A new Destiny 2 Faction Rally got underway yesterday, and once again an unfathomable decision by Bungie has alienated and angered players. The problem this time is a throttle on faction tokens, the little markers of success that are earned by completing various in-game activities. [Bungie has since clarified that Faction Rally weapons are not dropping from engrams, which is also intentional. “In the first Faction Rally of Season 2 (this week), there is a new Auto Rifle available as the Winner’s

EVGA is making sure of that—the company has partnered with The Irregular Corporation to include a select list of components in PC Building Simulator. “EVGA is thrilled to be working with the PC Building Simulator developers to allow gamers and enthusiasts to build their dream PC using EVGA hardware,” said Jacob Freeman, Product Manager at EVGA. In case you’re not familiar with PC Building Simulator, it’s an interesting project that, like it sounds, is centered around simulating the process of bu

It appears that Samsung is adding another 4TB solid state drive to its lineup. While nothing has been officially announced, the company’s website shows a new 4TB capacity 860 Pro (MZ-76P4T0E) priced at an eye-popping $1,900. Nevertheless, we can at least see some performance ratings—namely, Samsung lists the drive’s sequential read speed at up to 560MB/s and its sequential write speed at up to 530MB/s. Those are both slightly faster than Samsung’s 850 Evo SSD of the same capacity, which is rated

If you’ve been reading PC Gamer for awhile, you know that we’re fans of Rising Storm, Antimatter Games and Tripwire Interactive’s multiplayer FPS series. If you’re a fan, too, joining the PC Gamer Club at the Legendary Tier will now net you something special: a set of custom-made cosmetics for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam’s factions. These new additions join a growing set of great PC Gamer Club Legendary bonuses, which include a week’s membership to RuneScape and an exclusive pet, an ad-free website,

The Signal From Tölva’s pace is slow, but its gunplay is anything but. How did small indie studio Big Robot make combat so satisfying? Necessary sacrificesOf course, as a small studio, Big Robot had to make sacrifices, but most of them are hidden well. Perhaps it’s something that Big Robot will put in its next game. Big Robot has shown that it has the talent to create a great shooter in a huge, semi-open world.

Image credit: Blizzard EntertainmentIf the appeal of Overwatch’s competitive scene was in ever in doubt, viewing figures for the first week of the Overwatch League suggest it’s in a pretty good place. An average audience of 408,000 viewers per minute was recorded on day one, against the full week’s 280,000 viewers per minute average. As someone who only ever plays Overwatch in bursts, winning two consecutive rounds makes feel like a pro. Watching the best plays from week one of the Overwatch Lea

I’ve been tinkering with builds of 0°N 0°W since the end of September. As I wander 0°N 0°W there’s a joy in exploration which is tempered by a growing headache and nausea. The feeling of being sick and headachey enables 0°N 0°W to persist after you play as a low-level discomfort. In 0°N 0°W the recombination of familiar elements is useful because it offers a tang of seeing through reality to glimpse the theory of everything. 0°N 0°W is currently set for a Q1 2018 release on Steam and Itch.io, so

Balancing is a vague and contentious term for a vital game development process. Yik-Sian Seow goes so far as to state, “My experience balancing both Steam Marines games has been that the majority of players do not actually want difficulty. As Evan Todd discovered in the development of his multiplayer/singleplayer hybrid Deceiver, this complicates balancing in a major way. “Balancing singleplayer is a little easier because you get an extra knob to tweak: AI behaviour,” he says. Crafting a particu

The PC Gamer Weekender 2018 kicks off one month from today, bringing with it the first ever OMEN by HP Bootcamp. Signups for the camp’s Overwatch Competition close this weekend, so don’t miss your chance to get involved. Proud sponsors of the Overwatch League, OMEN by HP hosts the bootcamp in partnership with the ESL, with a focus on Blizzard’s fast-firing hero shooter. Furthermore, aspiring pro players can prove their worth in a once-in-a-lifetime training opportunity. Tickets and further infor

Following the PC reveal of Dark Souls: Remastered, there was talk of discounts for owners of the original game. What appears to be more certain, praise the sun, is the question of cross-play. With the Souls remaster set to feature on consoles and desktops alike, the folks at IGN raised the matter of online crossovers with the publisher. Dark Souls: Remastered “will not have cross-platform play,” said Bandai Namco. If you’re desperate to lock horns with your console counterparts, you could always

Last February, Playground Games revealed plans to “to test [itself] in a different genre”. Now, reports suggest a new Fable game is being worked on with Playground at the helm. Speaking to EG, Fable co-creator Dene Carter spoke of “slightly mixed feelings” when considering a new Fable game. “On the one hand it’s great for the UK games industry, and very pleasing that Fable isn’t dead,” he said. Fable is a weird game, and a tough one to deconstruct for a new team.

