Battlefield 5’s battle royale mode is scheduled to release in Spring (or Autumn in Australia), which means it could arrive any time between now and the end of May. In what could either be a mistake or a tease, a recent Daily Order challenge lists playing Firestorm (the name of the mode) among its tasks. Specifically, completing that Daily Order challenge requires scoring 500 points in the mode. Fingers crossed it can carve a healthy niche between the likes of Apex Legends, Fortnite, PUBG, Blacko

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, Chris tells about his 12 hours in The Division 2 open beta, Wes and James wax on about their love for Devil May Cry 5, and the whole gang talks about their favorite podcast games. How to listen:Note: New episodes might take a few hours to show up on every service. Hosts this week:James

During a week rife with rumors of an imminent PC port, Microsoft has promised “exciting news” related to Halo: The Master Chief Collection for its Inside Xbox show next week. There’s no guarantee that the PC port will be announced then, but recent reports have made it seem likely that the game is on its way. Still, history shows that Inside Xbox isn’t an outlet for major announcements: it’s more of a community update presented as a talk show. But it does seem certain that the game will come to P

H1Z1’s third season arrived today, as well as a rebranding to Z1 Battle Royale, marking the third name change the game has undergone (originally, it was called H1Z1: King of the Kill). “It is a massive point of nostalgia for players and we knew we had to get it in for this patch.” It also restores the lighting, textures, trees, and roads from the King of the Kill era. It’s not just old stuff making a return, there’s some new stuff as well, like an in-match mission system, new daily and weekly ch

It’s a great time to build a budget PC, especially since AMD’s Radeon RX 580 has been widely available at ~$200 for several months. If you don’t have that much to spend on a graphics card, here’s the next-best thing: ASRock’s 8GB RX 570 is just $139.99 on Newegg right now. This model has 8GB of GDDR5 memory, with a core clock of 1280 MHz (or 1331 MHz in OC mode). This card should be able to handle most AAA games (albeit at lower quality settings), thanks to the 8GB of VRAM. ASRock Phantom Gaming

The games are the first of Kongregate’s “Premiering on Kartridge” timed exclusives, and will eventually make their way to other platforms; in fact, all but the Wonderputt sequel are already listed on Steam. The exclusivity period will vary from game to game, but a rep said it will typically be 30-45 days. Swords and Souls: Neverseen, a skill-based crafting RPG that expands on the free 2015 browser-based game: Explore an “enormous” map, tame and train pets, acquire powerful relics, and of course

While Season of the Forge introduced some high-level PvE challenges as the first third of the Annual Pass, Drifter’s focus is on Gambit, Destiny 2’s unique PvPvE hybrid. With nearly three months of content already in place from the Annual Pass, now seems like a sensible time to give Destiny 2 another shot, and see how the Annual Pass is panning about. Gambit PrimeI love how Prime condenses the drama and tension of a three-round vanilla Gambit match into a single round. Our friends at GamesRadar

Meet NodePanel 2:Better game server hosting, built with gamers in mind. We’ve created a unique control panel that provides you with real-time access to your servers. It doesn’t matter if you’re a hardcore gamer, parent, or just getting into gaming; NodePanel is easy to use.

Kill the EnvoysOnce you have banked enough motes the Primeval appears with a horde of Taken and three Primeval Envoys. To drop the white invincibility shield around the Primeval you must first kill those three Envoys. Stand in the pool of lightWhen the Envoys die a pool of light appears. Step into the pool to pick up the Primeval Slayer buff, and then fire on the Primeval for tons of damage. Work around the Primeval’s multiple phasesYou can’t kill the Primeval in a single phase of damage from th

Farming Simulator 19 is getting its first big piece of DLC soon. Good news, then, because the Anderson Group DLC comes with lots of new toys. Every farm needs some hay bales, which keep the crop spirits at bay. Wrapping bales, transporting bales, admiring bales—it’s an extravaganza of bales. The Anderson Group DLC is due out on March 26.

