Both Hotline Miami games, run ‘n’ gun platformer Broforce and fantasy RPG Smoke and Sacrifice are among the 15 free games that anyone with a Twitch Prime subscription, which is free with Amazon Prime membership, can claim this month. Seven of them are bundled up in the Devolver Digital Holiday Pack, which is made up of Hotline Miami (probably the best of the bunch), Hotline Miami 2, Broforce, platformer The Messenger, roguelike FPS Strafe, Crossing Souls and solid dungeon crawler The Swords of D

Wintry, free-to-play battle royale Ring of Elysium has a new survival-themed game mode in which you compete with other players for food and fuel, and you have to cower indoors when the storm, called Ymir, surges. In the new mode, called From Dusk Till Dawn, you win by surviving until first light, which will take around 20 in-game minutes. You’ll battle other players to get your hands on equipment, weapons and fuel. It sounds like fun and, as a big fan of Ring of Elysium (it’s my battle royale of

Good news, Crossout fans: we’ve got 1,000 keys for the free-to-play action MMO’s Winterfair event. All you have to do is fill out the form below to get a goodie pack consisting of:Unique sticker: “Bundle of joy”Paint can: “Player Union”Rare “Engineer flag” for 7 daysThe flag lets you earn additional reputation in battle—you can only install one on a given vehicle. Once you have your key, you can redeem it here any time before the end of January. Here’s the form:If you’ve never played Crossout, c

Jeff Minter’s trippy tunnel shooter Polybius has wriggled free of its Sony exclusivity and is now out on Steam. You can play it on a normal monitor but if you have an Oculus Rift you can also play in VR, which Minter says is the best way to play. You pilot a ship through 50 psychedelic levels set to a trance-y soundtrack, blasting enemies and dodging dangers. It has three modes: normal is the most forgiving, and lets you restart any level you’ve reached, complete with your best-ever lives and sc

Matt Thorson, creator of tricky platformer Celeste, is giving away a late Christmas present to fans of the game: free levels. These “very hard” levels will be ready early next year, he announced on Twitter this week. He also said he’ll be revealing his next game around the same time the levels are ready—other than Celeste, he’s best known for co-op platformer TowerFall Ascension. We’re working on some farewell Celeste levels, which should be ready in early 2019. It’s also one of the best indie g

Update 2: Atlas is now for sale on Steam Early Access. Update 1: Atlas will launch into Early Access at 12pm PST/3pm ET/9pm GMT today, developer Grapeshot Games has confirmed. However, regular players are still waiting for the Early Access version to go live. Yesterday Grapeshot Games, a new name for ARK: Survival Evolve developer Studio Wildcard, said on Twitter that it’d Early Access build should go live by noon PST today (3pm ET/8pm GMT). We’re going to be working on the Early Access release

Quake Champions has finally added its long-awaited Capture the Flag (CTF) mode—and completed its transition away from loot boxes to a Battle Pass system that rewards you with cosmetics. It’s inspired by the Quake Live CTF map Stonekeep, and is Champions’ “most symmetrical map yet”. As for the new progression system, you’ll be able to earn cosmetics just for playing the game, but paying for a Battle Pass will net you more exclusive items as you level up. Doing so will give you shards, which you’l

Anyone that has logged into Fallout 76 in 2018 will get the original Fallout, Fallout 2 and the combat-focused Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel for free next month, Bethesda has announced. Players will get the games as part of the Fallout Classic Collection, and should be able to claim them in early January. The collection was initially available as a pre-order bonus for Fallout 76. #HappyHolidays!ANYONE who logged into the full release of #Fallout76 in 2018 will receive an entitlement for

After flushing Sean Bean’s head down the toilet and stabbing him in the eye with a pen, Hitman 2 players can now move on to the game’s second elusive target: Vicente Murillo. He’s known as The Revolutionary, and he’s hell-bent on creating a new world order, starting with Colombia. You’ll visit Hitman 2’s Colombian level to try and lay waste to his plans, and you have until December 30 to make him disappear quietly. The intel you’ve got—outlined in the video above—is that Murillo is a paranoid ma

The developers of Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, the best RPG of the year, temporarily added turn-based combat to the game this week before hastily removing it—but not before players grabbed screenshots and gameplay footage. Reddit user raggnarok first flagged the new combat mode, which was added on Thursday and removed a few hours later in a hotfix. In turn-based combat, each character could move a limited distance and perform one action per term, raggnarok said. You can see two of their scre

