As promised, the Fallout 76 beta had its fair share of bugs, and while the beta has now ended, it hasn’t quite stopped causing problems. Some PC users are reporting that the Bethesda.net launcher won’t let them uninstall the game. A Reddit user cancelled their Amazon pre-order and then found themselves unable to uninstall the beta. This isn’t the first issue that seems to be connected to the Bethesda.net launcher, which the publisher opted to use instead of other platforms. One error forced some

The smart TV functionality can benefit PC users, too—you could have Netflix playing on top of your Civilization VI game, for example. 4K TVs have only started to hit mainstream over the past year or two, and the manufacturing costs continue to decline. Because of these two factors, you can expect this year’s 4K TV sales to be just as good as last year’s, and perhaps even better. Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday 4K TV deals from last yearElement 50-inch 4K LED TV – Fire TV Edition | $300 ($195

I thought Warframe: Fortuna’s weighty anthem was a stylish cover of an existing track, but it’s an original composition created for Fortuna, and has been stuck in my head since last week. The rousing chant of the oppressed Solaris is available now on Bandcamp for a buck, and you can listen to the whole thing in the embed. In addition to Warframe scores, he also writes music for Heartland, Magnum PI, Hawaii Five-0 and MacGyver. If you want to see it from a few hundred feet above you’ll need our g

The classic Omega chair is 27 percent off the normal price, meaning you get it for $319 (down from $440). However, we’d also recommend the Omega Softweave, which is a little more luxurious, and a touch more expensive. The Secretlab Omega gaming chair is $319 (save 27%) todayThis is our favorite gaming chair, and comes highly recommended for comfort, support, and just looking lovely. The Omega is down to £289 (from £400), and the Omega Softweave is £319 (down from £420). A great gaming chair can

Yesterday was a bit awkward as companies and brands attempted to commemorate Armistice Day via fairly tacky Twitter posts. A silly Spartan and fictional characters like Metal Gear Solid’s Solid Snake (since taken down) honouring other fictional characters sort of undercut the day a little bit. So on the 11th hour of the 100 year anniversary of the Armistice, a bunch of players took a break from their relentless war and just hung out on a beach. You can watch the brief break in the battle over on

Mouse and keyboard support is coming to Xbox One. For instance, I’m currently enjoying Forza Horizon 4 through the Xbox Games Pass, despite playing it on my PC. Mouse and keyboard support also evens the playing field in cross-platform multiplayer games like Fortnite, which will be the first game to boast it on Wednesday. The gulf between traditional console controllers and mouse and keyboard has frequently been used to excuse the absence of cross-platform support, so it’s one less barrier to wor

Supernatural ghost-hunting romp HellSign launched on Steam early access on Friday, reminding us that haunted houses aren’t just for Halloween. Actually, I’m OK with the investigation bit, it’s the not getting killed by giant bugs part that I’ve been struggling with. There are lots of different weapons, so I might have to start using something a bit more forgiving. Developer Ballistic Interactive is hoping to reach 1.0 in about a year, but only if things go according to plan. HellSign is definite

Back in July, Joe wrote about Yakuza Kenzan making progress via the open source PS3 emulator, RPCS3. Above, you can check out the game running in 4K, courtesy of the emulator team’s YouTube channel. While the environments show their age, the character models look pretty decent considering this is an ancient PS3 game. Yakuza Kenzan is one of the entries that got away from Western players—Sega has never localised the 2008 spin-off, along with another period-set Yakuza game, 2014’s Ishin. I persona

Finally, after years of waiting, you’ll soon be able to conquer Crusader Kings 2’s medieval world as a duck. This might be the Holy Fury expansion’s single greatest feature, but you probably wouldn’t find it unless you were looking. ‘Animal Kingdom’ is a hidden setting for Holy Fury’s random maps. When you’re putting together you’re new world, you can pick between historical or random cultures, and it looks like that’s all. Keep clicking, however, even if it looks like you’re just seeing the sam

On an average day, about a dozen new games are released on Steam. HellSignSteam pageRelease: November 10Developer: Ballistic InteractivePrice: $14.99Launched into Early Access last week, HellSign is an isometric “investigative action” RPG with a strong horror bent. Interestingly, it’s also one of the few Australian-developed games set in Australia and featuring Australian accents – this is a horror game, after all. The studio says the game will remain in Early Access for at least a year, with pl

