Big Boat Interactive’s remake of 1999 RTS/FPS hybrid Battlezone 2 is shooting for a March 1 release date, publisher Rebellion has announced. A new comparison trailer, above, shows just how much prettier the remake looks than the original, with new textures and visual effects galore. In the original you piloted futuristic war machines in first-person, blowing up enemies and barking orders to your fellow fighters. The remake, called Battlezone Combat Commander, features multiplayer for up to 14 pl

Historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance isn’t out for another ten days but modders are already working on a Game of Thrones total conversion mod. The mod, called Seven Kingdoms, will feature a role-playing story set in the Riverlands during the War of the Five Kings, and it’s from the same team that created the Game of Thrones conversion mod for Total War: Attila. The modders are halting all work on the Attila Seven Kingdoms mod and focusing their efforts on Kingdom Come: Deliverance because th

The Windows edition of Final Fantasy 15 will feature cross-platform co-op with Xbox One players, according to the Microsoft Store listing for the game. The game’s Comrades DLC, which came out on consoles last year and will ship with the PC version, introduced online co-op to the game, with players working together to complete quests. So that’s likely where the “Xbox Live cross-platform co-op” will come in (don’t expect to run through the campaign with your friends on console or anything like tha

Square Enix is committed to developing single-player games going forward, according to CEO Yosuke Matsuda, and by the sounds of it those games will be pretty light on loot boxes. Last year, the company said it would invest in the ‘games as a service’ model, which set alarm bells ringing for many players, but Matsuda said the model does not just mean loot boxes and microtransactions. That’s the rough approach we take to the idea, and that’s why we described games as a service in that sense.” The

Ever wanted to become a community manager in the games industry? New to the PC Gamer Weekender this year is our Get Into Games careers area, where across two days, a wide range of talent from across the industry will share insight on their careers, while offering advice you can use to help or build your own. Speakers from the likes of Creative Assembly, ESL UK and many more will offer talks that cross a huge range of games industry disciplines. Both universities will be able to answer your quest

Co-op build ’em up Space Engineers, one of the best space games on PC, just received a major new update that overhauls the graphics and changes the way that surface vehicles work. A video for the update, above, shows that the game indeed looks better than ever, with lots of new particle effects and a freshly polished colour palette. The update has been a year in the making. Some of the biggest changes have been made to surface vehicles (or “wheels”, as the developers calls them). Again, all the

The eBay user’s feedback page shows that they made tens of thousands of dollars from the sales. “We previously assumed that backer-content keys being sold on eBay were the same as you; a fan who got in early and purchased extra keys. With some investigation, we quickly determined that the keys being sold come from a theft at one of our distribution partners. The eBay user’s sales history also includes trading cards from distributor Limited Run Games and keys to Lawbreakers, another title distrib

Bouncy tanks that can drive up walls, strap on jetpacks and fire rockets? Treadnauts, which has just hit Early Access, doesn’t look particularly deep but I reckon it would be a lot of fun if you had friends over. You fire rockets, rocket jump, squish your opponents, and drive up the walls with your sticky treads. Developer Topstitch Games plans to release the full game this summer, and will focus on fixing bugs and adding community suggestions during Early Access. The price will increase slightl

I’m struggling to beat roguelike/deckbuilder hybrid Slay the Spire, even with a well-balanced deck packed with powerful skills. On a recent run he discovered the perfectly formula for a guaranteed win, getting rid of all but two cards in his deck to create an infinitely-looping combo of damage. In the run, which you can watch above, he starts by pruning his deck at every opportunity. As somebody that doesn’t play many deckbuilders, it’s easy to get carried away and grab every shiny card you come

Classic Warhammer 40,000 board game Space Hulk is getting another video game adaptation, this time courtesy of Blood Bowl developer Cyanide. Space Hulk: Tactics is a turn-based tactics game due out later this year, and will offer two single-player campaigns plus online multiplayer. In the board game, one player controls the Space Marines and the other handles the alien Genestealers. Detail on how a game of Space Hulk: Tactics will play out is limited for now, but I suspect the action points syst

