Developer PUBG Corp has now apologised for not detailing said changes in the update’s patch notes. “First things first,” reads this Steam Community update, “we should have explained the change in the patch notes. “First, the primary audio changes have to do with the sounds other players’ gunshots make,” the update adds. In a separate Steam Community update, PUBG Corp reveals Ghillie Crossing as the battle royale’s latest limited-time Event Mode. Set on Erangel, says the developer, Ghillie Suits

Photo credit: Lance McDonald. Dark Souls detective Lance McDonald is an indie developer turned hobbyist game engineer. Dark Souls: Remastered appears to have launched on Steam a day early, and McDonald has in turn entered Lordran. Dark Souls REMASTERED contains 17 unused maps files. pic.twitter.com/pKMckQxuWUMay 24, 2018Dark Souls REMASTERED cut developer testing map loaded, alright baby here we go!

Announced at PDXCon 2018, Age of Wonders: Planetfall is a sci-fi spin on Triumph Studios’ turn-based strategy series. As teased in the trailer above, Planetfall has sci-fi-inspired, turn-based, ranged combat—which makes comparisons to XCOM inevitable, reckons Sas. One significant different between Age of Wonders of old and Planetfall, however, is the busyness of battlefields. “There’s a lot more interaction with the terrain compared to previous Age of Wonders games,” says Sas. Age of Wonders: Pl

We Happy Few was refused classification by the Australian Classification Board earlier this week, meaning it won’t be available to purchase in the country. But Compulsion Games writes that it will issue refunds in the event that it can’t work something out with the board. In one sequence, an NPC is viewed on the ground, convulsing owing to a reaction from taking a Joy pill, which has subsequently turned bad. In the past, studios have altered games in order to have them comply with the Australian

When Sunset Overdrive released for Xbox One in 2014, it was a bit of an anomaly. It was developed by Insomniac Games, a studio with a long history developing exclusives for Sony consoles. It was also a lot more colourful than anything else on the market. A spokesperson for Insomniac Games expressed a willingness to bring the game to PC back in 2016, so long as Microsoft would allow it. Given that company’s increased willingness to bring its first- and third-party exclusives to PC, it seems fairl

Grimmwood, now in free open beta, is a ‘social survival game’. Every night at midnight monsters attack the town, and every night their attacks get more and more deadly. Nearly every action you take uses stamina points. If you run out, you’ll need to replenish your stamina points either by eating, drinking a potion, or resting. I try to make camp and rest, but I don’t even have enough stamina points to make a campsite.

Battlefield 5 will eschew loot boxes entirely, with cosmetic items the only goods available to buy with real world money. Those cosmetic items can also be acquired using an in-game currency which can be earned by playing the game, an EA spokesperson told Polygon. It’s in contrast with Battlefield 1, which launched with its own loot box variant called Battle Packs. Overall, the Battle Packs offered no in-game advantages (unless you count XP boosts), but DICE appears to be removing all element of

Welcome 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 discuss our impressions of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Fortnite’s new investment in jetpacks (and $100 million in esports bucks), the Battlefield 5 reveal stream, and then we close with listener questions. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podcast RSS feedWatch

Image source: BAFTATim Schafer has made some pretty great games over the years, like Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and Psychonauts. He was also recently awarded a BAFTA Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award and “the highest accolade BAFTA can bestow up an individual.” “This sort of award feels like something you get when you’re done, but I still feel like I’m working towards figuring out how to make games. “I don’t think I’ve made my best game yet, and I feel like that’s

Intel’s high-end X299 platform includes processors like the Core i9-7960X and Core i9-7940X. Those CPUs can regularly cost more than a thousand dollars, but a matching motherboard doesn’t have to. EVGA’s X299 FTW K is currently $169.99 from the company’s online store, and it regularly goes for $280 on Amazon. It supports three-way SLI, up to 128GB of RAM across four DIMM slots, 8 SATA connectors, three M.2 slots, 14 USB ports, and more. EVGA says this deal is for today only, so don’t wait for to

Crusader Kings, everyone’s favorite medieval dating, plague, and war simulator, is coming to the tabletop. Like the video game, much of Crusader Kings was about diplomacy, bartering, and alliances. It’s very much the kind of story engine that fans of Crusader Kings on PC will enjoy. That said, it’s very much the kind of story engine that fans of Crusader Kings on PC will enjoy. In just a handful of plays of the game I’d seen the kinds of stories that you play dozens of hours of the PC game for.

