Developer Techland unveiled it last year following “numerous fan requests”, and now it’s shown off ten minutes of the game in action. It gives you a good idea of what to expect from a round of Bad Blood: you begin by looting buildings, gathering bows, grenades and pipes to bash zombies with. In the footage, first shown off by IGN, the player battles a Goon, a giant zombie swinging a huge makeshift hammer. Bad Blood is due out at some point this year. What do you think of what Techland has shown

Excellent news for visual novel fans: an updated version of Steins;Gate—which made it onto Hannah’s list of the best visual novels on PC—and a new game from the creators of the Danganronpa series are coming to PC, publisher Spike Chunsoft has announced. Spike Chunsoft also announced that Zanki Zero: Last Beginning, the next game from the creators of the Danganronpa series, is coming to PC, but it doesn’t yet have a release date. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc also made it onto Hannah’s list, a

F1 2017 is the closest that games have come to recreating the real thing, and you can get behind its wheel for free this weekend. For the next 28 hours or so (until Sunday 1pm PT), you can play the entire game for free on Steam and if you want it for keeps then it’s at its lowest ever price on both Steam and the Humble Store: $18/£13.50. I haven’t played an F1 game since 2015, but reading back through Phil’s review of Codemasters’ 2017 outing has me tempted. Solid PC performance, a deep career m

Electronic Arts is working on an open-world Star Wars game with online elements, according to one of the company’s job listings. It’s looking for a lead online engineer to deliver “online features for a Star Wars open world project” from its Vancouver studio. The listing doesn’t provide any more details about the game, but it could be a continuation of the Star Wars project that Visceral Games was working on before EA closed the studio down. We’ll have to wait and see how the singleplayer/multip

Co-op hack-and-slasher Warhammer: Vermintide 2’s excellent combat and clever level design are translating into commercial success: the game has generated more revenue in the two weeks since it released than the original Vermintide has made in its lifetime, according to the chief executive of developer Fatshark, Martin Wahlund. “Right now, we have outsold, in terms of revenue, the lifetime revenue of the original Vermintide, and on PC only,” he told PCGamesInsider.biz (the game is yet to come out

The third and final episode of government surveillance game Orwell: Ignorance is Strength is out now, and might be worth peeking at if you’re into text-based puzzlers, or if you like the theme of state overreach and propaganda. The game has you trawl through phone transcripts, computer files, websites and news articles to uncover the truth about Raban Vhart, a dissident journalist. Still, your ability to influence the narrative has me intrigued enough that I’m going to try out this third episode

In this week’s PCG Q&A, it’s confession time: what’s the most you’ve ever spent on a game? That’s the amount the game client has recorded, but it doesn’t take into account money spent attending events or on things outside the client. I really didn’t want to do this, but I just trawled my Blizzard order history and in the years since I’ve been playing (it looks like I began in February 2014) I’ve spent [deep breath] £965. In fact, I don’t regret any of the money I’ve spent on MMOs—and I used to p

Until somebody finally bites the bullet and makes the singleplayer open-world Warhammer RPG of my dreams, reading the books is the next best thing. If it’s novels you want the author to look for is C L Werner, who has written more books about Skaven than is healthy. It’s also quite funny, off-setting the grimness with black comedy like the best Warhammer fiction does. Genevieve Dieudonné (immortal vampire) and Constant Drachenfels (immortal bastard)If you just want to read a real good bookThe be

“I have many thoughts,” Greene said. “I mean it’s great that the battle royale space is expanding, and that Fortnite is getting [the] battle royale game mode into hands of a lot more people. We don’t have a real life GDC battle royale.” “I’ve really tried to combat that perception that I want other people’s games to die,” he continued. “It’s great that more people are exploring the space and more people are getting to play games.”

