Insurgency: Sandstorm, the third entry in the series that began as a Source Engine mod in 2007, has been delayed. In the meantime, I tried out the PvE mode in the Sandstorm beta. When it comes to combat, Sandstorm delivers that trademark Insurgency brutality with gusto, even in beta. A traditional horde mode pushes you to kill everything you see, but Insurgency’s realistic combat encourages avoidance-heavy play instead, setting it apart from many other horde mode games out there. Despite the iss

VIDEO: The PC Gamer Show, Episode 142, also available on YouTubeWelcome 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. On this week’s show we talk about the everything James saw at PAX West, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Destiny 2: Forsaken, Forza Horizon 4, Monster Hunter, and a whole lot more. We finish with listener questions as always. Listen:Download the MP3 d

For this week’s Q&A, we’re asking: What unreleased 2018 game are you most excited for? I’m not super interested in base-building, or even that keen on multiplayer, but I’m looking forward to exploring the world and seeing what it has to offer. I can’t say I don’t really wish Fallout 5 was coming out this year instead, but I’m definitely still looking forward to 76. It’s still hard to reconcile what it’ll be like versus playing a traditional Fallout game when we haven’t had hands-on with 76 yet,

The new line of Threadripper CPUs is here, but that doesn’t make the older processors any less powerful. If you want to build a high-end PC for video editing, streaming, or other intensive tasks, last year’s Threadripper 1920X has dropped to $419.99 on Newegg. The 1920X is the mid-range model in AMD’s original Threadripper lineup, with 12 cores and 24 threads. This is a pretty great price for a 12-core processor, especially considering this will fully work with both generations of Threadripper m

BlizzCon 2018 will once again offer virtual tickets for those unable to make it to the Anaheim Convention Center in November, and you can buy them as of today. To sweeten the deal, a new Diablo-themed legendary skin for Sombra is immediately available with every purchase. Meanwhile, as always, the ticket gives you all-access streaming to the main event as well as the BlizzCon All-Access channel, which broadcasts across the convention’s two days. The ticket also gets you a $10 discount off the Bl

I ask how the choices evolve over the course of Dying Light 2. “It’s not only the visual change, it’s not only the change on the game system side, you’re going to get access to new quests, or you’re going to lose them. You’re going to have one group of quests instead of another. So when you join me, you’re going to see my world, my decisions, my outcome, and I’m going to make decisions in my game. “Sometimes you’re going to make decisions you’re going to regret,” Jaskula says.

But this does make for a worthwhile reminder of the potential of the U.2 interface. Specifications Price $1,259 ($1,038 online)Capacity 2TBInterface U.2Control Protocol NVMeController IntelNAND Type 3D TLCSequential Read/Write 3,200/2,000MB/sRead/Write IOPS 624K/81.5KWarranty Five yearsAnother month, another new SSD from Intel. The “more” in this case is the new Intel SSD DC P4510 Series. For the record, this is a 15mm U.2 drive, and thus around twice the thickness of a 2.5-inch SATA drive. That

He’s been involved with Siege since day one, and has compared the multiplayer shooter’s development to a fine French wine on more than one occasion. I do feel that we have a lot of years to come from Siege, the wine is very young still. He’s going to be a cool operator. In his past life I think he’s supposed to be a high profile, high-ranking secret operator Intelligence Officer. With so many operators today, there’s more scope than ever for new Siege players to become overwhelmed.

It’s National Video Games Day! I’m honestly not sure what National Video Games Day is, or what it means, or if the entire thing is a completely fabricated holiday to get people to click on a hashtag. But the nice thing about a probably-fake holiday is that you can celebrate it just about however you like! My choice: a gallery of players pooping off the edge of the towering dam in Early Access survival game Scum. Of all the landmarks on Scum’s map, this seems to be the one people like to poop off

Downfall introduces a new combat style, an additional game mode and school challenges; best of all, it’s free. The heart of the expansion is the Downfall game mode, tasking pugilists with delving into the Adalian Mine, alone or with pals, to defeat Arcell and his followers, a group of corrupted Prospects. Faejin is the new fighting style, inspired by Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do martial art and philosophy. Finally there are the school challenges, testing Absolver’s player clans and making members co

