During MechCon 2017 in Vancouver, Piranha Games president Russ Bullock took to the stage to announce that MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, the return to a singleplayer sim-like MechWarrior, is coming in December of 2018. MechWarrior hasn’t had a proper singleplayer game for over 15 years, but MW5 marks a return to form. MechWarrior 5 will also have Steam Workshop mod support and 4-player co op. Despite some weak AI, it’s chunky combat feels extremely punchy and fun. You can check out MechWarrior 5: M

You can now add card game to that list: a digital, free-to-play version of Fantasy Flight’s physical Lord of the Rings card game is coming to Steam next year. The Lord of the Rings Living Card Game is the first game from new developer Fantasy Flight Interactive, and will focus on single-player and co-op campaigns rather than the multiplayer action we’re used to in most PC card games. If, like me, you’re not familiar with the term ‘Living Card Game’, then it differentiates itself from a collectib

It’s a celebration of everything mech, with the tabletop game, MechWarrior Online, and sister games like Harebrained Scheme’s BattleTech coming together under one roof. While the main event of MechCon is usually the world championship MechWarrior Online tournament, this year Piranha is also showing off a playable demo of MechWarrior 5. Of course, it would be a shitty MechWarrior game if the only thing to kill were tiny tanks. As I hurried along, an enemy dropship slowly descended from orbit and

‘Tis the season for festive PC game events, and card game Duelyst isn’t one to miss out. On Thursday it dealt an update that launched the Frostfire Festival, which includes exclusive cards, holiday skins and a new game mode, itself called Frostfire. The new game mode is essentially an excuse to get your hands on the new goodies in Frostfire crates: you play unranked matches in a snow-sprinkled arena to complete event quests and earn crates. If you complete 15 Frostfire mode matches during the ev

Path of Exile’s latest expansion is out now, and completely changes the way that the ARPG’s endgame works. Now, the Shaper and the Elder are at war, trying to separately spread their taint across the map. These taints affect the way maps look and feel: the Elder’s minions will literally suck the colour out of the world, weakening your character if they’re nearby, for example. The update also adds new character customisation options, with four new skills gems focused on necromancy and six support

Capcom’s been on a Mega Man blitz this week: it announced on Monday that Mega Man 11 would arrive on PC alongside all eight games in the Mega Man X series, and yesterday it confirmed that the Blue Bomber will be coming to action-RPG Monster Hunter: World when it launches next year. But, hey, it’s more Mega Man, so bring it on. He’ll bring with him four weapons inspired by previous Mega Man games that you’ll be able to yield. Skip to 2:45 in the video above to get a glimpse of Mega Man. Sadly, th

Subnautica, one of the best games set under the sea, has just received a meaty graphics overhaul. The Eye Candy update adds a wave of new graphics options to the Early Access exploration game including bloom, motion blur and depth of field, as well as a ‘Filmic Mode’ that makes the game look more cinematic. Now, that makes a bit of sense given the underwater setting but it could prove distracting for some. By playing with the new settings for a bit you should be able to get a new look that you’r

Overwatch’s upcoming competitive season 8, which launches in January, will bring with it some big changes to the way that players are matched within a team. “The matchmaker has previously assigned players who are of a much lower SR to the same team as 4500 SR player, and hasn’t always created the best match experience possible. During the month of December we will be quietly testing the effect of more restrictive SR limits to both match quality and queue times. Currently, one of the factors affe

FCC chairman Ajit Pai went on stage to talk about the future, as well as make jokes about the industry and himself. In the video, Verizon senior VP and deputy general counsel Kathy Grillo, sits down with Pai to discuss “capturing” the FCC. “We want to brainwash and groom a Verizon puppet to install as FCC chairman,” Grillo says to Pai. “We need to find someone, smart, young, ambitious but dorky enough to throw the scent off,” Grillo tells Pai. “Hello,” Pai responds, suggesting he’s the obvious c

This week, a big hypothetical one with no basis in reality: if EA lost the Star Wars license, who should get it next? The Star Wars universe is an expansive one, and I think games need to branch out beyond lightsabers and space battles. Tyler Wilde: Larian StudiosTake Divinity: Original Sin 2, double the budget and throw Star Wars junk in and you’ve got a beautiful freeform co-op Star Wars RPG that would surely be handled more deftly than ‘do bad things and get more Dark Side points.’ Wes Fenlon

