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GUAN YU! Along with the starter edition beingfree on PC,For Honoris going to get a new update soon. TitledMarching Fire, this will bring graphical overhauls and some new modes, but the biggest addition has to be the Chinese Wu Lin faction. Along with just looking incredible, it also features a soldier that looks suspiciously like Guan Yu. I’m sold on that, alone. Marching Firewill bring four new playable characters; the Tiandi, the Jiang Jun, the Nuxia and the Shaolin....

Amnesia and Crashlands are up next on April 30 For the Kingstrikes me as an interesting wildcard choice for a free game. It’s a turn-based tabletop-inspired roguelike RPG with co-op that lets players “split up and cover more ground,” which is another way of saying there’s a lot going on, and it might not all resonate with you. That said, it’s worth checking out if it’s in your wheelhouse. If you end up abandoning the campaign partway through, no big deal....

Nvidia hooks us up My GeForce GTX 580s are still doing okay, but I’d love to upgrade. The expected performance increase is incentive enough, but Nvidia has added more incentive with a newly announced deal that gives purchasers of a a GeForce GTX 660, 660 Ti, 670, 680, 760, 770, or 780 a free copy ofSplinter Cell Blacklist Deluxe Editionfor PC. The game comes out August 20th. Nvidia seems happy to give this one away as it shows off their cards in multiple ways....

The parade of indignity just hasn’t stopped marching for the United Kingdom’s biggest game retailer. Recently, GAME has had to announce that itcouldn’t stockThe Last Story, nor could itsellMass Effect 3. Now, Capcom reveals that it won’t stockStreet Fighter X TekkenorAsura’s Wratheither. “Unfortunately Capcom must confirm thatStreet Fighter X Tekkenfor PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 andAsura’s Wrath, both scheduled for release on Friday March 9, will not be stocked by GAME or Gamestation either in their retail outlets or on their online stores operating in the UK and Ireland,” said a Capcom spokesman toMCV....

Four prequels and a First-Person Shooter Big news for fans ofGhost in the Shell! Barely hours ago a live event was held announcing a bevy of new projects related to the franchise, and Japanator’s own Elliot Gay was there to catch new reveals like malware at a cyberbrain orgy. The biggest news of the event wasthe reveal ofGhost in the Shell: Arise, a prequel story exploring the career of series protagonist Major Motoko Kusanagi before her involvement with Public Security Section 9 (where she worked during nearly allGhost in the Shellstories to date)....

Blizzard just added an amazing item for the 14th anniversary ofWorld of Warcraft: the Overtuned Corgi Goggles. The description doesn’t mess around, as they literally allow you to view the world as if it were inhabited by corgis. Here’s how to nab them. If you’re Alliance, head to Stormwind and fly to the back of the keep in the tiny cloyster highlighted in the gallery map below. Talk to Historian Llore and hand over 200 Timewarped Badges (earned by doing Timewarped content, which you’re able to easily spam in the dungeon finder) for the goggles....

Use Descendo Hogwarts Legacyhas several enemy challenges that are almost like puzzles. Not only do you need to figure out what spell to use to clear them: you also need to know the exact timing.Take a look at the Troll’s club challengeto get an idea of what I’m talking about. Here, we’ll be explaining exactly how to clear a slightly easier challenge in “bury an Acromantula’s Head in the ground.”...

If you want to get the upper hand on PC players with a controller, you’ll likely need aim assist inFortnite.Here’s a quick way to turn it on in the game. How to activate aim assist inFortnite To utilize the aim assist, you’ll need to head to the settings menu on the screen. At the main menu, click your profile picture on the top right. Next, select the gear symbol and choose “Settings....

While making your way to the House of Hades and the summit of Mount Olympus inHades 2, Melinoe can call upon the help of many Olympians. And while many fan favorites will aid the princess from the get-go, Ares will take a bit of convincing. Here’s how to unlock the Ares boons inHades 2. How to unlock the Ares boons in Hades 2 Much like how you’re able to only access Demeter’s after making your way to the surface in the original game, you can unlock Ares and his boons inHades 2by defeating Prometheus and reaching the summit of Mount Olympus once....

Destiny 2‘s first saga is about to enter its endgame with the launch ofThe Final Shapeexpansion on June 4. In the build-up to the game’s next chapter, Bungie has been taking the time to showcase sneak peeks at certain content, like thenew Dread enemiesandunique Exotic armor. Now, the studio is diving into the nitty gritty, explaining how weapons and their Perks are due to change inThe Final Shape. Typically, Bungie rebalances weapons and Perks twice an expansion, with one overhaul coming just before launch and another happening around the mid-way point....

Don’t panic, but the floor is lava It’s a great feeling to be the good-news bearer when one of yourfavorite co-op gamesgets new content and you get to excitedly tell your partner all about it. For those of us who like the puzzle-platformer antics ofHuman: Fall Flat, there’s a new level, Tower,out now on Steam. Including the original and post-launch stages, it’s the 21st level. The name speaks for itself. With such a precarious layout, I’m afraid of my pudgy boy plummeting to his doom, but at leastHuman: Fall Flatis generous with checkpoints....

Far Cry 6, Rainbow Six Extraction, and more The first of what many would consider the “major” E3 live streams is set to kick off in 30 minutes’ time, as publisher Ubisoft takes to the airwaves to show off its upcoming wares for PC, consoles, and mobile platforms. A pre-show event is already underway, with the main stream set to kick off at the top of the hour (12:00 PT / 15:00 ET / 20:00 BST)...

DoomandDoom 2have been around for decades and have retained their status as influential games in the first-person shooter genre. But the series isn’t as old as, say,Mortal Kombat, which released its first game in 1992. Hmmm…I wonder what it would be like to mix the two together. Lo and behold, someone has done just that. Take a look at whatSkeletronMK666over on ModDB has given us.Ultimate Mortal Kombat for DOOMis a way to battle the demons of hell as some of the fighting franchise’s most iconic characters....