Assembly Required is a management sim that’s all about engineering the dreaded feeling of emerging from a furniture store, wondering what day it is and absolutely despising the smell of leather. Developer MUTT Studio describes Assembly Required as a mix of tower defense and sim elements. On the other hand, you’ve got to manage employees and staff different departments, including QA, sales and, hilariously enough, customer service. Different types of customers require different shepherding, you s

The lengthily-titled action-RPG Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor-Martyr was intended to be out on May 11, but was delayed today until June 5. It’s not a huge delay, nor is it—with all due respect to developer Neocore Games—a huge disappointment for millions of long-suffering fans. “In return, we promise we’ll push this extra three weeks in 90+ hours per week so it’ll be very-very useful for Martyr.” 90 hour work weeks are truly unproductive and dumb. “With the three extra weeks, we’ll now have the t

Developer Lazy Bear Games pitched Graveyard Keeper as “the most inaccurate medieval cemetery management sim of the year” when they revealed the game last year. I’m not disputing that, but after seeing its intriguing new gameplay trailer, I’m leaning more toward Andy’s description: Stardew Cemetery. You play as the overseer of a small village cemetery, and while your job is to watch over the dead, your true goal is to make a living and help grow your village. Because apart from an inaccurate ceme

If you blew all your money on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive and then realized you had none left over for games, this is your chance to stock up. The Steam VR Spring Sale (hey, that’s a new one) is running through Monday at 10 am Pacific, and offers some hefty discounts on some of the most popular VR games. Among the games on sale are Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Raw Data, Doom VFR, Fallout 4 VR, Audioshield, Superhot, and Space Pirate Trainer, with discounts of up to 60 percent off. To find every discou

Microsoft, Facebook, HP, and a whole bunch of other major tech companies have signed a new Cybersecurity Tech Accord that aims to defend customers from malicious attacks by cybercriminal enterprises and nation-states. As part of the pledge, 34 companies agree not to help governments “launch cyberattacks against innocent citizens and enterprises” from around the world. Even so, as noted by The New York Times, this can be seen as an effort by Silicon Valley to distance itself from cyberwarfare. “T

For Hearthstone fans who have grown frustrated by facing endless board-spamming Paladins, next week may offer some relief. “If you played the Dungeon Run in Kobolds & Catacombs, the Monster Hunt will feel familiar,” Kosak says. With each victory you can gear up, building a stronger and stronger deck with the treasures you find.” Some are “beefed up versions of the collectible card,” as Kosak puts it, but most of them are unique to Monster Hunt, and the majority of treasures they drop will be new

The opposite is also true, and existing motherboards with a BIOS update will all support the Ryzen 7 2700X and other new Ryzen processors. As with all previous Ryzen processors, the Ryzen 7 2700X is fully unlocked. For this review, I’ve tested the Ryzen 7 2700X and other Ryzen processors using Gigabyte’s Aorus X470 Gaming 7 WiFi board. Ryzen 7 2700X gaming performanceImage 1 of 21 Image 2 of 21 Image 3 of 21 Image 4 of 21 Image 5 of 21 Image 6 of 21 Image 7 of 21 Image 8 of 21 Image 9 of 21 Imag

If you’re looking for a comparatively affordable entry-level gaming laptop, head over to Best Buy and check out the sale on Acer’s Nitro 5. The Nitro 5 (as configured here) has a 15.6-inch Full HD IPS display powered by an Intel Core i5-7300HQ processor, 8GB of RAM, and a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU. There are certainly more powerful gaming laptops out there, though for the money, it’s a pretty well-rounded setup. It’s also somewhat thin (for its category) at 1.1 inches and weighs 5.95 pounds. The e

I spent my first half-hour in a vintage, vanilla EverQuest server running around in circles. I’m not sure how the modern EverQuest plays today, but on the progression server there is absolutely no hand-holding. You will absolutely end up in a long, long duel with a snake or a rat that will make you question your stamina. I’m glad I gave EverQuest a shot, and I’m glad that this world can exist with all its thorniness intact. I used to laugh at the grognards that bemoaned World of Warcraft for the

There are a whole bunch of G-Sync and FreeSync monitors on the market, but if you’re looking for a FreeSync 2 panel, there are considerably less options. This is AOC’s first gaming display to support FreeSync 2, which has more stringent requirements than the previous generation FreeSync, and just the second time it has announced a FreeSync 2 monitor. Part of that specification entails HDR support—in this case, AOC’s new monitor also bears VESA’s DisplayHDR 400 certification badge, with peak brig

