Developer ZA/UM has come out with a couple of upgrades to the game, including ultra-widescreen support and a new hardcore mode. Hardcore mode sounds especially interesting, as Disco Elysium doesn’t have many of the normal levers a developer can tweak to make a game tougher, like enemy health or spawn rates. There’s one big bonus to hardcore mode, and that’s more XP. Related A helpful guide to Disco Elysium for beginnersHardcore mode sounds quite punishing, and so it will appeal to players who ha

Rocket League developer Psyonix announced on Thursday that its cars-playing-soccer game will no longer support Mac and Linux players as of March 2020. Once the update hits Rocket League in March, the game will only be playable while running on a Windows 7 machine or newer. For Mac players, Psyonix recommends — but does not officially support — using Apple’s Boot Camp tool to simulate a Windows computer. For Linux players, it recommend the same process with the Proton app or Wine tool, although n

This is an online gameTemtem is a massively multiplayer online game, whereas Pokémon has limited online features. I’m barely in the third town; which means I haven’t tried to challenge a dojo gym yet. It’s no coincidence that some of the earliest mods for each new Pokémon game attempts to create a more hardcore experience than what’s provided by the base game. In fact, one of the most popular ways to play Pokémon requires a user-imposed ruleset in which monster deaths are treated as permanent. L

Nioh 2 developer Team Ninja revealed a new story trailer and the season pass for its upcoming sequel to 2017’s samurai vs. demons game, Nioh. Nioh 2 is set in 1555 — 45 years prior to the original Nioh. As Hideyoshi, players will travel the world, meet new heroes, and collect the mysterious Spirit Stones — keeping them safe from an unknown enemy. Lee also revealed that Nioh 2 will eventually feature three downloadable content packs. The DLC packs are all prequels to Nioh 2’s main storyline, and

Super Stardust and Resogun developer Housemarque is putting its in-development battle royale game, Stormdivers, on hold as it focuses all of its efforts on an unannounced project. In a post on the Housemarque website, CEO Ilari Kuittinen calls that mystery game the developer’s “biggest and most ambitious title yet.” Kuittinen said that game is being developed with a yet-to-be-announced partner and a team of about 80 people at Housemarque. “[N]ow we are focused on delivering our most ambitious an

DAVOS, Switzerland — There are more than 100 recognized currencies in the world, but that could fall to five or six in the next 20 years, the Brazilian economy minister said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Thursday. This could be replicated in other parts of the world in the future, provided they align themselves politically or economically, Paulo Guedes, economy minister of Brazil, said at a panel. “If you consider the political dimension and the economic dimension, we would have five, six cu

The German finance minister said he isn’t pessimistic over threats of tariffs on the car industry as he believes an agreement on free trade and digital taxes is possible. Soon after calling for a fresh trade deal with the European Union, President Donald Trump raised the specter of car tariffs should European nations implement a digital tax on big U.S. tech firms. “If people want to arbitrarily put taxes on our digital companies, we will consider putting taxes arbitrarily on car companies,” Mnuc

Palantir Technologies co-founder and CEO Alex Karp said Thursday the core problem in Silicon Valley is the attitude among tech executives that they want to be separate from United States regulation. “You cannot create an island called Palo Alto Island,” said Karp, who suggested tech leaders would rather govern themselves. “What Silicon Valley really wants is the canton of Palo Alto. We have the United States of America, not the ‘United States of Canton,’ one of which is Palo Alto. Palantir has l

The state of global geopolitical tensions is high, and this is having an impact on the global economy, Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, told CNBC’s Sara Eisen on “Squawk on the Street” from the World Economic Forum at Davos on Thursday. “You can imagine the dramatic consequences this would have had in the region — and for the global economy if this escalated,” Guterres said. “We live in a difficult period where geopolitical tensions are also having an impact on the econ

Lori Tan Chinn doesn’t believe in accidents, except for the one that brought her to the set of “Awkwafina is Nora From Queens.” “This came by accident, because I was going to quit,” Chinn tells CNBC Make It. Although Chinn recently considered quitting acting because she couldn’t find more compelling roles, she says the production of “Nora From Queens” drew her back in. “It’s changed the course of how I thought of my responsibility to be a positive image for Asian Americans,” Chinn says. “This is

