Movies based on videogames have generally been received about as well as a flaming dog egg through the mailbox, but the upcoming short film based on the 2013 indie hit Papers, Please will hopefully buck that trend. Announced in May 2017 and properly teased last October, the filmmakers announced today on Facebook that it will be released on YouTube on February 24, followed by a Steam debut a few days later. The Papers, Please film will be about ten minutes in length, so even without taking the su

Auston Matthews takes a shot at goaltender Frederik Andersen during a warmup. (Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images) (Image: © Auston Matthews #34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs shoots on Frederik Andersen #31 during warmup before the Leafs face the Tampa Bay Lightning at the Air Canada Centre on February 12, 2018 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Speaking in a recent Sportsnet interview (watch below), star forward Auston Matthews said his Fortnite skills are “unbelievable.” As for who needs to imp

In this case, hackers were able to break into Tesla’s Amazon cloud accountCybersecurity startup RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence (yes, that would be CSI) discovered the intrusion last month. Within these consoles, access credentials to these organizations’ Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure environments were exposed. Upon further investigation, the team determined that hackers had secretly infiltrated these organizations’ public cloud environments and were using the compute instanc

The original Dino Run Flash game (which you can play for free here) released in 2008. Dino Run 2 is a 2D runner where you and some friends pick dinosaurs and plow through procedurally generated levels in order to outrun disasters. Different dinosaurs, from pachycephalosaurus to pterodactyls, have different abilities and kart racer-like stats, and can utilize different routes and tricks in levels. Dino Run 2’s biggest improvements are the diversity of dinosaurs and environments, as well as level

The Humble Classics Return Bundle is an impressive collection of games for oldsters and people who’d like to try playing as one. One single, solitary dollar is all you need for Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse, Shadowrun Returns, Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure, and Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut. And at the top tier of $15 or more, you’ll also get Torment: Tides of Numenera and Dreamfall Chapters: The Final Cut Edition. The Tesla Effect soundtrack is also included at any tier, a

Sci-fi mystery adventure The Station asks this age-old question and follows it up with another: What would we do if those beings were also embroiled in civil war? In this case, humanity decides to send a small crew of three to observe the aliens from a safe distance on a stealth space station called the Espial. Things inevitably go sideways and we, the player, are sent in to recon the situation and locate the missing crew. There’s also a neat augmented reality interface which embeds clues in the

Darwin Project, the battle royale game that in December gave us what may be the most tenuous article introduction in PC Gamer’s glorious history, will hold its second and final open beta session this weekend. “The show director can actually get his community to vote directly on the streaming channel,” Darveau said. “He can say, for instance, one of the players should be [hunted], who should it be? He’ll launch a vote, and basically stream viewers will vote for who is to be hunted and this happen

Last month, we selected Samsung’s 500GB 960 Evo as the best SSD for gaming due to its excellent performance and good price per gigabyte (for an NVMe drive). The performance hasn’t changed, but the price has, and for the better—the drive is on sale today for $200. This could also be the beginning in a trend of lower NAND and SSD prices, as we’ve heard from multiple vendors that they expect NAND prices to start dropping this year. It’s also an NVMe drive that shuttles data through the PCIe bus. Sa

No small deal, as we haven’t seen a proper discrete graphics solution from the company since the i740 around two decades ago. Now three months later, we’re getting a look at what one of Intel’s discrete GPU solutions entails. They depict the inner workings of a discrete GPU prototype that Intel is working on. Intel’s discrete graphics chip is based on Intel’s 9th generation graphics architecture, otherwise known as Gen 9 graphics. All indications are that this is a lower end discrete GPU, likely

Conan Exiles is a different style of game entirely, but has promoting a pre-release game been difficult against PUBG’s runaway success? Given how popular the battle royale genre has become, do you think Conan Exiles will ever apply a similar mode? Talk me through the last 12 months of Conan Exiles in Early Access—what’s been the most enjoyable elements, the most exciting, the most challenging? Yeah, when we started with Conan Exiles, the migrant crisis was dominating all of the news headlines. J

