For all its narrative depth, Anchorhead is still a text adventure through and through. At the same time, interactive fiction has definitely passed Anchorhead by, and there are few descendants of this kind of design around to compare it to. It’s probably the last game that both included a maze and was widely praised by the interactive fiction community. Anchorhead will never be a universal hit, but I’m curious to see what people who haven’t been steeped in interactive fiction make of it. And if y

After a cryptic teaser campaign, Yume Nikki sequel Dream Diary was officially announced last week . It’s a direct successor made with original developer Kikiyama’s input, and it’s coming to Steam on February 23. Today, publisher Active Gaming Media Playism stoked the fires once again with a new trailer titled “Reimagine.” Although considerably shorter than the first two trailers , this one’s every bit as weird. Anyway, this trailer offers a first look at some new characters and assets, which AGM

A little known Ethereum startup has stolen money from its investors, disappearing into the night after an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), but that’s only part of the story. The crypto thieves left behind a message for their victims, erasing the homepage and scrawling the word “penis.” While PLU codes have helped us keep track of inventory, they don’t do much to help the consumer,” a cached version of Prodeum’s website states. The PLU process is based on business needs and consumers are normally lef

In honor of these little death dealers, we’re rounding up the best grenades in PC gaming—from the satisfying shockwave of FEAR’s frag grenades to the divine chorus that spells doom for your team in Worms. Monty Python might have invented it, but Worms’ hilarious variation is what really made this one of PC gaming’s most iconic grenades. If FEAR’s frag grenade is grenade porn for the eyes, then the Thermal Imploder is grenade porno music for the ears. Where do the years go… — Austin WoodFrag Gr

If you’re looking to build a relatively compact system, one option is to roll with NZXT’s H400i, a smaller sized case for micro-ATX motherboards. The H400i is basically the little brother to NZXT’s H700i, which is our pick for case of the year. NZXT includes a pair of 120mm fans installed in the front that you can swap out for 140mm fans if you want. The case also comes with a 120mm fan in the rear, and has mounts for up to two 140mm fans up top. Like the H700i, the smaller H400i comes with a co

Avernum 3: Ruined World, an HD reboot of Spiderweb Software’s old-school fantasy RPG, is out now. There are technically six games in the Avernum series (the non-canon Blades of Avernum notwithstanding), which is itself an expanded remake of Spiderweb’s Exile series. The first Exile released in 1995, while the original Avernum released in 2000. Which leads us to 2012’s Avernum: Escape From the Pit, which carries the subtitle of the first Exile game. Avernum 2: Crystal Souls followed in 2015, and

Cloud9 became the first North American team to win a CS:GO major over the weekend, defeating the favored FaZe Clan in tight overtime action. The following day, a very different sort of eye-popping mark was set when a Dragon Lore CS:GO weapon skin sold for more than $61,000. Dragon Lore ranks highly among the most expensive CS:GO skins to begin with, but this one was particularly valuable for a couple of reasons. First, it’s a souvenir skin, which are available exclusively from souvenir packages

Maybe (hopefully) that will change once Samsung starts shipping hardware designed specifically for mining. We’re not holding out hope that Samsung will prove a savior for gamers, but the company has begun mass producing special hardware designed to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. A media outlet in Korea claims that Samsung developed a specialized ASIC chip last year and started mass producing the part this month. “Samsung’s immediate production of GDDR6 will play a critical role in earl

Now more than 30 years later, the Commodore 64 is still considered the best selling PC of all time, and it’s making a comeback as a mini console. THE64 Mini, as it’s called, is a fully licensed product developed by Retro Games Ltd and distributed by Koch Media. THE64 Mini comes with dozens of built-in games , 64 in all (naturally), such as Boulder Dash, California Games, Deflektor, Hunter’s Moon, Mission Impossible (1 and 2), Nobby the Aardvark, Speedball (1 and 2), Things on a Spring, and a who

Also up for grabs are 1000 Mammoth Card Bundles, a new bundle featuring ten card packs from each of the Mammoth expansions, and 50,000 Mammoth Packs, containing one pack from each. The Mammoth Card Bundle will also be available for purchase for a limited time when the 10.2 update goes live. As for that helm, “We found it in his desk after his internship ended,” Blizzard said. Yes, the very same helm worn by the Lich King as he stalked the halls of Blizzard Entertainment could be yours!” The Ques

