Despite rebranding last month, it’s business as usual at the online digital deals store once known as Bundle Stars—now called Fanatical. Today, I want to point you towards its indie-filled Nemesis Bundle 4. Here’s an excerpt from Chris’ The Sexy Brutale review earlier this year:The Sexy Brutale is a beautiful game, each chamber and hallway interestingly and exquisitely decorated. The Nemesis Bundle 4 is live now through December 12 at 12am PT/8pm GMT. Fanatical links to this blog post that explo

But there’s still a little bit left for today, in the form of a DLC trailer previewing some of the new weapons and armor coming to the game—some of which may be familiar to fans of the original. OK.As Twitterer daniel p pointed out, the hand cannon seen in the background image of the update looks a lot like Red Death, an exotic pulse rifle from the original Destiny. There’s also what may be new raid armor on display beginning at around the 25-second mark of the trailer—and since the armor is Hiv

For those among us who dislike going to virtual war against human opponents, Arma 3 now has three new singleplayer missions to stomp through. The Tac-Ops Mission Pack will take around eight hours to complete, according to Bohemia Interactive, and is now available for $ 5.99 / £ 4.49 on Steam. “In Arma 3 Tac-Ops Mission Pack, players are tasked to lead an infantry, mechanized infantry, and/or special forces unit across an unrestricted warzone, often with multiple objectives to accomplish,” reads

I played a bit of Doom VFR last week at a preview event, and while it was on a PSVR and not the Vive, it was pretty fun. The return of telefragging is especially great: in VR, you’re teleporting into ailing enemies in order to get the glory kill. Brutal, almost nauseatingly violent, but hey: that’s video games. Doom VFR is out right now, so you can go ahead and telefrag until your heart is content (or at least, until your stomach tells you to stop). It’s not just a VR version of the 2016 title,

Back in June I asked PC lead David Shaw how Bungie planned to keep hardcore players happy. As I see it, Destiny 2’s appeal to a broader demographic (I’m trying hard not to say ‘casuals’) hasn’t resulted in more of them sticking around for longer. Which is exactly what both Destiny games have delivered. Noseworthy agreed that, from the outset, Destiny 2’s design team had “erred on the side of the more casual players.” To be clear, despite all the salt, this remains a community that desperately wa

He’s now working on a new solo project: Legendary Gary, an RPG about a man playing an RPG. Legendary Gary has two distinct sides. At night, you (as Gary) play Legend of the Spear, a fantasy adventure where combat takes places on hexagonal grids. “The battles in Legendary Gary are designed to be a stress-free exercise in problem solving.” Legendary Gary is slated to release in early 2018.

The forgotten origins of JRPGs Did you know the Japanese RPG genre has its roots on the PC, not consoles? Japanese RPG developer Nihon Falcom has been making games since the early 1980s, and almost all of its games started on one Japanese PC or another. Most recently, Falcom’s Ys and Legend of Heroes games, translated by XSeed, have found success on Steam (with four games released in 2017 alone). And now another Falcom game is finally playable on PC in English, though not through an official loc

Raji: An Ancient Epic was one of the most impressive games we saw at India’s 2017 Nasscom Game Developer Conference, and now you can sample it for yourself. Developer Nodding Heads Games recently uploaded a free demo to Steam, which gives you a good feel for its combat and a great feel for its sumptuous music and environments. Raji stars, well, Raji, a young girl cloaked in red on a mission to save her brother from demon lord Mahabalasura. As Nodding Heads explains on the game’s Kickstarter, its

Take-Two Interactive president Karl Slatoff has weighed in on the controversy over loot boxes and gambling, declaring that the company shares the position of the Entertainment Software Association: “We don’t view that thing as gambling.” “It’s about making making sure you’re focused on engagement, and I think that has been our strategy; that has been our focus. Despite the consumer backlash against loot boxes in games and rumblings from legislators that something should be done, Take-Two’s stanc

Oh My Godheads is a deceptively simple local co-op game about stealing the heads of angry gods and murdering people with pies. It’s a quirky take on CTF, and that same kookiness shapes every part of it, from its characters to its cartoonish items. In the main mode, ‘Capture the Head,’ you fight to bring a godhead back to your base. Then there’s ‘King of the Head,’ where you fight to hold onto a godhead the longest. Which is true for most of Oh My Godheads, really.

