The holiday sale has begun! No, not that sale, the Origin Holiday Sale. What that means is that you may not want to go jumping at the first deal you see on a game you want: This is really an ideal time to shop around and see who’s offering what before you start making it rain. That said, there are some good deals in here, and while Origin doesn’t have the sheer selection of games that Steam does, it’s definitely worth thumbing through. The Origin Holiday Sale is live now and runs until January 5

The “Choices Matter” Award – Games are about agency, and this award is for the game that has it in spades. Stardew ValleyCities: SkylinesSlime RancherABZUTo the MoonThe “No Apologies” Award – This award is for the game that you love unconditionally. Just Cause 3Total War: Warhammer IIBroforceRed Faction: Guerilla Steam EditionMiddle-earth: Shadow of WarThe “Haunts My Dreams” Award – This award is slightly a misnomer, because this game doesn’t just haunt your dreams. Hotline MiamiLunaAntichamberC

We still can’t play Squadron 42, the single-player slice of Star Citizen, but thanks to the folks over at IGN we can at least watch a couple minutes of in-game cinematics. The video features none other than OG starfighter jockey Mark Hamill, who has morphed form a wide-eyed farm boy to an older, more grizzled (and much more dickish) Paladin, who you will apparently have to impress as you undertake a patrol on his wing. And that’s really all there is to it: Luke Skywalker has grown up to be a din

To the Moon exceeded expectations for a game created with RPG Maker, but it was not his first. QuintessenceSuperficially, Quintessence looks very much like every teen’s first RPG Maker game, with default art assets, rough menus, and a wonky battle system. Giada Zavarise is our resident RPG Maker expert at PC Gamer Indie. It’s a Christmas story, perfect for this holiday season—though being a Kan Gao game there is no happy ending and everything is terrible. If you didn’t enjoy To the Moon, Gao’s p

It was posted by Little Big PR, whose co-founder and CEO is Alex Verrey. But before that gig—up until early 2016, when the company has hammered by layoffs—he was the global PR and communications director at Mad Catz. This could all be another company entirely, but the circumstantial evidence certainly appears to point to Mad Catz. The big secret will apparently be revealed on January 4, just a few days ahead of CES. I’ve reached out to Little Big PR to ask about what’s coming back, and while the

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone has been teasing fans of the hit farming sim for months. It started with a cryptic screenshot of a boat which, it was confirmed, would be part of upcoming singleplayer content. More recently, publisher Chucklefish dropped a slightly less cryptic screenshot of (what looks like) an underwater base alongside multiplayer beta details. Today, Barone is at it again on Twitter, but thankfully he brought some hard facts this time. The option to re-spec professions is a

The whole thing is highly competitive, as each member jockeys for a position over the others. Complicating matters further, your mom was recently on the island and has since gone missing. Your skills will have uses that extend far beyond your conversations with fellow guests,” publisher Focus Home Interactive said. “With 15 diverse skills to use and invest in, players are free to uncover The Council’s mysteries how they see fit, with wildly varying consequences depending on their methods.” The f

If you’re in need of a CPU cooler for an older AMD build, you’re in luck. Newegg is selling a Rosewill air cooler for free, after cashing in a $16 mail-in-rebate. There’s nothing special about the cooler itself, though it does come with a fan speed controller that you can mount to a PCI expansion slot. Once it’s wired to your motherboard’s CPU fan header, you can adjust the fan speed by turning the little dial. You can also pick up a 15-foot white HDMI cable ($14) and a 3-foot black DisplayPort

Adorably squishy farming sim Slime Rancher kicks off limited-time holiday event Wiggly Wonderland today. The event will run through Sunday, December 31 and award players with different in-game ornaments each day. To enter, share a screenshot of your slimy holiday display on Twitter using the hashtag #WigglyWonderland. The grand prize winner will be selected January 3, 2018, and walk away with a grab-bag of Slime Rancher merch. All submissions will also be entered to win a gift copy of Slime Ranc

Fractal Design aims to make things bit easier with its new Define R6. The Define R6 is the latest entry in the ongoing Define series. Fractal Design says it’s optimized for silence due to sound dampening material found on the inside of the front, top, and side panels. Three fans come with the Define R6, including two 140mm fans in front and another one in the rear. On the topic of storage, the case comes with two 2.5-inch drive brackets and six 3.5-inch/2.5-inch drive brackets.

