With its March 6 release date in sight, it’s all go for Final Fantasy 15’s PC debut. After revealing two lovely trailers and a teasing preview of its mod support at the PC Gamer Weekender last week, its complimentary demo is now live on Steam. Boasting a wealth of bonus content and supporting Native 4K (3840×2160px) ultra high-resolution graphical options and HDR 10, you can now enjoy the beautiful and carefully-crafted experience of Final Fantasy 15 like never before. The Final Fantasy 15 Windo

Photographs is an upcoming puzzle game from You Must Build A Boat and 10,000,000 creator Luca Redwood. Puzzles start off exactly as they should: simple and silent. Around this point, I really start to appreciate Photographs’ nifty rewind mechanism. Photographs’ Alchemist chapter took me about 20 minutes, and half that the second time through. The fastest way to kill a puzzle game is to keep going after you’ve run out of ideas, and remember Redwood says it’s the shortest chapter.

We believe it’s very appealing to players, not only RPG players—but this is [a] true RPG, like Witcher, like Witcher 3, for mature audiences. It’s handcrafted, detailed, of course open-world, with open-ended gameplay ,” CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski says in the video. Despite the importance of CD Projekt-driven revenues to GOG’s bottom line, Kicinski confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 will be available on Steam as well. “No one said that one day we won’t decide to develop something in the Witcher univ

In the days since posting that article, a report emerged highlighting how many of last year’s cryptocurrency ICOs are now dead, and it turns out there is a lot of them. What it found is that of the 902 cryptocurrency ICOs formed in 2017, 142 failed before raising any funds, and 276 failed after fundraising. Those figures combined work out to a 46 percent failure rate, despite raising over $104 million. A small sample of the many failed cryptocurrency ICOs from last year. But even accounting for

Fatshark held a closed beta for the upcoming co-op rat-battler Warhammer: Vermintide 2 over the weekend, and apparently it quite well. So well, in fact, that the studio has decided to extend it by another 24 hours, and is giving away keys to the first 10,000 people who ask for one. “It’s been an amazing weekend, with millions and millions of Chaos and Skaven enemies eliminated,” Fatshark CEO Martin Wahlund said. “We are also very appreciative that media and influencers have taken the game to a l

With regards to PUBG, Nvidia performed some internal benchmarking and found that GeForce GTX 1050 owners stand to see a 7 percent performance increase at 1920×1080. Likewise, Nvidia’s benchmarks highlight the same performance gain for GeForce GTX 1080 owners at 2560×1440 and 3824×2160, and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti owners at 3840×2160. That said, the testbed Nvidia used consisted of an Intel Core i7-7820X processor paired with 32GB of DDR4-2666 memory, running in Windows 10. [Nvidia Control Panel]: Th

The sheer size of the thing presents a daunting challenge, and this is the first of many ways that Phoenix Point differentiates itself from Firaxis’ XCOM reboots. Cumulatively, these changes make Phoenix Point feel like more of a detailed combat simulation. The world map will feature several human factions in addition to the crab aliens, and Gollop hints at Lovecraftian inspirations for the enemies in Phoenix Point. So far I like the gritty tone of the environmental design, and I like the granul

In Dark Souls, first encounters are wonderful. Travelling from Things Betwixt’s dark cavernous walkways into Majula’s sun-kissed sprawl for the first time remains one of my favourite things about Dark Souls 2—and while I can’t relive my first steps, the annual Return to Drangleic community event asks players to start over. Much like the first Souls game’s Return to Lordran endeavour, new and old players have begun filling the game’s subreddit to discuss tactics and tips and to arrange meet-ups f

In Tropico 6, El Presidente has taken a shine to the famous monuments of France, the United States, the UK and more, and he’d quite like to have them for himself. Now, you might think that pilfering world monuments is a ludicrous idea, but if so, you’ve never been to the British Museum. In this latest entry in the strategy series, you’ll go about these daring quests by forming societies of avaricious scoundrels, from pirates to more modern, sneakier spies. Releasing sometime this year, Tropico 6

And on that farm he had a library of user-made 3D models, courtesy of Pure Farming 2018’s official modding tools, which will be available to players at launch. “The tool we offer is intuitive and universal, giving players the flexibility to get really creative with what they add to the game—even going beyond traditional farming machines. We were testing it using one of the models provided by Techland as you can see in the video.” With the promise of “every custom machine you can imagine”, Techla

