RUNE II is finalizing development and will launch worldwide on Windows PC on the Epic Games store in Summer 2019.


For more details on the story, bad guys, quests, and other items players will discover in RUNE II, join Human Head at Twitch.tv/HumanHeadStudios on May 24 at 3PM CST/1PM PST for a livestream and Ask Us Anything event to see further reveals and chat with the developers. Have a burning question you want answered? Submit it in the official RUNE II Discord (Discord.gg/PlayRune) in the #may-ama channel.

“We’ve spent the last few years building a story-driven brutal Viking experience and evolving it with the help of our fan base,” said Human Head Studios Co-founder and CEO Chris Rhinehart. “Players return to Midgard with a sense of familiarity, but with new mechanics such as god-given abilities, open world events, crafting, a full single/co-op campaign, along with UE4 enhanced visuals, making it a true sequel to the original.”

Inspired by the original Rune (2000), RUNE II is set in a dangerous Norse universe during Ragnarok, the end of days, where beasts and the last remaining humans alike struggle to survive. You have been chosen by the gods to be Midgard’s savior - receive their blessings and powerful abilities as you endeavor to end Ragnarok! Race against time to prevent the trickster Loki from destroying Midgard as he keeps the world in a perpetual state of chaos. Alone or with friends, you will battle legions of Loki’s minions in brutal melee combat, travel the world collecting rare resources, locate precious artifacts to weaken the Realm Gate and craft the mightiest weapons the Nine Realms have ever seen. Are you powerful enough to take down Loki...or will a new age of darkness begin?

There are two things that matter to all of us gamers: the games we play and the friends we play them with. But as more titles come with dedicated launchers and clients, our games and gaming buddies become scattered in between them. With GOG GALAXY 2.0, you’ll be able to combine multiple libraries into one and connect with your friends across all gaming platforms!

“As gamers, we need to juggle between multiple clients to access our games and see what our friends are playing,” says Piotr Karwowski, Managing Director at GOG. “We believe gamers deserve a better experience, and this became the driving force to redefine GOG GALAXY client,” Karwowski adds. “GOG GALAXY 2.0 is designed for all gamers and extends well beyond existing GOG.COM users, into both PC and console platforms.”

Once you connect GOG GALAXY 2.0 with other platforms, it will import all your games into one library. You will see your friends activities and online status across connected platforms. And it’s designed to protect your privacy – your data belongs to you and will never be shared with third parties. We see it as an all-in-one solution for the present-day gamer.

The Jovian Concord reimagines the original Warframe environment with a more ambitious level of physical terrain to explore. Using your Warframe's parkour skills, Tenno can propel to previously unreachable heights and new laboratories inside and weigh their chances outside by leaping across distant, floating platforms, crossbars, and antennas, or die trying.

Longtime villain Alad V's twisted experiments with Sentient technology have yielded hideous cyborg-like results -- Amalgam variants and Jetpack Agents -- whose laboratories hide a deeper sinister plot. Through new Sabotage, Rescue and Spy missions, and even a new gameplay mode, "Disruption", Tenno will piece together frightening tidbits of lore that could lay the groundwork for a looming war -- all before confronting Gas City's deadliest threat, the ever-present menace, the flying Ropalolyst.

The Jovian Concord brings with it the second new Warframe of 2019, the ethereal Wisp. Players will glide across the battlefield wielding her light-based Abilities to provide support to allies, deceive them with her unique Passive -- turning her invisible in air -- or incinerate them to ashes using four devastating Abilities.

This Official Map Extension DLC adds nine missions, two new districts with 20 stops, new cosmetics, and unique rider dialogue to explore as you build upon your transportation network. The vibrant and busy Kerststadt will be full of students, entrepreneurs, and other busybodies that have places to be and want an efficient way to get there. On the other side of the spectrum Sonnstein is a laid-back, rural town where you can unplug and take time to appreciate the simpler things in life. New characters will help you lay the groundwork, but it will be on you to determine how you develop your company into these new regions. If that's too much pressure, recruit some friends and run your routes in multiplayer, fully supported in these new areas, just like in the base game.

