“Clever questing and a stand-out combat system make for an entertaining MMO that’s as large as it is full of character,” he wrote back in 2014. They might have done on the official Wildstar website too, but I can’t confirm since that’s already been shut down. This video, uploaded by YouTube user Paul Buckley, shows one person’s perspective of the closing minute. On Twitter, the official Wildstar account tweeted the following earlier today. “As of November 28 at 2pm PST, the North American and Eu

They’ve all been good updates, and if you haven’t played Sea of Thieves since launch, there’s a ton more to do. For me, the biggest joy in Sea of Thieves is the sailing. Sea of Thieves ought to take a cue from Fortnite: just add stuff. Players said that Sea of Thieves needed ‘more content,’ and what I’m asking for hardly makes for a riveting bullet point. There are lots of combat events in Sea of Thieves now, and it’s a good time to play, but what I hope to see in the future is a livelier, not d

We haven’t heard from the WWII multiplayer FPS Hell Let Loose since October 2017, when it launched a $100,000 Kickstarter to help get it across the finish line. Hell Let Loose is a “realistic platoon-based” shooter built around 50v50 battles, “in which players must coordinate to capture sectors and resources to beat the opposition into submission,” publisher Team17 said. “Authenticity is key, and players will be able to experience history using a realistic period arsenal, with accurate weapon be

You can always trust a Troll to bring a Pyroblast to a Fireball fight, so we’re expecting things to get pretty spicy when Rastakhan’s Rumble kicks off. Hearthstone’s latest expansion launches on December 4, and will add 135 new cards to the Standard and Wild pool, including powerful new Loa legendary minions and spirit cards which synergise with them. You can read more about the set’s new mechanics here , but based on the power level of the cards, we’re optimistic that Rastakhan’s Rumble will sh

With the Black Friday portal now closed, the PC Gamer team gathers to share what they brought back from their trip to the Deals Dimension. Five members of the PC Gamer team pulled the trigger on this all-in-one cooking wonder while it was heavily discounted. —Evan LahtiAfter spending most of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and whatever we call the Saturday-Sunday limbo that separates them hovering my mouse over the same glorious PC Tim bought, I decided against going deeper into credit card debt and

Things are further complicated by the lack of GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti cards. But just how much performance do you give up by going with a GTX 1070 Ti vs. the GTX 1080? As discussed in our GTX 1070 Ti review, the features are a mix between the GTX 1070 and 1080. The GTX 1070 Ti disables one SM on the GP104 core, resulting in 2,432 CUDA cores, which is 27 percent more than the vanilla GTX 1070. The GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti are the only GPUs to use GDDR5X, and with such limited demand the prices tend to b

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is the XCOM-style “tactical adventure” with the wisecracking duck and the angry pig. But they’re not the only heavily-armed mutant animal weirdos in town. Funcom dropped a new trailer today that reveals the game’s third fur-and-gun-bearing character, a stone cold fox who goes by the name Farrow. Farrow won’t be available at the start of the game, but can join your squad after she’s been discovered in the Zone. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden comes out on December 4,

The fantasy card battler Artifact is now live on Steam, a long-awaited moment that also brings us a new comic, Call to Arms, and a trailer that showcases flashy snippets of gameplay. “We hope all gamers enjoy Artifact, especially fans of Dota 2 and card gaming enthusiasts,” Valve boss Gabe Newell said. “Working on Artifact has been fantastic—a digital card game which really leverages what is made possible by the medium rather than being limited by it,” said Garfield, whose previous game creation

Bethesda warned us ahead of the release of Fallout 76 that there would likely be some technical hurdles to overcome during the beta, but some major issues have lingered into the final release. Some Fallout 76 players have sought refunds, which isn’t unusual immediately following release, when glitches and hardware-specific issues tend to be at their highest. What has been unusual, though, is the inconsistent manner in which refunds have been issued so far. The company said in an email that it be

Ten new games will be revealed to the world at the upcoming Game Awards, and one of them will be the next new game from Pillars of Eternity studio Obsidian Entertainment. Obsidian got the speculation ball rolling with an odd tweet asking if anyone was “getting those ads on obsidian.net???” Going to the site (which of course everyone immediately did) brings up an old-timey-looking pop-up saying, “Stay tuned for a special message from Auntie Cleo’s,” which will be delivered “live December 6th at t

