Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. On this week’s show, James, Steven, and Wes revisit all the big game news and reveals from E3, including Elden Ring, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Watch Dogs Legion, Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk 2077, and more. How to listen:Hosts this week:James Davenport ( Twitter , Twitch )Wes Fenlon ( Twitter )

Dota Underlords, Valve’s standalone Auto Chess game and the heir to mod Dota Auto Chess , is in closed beta for those who have a Dota 2 battle pass. If you’re wondering about huge changes to the game mechanics in Dota Underlords, as opposed to Dota Auto Chess, it’s a bunch of small things and one big change. Though there are huge quality of life improvements, Underlords and the smartphone Auto Chess game are two forks of the same design. That doesn’t mean there aren’t improvements in Underlords:

This is part two in a five-part celebration of Dark Souls published in PC Gamer UK issue 331. Spoilers ahead for a few traps in Dark Souls, Dark Souls 3, and Sekiro. That is until Dark Souls 3, where the very first chest—From wouldn’t make the very first chest a mimic, right?—the very first chest, is a mimic. Cheeky red herringMost cruel of all is the Pendant, an item players can choose at the start of a new game in Dark Souls. In the original Dark Souls, he knocks you off a bridge.

An army of lawyers would march over to squash it, surely, but in 1996 something similar happened to the classic puzzle game Myst. At one point Goodman appears topless in a bath and talks about showing the player “a whole other side of Pyst island”. You could also dial Pyst on the phone “to interact with the characters from Pyst island.” I don’t see why I should play it when instead I can listen to the original Pyst single, “I’m Pyst”. To his credit, Goodman really goes for it.

Have you finally finished tinkering with your Minecraft town, and dug every precious thing out of the ground in Terraria? You might want to take your tent and pitch it in The Superfluous Sand, a post-apocalyptic sandbox building game set in a big ol’ desert (that used to be Alaska). But in this game you get to ride llamas. The pixel art in this top-down settlement-expanding game is just delightful, while there’s a detailed science fiction backstory, if you need a reason why you’re building yours

The Sims 4’s latest expansion, Island Living, will let your Sims jet off to an island paradise for a holiday tomorrow, July 21, but first you can take a quick tour to get acquainted with the place in the official gameplay trailer above. On Sulani, your Sims can swim, canoe, ride jet skis, go fishing and even hang out with some mermaids. Their hard work can pay off when the island becomes more beautiful. I had a loss of willpower a wee while ago that resulted in me suddenly owning most of The Sim

Insurgency: Sandstorm, the eerily realistic military shooter, is hosting a free weekend on Steam, and it starts today. It’s not the most relaxing way to spend your weekend, but Sandstorm’s one of the best multiplayer shooters around, especially in co-op. Sandstorm creates lots of explosions of drama without relying on scripted sequences. The dramatic shift from a deserted alley to a fire-drenched warzone is more than a bit jarring—just what you want for a lazy weekend inside. Insurgency: Sandsto

After filling Assassin’s Creed Odyssey with countless new quests, most of them free, Ubisoft decided to let players take over and start crafting their own ancient adventures. Farming XP, mostly. There are some tests, some fights and some stories, but the most common seem to be farming quests designed to get you XP, or XP and cash, as quickly and effortlessly as possible. Story Creator quests let you set rewards, so you can create a quest that’s over in a second, with rewards being doled out for

Total War: Three Kingdoms is pretty light on gore, but it’s about to get some gruesome DLC that will smear blood and limbs across the battlefield. Every Total War gets one. Unfortunately, horses are also on the chopping block this time, and their legs can be lopped off. Like the other blood packs, this one is purely visual, though it does look like Creative Assembly have added some new features, including the ability to increase or decrease the gore’s intensity. There’s a store page, but no pric

Arma 3, Bohemia Interactive’s serious military sim, is going a bit X-Files. Arma 3: Contact, announced last month, is a spin-off expansion set during first contact with alien life, and while it could have been a tongue-in-cheek novelty, so far it appears to as straight-faced as its predecessor. Landmarks include lots of old World War 2 bunkers, an old munitions factory and a radar station. Everyone that owns Arma 3 will also get free stuff, including new camouflage options and more than 100 new

