A couple of weeks back, Headup Games announced Bridge Constructor Portal—a somewhat unlikely officially licensed mashup of it and Valve’s respective physics puzzlers. Bridge Construction Portal is out now, and comes with a neat GLaDOS-narrated trailer. Let’s look at that first:As you can see there, Bridge Constructor Portal is not only led by the real deal GLaDOS Ellen McLain, but is also decorated with iconic Portal-flavoured imagery. Here’s what developer Headup Games said of the Portal-Bridge

In the wake of its latest Aberration expansion, Ark: Survival Evolved has now launched on the Windows 10 Store as an Xbox Play Anywhere game. Much like other games that have walked similar paths—like, say, Fallout Shelter and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard—this means PC players who access Ark via the Windows 10 Store can now join their Xbox counterparts on the same servers as friends or as foes. “Tied to the players’ Microsoft account, Ark survivors can now pick up their adventure where they left of

Call of Duty: WW2 has announced The Resistance, the shooter’s first portion of DLC that promises three new multiplayer maps, a new War Mode and the next chapter of its Nazi zombies offshoot, named The Darkest Shore. From front to back, the three incoming maps include Anthropoid, Occupation and Valkyrie. Set in Prague, Anthropoid depicts the titular Operation Anthropoid assassination attempt of two high-ranking Nazi officers in 1942. Lastly, Occupation is a remake of the classic Call of Duty: Mod

Biomutant is a post-apocalyptic RPG that stars adorable kung fu animals who love to beat the crap out enemies with swords, guns and mutations. At the PC Gamer Weekender you’ll be able to find out insider details about the making of Biomutant during its stage session, then have the chance to indulge in the blend of melee, shooting and mutant ability action the game itself presents. Biomutant was one of the best demos at Gamescom in 2017. You can find out more about Biomutant on its website, Twitt

ModDB’s 16th annual Mod of the Year Awards kicked off last month, revealing its top 100 shortlist on December 11. Voting for its overall winner closes later today, so now’s your chance to cast your vote. Less than 24 hours remain to vote for the Top 100 nominees in the 2017 Mod of the Year Awards! https://t.co/W1kQPKrvnk pic.twitter.com/JXcnZnNddPDecember 20, 2017″Back for a 16th time, welcome to the 2017 Mod of the Year Awards,” reads the blurb on the awards’ voting page. Voting for ModDB’s Top

Niko Partners analyst Daniel Zhuge has turned the spotlight on a new game that appears to be in the works at League of Legends studio Riot Games. The game is called Teemo’s Adventure and it was revealed in a list of GPC-approved games, which indicates that it has been given the green-light for sale in China. Not sure if Western media is reporting on this yet.Looks like a game called “Teemo’s Adventure” has been approved for sale in China. Riot Games is listed along with Tencent as the developer

The 2015 attempt to bring paid mods to Steam was an unmitigated disaster, but that’s not going to stop Nexus Mods from taking a different shot at a paid-mods system of its own. The site recently announced plans for a new “mod author donation system” that will enable mod makers who opt in to earn a few bucks, or other rewards if they prefer, from their work. That doesn’t mean that users will have to start paying for mods, however: Nexus Mods founder Robin “DarkOne” Scott made it clear that the mo

Blizzard is currently recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer, who will be responsible for creating vehicles “in a robust first-person engine for an unannounced game.” If that last phrase sounds familiar, it’s because Blizzard was recruiting for what’s likely the same project in November last year. The successful applicant will not only create the vehicles, but will also be responsible for their “handling features”. Aside from that, there aren’t really any other details which could help shed l

It appears that access to the Steam Community, including forums, user profile pages, and inventories, has been blocked in China. According to Greatfire.org, a site that monitors online censorship in the country, access to steamcommunity.com has actually been 96 percent blocked since December 15. Store.steampowered.com remains available, meaning that users in China can still purchase and play games. Why the ban was put into place isn’t clear, but one possible motivating factor is the changing fac

Our holiday gift guide has plenty of great options for the PC gamer in your life, but if you need a few more ideas, here’s what the PC Gamer staff hopes to find in our stockings this year. Codenames$15 from AmazonWhenever I’m traveling home to Michigan for Christmas, I need board games I can play with a variety of people. If you’re still looking for stuff for the PC gamer you love—which hey, may well be you—then here are a couple of peripherals I’ve loved using in 2017. —Jarred WaltonSamsung 850

