In Iron Harvest, soldiers with rusty rifles fight alongside giant mechs that can rain down rockets from the sky. It’s an RTS set in an an alternate post-World War 1 universe in which society is obsessed with robotic walking machines and farmers are getting rich from the ‘Iron Harvest’, the name given to the bounty of weapons, shrapnel and ammo found in their fields after the war. In the video, a destroyed mech crashes to the ground, and soldiers rush in to huddle behind its smoking shell. The me

Our Actual 2017 GOTY Awards Not all awards are ironic. Here are our proper 2017 Game of the Year awards, as well as our new hardware awards. Best Mass Effect GameWinner: Mass Effect: AndromedaHowever you feel about Mass Effect: Andromeda, you have to admit that it’s the best Mass Effect game that released this year, and at least the fourth best Mass Effect game of all time. —Samuel RobertsWait, a Survival Game Left Early Access? A survival game left Early Access this year?

Orwell: Ignorance is Strength, the second season of the surveillance-themed adventure, is going to feel quite different to the original, if a new blog post from the developers is anything to go by. Season one (which was pretty good), contained five episodes—the new season will only have three, but they will be more “complex” and hand the player more control over the game’s story. Because of that, you have a very real influence over which way the story branches, leading to a broader narrative fil

Publishers can try to change the language around loot boxes, but these mechanics are here to stay. If you want to see the endgame for a big-budget game with microtransaction hooks, boot up an EA Sports game. Remember the decade when every big publisher decided they had to have a World of Warcraft? 2018 is going to be a rich, varied year full of delightful small games. With the arrival of 4K HDR + 144Hz, prices on 1440p 144Hz will finally drop to affordable levels of $250 or less.

The dark, technology-focused anthology series has a precedent for game-infused storytelling , and in the opening episode ‘USS Callister’, a Star Trek-style VR roleplaying game is an endless nightmare for its unwilling participants. In his VR world, Daley always gets to make the right decisions in the heat of battle. Once used, a digital clone of that person, along with their consciousness, is transported onto the bridge of the USS Callister. Here’s the other thing: ‘USS Callister’ is a great Sta

Last Man Sitting blew up on Reddit last month with a gif showing men in office chairs firing shotguns and ragdolling across the room. Now the game has a full trailer, above, and a playable version is due to come out next month. The mix of serious men in suits (they remind me of Agent 47), green office chairs and explosions looks completely daft, and I reckon it’ll be fun to play. Your bum is glued to the office chair, and the only way to move is via the recoil of your gun, which sends you slidin

Tyler caught a fleeting glimpse of nature-loving Fe last year, when developer Zoink became the first company to join EA’s indie support arm, EA Originals. Back then we knew little about it other than it looked beautiful, but now we know a little more. In a five-minute video with IGN (above), creative director Hugo Bills talks through the mechanics, including the way you sing to gain the trust of other creatures. Fe is all about exploration: the cute main character can zip up trees in an instant

It sold well, but not as well as Capcom hoped, reaching its 4 million sales target seven months later than expected. Perhaps the fact that it’s sliced the base price of the game in half for US buyers, and by just shy of 40% for UK audiences, might help. The sale price of the base the game didn’t actually change on Steam: it remains £20/$24 (that was previously a 50% price cut, and now it’s just a 20% discount). That’s still a great deal, but the permanent price drop surely means that future sale

The twist to One Hour One Life is that you spawn as a baby, and a randomly selected player is your mother. As the name suggests, every life lasts a maximum of an hour in real time. You’ll have a player baby of your own, too, who you’ll have to protect and nurture through their early years to set them up for their own hour-long life. What a life passed by in this little hour of mine,” he writes on the game’s website. One Hour One Life doesn’t have a set release date yet, but a paid alpha (through

The PC Gamer Weekender is taking over the London Olympia with a host of new and upcoming PC gaming releases. If you fancy taking a break from the screens Esdevium Games and Games Quest are bringing a brilliant selection of tabletop games to the show. The likes of the absolutely superb Codenames and the new Catan/Game of Thrones crossover edition will be playable. And you can, as you’d expect, find more information on the official websites of both Esdevium Games and Games Quest. The tabletop gami

Which game have you snuck off from family to play during the holidays? Andy Kelly: Euro Truck Simulator 2Spending time with family and all that other holiday stuff is fine, sure, for a bit. But because it’s the holidays I’ll be doing it accompanied by rich chocolates and luxury ales. Philippa Warr: Dota 2Let me tell you about a small, obscure game you may not have heard of: Dota 2. Tim Clark: Metroid Prime(Image: © NeoGAF user Barrow Row)Will anyone mind if I answer a console game?

