“We usually had one game going on at a moment, but now it’s four.” While chatting about the musicians behind Amanita’s games, Kunce gave us a few hints about what to expect. Yeah, it’s like Chuchel is a full out burst of comedy, this is a full out burst of disturbing things. Yeah, I’ve already played a bit and it’s so disturbing,” Kunce tells us. “Yeah, it’s like Chuchel is a full out burst of comedy, this is a full out burst of disturbing things.”

The open world multiplayer pirate-’em-up Sea of Thieves launched yesterday, and in the finest tradition of online game releases, it was a mess. The situation is apparently proving tougher to resolve than expected, as Rare has now put a temporary halt to new players joining the game. In order to resolve the issues players are seeing with the servers, we will be temporarily suspending new players joining the game. Soon, hopefully, but for right now, if you’re not already out on the water then you

But whatever that something was, it’s apparently now off the table, and so for that matter is Strange New Things because CD Projekt announced today that it has acquired and re-christened the studio as CD Projekt Red Wrocław, to support the development of Cyberpunk 2077. “Aside from their immense technological knowledge and artistic flair, the core team of CD Projekt Red Wrocław are just great people,” CD Projekt Red boss Adam Badowski said. “CD Projekt Red is not a typical game developer—we put

Hearthstone rapmeister Ben Brode took to YouTube today to answer some commonly-asked questions about Blizzard’s hit CCG. Will cards be added to the classic set? And how did Lord Jaraxxus end up in there, anyway? And if that’s not your thing the Lord Jaraxxus impression is pretty good, too. We recently spoke to Brode—who, by the way, is also the Hearthstone game director—about the Year of the Mammoth, Hearthstone’s biggest year yet.

Outside of a few tooltips when you first start, Sea of Thieves doesn’t have much of a tutorial. This guide to Sea of Thieves voyages, factions, and kraken attacks will get you sailing in the right direction (we’ll have more on skeleton forts soon, too). Once you’ve purchased some voyages (the starting voyages cost 0 gold), head to your ship, which should be neatly docked nearby. Once you start a voyage, you’ll lose any maps it gives you if you log off before completing it. Gold Hoarders voyagesI

When French media conglomerate Vivendi turned its eyes toward Ubisoft a couple of years ago, I thought for sure that Ubisoft was hosed. Vivendi will sell 30,489,300 shares of Ubisoft for €66 ($81) per share, netting it roughly $2 billion ($2.45 billion). More than nine million of those Vivendi shares will be bought back by Ubisoft. The Vivendi exit also sees new investment into Ubisoft by Chinese gaming giant Tencent and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Tencent will acquire 5.6 million shares

Microsoft is aware that major upgrades to Windows 10 typically take a long time to install. There have been three major updates to this point—Anniversary Update, Creators Update, and Fall Creators Update. This will vary by PC, of course, but the bottom line is that the Spring Creators Update will install much quicker. Some of the more interesting changes that will arrive with the Spring Creator’s Update are related to Microsoft’s mixed reality push. The Spring Creators Update is expected to rele

In Smoke and Sacrifice, you’re a mother searching for her child in a bizarre underworld. All sorts of creatures inhabit this landscape, including jellyfish-like creatures called polyps and a cute hybrid of hogs and porcupines. What sets Smoke and Sacrifice apart from other survival games is a stronger sense of narrative drive. Sachi eventually finds herself in an underworld trying to unravel exactly what’s going on, and what happened to her child. Smoke and Sacrifice has no release date yet, but

Above: our video preview of PUBG Mobile running on a Google Pixel. Within a week, Fortnite’s mobile version skyrocketed to the top of the iOS app store, nabbing nearly $1.5 million in the process. After a soft-launch in Canada earlier this week, the free-to-play mobile port is now available on iOS and Android app stores in the US. PUBG Mobile is available for iOS and Android in the US today. If you’re on iOS, you can head over to the app store to download it and give it a whirl.

