Metal Gear Survive is a Kojima-free base defense shooter that you may or may not have some interest in playing when it comes out in February. Before you decide if you want to play it, though, you need to know if you can play it. Metal Gear Survive has previously been scheduled for release on February 20 in North America and February 22 in Europe, but the Steam page says February 21. In the meantime, distract yourself from the confusion with six minutes of Metal Gear Survive single-player action.

There are still a couple of weeks to go before Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the game that began as a Kickstarter project four years ago, launches to PC and console. While you wait out the final moments before it ships, Nvidia has made available a ‘Game Ready’ driver update, version 390.77. Nvidia seems particularly excited about Kingdom Come: Deliverance, with a separate blog post detailing parts of the game, such as the setting and plot. [Optimus Notebook]: GeForce Experience may launch with a bl

Samuel Roberts: The brig in Sea of Thieves lets you vote to lock one player up in the basement level (that’s what sailors call it, right?) We locked this player in the brig. If a bunch of strangers have locked you in the brig, it’s fair to assume you’re not wanted in the game, so you just log off. In that instance, we should’ve really locked Phil in the brig for his terrible steering and bad captaining. Samuel Roberts: Yes, Tom, let’s publicly denounce ourselves for the second case, but the brig

At the behest of the Tomb Kings they strive to take revenge on the great necromancer Nagash for cursing them to undeath eons earlier. Every faction in Total War: Warhammer 2 feels different, but only the Tomb Kings DLC made me feel as though I was playing a different game entirely. Instead of worrying about upkeep and recruitment, as other factions would, you spend more time as Tomb Kings managing attrition. As a result the Tomb Kings behave like questing heroes rather than typical Total War con

Slime-san is a criminally overlooked 2D platformer about a slime’s quest to escape a worm’s belly by platforming his way out of the beast. Slime-san: Sheeple’s Sequel will release on Monday, February 5, free to all Slime-san owners. The second Slime-san DLC after Blackbird’s Kraken, Sheeple’s Sequel casts Sheeple, a character from the main game, as the villain. It comes with 20 normal levels and 20 new game plus levels, plus five levels from the main game which have been remixed “with a Sheeple

Soulcalibur 6 is the first in the series to come to PC, and as with all fighting games, we must now embark on a slow reveal of the roster in the run-up to launch. Check out the trailer above to see all four of them in action. These fighters join the already announced Sophitia and Mitsurugi, and I’m sure many more are to come—Soulcalibur 5 had 28 playable characters. Andy sampled Soulcalibur 6 back in December, and found the game felt like the series as he remembered it—albeit with a few addition

Deceiver has an inviting premise: “explore a vast cyberpunk city. The philosophical aspect isn’t explored in the trailer above, but you do get to see a player piloting some dangerous drones around the vector-rendered city. I like the look of the drone combat, and a recent visit to Watch Dogs 2 has made me excited to pilot gadgets in more game worlds. In Deceiver you can launch your drone through enemies as you hop between walls and ceilings. The final game will have a four-hour story campaign an

We all dream of an island getaway, but some of us dream of that getaway being our very own banana republic. Fortunately the Tropico series has been around a while to sate our thirst for tropical dictatorships, and double-fortunately you’ll be able to listen to a talk about Tropico 6 during the PC Gamer Weekender. You can join François Reinold, senior producer on Tropico 6, as he fills us all in on what it takes to build the series’ brand heritage while keeping true to the style and trademark hum

Chris Roberts calls it “a menacing mass of planet fragments and static electrical storms,” senior graphics programmer Ben Parry “a technical nightmare.” The Coil is a dangerous patch of space that will feature in Squadron 42, the single player component of the Star Citizen project. The vast planetary fragments are full of delicious resources for pilots brave enough to fly into the deadly electrical clouds. The final effect is impressive, particularly when you start seeing how the lighting system

The top Major League Baseball management sim series returns to PC on March 22 with a redesigned interface, 2018 opening rosters and “dramatic 3D enhancements”. The 3D mode has been updated with animated players and “improved ballpark models”. Fingers crossed for the inclusion of the most noble and imposing of fonts: copperplate gothic. You can also check out the trailer below, though it’s mostly just big words in a font that isn’t copperplate gothic. We loved Out of the Park 17 and gave it a nea

