Dedicated dataminers at the Fortnite subreddit have scoured the v5.30 content update files and unearthed the next batch of skins, pickaxes, gliders, back bling, and emotes coming to the in-game item store, or via future promotions. Take note that the Road Trip skin is part of crop this week, located just below the biker woman. Chances are they’re related to whatever happens in the lead up to Season 6. I’m partial to the raven woman, if only because I want those wings. I’m going to throw those su

Forza Horizon 4 is a sequel of tasteful innovations and gorgeous seasons, reckons Luke Winkie. “We’re now basing our recommended spec on 60 frames per second and not 30, which is a change from Forza Horizon 3,” says Penrose. And we’ve also got a whole bunch of new options you can push [your PC] to the extreme beyond Ultra, if you’ve got a very powerful PC. As for what Playground has learned from its last Horizon venture on PC, Penrose says: “We were definitely pleased with the audience. Forza Ho

Placing LED light strips on the back of a display is not a new idea by any stretch, particularly in home theater setups. At the center of the new lighting gear and Hue 2 ecosystem are a couple of new controllers: the four-channel Hue 2 RGB controller and the external Hue 2 Ambient Lighting controller. The Hue 2 RGB kit sells for $74.99 and comes with the controller and four RGB light strips. Not all of NZXT’s Hue 2 products appear to be available yet. The ones we found in NZXT’s online store inc

Tomato Town, the cutest lil landing spot is gone. In its place is Tomato Temple, a much larger and more complex area built in honor of what once was lost. Just last week a stone tomato effigy appeared through the portal, and today, we found out where big red’s been. That temple in its entirety was pulled back through, splitting the earth from the house west of Tomato Town all the way to the pizza restaurant. Alongside the new point of interest, new challenges are available for anyone that bought

In June, we asked: Can the Forsaken expansion turn around Destiny 2’s fortunes on PC? We’ll find out either way when the next chapter of Bungie’s space opera lands on September 4. Till then, feast your eyes on the scene-setting cinematic above, showcased on stage at Gamescom today. “Destiny 2: Forsaken opens with an explosive jailbreak in the Prison of Elders,” reads the trailer’s description. During its Gamescom presentation, Bungie also spoke to Forsaken’s new Gambit mode, a hybrid of PvP and

For Honor’s starter edition went free-to-play on Steam yesterday, and it certainly drew a crowd. Ubisoft’s multiplayer combat game blew up the Steam charts with a peak of 216,499 concurrent players yesterday—and then turned around and topped that today with over 227,000 concurrents. That moves For Honor into 8th place on Steam’s all-time peak playercount list, pushing past No Man’s Sky’s 2016 launch day playercount (212k) and just below Payday 2 (247k) when it went free-to-play in 2017. Via Stea

Usually if there’s liquid in your PC, it’s to cool down toasty components such as the processor and RAM. Zotac and Caseking had something else in mind, however, when the two companies collaborated on a custom PC that doubles as a coffee machine. A few months ago, Caseking founder Ali Abbas posted a video explaining that there’s an Nespresso machine tucked inside. The little flavored cups jam into the side of the chassis, and a short while later, delicious coffee flows from the spout in the front

The swipe-to-rule game Reigns will head to a new and very dangerous realm in October with the release of Reigns: Games of Thrones, a collaboration between Nerial, Devolver Digital, and HBO that will bring the “Tinderocracy” to the Seven Kingdoms. Gameplay will be essentially the same as in previous Reigns games: Each new moon you’ll answer a question or resolve a problem by swiping left or right. Each swipe takes your story in a different direction, maybe good and maybe bad. Reigns: Game of Thro

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ latest limited-time event mode is Desert Knights—the 50-person deathmatch that debuted in May, but was prematurely pulled as a result of server issues. Set on Miramar, ten squads of five drop into the desert, tooled up with level three gear and a crate weapon. “Armed to the teeth and kitted out for battle, these warriors know things are about to heat up the cool desert morning. Their orders as tall as the shadows cast by the rising sun, the Desert Knights are ready

