For more quality articles about all things PC gaming, you can subscribe now in the UK and the US. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 may have been taken down on Steam, but the superior second entry in the series is still there to grab, and by downloading the open source OpenRCT2 Project alongside it, you’ll be able to unlock the game’s true potential. Instead of diving into new games in the genre, such as the excellent Planet Coaster and Parkitect, players continue to be drawn back to the simple isometric c

We thought it was a good deal when Adata’s SU650 Ultimate 960GB SSD was on sale for $149 last month. That’s actually still a good price, though it’s even cheaper right now—Rakuten (formerly Buy.com) is selling the same drive for just $135.99 today. That’s the lowest price we’ve seen for this drive, or any SSD in the 1TB range. At this price, Adata’s 960GB SSD is around $34 cheaper than Crucial’s MX500 1TB, currently our budget pick among the best SSDs for gaming. Adata’s drive is rated to delive

(Image: © Reddit via digdug-jigjug)If you happen to fly into or out of San Jose airport, you might spot a series of ads disparaging Intel’s Xeon processor family as being crusty old relics. AMD has gone on the offensive, and the message is clear—Xeon is not Epyc, as one of the ads states. In one of the ads (shown above, courtesy of Reddit member digdig-jigjug), AMD basically calls Xeon a dinosaur. And in another post, Reddit member hellae posted a video of several Epyc ads at San Jose airport, a

Fortnite Battle Royale is free, but Fortnite Save the World—the PvE portion that got the ball rolling last year—is not. It’s available for purchase in different flavours of “Founder’s Packs,” which include various hero and weapon start packs, special weapons, and other such in-game loot. Back in March, Epic confirmed that Founder’s Pack owners would also get some new skins, although a date hadn’t been set at that time. To thank you for your continued support, all founder’s pack owners will recei

In the 20 years since Wizards of the Coast bought Dungeons & Dragons, they’ve never truly explored the one most obvious crossover between it and their other most popular product: Magic: The Gathering. A product listing went live Sunday on Amazon is showing off Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica, a Dungeons & Dragons setting supplement for playing on Ravica, one of Magic: The Gathering’s most enduringly popular settings. They also confirmed, and immediately released, a digital guide to adapting older

Unless you’re a fan of France, Football didn’t come home this summer*—sad trumpet—but PES 2019 is coming to PC on August 28. Konami has now released its PC system requirements, and has revealed a playable demo featuring 12 teams is due August 8. The demo shows off some of the game’s official licenses—although not all: Celtic, for example, isn’t present. PES 2019’s full release comes with overhauled myClub features, a so-called “Visible Fatigue” mechanic, and a gorgeous interpretation of early 20

Blizzard will unveil some of the new cards coming our way in The BoomsDay Project, the upcoming Hearthstone expansion that was announced earlier this month. The event will be hosted by Hearthstone senior designer Peter Whalen and Brian Kibler, noted card pro and one-half of the Hearthstone’s ultimate power couple. At Blizzard for the #Boomsday card reveal stream today at 10 AM PDT! I can’t promise anything but if I had to guess I’d say he’ll probably weigh in with some similar analysis of the ca

If a leaked email supposedly sent by one of Nvidia’s hardware partners is any indication, GeForce 11 series cards will start showing up next month. The staggered release will start at the end of August with the GeForce GTX 1180 and continue through the end of October. Here are the dates listed in the email, followed by the video outlining it all:GeForce GTX 1180: August 30GeForce GTX 1170/1180+: September 30GeForce GTX 1160: October 30There are a few things to digest here. One is the mention of

It’s a strategic race to Valhalla where only the strong survive, but at its core it’s also a survival game, so let’s take a look at what surviving means in the world of Rend. You start every match of Rend with nothing but your faction allies and an empty safe haven to build your base. There’s a huge amount of freedom to Rend’s building system. It’s both cooperative and competitive, so you need to outfox the other factions and work together with your own. The faction that can do that will not onl

Two years later, the hype for No Man’s Sky is back reckons our Chris. “We know that over 200 million hours of No Man’s Sky have been played to date,” says Murray. The “first” season of free weekly updates and community events will be free to all players, without microtransactions. “The site features points of interest in the No Man’s Sky Euclid Galaxy, all nominated by you through the survey we created earlier this month. Read Pip’s words on what it’s like to explore No Man’s Sky Next with three