Once your party is assembled, you will embark on a dangerous expedition to the frozen surface of Icenaire. It is there you will meet different types of enemies in the form of wraiths, mad survivors, cultists, and the most dangerous of all - Shades. Each character is able to perform one action per turn; you choose between individually ranged attacks, defense, skip, and flourish attacks. The last option depends not just on the character's class but also on your equipped relics.

Ghostbusters fans will be steeped in nostalgia as other fan-favourite ghosts and characters make appearances as the story progresses, including Slimer, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and even the legendary ECTO-1 car. A new in-game interactive dark ride, The Ghostbusters Experience, allows Planet Coaster players to engage with the game in a whole new way as they take on the role of a Ghostbuster to bust ghosts with their particle throwers and log their high score.

The most ambitious content pack for Planet Coaster to date, Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters includes:

• A fully-voiced, narrative campaign featuring the voice talents of Dan Aykroyd and William Atherton.
• A new in-game interactive ghostbusting ride, The Ghostbusters Experience.
• A new, in-game Slimer-themed kiddie coaster, the RollerGhoster.
• Classic Ghostbusters characters such as Raymond Stantz, Slimer, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and a few surprises!
• Authentic scenery pieces and sounds straight from the 1984 original movie, including the Ghostbusters HQ, ECTO-1 and Ray Parker Jr’s classic Ghostbusters theme.

• Heroes of the Storm Balance Patch Notes - May 22, 2019.
• StarCraft II 4.9.0 Patch Notes.
• World of Warcraft Hotfixes: May 22, 2019.

• Steam Daily Deal - Get Guacamelee! STC Edition For Free, 50% Off on Guacamelee! 2. In case you didn't pick up the freebie last week.
• GOG.com Midweek Sale- Railway Empire and unforgettable classics up to -75%.

• BulletRage: Multiplayer Twin-Stick Arcade Shooter by Chimera One Games — Kickstarter. "The ultimate adrenaline-infused multi-genre arcade shooter you have been waiting for." Here's a trailer.

• The accidental authenticity of Devolver Digital - GamesIndustry.biz.

• Riot Scholastic Association of America. The new governing body of College League of Legends.
• Fortnite Pro-Am 2019: Fourth Wave Celebrity Duo Partners.

• Crowdfunded gaming console Ouya will shut down for good on June 25th. Ouya vey!
• Introducing The New Xbox Game Bar. I'll have a vodka martini. Shaken, not stirred.
• Over 200 PS4 Games On Sale, PS Plus Members Get Twice The Discount (US).
• Coming Soon To Xbox Game Pass- Dead By Daylight, Metal Gear Survive, And More.
• The House in Fata Morgana Gets PS4, PS Vita Releases.
• Nioh 2: New Trailer And Closed Alpha Test Announced.

• Apple Refreshes 13 & 15-Inch MacBook Pros for 2019- Adds 8-Core Intel CPUs & Revised Keyboard.

• AMD Zen 2 5GHz 12 Core, 4.3GHz 16 Core CPUs Leaked & Benchmarked. How does a CPU leak? Thanks RedEye9.
• Apple’s WWDC 2019 keynote will detail iOS 13, macOS 10.15, and more on June 3.
• Superconductivity reported at the temperature of a good freezer.
• Intel Highlighted Why NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs Are Great for Inference. Thanks Hypothermia.
• HP Enters Premium Gaming Peripherals: Photon Mouse, Outpost Mousepad, Clothing. Clothing is now a game peripheral?
• The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 6.2.4. Thanks Ant.
• Plowing AI, Startup Retrofits Tractors with Autonomy. Thanks Hypothermia.

• Windows 10 zero-day exploit code released online.
• In less than one second, a malicious web-page can uniquely fingerprint an Iphone, Pixel 2 or Pixel 3 without any explicit user interaction.
• Democratic Party’s network security still lags behind GOP, researchers find.

• United States Rules Qualcomm In Violation of Antitrust Laws - Qualcomm To Appeal. Wait, we care about monopolies again?
• Apple to warn iPhone users about update impact.

• Scientists create video game to help elderly drivers stay safe. If they're home playing games, they can't run us over…

When Rico & Javi, investigate a newly discovered temple off the shore of Solis, an archaeologist working with the Black Hand unexpectedly releases an ancient demonic force from its imprisonment.

