Which brings us to the latest PCG Q&A: Would you watch a concert in a game? The logical next step for live concerts in video games is obviously Slayer in Resident Evil 2. ), so I know I would not get the same kind of rush from watching a concert in-game. But okay, now that everyone is mentioning specific artists and bands, if Alice Cooper or Primus played a show in a video game, heck yeah I’d watch it! A free concert I’d probably check out, again if it was music I cared about (sorry, Marshmello)

Codemaster’s upcoming racing game Dirt Rally 2.0 will get Oculus Rift VR support this summer, the studio has confirmed. Apparently, there was, and a full VR version is coming to the Rift this summer. @Oculus heard you. DiRT Rally 2.0 + Oculus = this summer… #RisetotheChallenge pic.twitter.com/ZYefrplGL2February 8, 2019Codemasters made no mention of other headsets, which suggests it’ll be exclusive to the Rift. That’s no surprise: Dirt Rally’s VR version only released on the Rift (and was rather

Fun, futuristic and free multiplayer FPS Blacklight: Retribution, which came out in 2012, will shut down its servers for good next month. Developer Zombie Studios closed back in 2015, but publisher Hardsuit Labs has kept the game running. As such, we officially will no longer be patching, updating, or doing technical support for Blacklight: Retribution. Account migration will officially shut down as of today, as will the official support site.” I reckon I played about 50 hours of Blacklight: Ret

The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s RPG that’s due out later this year, will take somewhere between 15 and 40 hours to complete, the developer has confirmed. It took around 30-40 hours to complete KOTOR 2, and asked whether players could expect to finish The Outer Worlds in between 15 and 40 hours, both Boyarsky and fellow co-director Tim Cain said that would be a reasonable assumption. Cain said that The Outer Worlds, contrary to some players’ expectations, wouldn’t be a giant open-world game where pl

Four former senior developers at The Walking Dead studio Telltale Games, including two former creative directors, have formed a new company called Adhoc Games, and will soon reveal an “interactive narrative” project that sounds similar to Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch. Dennis Lenart and Nick Herman, former Telltale creative directors who left the developer in 2017, have co-founded the new studio alongside Pierre Shorette, former director of writing, and Michael Choung, former lead writer, both of

Once the intro mission has been completed, you’ll be able to enter the Dark Zone freely through the checkpoint. Dark Zone levelThe Dark Zone has an entirely separate progression system to the rest of the game, the Dark Zone Level. ), daily rewards at the Dark Zone safe house, faster Rogue actions, reduced Rogue timer, and maintaining a contaminated item on death. The beta version of Dark Zone East currently has two extraction points, one in the north-east, and the other in the south-east. The Da

This isn’t a theme park, it’s a PvP sandbox with hundreds of players to a server, and no one knows how the story will go. Food and water aren’t necessary to live, but they are necessary to fight well, because they boost health and stamina. The best weapons and gear must also be crafted, and the best crafting stations will only be available in player-run settlements. I had no real stake in it, and the defenders weren’t really players desperate to defend their hard work. I hope Amazon plays with i

Darwinia is more than just a game about a virtual world where you have to zap arcade-style baddies. But the sales figures we have here say most of you didn’t buy Darwinia. Unless you actually buy Darwinia, we’ll lose the most exciting independent developer around. Shops are telling Introversion they won’t stock the game because you won’t buy it—you’re only interested in the next formulaic FPS or WWII strategy. Buy Darwinia, pay £20 straight to the people who deserve it, and save one of the great

That’s the story of Dota 2, and that’s also the story of Dota Auto Chess, a recent Dota 2 Custom Game that’s attracting a lot of attention. How do I play Dota Auto Chess? In Dota Auto Chess, you control the composition and placement of a team of heroes on a chess-like board. The Auto Chess economyEconomics are king in Auto Chess, but feature some remarkably unintuitive aspects. Advanced Dota Auto Chess tacticsOnce you’ve played your first few games you’ll have space to really start to learn comb

Now, it’s targeting the fighting game esports scene with a seriously fancy and seriously expensive fightstick: the Victrix Pro FS. At a starting price of $350 for the Pro FS, Victrix is asking for a lot more than the competition. The PC setup sour patchMy praise for the Victrix Pro FS takes a slightly sour turn when we get into actual use. The Victrix Pro FS I tested is made for PS4 (an Xbox One model is planned), and it has buttons for PS4. So, despite some of the setup aspects that aren’t so g

