Before The Bard’s Tale 4, this is an accurate representation of what I’d do if you asked me what I thought about dungeon crawlers: ¯_(ツ)_/¯. The Bard’s Tale 4 plays like no other dungeon crawler I’ve ever touched, blending bits of classic Bard’s Tale and Japanese tactics RPGs into something new. But constantly repositioning is the most crucial element of any encounter in Bard’s Tale 4, and moving costs an action point just like an attack. When I visited inXile in the summer of 2017 , we talked

The story of Prey 2 is long and ugly, ending with a complete cancellation followed by the release of Arkane’s totally different game, Prey, in 2017. Arkane’s Prey is extremely good, but curiosity about Prey 2 as it was originally envisioned—a spin-off game of outer-space bounty hunting, developed by Human Head—has persisted, because the bits and pieces we’ve seen of it look really damn cool. Last weekend, Andrew Borman, digital games curator at museumofplay.org, shared a 51-second clip of protot

Telltale said last year that the final season of its Walking Dead adventure series would be out in 2018, and so it will be: The studio tweeted the first tease of the last season earlier today with an image that very deliberately hearkens back to the game’s first season. Finish Clementine’s story.The Walking Dead: #TheFinalSeason premieres later this year. pic.twitter.com/4cEQDhg5dJMarch 30, 2018It’s a haunting callback, with a grown-up Clementine filling the shoes of man-with-an-axe Lee Everett,

Factorio, the factory building management game by Wube Software, has been playable in alpha and Early Access since 2014. It’s edging closer to a 1.0 full release, however, according to a post on its official site today. Then Factorio will finally step out of the Early Access zone. “The price of the game has been growing steadily together with the game becoming bigger, more stable and polished. After careful consideration, we have decided to set the new price of the game to 30 USD (or your region

Although Nordhagen received support from publisher Good Shepherd to complete and market the game, Where The Water Tastes Like Wine has yet to break even. Where The Water Tastes Like Wine”Joking aside — that’s dismal. “[Where The Water Tastes Like Wine] could have been a non-commercial game, but it would have had to be very different. Nordhagen also discussed the development factors he believes contributed to Where The Water Tastes Like Wine’s uphill battle. Encouraged by Gone Home’s success, Nor

Fortnite’s latest update delivered the guided missile launcher, finally giving solo players a way to join in on the rocket-riding fun. If you’re not up to date, individual RPGs have collision, so with good timing players can hop on and zip across the map. But Reddit user hottshy is taking rocket-riding to a new level, stripping away the need for another body to get things moving. Check out the full clip, where they fire off a guided rocket, steer it in a wide circle, and aim it at their own behi

The latest Superdata report says the worldwide digital videogames market grew six percent year-over-year in February 2018, hitting $9.1 billion in total. Overall digital spending in the US is actually up by 21 percent overall, according to the report, thanks to major games (Call of Duty: WWII was the top-earning console game for the month) and—surprise—the power of Fortnite: Battle Royale. PC free-to-play slipped by four percent, but Superdata said the free-to-play console market increased by 35

He’s a resident of Far Cry 5’s Hope County and a former minor league baseball player. After all, you’re standing in the batter’s box at home plate on a baseball diamond, holding a baseball bat. Well, I want to play baseball, so I try it anyway. I search the park for some kind of baseball sign-up sheet I can activate to alert the game to the fact that I want to play ball. If someone out there knows if and how you can play baseball in Far Cry 5, please let me know, because I feel like Kevin Costne

Today is one of those days, and the deal that caught our eye is a discount on Dell’s S2417DG monitor. It’s on sale for $370, but using promo code EMCPSSP33, Newegg will subtract $40 off the price, bringing it down to $330. The same monitor sells for $500 at Best Buy and $393 at Amazon, to put the sale price in perspective. Alternatively, you could order this monitor direct from Dell for $400 and receive a $150 electronic gift card. For ergonomics, the monitor supports height, tilt, swivel, and p

The original Guacamelee found its way to PC a few months after it released on consoles, so when Guacamelee 2 was announced last year during PlayStation’s Paris Games Week presentation, PC gamers were optimistic. Today, developer DrinkBox Studios confirmed Guacamelee 2 will indeed come to PC—more specifically to Steam—in a new trailer. The trailer says the PC version will arrive “soon-ish.” It doesn’t have a hard release date yet, nor do we know if the PC version will launch alongside the console

