Vampire-themed action RPG Code Vein is already expected to play like an anime version of Dark Souls, and an announcement this week on its co-op system won’t do anything to dispel that comparison. On the surface, it sounds pretty similar to the Dark Souls co-op system, through which you could summon other online players to help you during particularly difficult battles. CODE VEIN will have MULTIPLAYER! You can explore the world of VEIN with other players and you can send a request in an area that

Ever wondered what Overwatch would look like as a fighting game? I really like the way they’ve used the game’s built-in effects to create the illusion of a fighting game. All the footage was taken in game from a funky camera angle and then jazzed up with some special effects after the fact. And when Zarya is whacked by Reinhardt’s hammer, we get a Mortal Kombat-style x-ray of her skull being crushed. They’ve also nailed the feel of a fighting game in the hero and arena select menus, as well as i

Last week, we asked you lot for some Final Fantasy 15-related questions that we’d in turn put to Takeshi Aramaki and Kenichi Shida at the PC Gamer Weekender. Answering everything from what PC players can expect from the incoming Windows Edition, to where FF15 stands in the overarching series—let us hand you over to the game’s technical director and game design manager:Ahead of Final Fantasy 15’s Windows Edition launch on March 6, developer Square Enix has also shared two new PC trailers, and has

Ever fancied building your own PC, but have been too scared to break actual real-life parts and/or electrocute yourself? Building your own gaming rig is a good idea, but PC Building Simulator lets you experiment within the safety of a videogame ahead of the real thing. Set for Early Access in March, here’s PC Building Simulator’s Steam blurb:Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components, realistic pricing

Thrones of Britannia makes significant changes to the Total War formula, said Tom in his preview of Creative Assembly’s latest historical offering a couple of weeks back. Focused on the Viking invasion of Britian, Thrones marks the first of the wider series’ Saga offshoots. With this in mind, what changes can players expect from a design standpoint? Here’s CA’s Jack Lusted and Al Bickham with everything you need to know:

Rend is the upcoming 60-player competitive survival game from Frostkeep Studios—an outfit comprised of ex-World of Warcraft chaps. Today, we welcomed the developer to the PC Gamer Weekender to explain what its debut venture is all about. In our preview last year, Steven described Rend as “a survival game that blends the RPG progression of World of Warcraft and the competitive nature of League of Legends with a gooey survival-game filling as its heart”. Here’s Jeremy Wood on why survival games ar

Towards the end of last year, we learned that Final Fantasy 15’s minimum PC specs are surprisingly accessible. But if you’ve got the power to push its boundaries, FF15’s Windows Edition has scope to look wonderful. And if you won’t take me on my word, I suggest you check out the duo of trailers that’ve surfaced from the PC Gamer Weekender 2018. This landed on consoles towards the end of last year, however welcomes its March update v1.2.0 in-line with the launch of FF15’s Windows Edition. Final F

When I interviewed Final Fantasy 15 director Hajime Tabata at Gamescom last year, we spoke about its incoming PC iteration and the effect player-made mods will have on the game. “Certainly traditionally Final Fantasy has a bit of an image that everyone has the exact same experience and shares that experience with everyone that plays the game,” Tabata told me. “With Final Fantasy 15 we went in a slightly different direction, right from the start the way the whole game is structured and created gi

Kingdom Come: Deliverance took PC gaming by storm this week, scoring high in our review and generating hilarious stories along the way. A quick search informs it first caught our eye way back in December 2012—therefore it’s nice to see the medieval role-player reach its potential several years on. With this in mind, Warhorse Studios’ Tobias Stolz-Zwilling joins Zoe on the PC Gamer Weekender 2018 livestream to talk managing expectations, exceeding them, and the challenges posed by crafting the ga

Localisation studio Xseed Games is doing a stellar job bringing Nihon Falcom’s JRPGs to PC, and the latest has just arrived. 2014’s The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 is now out on Steam, GOG and the Humble Store. It’s in no small part thanks to Peter ‘Durante’ Thoman—the modder that fixed Dark Souls on PC—who has worked with Xseed on numerous ports, including the first Trails of Cold Steel, which came to PC last year (and has overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam). Alongside the re