Blizzard has made some adjustments to the Overwatch PTR that will change the way the game’s heroes move and accelerate. Previously, inclines could either make you move slightly faster or slightly slower, depending on the circumstances. Inclines will also no longer cause a small amount of strafing movement when moving diagonally on them.” Interestingly, the changes on the ground have also resulted in better control in the air. As for patch notes, there are none because a patch wasn’t actually req

AMD has begun rolling out a new Adrenalin Edition driver update, though unlike Nvidia’s recently released GPU driver, it’s not geared towards improving performance in PUBG. The Adrenalin Edition 17.12.2 driver release is the first update to AMD’s new Adrenalin series, which replaces the company’s previous Crimson ReLive series. The “Reset” function in Radeon Settings for Display, ReLive, and Video may not work as intended when using Radeon Settings in certain regional languages. A random system

To prepare for that moment, Nvidia has a new ‘Game Ready’ driver update for GeForce GPU owners. The new 388.71 WHQL driver release promises to deliver the “best possible gaming experience” in PUBG. As with most driver releases, Nvidia’s driver team stomped out a few bugs with this newest release. [GeForce GTX 1080][Notebook]: The driver may not recognize or install the GPU. You can let Nvidia’s GeForce Experience software fetch the new drivers automatically, or grab them here and install them ma

Cuphead has sold over two million copies, developer StudioMDHR announced today. Cuphead hit one million copies sold roughly two weeks after its September 29 launch, and at the time Steam Spy reported that approximately 575,000 copies had sold on Steam. Steam Spy now shows that roughly 1.1 million copies have sold on Steam, further cementing PC as the platformer’s premier platform. To celebrate this sales milestone and the holiday season, MDHR has been giving away Cuphead game keys on its officia

Magic Leap formally announced the headset today, calling it “Magic Leap One, Creator Edition,” which will ship in 2018 if everything goes to plan. Magic Leap is not providing granular details about its AR goggles just yet, though we do know it consists of a bunch of sensors in the front. The headset connects to a circular Lightpack, which Magic Leap tells Rolling Stone is a “powerful pocket-sized computer” with a battery. The comparisons to Microsoft’s HoloLens are inevitable—the Magic Leap One

The audio that’s pumped out from the Cloud Revolver is phenomenal—comparable to even high-end dedicated headphones. Crisp and clear highs, balanced mid-ranges, and controlled bass are all hallmarks of a good pair of headphones, and the Revolver makes for a good pair of headphones. Audio quality aside, the Revolver is also comfortable to wear. Kingston throws in a microphone but we think spending a bit more for something like the Blue Yeti microphone will be much better. But Kingston instead chos

After some speculation, THQ Nordic confirmed Darksiders 3 with a reveal trailer back in May. A 12-minute-long slice of in-game footage then followed which, being pre-alpha, looked a wee bit rough around the edges. The expansive Darksiders 3 game world is presented as an open-ended, living, free-form planet Earth that is dilapidated by war and decay, and overrun by nature. Fury will move back and forth between environments to uncover secrets while advancing the Darksiders 3 story. Darksiders 3 is

It’s all over…Every month, after filling PC Gamer with almost 132 pages of quality reviews, previews, features and retrospectives, we arrive at the final page. Inevitably it doesn’t come together until the last day of production—sometimes the day after we’re supposed to go to press. Here’s 2017 in silly back page jokes. Pip: That middle wheel thing looks like it comes from a Quirky Family Fun board game. Samuel: Yeah, it didn’t look right, but magazines have to go to press by a certain time or

2017 GOTY AWARDS Alongside our team-selected 2017 Game of the Year awards, each member of the PC Gamer team gets to champion one favorite from the year. But with Quake Live live since 2010, the reboot had to be more than an HD remake. As QuakeCon and Quake Champions’ launch neared, it became clearer that the game would make some major compromises on the purity of the past. Quake Champions was at once a step into the future and a living museum of what made Quake great. Filler and flaws fully cons

PC Gamer’s Best Co-op Game of 2017 is Destiny 2. The game keeps you in its universe at every stage, and in doing so alleviates the boring admin that can frequently gum up the process of getting into a good co-op game. Anyone watching a Destiny 2 raid without context would think they’re witnessing an arcane ritual. James Davenport: Anyone watching a Destiny 2 raid without context would think they’re witnessing an arcane ritual. The fact it’s able to foster those sorts of friendships speaks to wha