The PC version of Borderlands 3 will launch exclusively on the Epic Games store - if deleted tweets are to believed.
As spotted by Twitter's Wario64, a now-deleted official video shows the Epic Games store logo for the upcoming looter shooter. There is no sign of the Steam logo.
Meanwhile, another deleted tweet suggests Borderlands 3 launches 13th September.
Deep Silver has issued a warning to Steam users after it deactivated Metro Exodus keys that were stolen from a factory.
In a post on Steam, the publisher said it had been made aware of illegal stolen keys for 4A Games' post-apocalyptic adventure, which were then sold by an unofficial key reseller.
The Steam version of Metro Exodus was available for pre-order until 28 January 2019 directly via the Steam store. No official Steam keys were available to purchase separately (Humblebundle and the Razer store were the only supported key sellers for Metro Exodus outside the Epic Games store upon launch).
Pre-owned video game sales are in freefall in the UK, according to a new report.
Ukie - the trade body for the UK's games and interactive entertainment industry - released new data today revealing pre-owned software sales were down 30.8 per cent year-on-year in the UK, from a value of 98.2m in 2017 to 67.9m in 2018.
The significant drop in pre-owned game sales comes amid an uptick for the UK games market overall. Software revenues exceeded 4bn for the first time, up just over 10 per cent, and hardware was up 10.7 per cent to 1.57bn.
Valve has confirmed that pre-orders for its new VR headset, known as the Index, will begin on May 1st, with shipments expected to start some time in June.
The company opted to provide official word after a listing for the VR headset was prematurely made live on Steam (as spotted and snapped by Twitter user Wario64). The page, which has now been removed, offered a few additional details regarding the Index that weren't previously outlined in Valve's initial teaser.
According to the listing, Valve's Index headset will include the headset itself, integrated headphones, a tether with DisplayPort 1.2 and USB 3.0 connectors, a power adaptor and regionalised power adaptor plugs, two face gaskets (narrow and wide), and a cleaning cloth. Links from the page pointed to two additional listings, suggesting that the Index controllers and base stations will be sold separately.
UPDATE: Blackout is free for all of April.
Black Ops 4's battle royale mode has free access from 2-30 April, Treyarch said.
You'll need an online multiplayer subscription to play on console, however.
It may be April Fool's day, but the moderators on r/Games are certainly not messing around, as the entire subreddit has been closed to call attention to toxicity within game communities.
In an extended post, the moderation team explained their decision to shut the subreddit was motivated by an increase in "vitriolic attacks between individuals" and "condescending, dismissive, vindictive and pessimistic attitudes" towards minority groups in gaming.
"In recent times, it's come to our attention that what has been intended to be a forum for the potential spread of knowledge and involvement in video games has instead become a battleground of conflicting ideas," the post begins. "Though certain memes (such as 'gamers rise up') surrounding gaming are largely viewed as a humorous interpretation of a mindset, at the core of the humour is a set of very serious issues that affect all gaming enthusiasts.
Dangerous Driving is Burnout, but what kind of Burnout is it? This question shouldn't be easy to answer because, like Tetris, Burnout is one of those games that was always, secretly, reworking itself. Burnout 3 introduced takedowns, for example, the ability to strike a rival once you had crashed, steering your own wreckage through the thick, sparking air for fun and profit. Burnout 4 took that idea and turned it into traffic-checking, which meant that any cars you hit that were travelling the same way as you would suddenly begin to bounce down the road, taking out anything and everything in their path. And then Paradise took the whole thing open-world.
So let's get surgical for a moment. Dangerous Driving belongs after Burnout 3 - takedowns and their attendant slo-mo are all in place. And it belongs before Burnout 4 - traffic-checking is not included. It represents, I think, the road not taken by 4. It has its own big idea, yet while it's different from traffic-checking it still has this sense of continuity, this sense of having emerged from the latent potential of those brilliant takedowns.
A few weeks back I went to play Dangerous Driving at the lovely bucolic office of Three Fields Entertainment, a small team - just seven, I gather - that is built around a core of personnel who all worked on Burnout back at Criterion. Three Fields has turned out a handful of games over the last few years, and there's a palpable sense that they've all been building to this one. To revisit a few, we've had the Burnout sensibility reworked as an indoor chaos simulator in Dangerous Golf, and we've had Burnout's Crash Mode reworked in Danger Zone. Dangerous Driving, though, is Burnout itself, back on the twisting, bucking, beautiful canyon tracks that made the series famous, earning boost by driving badly - but driving badly well - and then switching between boost and drift as you take on some astonishingly aggressive AI.
Here's a feel-good story that (thankfully) isn't an April Fool's: remember back in November last year when we reported on the petition to get Skyrim-playing grandmother Shirley Curry into The Elder Scrolls 6? If you signed it - congratulations, your signature (along with nearly 50,000 others) made a difference.
During Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls 25th anniversary livestream, Todd Howard confirmed Bethesda "did hear" the petition for the Skyrim grandma, and that "she will be immortalised in the game". The video also shows Curry visiting Bethesda's studios, along with her being 3D scanned ready for the NPC modelling process (jump to 08:40).
"This means a lot to me, as I would be extremely happy to know someone else was playing with my character in a future Elder Scrolls game," Curry says in the clip.
Talking to Sam Barlow is kind of like playing through his most celebrated game. Pop in a keyword and it'll send him on a spiral of thought, looping through different topics and themes before landing back somewhere familiar. It's as if his thought patterns have been rewired by the games he's been working on, evolved into some kind of non-linear sprawl that his conversation invites you to tug away at until you find a thread that might take you somewhere new. Even his accent flits around in some hard to pin down nether region between Yorkshire where he was born, Tanzania where he spent some of the childhood or New York where he calls home now.
It's been some four years since Her Story, the fascinating interactive movie and meditation on narrative devices that earned numerous plaudits that helped make Barlow - already well-known for his work on Climax's Silent Hill games as well as its unreleased Legacy of Kain title - much in demand. He's hardly been absent in the time since - there was the episodic reimagining of WarGames last year - but he's now revealing the follow-up to Her Story. Called Telling Lies and due out later this year via a partnership with Annapurna Interactive, Barlow is allowing small glimpses of it on a laptop in a boxy, makeshift room in the Moscone Center during this year's GDC.
"The most sensible thing, for my accountant, would have been for me to do a follow-up to Her Story, with a different person in a room being interrogated. And some people were like, we'd love that."
Valve has teased the announcement of Valve Index, seemingly its new VR headset.
There's not much to go on: just a single image and a pretty empty website (thanks, Ars Technica). Early reporting suggests the website initially included a date - May 2019 - but the image is now blank (at least, it is for me here in the UK). That said, a dig in the source code, however, reveals the website meta description tag still says: "Upgrade your Experience. May 2019".
The hardware matches the leaked images of an alleged Valve VR prototype headset that first appeared online last November (although the clock on the desktop computer in the background revealed the photos had been taken much earlier in July 2018). The images were completely unverified, but given their complexity, the number of units shown, and the authentic-looking Valve logo printed on the circuit boards, we said at the time that if they were not genuine headsets, they were incredibly detailed fakes.