Yesterday, AMD released new chipset drivers for its Ryzen CPU platforms. Specifically for AMD, it’s Ryzen CPUs have two CCXes (Core Complexes), each with half of the L3 cache. The multithreaded performance is unchanged (0.04 percent), while the complete set of benchmarks shows a miniscule 0.6 percent drop. Or maybe this will have more of an impact on Ryzen 3000, and not matter so much with existing Ryzen CPUs. I’d suggest you just keep whatever chipset drivers you’re currently running in the mea

The Fortnite 9.30 update has been datamined, as tradition demands, revealing dozens of new items and the titles of upcoming Limited-Time Modes. ’14 Days of Summer’, ‘Summer Splashdown’ and ‘Storm Chasers: Surfin” seem to be titles for upcoming events, which suggests Fortnite will take a breezy holiday theme in the coming weeks. Week 7 – Week 10 Challenges pic.twitter.com/zbZEiWsqC5June 18, 2019The new modes Builder’s Paradise and Strategic Structures sound interesting. In Strategic Structures s

The Gunner specialization joins The Division 2 today as part of Title Update 4, having previously been live on the PTS. Season Pass holders will get access to the Gunner immediately, while everyone else will have to complete five stages of in-game challenges first. The Gunner can carry Riot Foam grenades and use the Banshee signature skill, which confuses enemies in its range even when they’re in cover. Patch notes for Title Update 4 just went live, too. At E3 last week, a number of major beats

Cyberpunk 2077 is set in the sci-fi sprawl of Night City, but you’ll also be able to pop outside the skyscraper prison and explore the lovely outdoors. Beyond the city you’ll find the Badlands, a district filled with ruins and largely abandoned after droughts and other crises. “The Badlands are the surrounding district around the Night City,” lead quest designer Pawel Sasko told VG24/7. “Players can leave Night City and just explore that area—an area that is mostly sort of destroyed basically af

For this reason, Twitch forbids obscene material as well as material depicting violence and threats. The lawsuit goes on to state that Twitch users who ran across the offending content unintentionally “were understandably upset,” and some users “stopped or reduced” their use of Twitch as a result. “In response, Defendants sought to evade these steps using old accounts as well as accounts purchased from other users,” the suit states. Because Twitch doesn’t currently know who’s actually responsibl

Now that AMD has formally introduced its 3rd-gen Ryzen CPU family, you can expect gaming PC announcements to follow. One of the first is Asus—it’s rolling out a new ROG Strix GL10DH desktop tower that pairs AMD’s newest silicon with the latest GPUs from Nvidia. However, Asus is trying to be “one of the first” out of the gate, so it probably won’t be far behind. Asus essentially took the same chassis from its GL10CS and swapped out the Intel foundation for an AMD one. For graphics, the new deskto

A few gaming monitors with TN display panels have gone on sale recently, but if you want something with a higher-end IPS panel, you’re in luck. An Acer Nitro monitor with FreeSync 144Hz support and an IPS screen has dropped to $249.99 on Amazon, a $50 reduction from the original MSRP. This model (VG271) is a 27-inch monitor, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, a maximum refresh rate of 144Hz (using FreeSync), built-in speakers, and a high-quality IPS panel for great colors and viewing angles. It’s

I Am Not a Monster is an XCOM-like tactical combat game with a Werewolf-style party game twist. It was released last year as a multiplayer game, and publisher Alawar Premium announced today that a single-player mode called First Contact is on the way. More intriguingly, it also promises to reveal the true nature of the monsters, which to my reading suggests some kind of surprise twist (!) “As the narrative continues, he will soon learn the true nature of these monsters, thus revealing hidden sec

(Image: © Pixabay (mohamed_hassan))AV-Comparatives, an independent testing lab that regularly assesses antivirus software, has released a new report outlining how over a dozen popular AV programs fared in real-world testing. The real-world protection test is one of several evaluations that AV-Comparatives runs throughout the year. They all matter to an extent, though the real-world protection test is one of the more robust of the bunch, in terms of fully utilizing an AV program. For this particu

Heads up, Radeon GPU owners—AMD is pushing out a new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.2 driver release, and the main thing it introduces is support for a handful of new Vulkan extensions. VK_EXT_full_screen_exclusive: Gives applications explicit control over exclusive full-screen modes (this is for instance useful for HDR support). Gives applications explicit control over exclusive full-screen modes (this is for instance useful for HDR support). VK_AMD_display_native_hdr: Exposes Free