EGX 2019 is almost here, which means it’s also nearly time to start preparing our big indie game developer nets so we can trap a bunch of them onstage and get them to tell us all their secrets. That’s what EGX 2019’s Rezzed Sessions are all about: giving you a glimpse behind the curtain about how games are made and the biggest issues facing developers today, from game subscription services, finding funding, and just what exactly that strange hole shape icon is in Wilmot’s Warehouse. All this and more will be coming up on the very first day of EGX 2019, which runs October 17th-20th at London’s ExCeL – and you can find the day’s full schedule below.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, much like its players, will live and die by its roster of guns and weapons. Fortunately, from what we played of the open beta in September, the gunplay is not only as fantastic as ever but also as diverse as ever thanks to the new Gunsmith system, which offers a wealth of customisation options that affect the base stats of each weapon.

We’ll walk you through how the Gunsmith system works in this here Call of Duty: Modern Warfare guns & weapons guide – as well as detailed numeric stats on all 37 guns we were able to take a look at during the Modern Warfare open beta.

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What ever could cause the gentle builders and farmers of Minecraft to beat their ploughshares into swords and go on a murderous quest? Apparently Minecraft Dungeons does have a story to explain this, according to the game’s opening cinematic, as shown during MineCon over the weekend. Perhaps more relevantly to people who wanna murder mobs with their pals and yoink loot, Mojang have also opened signups for closed beta testing. First, that plot-pushing intro.

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As planet Earth continues its inexorable trajectory toward the encroaching black hole, and ever more aspects of our daily lives are being affected, even the weekly Steam Charts are feeling its affliction.

This may seem a more trivial aspect of our final months, but I believe it’s vital to recognise the severity of the impact here to better understand the wider implications for how deeply calamitous this situation really is.

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Agent 47’s no stranger to the mile-high club. Jetting off from Paris to Mumbai, New Zealand to Italy, I don’t want to think about how large our chrome-dome killer’s carbon footprint must be. Snuffing out billionaires is absolutely one way to offset your emissions, but surely there are greener ways to murder your way across the planet. Did you even know there was a climate strike going on while you booked tickets to the Maldives, Agent? For shame.

But we didn’t just come to Hitman 2‘s new Haven Island DLC to up our kill count, did we? There’s mischief to be done – you there, tour guide, what’s the best thing to throw my luggage at around these parts?

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Have you ever heard a football or basketball or (snort) baseball fan talking in depth about their passion? The numbers they can memorise alone puts some EVE veterans to shame. Some of them probably take it even more seriously than some of the players. Meanwhile, what’s a star ballchucker to do in their downtime, with the press circling and anything dangerous or unhealthy off limits? There’s only so much you can do when confined to a hotel.

It’s not really a surprise then to see footage of the NBA’s San Antiono Spurs playing StarCraft in between games back in 1999. Sport and games: together at last.

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At this point, Death Trash feels like an old friend. A regular mate popping up every time I flick open Twitter, offering a glimpse into some hellish, gorgeous post-apocalypse. What will you show me today, developer Stephan H velbrinks? Is it a neat new system you’ve built for placing detritus across the wasteland, or is it another spandex-wearing space raider exploding into a bloody fountain of giblets?

It’s always nice when a game makes the jump from internet curiosity to something playable with my own two hands. After four years gracing my timeline with wonderfully gory imagery, Death Trash is revving up to hit Steam in early 2020.

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Adata’s XPG line may be better known for its RAM and SSDs, but their first Cherry MX gaming keyboard sure knows how to make a good first impression. Not only does it have a wonderfully tactile volume wheel in the top right corner, but it also comes with a plush, detachable wrist rest that snaps onto the lower edge of the keyboard thanks to some handy magnets. In fact, I reckon my hands haven’t felt this comfy since our best gaming keyboard champ, the Fnatic Streak, arrived on my desk over a year ago. Does the XPG Summoner have what it takes to dethrone the Fnatic? Here’s wot I think.

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The free-to-play version of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds for slower PCs is coming to Europe in October, developers PUBG Corp have announced. PUBG Lite is a separate standalone game, not a mode or option for the original. And yeah, it looks worse and it gets updates later, but also it’s free and can run on a laptop with a cruddy Intel integrated graphics card – two huge barriers to entry removed. After debuting in Thailand in January, PUBG Lite will next come to European countries including the UK, Russia, and even Vatican City in open beta from October 10th. I bet The Young Pope loves a good Plunk with the lads.

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The next big Minecraft update will accomodate players who wish to abandon our blessed world and fully live in the Nether hell dimension, developers Mojang announced over the weekend. The Nether will be expanded with different biomes, including a guts-red forest and blue valleys of fossils, and new lifeforms will move in to support your accursed lifestyle. Who wouldn’t want to feast upon hellhogs? Or try to gain the grudging tolerance of murderous pigfolk by wearing armour forged from the gold these heretics covet? No one good, that’s for sure. If you choose to live in hell, you deserve it all.

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