Every weekend, a small group of games are discounted and available to play for free on Steam, and the latest bunch of free weekend offerings are now live. The first game available to play for free this weekend is Conan Exiles, which released last May. Conan Exiles is an open-world survival game set in the savage lands of Conan the Barbarian where you must build up your own kingdom from nothing. The game can be played in single-player, co-op, or persistent online multiplayer modes. Explore the wilds, gather resources, slay monsters, loot treasure, and wage war against other civilizations to become the dominant clan among many. The developers recently rolled out more updates to Conan Exiles, so it’s a good chance to try the game out. Conan Exiles will be free to play until Sunday, March 10, at 1 PM PST / 4 PM EST.
If you play Conan Exiles and love the experience, its standard edition is just $20 this weekend–a full 50% off. The deluxe edition is $42 (40% off) and comes with five DLC packs.
Also free to play on Steam this weekend: Warhammer: Vermintide 2, a first-person co-op adventure set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe. Think Left 4 Dead, but instead of fighting your way through swarms of infected humans, you’ll fight alongside three companions against combined hordes of Skaven and Chaos. You also have five different characters and 15 diverse classes to choose from. You can play Vermintide 2 for free until Sunday, March 10 at 1 PM PST / 4 PM EST.
Vermintide 2’s standard edition is just $12 (60% off) and the collector’s edition is only $18 (also 60% off) until Monday, March 11 at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST.
Hover is another free-to-play offering on Steam this weekend–check it out at no cost until Sunday. The game is only $6.79 (66% off) until Tuesday, March 12 at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Available to play alone or online with friends, Hover is a fast-paced parkour game set in a futuristic open-world city where you lead a young team of rebels against an anti-leisure dictatorship using high-tech gear that allows you to pull off crazy tricks and combos.
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Dark Souls creator and From Software Director Hidetaka Miyazaki reveals he’s got his eye on the Battle Royale genre.
Miyazaki, best known for his work on such titles as Dark Souls and Bloodborne, has revealed that he’s not only been keeping tabs on the Battle Royale and Live Services phenomenon, but that he’d “love to take a crack at them some day.”
In an interview with Telegraph, when asked if he and From Software would consider taking on gaming’s fastest growing genres, he said “There’s always the possibility.” He went on to remark that, “These games are definitely fun,” and, “If we did it, it might be a bit different! But we’re definitely interested and there’s definitely that possibility in the future. We’d love to take a crack at them some day.”
As is tradition, Devil May Cry 5 features secret challenges tucked away throughout the main story. Some of these are easy enough to finish in a single attempt, there are others that will put your combat skills and patience to the test. In this guide, we’re breaking down where to find all of Devil May Cry 5’s secret missions and how to complete them.
Unlike past DMC games, which often used obscure notes to signify the location of a secret mission, the newest game in the series takes a more puzzle and reflex-oriented approach to find these hidden challenges. Some missions house special glyphs that serve as the gateway to these special encounters. Often times you’ll see strange red streaks stretched across certain rooms or areas in the environment, which serve as indicators that a secret mission is nearby.
Once you find where the secret mission is, you’ll need to adjust the camera’s perspective while standing on a specific spot to line up the red streaks to form a glowing glyph, which will enable the hidden challenge. After you activate the secret mission, you’re tasked with completing some of the games more unusual challenges. Though rest assured, if you find yourself stuck on a particular mission, you’re safe to back out of it and try again in the main menu–which allows you to replay them at any time.
Here is GameSpot’s complete breakdown on how to find and complete all 12 secret missions in Devil May Cry 5. If you want more info about Capcom’s new action game, be sure to check out the full review, and along with our gameplay montage of some of the best fights we’ve had so far with Dante, Nero, and V.
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If you’re willing to buy a new monitor, variable refresh rate—also known as G-Sync on the NVIDIA side and FreeSync on the AMD side—is one of the best upgrades you can make to your gaming setup, reducing screen tearing and syncing your monitor’s refresh rate with your video card’s output. But while monitors with FreeSync are easy to come by and affordable, monitors with NVIDIA’s G-Sync are always more expensive, leaving budget-minded GTX users out in the cold, until just recently.
This year at CES, NVIDIA announced that it was bringing G-Sync compatibility to some FreeSync monitors with a new driver update. They’ve officially validated 12 monitors as “G-Sync compatible,” but anyone can enable variable refresh rate (VRR) in the new NVIDIA drivers and try it on their own FreeSync-enabled display—and many have found certain uncertified monitors to work just fine.
Square Enix has revealed that a new console Octopath Traveler game is in the works and that a mobile prequel title – Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent – will be headed to iOS and Android later this year, at least in Japan.
As reported by Eurogamer, Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent is a “free-to-play single-player RPG” that is set in Osterra, the world of 2018’s Octopath Traveler, and will take place a few years prior to the Switch title.
Via Gematsu, the official website details a bit more of the mobile title, including that it will feature the distinctive HD-2D art-style, an eight-character party system with command-based battles, a protagonist who is the “chosen one” and will “fight against a great evil that has achieve fortune, power, and fame,” the return of field commands like “Listen” and “Steal,” and more.
With Captain Marvel now in theaters, the countdown to Avengers: Endgame has begun. The movie is the culmination of 11 years of epic inter-connected storytelling, and anticipation amongst Marvel fans could not be higher. Last year’s Avengers: Infinity War delivered a devastating ending, with half the universe instantly wiped out when Thanos completed his collection of Infinity Stones. Endgame will deal with the fallout from this, as the remaining heroes set out to confront Thanos and–presumably–attempt to return their friends back to existence.
Endgame is the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. All the movies are important to some degree in developing both the overall narrative of the MCU and the character arcs for its heroes and villains, but let’s face it, it’s still a lot of movies. Those fans looking forward to Endgame might not necessarily remember every last detail of a Marvel movie released a decade ago–and with so much attention-grabbing TV and cinema out there, rewatching the entire MCU in preparation for Endgame might not be possible.
So here’s our list of every movie in the MCU to date, with details of where you can stream them to rewatch at home–and if you should bother. We’re not looking at the relative quality of each movie; it’s simply whether a Marvel movie can be skipped in the build-up to Endgame, or if it contains plot or character information that is important to know before Endgame is released. Here we go…
March 8 is International Women’s Day, a celebration of the many influential and inspiring women around the world. To mark the occasion, Sony has released a free International Women’s Day PS4 theme featuring some of the iconic female leads from PlayStation games new and old.
The characters featured include Horizon Zero Dawn‘s Aloy, The Last of Us‘ Ellie, Freya from God of War, the Hunter from Bloodborne, and leading duo Chloe and Nadine from Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. The theme is available to download now on the European and Australian PlayStation Stores; it’s not yet listed on the US PS Store, but given it’s International Women’s Day, we expect it shouldn’t be too much longer before it appears. [Update: PSN in the US has now added its theme; it features a different design but many of the same characters.]
In other PlayStation news, PS4 users can now play their games using their iPhones and iPads via Remote Play, thanks to a recent PS4 system software update. Once your console is updated, you’ll also need to download the PS4 Remote Play app from the Apple App Store. The app itself is compatible with the vast majority of PS4 games, with virtual buttons and sticks appearing on the iOS device screen, though you may find a bluetooth gamepad allows greater control.
