We were pretty excited about American folk-tale travelogue Where the Water Tastes Like Wine when we first heard about it, but upon release our reviewer Tyler Wilde was moderate in his praise: “It tells over 200 tiny tales, and several bigger ones, at an agonizingly slow pace. There’s truth to find within its choppy transcontinental trek, but it comes at the expense of sore eyes.” As well as modifying the way travel works, and catching a few bugs, this patch adds to the trove of tales you’ll find

State of Decay 2, the new zombie apocalypse survival simulator from Undead Labs and Microsoft, has just been updated to version 1.2 with a hefty 20GB patch. You can read full patch notes on the official website. According to studio head Jeff Strain, “This patch today is just the beginning — we have big plans for State of Decay 2, and we’re humbled and appreciative to you for giving us the opportunity to make those big plans happen.” Our reviewer Tom Hatfield enjoyed State of Decay 2, but did run

The creators of Overland, they went on to publish other indie games like Night in the Woods and Tunic. When you’re in a relationship with someone and you’re also working together there’s an overlap between your personal relationship and work relationship that you have to be aware of. There’s been moments where we’ve worked on something and we’re both really really stressed. RVDS: Often when you work with people who aren’t your close friends or partner, it’s hard to admit that you don’t really kn

On March 22 one of Steam’s regular updates was rolled out, complete with fixes to the in-game overlay and problems involving corrupt items on the Steam Workshop. It also dealt with a bug that made it possible for someone to get access to the computer of anyone with Steam run code remotely, effectively taking over their computer. What that means is that, as he demonstrated in the video below, he could hijack a computer and run software remotely. In this test case it was just a calculator app, but

Remember Evolve, the 4v1 multiplayer shooter about hunting down giant, human-controlled monsters? Player numbers dwindled soon after its 2015 release, and later that year developer Turtle Rock Studios ended support for the game. In September, dedicated servers will stop running, which means no more ranked play, no more leaderboards, and no more in-game store. At the same time, Evolve Stage 2—the free-to-play branch of the game—will shut down entirely. While Evolve won’t be fully dead, it’ll be o

Fallout: New California is a massive New Vegas mod that’s been in development since 2013—and now it finally has a release date. It’ll be out on October 23, and will offer a brand new story with 12 endings and 16,000 lines of voiced dialogue. The main quest, which is essentially a prequel to New Vegas, is complete and the art is finished, but the team are still working on side quests. Still, I wouldn’t say no to another chunky Fallout main quest. It’ll be available on Nexus Mods, and the team are

Path of Exile’s Incursion league, which Steven spoke to the developers about in length last month, is now live. Incursion has you hunt down Atzoatl, an ancient Vaal treasure temple. The time-bending twist is that your actions during your 11 incursions into the past will change that final temple dungeon run. But reaching the original poison room netted him a shield that you can’t find anywhere else. The Incursion league will run for three months.

Turns out, a vampire story can be plenty scary, as everyone who’s played through the Ocean House Hotel will tell you. At this point in Bloodlines you’re a fledgling, getting used to your abilities and being bossed around by established undead. But the Ocean House Hotel is an inspired bit of spooky design—especially the sound. When the Ocean House Hotel starts throwing vases and blowing up lightbulbs as you pass, it shouldn’t be a big deal. The Ocean House Hotel stands out though, a high point of

Fanatical is selling Bethesda-published games for cheap until Monday, which means you can pick up Fallout 4, Dishonored 2 and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus for near to their cheapest-ever prices. Fallout 4 is $12/£9, which is cheaper than it’s ever been on Steam or the Humble Store, while its impressive VR version is $35/£26, the cheapest it’s been anywhere since it came out last year. Dishonored 2, which remains the best immersive sim on PC, is $17/£12.50, which is another bargain. Wolfenstei

Insurgency: Sandstorm, the sequel to objective-based multiplayer FPS Insurgency, will release in September, developer New World Interactive has announced. It’ll cost $29.99 on Steam, and it’ll come with four game modes: Push, Firefight, and Capture the Base for versus play, plus Checkpoint for co-op. All but Capture the Base featured in the first game. Players will be able to use around 40 weapons at launch, and the same number of weapon upgrades. In free updates after launch, New World Interact

