Take-Two Interactive has announced Private Division—a new indie publishing label whose goal is to bring “titles from top independent developers to market”, before making them “critically and commercially successful on a global scale.” With this in mind, Private Division will leverage Take-Two’s resources as it represents clients not necessarily associated with independent game development. Furthermore, Private Division is the publisher for Kerbal Space Program—Take-Two having announced this coll

The PC Gamer Game of the Year Awards are selected by our global team. We then pick award titles that suit each game—so you’ll see a different set of awards this year compared to previous years. The AwardsGame of the Year 2017: Divinity: Original Sin 2Personal picksThese games didn’t make the cut for the main awards, but they’re still worth highlighting in their own right. Each of our staff has picked one favorite game and produced a longer piece about why they felt it was significant in 2017. An

I’d lost faith in Resident Evil. Everything after Resident Evil 4, Shinji Mikami’s bold reinvention, was a disappointment. I was sure that game would herald a new golden age for the series, but then I played Resident Evil 6. And that’s why it’s the best Resident Evil in years, even if it’s not quite the dramatic change in direction the shift to first-person suggested it might be. I’m eager to see where Resident Evil goes next, and whether it’ll continue to shake up the formula.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is PC Gamer’s overall Game of the Year for 2017, as voted for by our global editorial team. Divinity: Original Sin 2 was the obvious Game of the Year choice. Joe Donnelly: It took me a full ten hours to leave Divinity: Original Sin 2’s opening area. Original Sin 2 gives you both options, but its origin characters are so great I can’t imagine not picking one. For more Divinity: Original Sin 2 coverage, check out our review and our best stories from playing the game.

Earlier this year, Elite’s Thargoids alien baddies descended on Elite: Dangerous. Before long, war was waged, and just days later one squadron destroyed one of its aggressor’s ships. Now it appears the Thargoids are taking down spaceports, which is a pretty grave statement of intent. Here’s Frontier Developments’ latest Commander Chronicles narrative short with proof:As the distressed character above explains, the alien crews’ shutdown field can now be used on space stations. Here’s how one targ

As if the cruel Martian atmosphere wasn’t enough, you will also have to deal with disillusioned renegades in your quest to colonise the red planet in colony-building sim Surviving Mars. PC Gamer: Can you talk about the different types of colonists you have in Surviving Mars? Spasov: They will settle on Mars, gain and lose traits, have children if your colony is nice enough, live their lives, grow old and eventually die. Spasov: We already talked about traits, but colonists also differ by their s

In the wake of PUBG’s ever-growing success, a number of established games have spun their own interpretations of the battle royale formula. Several clones have since surfaced too, which has caused Brendan Greene—aka PlayerUnknown himself—to speak out against the lack of copyright protection in the games industry. The following footage of that popped up on Reddit earlier this year:Green continues: “There’s no intellectual property protection in games. Games are art for a large part, and so I thin

Dystopian cyberfuture megacorps are good if you’re a dystopian megacorp CEO or a dystopian finance reporter who enjoys dystopian quarterly earnings calls. With the termination of developer Ruffian and Paradox’s relationship, the future of Hollowpoint and its neon-outfitted gunfolk was uncertain. Hollowpoint is a side-on 2.5D shooter. You’ll also need to keep an eye on your weapons—there’s no ammo collection, but you’ll need to manage their heat. CONSEQUENCESOutside the contracts, you’ll need to

PC Gamer: What’s the “if we were in an elevator and you only had a minute to tell me about your game” pitch for Blazing Legion: Ignition? Ethan Redd: Blazing Legion: Ignition is a bombastic, introspective first-person bullet-hell tragedy about seven-story-tall mecha and consequence. If the action genre is rock’n’roll, Blazing Legion is black metal. Blazing Legion is us sorta synthesizing that with our own special sauce into something I think feels fresh and new. In my head, Blazing Legion is tha

So I gathered a few PC Gamer editors from around the US, Canada, and Australia for a little experiment: D&D 5e in Tabletop Simulator. Yet despite a couple disconnects, the session went at about the pace of any in-person D&D session I’ve played. Our biggest issue didn’t have much to do with Tabletop Simulator itself: it was getting over the awkwardness of roleplaying over voice chat. More serious players will probably prefer it, and Tabletop Simulator leaves much to be desired despite its frequen

