Just Cause is probably the dumbest videogame series in the world, but Just Cause 4 might be the smartest dumb videogame I’ve ever played. If all you want from games is glorious, cathartic destruction, Just Cause 4 makes GTA 5 look like Papers, Please. It’s the new chaos-wreaking tools that make Just Cause 4 both dumb and very smart, actually, at the same time. It’s possible to skip cutscenes and get straight to the action, but there’s no getting around the fact that Just Cause mission design, as

The end has come for Telltale Games, which is now in the process of winding down completely. A representative of consulting firm Sherwood Partners told GameDaily.biz that it is handling the company’s liquidation, while a former employee said that company’s legally-mandated COBRA health insurance will come to an end on November 30. Telltale is now in assignment proceedings, which the site explained is different from bankruptcy proceedings but leads to essentially the same result: A sell-off of th

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. This week we’ll be talking about our time with Fallout 76, discussing how the survival systems aren’t as pointless as we first thought. Wes talks about how it’s getting difficult to split time between so many living games, and we close with listener questions. A quick note: It’s come to our attention that s

Fallout 76, however, is a different creature. As Sam has lamented, Fallout 76 is lacking in human NPC interaction , meaning you won’t be bribing your way through failed persuasion checks like you might have in earlier Fallout games. Paying to fast travel is a staple in online games and works in Fallout 76 the way you’d expect. Bringing home the brahminThere are a couple familiar ways to save up caps in Fallout 76 that will be familiar to wasteland veterans. Do the main quest (or party with a fri

In Battlefield 5, hitting zero hitpoints is only the beginning of the end. In this limbo of temporary invulnerability, Battlefield 5 makes you decide how would you like to die. If you’re fighting on the frontline, you’re doing this maybe 20 or 30 times per match. This sequence isn’t new to competitive FPSes, but the nuances of how death works in Battlefield 5 absolutely are. But in BF5, Medics and non-Medics have to commit to a seconds-long revive animation that they can’t easily cancel out of.

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There was a spot of drama on the Toronto esports scene earlier this week when the Toronto Esports Club, which made a deal in February to form an Overwatch Contenders team for the Boston Upgrising of the Overwatch League, announced very suddenly (and unhappily) that it will be pulling out of Overwatch competition immediately. The organization said the decision was made after Blizzard told it to drop the “Toronto” name from its brand, because the new Toronto Defiant Overwatch League team has “excl

Belligerent GnomeThis is yet another slap in the face to the poor, maligned Silverback Patriarch, a 3-mana Taunt beast with 1 attack and 4 health. The Hearthstone wiki’s ‘Cards better than Silverback Patriarch’ page has been updated accordingly, and it’s getting pretty long. Now that Silverback Patriarch has been dunked on by a gnome, I’d be astonished if he could be degraded any further, but Blizzard is merciless. My new goal is to deliver a winning blow with Silverback Patriarch. He deserves o

Government surveillance sim Beholder is “one of the darkest games I’ve played in some time,” said Andy (the other one) after playing it in late 2016. But in a good way: “It’s not often that games make me feel genuinely unsettled, and that alone made Beholder worth playing.” “You are a newly employed department officer within the Ministry of a totalitarian State. Beholder 2 will go for $15 on Steam, and there will be a “launch discount” offered as well. Owners of the original Beholder will get a

Another free weekend of Rainbow Six Siege, which was somehow beat out by Fortnite for a “Best Esports” nomination at the Game Awards, will get underway tomorrow, giving the curious but not-yet-committed full access to all maps, modes and the original 20 operators. As always, any progress you make in the game during the free weekend will carry over into the full game, should you choose to purchase it. Ubisoft said that the various editions of Rainbow Six Siege will go sale during the free weekend

The recent Windows 10 October update was, to put it mildly, bumpy for some. After some users reported losing files after installing the update , Microsoft put the rollout on hold until they could investigate the problem. Thankfully, as of yesterday, Microsoft has completed its investigation and will continuing rolling out the update, which includes full support for DirectX Raytracing (DXR). In yesterday’s announcement , Microsoft mentioned that it would be taking a more measured approach to this