A parasitic infestation now spreads across Solis, terrorizing its inhabitants and attacking any Black Hand forces that stand in its way. Rico must tackle a horrifying new threat and seek out answers to eradicate the demon invasion from the island permanently, before it’s too late!

Discover a completely new sandbox gameplay experience with Los Demonios, as demonic hordes, pulsing tendrils and spore-filled clouds infest the towns and people of Solis in an exciting new supernatural addition to JUST CAUSE 4.

Face the demons across new missions that will require all the skills and tools at Rico’s disposal to emerge victorious. Vicious demons spit corrosive projectiles, possess soldiers, and even take over military vehicles and turn them against Rico.

Seamlessly integrating into the JUST CAUSE 4 sandbox, the new missions enhance the crazy open world experience further and provide a return to the popular liberation gameplay of the JUST CAUSE 3. Introducing new weapons and equipment to unlock, including the Demon Crossbow and Demon Egg Supply Drop, Los Demonios lets you take the new tools of destruction into the open-world sandbox of JUST CAUSE 4 for explosive new action packed moments of glorious mayhem.

“Los Demonios is the second DLC pack in the ‘Dare Devils, Demons and Danger' Expansion Pass, and it brings a totally new experience to JUST CAUSE 4,” said Bryan Rodriguez, Creative Producer at Avalanche Studios. “For the first time, Rico is tangling with an otherwordly threat that will push him to his limits. This is our chance to see if Rico is as good at squashing demons as he is at toppling dictators!”

THQ Nordic today announced that the acquisition of the Piranha Bytes team and trademark and the intellectual property Gothic has been finalised. Piranha Bytes' rights to Risen and ELEX were also acquired.

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.” John F. Kennedy (1961)

Although statements like the following should not be done within the context of a press release, we still do it:

All of us here at THQ Nordic welcome every single member of the Piranha Bytes team to our family. We already had our fair share of laughter (well, every time we meet in person), fun (conventions, Christmas- and Summer parties, or karaoke singing), tears (when the wrong person hits the karaoke stage), and sweat (Batman cosplay @Gamescom 2018 comes to mind) together, and from now on it is in an officially joint capacity as well. The closing of the transaction is subject to the approvals of the committees of Piranha Bytes.

The newly formed entity (Piranha Bytes GmbH, Essen, Germany) will host the entire development team and is a 100% subsidiary of THQ Nordic GmbH, based in Vienna, Austria. As in the past, the team will focus and concentrate on the creation of outstanding and unique RPG gaming experiences, having full creative freedom in doing so, whereas THQ Nordic GmbH will act as Piranha Bytes' publisher, responsible for distribution, marketing and further support.

You’ve pushed millions of payloads, pulled off countless incredible POTGs, and delivered an extraordinary amount of “Boops”—here’s to three years of playing Overwatch together!

As part of Overwatch’s Anniversary Celebration, we’re unlocking the brawl vault, giving you the chance to dive back into your favorite modes from our previous seasonal events. From now until June 11, you can fight yetis, score goals, and neutralize omnic threats... but you’ll need to plan your schedule accordingly.

If you’re like us, you’ve spent much of the last six months playing Dota Auto Chess. And if you’ve followed Valve closely over time, you know what usually comes next: we’ll play something we love or meet some people we’re inspired by and then figure out a way to work together. In fact, Dota 2 exists because a group of us here at Valve couldn’t stop playing the original mod. After we played the game, roughly 1 billion times, it was pretty clear that we should reach out to the creators, Drodo Studio, and start a conversation about working together.

So in February we flew the Drodo team over from China to chat about the future of Dota Auto Chess, and to see if they’d want to collaborate directly with us (this was also during one of the worst weeks of snow we’ve had in years, sorry about that, Drodo). We had great conversations, but we both came to the conclusion that Valve and Drodo could not work directly with each other for a variety of reasons. We ended up agreeing that we’ll each build our own stand-alone version of the game, and support each other to the fullest.