Developers Fatshark just released one last bit of paid DLC called Death on the Reik, and it’s given me a solid excuse to go back and set fire to skaven again. It’s a two-map pack set in the Reikwald Forest and on the River Reik itself, through and over which our heroes chase a thief who has nicked some books from the mysterious innkeeper who doles out Vermintide’s quests. The first map’s a pretty typical one, a jaunt through the woods and a burning village on the way to the water. After trudging

Nantucket is a strategy RPG set in the early 19th century during the rise of America’s whaling industry—or, to be more precise, a few years after the events of “Moby Dick,” Herman Melville’s classic novel. It takes place in the same universe and even stars Ishmael, the narrator of Melville’s masterwork and the only survivor of Captain Ahab’s Pequod. Developer Picaresque Studio says Nantucket features RPG elements like stats and skills, as well as turn-based combat. The gallery on Nantucket’s off

That means you can build a high-end system around Kaby Lake at a lower price than before. Case in point, MSI’s Z270 Gaming M7 is available for $130 at Newegg. The reward for doing so is a pretty nice discount on a feature-rich motherboard with a $250 list price. The Z270 Gaming M7 supports up to 64GB of DDR3-4000 (OC) memory. As an added bonus, the listing shows a free gift from MSI, a PCIe Wi-Fi/Bluetooth adapter valued at $40.

Ubisoft announced earlier this month that it would mark the holidays by giving away a couple of oldies but goodies, first World in Conflict and then after that, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. That plan has apparently changed somewhat, but in a good way, because it’s added another game to the freebie festivities. From now (technically yesterday) until 5 am ET on December 23, the original Watch Dogs is free for the taking on Uplay. Hit up the “Happy Playdays” freebie page, log in if you need to,

If the only thing holding you back from purchasing Corsair’s Neutron NX500 PCIe SSD is capacity, fear not, it’s now available in up to 1,600GB (1.6TB). Corsair’s asking price for the 1,600GB model is $1,575, which works out to nearly a buck per gigabyte. The Neutron NX500 plugs into a PCIe 3.0 x4 slot and shuttles data through the PCIe bus for fast performance. According to Corsair, its Neutron NX500 drives can hit up to 3,000MB/s reads and 2,3000MB/s writes in ATTO, and up to 2,800MB/s reads an

Dawning milestones include:Welcome to the Dawning – Upon first logging in with each character for The Dawning, players will be greeted with the “Welcome to the Dawning” introductory Milestone. – Upon first logging in with each character for The Dawning, players will be greeted with the “Welcome to the Dawning” introductory Milestone. Spreading Holiday Cheer – Upon completing the “Welcome to the Dawning” Milestone on each character, players will be directed to complete the “Spreading Holiday Chee

Viscera Cleanup Detail recently received a long-awaited update (v1.092) which adds a new level and new stuff to clean up. The update released earlier this week on December 17—exactly one year after the game’s previous update, developer RuneStorm says. The new level, ‘uprinsing,’ continues the game’s punny traditions while making one big, filthy addition: graffiti. New ways to dirty your mop are a pretty big deal for a game that’s basically competitive tidying up, but RuneStorm says there’s more

Ahead of the Steam winter sale and on the heels of the Humble ‘Jingle Jam’ Bundle, Humble Bundle is holding a hefty indie sale this week. The ‘indie mega week sale’ is live now and runs through 10 am Pacific this Christmas—Monday, December 25. Standout games include:As previously reported, you can also get Layers of Fear and its soundtrack for free. However, while it is included in the indie mega week sale, it’s only free through 10 am Pacific tomorrow, Wednesday, December 20. Some online stores

With all the new CPU platforms this year, picking just a single motherboard is difficult. We’ve seen plenty of great offerings for virtually every chipset, but a great motherboard only goes so far—it needs to support the CPU you intend to run. With Z270 fading away, the best motherboard this year needs to support Coffee Lake, and that means the Z370 chipset. Gear of the Year Check out the complete list of all of our award winners for 2017. The Z370 Maximus X Hero is the latest in Asus’s Hero lin

This can often come at the expense of capacity, unless you splurge on a 1TB SSD. To take the sting out of doing that, Samsung’s 850 Evo in 1TB form is currently on sale for $290. That makes it competitive with other 1TB SSD options, such as WD’s Blue and SanDisk’s Ultra 3D, the latter of which is $10 cheaper. What we like about Samsung’s 850 Evo line, however, is that it outperforms more expensive SSDs. The 850 Evo uses vertically arranged 3D NAND flash memory, which it combines with its own con