Bad North is a beautifully-crafted, minimalistic, real-time tactics roguelite game where you lead a rag-tag group of island folk as they flee the relentless viking hordes. Progress through a series of procedurally-generated islands, fending off nordic raiders and gather what resources you can, before moving on to the next fight. Protect the nobles and commoners you meet along the way and recruit them to your cause - you'll need their numbers in the conflict to come.

And keep fighting. Not for power or riches or glory, but for the hope that one day you can live a peaceful life again.

Serial Cleaner is a story-driven, fast-paced stealth/action game, set in 1970s America.

You are a professional cleaner. Your job is to clean up murder scenes by disposing of bodies, cleaning up blood stains and hiding incriminating evidence. A good cleaner never gets caught so you have to make sure you get in, clean up and get out without leaving a trace of evidence for the police to find.

Game Features

• 70s-inspired Setting and Funky Soundtrack
• Real-World Data to modify levels according to the current time of day in the player’s whereabouts
• Full story-driven campaign
• Challenge modes

WHEN CAN I PLAY?
You can access the Free Weekend during the following times for each platform:

• PC: November 21st 13:00 UTC – November 25th 20:00 UTC.
• XBOX ONE: November 21st 08:01 UTC - November 25th 05:00 UTC.
• PLAYSTATION 4: November 21st 13:00 UTC - November 25th 13:00 UTC.

HOW CAN I ACCESS RAINBOW 6 FREE WEEKEND?

• PC: Go to your Uplay PC Launcher.
• XBOX ONE: The Free Weekend will be available to Xbox Live Gold users. To join in on your Xbox One, visit the Rainbow Six Siege product page on the Xbox Store.
• PLAYSTATION 4: Join the Free Weekend on your PlayStation 4 by visiting the Rainbow Six Siege product page on the PlayStation Network.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Vermintide. The time has arrived to revisit the fierce first-person co-op slaughter-fest featuring visceral and groundbreaking melee action, set in the apocalyptic End Times of the war-ravaged Warhammer Fantasy Battles world.

Our 5 heroes have returned to take on an even greater threat – the combined forces of a malevolent and destructive Chaos army and the swarming Skaven horde. Prepare to be challenged like never before as you and your team desperately try to survive the never-ending onslaught. Choose between 15 different careers, climb the talent trees, customize your arsenal to fit your unique play style, fight your way through a myriad of stunning levels, and challenge yourself in our new Heroic Deeds System. The only thing standing between utter defeat and victory is you and your allies. If you fall - so will the Empire.

Heavy Metal is the definitive expansion for fans of BATTLETECH’s 35-year legacy, adding seven classic ‘Mech designs from the original BATTLETECH board game and an additional ‘Mech exclusively designed for this expansion. Players can pilot these new ‘Mechs in an all-new Flashpoint mini-campaign featuring two legendary MechWarriors from BATTLETECH's rich history. By adding eight weapon systems and ‘Mechs, each with unique special equipment, players can enjoy a wealth of new and interesting tactical choices both in the Mechlab and on the battlefield!

Key Features:

• One Original and Seven Classic BattleMechs: Seven classic ‘Mechs from BATTLETECH’s 35-year legacy make their triumphant return along with the first completely new ‘Mech designed exclusively for this expansion. Each classic ‘Mech comes with unique equipment that reflects the flavor and lore of the original board game.
• Eight Game-changing New Weapon Systems: Eight all-new weapon systems can be utilized to destroy even the most formidable opponents in a wide variety of unique ways. The ‘Mech Mortar is the first AOE weapon in BATTLETECH and can destroy multiple units at once, while the new COIL Beam generates more energy the further the attacker travels before firing, a perfect fit for light ‘Mechs.
• New Flashpoint Mini-Campaign: Come face-to-face with two legendary characters from BATTLETECH lore - the Bounty Hunter and the Black Widow of Wolf’s Dragoons. A derelict cargo ship has drifted into the Periphery from deep space; what secrets does it contain, and who will ultimately control its mysterious payload?

The expansion takes players to the frozen moon of Europa, where numerous cracks on the surface make building and sustaining new structures a challenge.