Drodo has been working on their own, non-Dota mobile game and the beta is out now. We’ve worked with them to help the existing DAC mod players migrate their account progress over to their new game. It looks pretty cool so far, we encourage you to go check it out.

As for us, with Drodo’s blessing, a group of people here at Valve are currently working on a standalone Dota version. We’ll share more information about this soon.

For those of your who are looking for a ghastly adventure on the high seas, your search comes to an end on August 30th as the first game of Supermassive Game’s The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, launches in the Americas for the PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and PC on STEAM®.

The development team at Supermassive Games are masters of narrative storytelling and Man of Medan is their latest creation that will surely envelop players in its compelling story and have them building genuine attachments to the cast of characters in this ghastly tale.

True horror aficionados will want to secure Day 1 access to the Curator’s Cut of Man of Medan by preordering the game – which starts today. The Curator’s Cut opens up a myriad of different options and an alternative path through the game, experienced from an entirely new perspective. The Curator’s Cut will reveal its secrets once the game has been completed once, from there, a new world of possibilities open up to players, including:

• A new perspective from different characters are unlocked.
• New options and choices are offered within each scene that requires player choice; new decisions means new outcomes to discover.
• New scenes and secrets not featured in the original playthrough are also unlocked.

Note: The contents of the Curator’s Cut will be made available to players who do not preorder Man of Medan at a later date.

Players surround themselves in an emotional story of the second-to-the-throne — blind from birth and newly exiled to the edges of the kingdom as their elder brother is crowned king. Eager for this break from their sheltered existence, the hero experiences their first taste of adventure as they travel to the borderlands. The journey comes to an abrupt halt as hordes of invading troops, ravaging the land and heading towards the capital, attack the hapless caravan. A narrow escape leaves the hero stranded in hostile lands, alone and defenseless. Through the help of a local shepherd, players must master skills, branching magic, befriend companions, and survive the treacherous long and perilous expedition home — one that will reveal startling truths about their kingdom, the land, and the royal family.

Immerse yourself in the mystery of The Vale by watching the latest trailer below — best experienced with headphones:

Key Features:

• Accessible Gaming For All: Haptic controller feedback, binaural audio technology, and cinematic voice acting guides players through battle, quests and cut scenes, making this an experience that is accessible to visually impaired and sighted players alike
• Diverse Soundscape Environments: The bustle of busy villages, the gentle rustling of leaves through the trees in the forests, the eerie echos of the unknown in dank caves — full 3-dimensional sound surrounds players as they adventure over 20 diverse locations ripe for exploration
• Immersive Medieval Combat: Players are immersed in the action in a way that is completely refreshing as enemies attack with random and story-based encounters, boss battles, and more. During combat, intuitive battle clamor guides players towards enemies as they attack and defend against their foes
• Meaningful RPG Elements: Presented with a choice of gender and combat styles, players will guide their fully-voiced hero and build their potential as they unlock branching magic paths, loot enemies, hunt animals for valuable items, and visit shops to purchase weapons and armor — each with unique sounds and stats
• A Story for the Ages: With branching narratives determined by player choice, over 20 side quests and more than 20 audio cut scenes, players will uncover twists and surprises as they travel the land and speak with the many unique and fully voiced characters they encounter

The Vale will be available for Windows PC via Steam this August. Players who wish to learn more may visit the official website: https://www.fallingsquirrel.com/the-vale.

Continue here to read the full story.

Tortured by his past and otherworldly visions, Charles W. Reed, a private investigator finds himself in Oakmont, Massachusetts, seeking salvation from the creeping insanity that afflicts him.

Once a trade harbor, known for its lucrative smuggling business, Oakmont now lives in secluded isolation from the rest of the world, under a flood of supernatural origins.

In this place of decay and superstition; players will have to deal with the dregs of mankind, follow clues they wish they had never found, and unveil a cosmic horror threatening the world itself.