Alien: Isolation, arguably the best horror game of all time (and one of the top 10 games on PC), is available on the cheap for the next three days. Over at Fanatical you can buy the base game plus all the season pass DLC for a lick over £8/$11. That’s 77% off—not quite a historic low but still a damn good deal, and cheaper than it’s ever been on Steam. Alien: Isolation Collection comes with the main game plus the Corporate Lockdown, The Trigger, Trauma, Safe Haven and Lost Contact DLC. And if yo

This week: which demo did you play to death? The better the demo, the more I would play that demo—Jedi Knight, Warzone 2100 and Rollcage all had cracking demos. Chris Livingston: Grand Theft AutoThe original Grand Theft Auto (ye olde top-down version) had a demo that let you play the first five (or was it ten?) And there was no demo I played more than Carmageddon, the preposterous, tabloid-bothering racing game in which pixelated pedestrians can be gruesomely run over. The demo had a ten minute

The Fortnite 2.4.0 update was meant to be out yesterday, but as explained in this Reddit post, ongoing technical issues with the previous update forced a slight delay. The minigun, which is available in Battle Royale, drops from chests and supply drops, uses light ammo, and fires almost as quickly as an SMG. New Event Store items! Complete in-game music overhaul (Orchestra Edition)Patch 3.1.0 (~2/28)Stamina Part 1 – Player MovementQuest Map ImprovementsSpring it on: Event Week 2 of “Spring it On

Though Mitchell hasn’t held the top score in Donkey Kong for years, he’s still a memorable figure. Xelnia, whose name is Jeremy Young, removed Mitchell’s scores from the Donky Kong leaderboard , knocking Mitchell’s 1.062 million score out of a top 20 spot. Scores recorded on arcade hardware and MAME are evaluated and approved differently. Young’s proof is in a series of very technical comparisons between Mitchell’s supposed direct feed footage, other Donkey Kong direct feed footage, and MAME foo

The big winner among premium PC games last year was, unsurprisingly, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, which pulled in an estimated $714 million. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive came in third with $341 million, followed by Destiny 2 at $218 million, and Grand Theft Auto 5 at $118 million. World of Tanks and Dota 2 are more down-to-Earth, relatively speaking, but still outclass all premium games but PUBG at $471 million and $406 million respectively. Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a hit, yes, but not

Last week I had the opportunity to play Surviving Mars for a few hours, Paradox’s optimistic-but-realistic take on what a near-future crack at colonization of the red planet might look like. An hour or so in, a key electrical cable malfunctioned, slowing production of oxygen that was directed at my single habitation dome. Right after that, the dome itself sprung an oxygen leak (a scary sight: you can see the precious gas pouring out into the red planet), multiplying the issue. Mysteries are esse

Also, they’ve deployed a fix for Ikora’s annoyingly persistent waypoint in the Tower, which at the very least makes the game playable again. As such I’m a wee bit out of sync with the Highs and Lows of PC gaming, so I’ll instead talk about part of my trip—visiting an abandoned amusement park—and will tenuously tie it in with videogames. Tyler Wilde: Bees ate my kneesDespite my struggles to maintain a decent framerate, the Hunt: Showdown alpha has been a lot of fun. Jody Macgregor: Forgotten faer

We Were Here Too is a first-person co-op adventure game in which two players have to work together to escape an abandoned castle filled with puzzles and traps. The game is actually a sequel to We Were Here, which was released in February 2017. “We wanted to put significant emphasis on the events that happened at the castle rather than just having the player solving puzzles. Of course, ultimately it’ll be up to the players to figure out what happened and how their presence plays a part in the gam

At the moment, there are some significant problems that need to be addressed, especially server and matchmaking issues. Arcade is a great introduction to the game, while unranked offers a quicker, less forgiving experience for those who want to demonstrate their skills. I died a lot earlier in unranked than I did in any of the arcade modes, as it’s more about individual talent than pushing as a team. The pace is also much faster than I’m used to, with players constantly bumping into each other i

Microsoft has begun pushing out a Windows 10 update that includes a Spectre fix for AMD systems. “Microsoft has received reports of some AMD devices getting into an unbootable state after installation of recent Windows operating system security updates. Microsoft fixed the issue on January 19 when it made available an AMD-friendly patch for manual download through its Microsoft Update Catalog. Now Microsoft is pushing out the same patch code through Windows Update. It is being delivered automati