Wasteland 2 is free to download and keep forever on GOG.com until the end of tomorrow, Dec. 12, as it kicks off the PC marketplace’s annual Winter Sale. The freebie is the Director’s Cut Digital Classic Edition, which adds the original 1988 Wasteland. GOG.com is touting another 2,500-plus discounts for those who visit to claim the game, with some titles discounted as much as 95% until Jan. 2, 2020. Other highlights:

Psyonix announced the new rate structure in a community note today, acknowledging that the first pricing scheme “did not meet community expectations.” But in the Blueprints’ first week, players blanched at the high cost of some items — including ones costing 1,000 or 2,000 credits. In the new price schedule, rare items will cost 50 to 100 credits; very rare items are 100 to 200 credits, import-class items are 300 to 500 credits, and exotic items are 700 to 800 credits. Furthermore, the paint and

Forza Horizon 4 is getting a battle royale mode. It’s called Eliminator, and involves 72 cars in an open-world arena that involves head-to-head racing and shrinking boundaries. In the mode, players zoom all over the British countryside, engaging in spontaneous head-to-head races with one another. That earns them the prerogative of taking their car, if it’s better (or selecting an upgrade, if it’s not). Players started noticing ads for the Eliminator on the side of NPC box trucks in Forza Horizon

Capcom’s recently revealed Resident Evil 3 remake will include an asymmetrical multiplayer mode called Resident Evil Resistance, in which a team of four survivors must try to escape a deadly experiment overseen by an opposing player controlling a character known as the Mastermind. Crucially, one of those survivors — Capcom has confirmed six of them so far — is named Martin Sandwich. Meet Martin Sandwich, one of the Survivors in Resident Evil Resistance, a 4v1 asymmetrical multiplayer game includ

The Mega Millions jackpot has climbed higher yet again. With no one hitting all six numbers on Tuesday, the top prize is an estimated $340 million for Friday night’s drawing. And while the odds are stacked against hitting the jackpot — your chance is 1 in about 302 million — at some point, someone will get really, really lucky. A woman fills out a Mega Millions lottery ticket on October 19, 2018 in New York City. The Mega Millions jackpot is currently up to $970 million.

The kids are all right in Washington state. At least that’s what Wealthfront, an investment management firm that provides robo-advisor services, found when it analyzed 201,486 of its clients across the country over the course of the year. Millennial investors — that is, individuals born between 1980 and 1994 — residing in the Evergreen State have a median liquid net worth of $112,618, Wealthfront found. The firm defined “liquid net worth” as the sum of a client’s Wealthfront accounts, plus the e

The first crash, less than five months earlier was a Lion Air 737 Max that went down shortly after takeoff in October 2018, killing all 189 people on board. The FAA review was released during a hearing of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on the agency’s approval of the 737 Max. After the Lion Air crash in October 2018, the FAA issued an emergency directive to airlines flying the 737 Max, ordering them to spell out procedures to counter conditions like those that occurred

A monitor displays Peloton Interactive Inc. signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) across from the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. Shares of Peloton extended their two-day losses, trading down 5% midday on Wednesday, following a critical short-seller note from Citron Research that gave the in-home exercise bike company a meager $5 price target. Since its IPO in late September, Peloton shares have traded between roughly $20 and $30 per share.

People walk out of the co-working space WeWork in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York. Problems in the IPO market have the potential to ripple through and slam the S&P 500, and the failed WeWork offering could be a warning, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch equity analysts. That’s because private equity, heavily invested in start-ups, has become a much bigger piece of the investment portfolios of asset allocators, like pension funds. If private equity runs into trouble

The stock is up nearly 90% heading into Wednesday’s report, while its nearest competitor, Adidas, is only up 46%. “What that tells me is, you have a lot of people positioning for upside with two and a half times the calls trading over the puts.” “Specifically, the January 20-calls, about 1,400 traded today,” said DaSilva, “about 4,200 [of those calls] in the open interest.” As he sees it, a lot of Wednesday’s call buying could be from traders who are taking profits in the stock after its tremend

