Here’s the setup: you are Will, owner of the Moonlighter item shop located in Rynoka village. It’s daytime, so I can either open my shop and sell some items or head straight to the dungeons and explore. Days are flexible but I can’t sell items at night until I hire a part-timer, plus monsters are more difficult and yield better drops in the dark, so night is generally lootin’ time. I only just started, meaning not only do I have very little to sell, I’m not sure what I might want to keep for mys

Every month, PC Gamer Legendary Club members are treated to a new game key in their inboxes. For April, we’re sending out a copy of Tormentor X Punisher, a 2018 Independent Games Festival awards finalist which hits us with a brutal pitch: everything dies in one hit, both you and the demon bosses that want your blood. Existing Legendary members should be receiving Steam keys by email, and new members will also receive codes (an $8 value) before we switch over to our May game offer. A PC Gamer Clu

With the icy survival game Frostpunk now just a few weeks away from release, developer 11 Bit Studios is letting anyone play its previous life-is-hell simulator This War of Mine for free on Steam until April 8. This War of Mine is also a survival game, but with more of a real-world bent, played as a civilian struggling to survive in a besieged city shattered by war. “During war, there are no good or bad decisions; there is only survival,” the Steam listing states. “This accomplishment has reaffi

Blackwatch was a small, secret sub-unit of Overwatch, headed up by Gabriel “Reaper” Reyes, that did the dirty work the front-facing organization could not. Overwatch played by the book; Blackwatch played it by ear. It’s the sort of arrangement that inevitably goes bad sooner or later, and also the subject of the new Overwatch comic, a retelling of the Oslo Incident called Retribution. But it’s Reyes and Overwatch commander Jack Morrison, known these days as Soldier: 76, who carry the show: Reyes

In March, Ubisoft announced plans to combat “chat toxicity” in Rainbow Six Siege by implementing a system of bans for players who use hate speech, including racist and homophobic slurs, in the game. Today it elaborated on its goals in a blog post, saying that it aims to “track negative player behavior, manage those that behave poorly, and eventually implement features that will encourage players to improve their behavior.” Chat monitoring has already been underway since mid-March, but Ubisoft al

You can spend several hundred dollars on a high-end power supply if you really want to, and have a need for tons of wattage. If you’re looking for a decent option without breaking the bank, there is a 500W EVGA model on sale for just $30. Either way, you’re getting a 500W model with 80 Plus Bronze certification. Connectors include:1 x 24-pin ATX1 x 4+4 pin EPS (CPU)2 x PCIe6 x SATA3 x 4-pin peripheral1 x floppyThis PSU utilizes a single +12V rail design, delivering up to 40A. Some online stores

What’s being billed as the world’s first waterblock for naked die cooling, the Ncore V1, has landed on Kickstarter with a goal of raising $14,090. The Ncore V1 is unique from other waterblocks in that it is purpose built for processors without an integrated heatspreader (IHS). In the ongoing quest for superior cooling than what’s available out of the box, enthusiasts resort to all sorts of tricks. The designer of the Ncore V1, Arek Tobiszewski, is a CNC CAD/CAM designer. The Ncore V1 essentially

Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a fantastic co-op board game that just made its way onto Steam. Think about a tactical maneuvering game like XCOM, but with firefighters, who are probably braver than alien hunters anyways. The PC game is built a lot like the board game, with local co-op being a major feature. The digital adaptation includes both the Family ruleset, which I find fast and fun, and the sometimes painfully difficult Experienced rules, which include such real-life firefighting joys as fla

In the end, it was just too much work for too little benefit for too few customers. We’re talking about Intel’s decision to stop developing and releasing microcode updates to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown for certain older processor architectures. The change is reflected in the latest microcode revision guidance (PDF) from Intel, which now lists a new “stopped” status next to a handful of processor families. For the affected CPU families, Intel recommends discontinuing the use of previously rele

The original Star Control, developed by Toys for Bob and published by Accolade, was released in 1990, followed by Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters in 1992 and the largely forgettable Star Control 3, by Legend Entertainment, in 1996. And that was the end of it until 2013, when Stardock announced that a reboot was in the works, officially revealed in 2016 as Star Control: Origins. During the development of Origins, Stardock has been involved in a legal dispute with Star Control creators Fred Fo

