League of Legends studio Riot Games recently announced plans to move beyond the mega-MOBA League of Legends with a pile of new games including a fighting game, an FPS, a card game, and even a management sim. But it’s also looking to broaden the appeal and footprint of League of Legends with a new publishing label announced today called Riot Forge, through which it will partner with other developers to create “bespoke games that enable players of all types to experience League in new and exciting

Apex Legends’ Pathfinder can now strut around the battle royale looking vaguely— very vaguely—like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’s wee droid, BD-1. The new Pathfinder skin changes his colour and pattern to match BD-1, who also happens to look a bit like a NES. In celebration of the launch of #JediFallenOrder, we’re releasing the BD-1-inspired, “BP-1 Pathfinder skin.” To claim the skin, simply log in to Apex Legends from Dec 3 – Jan 14. To grab the skin, simply log into the game by January 14.

The Witcher star Henry Cavill swung by Jimmy Kimmel recently to talk about how he became a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs, being shamed into doing his own stunts by Tom Cruise, and taking part in Thanksgiving despite being British. He also spent a bit of time talking about The Witcher series on Netflix, and showed off a brief clip of sword-swinging action and an appearance by a very strange-looking partner. The Witcher clip begins at 6:20 if you want to get straight to the goods, and yes, it’s ve

There will also be free Santa hats, too. But if Santa hats and snowballs are a little bit too thematically awkward for you, there’s a new Hardcore mode rolling out which will introduce permadeath to the game. Don’t expect Hardcore Mode to be perfect straight out of the box. The game will get a new look during this event (presumably Christmas themed) and Ambushers have a random chance of wearing Santa hats. The full update notes are here, or else you could watch this recent stream which goes into

The HyperX Cloud Revolver S is currently on sale at Best Buy for $90. And we loved the HyperX Cloud Revolver S so much it made our best gaming headset list last year. We’re collecting all the best Cyber Week PC gaming deals from across the web, from the latest graphics cards to the most comfortable gaming chairs. Stay tuned to PC Gamer throughout Cyber Week for up to the minute savings. Cyber Week gaming laptops | Cyber Week monitors | Cyber Week SSD deals | Cyber Week graphics cards | Cyber Wee

Access to the game has thus far been restricted to a closed alpha test, but that will change on December 9 when GTFO goes into Early Access on Steam. When the time limit is up, a new work order is issued and the previous one goes away for good. Different work orders will have different numbers of expeditions, and shorter or longer time limits to match, ranging from a couple of weeks to a couple of months. GTFO isn’t currently available for pre-purchase, but 10 Chambers said on Twitter that the E

(Image credit: tinyBuild)Age of Wonders: Planetfall and Pathologic 2 are among the nine new games set to join Xbox Game Pass for PC this month. In a new announcement, Microsoft writes that these games are “coming soon” to the subscription service, along with a few quality of life updates to the app itself. Here’s the list of Xbox Game Pass for PC games coming in December:These will join Halo: Reach, which was added to the subscription service upon its launch yesterday. As for the quality of life

If you’ve been looking for an ultrawide monitor, one model from LG just dropped to $379.99. You get a 34-inch 2560×1080 IPS screen with an aspect ratio of 21:9, a maximum refresh rate of 144Hz, and even HDR10 compatibility. This is a FreeSync monitor, primarily designed for use with AMD graphics cards, but it’s also officially marked as G-Sync Compatible on Nvidia’s website. That means it should work perfectly with GeForce graphics cards, though Nvidia lists it as HDR-incompatible. It’s not clea

(Image credit: Square Enix)Dragon Quest Builders 2 releases next week, on December 10 to be specific, and in the lead up you’ll be able to sample its wares thanks to a new ‘Jumbo Demo’. I’ve played both Dragon Quest Builders 2 and its predecessor on Switch, and I can confirm these games are very charming, very relaxing, and almost worryingly addictive. If you do play the demo, your progress will carry over to the main game if you choose to buy it. And that’s good: if you take your time, the demo

Hearthstone pro Dima “Rdu” Radu dropped a big spoiler during a stream today when he revealed that World of Warcraft headliner Sylvanas Windrunner is coming to Blizzard’s CCG as a new Hunter hero skin. As a streamer, all content on his account is unlocked—even, apparently, stuff that isn’t released yet. That’s what leads to the “slip,” seen in the clip above: After taking a quick look at the new Druid hero Dame Hazelbark, Radu turns the page and, for just a few seconds, highlights the Sylvanas he

