Its Resident Evil 2 remake was three times more popular on Steam than 2017’s Resident Evil 7, and now its latest game, hack-and-slash Devil May Cry 5, has surpassed both of them, making it Capcom’s second biggest PC launch ever. As of writing, the game has a concurrent player peak of around 89,000, and is in the top 10 on Steam in terms of current players. That could improve over the weekend, too, but it’s unlikely to catch up with Monster Hunter: World, Capcom’s biggest-ever Steam launch, which

Over on the Apex Legends subreddit, Respawn have posted their latest “check-in”. It notes a few things they’re looking at, but the most interesting is that using Easy-Anti-Cheat has led to over 355,000 cheaters being banned on PC. “The service works but the fight against cheaters is an ongoing war that we’ll need to continue to adapt to and be very vigilant about fighting”, they write. “We take cheating very seriously and care deeply about the health of Apex Legends for all players.” One more th

In February, Valve laid off 13 of its full-time employees and an unknown number of its contractors. “It’s an unfortunate part of business, but does not represent any major changes at the company,” Valve said in a statement. Artifact fan blog Artibuff reached out to Richard Garfield, who served as that game’s designer under contract, to see if he was one of those terminated. We enjoyed working with Valve and I was impressed with their relentless focus on the quality of the game and experience bei

We were expecting Anthem’s 1.03 patch on March 12, but according to a post from their community manager Jesse Anderson it’ll be here “between 7am and 9am Central Time on March 9th” instead. That’s the high-level stuff but there’s also a long list of more general fixes. Missions should now end when they’re supposed to rather than sometimes leaving everyone in limbo until the game notices you’ve completed all the objectives, and you’ll be able to launch an expedition from anywhere in Fort Tarsis.

From March 8 to March 18 an elusive target will be available in Hitman 2’s Hawke’s Bay level—that’s the New Zealand beach house from the tutorial. Dame Barbra Elizabeth Keating is a corrupt politician who has dodged a scandal and is about to embark on a PR tour with a body double for safety. If you manage to complete the contract without killing the double, you’ll get a higher rating. Coming on March 29, it’ll be the return of the Black Hat from the previous Hitman game, and eliminating him will

This weekend Cities: Skylines, the city-building sim from Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive, will celebrate its fourth birthday. Most notable is the fact that Cities: Skylines has sold six million copies in that time, a thoroughly decent amount for a game of its type. Special in-game events will be happening over the weekend, including free radio DLC giveaways and a Chirper design competition. As the blog explains, “Share your best Chirper design on the Cities: Skylines social channels for

Path of Exile: Synthesis adds a new Challenge League to the popular free action-RPG. Synthesis is all about exploring lost memories and its dungeons are made by players, assembled from fragments of the decaying memories of an NPC named Cavas. It’s an intriguing high concept for a game that’s often a bit generic in its theming. That’s not all that’s been added in the latest Path of Exile update, and the full list of changes is here if you’ve got enough time to read them all. Among the changes is

The latest Early Access update for Subnautica’s standalone expansion Below Zero is here. It’s called the seatruck update because that’s the main thing it adds: A new vehicle you can build by constructing a cab and then choosing modules to add to it. This update also adds friends and threats, as shown in the video above. Two new biomes and a cargo transfer launchpad are also part of the seatruck update. For more on Subnautica: Below Zero, check out Philippa Warr’s preview.

Being a space ninja just got cooler than it already was: Warframe has rolled out the first phase of its much-anticipated melee combat overhaul along with Operation: Buried Debts. Buried Debts is Warframe’s first community event of the year, and it’s introducing the new chonky Hildryn warframe. As much fun as she’ll be, perhaps the biggest addition coming with Operation: Buried Debts is the first phase of Warframe’s melee combat rework. But simply being able to instantly switch between modes mean

For some damn reason I’ve decided now is the perfect time to become hopelessly addicted to League of Legends. The worst I’ve had to deal with is my team’s exasperated comments when I’m playing especially poorly and, I mean, I get it. A good portion of players I’ve met have been pretty courteous even when we lose. That’s partly because, starting out, I’m playing with people who are just as awful as I am (and the occasional “smurf” account). It’s 2019 and I just started playing League of Legends a

Secret Mission 1: The first Secret Mission is found in Mission 2. Secret Mission 2: Secret Mission number 2 is found in Mission 3. Secret Mission 6: Mission 9 is the home of this Secret Mission. Secret Mission 7: This is the first Secret Mission as Dante and can be found in Mission 10. Mission 11Secret Mission 8: Mission 11 houses Secret Mission 8.

