Fortnite fans reckon they’ve found a new in-game secret: a mysterious castle that you can only see by gazing into the rift portal in the bunker underneath the Wailing Woods. Reddit user super_star_BETA first noticed it, posting the above picture on the game’s subreddit. There’s certainly a castle-like silhouette just to the right of centre, complete with turrents—and players believe it could be a hint as to what’s coming next, possibly in Season 7. User jmzofficial posted the picture below, clai

A pre-release preview tournament for Valve’s CCG Artifact is running on SteamTV this weekend, and no doubt anyone watching will be itching to get their hands on their own deck. Online deck builders, such as this one, have already started popping up, letting players tweak their card combinations—and now Valve has released tools that will make it easy for players to import any decks they’ve built online straight into the game. You’ll be able to copy and paste those codes directly into Artifact to

The developer of Dead Cells, one of our highest reviewed games of 2018 so far, has added custom dungeon runs and a massive balancing update to its alpha branch. The changes—which include both weapon tweaks and overhauls of entire features, such as the way level scaling works—will remain in alpha “for quite some time” so that the team can make adjustments with community input, Motion Twin said. Bosses no longer drop legendary items, and you’ll instead get one weapon and one active skill. You can

The demo for World of Warcraft: Classic, the old-school recreation of the way the MMO was in 2004, has been extended and will now finish on Monday, Blizzard has announced. The demo, initially due to end this week, will finish at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm GMT on Monday, Blizzard announced on the game’s forums. If you never bought a ticket or just don’t fancy wading into the demo, which starts you at level 15 and caps you at level 19, then you can read Steven’s impressions here. He called it “brutal and

The remaster of Blizzard’s classic RTS Warcraft 3, called Warcraft 3: Reforged, is on course to get a beta “early next year”, according one of the game’s developers. Speaking to YouTube channel Back2Warcraft, Blizzard senior producer Pete Stilwell said the team was “hoping to have [the beta] start at some point early next year”. The beta will be more like a traditional “pre-alpha” than a normal beta, he said, with features tested as soon as Blizzard finishes them. Blizzard has already launched a

You might’ve seen banners mentioning the PC Gamer Club at the bottom of articles as you’ve been browsing the site. One of our coolest rewards, though, is getting our monthly magazine sent to your digital device each month. Did you know that, as of this month, PC Gamer is 25 years old? The first UK edition was indeed launched in November 1993, while the first US edition was launched a year later. If you haven’t checked the magazine out in a while, the PC Gamer Club is a great way to do that.

Join us in answering the following, then: what’s your favorite detail in a game you love? Samuel Roberts: Shooting the lake in Resident Evil 4″Don’t shoot the lake,” my friend Andrew told me when I first started playing Resident Evil 4 years ago. Tom Senior: rustling trees in The Witcher 3 or CrysisA nice rustling tree is a beautiful thing in a game. The idle soldier animations are a great example of an attention to detail that made the early C&C games so good. Of course, the game still worked w

There’s a lot of great stuff in the Fortuna update, and I want nothing more than to just binge on it. As I help various people around town, I earn ‘standing’ with this band of half-human rebels. But Solarus United standing isn’t just points that fill up a meter to unlock new stuff. In Fortuna, though, just about every meaningful activity is locked behind Solarus United standing. Fishing, mining, animal conservation, gun crafting—all of these things require me to spend some amount of Solarus Unit

Above you can watch the announcement trailer for Volcanoids, a first-person steampunk survival game due to hit Steam Early Access in January. On a volcanic island you’ll have to survive eruptions and battle a mechanical race of enemies while crafting a sweet-looking steampunk home called a drillship that serves as a factory and armored mobile base. According to the FAQ, you don’t actually drive your mobile base around freestyle (unfortunately), but give it a location, at which point it folds its

The Fallout 76 beta wrapped up yesterday, meaning we won’t be able to play it again until its full release on November 14. Fallout 76 is full of stories, even without human NPCsWhile exploring a desolate area in the north I came across a small, ruined house. Fallout 76 is full of stories like this. This is all to say that Fallout 76 feels like a good hangout game. A lot of those options aren’t currently present in Fallout 76.