Having thrown itself screen-first into the PC gaming monitor market last year, LG has grand plans for 2018. Talking at the PC Gamer Weekender 2018, the electronics company explains how its curved Freesync and G-Sync technologies combine to great effect, in turn boosting refresh rates and reducing motion blur, among other things. LG also explains that while curved monitors suit all genres, it also plans to launch a number of flat screens, in 4K, over the next 12 months and beyond. Have a look:

I’ve had my eye on serene platformer Fe for a while now. In it, you explore a beautiful world and solve puzzles by singing to gain the trust of nearby animals (here’s five minutes of gameplay, in case you’re curious). Here’s the catch: you can only buy it on Origin. You can explore its open world freely, and I imagine it’d be relaxing to just poke about its pretty environments without worrying about your next task. Click here to get it on Origin.

If you could win any prize on your favourite game show, what’d it be? Initiative is a third-person team combat shooter that’s set inside a game show where top prize is survival. With its game currently in Early Access, developer Slingshot Cartel joins us at the PC Gamer Weekender to chat about D.R.G. ‘s characters classes, master swap pod tactics and its Addicted baddies. Over to Zoe, and Jon and Gav from Slingshot:

It’s still worth playing today, and Twitch Prime subscribers can now do just that for free for a limited time. It’s the latest in a long line of games that subscribers to the service, which is included with Amazon Prime, have received for free. Devil May Cry was on offer earlier this week, and other recent free games include Superhot and SteamWorld Heist. Alongside free games, Twitch Prime subscribers get ad-free viewing, discounts on games sold through Amazon, in-game loot (like Overwatch crate

Fade to Silence is the latest project from Black Forest Games—the studio behind Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams and the recent Bubsy reboot. A survival game, Fade to Silence follows the adventure of Ash, who must “explore a post-apocalyptic wasteland to gather the resources necessary to establish a refuge for survival”. And as if the post-apocalypse wasn’t challenging enough, the weather is also out to get you. Here’s Black Forest Games with more on that from the PC Gamer Weekender:

After some cryptic teasing, Sega and Two Point Studios revealed Two Point Hospital last month—a Theme Hospital spiritual successor from a team of ex-Lionhead and Bullfrog veterans, not least Mark Webley and Gary Carr. The first of many throwback sims—” our Little Springfield ,” so says the developer—Two Point Hospital aims to recapture the humour and refined business management mechanics of its source material. And if the latest in-game footage is anything to go by, I reckon it’s on the right pa

Project X, Automaton’s ambitious 1000-player online game that includes a 400-person battle royale-style PvP mode, now has a name—Mavericks: Proving Grounds. Revealed today at the PC Gamer Weekender, the game powered by Improbable’s SpatialOS technology has dropped the following teaser. Look, see:Improbable tells us that Mavericks will kick off with its last-person-standing mode later this year, and will eventually expand into an open world MMO in 2019. A connected social hub city named The Capit

This week brings out the worst in us all: What’s the meanest thing you’ve done in a game? It was thoughtful enough to make me strive to be better, to do what I thought was the right thing, even when that thing had complicated repercussions. If that isn’t mean enough for you, here’s a college football game that ended 222-0, which is pretty mean. About an hour later, I started getting messages from the poor guy eagerly asking if I had trimmed his armor and when he could expect it back. It was a he

The PC Gamer Weekender hits the London Olympia today, bringing with it first ever OMEN by HP Bootcamp. With a distinct focus on Blizzard’s hero shooter Overwatch, OMEN by HP—sponsors of the Overwatch League—puts players through their paces in bespoke sessions and masterclasses hosted by some of the best esports players in the country. Veteran Overwatch expert Mark “Valkia” Purdy is in attendance, as are members of the UK’s Overwatch World Cup Team, Realzx and Kruise over the course of today and

Not great, but alright, and that’s coming at the expense of my ability in the regular Soccar mode. Tournaments aren’t quite the same as proper ranked play, but it’s at least a structured way to compete where it feels like something’s on the line. Chris Livingston: Sea sawThe Sea of Thieves beta is back this weekend , after a fashion. There’s some room for improvement, but it’s a peaceful, occasionally quite beautiful game, especially when the northern lights show up. Joe Donnelly: The tax man ga