Gaming peripheral maker Razer is running a one-day “FragFest” sale on a whole bunch of items, including laptops, mechanical keyboards, and other items. Compared to regular pricing, some of the items are selling today for half of what they normally do, at least on Razer’s website. Sites like Amazon typically offer better prices than MSRP, depending on the item. However, many of the sale items on Razer’s websites are still cheaper because of the large discounts. Some online stores give us a small

It has been a bit of a wait for Asus to make available its mixed reality headset in the marketplace, but if you have been holding out for one, the day has finally arrived. The company’s new headset (model HC102) is one of several mixed reality headsets designed for Windows 10. Beyond the looks, the HC102 has a flippable hinge so users can lift up the visor and peek at the real world, rather than having to remove the headset entirely. Like the other mixed reality headsets from Microsoft’s hardwar

“Unlike the method considered earlier, we are going to divide the matching pool depending on ping. “The team is expecting to improve the overall play experience by splitting the matching pool rather than restricting connection depending on ping. Preparations are underway to test this method in some regions, with first trials planned to start this week.” Information about what’s coming in the first half of this year, including the announcement of a new map, will begin to flow in March. Test build

A hefty 5gb patch just dropped for Assassin’s Creed Origins, bringing with it an intriguing new mode called Discovery that turns the game into an interactive history lesson. Discovery is completely separate from the main game, dropping you into an Egypt where all the fast travel points are unlocked and nothing can kill you. It’s a mode I wish more games had, letting you experience the world without the usual open-world distractions of quests, enemies, and NPCs. This, plus an abundance of fast tr

Imagine how many games from your Steam library you could install if you had a 30TB solid state drive. Such a scenario might not be all that far off, as Samsung is now mass producing 30.72TB SSD. Specifically, the 30.72TB SSD combines 32 of Samsung’s new 1TB NAND flash packages, each one comprised of 16 stacked layers of 512Gb V-NAND chips. As you might imagine (and as Han alludes to), the PM1643 is an enterprise SSD, not a home consumer model. Pricing information was not announced, though as a d

Having spent some time earning a living in GTA Online buying and selling special cargo, I recently segued into boosting cars. Capturing the rarest models is fast becoming an obsession, which means I’ll now be on the lookout for Legendary Motorsport’s latest release—the Karin 190z, a new “Sports Classic” that’s loosely modeled on Nissan’s old school S30/Datsun’s 280z and costs $900,000. Moreover, double GTA$ and RP has been applied to all Smuggler’s Run missions; while special cargo sales have be

Total War: Rome 2’s Empire Divided adds little that feels substantially new, so said our Tom after his recent deep dive into the recalcitrant late third century. Creative Assembly and Sega have now announced Desert Kingdoms—a new DLC culture pack which aims to further bolster Rome 2, a game celebrating its fifth birthday later this year. Due next month, the Desert Kingdoms pack adds four new playable factions, with new rosters boasting varying military strength. Likewise, factions come with new

Not content with explaining how you’ll build your own vibrant medical centres in promising hospital sim Two Point Hospital, developer Two Point Studios took to the stage at last weekend’s PC Gamer Weekender to show off some of the bizarre new illnesses we can expect to deal with. That illness doesn’t have a name yet, but the cure appears to involve sticking the subject into a sarcophagus, a treatment that I believe is actually offered on the NHS. You may also spot someone suffering from lighthea

Fanatical’s BundleFest 9 is go—bringing with it a range of bundled special offers from now through February 27. As with previous BundleFest dealios, new package deals will be added every day for the next week. As mentioned in the headline above, Fanatical’s Starter Bundle gathers ten indie gems for just £1.69/your regional equivalent. Toren is probably the pick of that bunch, but have a gander yourself at the assortment that’ll save you £103.79. Check out all of BundleFest 9’s offerings this-a-w

Fortnite Battle Royale’s second season winds down this week, which means, obviously, season three is upon us. And with the last-person-standing murdergrounds ’em up’s third season, comes the latest iteration of its battle pass. Weekly challenges replace season 2’s daily challenges and are described thusly:Tier up even faster by completing the new Weekly Challenges. Each week a new set of seven challenges unlock, replacing the Season 2 Battle Pass daily challenges. Season three of Fortnite Battle