Pre-built systems are almost always more expensive than building a PC yourself — after all, you’re paying for someone else to put together and test the components. But as we approach Black Friday, you can get a SkyTech PC right now with a Ryzen 5 2600 and GTX 1070 Ti for $899.99. That’s $200 off the original price, and is pretty close to what building your own PC with the same parts would cost. The full specifications include an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 processor, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics

The Quiet Man made a hell of an impression back in June with “the worst trailer at E3,” and it more than lived up to that potential when it finally came out last week. But hey, maybe that’s your thing, and if so, the new “Answered” update could be right up your alley. “This new experience will provide the final answers to the lingering mysteries of The Quiet Man and let players know the truth within this unique interactive experience.” I’m not convinced that subtitles can fix overlong and overwr

Right now, I’m really enjoying playing support, which was never as fun for me in previous BFs. On the plus side, I had a fun open mic encounter in the final day of the Fallout 76 beta. When I got close enough we traded a few shots, but then started chatting over the mic during the fight. And I’m sure Diablo 4, whenever that shows up, will also be especially great—that’s kind of Blizzard’s thing. More people playing Diablo on more platforms is only a good thing, in my eyes.

Blizzard has posted a notice warning that the next major Overwatch patch will be a big one—so big that it will require a full reinstall of the game. “The next major patch will have some pretty fundamental changes to the game client. The number of back-end changes we’re putting in is substantial enough that we can’t just patch over the current content efficiently,” customer support rep Drakultoh wrote. “As a result, when the next patch comes out, the client will fully reinstall itself to handle t

We got our first look at Risk of Rain 2 in late 2017, and our second in May of 2018. And that’s been it until today’s update from developer Hopoo Games that shares a long-awaited look at the state of things so far, and reveals the studio’s plan for the upcoming Early Access release. Risk of Rain 2 will have melee classes, Hopoo confirmed, the first of them being the Mercenary from the original Risk of Rain. The current plan is to launch Risk of Rain 2 into Steam Early Access in early 2019, with

Last week’s Wild Hunter update to the online survival game Scum added bow and arrow skills, new animals to use them on, new musical instruments, and user-definable dongs. Amusingly, they weren’t purely cosmetic: embiggening your wang requires the use of attribute points that could otherwise be put toward more useful characteristics, or you could shrink it up in exchange for a boost to your brain or biceps. As sometimes happens with such complex, interlocking systems, the rollout didn’t go perfec

World War 3’s goal seems to be to eschew that playfulness for a grittier and more realistic take on Battlefield’s 64-player scale. World War 3 redeploys some of Battlefield 3 and 4’s look and feel directly, right down to the setting, squads, target marking, vehicles, maps, modes, and its blue/red/green color coding to differentiate friendlies, hostiles, and squads. WW3 uses systems that Battlefield has only ever flirted with over the years. It’s not only a symbolic gesture, though, since stickin

It is not, according to director Jeff Kaplan, who told Kotaku at the recent BlizzCon event that Wrecking Ball, the hamster with a ball that transforms into a quadrupedal battlemech, is about as far as Blizzard wants to go. I don’t think so,” Kaplan said. In fact, Kaplan said that Hammond himself—Hammond is Wrecking Balls’ real name—was too far over the line for some Overwatch developers. Wrecking Ball worked out to be a popular Overwatch hero despite the worries, no doubt in part because he’s sm

We’re putting together a new streaming PC for The PC Gamer Show, so parts have been showing up at my doorstep on the daily now. I’m giddy, equal parts nervous and excited like it’s my first day at school. Every five years or so when I manage to make room in my life for a new computer, I’m reminded why our hobby of choice is so inherently satisfying. Let’s all relax together and just watch people peel the plastic off their new PC parts. Sorry, the rain’s getting a little too excited…