later date.

'Elite Dangerous: Arena will be removed from sale on Steam, Frontier store, and on the Xbox store. This change is planned for later today.

We’ve been looking at our metrics which suggest that the vast majority of new and regular Arena players tend to play Arena through the main Elite Dangerous client rather than the standalone Arena one. We’ve made the decision to remove the standalone version of Elite Dangerous: Arena in order to reduce the number of builds that have to be maintained and managed across Steam, Xbox One and in 2Q'17 PlayStation Network, as well as clarifying the choices for new players of Elite Dangerous on these storefronts.

Elite Dangerous: Arena continues to be available and supported as part of the wider Elite Dangerous game. Existing and new players that join the Elite Dangerous galaxy will continue to be able to enjoy the fast-paced action of Arena through the main menu. Existing Elite Dangerous: Arena client owners will still be able to enjoy Arena as they have always done.

Not much change but we just wanted to give you a quick heads up, to avoid any confusion.'

• Dota 2 Update - February 13th, 2017.
• For Honor: Open Beta to Game Launch Changes.
• Hitman February Update Release Notes.

• LEGRAND LEGACY - Tale of the Fatebounds by SEMISOFT — Kickstarter. Funded with three days to go.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun -- Steam Could Be Easily Fixed, If Only They Used Humans.
"Yet Valve haven’t shown any sign that they’d consider that approach, or that they see it as a possibility. It’s a task that could be completed by a team of ten. Game is submitted to the store. Human plays game, finds it doesn’t work. Human emails developer and says, “This game doesn’t work, fix and resubmit.” Done. Even here, developers could benefit as well as people buying from the store. In some cases, they might avoid that first flurry of negative reviews, sparked by poor first impressions. Curation might not be the the greatest job in the world, but it isn’t carrying rebar or cleaning prison toilets. Hell, it’s a way into Valve. (And no, I have no time for the nonsense about no job titles – even if it were true, they damn well need some.)

Every solution they mention is always outward focused, about getting the community to “crowdsource” the fix, about shifting the responsibility further away from them in the guise of “opening it up to the users” or whatever ridiculous phrasing might be used. This isn’t a beautiful democracy, this is one of the richest corporations in the industry outsourcing their responsibilities to their customers. We don’t know why it is this way, whether it’s due to errant policy or dysfunction, but so far there doesn’t appear to be any plan to change that aspect of the store."

• MLB The Show 17 gives its stars a much-needed makeover.
• LEGO Worlds Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One.
• FOR HONOR Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Battle Islands- Commanders Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• 2Dark Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One.
• Death Squared Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One.
• Sniper Elite 4 Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• MX Nitro Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Ride 2 Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• iO Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• This Week’s Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale + 2K Publisher Sale.

• T-Mobile responds to Verizon by improving its own unlimited data plan. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.

• Disney ditches Pewdiepie after anti-semitic stunt.
• Is Google Maps trying to be a social network? Thanks Hypothermia.

• For Honor – PC Performance Analysis - DSOGaming.
• How HDMI 2.1 makes big-screen 4K PC gaming even more awesome. Thanks HARDOCP.
• Apple waits for LG’s fix before selling any more 5K Thunderbolt displays.

• Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers.
• 88 New Satellites Will Watch Earth, All the Time, All the Places.
• 10 Blacklisted Apps Your Company Should Watch Out For. Thanks Slashdot.
• Edward Snowden Teaches Reporters How to Outsmart State-Sponsored Hackers and Government Surveillance.

• Duke Grabowski, Mighty Swashbuckler on Just Adventure.
• Sniper Elite 4 on Angry Centaur Gaming and GameSpot.

• Aorus GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Edition 8G graphics card on The Tech Report.
• Cooler Master MasterCase Pro 6 on Play3r.
• Crucial MX300 2TB SSD on Hardware Canucks.
• EpicGear DeFiant Mechanical Keyboard Set on LanOC Reviews.
• EVGA Closed Loop CPU Cooler (CLC) 280 on BabelTechReviews.
• Gigabyte GTX 1080 Aorus Xtreme Edition 8 GB Graphics Card on techPowerUp.
• Intel Core i3-7350K CPU on Play3r.
• Intel Core i3-7350K vs. Core i5-7400 CPU on TechSpot.
• Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Laptop on PC Perspective. "Long-Term Review - OLED is AMAZING!"
• Logitech Harmony Elite on AnandTech.
• Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2 (2017) Keyboard on PC & Video Games Examiner.
• Razer Gigantus - Black Edition Mouse Pad on Mad Shrimps.
• Reeven Okeanos RC-1402 CPU Air Cooler on HARDOCP.
• SilverStone Redline Series RL06 Pro Case on Play3r.