Display maker AOC is coming out with an aggressive price point for its newest gaming monitor, a 28-inch model with a 4K resolution, HDR visuals, and FreeSync support. For one, this monitor is using a TN panel. It’s also well below the eye-searing 1,000 nits level where HDR really shines. That said, AOC claims this monitor offers 102 percent coverage of the sRGB color space, for “vivid colors and popping visuals.” And it’s tough to scoff at the price, so long as you know what you’re getting—a rel

It’s Warhammer: Vermintide 2’s first birthday, and to mark the occasion, there’s a special Event Level that has the Ubersreik Five (or Four? The new Event Level, called A Quiet Drink, is available now in the Keep. There’s plenty of that scattered throughout the streets, but this being the End Times, there are also plenty of clanrats, zombies, and Chaos Warriors catching the evening air as well. Fatshark has also produced a spiffy new One Year Anniversary trailer for Vermintide 2, and it’s worth

The studio has published a lengthy trailer to mark the opening of pre-orders for Ready or Not and provide a look at the game’s approach to a law enforcement-themed shooter. ‘Trailer’ is a bit of a misnomer here, since at nearly eight minutes’ runtime, this is really more of a featurette. The video highlights Ready or Not’s dark and pessimistic vision of a near-future United States, its non-lethal takedown systems, and its hyper-realistic approach to ballistics. There’s a lot going on, and it’s r

Blizzard has laid off 209 employees across its US-based offices, with the highest number of layoffs hitting IT and marketing departments. A recent Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filing in California breaks down the jobs that have been cut as part of Activision-Blizzard’s eight percent employee reduction announced in February. PC Games Insider obtained a copy of the filing and provide a by-the-numbers breakdown of job cuts by office. According to their reporting, the filing

EVGA GTX 1660 Ti XC Ultra Specs Architecture: TU116SMs: 24CUDA Cores: 1,536Boost Clock: 1860MHzFP32 GFLOPS: 5,714Memory Speed: 12 GT/sBus Width: 192-bitGDDR6 Capacity: 6GBMemory Bandwidth: 288GB/sTDP: 160WPrice: $310Nvidia’s latest GPU is the GTX 1660 Ti, which launched on Feb 22, 2019. Features and overclockingIn terms of core specs, the EVGA GTX 1660 Ti XC Ultra Gaming, to use its full name (model 06G-P4-1267-KR), has the exact same core counts as any other GTX 1660 Ti. The XC Ultra comes with

Made for the February 2019 Bitsy jam—theme: snails—the straightforwardly named Snail Detective is a surprisingly detailed and well-plotted murder mystery that just so happens to feature some escargot as its protagonist. If you’re unfamiliar with development tool Bitsy, it’s geared towards making top-down browser games focused on exploration and conversation, both of which feature heavily in this jazzy detective game. As the titular escargot investigator, you’ll be exploring and conversing with t

With its launch imminent, the Mortal Kombat 11 reveals are ramping up. Along with the story trailer that showed off a bunch of returning characters, NetherRealm recently reintroduced us to the bubblegum-chewing Cassie Cage in a fight against Kano. Watch the brawl above and stick around until the end for another brilliant fatality. You can see more of both Cassie and Kano in the latest Kombat Kast episode below. You’ll be able to start breaking hearts and bones when Mortal Kombat 11 launches on A

Destiny 2 2.0 rolled out earlier this week, and for those with the One Thousand Voices exotic fusion rifle, the game just became 25 percent easier. As Destiny 2 streamer xgladd discovered, equipping that fusion rifle buffs all equipped weapons by 25 percent – both in primary and secondary slots, but thankfully only in PvE settings. Here’s xgladd demonstrating the buff:Bungie will no doubt patch this sooner rather than later, so if you’ve got the weapon, go forth and feel 25 percent stronger for