For the first time ever, there is an official Windows version of Blood, Monolith Software’s classic horror-themed FPS. Blood: Fresh Supply is out today, and a subtle update produced by Night Dive and their porting maestro Samuel “Kaiser” Villarreal, brains behind their Turok, Strife and System Shock updates. It’s a surprisingly straightforward port to modern systems, retaining the old look while adding widescreen, high-refresh and variable FOV support, mouse-look that doesn’t warp perspective and split-screen for up to eight players. Take a look at the fancied up trailer below.

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After a couple months of test-server experimentation, Ubisoft are rolling out their new team-killer punishment to Rainbow Six Siege proper. While the studio confirm that today’s iteration of “Reverse Friendly Fire” (RFF) is still to be refined and has a couple bugs still to be hammered out, it’s ready enough for the big leagues. In short, if you shoot a teammate, they can choose whether or not to replace your bullets with karmic ones that bounce off friends and back into their owner’s careless (or malicious) face for the rest of the match. A poetic punishment if there ever was one.

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Life becomes odder than ever in the third episode of Life Is Strange 2, released today. Our lads are still on the lam, reaching the redwood forests of California and–uh oh!–you know who’s found in forests: hippies. And me. Often me. But it’s hippies they’re hooking up with this time as they continue to trek cross-country and, y’know, come to terms with puberty and superpowers and hormones and all that.

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Pillars Of Eternity 2: Deadfire didn’t set the charts ablaze the way I’d hoped, but that hasn’t stopped Obsidian from giving the piratical RPG some top-notch support. Released yesterday, Patch 5.0 is set to be the final major update for the game, marking the end of beta testing for its turn-based combat mode, overhauling the ship interaction UI and adding some new story stuff. They’ve even gone as far as roping in the original voice actors to provide new dialogue to help flesh out the main plot arc. Below, a video overview of the changes, plus a challenge for only the maddest of players.

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I ve spent a while trying to think my way round this, but there s no way I can talk about Rise Of Industry without discussing its intro cinematic. Or more specifically, the voice that narrates it. For an enterprising tycoon, it smarms, as dawn breaks over a sleepy town swaddled in polygonal pine forest, each new day brings new opportunities in your quest for success.

It s the sort of voice that belongs to someone called Chester. Chester Coinsman. Chase Brashford. Todd Winnigan. Whoever he is, he s a VP for an American software company, selling innovative cradle-to-grave solutions to blue-chip players in the credit management sector. And this is, without a doubt, his Webinar Voice.

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Adding one of today’s best gaming SSDs to your PC can bring with it a number of benefits. Even if you only intend to use it for Windows rather than games, not only will you be able to get to your desktop in double-quick time, but everything from copying files to loading up programmes will also feel much, much faster, allowing you to get more stuff done instead of waiting around – including the time it takes to get into your favourite games.

The main problem with SSDs is that they’re a lot more expensive than your traditional hard disk drives, or HDDs. Fortunately, prices for the very best gaming SSDs have been falling in recent months, but they can still be quite pricey on the old pence/GB measure. The good news is that I’ve got a best gaming recommendation for everyone here, from your budget, entry-level 2.5in SATA drives right up to your swish NVMe SSDs. Whether it’s for gaming, installing Windows or the fastest speeds money can buy, here are the best gaming SSDs available right now.

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Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed dads that’d been away. Haven’t changed, had much to say, but man I still think them cats are crazy. My dads are back in town, you see, now that Yakuza Kiwami 2 is out on PC. Mobster-with-a-heart-of-gold Kazuma Kiryu will once again roam around Tokyo and Osaka in this brawler-RPG sequel, becoming a father figure to total strangers, wrestling thugs, eating dinners, getting tangled in crimes, singing karaoke, playing arcade games, and battling a tiger in hand-to-paw combat. What a joy Yakuza is. I love my wrestledads.

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Update: We’ve now got the first video showing The Jovian Concord’s changes to Gas City, with some before-and-after comparison footage. You can find it embedded below.

While Warframe‘s next major expansion, Empyrean, is still a way off, players of the free-to-play space-ninja shooter won’t have long to wait for new toys, as the Jovian Concord update hits “very soon”, according to developers Digital Extremes.

Much like April’s remaster of the game’s Plains of Eidolon environment, the Jovian Concord will spruce up the Gas City tileset used for Warframe’s Jupiter maps, providing both a visual touch-up, and larger environments more suited to parkour. Also included will be a new set of baddies: cyber-mutants called Amalgams, who will bother you in regular play, as well as in a new endless survival mode. The update will also introduce a new Warframe, Wisp, with support and stealth chracteristics, as well as a boss fight with an airborne Eidolon known as the Ropalolyst.

I got to have a chat with Ron Davey, art director at Digital Extremes and art lead on the Jovian Concord, about revamping one of Warframe’s oldest environments:

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Update: We’ve now got the first video showing The Jovian Concord’s changes to Gas City, with some before-and-after comparison footage. You can find it embedded below.

While Warframe‘s next major expansion, Empyrean, is still a way off, players of the free-to-play space-ninja shooter won’t have long to wait for new toys, as the Jovian Concord update hits “very soon”, according to developers Digital Extremes.

Much like April’s remaster of the game’s Plains of Eidolon environment, the Jovian Concord will spruce up the Gas City tileset used for Warframe’s Jupiter maps, providing both a visual touch-up, and larger environments more suited to parkour. Also included will be a new set of baddies: cyber-mutants called Amalgams, who will bother you in regular play, as well as in a new endless survival mode. The update will also introduce a new Warframe, Wisp, with support and stealth chracteristics, as well as a boss fight with an airborne Eidolon known as the Ropalolyst.

I got to have a chat with Ron Davey, art director at Digital Extremes and art lead on the Jovian Concord, about revamping one of Warframe’s oldest environments:

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You’ve heard of membrane keyboards. You’ve heard of mechanical keyboards. You’ve probably even heard some keyboards described as ‘membranical’, which (aside from being a crime against the English language) are the kind of hybrid gaming keyboards you might consider buying if you’re unsure whether to go full CLACK with a proper mechanical one.

The Asus TUF Gaming K5 falls into this latter category, although Asus would rather you commit an even graver crime and call it a MECH-BRANE keyboard as opposed to membranical. Both terms deserve life sentences as far as I’m concerned, but thankfully the TUF Gaming K5’s generous feature set and quick, tactile keys earn it a get out of jail free card. Here’s wot I think.

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