Perennial Fallout baddies The Enclave—who featured heavily in both Fallout 2 and 3—will return as one of the factions in Fallout 76, Bethesda has confirmed. The developer tweeted the below image, giving some backstory for the faction and revealing that they have a “secret bunker” hidden somewhere in Appalachia, where the game is set. Just before the bombs fell, US leadership re-located to a remote Oil Rig off the coast of San Francisco. Over the past few days, Bethesda has also revealed the Resp

Developer Splash Damage will no longer update its team-based shooter Dirty Bomb, it has announced. “The bottom line is that we can’t financially justify continuing to work on the game we love,” it said in a post on the game’s official website, adding that it was “not able to make Dirty Bomb the success that we hoped it could be”. The shooter entered open beta way back in 2015, but its 1.0 version only came out in August. It was, by all accounts, a fun, fast-paced game: when Evan played the beta

Spellbreak is an upcoming battle royale game—but before you dismiss it as just another cash-in on the genre, check out the trailer above. For instance, the poison gauntlet’s primary fire is a focused spray, while secondary is a big poison bomb. I like how flashy the spell effects are, and it creates some pretty hectic moments on the battlefield. Each class runs a passive ability and three scrolls that they can level up during a match to increase their power. It’s currently in pre-alpha, and you

He simply wants to give his son the tools to live his own life, one Fortnite coaching session at a time. For the parents involved, it’s no different than investing in your child’s soccer uniform or paying for a basketball summer camp. Nick Mennen, Fortnite dadOf course, just because kids like Noble and Rakovich’s are learning to gain some confidence, that doesn’t mean they get to skirt by on just Fortnite. In an age where YouTube and Twitch stars reign supreme over impressionable kids, Noble was

As any power user knows, files that are nominally “deleted” by Windows usually remain recoverable on your hard drive. This free utility works by repeatedly overwriting every bit of data in files or folders you select to delete it securely. Configure Eraser settingsBy default, Eraser uses the Gutmann method to delete files, which involves overwriting data 35 times. Navigate to this and click “OK.” Eraser manages the copy process and securely removes data in the usual way. Securely erase recycle b

This weekend, we ask the PC Gamer writers and you the following: what game did you hate at first, but eventually love? Tom Senior: Hollow KnightI didn’t hate Hollow Knight, but I certainly found it dull for the first four hours or so. I’d have played it closer to release, only The Witcher 3’s online advocates made it a hard game to like. Andy Kelly: Mad MaxI bounced hard off Mad Max when it was first released, thinking it was just a pretty generic open world game. I don’t know exactly what click

Chucklefish’s turn-based strategy game Wargroove—described by Samuel as a “fiercely competitive Advance Wars successor” after his hands-on last year—will no longer be out this year as planned, and will instead be released in early 2019, the developer has announced. The delay will “allow us to provide players with a really robust package when the big day comes”, Chucklefish said in a blog post. It’s aiming for more than 30 two-player PVP maps, more than 10 three-player maps and at least six four-

After five and a half years of development, Ludeon Studios has released the 1.0 version of its colony management game Rimworld. If you’ve never played before, then Rimworld tasks you with building a new colony in the far future, starting with the three survivors of a starship crash. Ludeon describes it as a “story generator”, and where you land on the planet—desert, jungles, forests, snowy tundra—will have a huge impact on your journey. The Steam user reviews are overwhelmingly positive, and Ste

You can see one at the top of this Reddit thread and one below, which usert tyst_ shared in the same thread. Valve has given beta keys to fans that attended PAX West and Dota 2’s The International 2018, as well as some people that follow the game’s social media accounts. It’s currently in closed beta, with access restricted to Dota scenesters and pros from other CCGs. Update: I initially wrote that next month’s beta would be an open beta, which isn’t correct: members of the public will be able t

The developer of recently-released multiplayer spaceship shooter Dreadnought has laid off a third of its staff just days after the game’s release. The layoffs at Six Foot were first revealed by Game Informer, which reported that employees had long been aware of financial issues at the developer. The precarious situation led the team to try and finish the game as quickly as possible, with one developer telling Game Informer it felt “simultaneously both hurried and spiritless”. “Today we regrettab

As a storefront, the Discord Store has a cleaner presentation than Steam, although that can be chalked up mostly to the limited selection and a general lack of features. I really couldn’t tell you how any member of Valve feels about any particular game on Steam, so this gives the Discord Store a friendlier, more personal feeling. You can bulk up your Discord Library with games you already own from other services: Discord detects your other games and they can be launched right from your Discord l

I love seeing a 90% at the top of a review , given that it’s a relatively rare sight on PCG. This week marked the release of Return of the Obra Dinn, a mystery game from Papers, Please creator Lucas Pope. Tom Senior: Madden for itThanks to the London games I’m on an NFL kick at the moment. I’m about a third-and-a-bit through them and the pitches have started to become snowy as the pretend season I’m playing through enters its deep winter stage. I’m still looking for a truly scary indie game from

Each main character gets a gauntlet of fights tied together by some art stills and voiced dialogue; this covers the game’s main plot and fills you in on each character’s backstory. Alternatively you can create your own fighter using Soulcalibur’s bizarre character creator, and then travel around a world getting into fights with other fighters born in the character creator. So far the most fun part of the singleplayer is seeing what the character creator is going to generate next. To celebrate, a

As it applies to the Core i9-9900K, Der8auer noticed that his sample was running hotter than he expected. Here’s how the Core i9-9900K compares to a Core i7-8700K, according to Der8auer’s measurements:Core i9-9900K PCB: 1.15mmCore i7-8700K PCB: 0.87mmCore i9-9900K die: 0.87mmCore i7-8700K die: 0.42mmThe PCB is closer in size to Haswell, which Der8auer says is a good thing when it comes to supporting bigger and heavier CPU coolers. (Image: © YouTube via Der8auer)Der8auer saw the best results when

Skybound Games revealed a couple of weeks ago that it would finish work on The Walking Dead: The Final Season, which had been left in limbo following the collapse of Telltale Games. It also committed to working with members of the Telltale development team on the project, a small bit of good news for at least some of its former employees. In a recent AMA on Reddit, Skybound CEO Ian Howe went even further, saying that the goal is to build the entire TWD development team out of ex-Telltalers. “I c

Conflict is the lifeblood of EVE Online, but how players initiate a war is a serious problem. To understand the issue, you have to understand how wars work in EVE Online. When you read about the enormous, server-shattering battles of EVE Online, those are happening between alliances in player-owned territories within Nullsec space where there is no law. During his presentation, Burger revealed that only five corporations in all of EVE Online are responsible for 50 percent of the official declara

Expect to pay £16/$20Developer Lucas PopePublisher 3909Reviewed on GTX 1080, Intel i5-6600K, 16GB RAMMultiplayer NoneLink Official siteBuy it Steam / HumbleThe merchant vessel Obra Dinn drifts into port, crewless and mysteriously abandoned, having disappeared some years earlier. But with the fates of sixty sailors to determine, this is no easy task—especially as Return of the Obra Dinn, a few lean tutorials aside, steadfastly refuses to hold your hand. But the Obra Dinn is no less atmospheric fo

For a period of time, it seemed like Google would usher in the era of gigabit internet service on a widespread scale in the US. The company’s gigabit internet service is now accessible to nearly all of the 58 million homes and businesses it serves. Comcast offers broadband internet service in 39 states an the District of Columbia. So, there are many places where Comcast’s gigabit service simply doesn’t extend at the moment. Nevertheless, it’s impressive that Comcast has made gigabit speeds avail