Offworld Trading Company is a real-time strategy game in which money, not military force, is the weapon. Stake claims to resources, extract and develop them into goods and upgrades, all while buying and selling in the real-time, player driven marketplace.

The Europa Wager is available to play in skirmish, multiplayer, or in a new series of challenging scenarios that provide a host of new challenges to overcome. Like the rest of the Offworld series, the expansion brings real-world elements into its gameplay as you attempt to establish a new business amid the frozen elements. For example, although water will not be hard to find on the frozen moon, aluminum is non-existent.

The Phage, a deadly nano-virus, is decimating the human population – so humanity has set out to find a new home by colonizing a hostile alien planet. In GearStorm, dive into a militarized sci-fi sandbox game featuring a massive, open, procedural – and entirely destructible world. Work together and compete with other players to fortify your positions and ensure humanity’s survival!

• Experience intense military sci-fi gameplay in first or third-person POV.
• Terraform the environment as you see fit.
• Leave your mark on an entirely destructible open world.
• Survive using exploration, resource management, and a powerful crafting ecosystem.
• Build an elaborate base and even manage your own colony!
• Explore an alien planet and build up your character by completing quests.

Black Future ‘88 is synth-punk Contra with tons of explosive twists. In a grim alternate history where it’s always 1988, you’ll ascend a procedurally generated tower through a merciless onslaught of bullets, lasers and steel on a mission to exact revenge on the maniac who destroyed the world with nuclear fire. Battle homicidal robots, cutthroats, bosses and more in a death trap that’s constantly evolving to kill you.

You’ve only got 18 minutes until your heart explodes, but strategic combos of weapons, abilities, buffs and curses will help you close the gap between you and your mark. Choose from several deadly characters as you shoot, slash and dash through anything standing in your way.

Survive this nightmarish neon dystopia alone or with a friend in two-player local co-op, then measure your mettle against the world on the global leaderboard with special daily challenges. Black Future ’88 also supports Steam’s new Remote Play Together feature, letting PC players join a friend's game online.

• Iceberg Interactive Publisher Sale on Steam.
• Buy Dead Cells from the Humble Store and save 30%.
• Steam Daily Deal - BATTLETECH, 66% Off.
• Steam Weekend Deal - Oxygen Not Included, 33% Off.
• Steam Daily Deal - Parkitect, 25% Off.

• Borderlands 3 Patch and Hotfixes- November 21, 2019.
• The Cycle Release Notes – Release 6 – November 19.
• PULSAR- Lost Colony -- Beta 26 Release Notes. Thanks Ant.
• Steam Client Update Released.
• Unexplored 2- The Wayfarer's Legacy- New creatures, gameplay & environments: content update live now on Fig.

• The Final Hours of Half-Life- Alyx -- Behind Closed Doors at Valve.
• MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries Walkthrough.

• VR would be "a really dark space right now" without Facebook's money - GamesIndustry.biz. "At Reboot Develop Red, Chet Faliszek reflected on progress in the VR industry since he departed Valve."

• Free Play Days - Borderlands 3, Rainbow Six Siege, And Prison Architect: Xbox One Edition.
• Trover Saves the Universe coming to Switch on November 28, Xbox One on December 3.
• Discover the Life of Slavic Peasants in Yaga, Available Now on Xbox One.
• The Shovel: Prison Architect’s Free Content Update Available Today on Xbox One.
• Farmer's Dynasty Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• The Ultimate Sonic Bundle Is Now Available For Xbox One.
• This Week On Xbox- November 21, 2019.

• Verizon’s new 5G coverage maps show just how sparse the network is.

• Obama: Why we need to save the Internet now.
• YouTube will make it easier for 'edgy' creators to find advertisers.

• Oculus Link Software Available: Oculus Quest Can Now Tether to PCs.
• To cut down on bugs, Apple is changing how it develops its software.
• RTX On: Chaos V-Ray Next and Blender Cycles Now Shipping with RTX Support. Thanks Hypothermia.
• Philips Unveils Brilliance 439P9H SuperWide 32-10 Curved Prosumer Monitor.