By all reports the new performer, Rhianna DeVries, did excellent work on the series, but with the strike settled, Burch is returning to the role for the bonus episode, Farewell. “We’re very excited to tell you that Before the Storm’s bonus episode ‘Farewell’ will be releasing in early 2018 and in even more exciting news; Hannah Telle and Ashly Burch will be returning to play Max and Chloe!” “As you are all aware, Ashly has been working with the writing team at Deck Nine and we’re ecstatic that s

Nerial Games and Devolver Digital are following up with a sequel next month called Reigns: Her Majesty, in which you’ll play as the Queen. PC Gamer: When you had the idea for Reigns, did you know it was going to be something special? If someone notices that’s good, if not too bad. Moving on to Reigns: Her Majesty, what did you learn from Reigns that you took over to the sequel? I kept some ideas but I evolved some others, things that didn’t really work in Reigns.

It was pretty easy to find a PlayStation DualShock 4 or Xbox One wireless controller on sale sure Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Not so much, although we did spot Newegg selling both through its Ebay account, for $37 each. We like how the analog triggers and bumpers feel in comparison to the Xbox One controller, though both are solid options, depending on your preference. According to the Ebay listing, the DualShock 4 is “almost gone,” so you’ll want to act fast on this one. It’s not clear if Ne

Instead of demanding music from a device that is almost certainly not spying on every move you make inside your own home, you can use “a variety of utterances” (that’s a direct quote from the press release) to ask Alexa to ask Ghost to do you a solid, from the practical (“Alexa, ask Ghost to equip my raid loadout”) to the utterly unimportant (“Alexa, ask Ghost to tell me who are the Red Legion.”) “The Destiny 2 Ghost skill is the first of its kind and the most innovative and immersive gaming exp

I had some pretty high hopes for The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, although my interest cooled considerably when it was shifted from an X-Files-styled FPS set in the ’50s to a linear third-person tactical shooter. It ultimately worked out to be a very average, unremarkable game that came and went with relatively little notice. If that kept you away from it back when the game was new, then the Humble Store is here with the perfect second chance to give it a try. Until 10 am PT/1 pm ET on December 2,

Thermaltake’s growing line of open-frame enclosures take things a step further by letting you mount your PC to a wall. The same goes for its new Core P90, another open-frame case, with a twist. Unlike Thermaltake’s other wall-mountable cases, the Core P90 has a triangular shape that’s intended to space out components for better cooling. I happen to own Thermaltake’s Core P5 open-air chassis and haven’t run into any cooling issues myself, but my system also isn’t overclocked. Like Thermaltake’s o

That’s certainly an option if you’re looking to do so, or for a dollar less, you can snag an HP Pavilion desktop with a GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card inside. Walmart has the HP Pavilion Power 580-023w Gaming Tower on sale for $499, down from $649. It’s a somewhat slick looking system with a brushed front panel design and vertically mounted DVD burner. The GeForce GTX 1060 is the 3GB model, not the 6GB version. You can grab this system on sale here.

AMD today announced the name of its next major annual driver update, Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition. About the only thing AMD is sharing at this point is that the driver update is named after Adrenalin Rose, which is apparently a florist favorite. “As a reminder, over the past three years, Radeon Software has delivered to users 70 software releases, launch day support for more than 75 games and over 50 new or enhanced features, with more than 250 million downloads across the globe. Radeon Sof

When I first played Resident Evil 3 I was genuinely terrified by its S.T.A.R.S.-hunting Nemesis antagonist, who would respawn after death and chase Jill Valentine screen-to-screen. Courtesy of Nexus user MihailMods, the Nemesis – Halloween Special mod launched earlier this month, and is available for both Skyrim Special Edition and the role-player’s 2011 original. To suit Skyrim’s high fantasy lore, Nemesis in its Elder Scrolls guise is billed as an “ancient atmoran warrior raised from the death

Now, it’s worked its magic on 1994’s Jazz Jackrabbit, 1998’s Jazz Jackrabbit 2, and 1993’s Epic Pinball. In 1998, my mum bought a PC that came equipped with Windows ’98 and a copy of Jazz Jackrabbit 2. By bringing both Jazz Jackrabbit games to GOG, the distributor aims to “restore these Epic platformers (also Epic Pinball) to their former glory”. With a limited-time discount, both the Jazz Jackrabbit Collection and Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Collection are on sale for £6.89/$8.99 individually at the time