In the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine there’s an interview with CD Projekt Red quest designer Patrick Mills, who discusses Cyberpunk 2077 and makes a few comparisons with The Witcher 3, which he also worked on. “Cyberpunk 2077 is a game about people with power at the top and people at the bottom with none”, he replied. On the contrary I think it’s one of the things that sets us apart […] Cyberpunk is an inherently political genre and it’s an inherently political franchise.” Here’s ever

As Ruiner’s creative director, Benedykt Szneider was responsible for a lot of that. In the finalized art Ruiner’s tone is complete, given the red-and-black palette of a moody teenager’s bedroom. Ruiner is a top-down game so we can’t see the sky, but it’s probably the color of a dead television show host. Image 1 of 9 Image 2 of 9 Image 3 of 9 Image 4 of 9 Image 5 of 9 Image 6 of 9 Image 7 of 9 Image 8 of 9 Image 9 of 9One more treat. You can see more of Benedykt Szneider’s art here.

The best VR headset, the Oculus Rift, is $400, and to run the latest games you’ve got to shell out hundreds more for a VR-ready graphics card. That’s what YouTuber LowSpecGamer did, setting out to play some of the best VR games for as little money as he could. For starters, he swerved the Rift and the HTC Vive to pick up a refurbished Windows Mixed Reality headset for $160. The graphics card was where it got really interesting. By playing around with Windows settings, he managed to get Skyrim VR

Twitch Prime subscribers can now claim two free Overwatch loot boxes full of cosmetics specific to Wrecking Ball (or Hammond, if you prefer), the shooter’s newest hero. If you’re signed up for Twitch Prime—which is included in an Amazon Prime subscription—all you have to do is go to this page to claim your goodies. Prime members can also expect free golden loot boxes, which guarantee you at least one legendary skin each, over the coming months. They’ll contain loot for all heroes, not just Wreck

If you haven’t read Chris’s piece on “social survival game” Grimmwood, then I’d recommend doing that now—it piqued my interest, but I unfortunately never got around to trying out the free open beta. I may not get a chance now, because it’ll be out for good on Thursday, August 2, publisher Headup Games has announced. In Grimmwood, you and up to 30 players spawn on a procedurally generated map and have to build a town together. Early Steam reviews were mixed, with some players complaining of the s

Show us your rig On Show Us Your Rig we feature PC gaming’s best and brightest as they show us the systems they use to work and play. Darcy has his streaming PC, a relative beast of a thing that lives in a soundproof room in their office. Obviously when we work we’re at our desks all the time so stand-up desks are really really important to have. That’s another thing that’s super important, making sure I have everything ready to go. That’s just because it’s such an enormous beast that’s grown fr

Four and a half years after Lu-Mulana 2, a game about exploring and solving puzzles in ancient underground ruins, was funded on Kickstarter, its release date is finally upon us. It’ll be out tomorrow, costing $25 on Steam, GOG and the Humble Store, and developer Nigoro has released one final trailer (above) to celebrate the occasion. Eg-Lana is split into different zones, making up a “gigantic cave system” that Nigoro estimates will take 20-30 hours to explore. Nigoro says there’s no tutorial or

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Rise of the Triad: Dark War Developer: Apogee SoftwareYear: 1994 (shareware release) 1995 (full version)The 1990s were a good time for videogame gore. They built Rise of the Triad on those bones (and it was later renamed Rise of the Triad: Dark War to differentiate it from the remake). Apogee improved on Wolfenstein in a bunch of ways, especially with the scale of their game’s destructibility.

I haven’t paid much attention to Jump Force since its E3 reveal, but judging by Luke’s time with it—where he smashed Naruto to a pulp with Goku—it could be fun. It’s a Shonen Jump mash-up fighter with characters from Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, Death Note and Bleach, so there’s bound to be at least a handful you like. Bandai Namco released a new trailer this week, which you can see above. It certainly looks the part: every attack is accompanied by a shower of sparks, a beam of light or a whirlwind

Update: A Valve representative has confirmed via email that Portal 2 co-writer Jay Pinkerton has returned to the company. Original story:Portal 2 co-writer Jay Pinkerton appears to have returned to Valve, a year after he left the company. 2017 saw an exodus of Valve writers: Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek, who wrote Portal 2 alongside Pinkerton, left in February and May respectively, and Pinkerton followed suit in June. As well as Portal 2, Pinkerton wrote parts of Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2,

