There’s already a mod that will have NPCs’ legs and arms flying every which way, and now another modder has handed players the perfect weapon for the job: Dead Space’s plasma cutter. The creator says it’s “not intended to be an exact copy”, but it will flip between horizontal and vertical firing modes just like the one that Isaac Clarke uses. In its vertical alignment, it fires three laser beam projectiles that deal 13 damage each and collectively use two energy cells. Below is an image of the h

Half Life 2 online co-op mod Obsidian Conflict began life in 2008, and it was last updated in 2013, when a Source engine upgrade broke it so badly that the team decided to move onto other projects. The mod lets you play both Half Life: Source and Half Life 2, including Episodes 1 and 2, with friends via online co-op. On its own, that’d be enough to have me excited, but the bulk of the mod comes in the form of custom maps, game modes and NPCs built in the Half Life 2 universe. The mod also adds n

Valve is offering cash to hackers that can identify security flaws in Steam, and is handing out thousands of dollars to anyone that can find a potentially critical exploit. It’s paying the rewards through HackerOne, a community of “ethical hackers” that aims to find security problems before they are exploited by criminals. Valve is handing out cash on a sliding scale, rewarding anyone identifying a low-risk flaw with up to $200, right up to a minimum of $2,000 for a “critical” exploit. The range

Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia is a strong, streamlined strategy romp let down by a weak late game—so said Fraser in his review. Creative Assembly wants to address those issues in an update next week, which is designed to make the game more difficult in general. It’s not the only change that Creative Assembly plans to make: some fans think that Thrones chops off too many of the features that they’re used to from a Total War game, and streamlines others too liberally. “We need to look at th

Destiny 2’s latest DLC, Warmind, may be light on campaign missions, but it’s heavy on secrets. The one that’s generated the most intrigue is a symbol found in the AI Rasputin’s bunker that appeared to describe a sequence of steps leading to a final puzzle. After lots of decoding, users on the r/raidsecrets subreddit managed to solve the riddle, which pointed them to a real-life location—Sleeping Beauty Mountain in upstate New York. Reddit user I_love_science was quickest off the mark, heading st

Ahead of the full reveal of Rainbow Six Siege’s Operation Para Bellum, the Italian-themed update that will herald the start of a new season in the shooter, Ubisoft has shown off its new map, Villa, in full for the first time. The map is full of marble statues, ornate fountains (look out for the Assassin’s Creed logo) and cosy wine cellars. In designer’s notes ahead of the update, Ubisoft also said that the fastest operators will be slightly slower after the update, while the slowest characters w

Laser League is a game about bouncing neon walls of death into your opponents in a tight multiplayer arena, and it’s just finished its short stint in Early Access, which started in February. To celebrate its full release, it’s free to play until Monday at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm BST, and if you like what you see then you can buy it at a 40% discount, making it $8.99/£6.59. I’ve been following it since Jody tried it out in December, and if you’re a fan of fast-paced multiplayer games, it might be one

Multiplayer FPS Rising Storm 2: Vietnam will add a new faction later this month: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the military force of South Vietnam that fought alongside US soldiers against the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). The update, due on May 29, will also add five maps, two of which are designed for the ARVN. In Rising Storm 2, they get access to the likes of the M1 Garand, the Thompson M1A1 SMG and the M1918A2 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). It made Evan’s list of the best mult

What’s your favorite non-violent PC game? That’s what we’ve asked the writers of the global PC Gamer team today. Tom Senior: EVE OnlineEVE Online isn’t a non-violent game exactly, but if you keep your head down you can coast around in high-sec space admiring nebulae and bathing in the sweeping synth soundtrack. Chris Livingston: You Don’t Know JackI still play You Don’t Know Jack every now and then. It’s hard to see how potentially erasing your sense of personhood could be non-violent, but the g

Microsoft’s ‘Mixed Reality’ headsets offer a much better value, while retaining compatibility with nearly all VR software. Now you can get a certified refurbished HP Mixed Reality headset for just $159.99 on Amazon. Almost every Mixed Reality headset has the same specifications. The headset works with basically every VR title on Steam, including Vive/Oculus games developed before the Mixed Reality headsets came out. You can grab a refurbished HP Mixed Reality headset here.