• Google will pay $1.5 million for the most severe Android exploits. Silly. They're included free with the purchase of a phone.
• Bad news: 'Unblockable' web trackers emerge. Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much.
• Twitter will finally let you turn on two-factor authentication without giving it a phone number.
• Bon sang! French hospital contracts 6,000 PC-locking ransomware infection.
• These are the tricks hackers are using to hijack your email.

• Another US court says police cannot force suspects to turn over their passwords.
• Judge rejects U.S. move to disqualify states' lawyer in T-Mobile-Sprint lawsuit.

Valve, the creators of Half-Life and the Steam platform, today announced Half-Life: Alyx, a new, full-length virtual reality entry in the Half-Life series. Slated for release on Steam in March 2020, the title will be compatible with all PC-based VR headsets in March 2020.

Set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance and her father Eli secretly mount the resistance to the brutal occupation of Earth by a mysterious alien race known as The Combine. As Alyx, players take the fight to the Combine to save the future of humanity.

Half-Life: Alyx was designed from the ground up for Virtual Reality and features all of the hallmarks of a classic Half-Life game: world exploration, puzzle solving, visceral combat, and an intricately woven story that connects it all with the characters iconic to the Half-Life universe.

"Everyone at Valve is excited to be returning to the world of Half-Life", says Valve founder Gabe Newell. "VR has energized us. We've invested a lot of ourselves in the technology. But we're also game developers at heart, and to be devoting ourselves to a VR game this ambitious is just as exciting. For that to come in the form of Half-Life feels like the culmination of a lot things we care a lot about: truly great games, cutting edge technology, and open platforms. We can't wait for people to experience this."

Half-Life: Alyx is powered by SteamVR on Valve's Source 2 engine, and can be played on Steam with all PC-based VR headsets.

Amazon is planning to announce its service next year, according to two people familiar with the company's plans. It's begun recruiting people from large game companies like Microsoft to help with the launch, as well as hiring for jobs in a "new initiative" within its Amazon Web Services team, which sources said is involved in Amazon's future gaming service.

"We believe the evolution that began with arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and e-sports of today, will continue to a future where everyone is a gamer and every gamer can create, compete, collaborate and connect with others at massive scales," one job posting this month showed. And in at least one other job posting, the company said it wants to "drive innovative new use cases like machine vision and game streaming."

Amazon said in yet another job posting that it plans to integrate its new initiative with Twitch and the company's other services.

Prison Architect will be included in Steam’s annual Autumn sale where it will be available for purchase at a 75 percent discount from Thursday, November 21, through Tuesday, December 3.

In Psych Ward: Warden’s Edition, the Criminally Insane have arrived with their own unique traits. To house these unpredictable inmates, players can build a dedicated wing with padded cells, hire Psychiatrists with trained Orderlies, develop treatment sessions, and outfit their prisons with right tools to ensure their needs are met. Inmates must be treated with care or they can turn violent, vandalize, or even attempt to escape. Regularly subjecting your regular inmates to harsh conditions can cause them to turn criminally insane.

“Prison Architect has always looked at prison management through the lens of popular prison fiction seen in films and TV. Psych Ward: Warden’s Edition continues that tradition with the introduction of Psych Ward to PC.” Steacy McIlwham, Product Manager for Prison Architect at Paradox Interactive, said. “This expansion features new inmate behavior systems that will make players rethink the way they approach prison management. How players capitalize on these systems is entirely up to them, but their actions can have dire consequences on the inmates’ behaviors.”

Arriving in time for launch are 11 new features, all of which contribute to the immersive nature of the game. Some of these features include:

• Wake Up, It’s Coffee Time: Three new coffee shops have been added to the world. Coffee shops are now open 24/7 and NPCs will visit the coffee shops, too. Additionally, a new item, the Coffee Cup, can now be obtained at coffee shops, and making use of it gives the player an in-game energy boost!
• Gather Honey and Watch the Bees: Honey, a new item, can now be gathered at beehives or purchased at coffee bars. If bee-watching is more your speed, you can find bees flying near beehives on particularly sunny days. As long as there are flowers nearby, you can expect honey to be present in beehives after a long day’s work.
• Think of the Environment: Solar panels, a fun, and useful, new item, can be installed on your buildings. During sunny days, they will increase a player’s social points and earn money.
• Learn to Cook: Nine new meal recipes have been added, each requiring at least three ingredients. These recipes can be found in any of the three cookbooks that can be bought in the world.