The creatures of Monster Hunter: World are majestic, awe-inspiring beasts, so it’s only natural that we would want to murder them and carve out their organs to make cool suits of armor. It’s everyone’s first major roadblock in Monster Hunter: World and the rudest wake up call in videogames. —James DavenportKirinThis elder dragon is one of the first you’ll encounter on your quest to slaughter every creature in Monster Hunter: World. —Austin WoodLegianaThis flying ice dragon is one of the most bea

If you’re disappointed by the high prices announced for Nvidia’s RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, cards like the Asus RTX 2080 Turbo should come in at the lower end of the announced price range. That’s still a hefty $699 for the RTX 2080, and $999 for the RTX 2080 Ti, but every little bit helps. The good news is that we should see custom RTX designs not too long after the initial launch on September 20. I’ve seen custom RTX 2080 models from just about every graphics card vendor at Gamescom, most using

We’ve all seen liquid cooling by now, but this dual socket Epyc server put together by der8auer and Caseking isn’t your normal liquid cooling. It has liquid cooling blocks on the CPUs, sure, but instead of the normal fans blowing air across the rest of the components, everything is partially submerged in liquid, with jets spraying across the board. It’s a pretty awesome setup, and obviously more of a publicity stunt than something you’d want to have running in a datacenter. It’s also extremely f

The Metro series has always been a bit out there, what with its irradiated mutants, post-apocalyptic underground sprawl, and Red Line communist regime. But its latest entry, Metro Exodus, actually goes out there—venturing out into the great outdoors for the first time. We sent Tom to talk with 4A Games about Metro’s wildest ride yet for this month’s cover story. Previews this month include Desperados 3, Zone of the Enders 2, Night Call and many more. Reviews this month include Dead Cells, Overco

Information on its incoming Blackout battle royale mode remains slim, but both Moses and Wilson, alongside Treyarch’s director of communications John Rafacz, have teased more info at Gamescom. It feels like Black Ops.” It is still very much an environment build for Black Ops.” There’s a lot there to dig if you’re a Black Ops fan.” Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale beta kicks off next month.

I’m meeting with Dominik Abé, creative director of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and founder of Mimimi Productions. Shadow Tactics is old school by design, inspired by classic, uncompromising stealth games like Commandos and Desperados. Given the extent to which Shadow Tactics wears its influences on its sleeve, Mimimi seems like the perfect developer to resurrect the Desperados series. This is one of the main things I saw that clearly differentiates Desperados 3 from both its predecessor

As very briefly teased in the trailer up top, the Rift-To-Go lets players conjure rifts on the fly, for personal use and for squads. “The Rift-To-Go is any player’s ace in the hole, creating a Rift for themselves and allies. With more ramps, new rifts and a “couple dozen” new ATKs, players have plenty to get on with inside their 60-minute window. Score Royale, on the other hand, lets players earn points by collecting coins, opening loot containers and eliminating other players. “The first to cro

Nero has lost his demon arm from Devil May Cry 4 and replaced it with a succession of disposable robot arms in Devil May Cry 5. Devil May Cry is hardly the most realistic hack-and-slash series around, but this is bizarre. This is easily the best-looking Devil May Cry game, and though the demo lacks the outstanding musical drops DmC built into its combos, the tone of DmC5 seems perfect. During the boss fight, the camera regularly tried to wrench me away from the destination I was trying to reach.

If you enjoyed the scary Black Mirror episode ‘Metalhead’, where Maxine Peake’s character is chased by a killer robot dog for ages, you’ll like the basic enemy types in Avalanche’s Generation Zero. And they are by far the most exciting part of this four-player co-op shooter, based on my 25-minute demo. It’s like if Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was set in Sweden, except instead of no one you had evil robots. Generation Zero will cost $35 at launch, which feels about right based on what I’ve pl

VIDEO: The PC Gamer Show, Episode 140, 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 James talks about his recent hands-on with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Chris explains how to make candles from corpses, and we react to Nvidia’s RTX GPU announcements. We close with listener questions, as always. Listen:Downloa

Ubisoft has announced that a closed beta for Trials Rising, the latest addition to the 2.5D motocross racing/platformer series, will run from September 13-16, ahead of a release scheduled for February 12. Trials Rising riders will compete for fame and glory in exotic locales including “eminently rideable versions of the Eiffel Tower and the Great Wall of China.” New “Stadium Finals” events will feature three-heat competitions between eight players, with competitors eliminated in each round until