Samuel Roberts: Age of Empires 4 existsHere something I never would have predicted at the start of 2017: Microsoft bringing back Age of Empires. Along with MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, it’s cool to see series from that era of PC gaming return. It doesn’t get more PC gaming than Age of Empires for me: that series was fundamental to my interest in PC back in the late ’90s, after I sampled the first game on a PC Gamer demo disc. Tom Senior: Elite stratsThis year I’ve been cheered by the gentle, ongo

28-year-old Andrew Finch of Wichita, Kansas, was killed last night by police in what appears to have been an incident of “swatting.” Deputy police chief Troy Livingston told the Wichita Eagle that police were responding to a report of a murder and hostage situation at Finch’s home when he came to the front door and was shot. The report turned out to be false, however. Swatting is a “prank” in which an aggrieved gamer calls in a false police report, accusing a rival of violent crimes serious enou

That’s why we’ve rounded up a diverse selection of our favorite mech games spanning multiple genres—from the traditional hardcore sim to button-mashing character action. Titanfall 2Respawn Entertainment gave mech games a much-needed adrenaline shot when it released Titanfall in 2014, but it’s Titanfall 2 that fully realized the potential of a shooter that contrasts parkour running and gunning with slow, strategic mech combat. It’s multiplayer community is small, but there’s still plenty of playe

A report of a hidden “glimmer cap” in Destiny 2 that recently surfaced on Reddit isn’t exactly news, because it’s not actually new: It’s a carryover from the original game that was implemented to limit the impact of farming. He found that once he’d pulled in chunks of around 400 glimmer, it stopped coming until he stopped killing. I was at 6000 glimmer, gained about 280 before the glimmer stopped, and then proceeded to kill enemies for several minutes after that,” they wrote. The farming cap isn

PC Gamer’s Best Visual Novel of 2017 is Butterfly Soup, as chosen by our global editorial team. Jody Macgregor: It’s been a good year for visual novels. It was also a great year for original English-language visual novels, with Dream Daddy and Doki Doki Literature Club! It’s the relatively traditional Butterfly Soup. In a year when we needed to add a Best Comedy category, maybe that doesn’t make Butterfly Soup stand out as much as it normally would but it’s still worth celebrating.

Project Borealis is an attempt to flesh out the Half-Life 2: Episode 3 synopsis published by ex-Valve writer Marc Laidlaw in August into a full game, and an end-of-year update suggests that it’s making good progress. Working through this more detailed story, the first 1/2 is nearly complete and undergoing review by the design teams,” the team said. The post contains a mixture of concept art and 3D models from the game, with a concept Arctic headcrab (above) and a fully completed Strider model (b

Because SteelSeries’ recent line of headsets sound really good. SteelSeries kept its excellent audio performance from the Siberia series, fine tuned the sound signature, and packaged everything into a sleek, wireless package—yes, you can also plug an analog cable into the Arctis 7. I’d go as far to say that if you’re not willing to shell out hundreds of dollars for a “high-end” headphone, any of SteelSeries headsets will handle the duties well. Best of all, SteelSeries says that its Arctis 7 has

It’s a testament to the strength of Monolith’s orcs that they can even survive being stuffed into loot boxes, a fate more ignominious than anything Talion metes out with his swords. I felt the same way, and it’s just as well because he was also correct about the orcs being by far the best thing in the game. But as before, the best orcs are the ones who weave their own stories into your game. In my case that of course meant Mozû the Blight , the source of pretty much all my pain and enjoyment in

MrSpeakers isn’t tied down to old processes and thinking. The Ether Flow is one such creation from MrSpeakers. An evolution on the company’s incredibly well received Flow, the Ether Flow is a set of planar-magnetic over-the-ear open headphones. MrSpeakers has fine tuned the Flow with a more rounded sound signature. Like a good monitor that dishes out accurate colors, the Ether Flow is a precision instrument.