Assassin’s Creed: Origins is an exceptionally long video game. But if you’ve done the same and still want more, you’ll probably be happy to hear that a new game plus mode is coming. That’s not really been announced as part of Ubisoft’s ongoing support for the game, but a community manager confirmed it in the publisher’s forums yesterday. While the game will get ongoing free updates, its first premium expansion released last week in the form of The Hidden Ones. As for the free stuff, a new quest

RAID 1 is one of several RAID “levels,” and is the polar opposite of it’s speedier cousin, RAID 0 . With all that doom and gloom about RAID 1 not being a backup, you’re probably asking, “Why even bother with RAID 1?” Prepare your hardwareJust as with RAID 0, it’s ideal to use identical drives in a RAID 1 array. Windows: Storage SpacesCreating a RAID 1 array in Windows is pretty simple, the trick is finding out what the utility is called. Windows 8’s built-in RAID utilities are referred to as “St

A split screen usually puts a hard barrier between the player on the left and the player on the right, but not so in BYO. In this puzzle-platformer about two minotaurs escaping a labyrinth, you can cross over from one side to the other, essentially teleporting between different parts of the level. It looks like a real mind-bender: to cross over you first have to lock the screen in place, so it’s all about picking the right moment. The trailer, above, also suggests some Braid-esque rewind mechani

The gaming giant hasn’t interfered in Fe’s development, according to game director Andreas Beijer, which is promising news for future EA Originals titles. “If you were set on just completing the ‘main quest’ I would think perhaps [it would last] about 7-8 hours. It’s hard to say really. The two companies will continue to produce their own games but may collaborate on a joint game in future. Future projects on the EA Originals label include co-op prison break game A Way Out and Sea of Solitude, a

Any ships that you steal in Star Citizen will disappear the moment you log out of the game, making it impossible to build your personal fleet through theft, Cloud Imperium Games has said. Stealing ships should be a “short-term goal” for “joyriding, piracy or selling them for scrap”, not for growing your collection, system designer Will Maiden said on a forum post. From CIG’s perspective, they have to ensure that the game’s ship insurance system is not open to abuse. Stealing ships for your colle

We’ll have to wait until autumn for Monster Hunter: World on PC, but when we finally get it we’re likely to be able to skin our characters as Street Fighter favourites Ryu and Sakura. You’ll have to complete a special quest to unlock each skin, which both male and female characters can use. The skins are free, but if you want to Hadoken or Shoryuken it’ll cost $3.99 as a ‘premium gesture’. Steven has played through the PS4 version and reckons the PC version “will be worth the wait”. If you’ve ne

Its voxel-based design and exaggerated cartoonish characters seem completely innocent until masked killer Jason Voorhees comes along and shoves a kebab skewer through somebody’s skull. It’s from Blue Wizard Digital, a developer that was set up by Jason Kapalka, co-founder of Popcap (Peggle, Plants vs Zombies). Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzler looks to be the same deal, only it’s got the official movie license. That means you get to unlock lots of different Jasons: Aqua Jason, Apocalypse Jason, Ub

(Image: © rovery)Zombie plague RTS They are Billions has added community challenges in its latest update, meaning that everyone can play through the same survival map and compete for a high score on the new leaderboards. A new challenge will arrive every Monday, starting tomorrow, and players will only get one shot at each map, which is the right way to implement challenges like this, in my opinion. Update V0.6 also allows you to add more waypoints when using the travel, attack, patrol and move

For as long as CS:GO has existed as an esport, North American teams have played the role of the underdogs, perpetually overshadowed by European—and recently, Brazilian—squads who always end up taking home the hardware at the big tournaments. Since the advent of the Valve-supported Major tournaments in 2013, no North American team has ever won one; today, at the penultimate day of ELEAGUE Boston Major 2018, the Americans of Cloud9 have brought themselves tantalizingly close to ending that drought

Laser League is a team-based multiplayer game about creating and dodging neon walls of light. You activate nodes to create walls of your team’s colour that move around the level. This weekend you can try it out for free, thanks to an open beta that launched yesterday. The beta features 12 maps for both 2v2 and 3v3 matches, and you’ll be able to earn XP and level up. Read more about the classes (as well as troubleshooting any problems with the beta) here.