The Obelisk represents an excellent refinement of an already strong line of gaming PCs, and is priced very competitively, especially during one of its frequent sales. The Omen Obelisk is HP’s midrange offering, nestled between their stripped down Pavilion line and the Omex X, which is clearly geared for wealthy enthusiasts and power users. Unfortunately, the idea of the Obelisk as a machine you plug in and play on extends to some of the choices HP made outfitting the interior. That said, the Obe

Hippie, computer scientist, historian, and the world’s first documented esports champion. The story of the first esports tournament is the story of the American counterculture. players of all time—probably still is one of the greatest—and may well be videogames’ first esports champion. Rolling Stone photographed his moment of victory—beaming face, messy long locks, and tortoise-shell glasses—and published it as the magazine’s featured image. Baumgart tells me that he keeps in touch with pretty m

The company is one of many I came across during my time at CES, but was happy to learn more about for a good reason—its Verona Junior gaming chair. Comparing the length of the Verona Junior chair base to my old chair, it’s about an inch and a half shorter. I started doing the same with the Verona Junior, but the armrest would pop into another position every time. Arozzi’s standard sized Verona gaming chair is rated for up to 230 lbs, so it seems feasible that the Verona Junior could also be cons

A man from Florida, Jhonny Perez, has been found guilty of copyright infringement after developing and distributing a cheat program for Grand Theft Auto Online. He has been ordered to pay $150,000 as well as legal costs. Perez is the developer behind ‘Elusive’ a cheat program that allowed players to get around the games rules by creating their own currency and interfering with other, legitimate players. While Perez did comply with the request, further attempts to contact him were met with silenc

The developers behind Warface have announced that they’ll be moving away from Crytek to set up their own studio, Blackwood Games, where they’ll continue to work on the free-to-play FPS. “It was a tough decision to leave Crytek after all these years, but sometimes you need change to evolve” says creative director Michael Khaimzon, who will head the newly formed Blackwood Games studio. The decision comes nearly six years after the game’s launch. According to Crytek CEO Avni Yerli, the move will en

It’s all about SSDs at the moment: yesterday saw reductions on the Samsung 860 Evo range at Amazon, and today they’re at it again with the Samsung 970 Evo 1TB (the best NVMe SSD , in our opinion) for $247.99 —that’s a healthy saving of 17%. The Samsung 970 Evo in particular is a great choice. As we mention in our best NVMe SSD list, the “970 Evo line delivers excellent performance, Samsung has a proven reputation for reliability, and there’s a wide range of capacities at a reasonable price per g

Weedcraft Inc, in case the title isn’t a dead giveaway, is a game about turning your fondness for the electric lettuce into a legitimate(ish) business, and possibly even a nationwide corporate empire. “After spending over a decade in jail for illegal cultivation, you finally get out, only to find all your fellow former criminals have a head start in the legal business,” Vile Monarch’s Kacper Kwiatkowski explained. “And even though your past crimes are now perfectly legal, you remain haunted by a

I wouldn’t want to take Project Wingman for a spin after a heavy lunch, or simply with a normal stomach that isn’t made of iron. It’s an arcade dogfighter, not unlike the recently released Ace Combat 7, with jet fuel pumping through its arteries. Project Wingman is an in-development Unreal Engine 4 dogfighter set in an alternate timeline where a multinational order, the Federation, controls one of the most valuable resources on the planet. VR support is planned across Story and Conquest mode, an

Remember Mjoll the Lioness? “Mjoll the Lioness is a unique character,” she says. “I think the hardest part of this costume was to create attachments for the armor pieces,” Kirie says. “I used contact adhesive for the foam pieces and super glue for all the tiny fiddly bits. It was fun to make the foam pieces look metal and rusted!

Which game were you tricked into thinking you’d like? Did an article trick you into thinking an old game you’d never heard of was right up your alley, only to learn it was actually impenetrable? I love weird confluences of events that come together in a weird dynastic soap opera! Jody Macgregor: Red Faction GuerrillaPlay Red Faction Guerrilla, they said. But even a Red Faction Guerrilla killjoy like me is glad it gave us this song.