Chris: I think ‘content’ can mean a few things. But games like Sea of Thieves and No Man’s Sky don’t really have a greater purpose. I really enjoy the relaxed pace of Sea of Thieves, but that’s when players start saying, ‘Well, this game doesn’t have enough content.’ Tyler: New, surprise events could obviously help Sea of Thieves, but I think there’s a structural problem with it. Rare could add ten new events like the kraken to Sea of Thieves, and that would create ten new goals—see each new thi

You’ll know if your liquid cooler is not working properly, because temps will rise or, more critically, it’s hard to miss coolant leaking all over your motherboard. Nevertheless, Enermax’s new Liqfusion all-in-one liquid cooler sports a patented flow indicator built right into the waterblock. “Liqfusion is equipped with an exclusive RGB-sync waterblock with patented flow indicator, which enables the user to easily monitor the status of coolant flow. Together with visually appealing Enermax addre

April Fools’ Day is right around the corner, but Corsair decided to jump the gun by releasing a video pleading with viewers to “Stop GPU abuse!” It’s tongue-in-cheek, of course, though for gamers longing for the days when graphics cards could actually be bought for whatever MSRP the manufacturer set, this one might hit too close to home. The beneficiary here, however, is a graphics card that’s been ‘abused’ in a cryptocurrencying mining farm. “With your donation, we’ll buy back these abused grap

The Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1.4 patch arrived yesterday, featuring new hair and beard mechanics, Easter eggs (actual Easter eggs, not the videogame type we generally deal with), NPC resurrections, and 200 “major” bug fixes. Unfortunately, it also brought with it a wee little problem that resulted in “a distinct possibility that the save files created with version 1.4 might be corrupted.” “We highly recommend going back to your old save files that were created with version 1.3.4 or older,” Warh

There has been a lot of discussion about ray tracing lately, stemming from Microsoft announcing the next generation of its DirectX API, called DirectX Raytracing (DXR), coinciding with Nvidia adding ray tracing features to its GameWorks technology. Ray tracing is a computationally demanding technology, which is why it has eluded games for so long. What we’ll see instead is a combination of traditional rasterization rendering with ray tracing bits sprinkled into scenes as needed, and where possib

Swap out the word ‘help’ for ‘the chance to discuss selling Mafia on our digital storefront’, and I imagine that’s how GOG secured Illusion Softworks’ 2002 open world crime sim last year . I suspect a similar strategy was behind bringing Mafia 2 and Mafia 3 to the online distributor too, which means the organised crime series is now available to play DRM-free in its entirety. To mark the occasion, each game is subject to a limited-time 50 percent discount—66 percent if pick them up together. PC

Dying Light continues its 10in12 loyalty bonus initiative with Content Drop #4 and Content Drop #5. Number four, on the other hand, brings with it a new mode named Prison Heist. Here’s some of that in practice:Elsewhere, Dying Light’s Content Drop #5 introduces Sgt. As for the Prison Heist mode, Techlands says: “And for now, we strongly recommend getting good at Prison Heist—it might come in handy soon…” I wonder what’s in store. For more Dying Light reading, check out Joseph Knoop’s thoughts on

Ah, flare guns. PUBG’s latest custom game, limited-time Event Mode is live now through Sunday, April 1 at 7pm PST/Monday, April 2 at 3am BST. It has flare guns, evidently, and they look like this:Similar to Fortnite’s Limited Time Modes, PUBG’s Event spectacles are designed to trial new things and experiment with different game parameters, so reads this forum FAQ. In this case, flare guns are applied to the game’s sandswept Miramar location, in TPP, four-player squad matches. As mentioned in the

Players are searching for Bigfoot in Far Cry 5, but so far all Chris has found are wolves, bears and angry bison. Sonny Evans, the creator of the PUBG replay system nature documentary series, has thrown himself into the wilderness with an Attenborough-esque take on Hope County. Here’s the premier episode of Far Cry Geographic:Having recorded similar tongue-in-cheek shorts in Battlefield 1, GTA 5 and Fortnite, Evans describes Far Cry 5’s world as “gorgeous” and a “pleasure” to record in. I fiddle

Here’s the thing about PC gaming: every year is great for one reason or another. Just for fun, though, we let the PC Gamer staff select the best years in PC gaming, through a vigorous process of putting a line next to the years they wanted to vote for, based on the games that were released in those twelve months. This process offered an interesting at-a-glance perspective of how quickly PC gaming changed, and how certain types of games would come and go. Let us know your choice for PC gaming’s b