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The recent "buy a game on Epic Games Store, receive a free Fortnite skin" trend is continuing with Goat Simulator 3 , which will offer "A Goat" skin in the battle royale for all pre-orders and purchases of the goat mayhem game. A trailer for the collaboration shows Pligor, one of the main goatagonists of Goat Simulator 3, preparing for her turn in Fortnite with a '80s-style workout montage. She is seen lifting a tractor with her teeth (with the farmer holding on for dear life), running with tires strapped to her back, and building a chair that transfers her consciousness directly into the game. Anyone who pre-orders or purchases the game between now and September 29, 2023 on the Epic Games Store--including those who already have--will have the A Goat skin added to the same Fortnite account used to purchase the game starting today at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET. Non-PC players or those who don't wish to play via Epic Games Store can purchase the A Goat skin in the Fortnite item shop on … [Read more...] about Earn A Goat Fortnite Skin For Free With Goat Simulator 3 Purchase On Epic Games Store

The Epic Games Store continues to give away free games each week, more than three years after the digital storefront launched its awesome weekly freebies program. Epic has confirmed that the free games program will continue through at least the end of 2022. Every Thursday at the same time 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET--Epic gives up between one and three free games. You merely need to create a free Epic account and enable two-factor authentication to start snagging freebies. At this point, Epic has given away well over 100 free games, and there's no sign that the program will stop any time soon. We keep this article up to date weekly to highlight both the current free games and next week's offerings. This week's free game at Epic From now until October 6 at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET, you can grab The Drone Racing League Simulator , commonly referred to as DRL Simulator, and Runbow . DRL provides authentic drone aerodynamics and a staggering number of customization options, allowing you to … [Read more...] about 2 Free Games Available Now At Epic Games Store

Audio player loading… After months of leaks (opens in new tab) , Sony has confirmed a late October release date for the PC port of Sackboy: A Big Adventure. The cooperative 3D platformer—a PS5 launch title—will boast a few nice quality-of-life improvements when it hits Steam and the Epic Games Store. Confirmation of the port comes via the Latin American PlayStation YouTube account, but the English language version of the trailer will no doubt hit imminently. 4K resolution with support for 120fps is in, it'll play nice with 21:9 ultrawide monitors, and DLSS and VRR are both supported. GamesRadar gave Sackboy: A Big Adventure a perfect score (opens in new tab) on release, and I myself can confirm that it's really fun: you can pick up your coop buddies and send them hurtling off cliffs. According to the announcement trailer, the port will release on October 27. Now that Sackboy is out of the bag, it's likely that Returnal—which is pretty much definitely coming … [Read more...] about Sackboy: A Big Adventure is finally coming to PC in late October

Audio player loading… At Mobile World Congress, Verizon announced a partnership with Qualcomm and Razer. Now Razer plans on releasing a new handheld console specifically designed for cloud gaming and streaming. The Razer Edge 5G is being built on the Snapdragon G3 Gen 1, which is meant to take advantage of Verizon's 5G Ultrawideband. Though no specific hardware details were revealed at the show, we did get a brief first look at the handheld courtesy of Twitter user GLKCreative (opens in new tab) . The press release from Verizon says it's an Android device that will "give you access to games you love, whether they are downloaded to play locally, streamed from your console or accessed directly from the cloud." If that's true, that's something even the versatile Steam Deck (opens in new tab) can't do. Last week, Logitech launched its G Cloud gaming console (opens in new tab) specially targeted for cloud gaming through streaming apps such as GeForce Now, … [Read more...] about Razer’s cloud gaming handheld is coming with 5G

