Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia marches into battle today, and tasks players with conquering the British Isles. In doing so, perhaps you’ll side with Alfred the Great and overthrow with force. Perhaps you’ll force divorce upon untrustworthy allies before murdering them while their sulking backs are turned. To mark the occasion, Thrones has a launch trailer. “Playing as the Vikings, Gaelic clans, Welsh tribes or Anglo-Saxons, players will embark on Great British campaigns of empire-building

In the Tomb Raider reboot of 2013, we met a younger, more thoughtful and less sophisticated Lara Croft who’d seemingly swapped destruction for diffidence. With this in mind, our Phil visited Eidos Montreal to learn more about this month’s cover star, Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Elsewhere inside, the PC Gamer team shares a Cities: Skylines save in search of utopia. Pip, on the other hand, profiles Studio Oleomingus—the studio that’s building a game that exists, but, um, maybe also doesn’t. Pick up

But that’s easier said than done when there are tropical storms, saboteurs and other disasters to contend with. “But as you progress through the other islands, you’ll start encountering other kinds of calamity. On the smallest island, Isla Pena, you have the added challenge of having to deal with the most dangerous dinosaurs. “As characters they’re very natural extensions of the Jurassic Park franchise, and feel like they fit into that universe nicely. Tall taleJurassic World Evolution is a sand

If the latter’s your bag, Ubisoft’s For Honor is free to try for the next few days. If you decide to take it for a spin, and know an existing player, For Honor’s Warrior Training Program also returns this weekend. Here’s the skinny on that:To participate, a current game owner and newcomer (player who does not own the game) partner up and play at least 5 matches during the Free Weekend. Grouping up is a unique way to experience the world of For Honor and a great opportunity to share techniques. F

Despite a protracted period of off-and-on development, it looks like Beyond Good & Evil 2 is definitely, undeniably, 100 percentedly a focus for Ubisoft at present. What do we stand to learn from this livestream? It’s not the first BG&E2 livestream: there was one last December and you can watch the archive here. That was later condensed into a much more manageable five minute video, which focused on ship models, story details, in-engine animations and more. To bring you up to speed, here’s that

South Korea passed a law near the end of 2016 criminalizing the creation and distribution of aimbots, wall hacks, and other software that isn’t permitted by the terms of service of online games. Following a year-long investigation conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Police that ran from January to December 2017, 13 Overwatch cheaters were arrested; two of them, according to a statement by Blizzard Korea (via Kotaku), have now been sentenced. The first offender was given two years of probation, w

Way to the Woods caused quite a stir with its gorgeous trailer, in which a deer and her fawn navigate a flooded facility and nose through abandoned belongings in a post-apocalyptic world. Since posting the first screenshots of Way to the Woods on Reddit all the way back in 2015, Tan has been hard at work. Anthony TanThe attention Way to the Woods garnered helped the Melbourne-based Tan to get in contact with fellow Australian indie developers and ask for advice. Rather than feeling the pressure

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 the changes Season 4 brought to Fortnite, Hearthstone’s new Monster Hunt PvE mode, and our early impressions of State of Decay 2 before ending with listener questions, as always. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podcast RSS feedWatch it on YouTubeLast

The long-running game jam Ludum Dare recently held its 41st event, which was dedicated to making games that combine two “incompatible” genres. As previously reported, Ludum Dare 41 spawned surreal adventure game You Left Me. It also gave us Oni Hunter, a 2D puzzle-stealth game about clearing groups of bad guys in an instant. A team of four made Oni Hunter in just 48 hours, but it looks and feels great. If you want to check out some other games from Ludum Dare 41, have a gander at this Itch catal

We explained earlier this year how to use a Nintendo Switch Pro controller on your PC, but it’s kind of a laborious process, involving manually moving files around, extracting archives to specific locations, messing with DLLs, and other such eye-glazing guffola. Thankfully, a new update to the Steam client beta simplifies the situation for everyone by adding official support for the controller, including the gyro and d-pad. Opt into the Steam Beta program, restart the program when prompted, and—

At this point, any twitch of Todd Howard’s eyebrows will be desperately scrutinized as a clue about The Elder Scrolls 6. Anticipation for another entry in the legendary RPG series keeps on building, but four years after The Elder Scrolls Online and seven years after Skyrim, we still know almost nothing. When will The Elder Scrolls 6 be announced? For now, Bethesda isn’t ready to share details, but here’s everything we know about The Elder Scrolls 6 so far, based on rumors and interviews about re

