Still, a large part of the conversation online has centered on Final Fantasy 15’s use of Denuvo DRM, and a workaround that let people play (and pirate) the game early . Whenever a game uses Denuvo, some people claim the DRM has a negative performance impact. After hours of testing, I found no obvious measurable impact of Denuvo on performance in Final Fantasy 15—but that’s not quite the full story. Overall, these results paint a rather clear picture: Denuvo does not affect in-game performance ne

To protect users from these insidious destinations, Comcast has baked a “protected browsing” feature into its Xfinity XFi broadband service. This has largely flown under the radar, but with net neutrality rules on their way out, we’re hoping this is not a precursor to a hobbled internet. Either way, Comcast’s protected browsing feature continues to aggressively filter out sites that don’t always need it. The workaround is to disable protected browsing. Of course, the internet operated mostly fin

OpTic Gaming finished in second place at the recent PUBG Invitational tournament at IEM Katowice, earning it a tidy $12,000 in prize money. The intentional use of any bugs, glitches, or errors in the game is strictly forbidden and will be penalized. Any team found to be using any known exploit will forfeit their game upon the first occurrence of the exploit.” “I hopped in the corner to get as close as physically possible to their car rotation to track it’s movement. The disqualification means th

My very first character in World of Warcraft, back in 2005, was an Orc Hunter. I loved that big lug, but as guy who has had a few nasty back problems, his posture always worried me. Yes, Orcs are getting new spines. Blizzard revealed the change during Blizzcon last year, but despite the recent introduction of some of Battle for Azeroth’s Allied Races, WoW’s traditional Orcish bad back persists. And it looks like I’ll be dusting off a character I haven’t played in over a decade.

Have a look at the full patch notes below:The game now has Save and Exit feature. Saving is much more robust and saves won’t get corrupted even if the game crashes while saving. The last quest with Lord Capon is now visible on the map when he is ready to assign it to you. (Consoles and some PCs)Improved lockpicking:New interface design makes it much easier to hold the sweet spot while turning the lock. Easy and Very Easy trunks are now easier to lockpick when playing with controller.

Developer 11 Bit Studios announced today that Frostpunk, the game about humanity’s final, desperate bid for survival in a great frozen wasteland, will be out on April 24. To celebrate the launch date announcement, the studio also released a new cinematic teaser offering a gentle reminder of the risks of getting things wrong. Frostpunk is set in an alt-history 19th century in which something, somewhere, has gone terribly wrong. 11 Bit Studios managing director Grzegorz Miechowski said the goal ha

BattleCry Studios, the developer behind the free-to-play action game of the same name, has joined Bethesda Game Studios as Bethesda Game Studios Austin. Both Todd Howard and Austin’s studio head, Doug Mellencamp, make it sound an awful lot like the new studio is going to be supporting Bethesda rather than working on its own things, like BattleCry. “As the vision, scale and ambitions for our games continue to grow, so does Bethesda Game Studios,” said Howard. “We’ve had the pleasure to know the t

Sea of Thieves’ final beta has kicked off, and this time every scurrilous seadog is invited to prowl the high seas for booty and, more importantly, friendship. As well as all the ship-on-ship and treasure hunting shenanigans from the earlier betas, the final beta will let you get your grubby mitts on even more gold by participating in some legitimate business, ferrying cargo like pigs and chickens from port to port. Since this is the most players Sea of Thieves has had to handle, Rare warns that

Darewise, the company founded by Thief designer Randy Smith and Half-Life 2 artist Viktor Antonov, announced its first game this week, after switching from publishing to game development. It’s going by Project C at the moment, and it’s a single-shard sci-fi MMO. “Project C is the first step of this ambitious journey, to become a quality-first independent company, competing in the AAA field with truly innovative experiences,” said Darewise’s CEO Benjamin Charbi. Last month, Darewise teamed up wit

WHY I LOVE In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. Arkham Asylum regularly features in Batman stories, usually because The Joker or some other supervillain has escaped from it. Later Arkham games took Batman to Gotham City, dramatically increasing their size and scope in the process. It’s this outdated idea of what an asylum represents that fuels Arkham Asylum. It’s when Batman arrives in an area called Arkham East that the s

