Security firm Avast said it discovered malware lingering in several downloadable Minecraft skins, and that nearly 50,000 accounts have already been infected. What’s concerning, however, is that the infected skins can be legitimately uploaded to the Minecraft website. The image at the top of this article shows three examples of Minecraft skins that are infected with malicious code. Still, the fact that Minecraft is hosting malicious skins is concerning. It seems Avast overstated the issue, given

Shrewdly, they called it PC Building Simulator and it’s quickly garnered an Early Access fanbase which I’m very much part of. PC Building Simulator teaches the basic procedure and its peculiarities. PC Building Simulator doesn’t punish you for oversights like this. Please don’t take the above to mean that PC Building Simulator isn’t a useful tuition tool for anyone looking to get into system building: it totally is. What PC Building Simulator does offer, though, deserves attention both from budd

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer PUBG Corp plans to grow its in-testing 4×4 Savage Map over the coming months. In-game, part of this landmark will be reworked into an underground cave system. That’s exactly what we were thinking, which is why we’re working on an underground cave system with plenty methods of escape,” reads the post. “We’re going to begin taking about new weapons and special vehicles (including a Tuk Tuk) soon, so look forward to that.” Read what Evan, Chris and Jody thoug

After several months uncovering cut content from From Software’s PlayStation-exclusive Bloodborne, the indie dev-turned-hobbyist game engineer has now turned his creative hand to Dark Souls. McDonald’s latest discovery, revealed via a series of tweets, suggests Dark Souls 3 had players, at one stage in development, fighting Pontiff Sulyvahn and not Soul of Cinder in the game’s final showdown. Moreover, the encounter was set in an unreleased version of Untended Graves, and not the Kiln of the Fir

Nvidia’s online store is one of the few places where you can get graphics cards for the intended retail prices. There’s just one problem—Nvidia is almost always out of cards. You can now buy Founders Edition cards from the company’s site, from the mid-range GTX 1060 to the high-end Titan Xp. In case you’re not familiar with them, Founders Edition cards are GPUs without any modifications from Nvidia’s partners (ASUS, EVGA, etc). Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through

Role with it During my last GTA 5 roleplaying stint, I robbed a string of banks unarmed by posing as a journalist. Those of you familiar with GTA 5’s single-player campaign will remember its Lazlow-hosted Fame or Shame reality TV show. Los Santos Life RP Los Santos Life RP is a dedicated roleplaying server within the FiveM open source community modification for GTA 5. Beyond an initial validation check, FiveM works independently of Rockstar’s GTA Online, and allows mods on the server/client side

NOW PLAYING In Now Playing articles PC Gamer writers talk about the game currently dominating their spare time. Today Pip grapples with existential questions. Until this week, my most recent conversation about Astroneer involved bumping into former lead designer Jacob Liechty at GDC in San Francisco. Playing Astroneer roughly a year on, that chat came back to me. Humanity is ceaselessly mediating the boundary between its internal existential questions and its external aspirations.

Mono Studio’s Insomnia: The Ark is a story-driven RPG, set within a “colossal space metropolis” that’s “brimming with the secrets of a long-gone civilization.” As you may already know, it’s been in development for several years—but now targets a 2018 launch, with the backing of publisher HeroCraft. “Experience the game’s rich lore through retro-futuristic noir visuals with elements of dieselpunk. Witness man-made apocalyptic landscapes imbued with a dark noir jazz soundtrack and echoes of a deca

That’s changed quite a bit now in Overwatch League thanks to a couple of significant changes to her abilities. According to data shared on the Overwatch League stream, the Boston Uprising went from 8 percent Sombra usage last stage to almost 25 percent in stage three. According to the Overwatch League site , the difference in Sombra’s offensive output between stages two and three has been significant. Though her damage is more scary, it isn’t what’s giving so many Overwatch League pros issues. A

The pleasure of acting like an NPC in SpyParty is immense because the other player knows you’re there, somewhere. Which means you get to act like an NPC while no one is even targeting you. In addition to being able to casually walk around or slowly drive like an NPC, there’s also a bit of voyeurism, I suppose. Hide and peekThe enjoyment of pretending you’re an AI may stem from a much more basic concept than mimicking an NPC, something as simple as the act of hiding. You’re not pretending to be a