The intriguing One Hour One Life is half multiplayer survival game, half social experiment—and now it’s all available on Steam. Previously, you could only buy it direct from creator Jason Rohrer, who you might know from The Castle Doctrine. You spawn as the child of another player, and have exactly one hour—a full life cycle—to make your mark on the world. He was one of the many developers I spoke to for a discussion about whether selling indie games through Steam is worth it or not. Reviews on

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 that we’re calling The Complete Guide to PC Gaming. Different sizes and fin designs have a big impact on fan efficiency and performance. When adjusting your fan speeds you must make sure that, at the minimum, they dissipate enough heat to keep your components operating within a safe temperature range. While separate fan controllers are an option, th

I’ve been playing the Dragonborn expansion pack for Skyrim, and I want to try out (and write a column about) the new followers it offers. How, exactly, is Mjoll going to get back to Riften? The only way I can travel between Skyrim and Solstheim is by paying a ship captain to ferry me between the cities of Raven Rock (in Solstheim) and Windhelm. She strolls to the docks and climbs aboard the ship I use when I need to travel between Skyrim and Solstheim. It also appears she’s going to be doing som

Sea of Thieves developer Rare has revealed a new competitive PvP mode called The Arena, which will launch early next year. In The Arena, you and a group of friends take on rival crews with the aim of amassing the most loot. It’s all in service of impressing a new trading company, called the Sea Dogs—presumably they’ll be the ones totting up the treasure at the end. Essentially, it’s Sea of Thieves PvP condensed down onto a smaller map where you’re given specific goals, and I can see that sort of

Forza Horizon 4’s first expansion is called Fortune Island, and you’ll be able to play it on December 13, publisher Microsoft Studios has announced. You’ll also have to battle new lightning storms, and you may well catch a glimpse of the northern lights. It’s the first of two planned expansions in the game’s $35 expansions bundle. Currently, that bundle looks to be the only way to get your hands on the Fortune Island DLC—individual expansions are listed as “not sold separately” on the Microsoft

Even though it may seem like all gaming headsets work the same, companies keep finding new ways to make them interesting. What to expect from headset deals this Black Friday and Cyber MondayLast year there were a massive amount of gaming headsets on sale, from low-end models to premium variants. No matter what your budget, this year you can expect to get a gaming headset at a great price. Early Black Friday and Cyber Monday gaming headset dealsBlack Friday and Cyber Monday gaming headset deals f

Valve has condemned the “damaging” use of racist insults by Dota 2 pros and warned teams that they need to dish out “strong punishments” to any future offenders. It follows two incidents of Dota 2 pros using racist taunts against Chinese teams. Valve did, however, write a post on the Dota 2 blog yesterday in which it said that racist language between pro players “is really damaging to the entire Dota community. Valve did not clarify what would happen if teams did not dish out “strong punishments

More than four years after it was first revealed at E3 2014, and following numerous delays, Crackdown 3 has been given what is hopefully an actual release date: February 15. We already knew it was coming in February, but having a specific date makes it less likely that publisher Microsoft will delay it for the fourth time. Having said that, we got a concrete release date last year and the game ended up missing that by about 15 months, so anything is possible. Also announced at Microsoft’s X018 y

Microsoft is set to buy independent RPG developers Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment, it announced today. The deal to buy Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera developer inXile comes as more of a surprise. In the summer it bought Hellblade studio Ninja Theory, which joined Compulsion Games, Playground Games and Undead Labs as part of Microsoft Studios, the company’s game development arm. At its X018 event today, Microsoft said that the studios would “continue to operate autono

A studio led by the co-founder of Irrational Games—developer of Bioshock and System Shock 2—has revealed a new strategy shooter called Void Bastards, and it’s due out in 2019. Revealed at Microsoft’s X018 event today, Void Bastards will see you try to escape the Sargasso Nebula. You hop from enemy ship to enemy ship, choosing your next destination on a top-down galaxy map. I love the comic book art style, and it seems to have a decent sense of humour. It’s being developed by Blue Manchu, which i