If you don’t already play Battlefield, these adjustments may not seem like big deals, but they are. Here’s everything we know about Battlefield 5 so far…Battlefield 5 arrives first for Origin Access members on October 11. In the meantime, you can grab Battlefield 4’s Final Stand and Battlefield 1’s In the Name of the Tsar DLC packs for free. Battlefield 5 takes place during World War 2, a homecoming for the series since departing its original setting nearly 14 years ago. If you’re resupplying

Announced during today’s Live Reveal event, EA has confirmed October 19 as Battlefield 5’s launch date. As hinted at earlier this week, the long-serving shooter returns to World War 2, and marks the occasion with its first trailer. Here’s that:Moreover, EA says owners of the game’s Deluxe Edition can check in early via its Early Enlister Access initiative from October 16. EA says an open beta will run between now and release, however that’s without a hard launch date for now. Yesterday, we viewe

Battlefield 5 will not have a Premium Pass. Maps, modes, or anything that might divide players will be free, including events that will be run as part of BF5’s new months-long Tides of War chapters. What exactly will be for sale after Battlefield 5 releases hasn’t been announced in detail, but EA has assured us that anything you can buy, you can earn by playing, and that players won’t be able to buy an “unfair gameplay advantage”—so we’re talking about cosmetic items only, presumably. It’s proba

During today’s livestream, and also a pre-brief we viewed yesterday, EA revealed that Battlefield 5 will include a 4-player co-op mode. The last time we saw co-op in Battlefield was in Battlefield 3’s 2-player campaign. Battlefield 5’s co-op won’t be quite the same. Combined Arms won’t include just one set of static missions. Rather than a conventional singleplayer campaign, Battlefield 5 will also include War Stories, like Battlefield 1.

But if you can’t use a keyboard and you can barely use a mouse, how do you play games on PC? Microsoft is changing that by creating the Xbox Adaptive Controller (XAC). They’re industry standard, so players will be able to purchase a variety of switches to fit their needs. Because the XAC emulates a standard Xbox controller, Windows will automatically recognize it. For $99, players with disabilities will be able to purchase the base model of the new Xbox controller.

After two years of work, the small team at Norwegian developer 4Bit Games recently released Prime Mover, an open-ended puzzle game about building circuit boards that fulfill “a wide variety of logic and computer science-inspired problems.” Admittedly, my experience as a computer scientist amounts to tinkering with redstone in Minecraft, but nearest I can tell Prime Mover’s puzzles are about inputs, outputs and the rules that connect them. Rather than a single solution, each level has a goal, and

Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought so, as Stoneshard recently passed its Kickstarter funding target. So, developer Ink Stains Games has moved onto stretch goals like more environments, dungeons, classes and races. Ink Stains also released a free demo which covers the game’s prologue, which you can download on Itch.io. Naturally, you won’t be locked to the demo character in the full game, either. Stoneshard sounds almost dangerously ambitious, so it’s nice to see it hit its Kickstarter

Epic Games has some big plans for Fortnite at E3, the biggest among them being a 100-player Celebrity Pro-Am tournament. 50 Fortnite pros will be paired up with 50 celebrities to compete for a share of a $3 million prize pool for charity. The winning team will claim $1 million to give to the charity of their choices, while the balance of the prize pool will be divided between the runners-up. Epic clarified that the Pro-Am prize money is not part of the $100 million prize pool that was recently a

Over at Newegg, you can pick up MSI’s Infinite X desktop with an Intel Core i7-8700 processor and GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card for $1,549.99, marked down from its $1,699.99 list price. The same desktop sells for $1,699 on the nose at Amazon, through ExcaliberPC, so you’re saving a nice chunk of change on this desktop. The graphics card predictably looks to be an MSI-brand variant as well—the Armor SKU, if the photos are accurate. It’s a nice gaming box, though not necessarily cheaper than b