The Fortnite guided missile that promised pinpoint death-and-destruction but became far more famous for enabling Silver Surfer-style cruises across the battlefield has been removed from the game. Epic is also rolling back a change in the 3.5 update that resulted in players shooting their own structures when peeking over them. But better a small bug than a big one, and Epic said that it will work on coming up with a proper fix for the original problem. Changes to the new weapon equip timer are al

Into this fragmented landscape, the Lenovo Explorer and the rest of the new Mixed Reality headsets find themselves A fresh look at VR—with help from Microsoft Lenovo Explorer An improvement on first-gen VR, but it doesn’t go far enough. The most important aspect for any VR headset is the quality of the image that hits your eyeballs, and here the Explorer is a mixed bag. Like the first-generation headsets, the Lenovo Explorer lacks audio playback, preferring to let the user use their own headphon

Original Story: With the GPU market being what it is, higher-end cards like the GTX 1080 are usually more expensive than the MSRP, with limited stock available. If you’ve been on the hunt for a GTX 1080, you can get EVGA’s 8GB card for just $579.99 right now. These cards usually go for around $600-630, so while this isn’t a steep discount, it’s not bad by any means. The card has 8GB of GDDR5X memory, a 1708MHz base clock (and boosts to 1847MHz), one dual-link DVI connector, two HDMI 2.0b ports,

Heckpoint is a 2D side-scrolling shoot-’em-up about creating entire worlds just so you can destroy them. Here’s the rub: Some shady corporation tried to invent nega-energy and accidentally shattered our dimension in the process, creating holes to other realities that all manner of nasties are using as footholds for an interdimensional invasion. In other words, we’ve got some holes to plug, and to do that we’ve got to activate the obelisks located at the heart of Heckpoint’s seven worlds. Virtual

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 was confirmed in early March, but isn’t slated to be fully revealed until May. Instead, Treyarch is apparently focusing on expanding the multiplayer element, including the Zombies mode and possibly some new co-op modes. There may also be a battle royale mode for players to dive into: Shortly after Polygon reported on the no-campaign rumor, Charlie Intel posted a story saying that it had heard the same “no campaign” rumor last month, and that its source also told it that

In the Indie GIF Showcase, we dig up the best-looking new and upcoming indie games and explore what makes them special. Project Sable looks like That Clip: The Game. I’m in it for the sand cruisin’, but I’m also rather anxious to see what else Project Sable lets you do. Shedworks has shown images of a few different hoverbikes over on the game’s official blog , so perhaps we’ll see some ride customization? Shedworks isn’t sure when Project Sable will come out, but they’re hoping to hit 2019.

Monster Hunter: World is getting a new limited-time quest called Siege of Kulve Taroth that will send all hunters in the same Gathering Hub—up to 16 in total—on a raid-flavored quest to track down a mighty new Elder Dragon named Kulve Taroth. “As each hunting party collects more tracks and breaks off more parts from attacking Kulve Taroth, they’ll contribute progress to the same Siege,” Capcom explained. “It’s not an absolute requirement, but it’ll be really helpful in breaking all the monster p

AMD has gone on the offensive against Nvidia and its GeForce Partner Program (GPP), an affiliate program that incentivizes hardware partners to align their gaming brands exclusively with GeForce in exchange for additional marketing support and other perks. “Over the coming weeks, you can expect to see our add-in board partners launch new brands that carry an AMD Radeon product. AMD is pledging to reignite this freedom of choice when gamers choose an AMD Radeon RX graphics card. Clearly AMD feels

Heroes Unleashed is a mod for the original Ghost Recon that promises to turn it into “the most hardcore military shooter simulation ever made.” Developer Apex Mods began working on it in 2002 and now, in 2018, version 1.0 is finally ready to go. It’s interesting to hear someone refer to Ghost Recon fans as “casual,” and Apex Mods acknowledged that Heroes Unleashed can be “frustratingly difficult” at times. Among tactical realism and MilSim fans the game enjoys cult status, and many consider it t

For a game so ambitious, sprawling post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland 2 did well to keep a tight leash on its release date. InXile’s Kickstarted sequel to the classic 1988 game Wasteland was delayed once—but only by a few weeks, and even then it was only to ensure that physical copies of the game were ready for backers. Wasteland 3 has raised even more money from crowdfunding, this time through Fig, and will therefore have even more eyes tracking its progress. If the latest developer update is anyth