Looking for a relatively inexpensive monitor without a bunch of bells and whistles that drive up the price? You’re in luck—if you don’t want to wait for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you can pop over to Newegg and purchase an LG 23-inch IPS monitor (model 23MP57HQ-P) for $89.99 today. But what you do get is an IPS panel with a 1920×1080 resolution, quad-screen split feature, and a serviceable 5ms response time. LG 23-Inch IPS Monitor | 1080p | $89.99This 23-inch monitor sports an IPS panel inst

Dell owns the Alienware brand, but it also releases a few gaming products under its own name. One of those is the Dell G3 15 gaming laptop, which has a Core i5-8300H processor and a GTX 1050 GPU. Right now you can get it for $599.99 from Dell’s website—$200 off the original price, and about $100-200 less than most other GTX 1050 laptops. The full specifications include an 8th-generation Core i5-8300H processor, 8GB of DDR4-2666 memory, a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS display, a 1TB 5400rpm hard drive, and

They had decided it was about time to revisit the original C&C games to give the fans what they had been asking for. Petroglyph has many former Westwood employees and is a perfect fit for bringing the original Command & Conquer games back to life,” Command & Conquer co-creator and Petroglyph co-founder Joe Bostic wrote on Reddit. “I’m excited to revisit the original Command & Conquer and Red Alert for our legacy fans, along with introducing the games to a new audience! “If you could turn back th

In preparation for the broader releases, Nvidia is pushing out a new ‘Game Ready’ GPU driver that is optimized for Battlefield 5, with ray tracing support. However, Battlefield 5 is the only one of the bunch to embrace Nvidia’s RTX capabilities, and specifically it is the first release to adopt DXR ray tracing support. Battlefield 5 released a patch that added support for the first release of DXR ray tracing. In short, the wait is not over by any stretch, but at least we’re now seeing RTX suppor

During a Reddit AMA last week, the Army invited veterans, reservists and active members to sign up to be involved, though it clarifies that members of the actual esports team would need to have time left in the Army. An Army esports Twitter was also set up, but it seems to have been suspended. While the team won’t be Army recruiters, the US Army is also sending recruiters to esports tournaments. Across July and August, the Army hosted and livesteamed an esports qualifier for Street Fighter 5, wh

Whether you’re looking to improve your current PC build or put one together from scratch, a good power supply unit (PSU) is extremely important to add to your list. If you’ve added a power supply to your “to-buy” list, here’s what you can expect from 2018’s cavalcade of deals, sales, and bargains on the horizon in terms of power supplies based on what we’ve seen in the past year or so. What to expect from power supply deals on Black Friday/Cyber MondayLast year, there was a veritable cornucopia

Below you’ll find sales you can expect to see on Black Friday/Cyber Monday, and what you should keep an eye out for. What to expect from PC speaker deals on Black Friday and Cyber MondayComputer speakers don’t change much from year to year, but there have been a few interesting product launches since the last Black Friday and Cyber Monday. For example, Logitech released its G560 speakers with RGB lighting, which is now our top PC speaker recommendation. Going by last year’s deals, you can expect

Products in every imaginable category will be on sale this Black Friday, including some of the best PC cases. Enclosures typically don’t change much year to year; in fact, our current top PC case pick was actually released in 2017. What to expect from PC case deals on Black Friday and Cyber MondayLast year’s Black Friday was a great time to buy a PC case, as there were quite a few popular models on sale. Corsair, Thermaltake, Fractal Design, Rosewill, NZXT, Corsair, Bitfenix, and other companies

Over the past few years, Amazon has usually had better Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales than any other major store—at least when it comes to PC components and accessories. What to expect from Amazon deals on Black Friday and Cyber MondayAmazon’s yearly Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales are typically very good. Amazon has already released some early Black Friday sales, but there isn’t much on offer yet for PC enthusiasts. These are constantly changing though, and we’ll likely see more interesting de