Joining MSI (which we covered yesterday) and others, Asus is utilizing the new processor stack in its thin and light gaming laptop line. Its Zephyrus M GM501 is a 15.6-inch laptop that is less than an inch thick (0.7 to 0.78 inches, depending on where exactly you measure), and weighs 5.5 pounds. The least expensive Zephyrus M (GU501GM-BI7N8) costs $1,499 and pairs the processor with a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU. Asus notes that it’s not using Nvidia’s Max-Q design in its Zephyrus M. “Unlike slim g

Fanatical’s latest bundle bonanza rounds up 14 indie games, and offers a saving of up to 98 percent. The Nemesis Bundle 7 is go. The first of these is a contemplative exploration space game, while the second is a scare-the-pants-off-you survival horror ’em up. Going all in with the Nemesis Bundle 7 nets you all of the above, plus Craft The World and Super Cloudbuilt for $9.99/£8.49. Check out the Nemesis Bundle 7 in full over here.

However, I have logged back in a few times in the past week simply to explore SotA’s towns. There are many dev-made towns in SotA of course, denoted by ribbons on their names. Shroud of the Avatar reminds me of stories of the player-created houses in the deceased Star Wars: Galaxies. The shifting constellations that hang above you in Shroud of the Avatar reacts with shrines players build in their towns. I wonder if Shroud of the Avatar’s surface problems will ultimately play in its favour.

Earlier this week, Valve removed a link to Steam Machines from Steam’s front page—which prompted us revisit this article from last year. Now, the developer has explained a “routine cleanup” tied to user traffic (or lack thereof) was responsible for the omission, and that it remains committed to the SteamOS-driven, Linux-based hardware. “We’ve noticed that what started out as a routine cleanup of the Steam Store navigation turned into a story about the delisting of Steam Machines,” says Valve emp

Thank goodness Battle Royale’s latest update welcomes vending machines. In exchange for materials, vending machines promise “three different deals, rarity and items chosen at random,” so reads update v3.4’s patch notes. “Each Vending Machine offers three different deals, rarity and items chosen at random,” the notes add. Fortnite’s latest update also tweaks drop rates and weapon accuracy among other things—check out the patch notes in full for more on all of that. Update: Epic has now dropped th

Despite an impressive Kickstarter campaign, Failbetter Games, by its own admission, unveiled Sunless Sea follow-up Sunless Skies prematurely—which in part led to layoffs at the studio. And then it teased this beautiful shot of a fractured Big Ben within the game’s new Albion setting. Having thoroughly enjoyed the developer’s last venture, Sunless Sea, I was a wee bit disappointed with what I’d seen of Sunless Skies so far. We’re excited to get to Albion and dig into the engines of the Empire and

As is now tradition , Cyanide Studios have put out the call for Blood Bowl 2’s best coaches and mercenary murderballers to compete in a world tournament for cash, prizes, and fantasy football glory. The Blood Bowl world cup is open to anyone who registers on the official website and chews their way through the competition into the 64-player playoffs. Beyond those spots, some of Blood Bowl 2’s popular community leagues will be sending their best players—I expect British league Far Albion and Ligu

Savage proves that solo PUBG plays best on a small map , so says Evan, Chris and Jody. The battle royale ’em up’s latest update rolls out Squads alongside a host of feedback-driven nips and tucks to its newest, smaller battleground. One PUBG feature I’ve never really bothered with is its red zones. In fact, with red zones and airdrops happening on the smaller map, I found myself a little annoyed at the constant noise when I was trying to listen for cars and footsteps. Other tweaks levied by the

When Dark Souls released for PC in 2012, it came nearly a year after the console versions and with quite a few problems – most infamously, its 30fps lock. The original Dark Souls was bullish in its insistence that you play online with strangers – organising skirmishes or cooperative outings with friends was a mix of luck and laborious trial and error. But now, the Password Matching from both Dark Souls 2 and 3 will be available, with the summoned player’s level (for both character and weapon) sy

“The Sack Smack™ is an integral part of the combat as it allows you to kill enemies instantly,” he says. Slasher’s Keep is a minefield of traps and hazards but fortunately, thanks to the sack attack, this lack of workplace safety can be exploited. Living in a slasher’s paradiseMy first run at Slasher’s Keep was a cruel reminder of the perils of impatience. I began by sprinting into rooms swinging like a pinwheel with no regard for blocking enemy attacks or, as Schloter reminded me, using my inve