People Can Fly, the developer of Painkiller, Bulletstorm, and Gears of War: Judgment, revealed today that it is developing a new “AAA shooter” in partnership with Square Enix. PCF was founded in 2004 and acquired by Epic in 2012, shortly after the release of Bulletstorm. “We decided in 2017 to open a new studio in Newcastle, the UK, to attract not only local talent, but also to attract the best developers within the UK. We want this team to grow to 20-30 developers within the next 12-18 months,”

To deal with both issues, Valve is rolling out a new SteamVR Input system that allows for custom controller bindings. Developers control the default bindings for each controller type, and can offer alternate control schemes directly without the need to change the games themselves,” Valve explains. Beyond the benefit for developers, the new input system allows users to bind their own custom configurations for different games, which has several upsides. It also opens the door to custom control sch

Billed as the “latest blood sport to sweep Los Santos”, Trap Door pits teams against one another on a floating, ever-shrinking platform. For the next seven days, it offers double RP and GTA$. Here’s Trap Door in motion, courtesy GTA Series Videos. Nevertheless, I had fun in Trap Door although do wonder how much this was influenced by its double money and experience bounty. Biker Business and Smuggler’s Run Sell Missions are also subject to double GTA$ and experience for the next seven days.

Stardew Valley’s long-awaited multiplayer is finally here, and while it’s still in beta, it’s already pretty darn great. Developer Eric Barone (aka ConcernedApe) is in the process of smoothing out kinks and integrating features and changes suggested by players, and I reckon Nexus modder CatCattyCat has a winning suggestion on their hands. Their new quality of life mod (which you can download here ) lets you copy multiplayer invite codes to your clipboard and easily paste them into messages to yo

As you take on new jobs you move into the cities and take jobs on tired old concrete high streets. The game’s Brexit stance is the headline-grabber, but these sardonic snapshots of British nightlife are the best thing about the game. Papers, Please managed to put a lot of tactile interactions into the bureaucratic busywork to keep it involving, but Not Tonight doesn’t manage this. Not Tonight is really about a particular strain of British nationalism, and the fear of that moving from far right f

Overwatch has achieved an impressive feat: the game now has more than 40 million players, game director Jeff Kaplan revealed in a developer update today. This milestone comes as the game prepares to celebrate its second anniversary with a seasonal event that will bring back all of the game’s previous skins, Brawls, and other cosmetics to unlock and play. In the developer update, Kaplan shared a few more details about the upcoming event, which kicks off on May 22. Namely, he mentioned that a cert

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. The Secret of Monkey Island Developer: Lucasfilm GamesYear: 1990 A genre-changing adventure game from Lucasfilm. For more of the studio’s history, check out our feature on the secret history of LucasArts. One of the most frustrating misconceptions in adventure gaming is that if you want to make the next Monkey Island, you should basically make Monkey Island. In fact, Monkey Island was a game ro

Rage 2 is happening, we learned for certain yesterday, with Doom masterminds id Software and Just Cause and Max Max developer Avalanche Studios at its helm. Monday’s live-action announcement trailer echoes the latter, with a cast of excitable road warrior types punching, kicking and dousing themselves in lager. Now, we know Rage 2 is out next year, we know the premise of its story, and we’ve got a glimpse at how it’ll look in practice. Rage 2’s post-apocalypse comes courtesy of an asteroid that’

Twitch has introduced a set of custom filters that let PUBG enthusiasts better organise their streams. The new options let viewers skip matches—be that team games, duos or solo bouts—based on how many players are left alive. Seriously, no one needs to watch a stranger getting their arse kicked while chasing a bare-fisted chicken dinner. No one likes a chicken dinner when it’s cold.Be there for the big moments by watching @PUBG on Twitch with our new custom filters. pic.twitter.com/A4w2z0Bs2sMay

I can’t write about Outlast 2 without recalling Tim’s ‘charred baby pit’ preview headline, which perfectly captures the tone of Red Barrels’ survival horror sequel. Pitches like that are a hard mould to break, I imagine, particularly when the series in question has sold 15 million units and has accrued $64 million. Speaking at Berlin’s Quo Vadis conference (via gamesindustry.biz), the developer’s Philippe Morin said despite his desire to do “something completely different” next, the success of t