Crash Force is a mix of super-popular genres—it’s a shooter, it’s an RPG, it’s a multiplayer arena game, it’s a racer, it’s all of these in one—as you float around the battlefield in a hovercraft, taking on all-comers. With high-octane action and deep progression mechanics, it’s one that’s definitely worth a look at the Weekender. Ascanio Entertainment itself refers to Crash Force as “Quake, Unreal Tournament, Twisted Metal and Rocket League” all mixed together in one delightful pot. You can fin

Last week, Tom explored Total War: Warhammer 2’s Tomb Kings and described them as the “weirdest faction yet”. Creative Assembly has now shown off 11 minutes of the incoming DLC’s campaign, where Settra the Imperishable faces off against “the Liche King himself” Arkhan the Black. Have a gander:Alongside that, Creative Assembly has also unveiled the Tomb Kings’ roster—whose Legendary Lords also include Grand Hierophant Khatep and High Queen Khalida, beyond the two stalwarts featured above. My favo

After Konami’s uncomfortable separation with series creator Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear Survive’s first impression is one of cheap fanfiction. But after playing the first three hours, I’m both relieved and troubled to say that Survive is only a Metal Gear game in name. That’s OK though, because exploration is the real heart of Metal Gear Survive, and it begins with the eating and drinking system (I am trying hard not to clam). You need to gauge how far you can go with your current hunger and thirst

After two months on the PTR, the grand opening of Blizzard World is just one week away: Blizzard announced today that the Overwatch assault/payload hybrid map modeled after a fictional theme park will be ready on January 23. Epic memories can only be made in an epic world… So, grab a ticket & join us for the GRAND OPENING of Blizzard World!Your adventure begins January 23 🎟️ https://t.co/PHG4qA7dfP pic.twitter.com/5W2o73qElcJanuary 17, 2018Unveiled during last year’s BlizzCon, Blizzard World i

The 3D platformer Candleman was released last year for the Xbox One, and while it doesn’t have a lot of user reviews on the Microsoft Store, the overall response is quite positive. It also turned up on Steam Greenlight, although the planned release date of the second quarter of 2017 obviously didn’t pan out. “The game’s positive reception from press and players overwhelmed us for the whole year after its debut on Xbox One,” Candleman creator Gao Ming said. “We are extremely proud to see the game

While most players are going to be diving into the new questlines or trying out the Ulduar timewalking raid, one player is doing something absolutely insane: speedrunning to level 60 by killing only boars. In a post on WoW’s subreddit , he said that if Blizzard released patch 7.3.5 on January 16 he would speedrun a character all the way to level 60 by just killing boars. Killing boars is a callback to South Park’s Make Love Not Warcraft episode, where the boys are continually killed by disgustin

Not too long ago we warned of a potential impending surge in graphics card prices. The 1080 is a great card for gaming, but you simply don’t want to buy at these prices. If you’re serious about spending that much money on a graphics card, you should just skip straight to the GTX 1080, or perhaps the Titan Xp. I didn’t mention this above, but Nvidia is also sold out of its 1060, 1070, and 1080 cards right now. But whether cryptocurrencies become part of our future or not, one thing is certain: at

Genital Jousting, the “multiplayer party game about flaccid penises and wiggly anuses”, will release out of Early Access on January 18. That’s good news if you’re into amusing party games, and it’s also good news if you’re into video games about genitals. But it’s even better news for Australians who have longed to play this dick-oriented video game, because it’ll finally become available there. As someone who lives in Australia and has witnessed the whims of that board firsthand, I’m pretty sur

Image source: RedditMicrosoft’s Xbox Elite controller is spectacularly good—”an elite controller for the elite gamer,” as we described it in our 95/100 review—and it only fails to claim the title of “best controller” in our buyers guide because it’s so damned expensive. (Still the best choice for people who own Swedish headphones made of volcanic glass, though.) So it is with interest that we take note of the fact, via Engadget, that Microsoft may be working on a new one. The original Xbox Elite