World of Warcraft’s achievement system is something that a lot of players don’t pay much attention to. To put this in perspective, World of Warcraft has 3,314 achievements that tally up to a maximum 29,210 achievement points (this site is more accurate than Blizzard’s official tally). It’s also worth noting that, because World of Warcraft is always changing, some achievements become impossible to complete. That’s because many of the PvP-related achievements require serious skill and extreme dedi

Instead, they dominated the best team in Overwatch League. Mei, however, is certainly not the hero you’d expect him to pick on Control Center—especially with a handicapped lineup. Rascal walls off a retreating Mano once more, only this time the rest of his team gets caught in a Blizzard. Like any good Reaper, Effect picked up where his team left off, often catching New York in awkward positions for easy frags. Even though Dallas lost Ilios—the tiebreaker map—they nearly upset the best team in Ov

Digital doggo deaths were so heartbreaking/enraging that Bethesda made Dogmeat unkillable in Fallout 4, and Ubisoft has elected to do the same thing with Boomer, the furry friend of Far Cry 5. He will go down when things get hairy, but PR rep Alex Monney said on Twitter today that a little bit of affection will bring him right back. Far Cry 5 launches in four days! Far Cry 5 comes out on March 27, and along with an unkillable dog and cow sex will also have a pee tape. Correction: The post origin

Unfortunately, Far Cry 5 appears to have a side-mission in which you recover the tape for a government handler. At no point in the mission is Trump specifically named, but the special agent who gives you the mission says it’s for the “Big Man” and there are multiple, not very subtle references to the alleged Trump ‘pee tape’. The tape (in the game) was brought to America by a hotel worker and is a recording of something that happened in a luxury hotel suite in a country the agent refers to as “K

Ultimately, the Unity demo for the remake was really promising, and I still can’t wait to see what the finished project looks like. Building the kingdom of Evermore is so much damn fun that it could almost be an entirely separate game. Andy Kelly: Rex appealThis week I have been revisiting the flawed, broken, and occasionally brilliant Trespasser, a Jurassic Park spin-off game released in ’98 that has become somewhat infamous over the years. Typically, VR games render your hands in place of your

He explained that the best player relationships with orcs are like rollercoasters with lots of ups and downs. Aside from a few hand-crafted storylines involving orcs like Bruz, which orcs go on to become your nemeses is handled entirely systemically. Only around 6% of orcs will get the ‘Humiliator’ perk, which they use to shame Talion after each victory. Hoge noted that players learn to love their best orcs in a way that Talion and Celebrimbor never do. Instead I had to gank him in a back alley

In case the arrival of Drake wasn’t enough to convince you that Fortnite is going mainstream, a student pub in the UK called The Warehouse is offering a £30 ($42) bar tab to anyone who can claim a “victory royale” in Fortnite. The catch is that you have to do it there and then, on a big projector, with everyone else in the place watching. Manager Alex Coe told Eurogamer that the promotion has been running for about three weeks, and has so far been quite popular. “We’ve had about 300 games played

Epic Games isn’t the only studio doing impressive things with Nvidia’s latest and greatest technology. 4A Games, creator of the wonderfully horrific Metro games, released a video of its own showcasing its efforts to bring real-time ray traced illumination to Metro Exodus using Nvidia’s RTX technology. Because of that, current approaches to global illumination in games “have had to compromise in some critical area,” 4A CTO Oleksandr Shyshkovtsov explained in a blog post. “Offline pre-rendered GI

Space Hulk: Deathwing is a vaguely Left 4 Dead-like experience set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe: One to four players dress up in their Space Marine best and then climb aboard a drifting space hulk, where they will stalk through gothic corridors and cut down massive waves of Genestealers. Developer Streum On Studio took steps to address some of those shortcoming with a major update a year ago, after which it began work an overhauled Enhanced Edition, with new classes, weapons, skills, enemies

There’s good news and better news for Kingdom Come: Deliverance players looking forward to the arrival of some much-needed fixes. Behold the full patch notes:Fixed random encounters bug. That’s where the better news comes in:We have finished working on 1.4 and now its being tested. ASAP is our plan.March 23, 2018Vavra said Warhorse hopes to have the patch out next week. That one should be much more substantial: Vavra tweeted last week that the 1.4 patch will have “lots of bug fixes and cool new

The answer: “Because the sample size is huge and tremendous. By the sheer amount of games, the sample size becomes so big that the possibility for randomness almost goes to infinity. —HladkiIt still sounds like an outlandish claim, but in his GDC talk entitled “Why It’s So Much Harder to Predict Winners in Esports”, Hladki seemed extremely confident. “By the sheer amount of games, the sample size becomes so big that the possibility for randomness almost goes to infinity”. The idea that esports g