The next character coming to Overwatch is a female gunslinger named Ashe, Blizzard announced during BlizzCon today. The leader of the Deadlock Gang and an old acquaintance of McCree, she’s armed with a lever-action rifle, carries a double-barrelled shotgun she can ‘rocket-jump’ with, tosses dynamite-shaped explosives, and summons a honking great robo bandit as her Ultimate ability. I’m always up for gunslinging and rocket-jumping so yes, please, let’s do this. Come meet Ashe in new videos fresh out of BlizzCon.

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After smooshing decades of Blizzard history into mega-crossover MOBA Heroes Of The Storm, the studio have announced that a brand-new, original, never-been-seen character is joining the fight. Orphea, whose title I believe is “Heir of Raven Court and daughter of the Raven Lord”, hasn’t been in any Blizzard game before, which is… weird? Perhaps they wanted to create a specific type of character and, with so much of Blizzard history mined out, the closest they could find within the lore was a wizard whose most notable deed was selling Jaina bubblebath once. Here, come meet Orphea.

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Activision are giving Destiny 2 away for free right now, yours to keep if you grab it before November 18th. This is the base edition of Bungie’s multiplayer looter-shooter, not including its expansions, but that’s still a huge hunk of game. And I suppose handy as a demo to see if you want to keep up to speed by buying the DLC. I never played the first Destiny on console so I wasn’t interested when the series debuted on PC with the sequel; now, yeah, go on, I’ll give that a go. I hear it has good dancing. And people mutter eerily about “gunfeel.” What’s up with that.

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From zombie survival to weird naked cave-jerk game to hot air balloons and anti-air missiles, the evolution of Rust has been a strange one to behold. Facepunch’s previous few updates to the sandbox survival craft n’ shooter have focused on new and expanded NPC factions and their territory, but the latest has its head in the clouds. Scattered around Rust’s plains are pre-assembled hot air balloons, ready to fly if you can fuel them up. They can hold items and a handful of passengers, but perhaps aren’t the best weapon of war yet, as you can see in the amusing clip below.

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From zombie survival to weird naked cave-jerk game to hot air balloons and anti-air missiles, the evolution of Rust has been a strange one to behold. Facepunch’s previous few updates to the sandbox survival craft n’ shooter have focused on new and expanded NPC factions and their territory, but the latest has its head in the clouds. Scattered around Rust’s plains are pre-assembled hot air balloons, ready to fly if you can fuel them up. They can hold items and a handful of passengers, but perhaps aren’t the best weapon of war yet, as you can see in the amusing clip below.

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A recurring problem I’ve had with HDR gaming monitors lately is that they don’t seem to be able to do HDR levels of brightness at the same time as HDR levels of colour. Whether it’s the ludicrously expensive Nvidia G-Sync HDR-enabled Acer Predator X27 or the cheap as chips BenQ EW277HDR, there’s always been some sort of compromise involved. Sometimes it’s due to a limitation in the hardware – the BenQ’s maximum brightness simply isn’t as high as the Acer’s, for example – but other times it feels like you’re wrestling with a naughty child (or cat, whichever you prefer) that flatout refuses to do what it’s told, making it even more frustrating when you happened to have paid through the nose for it.

The beautifully parsable and succinctly-named Philips 276E9QJAB isn’t an HDR monitor per se, but at least it’s upfront about what it’s trying to achieve. Instead of setting itself up for disappointment by jumping on the same HDR bandwagon as everyone else, Philips describe this 27in, 1920×1080, 75Hz FreeSync screen as an ‘ultra wide colour’ display, and man alive is it WIDE.

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Deep within the Caverns of El Dorado in Monster Hunter: World lies the golden Elder Dragon known as Kulve Taroth. You won’t be able to kill this massive beast, but you will be able to knock off all of its shards which can be crafted into all sorts of wonderfully sparkling armour. It’s also the first monster that requires four groups of four warriors, which means you’ll need to work together to take it down through multiple phases. This guide will go over how to fight the Kulve Taroth, as well as all the materials that can be gathered from it.

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Assassin s Creed Odyssey attempts to address the historical nuance of a slave s status through a series of quests. Its presentations are universally sympathetic. In some cases, they re downright positive. Scheming cultists who mistreat or acquire slaves are exceptions, not the standard. It s true that slavery in ancient Greece often operated differently than similar systems in the American South. Unfortunately, since Odyssey is a game about kicking mercenaries twice your level off cliffs and not a history book, we aren t given the information necessary to understand how and why these differences emerged. Without this context, Ubisoft s representation of the relationship between slave, master, and Greek culture falls into a Twilight Zone of grinning, apologetic slaves and noble masters that only becomes more disturbing over time.

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Fallout 76 changes the formula up a fair bit and in addition to completely overhauling how perks work, the concept of Bobbleheads and Magazines have changed from being permanent upgrades to long-term temporary ones. This guide will have more on exactly how to obtain them and when it is best to collect duplicates. (more…)

Those who are about to play Fallout 76’s beta on PC may be wondering how to get the best head start. After all, it’s reportedly the full game and the time spent actually playing the beta will apparently not be wasted. Bethesda have said that all progress made will carry over to the main game when it comes out. But there are a lot of changes in this new online version of Fallout, so help is at hand. This guide will go over some of the major changes that Fallout 76 brings, as well as explains things like hunger, crafting, and much more. (more…)