Disney has added seven old-school LucasArts games to Steam, including Sam & Max Hit the Road and Escape from Monkey Island, the fourth in the classic adventure game series. They’re all already available on GOG, but they’re discounted on Steam until November 23, so this is a good time to fill in any gaps in your collection. They span a range of genres: as well as adventure games you’ll find strategy game Afterlife, a pair of Indiana Jones action games and even a certain pod racer. Here’s the full

This weekend’s PCG Q&A is a kind of sequel to one we did last year, where we asked which game character you hate. Today we more specifically focus on protagonists in games: from irritating wisecracking heroes to boring bald men or spiky-haired leads with big swords, who is your most hated game protagonist? And even though I’m beyond tired of cover shooting being the only way people make third-person games now, they were right: it was a phenomenally well made game with technically accomplished co

The video reminds me of a trend in PC gaming modding and map editing that I struggle to name exactly. This week I have had new games to play every day, but all I can think about is bloody Warframe. It wasn’t like this before I started working at PC Gamer, so I’m blaming my colleagues for this one. Also, I’m hoping the mouse controls are decent, because I’m no good with a stick, and Killer7 requires fast reflexes. Either way, I’m happy to have an easy way to finish up one of the strangest, sillie

Fallout 76 will be getting an FOV slider “soon”, Bethesda announced today. It won’t be part of the patch planned for November 19, which will mostly focus on performance, stability, quest fixes and UI tweaks, but an FOV slider will be added by the end of the year, according to a post on Bethesda’s site. Also planned to arrive in 2018: a push-to-talk option “in the next few weeks” and a stash size increase, though that may take a bit longer. “The current limit is there for technical reasons, to ca

So let’s play some PC games in the living room, on that big ol’ TV. It’s much easier than it used to be to get your PC games running on a TV, thanks to options like Steam in-home streaming and Big Picture mode. The Complete Guide to PC Gaming PC Gamer is going back to the basics with a series of guides, how-tos, and deep dives into PC gaming’s core concepts. If you’re mainly going to play games through Steam, however, you can make your living room PC much more convenient by having it auto-boot i

A short film based on the indie misery simulator Papers, Please was announced in 2017 and released earlier this year, and by all appearances it’s every bit as bleak as you’d expect. Now the duo behind it, Nikita Ordynskiy and Liliya Tkach, are turning their filmmaking talents to a different game, Beholder, and it looks to be even bleaker. The visual style seen in the trailer very closely mimics that of the game, and Ordynskiy told Variety that other elements of the film will follow suit. But whe

Bummer, because mouse control is totally busted in the PC version. And since mouse input is likely filtered through an emulated stick, cursor aim speed is also limited. Mouse aim seems to be affected by the framerate too, because the skips are especially bad without a cap. Uncapped framerates were still stuck around 60 fps and led to the same choppy mouse aim. My stupid desire to take a bath in bad jokes and crude colors makes the mouse control problems all the more tragic.

The Mysterious Stranger! (Gif made from this Mysterious Stranger compilation video on YouTube.) We’ve known The Mysterious Stranger was a perk card in Fallout 76 for months, but I’ve been extremely curious how he’d be handled. Since VATS in Fallout 76 doesn’t slow down time or use cinematic camera moves, how is the Mysterious Stranger going to appear, exactly? Like VATS itself in Fallout 76, the Mysterious Stranger lacks a bit of drama and finesse in real-time.

Cliff Bleszinski earned fame during his time at Epic on games including Unreal, Gears of War, and, let us never forget, Jazz Jackrabbit. After spending 20 years with the company, he left in 2012 but returned to making games in 2014 with the arena shooter LawBreakers. https://t.co/RtS7l5WcAlNovember 15, 2018The tweet came in response to a “fan” who is apparently unhappy about not getting a refund on LawBreakers. Unsurprisingly, the exchange led to more heat on Twitter, some of it fueled by a back

The Golden Joystick Awards have determined that Subnautica, the undersea survival sim that is really a horror game in disguise (and if you don’t believe me, give it a try sometime and let me know how it goes), is the PC Game of the Year. CD Projekt’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 took the title for Most Wanted Game, while Fortnite beat out not-on-PC heavyweight Red Dead Redemption 2 to claim the overall Game of the Year title. Fortnite is a phenomenon, of course, and while I wouldn’t necessarily argue

