Montreal-based studio Spearhead Games, best known for the action RPG Stories: The Path of Destinies, announced their next game today: Omensight, a “time-looping mystery action game” which serves as a “spiritual successor” to Stories, according to this FAQ. Omensight puts players in the shoes of the time-bending Harbinger and tasks them with solving a murder in the fantasy world of Urralia. As the Harbinger, players can manipulate time to see events from different perspectives and follow differen

It’s the opening week of Overwatch League—the first matches start tomorrow on Twitch—and as such Blizzard has added team skins for every character. That’s 312 new skins. Damn that’s a lot of skins. I was greeted with 100 free League Tokens when I logged in just now, which is enough to buy one skin (you can get yours by logging in before February 13). It would cost $100 to unlock every skin for a particular team, as there are 26 characters and it’s $100 for 2,600 tokens—though that leaves you wit

Measuring about the volume of a shoebox, Digital Storm worked its wizardry to cram some high-end gear inside, and then topped it all off with a hardline liquid cooling system. More precisely in regards to the size, Project Spark measures 6 inches deep by 4 inches wide and 12 inches tall. Implementing hardline liquid cooling should help keep temperatures in check, which is obviously a big concern when it comes to small size PCs. Digital Storm says Project Spark will be available in the second qua

“In BioShock 1, go to the second half of Hephaestus where you first encounter Ryan in person. Turn on Art Captions and you’ll see a developer message about Paul Hellquist not doing his job,” the mystery developer wrote. Despite the shade thrown, Kline echoed Levine in saying that the message was all in good fun. It reminds me of all the amazing camaraderie and colleagues I had while working on BioShock. It was an amazing game made by fabulously talented people, and truly one of the greatest expe

It just woudn’t be CES without a prototype product from Razer, and this time around the company is showcasing Project Linda, an Android laptop/phone hybrid. Project Linda is essentially a 13.3-inch laptop shell with a dock for the Razer Phone. Otherwise, it’s pretty much totally dependent on the Razer Phone, which itself is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor and 8GB of RAM. The quad HD touch display on Project Linda is an extension of the Razer Phone—it boasts the same 120Hz refresh

To set itself apart, NZXT designed the N7 with its other products in mind. NZXT is also offering two metal motherboard covers, one in black and one in white. “Leveraging our years of experience as professional PC builders, we’ve designed the N7 motherboard with a completely new approach. We’ve also designed a completely unique motherboard cover so it’s both beautiful and powerful,” NZXT founder and CEO Johnny Hou said in a statement. As for future motherboard plans, NZXT tells PCGamer that its i

With the recent news of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU exploits, security vulnerabilities are starting to get more attention. Quite a few places reported on the news that many of WD’s My Cloud NAS units have a backdoor that gives full root access to the devices. That’s bad news, but after reaching out for comment from WD, we were informed that the affected devices have all been fixed since the release of firmware update v2.30.172—or in some cases firmware v2.30.168. We checked all the affected mod

Following the Cree announcement last week—and the criticism that followed—2K and Firaxis have unveiled the next civ en route to Civilization 6. Led by Golden Age ruler Tamar, Georgia will feature in the geopolitical strategy game’s incoming Rise and Fall expansion. Naturally, this means Georgia is better placed to achieve and, crucially, maintain Golden Ages over rival civs. It’s described thusly:Tamar can declare a Protectorate War after gaining the Theology Civic. Considering Tamar’s upbringin

This is the character I’ve created for my first foray into Deadfire, the sequel to Pillars of Eternity. A member of the aforementioned Vailian Trading Company, Vektor sailed to Tikawara with his crew searching for luminous adra. Adra is a precious crystalline substance in Pillars’ world that grows out of the ground. This titan is a remnant of the Engwithan empire, an ancient, mysterious civilization whose ruins litter Pillars’ world. It reveals just how ancient the tribe is, although the Engwith

When we tested the Core i5-8400, we came away very impressed. There was only one small problem: demand far outstripped supply, and it has been hard to find the i5-8400 in stock. If you’ve been waiting for the chance to pick up Intel’s sweet little 6-core/6-thread chip at close to MSRP, Newegg currently has it in stock for $200 (limit one per customer). Basically, add the i5-8400 to any Z370 motherboard, add in an appropriate graphics card, and you’ve got yourself a highly capable gaming rig. Jus

