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Newegg’s Tech is in the Air sale kicked off today, offering steep discounts on a wide range of gaming PCs, monitors, and PC peripherals. While tech is certainly the focus, there are also some solid game deals sprinkled throughout, including an excellent discount on Resident Evil 2’s Deluxe edition for PC. Resident Evil 2 Deluxe edition is on sale for $17.49, which is the lowest price we can recall for this version of the impressive 2019 remake.

The Deluxe edition comes with multiple costumes for Leon and Claire, a bonus weapon, and the soundtrack from the 1998 original. You have to enter promo code EMCESEU25 to drop the price to $17.49 at checkout. If you snag this deal, you’ll receive a code that can be redeemed on Steam. The discount is only available through tomorrow, February 5.

The remake earned a 9/10 in GameSpot’s Resident Evil 2 review. “Resident Evil 2 is not only a stellar remake of the original, but it’s also simply a strong horror game that delivers anxiety-inducing and grotesque situations, topping some of the series’ finest entries,” editor Alessandro Fillari wrote. “But above all, the remake is an impressive game for the fact that it goes all-in on the pure survival horror experience, confidently embracing its horrifying tone and rarely letting up until the story’s conclusion. Though Resident Evil 2 has its roots firmly in the past, it reworks the familiar horrors into something that feels brand new and all its own.”

Resident Evil Village, the next entry in Capcom’s survival horror series, releases on May 7 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. There are multiple editions and bonuses up for grabs, so make sure to check out our Resident Evil Village preorder guide.

Rockstar Games has quietly updated Grand Theft Auto V with an unannounced patch for GTA Online. The background update fixes a fairly major glitch that gave a single Molotov the power to destroy an entire submarine.

GTA Online’s expensive Kosatka submarine–added in the recent Cayo Perico Heist update–can be used as a base to set up heists or as a lumbering nuclear-powered vehicle. Considering it’s virtually immune to small-arms fire, it’s easy to imagine the owner’s anguish when a lone Molotov is more than enough to blow it out of the water. Thankfully, the new patch fixes the problem.

Aside from this, the dupe merge glitch, which allowed players to merge and duplicate vehicles, has also been patched out. The update also makes some minor adjustments and fixes to freemode event spawns.

In other GTA news, a new NPC tech patent filed by Rockstar has people talking about GTA 6. Before any potential sequel happens, however, the company is also bringing the seven-year-old GTA V to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S later this year. PlayStation Plus subscribers playing on PlayStation 4 will receive cash bonuses in GTA Online every month until the mode hits Sony’s next-gen console.

IO Interactive has revealed the February roadmap for Hitman 3, which kicks off with the Baskerville Barney Escalation Contract in the Dartmoor level. The goal here is to eliminate the entire Carlisle family and make each murder look like an accident.

Featured Contracts on the Dubai level will arrive on February 11, courtesy of video and podcast show Minnmax. IO Interactive says that you can expect to use plenty of bananas in these contracts. The Sinbad Stringent Escalation Contract will be added on February 18, and will also take place in Dubai.

Unlike other Escalation Contracts, these missions will feature Agent 47 practicing his knife-throwing skills against boxes that have been arranged throughout the level, with each slain cube containing some sort of a surprise.

The second round of Featured Contracts will bring players back to Dartmoor, with each mission having been created by the crew at Kinda Funny. Owners of Hitman 3’s deluxe edition will have two exclusive Escalation missions on February 23, which also reward those players with unique items. The Gauchito Antiquity on the Mendoza map will add the Guru suit, an emetic poison syringe pen, and an emetic grenade to Agent 47’s arsenal once those missions have been completed.

The Proloff Parable takes place on Hitman 3’s Carpathian Mountains level, and transforms Agent 47 into a ninja who has to work his way through that level’s very first Escalation mission. The risk is worth the reward though, as players can earn a White Shadow ninja outfit, a custom Sieger 300 silenced sniper rifle, and a white katana.