DoubleLine Capital founder Jeffrey Gundlach believes that long-term Treasury yields are apt to jump over the next few months as the Federal Reserve works to fuel inflation higher. “I can’t emphasize enough that October statement by Powell, where he said ‘We’re not even considering raising interest rates unless we see a substantial and persistent rise in inflation,'” Gundlach told CNBC’s Scott Wapner. ‘”When you hear that, that the Fed is cheerleading inflation higher … what that says is that t

The Federal Reserve’s decision Wednesday to keep interest rates steady put the cap on a tumultuous year for consumers. On the one hand, lower rates have meant cheaper loans, which can impact your mortgage, home equity loan, credit card balance, student loan tab and car payments. With interest rates holding steady, “this is the time to pay down debt and boost savings,” he said. Credit cardsMost credit cards have a variable rate, which means there’s a direct connection to the Fed’s benchmark rate.

Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican, June 17, 2015. As little as 10% of donations by Roman Catholics that are specifically advertised as helping the poor and suffering actually go toward charitable work, a new report says. The article noted that under church law, a pope can use Peter’s Pence in any manner that serves his ministry. Meanwhile, the Holy See’s deficit in 2018 doubled to more than $76 million on a budget of ar

Joe Biden unveiled a plan Wednesday to reform the U.S. immigration system and reverse President Donald Trump’s policies as Democratic White House hopefuls pressure the president over some of his most criticized tactics. In introducing the broad proposal, the 2020 presidential candidate’s campaign also acknowledged the backlash he has faced over the deportation practices of the Obama White House when he served as vice president. “It’s wrong, and it stops when Joe Biden is elected president.” Trum

[The stream is slated to start at 2:30 pm ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivers his news conference Wednesday following the Federal Open Market Committee’s policy meeting. The Fed chose to leave rates unchanged and signaled they would stay where they are for all of 2020. The Fed has cut its benchmark interest rate three times this year, taking it down to a range of 1.5%-1.75%.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has brokered a deal with a key block of Democrats that threatened to derail passage of her sweeping bill overhauling drug prices. Pelosi met late Tuesday with Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Mark Pocan, D-Wis., co-leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The bill originally allowed U.S. health officials to negotiate the prices Medicare pays for at least 35 different prescription drugs. Pelosi also agreed to restore a provision of the bill that protects empl

Chevron is writing down as much as $11 billion worth of assets, and it could cost the entire market. Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices, said that depending on the final charge, it could reduce 2019’s fourth-quarter overall S&P 500 earnings by $1.32 per share. The whole S&P 500 is expected to earn $158.50 a share for the full year, according to estimates. On Tuesday, Chevron said that the write-down of between $10 billion and $11 billion would be for the current qu

Carlyle Group co-CEO Kewsong Lee is optimistic about the private equity firm’s investment in superstar Taylor Swift. Carlyle Group, which has been an investor in Ithaca Holdings since 2017, helped finance the deal. Swift has called on the Carlyle Group for help. Presidential hopeful and Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted about the controversy last month, taking aim at private equity companies. “Unfortunately, @TaylorSwift13 is one of the many whose work has been threatened by a private equity firm

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said Wednesday the lender’s customers spent about 5.5% more this year over 2018, a bullish sign for the U.S. economy. “People are spending, and that’s good news for the U.S. economy,” Moynihan told CNBC’s Wilfred Frost on “Squawk Alley.” “That helps sustain this long, long growth session we’ve had.” Moynihan said the data comes from more than $3 trillion in Bank of America card transactions, checks and ATM withdrawals. Bank of America shares have surged 37% thi

DoubleLine Capital CEO and Wall Street “Bond King” Jeffrey Gundlach is not worried about a possible recession in 2020 even though he doesn’t think China and the U.S. will get a trade deal done anytime soon. “We’ve never had a recession without negative leading indicators,” Gundlach told CNBC’s Scott Wapner on Wednesday. Gundlach noted that consumers’ perception of current conditions would have to drastically deteriorate while weekly jobless claims spike up for a recession to take place. Manufact