Audio player loading… The Nordic-flavored survival game that took PC gaming by storm in 2021 is now chopping down trees and killing Odin's creatures on Microsoft's PC Game Pass (opens in new tab) . If you're already exploring Valheim's biomes, building castles and longships, getting up to viking business and whatnot, this is a fantastic way to get new friends into the game. Valheim's crossplay functionality will allow you to connect with friends playing on PC Game Pass and even consoles—if you need help with that, we have a guide on how to enable crossplay in Valheim (opens in new tab) . The move to Game Pass comes ahead of Valheim's Mistlands update (opens in new tab) , which is still expected to release by the end of the year. From what we know so far, the update will feature new fauna, weapons, armor, and some evocative-looking ruins. Mistlands was initially set to release at the end of 2021, and we did note in our State of Valheim 2022 (opens in new tab) … [Read more...] about Our 2021 GOTY, Valheim, is now on Game Pass

Overwatch 2 is right around the corner, but there's a bit of prep-work you should probably do to get ready for it. For those looking to pre-download the game, if you play on console, you'll be able to do so from 9 AM PT / 12 AM ET on October 4. Whereas if you're on PC and own the Watchpoint Pack, you'll be able to do so a bit earlier, with pre-download being available tomorrow (September 30) at 1:30 PM PT / 4:30 PM ET. If you have automatic downloads setup, it should just do so on its own. You also might have heard that Overwatch 2 will require you to link a phone number to your Battle.net account, which is supposed to prevent bad actors using cheats and cycling through multiple additional accounts that share the same phone number. Now Blizzard has made it so that you can only have one number per account. So if you're happy to do so, it's advised you add that now so you're ready to play on launch. Lastly, you'll want to merge your accounts as Overwatch 2 has cross-progression … [Read more...] about Everything You Should Do Before Overwatch 2 Launches

After several months of early access development, roguelike shoot-'em-up Vampire Survivors will launch as a complete game on October 20. The v1.0 edition will introduce minor tweaks in balancing items to try to make them more useful, new achievements will be added, and several existing achievements will receive different unlock conditions for anyone who hasn't acquired them yet. Anyone who has played the game in its development phase won't lose their save data when Vampire Survivors is ported over to a new engine, which developer Poncle says will add increased performance and compatibility for more machines. Beyond the v1.0 release, post-game support will be focused on fine-tuning the game further, and more details will be revealed through teasers from October 7. If you haven't tried it yet, Vampire Survivors is an action-packed game that is deceptively simple. A mix of Castlevania visuals and bullet-hell inspirations, you're given a lone hero who has to stand alone against … [Read more...] about Vampire Survivors 1.0 Launches On October 20

Audio player loading… Two months after denying a rumor (opens in new tab) that Stadia is shutting down, Google has announced that Stadia is shutting down (opens in new tab) . "While Stadia's approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn't gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service," Stadia general manager Phil Harrison wrote. Stadia owners will continue to have access to their libraries until January 18, 2023, and all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Google Store, and game and add-on content purchases made through the Stadia store, will be refunded. Most refunds are expected to be completed by mid-January. Despite Stadia's failure to catch on with gamers, Harrison said the technology behind it "has been proven at scale and transcends gaming." "We see clear opportunities to apply this technology … [Read more...] about Stadia is closing down in January, hardware and software purchases to be refunded

Audio player loading… Microsoft might be making a bit of a mess of the runup to launch (opens in new tab) , but Windows 11 is coming on October 5 (opens in new tab) , and with it a bunch of new system requirements. One element that Microsoft is positioning as core to Windows 11's whole package is the Trusted Platform Module (TPM 2.0). Here's an explainer of exactly what TPM's doing and why (opens in new tab) , but one important aspect of it is: it makes life a lot harder for bad actors and means that if a specific piece of hardware or device ID gets banned, you can't just make up a new one and continue hacking away. It's worth briefly pausing here to say that, while the TPM requirement is new, TPM has been around since 2016 (and Windows 10 also technically demands it, though never seems to put this into action). And obviously, Windows 10 is promised support until 2025, so it's not like we all need to panic about getting TPM-ready just yet. However, if you play … [Read more...] about Valorant leads the charge on enforcing Windows TPM to perma-ban cheaters’ hardware