I discovered the fan failure when my PC shut down while I was playing Rocket League one night, which is how I seem to discover most of my PC problems. Of course, I wasn’t about to stop playing Rocket League just because my CPU was overheating. So, the night the fan failed, I found a plastic desk fan and set it next to the radiator, blowing into my PC with the side panel off. You’re right to shame me for it for it—but my CPU temps returned to normal, and the Rocket League continued. For this PCG

An Australian Parliamentary committee has issued a report calling on the government to undertake “a comprehensive review of loot boxes in videogames.” “Loot boxes represent the evolution of revenue streams in the gaming industry. The report also notes, however, that concerns about the impact of loot boxes are growing in the public consciousness, particularly with regard to children. The report ultimately makes two recommendations:The committee recommends that the Australian Government undertake

Before the end of the year, the Fortuna expansion is going to get a lot bigger—and a lot more deadly. A resistance group called Solaris United is working to overthrow their dictator, Nef Anyo, and restore freedom to the people. Scattered across the mountains of Orb Vallis are three Orb Mothers (often just called Orbs), and these massive robo-spiders are the backbone of Nef Anyo’s military power. That’s why they’re called “Heists”—though we don’t know what exactly we’re stealing yet, but I hope i

In fact, this bargain is for a Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Amp Edition graphics card is actually a little cheaper than its previously discounted price on Black Friday. B&H Photo can call it whatever it likes, this is a great price for a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, and is almost the cheapest we’ve ever seen for one. That distinction still belongs to an EVGA card that went for $349.99 last month, albeit with a blower-style cooler. Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Amp Edition | Overclocked | $358.99This card is se

To help make sense of this, here are the current (as of late 2018) chipsets and the sockets they support. But with the mainstream platform now supporting up to 8-core CPUs, X299 is primarily for professionals. Threadripper also sports 64 PCIe lanes and the core counts to back them up, making just about any combination of add-in cards and drives possible. Learning about PCIe lanesHigh speed I/O inside a motherboard is limited to the number of PCIe lanes available to the chipset and CPU. Most AM4

Asus has added a product page to its website for its new ROG Strix XG32VQR, a 32-inch monitor that is not to be confused (but likely will be) with the ROG Strix XG32VQ. However, the XG32VQR ups the ante with FreeSync 2 HDR support, whereas the XG32VQ is ‘simply’ a FreeSync display. The primary benefit is HDR support. Related to that, the new XG32VQ comes with a higher brightness rating—450 nits, up from 300 nits. It also bears VESA’s DisplayHDR 400 badge, which among other things requires a mini

Has any videogame story been told from more perspectives than Half-Life’s Black Mesa incident? Half-Life: Echoes is the latest in this tradition of framing the Black Mesa disaster from a new angle, and it’s easily the best singleplayer mod for Half-Life in years, offering incredible level design, thrilling survival horror and blistering action. Created by first-time modder James Cockburn, Half-Life: Echoes puts players in the shoes of Candidate Twelve, another Black Mesa employee who arrives for

One of the best deals over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend was an HP Pavillion laptop with a GTX 1060 and a Core i7 processor for $750. If you missed out on that, or your budget isn’t quite that high, here’s an alternative—an ASUS TUF laptop with a GTX 1050 Ti and Core i5 is $659.99 on Newegg’s eBay store. The full specifications include an Intel Core i5-8300H processor (clocked at 2.3GHz), a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS display, 8GB of RAM, a 1TB hybrid hard drive, and a GTX 1050 Ti graphics card.

When you join the PC Gamer Club membership program at the Legendary tier, you get a host of neat stuff no matter where you’re based: a Steam key every month for a different game (this month it’s Cook, Serve, Delicious! Here’s everything you get in the welcome mail when you join the PC Gamer Club as a Legendary member. Full instructions come with your welcome email, and quickly you’ll be flying around in PC Gamer red-and-black. And for the Australian ANZAC forces, you’ll get a tattoo of PC Gamer

“Today we’ve updated SteamVR for all users with changes that have been cooking in SteamVR beta for the last month. This includes major features like Motion smoothing and updates to the controller rebinding UI, as well as a host of new features, bug fixes, tweaks, and improvements across SteamVR. The ultimate goal with motion smoothing is to enable “more players on more PCs to play high-fidelity VR games and experiences.” start dropping frames), motion smoothing kicks in. The controller binding U