We got our first look at Trailmakers, a sandbox construction game that looks like Besiege but with cars and planes, at PAX West earlier this year. Today, developer Flashbulb Games announced Trailmakers will hit Steam Early Access on January 31, 2018, with a free open beta weekend planned for January 11 – 14. It will cost $20 at launch, and its Steam page says the price “will be reviewed” when the Early Access period ends. Flashbulb says the Early Access build will feature three game modes. Flash

Ubisoft said in July that that dedicated servers were coming to its medieval face-breaking experience For Honor, although it warned that it wouldn’t be for a while. But better late than never, and so here we are in December with word that dedicated server open testing is going to begin tomorrow. Because it’s a test, available game modes will be limited to Duel, Dominion, and Tribute. Everyone who takes part in the test will also earn an exclusive emblem, and various other prizes will be awarded

The Rainbow Six Siege Year Three pass, giving owners seven-day early access to eight new operators from Russia, France, Italy, the UK, the US, and Morocco, is now available for purchase. The pass also includes access to eight exclusive uniforms and headgear, a Rainbow Six charm that can be attached to weapons, 600 R6 credits to spend in the in-game store, and one year of “VIP Perks” good until January 31, 2019: A ten percent discount in the shop, a five percent Renown boost, and an Alpha Pack bo

Ylands is the new creative survival sandbox from Bohemia Interactive, the team behind the Arma series and DayZ. To retaliate for my previous embarrassment at the hands of that puma, I created a new island world in creative mode. Ylands’ creative tools are reminiscent of Disney Infinity’s Toybox mode and LittleBigPlanet’s creative suite. Even with all this promise, Ylands’ Early Access build definitely feels like it needs more time in the oven. Between that and the game’s complex controls, it fel

A werewolf wizard with brass knuckles who throws boulders and shoots icicles, no less. What better way to start my first playthrough of Haque, a newly released turn-based roguelike from SuperTry Studios. At the request of a mysterious old man named Old Man, I enter the first floor of the dungeon. It’s smooth sailing until the old man warns me that a ‘skeletitan’ stalks this area. Judging from the extreme, glitch-like artifacting that often occurs whenever he talks to me, the old man seems to be

A $900,000 orbital cannon isn’t the only thing that yesterday’s Doomsday Heist update for GTA Online brought to the game, or even necessarily the most interesting. Also included is an all-new radio station, Blonded Los Santos 97.8 FM, hosted by Frank Ocean, Vegyn, Roof Access, and Fed. Blonded Los Santos is the first new station to come to the game in more than two years—the last station, The Lab, debuted in July 2015. “Blonded features tracks like Rain by SWV, Crack Rock by Frank Ocean, Winnin

Magewell already offers a capture card that is capable of grabbing 4K resolution footage at 60 frames per second over an HDMI 2.0 input interface. However, its new Pro Capture HDMI 4K Plus LT ups the ante with a loop-through HDMI connection to allow source signals to be sent simultaneously to additional displays or equipment without needing an external HDMI splitter. Those “price-sensitive gamers” will have to be willing to throw down $899 for the privilege. So on the bright side, Magewell isn’t

Case in point, WD’s external 4TB Elements drive is on sale for $100 at Newegg and Amazon, though Newegg is also offering a $5 discount with promo code EMCSBCBC3, knocking the price down to $95. The Elements drive is bulkier (physically) than the WD Passport, our top choice among high-capacity portable HDDs. It measures 165.8mm (H) x 135mm (D) x 48mm (W), versus 21.5mm (H) x 81.5mm (D) x 110mm (W). If you prefer the 4TB Passport over the 4TB Elements, that one is also on sale, marked down to $109

One of those custom options is MSI’s Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost 8G OC, a lightly overclocked card with extra ventilation for cooling. We have seen the Air Boost designation before, on MSI’s Radeon RX Vega 56. That card has a 1,181MHz base clock and 1,520MHz boost clock, whereas AMD’s reference specs are set at 1,156MHz for the base clock and 1,471MHz for the boost clock. This Radeon RX Vega 64 Air Boost is based on the higher end model with more stream processors. It has a 1,272MHz base clock a

RAM speed may not matter as much as it once did, but that hasn’t stopped Corsair from claiming bragging rights when it can. In years past, SO-DIMMs were primarily found in laptops and all-in-one PCs. They still are, though the recent influx of mini PCs and other small form factor (SFF) systems has expanded the market for SO-DIMMs. Those are precisely the types of PCs Corsair is targeting with this new kit. Corsair said it’s using cherry-picked Samsung B-die memory chips that are hand-sorted and