Satisfactory will release in early access on March 19, just a couple weeks from now. The co-op factory builder comes from Coffee Stain Studios, creators of Goat Simulator and the Sanctum series, and appeared at last year’s PC Gaming Show. Before we get to that, though, Coffee Stain has “polish, performance-fixes and new features” to work on as it progresses through its early access roadmap. Coffee Stain also tells me that while Satisfactory officially supports up to four players, you can invite

While the best PC games are increasingly transitioning towards QHD and 4K resolutions, there’s still a compelling case to be made for 1080p, 60 FPS gameplay. The AOC on offer right now for $124.99 at Amazon is a perfect example, a great 24″, 144Hz panel with FreeSync. And even when you’re crushing frame rates over 200 with the best gaming PC, the FreeSync will ensure there’s no ugly tearing or artifacting. One of the most buckwild features of this monitor is that it can be fully rotated on its s

Thanks to some time shenanigans, Mortal Kombat 11 is bringing together warriors old and new to deal with the latest threat to reality: the time travelling Kronika. NetherRealm has revealed loads of returning characters, as well as younger versions of the roster. I hope he’s got a better plan than bringing a slightly younger action movie star into the present. Mortal Kombat stories are always good for a laugh, certainly at least a day of entertainment, and this one’s definitely tickling my fancy.

Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn (like anyone called it that) and Red Alert are returning in one 4K remastered collection, EA officially confirmed in November last year. Below, I’ve collected everything relevant that’s been revealed about this Command and Conquer remaster so far, from the talent involved, to updates on the progress of development. Command and Conquer Remastered is being worked on by the former Westwood devs at PetroglyphPhoto credit: EA blogEA is collaborating with RTS special

Vivendi has finished selling off its final shares in Ubisoft, completing the deal that was announced last year when the publisher avoided being taken over by the conglomerate. “Vivendi is no longer a Ubisoft shareholder and maintains its commitment to refrain from purchasing Ubisoft shares for a period of five years,” Vivendi announced. Instead, they managed to come to an arrangement, with Vivendi selling 30,489,300 shares for $81 each. It’s made a capital gain of $1.2 billion out of the deal, s

But long after the buzz around Fortuna died and players migrated to other areas, one instance of Fortuna stayed open: Fortuna 69. Even now, at 2PM on a Monday, Fortuna 69 is labelled “Busy” in the server select window. Aside from Fortuna 69, there are nine other Fortuna servers available—half of which are labelled “Calm” and could be populated by as little as one player. It’s the unspoken dress code of Fortuna 69, so naturally I buy myself some to fit in. Once the first batch has updated, they’l

One of the easiest ways to see how deep the simulation of NPCs goes is to interrupt their routines. While playing The Division 2 beta over the weekend, I ran into some NPCs who were heading out to gather food (according to the omniscient readout on my UI). Gunfire erupted, grenades were thrown, and the settlers dropped their box of food, took cover, and pulled out guns. Regardless of my hurt feelings, I’m extremely happy The Division 2’s NPCs actually do stuff. After this food mission, I also es

In a recent studio update, Creative Assembly confirmed that a new Total War Saga is in development and will be announced later in the year. The Sofia studio is once again at the helm, though it’s also working on other projects. They’re focused Total Wars that cover a briefer time and smaller place, such as Alfred the Great’s wars against the Danes in Thrones of Britannia. It reconsidered a lot of Total War mainstays, however, so I’m still looking forward to what future sagas change. The time bet

After a dalliance with 3D in Trine 3, the series is returning to its 2.5D origins in Trine 4, Frozenbyte and Modus Games announced today. It looks gorgeous, as Trine always does, but bears a closer similarity to the first pair of games. Trine 3 went fully 3D, which proved to be a bit of a mistake. 3D puzzle platforming is a whole different kind of thing, and the third game was not quite up to the task. Trine: Ultimate Collection will launch alongside Trine 4, containing every game in the series,

“No one actually owns any music nowadays.”This is how I come to learn that Phil paid money for an album called Monster Halloween Hits (full track listings here). Regular hauntsThe track listing of Monster Halloween Hits reads like an exercise in Halloween keyword searches. Monster Halloween Hits avoids both. We saw Monster Halloween Hits and decided that life was too short for these shenanigans. I guess what I am trying to say here is that this Reinstall of Monster Halloween Hits was a complete