I was really looking forward to Murderous Pursuits, the PvP assassination game about trying to blend in with a crowd of NPCs. It’s the spiritual successor to The Ship, which I loved, and shares some of the same developers. Also, if you buy the game at Green Man Gaming this weekend you’ll get a free extra copy to give to a friend, which might help pad the player count. The developers released a road map last month laying out the future updates, which you can view below. Essentially, the plan is t

To reiterate, then: which game series burned you out? I really, really loved the chaos and destruction of Just Cause 1 and 2 but it tended to be a bit mindless—which is great! I know I probably would have enjoyed it for a few hours, but couldn’t imagine I’d really get deep into it. It’s the same convoluted Resident Evil nonsense I’d been hoping the series had left behind for good. MM6: Mandate of Heaven was the last game in the series I played more than a few hours, and I never even tried MM8 th

This was originally published in Edge 309 in July 2017, and is republished here with the Edge team’s permission. For that game, Dallas hoped to create a sense of awe and wonder; this time he was hoping to evoke “the sublime horror of nature”. Nature’s sublime horror suddenly had a comedic edge, and the story of young Molly Finch – the first of this familial anthology – gradually took shape. “It was just about making sure that it was handled with the [appropriate] gravity and that it was respectf

These games focus on romancing flirty anime characters, and sometimes contain graphic sexual content as a key part of narrative progression. In May, several developers and publishers—including Lupiesoft, HunieDev, and MangaGamer—said that Valve informed them their games would be removed from Steam unless sexual content was censored. Most eroge games on Steam are already heavily censored to fall in line with Valve’s community standards. John Pickett, MangaGamerTaosym admitted that a potential cra

Destiny 2 developer Bungie has announced a new investment from Chinese online gaming company NetEase that it says will help bring its “newest ambitions to life.” The goal is to transform Bungie “from a single franchise development team into a global, multi-franchise entertainment studio.” Now, our long-term goal is to become an entertainment company that sustains many worlds simultaneously—Destiny and new worlds to come,” Bungie said. We have exciting plans for the future of the Destiny franchis

It’s the PC Gamer Indie zine , our one-off homage to photocopied fanzines and the passion that drives them. Indie games should be talked about in slick full-color of course, but their defiantly amateurish and gleefully trashy side deserves love too. I also had a lot of fun sneaking in various PC Gamer references and running gags. It’s silly and heartfelt and it feels like a fitting goodbye from me to the Indie channel, but I’ll save being maudlin for the Lows. Tom Senior: Kharaking good timeThis

The Sky Noon beta test that ran in April went well, according to a recent update from developer Lunar Rooster, and so with that taken care of the studio has announced that an Early Access launch has been set for June 14. Sky Noon is basically what would happen if you mixed LawBreakers with Lee Van Cleef and gave everybody overpowered Airsoft guns. It’s an FPS, but there are no bullets or health bars. The Early Access release of Sky Noon will go for $15 on Steam, but there may be an opportunity t

The Fortnite “Solo Showdown” limited time competitive mode that debuted last month is back with an updated format and a new name: Blitz Showdown. The new mode “picks up on the pace and speed,” Epic explained, by mixing the ranked action of Showdown with features from the Blitz mode Epic rolled out in March, including faster storm circles and combat. Blitz Showdown rankings will be based on 25 matches played instead of 50, as it was with Solo Showdown, and eliminations will factor into the final

The Games Workshop licensing machine continues to grind inexorably forward with today’s announcement of Warhammer: Chaosbane, a new isometric action-RPG set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe. The new game will be set in the Old World, “a dark and bloody continent” comprised primarily of human nations, that has suffered numerous invasions over the years by the greenskins, skaven, undead, and others. (A quick crash course: Games Workshop maintains two Warhammer settings, Warhammer Fantasy and Warh

Bursting into gaming in 2008 with Dominion, the deckbuilding genre has grown wildly in the past decade, eclipsing any expectations one might have had at the time. Deckbuilders take the nominally out-of-game mechanic of competitive card games, building your deck, and make it the focus of the game itself. We’re now in the era of the rising roguelike deck builder with wonderful games like Slay the Spire. Revisiting Ascension helped me realize how varied the deckbuilding genre had become, and it let