Darksiders 3 has added a new ‘Classic’ combat mode aimed at making fights feel similar to the first two games in the series. Classic mode will also let you use items instantly, which means you’ll be able to heal without worrying that Fury will die during the animation (something that happened to me quite a lot during my playthrough). You’ll be able to select between the new combat mode and the default settings when you load up any save game or when you start a new game. You can read the patch no

The Long Dark, Hinterland Studio’s wilderness survival romp, received a beefy overhaul this week. The Long Dark was in Early Access for several years before leaving in 2017 with a complete survival mode and the first two episodes of Wintermute. Survival mode has been given some attention, as well. The Long Dark’s development didn’t suddenly stop when it hit an arbitrary version number, it’s still getting game-changing updates and the story isn’t finished—what’s the difference? I’m arguing that E

Fast-paced, 50-player battle royale shooter Islands of Nyne has ceased development, only five months after launching into Early Access. Anyone who purchased either the game or skins after November 29 is entitled to refunds via Steam. There will be one more update to the game, which will add a credits screen in the game’s menu thanking all contributors and backers. Thank you for being a part of this journey with us and we hope you look back on your Islands of Nyne experience as one of excitement

Originally slated for an Early Access release last week, then delayed until today, pirate MMO Atlas (from the makers of dino survival game Ark: Survival Evolved) has been pushed back a few more days, according to the description under the extended launch trailer posted today (which you can see above). A message in the official Atlas Discord confirms the delay as well: the new Early Access launch date is now Friday, December 21. Steven got to play a bit of Atlas two weeks ago, and barring any fur

The other, Tom speculated at the time, could be a new instalment in the Titanfall series. According to a bunch of job listings Respawn has posted, a new Titanfall game seems pretty bloody likely. Unless Respawn is preparing a doozy of an unexpected Titanfall 2 update, it’s safe to say these listings relate to a new game. The most recent listing was published on December 15, and advertises for a senior technical animator to work on the Titanfall series. Respawn CEO Vince Zampella said the studio

Daughter, nephew, or other young-ish child hoping for a gaming PC before the end of the year? Don’t want to buy them an expensive new toy that they might break, but don’t want to see them cry? Best Buy currently has an HP Pavilion gaming desktop on sale for $529.99, and it’s a decent prebuilt for the price. The spec-list for this HP Pavilion includes an AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6 GHz processor, an AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB GPU, 8GB DDR4-2666 RAM, 128GB SSD, and 1TB HDD. This PC is included as one of thei

Ubisoft’s multiplayer medieval massacre sim For Honor will get four new heroes in the upcoming Year of the Harbinger, beginning with a new Knight hero called the Vortiger. Vortigern hauled ass for Wales, and eventually became the subject of a sixth-century diss track dropped by British monk Gildas the Wise. The page also notes the possibility that Vortigern could be a title rather than a name, however, saying that the Brittonic word translates to “Great King” or “Overlord.” The Vortiger will be

The Turret is a wireless keyboard and mouse combo designed for the Xbox One. It also works with Windows PCs, “enabling gamers to take their game from PC to the console and back,” Razer says. Both the keyboard and mouse connect through a single 2.4GHz wireless dongle. As for the mouse, it’s modeled after Razer’s wireless Mamba rodent with a 5G optical sensor, 16,000 “true” dpi, seven programmable buttons, and mechanical mouse switches that are purportedly good for 50 million clicks. Not a ton of

Shave my face with a Rusty razor! pic.twitter.com/E5TN1rAIJqDecember 18, 2018I like how sub-sub-cultures develop on Discord servers (or other voice chat severs, though everyone I know has migrated). I wonder, for instance, if anyone else calls Rocket League dangles, jukes, and fakes “goofs” like we do? It got me curious to know: what phrases have you only heard in your group, be it about Rocket League or any other game? (Speaking of Discord servers, PC Gamer has its own, which you can access by

In addition to today’s Fallout 76 hotfix, which patched a few small but important issues, Bethesda gave us peek into what’s coming in 2019. “We’re also hard at work on a new mode where you can work together, or not, without PVP restrictions,” the post continues. That’s not a lot of detail, but the only PvP restriction I can currently think of is that in order to instigate real PvP, the player you’re attacking has to fight back. This would probably ruin the game for some, so I suspect it’d be a m