There are possibly too many Warhammer 40,000 games. You’d think that with physical games of Warhammer 40,000 Monopoly coming soon, and digital fare like Warhammer 40,000 chess, we’d be reaching the Space Marine saturation point, but no. A studio somewhere will always be making a Warhammer 40,000 game that will probably get a score of 60-something on PCGamer.com. Alien: Isolation with an unkillable Necron warriorYou could apply the Isolation template to any of the spookier threats in the Warhamme

Last year Marc Laidlaw published a Half-Life 2: Episode 3 synopsis. Speaking to our sister site GamesRadar, Half-Life 2 writer Chet Faliszek says he was “surprised” by his one-time colleague’s decision to publish his ideas. “I’ll let Marc speak for that,” Faliszek tells GR. Read Laidlaw’s Episode 3 fanfic here, and know that while we might never see Half-Life 2: Episode 3/Half-Life 3, this Half-Life mod will let you replace Gordon Freeman with Spyro the Dragon. As reported by Chris, this mod fro

From Mirror’s Edge to Dark Souls 3 and Cuphead, I love watching other people breeze through games I’ve sunk entire days, sometimes weeks, of my life into. As posted to YouTube (via Eurogamer), speedrunner tomatoanus has beaten the Fallout anthology in less than 90 minutes. That’s five games—Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4—in under an hour and a half. Here’s the world record-breaking run in practice—which sees tomatoanus go nuclear on beat the first two games in ju

Shenmue 3’s combined Kickstarter and Slacker Backer drive has now surpassed $7 million. Named ‘Battle System Expanded: AI Battling’, Shenmue 3’s latest Stretch Goal is designed to aid players who aren’t familiar with fighting games. This battle system is highly compatible with, and will be an extension to the current battle system.” At present, the action-adventure ’em up’s Stretch Goal list extends to $11 million—with expanded areas, new jobs and new mini-games all possible. Due at some stage n

With so many to choose from, our list of the best Skyrim mods spans a whopping ten pages. Filipe’s ‘Strength of the Gods’ is my newest favourite because, well, have a gander at the footage below and tell me it’s not hilarious. You can’t miss it, really, but here’s what you’re looking for:I’d suggest Strength of the Gods is a mod best explained in practice. To achieve the same results as the footage above, know that Filipe also has variations of Floating Damage and Floating Healthbar installed. S

Doom has been ported to countless platforms, and back in the ’90s they even managed to get it running on a Super Nintendo. But what of the Nintendo 64? Doom 64 has been properly ported into GZDoom before, so if you want a close-to-authentic experience of the game, Doom 64: Retribution is probably what you’re after. But if you want to play the Doom 64 maps in the vanilla Doom engine, modder / .wadder Mechadon has you sorted. “The goal was to recreate the major aspects of the maps while allowing f

Year of the Dragon is a mod for the original Half-Life currently being created by modder Magic Nipples. When complete, it will let you play Valve’s classic shooter not as a nerdy physicist who is somehow able to demolish SWAT teams, but as lovable purple dragon Spyro. Year of the Dragon has been in the works since November of last year and has made plenty of progress. In the video below you can see how a third-person camera works with Half-Life, as well as check out the gliding mechanics in acti

Two ROM-hosting websites, LoveROMs and LoveRETRO, are the target of a recent lawsuit by Nintendo (a pdf of which is hosted at TorrentFreak). There’s a lot in that 27-page filing, but here’s an explanation of why these sites in particular have been chosen, out of all the similar sites that exist. “The LoveROMs website alone receives 17 million visitors each month. The resulting popularity of Defendants’ LoveROMs and LoveRETRO websites has allowed Defendants to reap substantial ill-gotten gains, i

Genital Jousting has sold 354,139 copies so far. When it launched in Early Access in late 2016, Genital Jousting became a viral sensation—Gang Beasts with wangs. Doing the rounds on social media paid off when Steam sales came round. They didn’t receive a backlash and the game maybe was better than they expected, it received relatively good reviews, that kind of thing. And so Steam kind of made it up to us by including us in Christmas sales and that kind of thing.”

Many of the cards in Gwent—the standalone version of the game, rather than the one you’ll find in The Witcher 3—are animated. Characters swing swords and cast spells, and even the static images slide around as if the camera can’t be still. It makes them feel active and alive, but the art on those cards is so gorgeous sometimes you just want to stare at it without distraction. Anna Podedworna is senior concept artist at CD Projekt Red and she’s illustrated over 50 Gwent cards. Among them are icon