Gigabyte’s Areo 15X is one of our best gaming laptops, thanks to its incredible battery life and gorgeous 144Hz display. However, it doesn’t come cheap—the version with a GTX 1070 typically floats around $2,000. Right now, an early Black Friday deal lets you buy the Areo 15X on sale for $1,799.99 from Newegg, a $500 drop from the original MSRP and around $200 less than the usual price. The specifications on this model include a 15.6-inch 1080p 144Hz display, an Intel Core i7-8750H processor, 16G

Final Fantasy 14’s next major expansion, called Shadowbringers, was just announced live during the annual Final Fantasy 14 Fanfest. Unlike other jobs, the Blue Mage will “provide a unique solo experience” and only learn abilities from other monsters, which is how the class traditionally works in Final Fantasy games. While details are scarce, it sounds like Blue Mages will be a class that you primarily level in solo dungeons designed exclusively for Blue Mages. The popular theory is that FF14 wil

While you’re there, you can snag a delicious (presumably) sandwich for just $2. Even better, it comes with a surprisingly robust selection of meats—choose between black forest ham, turkey, or even roast beef. According to the ad, this is a hand-crafted sandwich, not a mass-produced hoagie where the meat and veggie management is likely to be messy. However, it’s available now while supplies last (no rainchecks), except for Fry’s locations in Manhattan Beach, Campbell, Fountain Valley, Woodland Hi

If you’re interested in Overwatch but somehow still haven’t played it yet, next week is your big opportunity to give it a shot. The nearly-week-long free trial includes access to the full roster of Overwatch heroes, including the newcomer Ashe, on 19 maps, in modes including Quick Play, Custom Games, and the Overwatch Arcade. Players taking advantage of the free week will collect look and level up the same as those who paid to get in, and progress will carry over after the free trial if you buy

If you’ve never been excited about marbles, you haven’t been playing the right games. It’s a game where you roll around as a marble and try to get to the end of an obstacle course as fast as you can. ‘s predecessor, Marble Blast Ultra, was a gem of the early Xbox Live era (it was on PC, too). is essentially a puzzle game, but not many puzzle games ask for this kind of dexterity in navigating a 3D space. Marble games are back!

Lest there was any doubt that Intel fully plans on supporting VESA’s adaptive sync technology in its upcoming GPUs, the company doubled down on its intentions, calling it part of a broader priority to support standard interfaces. The topic of adaptive sync came up two months ago when Chris Hook, a former AMD marketing director who now works at Intel, stated he is a “huge fan of adaptive sync.” We will be supporting Adaptive Sync. pic.twitter.com/eso7KFS8xyNovember 15, 2018″For adaptive sync, our

Part of the reason is because Nvidia had trouble clearing out its stockpile of previous generation Pascal graphics cards. “Gaming revenue was short of our expectations, and our fourth quarter outlook is impacted by excess channel inventory of midrange Pascal products,” Nvidia said. Nvidia also noted a 23 percent reduction in OEM and IP revenue “due to the absence of crypto-currency mining.” We’re finally starting to see that, with Battlefield 5 gaining ray tracing support ahead of the standard e

[…] proud Korean gamers”then Chris Pratt taunts them by calling them “Po-rini” 포린이 which is a word made of “Fortnite + Kid” in Korean. pic.twitter.com/eYw6m9ADbxNovember 15, 2018To kick off the launch of Fortnite in Korean PC bangs, or what you might know as LAN cafes, Epic enlisted an American metaphor to talk mad shit in a short trailer celebrating the occasion. It is implied that they will kill Chris Pratt. The launch coincides with the announcement of the Fortnite Korea Open, set to take p

If you didn’t manage to catch the Man of Medan trailer during the Golden Joystick Awards or if you’re looking to watch it again, you’re in luck. We have it right here to watch as many times as you want. Man of Medan is the first chapter in the Dark Pictures Anthology, a series of cinematic horror games from developers Supermassive Games, known for Until Dawn on the PS4. Man of Medan is set for release some time in 2019. You can catch the rest of our Golden Joystick Award coverage on Twitch.

Today, the developer announced a Switch version, cross-platform play and progression, a bunch of new heroes and gods and, finally, a new map for the popular arena mode. The 99th and 100th characters to join Smite’s mega-pantheon are King Arthur and Merlin, who probably don’t need much of an introduction. From today, arena gets a new map, and you can take it for a spin right now. A free arena bundle is being given out to celebrate the launch of the new map for a limited time, too. Meanwhile, the