Like the film festival, Fantastic Arcade is focused on cult and independent art, so every year a selection of indie developers get up and talk about their games. Untitled Goose GameFor all we know Untitled Goose Game may remain untitled forever. “It’s good enough for paintings and songs,” developers House House suggest as they explain how their game began as a joke on Slack, the workplace chat network for water-cooler gossip. He sums up Chuchel by saying, “It’s actually a game about two disgusti

THE HIGHSJoe Donnelly: Two weeks, one FortniteOver the past couple of weeks, I’ve spent loads of time frolicking in Fornite’s Battle Royale mode. Jarred Walton: the Skynet’s the limitWith no fanfare whatsoever, Nvidia dropped the bomb last night with the announcement of the Titan V graphics card , available immediately. But it’s not just a status symbol, as the Titan V is built on the biggest and gnarliest GPU Nvidia has ever created. The Titan V isn’t being billed as a gaming card so much as a

It was originally released in 1993 for the Super Famicon, and then re-released in 2010 for the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console in Japan, and then in 2014 on the Wii U Virtual Console. In August of this year it hit the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console, and one week from today it will finally come to the PC. The Steam release will feature updated graphics and audio, new character classes, a new dungeon, and a New Game+ feature that enables character attributes and items to be carried over between games.

Payday studio Overkill announced in 2014 that it was making a new co-op FPS based on The Walking Dead, “with elements of action, role-playing, survival horror and stealth.” It was expected at the time to be out in 2016, but that eventually became 2017, and then 2018. As far as I know there’s been no update to that schedule, but the studio recently teased a big announcement of something that will take place on Sunday. Zombie Payday? The curtain will rise on whatever it is at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET on D

Nutaku was started in January 2016, and is now the largest 18-and-up free-to-play browser and downloadable game platform on the web, Antoon tells me. The growing volume of daily releases means Steam, the App Store, and Google Play are burying great games by the minute. Mark Antoon, Nutaku PresidentThe success of an unexpected conversion like Road Redemption’s has the potential to encourage other small studios to give their games X-rated makeovers as well. “[House Party] was given to us by the de

If you’re looking for a keyboard and mouse, or just would like to have one of each on hand as a backup, head over to Newegg and check out Cooler Master’s Devastator II bundle. The discounted price and rebate offer is available on the red LED and blue LED models. That means it’s a membrane keyboard that’s designed to feel like typing on a mechanical keyboard, with keys that offer tactile keyboard. The mouse sports an ambidextrous design with an optical sensor that can switch between 1,000, 1,600,

Zotac has created a new brand called Zotac Gaming that will presumably only deal with gaming products, rather than a mix of general purpose and gaming gear. We’ve actually been hearing about the Mek1 (and Zotac Gaming) for several months now. It’s powered by a Core i7-7700 processor, 16GB of DDR4-2400 memory, and a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card. For storage, Zotac paired a 240GB NVMe SSD with a 1TB SATA HDD. Both models feature 802.11ac Wi-Fi and have six USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, an

Legrand Legacy, an openly old-school turn-based JRPG, will launch on PC on January 24, 2018, according to its newest trailer. Astoundingly, that puts the PC version a full year ahead of the console versions. Legrand Legacy is a game drunk on old JRPGs, citing Suikoden, Legend of Dragoon and Final Fantasy as its key inspirations. As Crunchyroll reports, developer Semisoft further explained the combat in a recent press release: “Exploiting enemies’ weaknesses and unleashing powerful attacks is key

As a long-distance truck driver, Steven isn’t your average 22-year-old, but he’s not your average trucker, either. Beside him, the passenger seat has been replaced by a ruddy office chair with its back to the open road. “I really don’t know,” he says when I ask why he’s currently hauling an entire town’s worth of Kleenex 800 miles from Missouri to Oklahoma. During a trip, his first option is to turn on his phone’s mobile wifi hotspot and use his 4G connection to play games with family. But I don

Last night’s Game Awards show featured all kinds of world premieres, new trailers, sponsorships, overlong speeches, enthusiastic swearing, and even a few awards amidst it all. And don’t worry if you missed the show, because we’ve got all the winners for you right here. That’s because, once the dust had begun to settle, people noticed that it hadn’t actually been handed out. Game Awards producer and host Geoff Keighley told Polygon that the omission wasn’t an oversight, but just a delay—for which