Two creators who have previously worked on the classic RPGs Legend of Mana and Mother 3 have released their new RPG Heroland on PC. Written by Nobuyuki Inoe with world creation by Nobuhiro Imagawa, Heroland follows closely in the footsteps of Mother 3 and Legends of Mana as a light-hearted, story-rich RPG with turn-based combat. Heroland takes place on a tropical theme park that offers visitors the ultimate RPG experience in real life. But with Heroland’s overwhelmingly bright and colourful exte

Amphibious sleuth Frog Detective is returning next week for his second snooping adventure. Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard will see the eponymous investigator searching for clues and interrogating critters after a mystery villain ruins a party. Like its predecessor, Frog Detective 2 is extremely short and low pressure. You can finish it in an hour, make some pals, have a wee chuckle and then you’re done. To solve this monstrous crime, Frog Detective will need to explore the Wa

It does, according to Nvidia, particularly when using a high-end gaming monitor paired with a fast graphics card. The GPU maker has been trying to drive this message home for several months now, and its latest study draws a correlation between higher framerates and better kill/death ratios. Have a look:(Image credit: Nvidia)The above graph plots data from a study Nvidia conducted earlier this year. In it, we can see that the K/D ratio is 90 percent better when playing at 180fps versus 60fps. The

AMD is pushing out a new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition driver release, version 19.12.1, and with it comes official support for the Radeon RX 5300M GPU for laptops. That’s the main order of business, though it does also address a couple of bugs related to its Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards. According to the release notes, the 19.12.1 driver release squashes a bug that was causing intermittent crashes to the desktop when playing The Outer Worlds. This only applies to RX 5700 series

For $14 on Steam, you can experience a new map, Livonia, which at 163 square kilometers is a bit smaller than Chernarus and may provide more frequent player encounters. There are bears in DayZ now, and not just in Livonia but also in the survival game’s original map, Chernarus. “This Eastern European terrain covers the southern Topolin-Nadbór region of the larger Polish-speaking country of Livonia,” read the Steam store page. I also worry a bit that since you need to buy the new map, it could fr

According to the latest Steam hardware survey for November 2019, AMD processor usage is now at 20 percent—a massive jump considering where it was just two years ago. Looking back at processor usage via archives, it’s easy to see where the peaks in usage coincide with AMD releasing a new generation of Ryzen CPUs. The 2nd gen Ryzen CPUs released during this time period, which undoubtedly contributed to that sharp rise in percentage. And now, for the first time, AMD is closing the gap between it an

The Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal rush is starting to subside, but a few decent sales are still popping up. If you’re in the market for a high-end PC, but you’d rather not build it yourself, one model from ABS with an RTX 2070 Super graphics card is on sale for $1,289.99. That makes it the cheapest model on Newegg right now with that GPU. The full specifications of this PC include an overclockable Intel Core i5-9600K processor, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB graphics card, 16GB of DDR4 RA

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s largest update so far went live last night, kicking off the game’s very first season. With Season One comes the new battle pass with two free weapons, four multiplayer maps and a trio of Spec Ops missions. The battle pass is mostly off-limits unless you shell out for the full battle pass or its bundle, which lets you skip up to 20 tiers. The full battle pass contains 100 tiers and includes a new Operator, Mara. The Season One update also comes with a bunch of playl

Five Nights at Freddy’s has yet another spin-off game, this time in the form of a sidescrolling platformer. The most important thing to know is that Freddy in Space 2 is a new, free, action-oriented FNaF game, and it looks decent in action, albeit very far removed from the series’ horror roots. As creator Scott Cawthon explains on Gamejolt, the game has been created for a Game Theory charity stream. “LolzHax has brainwashed the other resident space warriors, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and that weird g

The full reveal of Destiny 2’s next season, the Season of Dawn, will take place tomorrow. Osiris was at the center of the Destiny 2 expansion Curse of Osiris, but he seems destined to play second fiddle in Season of Dawn. Putting the Season of Dawn on Mercury is an interesting choice. It wasn’t a disaster by any stretch, it was just very flat at a time when Destiny 2 really needed to make a power move. Some of the new stuff is free for everyone, and other bits are restricted to owners of the $10