There’s still no word on the removal of the release date or the pre-purchase option, however. We are aware of the status with Disgaea 5 Complete’s demo on PC, and will have additional information shortly. Thank you for your understanding and patience!May 2, 2018Original story:It appears that the release of Disgaea 5 Complete on Steam, which had been scheduled for May 7, has hit a snag. In fact, there is currently no release date at all listed on the store page, and the option to pre-purchase has

Just last week, MSI had a gaming laptop with a GTX 1060 for $949 after rebate. If you misssed out on that offer, or you’re looking for something a bit sleeker, Lenovo’s Y720 laptop is $1,199 for today only. The MSRP is $1,799.99, and it usually goes for around $1,400 on Amazon, so this is a sizable discount. The Y720 has an Intel Core i7 7700HQ, 16 GB RAM, a 6GB GTX 1060 graphics card, and a 15.6″ 1080p screen. Beyond specifications, the Y720 has an RGB keyboard, Thunderbolt 3, Dolby Atmos audio

What could possibly get you to buy a $1,300 SSD that’s only 960GB? Intel’s Optane 905P 960GB goes beyond the realm of mere dreams and into the pure fantasy land of hardware. The 960GB Optane 905P takes that to silly levels of 9.6TB per day. At 100GB per day, the Optane 905P 960GB would require 480 years to exceed its rated endurance. In fact, you might not even notice the difference between Optane 905P and a more mundane storage device like a SATA SSD.

You’ve got grandma games, mental health games, games about saving a dying PC, and one of my personal favorites, bird games. Today, I’m pleased to add Fruits of a Feather to my list of bird games. Fruits of a Feather is by Screencheat developer Samurai Punk, you see, and the studio is rebooting it as a new bird game, Feather, which is due out later this year. pic.twitter.com/zOxvuNVhp5May 2, 2018Which isn’t to say Fruits of a Feather isn’t lovely, mind. It is, by all accounts, a fun bird game, an

The free-to-play online FPS Paladins, which began open beta testing in 2016, will go into full release on May 8, developer Hi-Rez Studios announced today. The studio also released the mobile shooter Paladins Strike today for iOS and Android devices, which will enable players to unlock two free skins in Paladins. “We are so excited for the official release of Paladins,” executive producer Chris Larson said. “We really want to thank all of our dedicated Beta players for the time and effort they ha

Art by Allison Henderson . For the uninitiated, Twitch emotes are those microscopic chibis you see spammed into the chatbox of pretty much every stream on the platform. Twitch emotes by Allison Henderson. In the past she made her bones by selling prints at anime conventions and scoring the occasional corporate gig, but now she estimates that 90 percent of her income comes from Twitch emote commissions. More emotes by Allison Henderson .

The great feast of Noblegarden, an annual tradition in the World of Warcraft realm of Azeroth, is coming to Hearthstone next week. Beginning May 9 and running through May 13, the Tavern will offer special festive emotes, a free Golden Eggnapper and Golden Devilsaur Egg, and a new Tavern Brawl called “Everybunny Get In Here.” In the Brawl an egg will spawn at the start of each turn, which you can paint using “a deck of colorful dyes and special Noblegarden cards,” along with ten random Class card

Rakuten (formerly Buy.com) is selling a Micron 2TB solid state drive for $270.30 with free shipping, after applying coupon code SAVE15 at checkout. This is a SATA-based SSD, as you could have guessed even without the picture above, as there are simply no 2TB NVMe SSDs going for this price. Not that it really matters for gaming—for the most part, there’s not much difference in actual performance between a SATA and NVMe SSD until you get into heavy file transfers. It’s not likely to be the fastest

Stardew Valley’s newly released multiplayer beta also introduced a smattering of singleplayer content, not the least of which is the option to build Pam a nice new house . The specifics of the event are still being worked out, but it sounds like dating two or three people simultaneously isn’t enough to trigger a group shaming. Stardew Valley certainly isn’t the first life sim to punish players for being unfaithful or promiscuous. Of course, Stardew Valley isn’t a visual novel and romance isn’t i