With just one day remaining before the Overwatch League is scheduled to kick off, Twitch has announced that it will carry livestreams of all of the league’s matches as the “exclusive worldwide third-party provider” in all regions outside of China. The two-year deal will also see the development of rewards and other offerings for fans, including in-game items and OWL “Cheermotes.” “The Overwatch League is making a major impact on esports by reshaping the industry with city-based teams,” Twitch CO

Opus Magnum, the latest puzzle game from Zach ‘Zachtronics’ Barth, received one of our highest review scores in 2017. In a recent tweet, Barth shared a statement sent by GOG, which explains that Opus Magnum hasn’t appeared on the storefront because it “did not pass [GOG’s] internal curation system.” I reached out to GOG for clarification, and the company confirmed the statement Barth posted is legitimate, adding that they “don’t want to comment further on it.” Opus Magnum’s rejection sparked a d

Last month, GTA Online introduced its three-part Doomsday Heist sequence with new objectives, rewards and toys to muck around with. Sam and Tom have since discussed the merits of flying cars, while the update also brought with it the Mammoth Thruster jetpack. The latter is now available in Grand Theft Auto 5’s single player by way of jedijosh920’s Jetpack SP mod. Ascertain this criteria and the Mammoth Thruster will automatically spawn in specific locations across Los Santos and beyond—such as M

The PC Gamer team is gradually working its way through GTA Online’s newest Doomsday Heist. On balance, though, we’re coming out on the positive side, even if we feel like GTA’s testing our resolve. And that’s mainly because the vehicles and missions offer some of the best GTA we’ve ever played. It’s a fun little mission, and it’s nice that you can complete a set of GTA objectives without headshotting anyone. The best part, though, is that the riot van itself comes equipped with two water cannons

The Red Strings Club is the next game from Deconstructeam—the studio behind 2014’s unorthodox indie point-and-click adventure Gods Will Be Watching. Here’s the reveal trailer that arrived last October:Similar to its forerunner, The Red Strings Club is set into the future with the player rebelling against dubious life-affecting technology. Before long, you uncover a “mysterious corporate program” within, and are forced to consider the meaning of happiness. As you might have spied, Jody wrote abou

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has received another post-launch PC update that targets cheaters, performance issues and its new incoming crate system. At the end of 2017, PUBG hit three million concurrent players and simultaneously announced it has banned 1.5 million cheaters since Early Access launch last March. The latest PC update—live now on test servers, coming soon to live servers—aims to level the playing field further still by allowing players to report others directly from the game’s rep

It’s also a great time to save money on videogames, and to this end Fanatical’s Bandai Namco sale offers up to 75 percent off a number of top games from the Japanese publisher. Let’s start with Dark Souls. Dark Souls 2’s Scholar of the First Sin reworking also boasts a 75 percent reduction, selling for £7.19. If you’re into that, you may be interested in splashing out on its Deluxe Edition which nets you some extras for £32.99 all told. The Bandai Namco sale runs now through January 11.

If you’ve spent days, weeks or months carefully plotting away in Planet Coaster, then chances are this video will make you feel a bit crestfallen. After all, how can a Planet Coaster ride get any better than this: a 15 minute guided tour of all the major settings and plot points in James Cameron’s 1986 classic Aliens? It probably can’t, is what I’m insinuating here. Created by YouTuber Hin Nya, the ride takes us through LV-426 and through space, and crucially: you can’t really die in it. It’s pr

The first DLC for Assassin’s Creed Origins (our vote for best open world game of 2017) is due out this month. As for the expansion itself, which is included in the Season Pass (I don’t yet see a price listed to buy it alone), it features Bayek fighting the Romans in the new map region as part of events that take place years after the story of Origins. The level cap will jump from 40 to 45, leaving you room to become an even more deadly assassin. Players will also get another chance this month to

Developer Noel Berry originally announced Skytorn in 2014, calling it a “procedurally generated adventure exploration game set in the skies of a post-apocalyptic world” in an old post to the PlayStation Blog. Skytorn was later pegged with a 2017 release date, yet the year has come and gone it’s nowhere to be seen. I discovered Skytorn while digging into Celeste, an upcoming mountain-climbing platformer from Matt Thorson, creator of TowerFall. In a June 2017 blog post, Berry announced Skytorn was