Valuable vintage Apple productsTo the average person, an old Apple computer might not look all that exciting. Here are some valuable vintage Apple products that might be gathering dust in your basement: 1. Macintosh 128K The Macintosh 128K, which debuted in the legendary “1984” commercial that aired during Super Bowl XVII, was Apple’s very first Macintosh computer. Other vintage Apple products Apple defines its “vintage” products as anything that has not “been manufactured for more than five and

If you happen to hit the next Powerball jackpot, brace yourself for the life-changing decisions ahead of you. The annuity option is structured in a way that annual payments increase over time (by 5% annually). For this $373 million Powerball jackpot, the first year’s payout would be roughly $5.62 million, based on a formula provided by the Multi-State Lottery Association. For this Powerball jackpot, the cash option is $253.7 million. That amount would be reduced by a federal 24% withholding, or

Changes are coming to credit scores. This latest iteration of the FICO score, available this summer, is meant to help lenders better avoid credit risks and control default rates. Generally speaking, the higher your credit score, the better off you are when seeking a loan. Average nationwide credit scores most recently bottomed at 686 during the housing crisis a decade ago, when there was a sharp increase in foreclosures. The average national credit score is now over 700 for the first time ever,

A Roth conversion involves the owner of a traditional IRA, which is funded with pretax contributions, moving that money into an after-tax Roth IRA. The move could save families tax money over the long run, given new rules around some IRA withdrawals, according to financial experts. The Secure Act, signed into law last month by President Donald Trump, reined in rules around the so-called “stretch IRA.” Roth accounts must also be depleted over a decade, but heirs wouldn’t owe any income tax on the

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management clients now have a new way to manage their cash, with the launch of the asset manager’s CashPlus account. It is directed at the firm’s existing wealth management clients, who can open an account with their advisor or online. The new accounts help clients with their cash management needs, according to a Morgan Stanley executive, and also enable financial advisors to give more comprehensive advice based on their clients’ financial situation. The CashPlus accounts c

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, whose known for badgering tech executives to be more civic-minded, said Thursday that over 300 companies have joined his latest initiative to plant one trillion trees by the end of the decade. “Nobody’s against trees,” he said in an interview with “Squawk on the Street” co-host Sara Eisen from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. 1t.org launched at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday to provide governmental and corporate support to the Trillion Trees Campa

Barclays is betting “change is afoot” at Victoria’s Secret’s parent company L Brands. The investment bank on Thursday upgraded L Brands shares to overweight from underweight, and gave the retailer’s stock a new price target of $30, double its previous target of $15. L Brands shares were recently up more than 4%, trading around $20.60. L Brands in January said its holiday sales shrunk, leading the company to cut its earnings outlook for the fourth quarter. That news came on the heels of L Brands

Procter & Gamble said Thursday that it is monitoring the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus as the World Health Organization weighs whether to call the virus a global health emergency. The global consumer giant, which owns brands such as Vicks and Pampers, counts China as one of its two largest markets, along with the United States. The virus was first diagnosed less than a month ago and has already killed at least 17 people in China. Roughly 650 cases of the virus have been reported in China, and

Overall, Wall Street’s first take on Virgin Galactic has been an endorsement to buy. Vanguard Group bought more than $90 million worth of Virgin Galactic stock across several index funds, while exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from Charles Schwab and BlackRock each took small positions. Virgin Galactic shares have been prone to large swings in either direction since its debut, a tendency which is typical of a small cap stock. But since the beginning of the year trading volume in Virgin Galactic has

Billionaire hedge fund manager Seth Klarman defended value investing, saying in a letter to clients that several factors, including the proliferation of passive investing, have created market mispricings that will soon lead to a payoff for the long underperforming strategy. Klarman is widely seen as following in the footsteps of those men, often being called “the next Warren Buffett” or “the Oracle of Boston,” a riff on a common nickname for Buffett. Used copies of his 1991 book “Margin of Safet