Payday 2’s been going for a long while now, mainly because just when you think you’ve seen the last of it, Overkill Software bring out a new DLC for it.

This time, the DLC is the Scarface Character and Heist DLC Packs – and yes, that means it’s based around the film. Check out the trailer:

The new playable character is Tony Montana, wielding his famous gun alongside a chainsaw and a new ‘Kingpin’ class. What that means is that Montana can inject himself with adrenaline, allowing him to soak up more damage whilst mowing people down. Useful for those heists full of police pouring in from absolutely everywhere. Pacino’s not voicing the character unfortunately, but the voice actor who portrayed the character in Scarface: The World is Yours is there to fill in.

The Scarface Heist Pack also adds a new heists to the game, in which the player team can infiltrate the Sosa Cartel mansion from the Scarface film, hoping to steal back what was taken as well as taking out the Sosa to boot.

The Scarface Heist Pack is retailing at around $6.99/£4.99 while the Character Pack costs $4.99/£3.99. And if only one person in the party owns the Heist pack, everyone can play that mission which is pretty sweet.

You have to admire Overkill’s dedication to their heist game, adding more and more content on top. They’ve made the game stick around a lot longer than anyone would have originally guessed.

Fans of HiRez Studio’s 3rd person action MOBA SMITE will know that the developer loves to runs sales, in game events and generally just throw things at players. This is partly due to the fact that they want you to spend money on skins. But, when the skins are as generally high quality as the ones HiRez turns out, you can’t really blame them. With the holidays here, HiRez is ratcheting up the in-game goodies even more.  From Saturday Dec 17th at 5 a.m. EST until Tuesday, December 20th at 5 a.m. EST players can earn triple worshippers, experience and favor in SMITE. This makes the weekend the perfect time to work on your mastery levels with Nike and that pesky Fafnir. 

And if that wasn’t enough for you, once Triple Everything Weekend ends on the 20th, the 7 Days of Saturnalia Event will begin. Similar to Triple Everything Weekend, thjis second event will offer Double Everything as well as free gems for completing quests themed around the in game pantheons. From HiRez themselves:

Beginning Tuesday, December 20th until Monday, December 26th, join in the 7 Days of Saturnalia once again! Indulge in free Gems, Pantheon Chest Sales, and double Experience/Worshipers all week long.

Each day, there will be a new Pantheon specific Quest players can participate in that will yield 25 Gems upon completion. That means you can earn up to 175 Gems during Saturnalia! Each Pantheon Quest and Pantheon Chest will be available for 2 days.

Kudos to HiRez for giving players a full ten days of Christmas gifts, especially those who might still be trying to earn some gems and finish off those Odyssey purchases in order to get that sick Anubis Tier 5 skin. Go log in and own some people on the Battleground of the Gods people, HiRez is literally throwing gems at you to do so!

There’s no disputing that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was a massive hit. Those of us that played it when it originally released can swap stories about quests, random NPC stupidity or the odd dragon crash landing on you out of nowhere in the middle of the mountains. The game was epic, the world amazingly realized and the gameplay was just absurdly fun. With Bethesda bringing the game back to the fore of our minds with the release of Skyrim Special Edition for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, I thought it was time to see how the new version stacked up against the original in one very important regard: modding.

Modding is a huge part of PC gaming in general, and Skyrim in particular. Don’t believe me? Thats my current list of mods, and there are at least 40 more I’m still trying to find Special Edition compatible versions of.

While there are a few mods that don’t work right now, I have faith that they will be updated soon. But, some of you may be confused. So, for the uninitiated, lets talk Skyrim mods, shall we?

Many of the most popular mods for the game are centered on improving the graphics. Adding dynamic lighting, dust effects, depth of field, lens flare, more grass, better trees, insanely high resolution textures. You name it, and you can add it to Skyrim. As an example, lets take a look at these two screenshots. 

The shot on the left is from the vanilla remastered version, running with no mods. The one on the right is running a variety of graphics enhancing mods. Of course, upping the texture resolution isn’t the only thing you can do. Lighting also plays a huge part in making a game more immersive, as seen below.

Again, the shot on the left is from the vanilla version. Among the other mods that are quite popular are weather mods that improve fog and weather effects, more realistic water and enhanced blood textures. Just in case the gore was too unrealistic for you…

And of course, lets not forget about the plethora of other mods, most of which I won’t post shots of here. There’s the mod that turns all of the dragons into the engines from Thomas The Tank Engine. There’s the giant rabbit mod, the skimpy anime style battle armor mod. There are mods that put in more realistic armor, add helpful roadsigns to the main routes in Skyrim. There’s even a mod that adds BIRDS to the game, just for the sake of immersion. Basically, if you can dream it, theres probably a mod for it. On PC at least.

Having tested the in game mod manager that Bethesda has bundled with the game, I have to say it’s pretty anemic. The interface is fiddly, obtuse and generally an utter pain in the ass to use. In fact, it reminds me strongly of the menus system in the game and in Fallout 4. Someone should really fire whatever alien makes the GUI on Bethesda games and hire a real human. Or at least do some focus testing. (Hint: When the test subjects gouge out their own eyes, it’s a bad design.) But I digress. The in game system is serviceable at best. If you want to add a few mods here and there just to try out, it will get the job done. Just don’t expect navigating to the mods you want, downloading and then activating them to be a pleasant or hassle free process.

The PC on the other hand, has multiple ways to install and use mods. Most people will opt for the Nexus Mod Manager, at least until someone updates the Skyrim Script Extender to be compatible with the Special Edition of the game. Until then, NMM works just fine, allowing you to download, install and activate or deactivate mods in a simple window, as seen at the top of this article. And while the process may be frustrating sometimes, at least console owners finally have access to mods. And there are a lot of them in the Bethesda curated offerings. Still, the only way to get some of the more interesting ones remains the PC. 

Whatever your platform of choice though, MOD AWAY! Oh…and just because it’s remastered, doesn’t mean the bugs have been totally squashed…

Playdead’s Inside is mostly known as a spiritual sequel to Limbo. It’s a really strange game, and the imagery in it will probably make you ask questions about the society it depicts and how it could relate to our current real-life one. Some people love it greatly, other people don’t. Standard for a game really.

If you’ve heard things about it and are curious, but not enough to take the plunge and buy it there’s some good news – there’s now a demo available for the game on Steam. The demo starts you right at the start, as you are chased through some dark and foreboding woods by mysterious men and their dogs.

Just head over to Inside’s Steam page if you want to try before you buy and decide once and for all if this is a game you want to buy and play. It gets really strange at the end though, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

The first patch applied to Dishonored 2 worked for some people, but not everyone found their game was fixed. Our own station manager was reported as saying that past the first mission he was experiencing more of the same bugginess that he’d found on his first playthrough.

Fortunately Arkane and Bethesda aren’t done patching, and a 1.2 patch is now in beta on Steam with a focus on improving performance issues. Among the fixes in the patch is one related to mouse sensitivity being tied to the game’s framerate, solutions to frame stuttering and the introduction of more Options in the menu to help players better manage the frames they could get from the game.

There’s also a set of ‘known issues’ listed, with some having workarounds suggested as a temporary measure for now. It’s likely that these will be on the top of the list for the 1.3 patch to the game.

Opting into the beta simply requires you to hover over the game in your Library, right-click and choose properties, then click the beta tab and opt in. Those already opted in for beta 1.1 will be getting the new patch automatically. It’s also been recommended that Nvidia card users download the 375.95 drivers, as some of the previous Nvidia drivers were responsible for issues specific to Dishonored 2.

To check out the full set of 1.2 beta patch notes, click here.