• Far Cry Franchise Sale on Steam. Thanks JDreyer.

• Need for Speed Heat - Update 1.4 - Update notes. Thanks MP1ST.

• Remedy on making a Call of Duty-style campaign for the biggest FPS in the world • Eurogamer.net.
• Ubisoft's Che Chou on How Esports Popularity Is Shaping How New Video Games Are Designed.

• Cosplay Convention Crisis (PC, XO, PS and Switch) by The Hidden Levels — Kickstarter. "Cosplay Convention Crisis is a visual novel that puts you in the shoes of Jacob Kirby, middling athlete, student, and casual nerd." There's a playable demo on Steam.

• E-sports- How gaming helped Liam McCarron live the dream.

• Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield Sales Exceed 6 Million Units Worldwide After Massive Launch Weekend.
• Nintendo Download: Strange Vacations and Cyber Salvation.

• Trump wants Apple to be involved in 5G infrastructure building in U.S.
• Verizon, Snap to develop 5G augmented reality features.
• Xiaomi phones could soon charge five times faster than the iPhone 11.
• Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite surprisingly just confirmed by Samsung.
• Minecraft Earth Early Access Off to an Exciting Start Following Mobs in the Park Kickoff.

• Ubisoft helps Ultra validate transactions on its blockchain for gamers.
• Facebook ads: Who is spending money to get you to vote?
• Amazon's smart shelves will re-order office supplies automatically. For those who miss those Dash buttons.
• Iran begins reconnecting internet after shutdown over protests.
• Apple abruptly cancels premiere of 'The Banker.'

• No, Apple isn’t opening a new manufacturing plant in Texas.
• NVIDIA and Microsoft Team Up to Aid AI Startups. Thanks Hypothermia.
• Intel Confirms Comet Lake-Based NUC 10 ‘Frost Canyon’ UCFF PCs.
• AMD Clarifies "Best Cores" vs "Preferred Cores" Discrepancies For Ryzen CPUs.
• AMD launches ridiculously cheap $49 Athlon 3000G processor – which can even be overclocked.
• Apple says the cost of its repair services exceed what it charges.
• Intel IHS CPU Heatspreader Flatness.
• Trump hosted Zuckerberg for undisclosed dinner at the White House in October. Just exchanging hairstyle tips.

• Amnesty International: Facebook and Google are a threat to human rights.
• If You Can't Update Windows 10, Blame Your Realtek Drivers. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Video-editing upstart bares users' raunchy flicks to world+dog via leaky AWS bucket. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.

• Google to let sites block personalized ads under California privacy law.
• Huawei: US grants more exemptions to Chinese phone ban.
• Orange is the new green: Nigeria scammer bags $1m while operating behind bars.

• Atelier Ryza PC Review - Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Kingdom Under Fire 2 PC Performance Analysis - DSOGaming.
• Narcos: Rise of the Cartels review - pleasantly surprising strategy • Eurogamer.net.
• Planet Zoo Review - Spreadsheet Safari - GameSpot.
• Shenmue 3 PC Performance Analysis - DSOGaming.
• Synth Riders (Oculus Rift S) - Christ Centered Gamer.

• Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch laptop on Engadget.
• Corsair QL120 RGB Fan Kit on Overclockers Club.
• Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD on Guru3D.
• Crucial X8 Portable SSD 1TB on Real Hardware Reviews.
• Kingston DC450R 480GB SSD on Nikk Tech.
• Logitech G604 Lightspeed Gaming Mouse on Gaming Nexus.
• Patriot Scorch 512GB NVMe SSD on TweakTown.
• SilverStone PF360-ARGB All In One Cooling Solution on Modders-Inc.
• Vive Cosmos VR headset on VentureBeat.
• Thermaltake Core P5 TG V2 Black Edition Case on TechPowerUp.

• Video Games Made for Parkinson's Rehab Can Help in Strengthening Limbs, Study Suggests…