Hunt: Showdown is a competitive multiplayer shooter, and inevitably that means that some players are going to cheat. Crytek didn’t get into the nitty-gritty of its anti-cheat efforts “to avoid revealing anything which cheaters and cheat program developers may take advantage of.” Hunt: Showdown is an Early Access game, which is another term for “it’s not finished,” so bugs, much like cheating, are bound to happen. Going forward, we will be looking at further ways to keep cheaters out of the game,

When marketing its 3D sci-fi shooter Everspace, Schade and his team reportedly paid up to €5,000 an hour for one professional streamer who was “shit at playing the game.” That’s according to Shacknews and VG24/7, which report Schade as saying “only three or five” of the 20 YouTubers and influencers who were paid to play Everspace worked out. The most expensive stream, we paid 5,000 (euros) per hour and we had to book him for two hours. Schade reckons the worst thing that can happen in these situ

Saya no Uta thrusts you into one of the most terrifying narratives ever conceived in a visual novel, a Lovecraftian hell evocative of stories like I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. When Saya arrives, the one person who appears normal to Fuminori, she does not make it better. Why, when Fuminori sees everything around him as a rancid slab of meat, does Saya appear so beautiful? Saya no Uta also has an excellent soundtrack, on par with Silent Hill’s. Saya no Uta also has an excellent soundtrack, o

Just a few days ago, an overclocker took a Ryzen 7 2700X processor and cranked the clockspeed all the way to 5.884GHz, just 16MHz shy of hitting 5.9GHz. You can forget about that milestone though—another overclocker just did one better by turning the dial a smidgen past 6GHz. Der8auer achieved the record overclock using an Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero motherboard based on AMD’s new X470 chipset. Outside of using extreme cooling methods, the Ryzen 7 2700X isn’t going to come anywhere close to 6GHz

So far, with your help, we have imagined the perfect FPS (Rising Dark Shadow: Apocalypse Protocol!) and the perfect battle royale game (Final Battle Arena: Endgame Royale!) Now it’s time for the noble RTS, a bastion of PC gaming, to get the same treatment. The RTS deserves a gorgeous modern blockbuster and we, the gathered millions of PC Gamer readers, are the team for the job. Questions cover possible names for the game, units, resources, battle length, and more.

And I’d much rather PC Gamer be a publication that can make jokes about Geralt in a bathtub and also think games are culturally significant. We’ve talked lots about the cult in Far Cry 5, but what of the cop running around shooting everyone, or how the Far Cry series reproduces narratives about rural and colonized parts of the world, or why it was deemed significant that Far Cry 5 was set in the US? Far Cry 4 includes a CIA agent meddling in a revolution and I heard a lot less talk about ‘politi

Cities: Skylines’ next expansion is called Parklife, and is due next month. Stick on some classic Blur in the background, and we’ll sing through this news post. Anyway, here’s Parklife’s announcement trailer:With that, Paradox and Colossal Order explain that the aforementioned park area tool lets players create park districts wherever they have empty land. Across five new maps, players can employ a new sightseeing bus line, new service buildings and new attractions—not least amusement parks, nat

Believe it or not, philosophy puzzler The Talos Principle began life as Serious Sam 4. That’s what Wes learned back in 2015, which gives you a sense of how long Serious Sam 4 has been around—as an idea/concept/rumour if not an actual confirmed videogame. Well, actually, Serious Sam 4 has now been confirmed. Revealed at the Reboot Develop conference in Croatia, its full name is Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass and it has a teaser trailer. Please join Croteam and Devolver Digital at E3 2018 for the fu

Introversion’s Prison Architect was a compelling simulation game that’s generated some classic Chris Livingston diary features and continues to evolve years after a massively successful alpha release. Instead of a prison, you’re in space, trying to ensure humanity survives after something terrible has happened to Earth. It’s called Order of Magnitude because the long-term vision is potentially for you to be able to build enormous, stellar-scale constructs within the game. What we’re trying to do

The latest, update v3.5, is live and brings with it the previously teased Light Machine Gun—a fast-firing shooter, equipped with a large magazine and long reload time. Likewise, the second iteration of Battle Royale’s 50v50 Limited Time Mode is go—with “two teams, two buses, one Victory Royale”—as is a new questline for Save the World. From back to front, Save the World’s new questline is named ‘Into the Storm: Encore’. They look like this:As for 50v50 V2, teams are split across two busses, whic