Rocket League’s long-awaited tournament mode will finally arrive in either March or April, developer Psyonix has said. Players will be able to test out these bracketed, single elimination tournaments for the first time next month as part of a Steam public beta. The spring road map for Rocket League also revealed that March will see the arrival of new licensed premium DLC (previous licensed DLC has included tie-ups with the Fast & Furious franchise) as well as a spring event that will last into A

Credit: Graybeard Games/PolygonDiablo creator David Brevik has announced his own indie game: a 2D sandbox RPG called It Lurks Below. Brevik told Polygon that he’s a big fan of those games but he “wanted more of a point to a lot of those games. Brevik, whose development company is called Graybeard Games, will launch a closed beta this weekend. He’ll be playing the game there on Friday (February 2) at 2pm PT / 7pm EST / 12am GMT. Here’s a couple more screenshots from the game:Credit: Graybeard Gam

Blazing Griffin bought the game in 2011 and took to Kickstarter to fund a follow-up called The Ship: Full Steam Ahead, but fell short of its goal. However, now the developer is back with Murderous Pursuits, which looks impressive and is a sequel to The Ship in all but name. It even takes place on a ship, but this time it’s floating in the sky as part of asteampunk Victorian-era alternate reality. The visuals in the trailer above look great, and the art style really reminds me of Dishonored, in a

It’s been nearly two years since we found out that Titanfall studio Respawn Entertainment was working on a third-person action game set in the Star Wars universe, and we still know very little about the project. But we do at least now have a rough release window: it’s likely to arrive at some time between April 2019 and April 2020. He said on an earnings call yesterday that the game, which hasn’t yet got a title, is likely to release during EA’s 2020 fiscal year (April 1 2019 to March 31 2020).

Fortnite has had its fair share of problems over the past week, what with a 14-hour downtime followed by multiple issues for people trying to play with friends. The game seems to be over the worst of it for now, but Epic is keen to make it up to players, and to that end it’s giving away some freebies. All Battle Royale players are getting 20 battle stars towards their battle pass progression. The battle pass system gives you new cosmetic items like outfits or emotes as you level up, and the 20 s

Hollow Knight, the best platformer of 2017, is getting a third free expansion pack called Gods & Glory, which will add new characters, boss fights and an extra game mode. Sadly, it sounds like this might be the last expansion for the game: developer Team Cherry says it’s the “final chapter of the Knight’s journey”. The team is keeping the new game mode a secret for now, only saying that it’s been “long requested and is a classic for the genre”. That quest will involve multiple new boss fights, a

Developers from the Final Fantasy XV team will join us to discuss the highly-anticipated Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition at the PC Gamer Weekender, which takes place on 17 and 18 February 2018 at the Olympia in London. Attendees will have the chance to see more of the game in action on PC ahead of its launch on 6 March. The developers will also be taking questions from PC Gamer’s community, offering new insight into the development of the Windows Edition, which includes HDR and 8K support and a

The big purple sleeper hit slug of Kobolds & Catacombs is having its attack cut by 3. As with the change to Patches, there are two things to say about this nerf: First, it is a big deal. That’s not to say Warlock will be bad, just that it might not run as rampant as some fear. There are even strategies you don’t see much in the meta now which could return, like Big/Inner Fire Priest and Big Druid, which are also unfavorable matches for Jade. Spiteful Priest, Big Druid, and Miracle Rogue have bee

According to the site’s anonymous sources that target was “never realistic,” and the game wouldn’t actually be available until early 2019. There’s a new Battlefield coming in October, and EA CFO Blake Jorgensen told the Wall Street Journal the company decided that Anthem will “get more attention if it came out in a quieter quarter.” There’s no question that BioWare needs Anthem to be a hit, so this may well be a case of “lesson learned.” Whatever the specifics, it’s official: Anthem won’t be out

The first major upset of the week came with the first game on Thursday, January 25, when a determined Boston roster took a set from London in five maps. Boston came out and set the pace early on Temple of Anubis after dropping Numbani a few minutes earlier. London didn’t fare much better on the second point:Big surprise—DreamKazper starts off this team fight with a kill onto the enemy Mercy. Backed up by excellent healing, Gamsu and NotE push London back and take down their supports, a trend Bos