The original Intel Compute Stick was released in 2015. For $150, you could run Windows 8 or Ubuntu Linux on a Chromecast-like HDMI stick. As for specifications, the Compute Stick STCK1A8LFC has an Intel Atom Z3735F processor, with 2GB RAM and 8GB of internal storage. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are built-in, so you won’t have to use the USB port for a keyboard and mouse. You can buy the Compute Stick from Amazon.

While we still don’t have a PC release date for Red Dead Redemption 2, and are unlikely to get one—at least until the game has launched on consoles in October—it feels like a fairly safe bet that it’s going to happen. So, with that in mind, let’s jump in and have a look at the towns and areas that we can expect to see in Red Dead Redemption 2. From Valentine, a town looks to be the home of every cowboy cliche, with ranchers, gamblers, outlaws and cowboys, all looking to make some quick cash and

Lance McDonald is an indie dev turned hobbyist game engineer, who’s spent the last few months uncovering cool Dark Souls cut content. In a video released earlier this month, McDonald suggested that, besides Dark Souls 3’s first four story-supporting epitaphs, the remainder were comprised of placeholder text. This is especially interesting here, given how far this particular discovery has come in the past few weeks. Some of McDonald’s other discoveries have led us to believe Oceiros’ baby wasn’t

We recently heard that Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, a space combat sim from Double Damage and a “sort-of-prequel” to Rebel Galaxy, will be out early next year . After consulting player feedback, two of its most requested features have been added to the game—’drifting’ and ‘sublight’. The video above gives us a glimpse at how these new features will work. “There were a couple of feature requests that sort of bubbled up… and we wanted to go ahead and address those,” says Travis above. “The two things th

You may remember reading about Samuel’s adventures while playing New World at Gamescom, a few weeks ago. From eerie woodland to oppressive mountain ranges, we’re shown the variety of settings that New World offers. While content is clearly an important factor in any MMO, I find diversity as well as detail in locations to be important. The anticipation of discovering new areas and zones is what drives me to continue playing when first starting out. New World does promise a variety of different fe

Kickstarter success story Mordhau promises multiplayer 64-player sieges and a combat system reminiscent of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare or War of the Roses or Mount & Blade, take your pick. The first is archery, and plenty of thought has gone into ways of balancing various kinds of bow and also making them hard enough to use that archers won’t dominate. Hopefully, that will make horseback battling both risky and rewarding. Siege weapons, ladders, and other new features are also covered in the vide

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. System Shock 2 Developer: Looking Glass StudiosYear: 1999Everybody knew that Shodan, the villainous AI from the original System Shock, would return in System Shock 2. After System Shock 2’s branching character creation fast-forwards you through several years of education and a military career, you wake up on the Von Braun, the first spaceship capable of FTL travel, to find everything’s gone wro

He outdid himself with Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s photo mode last week, thanks to the option to choose Lara’s facial expression. On the subject of baffling mess, here’s the gallery of players pooping off a dam in Scum that Chris put together. Joe Donnelly’s gone native in GTA Online, and the regular diaries of his time in RP servers are a treat. Last week though he tried out a remixed version of one of its modes that pits super-jumping Teen Wolf ripoffs against armored dudes with miniguns. Seem

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, which is among the best stealth games on PC, is one of nine games that EA added to its Origin Access subscription service this week. The other standouts in the new entries to The Vault are Zachtronics’ SHENZHEN I/O, a puzzle game about building circuits, The Book of Unwritten Tales 1 and 2, which are brilliant point-and-click fantasy adventures, and Samorost 3, a surreal puzzler from Amanita Design, creator of Chuchel and Machinarium. Cute indie puzzle-platf

Voxel-based MMO Boundless, formerly known as Oort Online, has finished its four-year stint in Early Access. You’ll be gathering resources, building, and fighting enemies, but you’ll also have to contend other players. The idea is that you’ll eventually find a role that you like, whether that be a hunter, raider, nomad, master builder—anything you can think of, really. Developer Wonderstruck—made up of former EA, Lionhead and Hello Games talent—said that the release was “very much a beginning”, a