Top 10 Selling Video Games (Retail and Digital), March 2019

Rank	Rank Last Month	Title	Publisher
1	NEW	Tom Clancy's The Division 2^	Ubisoft
2	NEW	Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice^	Activision Blizzard (Corp)
3	NEW	MLB 19: The Show	Sony (Corp)
4	NEW	Devil May Cry 5	Capcom USA
5	7	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*	Nintendo
6	5	Red Dead Redemption II	Take 2 Interactive (Corp)
7	9	NBA 2K19	Take 2 Interactive (Corp)
8	NEW	Grand Theft Auto V	Take 2 Interactive (Corp)
9	NEW	Yoshi's Crafted World*	Nintendo
10	10	Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII^	Activision Blizzard (Corp)

Top 10 Selling Video Games (Retail and Digital), YTD Ending March 2019

Rank	Rank Last Month	Title	Publisher
1	1	Kingdom Hearts III	Square Enix Inc (Corp)
2	NEW	Tom Clancy's The Division 2^	Ubisoft
3	2	Anthem^	Electronic Arts
4	3	Resident Evil 2 2019	Capcom USA
5	5	Red Dead Redemption II	Take 2 Interactive (Corp)
6	4	Jump Force	Bandai Namco Games (Corp)
7	6	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*	Nintendo
8	NEW	Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice^	Activision Blizzard (Corp)
9	7	Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII^	Activision Blizzard (Corp)
10	8	New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe*	Nintendo

Digital Not Included
> ^ - PC Digital Not Included
*** No digital sales included in ranking.
^ Battle.net sales not included

NPD’s U.S. top 10 games list, ranked by dollar sales, includes full-game digital sales (from participating publishers) as well as sales for physical formats sold at retail and online across console, PC and portable platforms.

• ACE COMBAT 7: SKIES UNKNOWN Flight Stick Support Update. Thanks Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Fortnite version 9.10 Patch Notes.
• PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS -- Update #29 - Now Live.
• First nude mod released for Yakuza Kiwami 2, allowing Naked Platinum Hostesses in the Cabaret Club.

• Team Razer and Evil Geniuses to Take the World by Storm.

• Making the player the AI in outer space thriller Observation - Gamasutra.

• Back In 1995 Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• The Last Door – Complete Edition Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Your Toy And Dying- Reborn Horror Game Bundle Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Asdivine Dios Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Marenian Tavern Story- Patty And The Hungry God Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• Nintendo News: DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS 2 Digital Pre-Purchase Starts Today; DLC Coming Soon.

• Exclusive: Tencent and Riot Games developing mobile version of League of Legends -sources.
• Sony will keep making smartphones, whatever the cost.
• Ultra-private Tor browser officially arrives on Android.
• Apple offers free repairs for 2016 MacBook Pros with faulty backlights.
• Apple says it fixed the MacBook Pro keyboard.

• Apple has a plan to make online ads more private.
• Roku launches new ad tool to compare linear and streaming audiences. Don't recall previously seeing "linear" used that way.

• Navigating Intel’s Future in Technology and Computing. Thanks Hypothermia.
• What to expect at Computex 2019.
• ACR AI-LAB and NVIDIA Make AI in Hospitals Easy on IT. Thanks Hypothermia.
• Amazon turns warehouse tasks into video games to make work ‘fun.’
• Kaiser Permanente to open medical school in 2020 with focuses on data, virtual reality. Thanks Ant.

• U.S. Considers Blacklisting Five Chinese Surveillance Firms.
• Huawei: ARM memo tells staff to stop working with China’s tech giant.
• Facebook found hosting masses of far right EU disinformation networks.
• Would you pay $1m for a laptop full of malware? Is that malware on your laptop, or are you just happy to see me?

• Razer Basilisk Essential Mouse on AusGamers.com.

• ADATA XPG Spectrix D60G DDR4-3000 32GB Memory Kit on TweakTown.
• AMD Radeon VII vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Graphics Card on TechSpot.
• Intel Core i7-9750H vs i7-8750H CPU on TechSpot.
• ViewSonic ELITE XG240R 144 Hz FreeSync Monitor on TechPowerUp.

• Tencent acquires Swedish game developer, Sharkmob…
• An exhaustive look at Oculus Quest’s first day of great, wireless VR software…
• Constantin Sets John Wick Creator Derek Kolstad To Script Just Cause…
• Here's a World War Z accolades trailer highlighting praise for the zombie game. Word is sales are nearing the two million unit milestone across PC and consoles…