Square Enix have been keeping a steady supply of videos coming to showcase various features of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. We’ve seen the series’ biggest ever hub and its gorgeous jungles and in this latest video we see some “treacherous traversal”. It includes dynamic climbing reminiscent of 2003’s Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness and features Lara hanging from ropes, carefully navigating a death trap made of spinning blades, and using the grappling hook she had in Rise of the Tomb Raider—only

(Image: © Contingent99)”Wizard of Legend is probably the closest we’re ever going to get to a good Avatar: The Last Airbender game”, Austin Wood wrote back in May when two-person indie studio Contingent99 released their RPG. It’s now sold 500,000 copies cross-platform, so that’s on Switch, PS4, and Xbox One as well as PC. The game has just had a free update called Nocturne, which adds an NPC who will randomize your runs through the Chaos Trials. It also apparently includes “better load times, be

It’s 59 years before even the original Fallout, and 185 years before Fallout 4. Below is a timeline of the major events in Fallout’s alternate history as it exists right now. According to the Museum of Technology in Fallout 3, “this has been constantly refuted by both the Soviet Union and China.” 2077On October 23 the Great War begins. 2080Survivors of the Great War still living on the surface begin to notice mutation spreading, both among themselves and animals.

We’ve been testing out the PC version of Monster Hunter: World on a variety of systems to see how it handles and the overall impression has been that it’s a demanding port, but one that’s loaded with graphics options. Over on the Resetera forums, in a thread rounding up previews and impressions of the port, Capcom USA’s vice president of digital platforms and marketing William Yagi-Bacon weighed in to explain why it’s so demanding on the CPU in particular. “To eliminate interstitial loading duri

The London Spitfire are your Overwatch League season one champions, winning the inaugural trophy and a $1,000,000 prize. London won the first match of the series 3-1, thanks to some clutch ultimates and some absurd plays by Profit. London, on the other hand, had some savage words for their vanquished opponents:”I didn’t think it would be this easy,” said Spitfire support Seung-tae “Bdosin” Choi. With the inaugural season of Overwatch League in the books, the next thing on the horizon for Overwat

Two new Overwatch skins were revealed during the Overwatch League Grand Finals at Barclay’s Center this afternoon. Several heroes will be getting skins to commemorate the upcoming Overwatch League All Star Weekend, and folks tuning into the Grand Finals were given a sneak peek. The two skins, for Genji and Tracer, are meant to correspond to the Atlantic and Pacific divisions of Overwatch League. If you need a refresher, here’s the lineups for the two All Star teams:Representing the Atlantic Divi

Players wanting to improve at Quake Champions now have a new tool at their disposal: official heatmaps of every arena. They’re available here, and you can set them to show either kills or deaths as well as filter for individual weapons. Map knowledge is central to being a good Quake Champions player, and these heatmaps will tell you what spots draw the most action. By filtering by railgun on the same map, you can see there’s one corner passage with a high volume of kills but not many deaths. Per

However, some people in the comments have pointed out that, actually, it’s the camera angle that’s off, and that the grenade lands a fair distance away. It’s close enough to do damage, but far enough to avoid killing the two players. The short clip from another angle shows the grenade bouncing over the players’ heads, while the image shows where the grenade actually ends up. It’s starting to look like that “bugged” frag grenade from @shroud wasn’t actually a bug at all. Shroud , battling in a 1v

The Overwatch League Grand Finals kicked off last night in front of a sold out crowd at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It was an underdog matchup between the Stage One champions: the London Spitfire, and the red hot Philadelphia Fusion. Map 1 – Dorado – Battle for Point CA lot of the best Overwatch from the quarter and semifinals came on point C of Dorado, and that carried over into the Grand Finals. With time running out on the clock, the London Spitfire finally found some traction afte

Destiny 2 PvP players will soon find themselves killing enemies faster thanks to a boost to weapon damage across the board, Bungie has confirmed. The Forsaken expansion, due on September 4, will see the “time to kill” reduced in the Crucible, senior sandbox designer Jon Weisnewski said in a blog post. “You may have noticed from some Forsaken coverage that the weapons are doing a bit more damage than they do in the current version of Destiny 2,” he said. I’m here to quickly confirm that, along wi