Freebie hack-and-slasher Let It Die, from Killer7 developer Grasshopper Manufacture, will come to PC on September 26, having previously been a PS4 exclusive. In Let It Die, which initially launched in 2016, you repeatedly climb a tower full of monsters and traps. You start the game in just your underwear, with no weapons or armour, but you’ll grab better gear as you progress. Similarly, you can send out “Hunters” to grab loot from another player’s game. They’ll raid it for a set amount of time,

The DICE development team have responded to those concerns, assuring fans they’re still making big maps—including one that’s more than 1.5km end-to-end. The big map in question is Hamada, and lead multiplayer designer Valerian Noghin shared an image to show its scale, noting that it’s still a work in progress. (BT layout is ░W░O░R░K░ ░I░N░ ░P░R░O░G░R░E░S░S░) pic.twitter.com/93MfHuRTzfSeptember 15, 2018Another level designer, Jeff Gagné, said that more big maps were on the way. We’re also making

If you’ve been playing the beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale mode, you may have experienced crashes, or problems launching the game. In an update posted yesterday, Treyarch said it was looking into it, alongside other issues such as crosshairs tracking enemies through walls. In a Reddit post, the developer said it was “tracking a handful of reasons for crashes and issues launching the game across various PC setups”. On aim tracking, Treyarch said it was investigating re

General availability of Nvidia’s next-generation GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card has been delayed by a week, the company has announced. It was supposed to go on general sale on Thursday, September 20, but it will instead be available a week later, on September 27, Nvidia said in a forum post. At launch, the card will cost $1,199 for the Founders Edition, but cheaper models will be available later on. The RTX 2080 will still be available on September 20 as planned. Jarred unboxed both a 2080 an

It has that same sense of having swapped the space where action normally goes with music, and I’m fine with that. Wandersong is full of these little touches of personality, like being able to sing to flowers to change their color or birds so they follow you. Sometimes the wheel of musical notes doubles as a dialogue wheel, letting me sing my words like a show-off. And yet even when they’re overpowered, they’re never cool. In a way, that’s even more heroic.

Squint just right, and you’ll notice the majority of named areas piecing together the map in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout mode are recreations of some of the most popular multiplayer and Zombies maps from Treyarch’s CoD games. Still, some spots stand above the rest for their reliable bounties or location for a less-intense drop. You can acquire powerful weaponry from the Black Ops’ Zombies series here, including the Zweihander LMG and Monkey Bomb grenade. Fracking Tower (E6)Check your co

Batman: Arkham OriginsAndy: Origins isn’t a terrible game, but it’s clear throughout that it wasn’t developed by Rocksteady. It’s definitely worth playing if you enjoyed City, but it’s not the best Arkham game. Batman: Arkham CityAndy: For me, City is when the Arkham series really started to feel like a Batman simulator. Arkham City isn’t rubbish, and, as Andy and Sam have already mentioned, its grappling hook/glide combo is top notch. Freeze fight is ace, and an example of how Arkham City evolv

This week, then, we ask the PC Gamer writers this: which game series should take a break? Wes Fenlon: Total WarI write this while being fully excited for the next Total War game, Three Kingdoms, but: I wouldn’t mind waiting a few years between big, majorly improved Total War installments. With the launch of the Warhammer series, the Total War dev team has obviously grown to support the simultaneous creation of new historical Total War games and the fantasy spin-off. I’d be totally fine with a ne

Murkmire is a new chunk of story DLC coming to The Elder Scrolls Onlinethat will let players visit part of the Black Marsh, home of the Argonian lizard-people. Jump to about the 13.30 mark in the video above and you’ll be able to see what that looks like in action. The new DLC includes the settlement of Lilmoth, which will be familiar to readers of the Elder Scrolls novels by Greg Keyes, and looks as swampy as you’d hope. Chris Livingston wrote up a demo of Murkmire he saw at Quakecon, where cre

The trailer for COLINA: Legacy opens in a room that reminds me of the Lake View Hotel from Silent Hill 2, which is a good way to pique my interest. Developed by indie studio Chance6, this is a survival horror game that’s explicitly old school, as becomes obvious the moment you see the flashlight play over a puzzle seen from a third-person perspective. They’ve also drawn inspiration from escape rooms for its puzzle design, which is an intriguing concept. The story has you stuck in your grandmothe