The most recent aesthetic-adjuster to catch my eye is Modojo’s New Clouds for Visual V. It is gorgeous. New Clouds for Visual V is a work-in-progress endeavour that leans on that to retexture the San Andreas sky. Look, see:The same creator’s Mirror Park Garden mod is a couple of years old now, but is no less impressive. With the help of 1,100 or so props, this undertaking transforms the game’s Mirror Park into a leafy paradise that’s designed to reflect Tokyo’s Shinjuku National Garden. More on

“That was an awful fight,” says popular Dark Souls 3 speedrunner Nemz38 after felling The Ringed City’s Demon Prince boss. Which is why I love Dark Souls speedruns. Like, beating Dark Souls 3, its Ashes of Ariandel and Ringed City expansions—without relying on the major exploits often used in these runs—in just one hour, 25 minutes and 19 seconds. There was a time when Nemz38 held all eight Dark Souls 3 world records, but it looks like new faces have emerged since I last checked. If speedrunning

Last September, we learned that Shuyo Murata and Hideo Kojima’s Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner was en route to PC. This September, we’ll get to play it—as the third-person mech action slasher is due September 6, 2018. Having first starred on PlayStation 2 consoles in 2003, Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner Mars—or M∀RS, as it’s stylised—is a 4K remaster that supports VR. Here’s another look at the Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner Mars comparison trailer, which contrasts this outing, the H

And that makes it roughly half the price of Logitech’s high-end wireless gaming mouse and similar Razer models. It’s no replacement for Logitech’s high-end G903, the best wireless gaming mouse, but it also isn’t trying to be. Here are the important details: the G305 uses an ambidextrous design, but only has thumb buttons on its left side. From my time using the G305, I think the near-identical design to the Pro will please anyone who likes a dead simple gaming mouse. Between that design element

But before that can happen, the world’s top 20 pro PUBG teams have to be sorted out, and for that there will be regional qualifiers in North America, Europe, and Asia. First on that list will be the PGI North America Qualifier, which will put 320 teams from Canada, Mexico, and the US into a bag, shake it up, and wait for three of them to fight their way out. Initial winnowing will unfold over three rounds running May 24-27, which will leave 20 teams to compete in 12 matches during a final round

The 1TB Crucial MX500 has been our top SSD choice for a while now. It offers great performance for its price, even when stacked up against Samsung’s line of SATA drives. Now the 1TB MX500 is at its lowest price yet—just $216.06 on Amazon. You can read more about the drive in our Best SSD guide, but put simply, it’s a great option for gaming and general productivity. You can buy the 1TB MX500 here.

Russian developer Mundfish quietly released the first trailer for Soviet-era shooter Atomic Heart last week, and it drew a crowd almost immediately. As Joe said, at first blush Atomic Heart echoes games like BioShock, Nier: Automata and Stalker in its art and themes. But while some elements of Atomic Heart are undeniably similar to other games, what actually inspired its bonkers setting? And yet, as another blog pos t explains, Atomic Heart has a love story at its core. Bagratuni described Atomi

As ESPN reports, the ruling opens the door to legal sports betting in any state that wishes to offer it. And as attorney and ESG Law founder Bryce Blum pointed out on Twitter, esports gambling is already tremendously lucrative. The Supreme Court just struck down the primary law restricting sports betting throughout the US.This will have a profound impact on the esports industry and we’re so underprepared for it. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, an investor in the esports betting site Unikrn, p

In 1995, one eager young videogame fan submitted their own three-tier level of fantasy platforming, a dark dungeon spread over two notebook pages. Return to the Evil Warlock’s Castle, or “Возвращение в замок злого колдуна” in Russian (she calls it BB33K for short), is that game. The dripping water, for instance, creates puddles that grow larger the longer you play and which you can eventually drown in. The paintings come to life, and the black circles are a killer ball that grows tiny legs to cl

Ubisoft has pulled back the curtain ever so slightly on the new Rainbow Six Siege defender Alibi, one of two new Italian operators coming to the game in Operation Para Bellum. Alibi, real name Aria de Luca, was born in Libya and emigrated to Italy with her parents when she was three. She then worked undercover for several years as part of an operation that brought down the Vinciguerra crime family. Ubisoft also showed off the new Villa map coming in Operation Para Bellum over the weekend, and we