Lastly, Hitman 3’s first Elusive Target mission will arrive on February 26 and will run until March 8. The Deceivers takes place in the first Hitman’s Sapienza level, and you’ll be tasked with eliminating two targets. This will be the type of content that players can expect in Hitman 3, as outside of a possible remix of existing stages, IO Interactive has no plans to add new levels to the world of assassination sandbox.

Hitman 3 launched earlier this month, and its strong sales saw IO Interactive to recoup all development costs in just a few days. In our Hitman 3 review, critic Phil Hornshaw praised the game’s perfect execution of stealth, storytelling, and its ability to subvert player expectations. Check out our Hitman 3 guides and tips to help you plan the perfect assassination opportunities in preparation for February’s content drop.

The head of Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has teased that the studio is working on ambitious new IP projects that he believes are capable of shaking up the gaming industry and make an impact not dissimilar to Borderlands.

Speaking to VentureBeat about Gearbox’s recent sale to Embracer Group for $1.3 billion, Gearbox founder Randy Pitchford teased that the studio has “so many new IP concepts” that the company is incubating right now that are primed to “explode.”

Selling Gearbox to Embracer will help allow Gearbox to take bigger risks and make bigger bets that might not have been possible as an independent studio.

“We could wait for the right publishing partner who’s willing to make a bet, rather than only take a risk on something they know Gearbox has already done before,” he said. “Those publishers that have taken risks on us for what we want to see next have always been rewarded. But for some reason they can’t be comfortable with that kind of risk. Now we get to take that risk.”

Pitchford didn’t reveal any of the specifics of the new IP that Gearbox has in the works, but he said the studio has been successful in “disrupting” gaming in the past with its new ideas. With Borderlands, Pitchford said Gearbox takes credit for creating an action game with RPG mechanics and metagame systems, both of which are now ubiquitous.

Pitchford added that Gearbox is in a unique position because it doesn’t have to “burn the boats” to pursue these new IP projects. Making a comparison to Epic Games, Pitchford said Epic “burned the boats” when it sold Gears of War to Microsoft to give them the money to make something brand-new that turned out to be Fortnite.

“We don’t have to do that. We can maximally deliver on the IP we have and pursue new IP as a consequence of this relationship. That’s incredibly exciting for me. I feel like we’re just getting started,” he said.

Also in the interview, Pitchford said he’s no longer a spring chicken, so he made this deal with Embracer in part to realize some of his ambitions while he still has time.

“I don’t know how many years I have left, but I want to get as much done as I can while I’m still useful to this industry, while I’m still useful to people who want video games. I’ll do it as long as the world wants me to. I intend to die in office. I hope that’s a long time from now,” he said.

Despite Gearbox’s sale to Embracer, the company remains in business with 2K Games for the Borderlands series. However, no new titles in the franchise have been announced.

Tale of Immortal has been out for barely a week as an Early Access title, and already the open-world sandbox based on Chinese mythology and cultivation has become one of the most popular games on Steam. Concurrent players peaked at 172,000 users this week, resulting in Tale of Immortal being more popular than Grand Theft Auto V or Rust.

With its tile-based 2D world aesthetic and a single language option of Simplified Chinese, Tale of Immortal might seem like an incredibly unlikely game to have debuted as the fifth most popular game on Steam. User reviews are overwhelmingly positive though, as the combination of Chinese mythology, vibrant monster-slaying action, and a low price has resulted in a smash-hit debut.

This can also be chalked up to Steam’s current presence in China, which now has over 30 million players on the platform who regularly flock towards similar games such as Amazing Cultivation Simulator and other Chinese-produced indie games that celebrate the culture of the country. Steam still has plans for a more official launch in China this year, as the platform currently exists as more of a grey market for users on that side of the world.

The launch of an official Chinese platform will allow Steam to sell games that fall in line with Chinese government regulations, though Chinese gamers aren’t happy about the change as the international Steam client has a much broader selection than what would be possible on an officially sanctioned digital distribution platform.

China is notorious for having strict rules regarding video games, as titles that are intended for sale must first apply for a license before they can be published. In 2020, only 97 games even managed to obtain a license in China.