The PC port of JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2 will release on February 14, localisation studio Xseed games announced in a livestream of the game yesterday. It’s the sequel to Trails of Cold Steel, which was ported to PC last year. Best of all is its ‘instant resume’ feature, which lets you launch your latest save file direct from the Steam client. That’s all thanks to Durante, the modder that fixed Dark Souls on PC, who has been helping Xseed with the port. And speaking of sav

The Playstation 4’s Dualshock 4 controller is the best controller for PC gaming. Here’s the best way to get your PS4 controller working on PC using an open source tool called DS4Windows. Be sure to pair or plug in your controller before opening Steam or any Steam games, otherwise your controller may not be recognized. Read on to learn how to use DS4Windows to use your controller with games outside of Steam. How to connect your PS4 controller via BluetoothIf you followed the Bluetooth installatio

The latest issue is that you can’t currently play with friends: you can only join a solo game or play with random players in a duo or squad. Epic plans to take the game offline later today to fix that. Players should expect downtime to fix the problem later today.January 27, 2018This week’s problems are all down to a big spike in player numbers, Epic said on Reddit. Judging by the reaction I’ve read (mainly on Reddit), people are happy to wait for Epic to resolve the problems. When the game goes

Good news for anybody that enjoyed side-scrolling shooter Mercenary King (think a more explosive Metal Slug)—the 2014 game is getting a free ‘Reloaded Edition’ that adds two new characters and a stash of guns and knives. Here’s Frigg in action:The new guns look flashy, with a variety of lasers, pistols, snipers and SMGs on offer, but it’s the knives that could prove the best additions. You’ll be able to mash people over the head with an electric guitar, bash them with a golf club, skewer them wi

Those are the kind of questions that developer Atlus, owned by Sega, is asking fans in an annual survey. The survey isn’t exclusively focused on PC gaming, but asks fans to answer questions about which remakes they’d like to see from the Persona or Shin Megami Tensei series, and also asks what platforms they’d like to see those remakes on, including PC. And it’s not just remakes that Atlus asks about: the survey includes questions about new entrants to existing series. It asks fans whether they’

The Rainbow Six Siege community’s frustration at the recent price increase for the game has made Ubisoft think again, and the developer has rolled back the price jump on the Standard Edition of the game. Ubisoft had planned to turn the $40 edition into a $60 Advanced Edition with bonus cosmetic items and extra in-game currency, but in a Reddit thread yesterday it said it will be “keeping the Standard Edition in the store at the current price”. The price reversal on the Standard Edition is very g

Surviving Mars, the upcoming survival city builder from Paradox Interactive, will be making its presence known at the PC Gamer Weekender in a talk exploring the mechanics and thought process behind the game. Gabriel Dobrev and Ivan-Assen Ivanov from developer Haemimont Games will be joined by Jakob Munthe, of publisher Paradox, to talk system-driven design and, in their words, ‘how to avoid the self-playing piano’. With decades of experience between the three, this is sure to be a deep, knowledg

This week: which game would you like to see remastered or remade? To be honest, though, I’d love to see any of my favourite Star Wars games remade or remastered: Rogue Squadron, KOTOR, X-Wing, Episode I Racer. It’d be meaningful to see that kind of simulation in a modern game. It feels like a game is the only way I’m going to get my Dune fix without just re-reading Frank Herbert’s book again. *sobs*I’d actually go for Syndicate, the strategy game that did awesome cyber raincoat massacre way befo

THE HIGHSTom Senior: Ocean madnessThe scurvy-riddled crew of the good ship PC Gamer waded into Sea of Thieves this week, with entertaining consequences. The fundamentals of crewing a vessel in co-op are just right, requiring a degree of communication without being too fiddly. I confess that we actually had more fun locking players in the brig than doing proper pirating. There were three of us on a four-pirate ship, which meant our fourth member was assigned by the matchmaking system. Joe Donnell

As the cryptocurrency craze continues to ravage supply of graphics cards for gamers, some retailers are stepping in to help the situation. We called three different Micro Center stores across the country and they all said the same thing. The three stores we spoke to told us that while there are different discounts for different cards, customers can expect either “MSRP or close to MSRP” for graphics cards. Given that pretty much all retail channels are selling graphics cards for huge price hikes,