EA has opened its subscription service, Origin Access, to other publishers, significantly expanding its library of games. Other publishers will also be joining Origin Access soon, adding The Witness, Bulletstorm and Wasteland 2. Arkham Knight is notably missing from the line-up, but just about every other Batman game from WB can be found, including the first three Arkham games and the Lego Batman series. Hopefully The Middle-earth series and the final Arkham title will eventually make their way

Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive’s city builder, Cities: Skylines, turns three this weekend, on March 10. Paradox has also announced that 5 million copies have been sold on PC alone. To celebrate the anniversary and sales milestone, everyone’s getting free DLC inspired by Surviving Mars, the colony survival sim that’s due out on March 15. The Surviving Mars DLC will contain a new radio station, Official Mars Radio; an astronaut Chirper, if you’ve not killed the bird already; and a new buil

Stressful horror romp Amnesia: Dark Descent and its follow-up, A Machine for Pigs, have been in so many bundles that you might already own them without realising it, but if you don’t, then you can pick them up on Steam for free. The deal is for a limited time, but we don’t know how long that will be, so you’ll probably want to snatch them up right now. Both Amnesia games are free individually, but for some reason the Amnesia Collection still has the full price. I’ll probably finish it after ever

By all reports, Activision’s Crash Bandicoot remakes sold astonishingly well when they released exclusively for PS4 last year. The package collected the first three Crash Bandicoot games, with each built from scratch but completely in-keeping with the original design. After a year of Sony exclusivity, Activision announced today that the collection will hit PC on July 10, as well as Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Rumours suggest that the success of Crash Bandicoot: N-Sane Trilogy has prompted Acti

Valve’s hardware and technology research has been an “investment in the future,” said Newell, one which he connects to the incredible success of PUBG. Naturally, PUBG was included at the top of Valve’s year-end list of the highest-earning Steam games of 2017. We can only speculate as to how PUBG might of fared in a world without CS:GO and without Steam. That is set to change, with multiple new Valve games planned . Of those new games, the only one we have details on is the recently-announced Dot

And then, the ultimate: the flaming Nazi zombie. Cthulhu Tactics, reckons we can go even further by side-stepping zombies altogether. Cthulhu Tactics revolves around an elite squad of allied forces sent in to turn the tide of the war. It’s a strategy game with a twist: light and dark areas for the allies and Nazis to hide in, respectively. Cthulhu Tactics was successfully Kickstarted earlier this year and will release later this year.

Valve’s going to start shipping games again.” That’s games, plural: Artifact isn’t the only game Valve is working on. In a January 2017 Reddit AMA , Newell did confirm that Valve was working on at least one fully-fledged singleplayer game. And the following month, in roundtable interviews with PC Gamer, Newell said that Valve was working on ” three big VR games .” With Valve’s new hardware chops, it seems like we can expect more than new games from the company.

Temple of Spikes is a self-described “hardcore” 2D platformer about exploring a jungle temple which, you may have deduced, is filled with spikes. It’s also filled with spiky bosses, priceless treasures, and fireballs. It also supports up to four-player local co-op. Tigrido says Temple of Spikes sports 30 levels worth 50 hours of exploration, to say nothing of an optional speedrunner mode. Oh, and if you absolutely have to have more difficult, co-op 2D platformers with spikes in the name, I’d rec

Overwatch League pro Timo “Taimou” Kettunen, who plays for the Dallas Fuel, has issued an apology for using a homophobic slur while streaming on Twitch on January 23. “My goal has always been to be the best Overwatch player I can to help my team, and I will only get better as a player and a public figure. Earlier this year, Dallas Fuel player Félix “xQc” Lengyel was reprimanded for using a similar homophobic slur—suspended for four games and fined $2,000 by the Overwatch League, and further susp

The White House has posted the video game montage that was viewed at today’s meeting between President Trump, lawmakers, and critics and representatives of the video game industry. The montage, which is titled “Violence in Video Games” on the White House’s YouTube channel, includes several clips from the Call of Duty series, and others from the Fallout series, Sniper Elite 4, The Evil Within, Dead By Daylight, and others. The montage depicts not only gun violence, but also violence from axes, kn