We’re giving PC Gamer Club Legendary members the gift of a trash-filled adventure. Daedelic’s Deponia won’t be sending you on a heroic quest, instead tasking you with conning your way out of the garbage dump where you live and into a better life in a city in the clouds. Legendary membership will net you lots of other benefits along with the Steam key for Deponia. You’ll get an ad-free site, a digital magazine subscription, gifts and a digital copy of the excellent PC Gamer RPG handook. You can j

I do enjoy a good adventure game, and here’s one with a fun rural setting, beautiful art and animation, and an amusing script. Edgar—Bokbok in Boulzac puts you in the role of an inventor type living on the edge of a quaint village. The pleasantly angular, cartoony art style fits the lighthearted tone of Edgar like a glove, while the controls make a nice change from the pointing and clicking required in most games in this style. That’s because Edgar is currently just a demo—quite a long demo, lon

Remember E3 2018, when Ubisoft showed off Starlink: Battle for Atlas, a sci-fi action adventure game that looked like a cross between No Man’s Sky and The Last Starfighter? Starlink takes place in the Atlas star system, where players will encounter different alien races, form alliances with them, and assemble a crew of pilots with unique skills and abilities. The system contains seven planets, each with distinct environments, hazards, and story, and players can do battle on the ground and in spa

Overwatch is introducing a new feature called the Workshop, game director Jeff Kaplan revealed in a developer update released today. The Workshop is a new section of the custom game browser that allows players to use custom scripts to create new game modes and content. The Workshop’s custom scripting won’t be easy to use—Kaplan warns that the tools will be more accessible to people with some familiarity with other scripting engines or programming experience. “Really anybody who understands the l

(Image: © Pixabay)Presumably in a few weeks, Microsoft will begin rolling out the May 2019 update for Windows 10, but like the October 2018 update that came before it, it may arrive with some annoying issues. One of those is the inability to handle an upgrade if a USB flash drive or SD card is plugged in. To deal with it, Microsoft is blocking the update from installing on PCs when it recognizes the presence of a USB flash drive or SD memory card. For whatever reason, the May 2019 update for Win

Updated: We’ve learned a bit more about Bloodlines 2’s Thinbloods from the Twitch stream. A Thinblood eventually joining a vampire clan is unconventional in the World of Darkness setting, but apparently the story will deal with the fact that players will be joining as an outsider. Since Thinbloods pretty much burst into flames the moment they’re hit by sunlight, none of the game will take place during the day. Original story: At the start of Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2, we’ll be playing

With the second season of Star Trek: Discovery over, you might be looking to fill the hole in your life with something else Trek-shaped, and free-to-play MMO Star Trek Online’s upcoming major update might just fit the bill. Rise of Discovery continues the crossover with the show, this time featuring Captain Lorca and Commander Landry, voiced by Jason Isaacs and Rekha Sharma. You don’t need to make a new captain to play through the Discovery episodes, however. As well as the new episodes, Rise of

Dungeons & Dragons company Wizards of the Coast announced today that it is opening a new studio in Austin, Texas, that will be headed up by former BioWare stalwart James Ohlen. Ohlen left BioWare last year after a 22-year career, during which he amassed design and writing credits including the Baldur’s Gate series, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, and Dragon Age: Origins. “I didn’t think that I would be coming back to the game industry so soon but working

Surviving Mars’ terraforming expansion, Green Planet, will launch next month alongside Project Laika, a content pack that will let you introduce critters onto your increasingly verdant world. Pups, penguins, you’ll even be able to bring a platypus to Mars. You can see how to start terraforming in the tutorial video below. Green Planet and Project Laika are due out on May 16. They’re available separately for $19.99 and $5.99, but you can also pick them up together in Green Planet Plus bundle for

The update also introduces repair kits, which can be used to restore an item to its maximum durability. The are improved repair kits, too, which buff an item’s durability, and they can only be earned by killing the Scorchbeast Queen. Bethesda also responded to criticism about its decision to put repair kits in the Atomic Shop. When we originally announced the Atomic Shop last year, we said that it will not provide anything that offers a competitive advantage. Aside from purchasing Atoms, you can

BattleTech is planning a city break this summer with the Urban Warfare expansion. Up until now, lance battles have mostly taken place in the wilderness, with the occasional trip to a gloomy outpost, but with Urban Warfare you’ll be able to kick the oil out of mechs on city streets and rooftops surrounded by destructible buildings. Urban environments aren’t just a nice change of scenery; they’ll also present new tactical challenges. Buildings offer plenty of places to hide and lots of cover, but