Earlier this week, Motherboard reported on deepfakes, a redditor (now an entire subreddit, too) that specializes in using a machine learning algorithm to plaster celebrity faces over the actors’ faces in porn videos. But before the complete end of privacy and digital consent, the people must know whether they can put their favorite characters from The Witcher into porn, as we should have predicted. In one example found on the deepfakes subreddit (I didn’t ask for this beat, OK? ), Triss Merigold

After playing the closed beta of Rare’s Sea of Thieves, Tyler and I put together a wishlist of what we hoped we might see in the open world multiplayer pirate game. Rather than just hoping and guessing, a redditor named m4rx did some actual digging around in the game files and extracted a bit of information. While m4rx hasn’t been able to decrypt the actual assets yet, the resulting post appears to confirm some elements we saw in the Sea of Thieves ‘Pirate Legend’ video and reveals a few new one

It’s the least-played mode in Rocket League’s entire roster of game types, just behind the newer Dropshot and Hoops modes. And that’s a shame, because Snow Day is the best mode in Rocket League, at least if you ask the players who saved it from deletion back in 2015. They’re part of a group called the Rocket Hockey League, the group that saved car hockey. Snow Day was never intended to be a permanent mode for Rocket League, introduced instead as a sideshow in a holiday themed update in 2015. “Ja

The lack of a refund policy on Steam prior to 2015 resulted in a $2.4 million fine against Valve, arising from a lawsuit filed in 2014 by Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission. Valve appealed the decision, but the fine was upheld. As Kotaku Australia points out, the Full Court ruling on the initial appeal supports the original ruling entirely. Compounding Valve’s troubles down under is the fact that even after losing the lawsuit, “Valve appears to have done relatively little to train i

Instead, Monster Hunter is obsessed with creating a realistic ecology of fantasy creatures that behave exactly like you’d expect animals would. Monster Hunter is a much livelier experience playing as a group, and your strategic options for hunting are expanded with more teammates. This is where a lot of the depth comes in, as Monster Hunter has a deep crafting and gathering system. It’s a significantly better system than Destiny 2’s because Monster Hunter ties your rewards directly to your skill

Tom is a great player, just as everyone competing in a World Championship is, but by all rights Fr0zen was favored. You draw Ultimate Infestation around 65 percent of the time. You draw UI more than you draw ramp by the turn you can play it. Fr0zen reckons he was right to prioritize ramp, and that Tom was reckless to bet it all on Ultimate Infestation. Fr0zen mulliganed for ramp and low-rolled drawing into Ultimate Infestation, while Tom mulliganed for Ultimate Infestation and high-rolled drawin

We got a quick look at the updated Stygian Abyss in last week’s Underworld Ascendant trailer out of PAX South, but the bits showcasing the game’s “authored” visual style were broken up by longer segments of the developers talking about the game. That’s where this new trailer, shared earlier this week by fanbolt and confirmed official by OtherSide and publisher 505 Games, comes in. There’s no talk, just gameplay, including a look at three different “hero kits”: combat with stealth, pure stealth,

(Image: © Epic Games)Just a little over a week after Epic Games admitted that its free-to-play MOBA Paragon was in trouble, the studio has announced that it will be closed entirely in April. We received many passionate ideas for where to take the game; the outpouring of thoughtful suggestions is another testament to this incredible community,” the Paragon team wrote. Full refunds will be given “to every Paragon player for every purchase on any platform,” and they will come from Epic directly rat

Dragon Ball FighterZ is here, and good lord, does it look nice and shiny on PC. Here’s a look at the menus and options of Dragon Ball FighterZ on PC. Sadly, neither the menus or the game support that aspect ratio; it displays at 16:9 with black bars. Controller options menuFull keybinding! Graphics comparison: Low vs. MaxWe ran DBFZ at the lowest and max quality settings, with resolution scaling set to the default (100) for each.

Monster Hunter: World is finally out today—but alas, only for consoles. The PC version won’t be out until sometime in the fall. It’s no fun having to wait for Monster Hunter: World to arrive on our platform of choice while the rest of the world gets to dive into it, but hopefully that extra time will be well spent. “For the main Monster Hunter game, this is our first PC title and it’s something we want to make sure we get right,” he said. As well as being the first game in the main series to com