With so many famous historical figures to choose from, how does Firaxis decide which characters to include in each installment of Civilization? In a panel at the recent PC Gamer Weekender, Firaxis’ senior producer Andrew Frederiksen, and the DLC’s lead designer Anton Strenger, explained how they came up with the cast of characters for Civ 6’s Rise and Fall expansion. This time around, they wanted a cast that would fit with Rise and Fall’s Dynamic Empire’s system, which sees empires rising and, w

Octahedron, on the other hand, seems like a deliberate dodge of the current trend. The octahedron seems to be responsible for the your ability to summon a limited number of temporary platforms beneath your feet by pressing X. You can also hold X and push a direction to surf those platforms left and right, though never up. As well as the platformer-with-a-twist, what Octahedron reminds me of is old arcade games and the early home consoles that aped them. Demimonde Games is planning to release Oct

Forgotton Anne is an adventure game set in a world full of forgotten objects that have come to life—everything from rogue socks to lava lamps and scarves. Anne and her master, Bonku, who both appear to be human, are trying to return to their world. The first choice you get to make features a fearful scarf, brandishing a shovel and threatening Anne not to come closer. The world of Forgotton Anne is gorgeous. Editor’s note: the game is actually called Forgotton Anne, not Forgotten Anne—I checked l

Into the Breach is a subversive “micro-strategy” game (that’s actually surprisingly deep, so says our Steven) from Subset Games, the creator of 2012’s FTL: Faster Than Light. I found the following extract particularly interesting, as FTL’s risk/reward balance often pushed my buttons:It took me dozens of hours to beat FTL on easy difficulty, and even after sinking in dozens more, I’ve never beaten it on normal. According to Davis, that’s pretty standard for most players. But I was almost shocked

What is load-line calibration in my BIOS? Load-Line Calibration, or LLC, is a BIOS setting found on most performance motherboards and applies additional voltage to your CPU under load to provide more stability while overclocking and compensates for high and low voltage fluctuations, to keep your voltage line to the CPU more stable. Setting the correct load-line calibration values can fix this. Load line calibration gets around this issue by providing additional voltage as the load increases and

Despite selling over a million copies in less than a fortnight, Kingdom Come: Deliverance ‘s executive producer, Martin Klíma, would’ve liked more time to polish the game. I don’t view us as an indie game either, though. “KCD is an attempt of bridging the two: it is an indie game at heart – more hardcore, more demanding, more fierce – but with the visuals and production values of AAA game. “I freely admit though that I wish we had more time to polish the game before the release, that’s what AAA

A fan has unveiled a secret message in Metal Gear Survive . I’m not going into the messy break-up between Konami and former golden child, Hideo Kojima—it’s well documented already —but suffice to say, all eyes were on Konami and its first Metal Gear game post-Kojima, Metal Gear Survive. Here, check it out for yourself:Am I the only one who saw “KoJima Productions FOREVER?” using the first letter of the highlighted code names? Metal Gear Survive is out now on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. We’v

Little Nightmares’ third and final DLC pack, The Residence, is now available. Now, The Residence sees the Kid pitted against the mysterious Lady, along with some new, nightmare-fuel enemies. “This final chapter will close the story of The Maw by shedding light on the last secrets of the adventure. All remaining questions from the game will be answered in the conclusion of the Season Pass!” Little Nightmares is available now on PC (via Steam and GOG) and PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Final Fantasy XIV’s Little Ladies Day will take place from March 1, 2018, until March 14, 2018. states the invitation on the official Final Fantasy XVI website . This year’s performance is said to be unlike any other, and a reporter from the Mythril Eye is inquiring after those who would partake in the revelry.” To participate, you’ll need to be at least level 15—just head to Mythril Eye Reporter for more information. Final Fantasy XIV is available now on PC and PlayStation 4.

A new set of Shenmue III screenshots showcasing the game’s characters were unveiled at Monaco’s anime and gaming conference, Magic Monaco. Magic Monaco is organised by Shibuya Productions, and CEO Cédric Biscay just so happens to be the co-producer of Shenmue III. Image 1 of 4 Image 2 of 4 Image 3 of 4 Image 4 of 4Shenmue III was successfully Kickstarted in 2015 to the tune of $6,333,295, breaking world records in the process. Sega’s been “investigating” the possibility of remastering the origin