Sea of Thieves’ massive anniversary update promises a lot of diversions for salty sea dogs, including fishing, harpooning and the new Arena PvP mode, but perhaps most tantalising is the introduction of new story-driven quests. These Tall Tales will send crews on tricky treasure hunts with new enemies and devious puzzles, the first of which, Shores of Gold, has been shown off in a new trailer. Sea of Thieves has claimed many hours with its treasure hunts, bounties and surprise attacks from sea mo

In Mortal Kombat 11, you can punch someone in the back of the head so hard their brain ejects through their face. Jax’s ending may be more serious than most of them, but seems like a perfectly sensible move for someone with power over time. Some coverage of the ending has highlighted the negative reactions, like “Some ‘Mortal Kombat 11’ Fans Are Calling Jax’s Ending ‘Racist,'” “Jax’s Ending in Mortal Kombat 11 Is Getting Some Disappointing Backlash,” and “People Are Upset About Things That Don’t

(Image: © Nvidia)Last week, Nvidia gave us a heads up that it was prepping a new GeForce driver release that would introduce support for a bunch of additional G-Sync compatible displays. The new GeForce 430.39 WHQL driver release does in fact recognize several more monitors as being G-Sync compatible. Along with the desktop GTX 1650, the 430.39 driver also supports the new laptop GTX 1660 Ti and GTX 1660. Moving on, this latest driver release also brings “Game Ready” status to Mortal Kombat 11,

Even though laptops with newer GTX 1660 and 1650 graphics cards are on the horizon, gaming laptops with the GTX 1060 haven’t really come down in price. It has been a while since a GTX 1060 laptop has dropped below $1,000, but now you can get the Acer Aspire 7 for $929.99 from Newegg — a $50 reduction from the previous price of $979.99. This laptop has a large 17-inch 1080p IPS screen, a six-core Intel Core i7-87050H processor, 16GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and a 6GB GTX 1060 graphics card. Newegg sa

Not long after Halo Infinite was unveiled, lead writer Jeff Easterling responded to a question about a possible battle royale mode with: “I’ll tell you right now, the only ‘BR’ we’re really interested in is ‘Battle Rifle’.” While 343 isn’t ready to reveal exactly what Halo Infinite will launch with, he said it won’t include a battle royale mode. “I haven’t watched the video so if I am misinterpreting the headline as ‘Halo Infinite is launching with/as a Halo battle royale mode’ that is still not

If presented with a choice, Goose and Maverick would undoubtedly choose a 240Hz Full HD 1080p display over a 4K resolution OLED panel—they have a need for speed, after all. Whether you would too is something you’ll have to decide if shopping Razer’s refreshed Blade 15 laptop. Alternatively, you can stick with the base option, which is still a 144Hz 1080p display. The faster refresh rate and 4K OLED upgrades are new options that comprise the ‘Advanced’ models of the Blade 15 lineup. All of them w

With today’s launch of the GeForce GTX 1650 for desktops, Nvidia is also officially launching GTX 16-series GPUs for laptops. Perhaps a future desktop GTX 1650 Ti will fill that niche. Nvidia compared a GTX 1660 Ti laptop with a four-year-old GTX 960M laptop, and in its own benchmarks it shows the new model as three to four times as fast. For the GTX 1650, Nvidia says it’s up to 2.5 times as fast as a GTX 950M equipped laptop, or 1.7 times as fast as a GTX 1050 laptop. Max-Q laptops are also ava

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ first full year since the 1.0 launch earned PUBG Corp $920 million in revenue and $310 million in profit, the publisher announced in its 2018 financials. The battle royale left Steam Early Access at the end of 2017, and by June last year it boasted more than 400 million players across all platforms. The bulk of the revenue still comes from PC, despite the mobile version alone quickly becoming just as popular as Fortnite. With 200 million players as of last December

Is it technically an adventure if you don’t really travel all that far, say the distance from your doorstep to your local, a few streets away? Tiny Tales is a full-fat…well, maybe a semi-skimmed adventure that just so happens to take place on a single screen. You can see its ominous mountain from the opening village, and in fact it’s only about a minute away, once you’ve fought and puzzled through every obstacle standing in your way. I love the ant-farm/diorama-esque nature of Tiny Tales’ top-