Darkest Dungeon will again lead us into the depths of depravity next month, with the launch of its The Color of Madness DLC. Due on June 19, Miller’s farm is the player’s place of pilgrimage this time round—where a belligerent alien race has set up shop on the outskirts of the Hamlet. Back at base, The Color of Madness introduces four new District buildings, while the Jeweler now pedals new trinkets. “Some hateful shard of alien origin has streaked through the night sky, crashing into the old Mi

The last time I played fantastical 4X game Dominions for a diary feature I ended up sacrificing hundreds of blood slaves to cast the game world into a screaming eternal night. The game generates some auspicious titles for him and soon Gondalf, Holder of The Windbag, The Invincible and Ever-Triumphant, walks the earth. I notice similarities to another famous fantasy wizard and, not wishing to infringe on any trademarks, I name him Gondalf. Encouraged, I point Gondalf at a nearby Abysian fortress

Firewatch developer Campo Santo was bought over by Valve last month. In an interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Campo’s Sean Vanaman explains that despite the takeover, he and his team will retain their creative freedom while working on their next game, In the Valley of Gods. They’ll also benefit from the support of a much larger talent pool. Vanaman however stresses that said support won’t compromise flexibility, telling RPS that Campo as it now exists will continue developing in Unity, and not

Loot boxes have been a real source of trouble for Electronic Arts in recent months, beginning with a furor over their implementation last year in Star Wars: Battlefront 2, and growing from there into a wave of international criticism. “And we don’t believe that FIFA Ultimate Team or loot boxes are gambling.” (Seeking Alpha transcribed Wilson’s statement as, “we don’t believe that FIFA Ultimate Team – all loot boxes are gambling.” The phone audio isn’t clear, however, and it doesn’t make sense fo

In case you hadn’t heard, Risk of Rain 2 will depart dramatically from the first game’s lo-fi, sidescrolling pixel aesthetic. Hopoo Games has decided to take a third-person approach, and judging by a whopping ten minute gameplay video released today, the studio might have made the right decision. “New classes, levels, items, monsters, bosses, and of course original ones from Risk of Rain have been added,” the update reads. We are trying our best to make sure there isn’t a lot of filler items or

Agony looks like a charming video game. Instead of gloomy dark hallways containing jump scare monstrosities, the actual hallways themselves are monstrosities (they pulsate and bleed and generally look unpleasant). And in keeping with Outlast 2’s infamous charred baby pit, this new Agony story trailer (embedded below) shows a baby being fed to a big gaping mouth. The trailer purports to outline the game’s story. Don’t get me wrong, I will play this wretched video game and hopefully enjoy it, but

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 Destiny 2’s latest expansion and seasonal changes, Fortnite’s surprising Thanos cameo, and Two Point Hosptial’s attempt to revive goofy hosptial sims. We close with listener questions, as always. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podcast RSS feedWatch

I found Haiku Adventure tucked away in the Leftfield section on the basement floor of EGX Rezzed this year. Maybe that seems overly poetic, but Haiku Adventure is all about poetry and calmness. Haiku Adventure is heavily inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e landscape prints (think of The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai). Haiku Adventure uses haiku to allow for a more magical interpretation of the natural world. Haiku Adventure is in the very early stages of production with the demo at Rezzed being ma

Did you hear they added Thanos to Fortnite? Andy Kelly: Dear EstherIt’s exactly the same game, in every way, except the narration is performed by Josh Brolin doing the Thanos voice. Plus, there are people just dying to write some Thanos fanfic, and the Witcher world would be a perfect fit. Have Thanos threaten to delete half the players’ accounts unless they defeat him, just so we can watch. Like a top-down version of Evolve, with five people growing increasingly furious at Thanos team-wiping th

Rather than the old brain-teaser flash games it resembles, Tiny Bubbles reminds me more of Nour , an interactive food sim expressly about playing with your food. I’ll probably never get tired of watching them stretch and pop and squish together, which is good because Tiny Bubbles gives you a whopping 172 puzzles for $10. And apart from primary and secondary color bubbles, I’ve also seen brown bubbles which can only be made by mixing contrasting colors, and black bubbles which cannot be popped. D

