Good news: Passes for the Game Developers Conference are still available, and today we're excited to announce more details about the third annual ‘Shut Up & Sit Down’ GDC board game exhibit, which will be open to all GDC 2017 passholders at various points during GDC week — February 27th through March 3rd.

As always, this excellent exhibit is carefully curated by the clever folks who run tabletop game enthusiast hub Shut Up & Sit Down, and will offer GDC attendees a calm oasis where you can relax and play some of the best tabletop games of 2016. Video game makers can learn much from the world of tabletop games — something GDC is embracing this year by hosting a Board Game Design Day!

This time around the Shut Up & Sit Down space at GDC 2017 — one of many engaging interactive spaces

7 Days To Die’s zombie apocalypse can be a tough environment, so you’ll want to get started right away crafting the best items for your survival. One of the most crucial components for crafting are mechanical parts. Here we guide you through all the ways you can get these valuable parts.

What are mechanical parts?

Mechanical Parts are used for crafting high-end items for survival, such as vehicles, guns, and tools. This is a resource you can never have too much of, so you’ll likely want to stock up on mechanical parts as soon as you start finding them.

How to find mechanical parts

These parts can be found at random when looting various items, such as cars, appliances, and dumpsters. You can even find these pretty early into the start of your game.

You’ll need lots of these mechanical parts for crafting, though, so you want to make looting them more abundant. For this, you’ll need to eventua…

Plastic is fantastic, as Barbie blew away even optimistic projections to bring in $155 million at the domestic box office this past weekend. Not to be outdone, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer also blasted past estimates to earn $80.5 million.

Combined, they helped propel the domestic box office to the fourth-biggest weekend ever, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s also the largest haul since Avengers: Endgame premiered back in 2019. That’s not all, either. This is apparently the first three-day weekend ever in which one film–Barbie–raked in over $100 million while another–in this case, Oppenheimer–made over $50 million. So the Barbie-Oppenheimer double feature demand was real, indeed.

Barbie did end up almost doubling Oppenheimer, though what’s astonishing is that predictions from last month put their figures at $80 million and $40 million, respectively. Barbie started the weekend with huge numbers and kept going to hit $155 milli…

If you’re familiar with the premise of Far Cry–the idea of a one-person army taking on overwhelming hostile forces in large, unpredictable surroundings–then you know exactly what Far Cry 5 feels like. You’ll engage in different styles of offensive conflict; attempt to tame the wild, natural environment to your advantage; and slowly build a guerilla resistance in the background. But for its fifth mainline entry, the series formula has undergone some very positive refinements, which make its core hook of exploring and engaging with its volatile setting a more free-flowing and pleasant experience. It lets you fully enjoy the sights and activities of its beautiful and interesting open-world without too many overt distractions.

The biggest change is that the series is finally confident enough to put you in charge of your own progression. After a brief orientation, the entire region of Hope County, Montana USA is immediately open for exploration. Three intimida…

Halo Infinite’s first technical test, which generally seems to have made a good first-impression, left something to be desired among certain players on PC who noted various performance issues even on higher-end machines. That is something developer 343 Industries is now assuring fans will be significantly improving for future tests and in the game’s full release. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

In statements to IGN as part of a new video breaking down Halo Infinite’s still-in-progress performance across both PC and consoles, 343 said PC players in future tests “will see a lot of things fixed.”

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Speakeasy is a fighting game based on a cross-country underground fisticuffs tournament in the time of Prohibition, populated entirely by Al Hirschfeld caricatures of actual notable figures from the era, where the winner gets access to the last barrels of legitimate hooch in America to do with what they will.

I am so, so sorry that I had to tell you that. I’m sorry because that is the only accurate description that one can give to the game, and because the description probably put a beautiful picture in your head of a wild, cel-shaded fracas, scored by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin, of super moves involving Tommy guns, of the typically meaningless fighting game timer counting down to government raids, of flapper girls milling about in backgrounds, of final bosses living in Great Gatsby opulence, and of being able to replay great matches in the style of silent pictures. I apologize because I am going to have to sweep all those wonderful ideas away and tell …

So many massively multiplayer games are all about what you make them. A wide-open atmosphere can make online experiences incredibly rewarding, adding a sense of freedom and community that isn’t possible when playing solo. In the case of The War Z, however, freedom and community have been allowed to run wild to such a point that the game is almost unplayable. Hammerpoint Interactive’s look at life after the zombie apocalypse is a complete disaster. It’s ridiculous that this game is being sold, with unfinished features, loads of bugs, wildly out-of-control player killing, and a system of micropayments that couldn’t steal more money from players if you gave it a mask and a gun.