Specifically, the European Parliament voted in favor of a set of changes to copyright law outlined in the Copyright Directive. The most controversial parts of the bill are Article 13 and Article 11, in that order. Alex Voss, the Member of European Parliament (MEP) who is spearheading the overhaul to copyright rules, said the fears are unfounded. “The European Commission’s proposal for Article 13 of the proposed Directive for Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive was well-intended. But

NZXT is expanding its ‘BLD’ service to Canada after launching the unique service in the US just over a year ago. If you missed our coverage from last year, BLD is the name of NZXT’s custom desktop PC building service, with a twist. You then select a budget and preference towards AMD or Intel, and NZXT will configure a system (sans monitor and peripherals) around those selections. “Expanding into Canada is the obvious next step for BLD,” says Johnny Hou, NZXT’s founder and CEO. It marks the first

There’s a minor catch, though: before a game can be sold on Steam, the developer needs to clearly describe any explicit content contained within. That information is displayed to Steam users before they decide whether or not to view the game’s store page, and users can entirely filter out games containing explicit content. Today, developer Georgiy Kukhtenkov emailed me to let me know that, like the developers of Negligee: Love Stories, they have also written a Steam content description for their

If you’re in the market for a nice FreeSync monitor (especially something flashy), this might be the deal for you. Newegg currently has a two-day flash sale for the Acer XG270HU FreeSync monitor. The XG270HU has a resolution of 2560×1440, and a maximum refresh rate of 144Hz. The panel is 27 inches across, but it’s TN (with a 1ms response time) and not IPS. You can buy the Acer XG270HU from Newegg.

It’s been a little over a year since the Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion came to Hearthstone, and Blizzard is celebrating the (slightly late) anniversary with Days of the Frozen Throne, a special event coming next week featuring a new Tavern Brawl, a solid deal on a “Bundle Up” bundle of card packs, and a free Golden Happy Ghoul card for everyone who logs in. The brawl, Duel of the Death Knights, has both players battling as a Death Knight, playing decks loaded up with Knights of the Froz

“After spending time with Riot’s leadership and many others across the organization, it became clear that Riot is truly putting everything on the table and committing to evolving its culture. In my interactions with Rioters, I’ve seen extraordinary levels of engagement on these issues across the company,” Frei said in a statement. I share that ambition and am eager to help Riot navigate this process.” That’s a pretty succinct summation of the fit-in-or-get-out culture at Riot that Frei has been

In Ring of Elysium you’re a tourist—one of a hundred—at a mountain resort when a terrible winter storm rolls in. There’s only one rescue chopper left and it can only carry four people as the storm’s freezing circle closes around you. You know what that means: battle royale. “The game world will change dynamically as the disaster progress,” claims the store page. The scenario ultimately feels a bit more grim, somehow, than the standard post-apocalyptic competition that usually accompanies a battl

The release of RocketID, a new addition to Rocket League announced earlier this year that will enable cross-platform friends and parties, has been delayed. The plan had been to roll out the RocketID feature this month, but developer Psyonix said today that it’s not going to happen. “As outlined in our Summer Roadmap Update, our goal was to release RocketID in September, but we’ve made the difficult decision to push it out of September and include it in a future update,” Psyonix wrote. “Two major

Forza Horizon 4 comes out on October 2, and it looks to be pretty good. The demo will offer “a tour of beautiful, historic Britain,” Forza community manager Brian Ekberg said in an update at forzamotorsport.net, with “a healthy heaping of open-world gameplay to enjoy.” “Seasons change everything in Forza Horizon 4 and demo players will experience each of the four unique seasons in the demo,” Ekberg wrote. The update also unveils the Best of Bond Car Pack as the Forza Horizon 4 “Day One Car Pack,

Overwatch’s new map, Busan, has gone live, letting players muck around in D.Va’s striking hometown. The launch of Busan on the Overwatch PTR last month was also accompanied by a new cinematic short, Shooting Star, obviously featuring the esports hero. Blizzard says it’s made an extra effort to match the D.Va’s base as it appear in-game with the one we see in the short. “We worked closely with the cinematics department to recreate the MEKA Base as closely as possible,” says Simon Fuchs, senior en