Tim Clark: EnragedThere’s a new Rage game, who knew! Speaking of which, the PC Gaming Show at E3 is coming back. Tom Senior: GratuitousDo you like free games? In other free game news, I have been enjoying Tix.Tax this week, a game that takes humble playground fave noughts and crosses to the next level. But its release is just another example of what has been a quietly brilliant year for dyed-in-the-wool PC games.

As Cassie, not only are you fighting your own creeping irrelevance, you’re battling actual monsters who’ve invaded your office. This game of cards is simultaneously a round of rock paper scissors where you draw cards to predict what the enemy will do next. However, when it comes down to it, this is still a game that’s largely based on chance. A card-based battle system that relies on rock paper scissors sounds risky, but it works. Fortune-499 was originally released as part of the Humble Monthly

It’s been more than four years since the “archaeological ruin exploration action game” La-Mulana 2 was successfully funded on Kickstarter, to the tune of $267,000. Work has slowly (apparently very slowly) but surely progressed since then, and today developer Nigoro threw open the doors to a “teaser” website and a Steam page. “The release is happening this Summer,” La-Mulana creator Takumi Naramura wrote in a Kickstarter update. La-Mulana 2 stars Lumisa Kosugi, daughter of the hero of the first g

Streamer James “PhantomL0rd” Varga filed a lawsuit against Twitch in February over the 2016 suspension of his account, resulting from his alleged ownership of CSGO skin gambling site CSGOShuffle. “In running these promotions, Mr. Varga breached his contractual obligations to Twitch and made material misrepresentations to defraud Twitch and its users. Twitch brings this action in order to seek redress for the harm that these and other violations by Mr. Varga caused it and its users.” The suit doe

Excellent card crawler Slay the Spire released a new update today, adding a profuse pile of potions to the game’s mixture of deck building and dungeon crawling. The new update is actually a rework of the whole potions system, previously functional but a bit lackluster. Perhaps my favorite new potion is the Gambler’s Brew, which allows you to discard any number of cards, then draw that many. For the curious, a redditor has taken a dive into the code to uncover the effects of all the new potions .

Just in time for the weekend, Fortnite’s 50v50v2 mode is back in action. The mode drops two teams of 50 players on opposite sides of the island with ten minutes to loot, five minutes to fight, and then five more minutes as the storm closes in. pic.twitter.com/mTDmIar5McMay 11, 2018The return of the mode is a surprise, but what makes it especially unusual is that it will run side-by-side with the Thanos mode that kicked off earlier this week. That mode enables players to don the mighty Infinity G

2D action roguelike Dead Cells recently received its seventh major update—dubbed ‘The Baguette Update’ for reasons I can’t begin to guess—and with it a batch of changes mostly centered around upgrading gear. You can also reroll and upgrade weapons at a new blacksmith NPC. Legendary weapons come with exclusive bonuses, and you can receive legendary versions of weapons whose blueprints you haven’t unlocked. Motion Twin also took this time to announce that Dead Cells will leave Steam Early Access i

Minor changes have occured in otherwise abandoned parts of the map, too, with a mysterious indestructible vault showing up in the Wailing Woods. With all the evidence in hand and our corkboard conspiracy hats on, let’s take a guess at what might await in Fortnite Season 4. Head to the Wailing Woods and you’ll find one of the simplest map additions yet: an indestructible hatch leading nowhere. Maybe the Wailing Woods will get an underground facility with multiple openings throughout to make it a

Final Fantasy 11 might have a small and passionate playerbase, but there’s no denying that its best days are far behind it. “Final Fantasy 11 has always held a special place in my heart,” he told me in an email. If you never played, it might be hard to comprehend, but Final Fantasy 11 was a very special kind of MMO. Unlike modern MMOs, Final Fantasy 11 had no accessible fast travel system to help traverse it’s massive world. If you have the time and money for a subscription fee, I’d absolutely r

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided was good, but for a variety of reasons it wasn’t exactly a big hit. That led to rumors in early 2017 that Eidos Montreal, which had previously positioned the Deus Ex series as its flagship, had basically shelved it in favor of other things. “Deus Ex, of course, it’s the brand of the studio. The news is somewhat less happy for fans of Thief, which didn’t get the same “not dead” seal of approval that Anfossi offered Deus Ex. He repeated the point that Eidos Montreal is alr