After its somewhat lacklustre Occupy and Bunker series one-two punch last week, GTA Online has unveiled the Southern San Andreas Sports Series. Designed with the new Hotring Sabre in mind, the 30-player-supporting Hotring Circuit grants racers double GTA$ and RP now through March 26. Down the line, Rockstar plans to release a number of racing and Adversary Modes. Look, see:On May 1, ten new Special Vehicle Races land (and fly) with the Doomsday Heist’s Deluxo, Stromberg and Thruster in tow. Here

Breslau said he understood that Blizzard is attempting to crack down on the use of the image in the Overwatch League because it is “potentially offensive.” An Overwatch League spokesperson confirmed with Dot Esports that this is in fact what’s happening. “The Overwatch League discourages the use of symbols and imagery which are associated with or used by hate groups, including Pepe the Frog,” the rep said. We likewise ask the same of Overwatch League teams and players on their social-media accou

Today Newegg is switching gears to focus on its house brand, Rosewill, with a case, keyboard, and mouse bundle. For the case, the Rosewill Cullinan MX is a mid-tower enclosure with tempered glass front and side panels, RGB lighting, and a remote to control the lighting effects. On the front panel, you have access to two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, headphone and microphone jacks, and a fan speed controller. It uses an Avago 3050 optical sensor configurable up to 4,000 dpi, and has six butto

It’s no secret that AMD is getting ready to release a new generation of Ryzen processors with faster clockspeeds and performance optimizations. In the meantime, AMD and several of its retail partners have cut the price of existing Ryzen processor, and the company’s high-end desktop (HEDT) Threadripper family. Bear in mind that prices may dip even further once AMD’s second generation Ryzen processors arrive. The new chips are built on a 12-nanometer manufacturing process and based on AMD’s Zen+ a

Nvidia today released a new batch of GPU drivers, and like the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.3.3 driver release from AMD yesterday, Nvidia’s GeForce 391.24 package is optimized for Sea of Thieves. The driver release coincides with the launch of Sea of Thieves, which is now out of beta (and is a lot more fun than it was previously). [Nvidia Freestyle]: NVIDIA Freestyle not enabled for supported games. [Volta GPU]: The display flickers continuously after disabling and enabling the GPU using

For more quality articles about all things PC gaming, you can subscribe now in the UK and the US. Tom H: Don’t worry Sam, I’m sure we’ll be treated to plenty of long monologues while driving. Phil: In fairness, thanks to this update you can now also get murdered by a prick with an orbital cannon. It’s a fun mission, though, the grisly searching of dead bodies aside. Phil: This feels like an anti-climax, but one that, for me, sums up GTA Online pretty well.

Sea of Thieves docks today after months of Kraken teasing, beta testing and stranger tormenting. Joking aside, developer Rare is to keen to ensure Sea of Thieves provides a “positive online social space for players” from the outset—and will endeavor to address negative and toxic situations if or as they occur. To this end, Neate reckons developers in charge of social multiplayer games have an onus to share knowledge with one another while creating positive spaces. “We’re going to bring a load of

I jump on the bad ones. I bite the bad ones! As showcased in Far Cry 5’s ‘Guns for Hire’ trailer that aired last month, these are the translated-from-barks-into words of friendly canine companion Boomer. Speaking to the practical perks of setting Boomer (and other support characters) on Far Cry 5’s bad guys, here’s an excerpt from Tom’s hands-on impressions from earlier this year:Co-op NPCs aren’t totally new to Far Cry, but I especially enjoyed rolling with them in Far Cry 5. Far Cry 5 is due o

Despite the rather dismal 55/100 score we awarded Primordia in our 2013 review, I thought it was excellent. It’s an old-school point-and-click adventure about an android and his companion who travel to a crumbling robotic metropolis in search of a power core for their derelict spacecraft. All of which is relevant because the developer, Wormwood Studios, has announced that it’s working on a new project called Strangeland. Strangeland is a smaller game than Primordia, but as with our last offering

If you’ve pondered whether or not to arrange a real pirate-themed band to accompany you on your Sea of Thieves voyage, then you’re among a small minority. A small, weird minority. But not so weird that Microsoft isn’t setting up exactly that situation for its Australian userbase. This pirate group obviously won’t be offering its services to every single Sea of Thieves player in the country. For those wondering what a pirate-themed band sounds like:

The pre-Hearthstone era was a meager time for collectible card game enthusiasts. Despite calling itself the “Finest Online Trading Card Game”, Cabals is more akin to a board game. After Hearthstone’s launch, Cabals’ developers turned to Kickstarter, hoping to transform their digital board game into a physical one. Cabals: Card Blitz is a Frankensteinian abomination, a rotten-smelling corpse wearing the skin of the old Cabals (by which I mean its art assets, only with less clothes on). Gone is th