Earlier today, Walmart Canada accidentally posted a list of new games, some announced and others not, that will presumably be revealed next month at E3. One of the surprise games on the list is Rage 2. The original Rage wasn’t exactly a smash hit that demanded a sequel, after all, and neither Bethesda nor id Software have dropped a hint about it since Bethesda vice president of marketing Pete Hines allowed that Rage may have sold well enough to warrant a sequel. Not long after reports of the Wal

Last month, Twitch and Overwatch League announced the Overwatch League All-Access Pass , a paid viewership tier intended for Overwatch League superfans. Of those rewards, the Command Center most caught my eye. The thought of an extra camera angle jumped out at me, so I was eager to give Command Center a try. The one thing I wanted from Command Center was to be able to choose my own camera angle and follow specific players throughout a match. Unfortunately, Command Center’s extra camera angle isn

DayZ creative director Brian Hicks, who recently soothed Chris’ concerns about the addition of a sprint meter, has announced that he is leaving Bohemia Interactive. Hicks compared his departure with that of Dean Hall, the creator of the original DayZ mod for Arma 2, who expressed similar sentiments about his own departure from Bohemia in 2014. The loss of Hicks is big, but as he suggested, it sounds like DayZ is coming together well. Lead producer Eugen Harton said recent stress testing of the .

Nvidia’s latest graphics cards are finally selling at MSRP again, both for Founders Edition and custom cooled models. Newegg is hawking an Asus G11DF mid-tower gaming desktop with an AMD Ryzen 7 1700 processor, 8GB of DDR4 memory, and a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card. It also has a 256GB SSD for the OS and and a 1TB HDD for storage, plus a DVD burner. Physical ports on the front consist of two USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-A and two USB 2.0 ports, along with separate headphone and microphone jacks. Around b

Don’t be surprised if, during your travels on the web today, you are greeted by a “Red Alert” in support of net neutrality. It’s because a whole bunch of popular websites are trying to drum up support for a push in Congress to force a vote on the FCC’s removal of net neutrality rules. Led by FCC chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC previously voted 3-2 to remove net neutrality rules that were put in place under the previous administration. Net neutrality is not a partisan issue outside of Washington, DC.

The first on the way is the is the Steam Link app. Like the Steam Link itself (the little streaming box Valve released in 2015) in software form, the app will allow Steam users to stream their games to Android-powered TVs and Apple TV boxes, as well as iOS and Android tablets and phones. The Steam Link app is due out for both iOS and Android the week of May 21st, though Valve notes that the Android version will initially be in beta. Why buy a $50 single-purpose device when a new TV or Apple TV b

Nvidia’s previous driver release ended up causing issues for some GeForce GTX 1060 owners (and possibly owners of other graphics cards as well), putting affected users into an installation loop. [GeForce GTX 1060]: Windows Device Manager may report Code 43 error. [Windows 10]: Driver may get removed after the PC has been left idle for an extended period of time. There are still several known issues that Nvidia is working to fix in a future driver update. You can grab the latest driver through Ge

An errant listing on Walmart Canada’s website may have spoiled some of the fun planned for this year’s E3. Something new on the Assassin’s Creed front is hardly an out-of-the-blue shocker, and Borderlands 3, as mentioned, is a “secret” only in the most technical sense. But a new Splinter Cell game still only exists in the shadowy realm of rumor, and I don’t think there’s been any real talk of Rage 2 or Just Cause 4 prior to this. And of course none of this is official in any way, but the Splinte

Indie developer and publisher Acram Digital’s board game adaptations have been removed from Steam following an announcement from Valve confirming that the company engaged in review manipulation. Acram had two games on Steam: Eight-Minute Empire and Steam: Rails to Riches, both adaptations of well-regarded board games. Per Valve’s announcement, existing owners will still have access to the removed games. He added that he posted reviews using six fake accounts he registered and paid for himself. H

Earlier today we reported that Nvidia had restocked its site with Founders Edition graphics cards at MSRP, with availability for every GeForce GTX 10 series SKU. It’s not just those vanilla cards that are back to normal prices today, so are the custom cooled cards by Nvidia’s hardware partners, and all across the web! “If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to pick up a GeForce GTX 10-Series GPU, now’s the perfect time! For now, anyway, there is a wide assortment of custom cooled cards to c