It’s only a matter of time before AMD rolls out a GPU architecture with hardware-based real-time ray tracing support (though not in time for any Black Friday deals), to take on Nvidia’s growing army of GeForce RTX graphics cards. Secondly, we know AMD will implement ray tracing support into a future Navi GPU architecture, because both Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s next Xbox (Project Scarlett) will feature one, based on custom silicon. Assuming nothing in AMD’s roadmap has changed, the nex

It’s a first and third-person battle royale between 50 angry vikings, each of them hoping to snatch the sword of Odin and stop the apocalypse. The latest glimpse of gameplay gives us a look at Mjolnir, Thor’s fancy flying hammer, which you’ll be able to fight over in the Wield Mjolnir game mode. Valhall is coming to Steam Early Access, but ahead of that developer Blackrose Arts has been hosting some closed tests, most recently of the Wield Mjolnir mode. The game’s in alpha at the moment, but whe

Torchlight Frontiers, the persistent world multiplayer successor to beloved action RPG Torchlight 2, was originally announced to be coming in 2019. But with just over a month left in the year, Echtra Games founder Max Schaefer told PC Gamer this weekend that Torchlight Frontiers wasn’t going to make that deadline and would be delayed into 2020. During a Path of Exile fan convention in New Zealand this weekend, I had the rare opportunity to talk with Diablo’s original creators and Blizzard North

Techland, creators of the original Dead Island, were planning a sequel when they shifted focus to work on Dying Light instead. Dead Island 2 passed to Yager Developments, and then Sumo Digital, and then Dambuster Studios, and here we are at the end of 2019 with no sign of it. “Look, Dead Island is a very important brand for us and we’ve got to get it right. Kundratitz also confirmed that Volition, another studio they own, are still working on a new Saints Row game rather than a sequel to its spi

Microsoft’s XO19 event in London was focused on Xbox announcements, but it did include our first look at Age of Empires 4 gameplay. Creative director Adam Isgreen was also on hand to clarify some details, including the fact that it won’t have microtransations or in-app purchases. “The idea of microtransactions in a real-time strategy game isn’t a thing,” he said, as reported by PCGamesN. While Age of Empires 4 is the work of Relic, Isgreen confirmed that World’s Edge will be the studio behind ex

Update: According to a new transcript of the leaked interview, Half-Life: Alyx will be shown at The Game Awards on December 12. Original story: This November 19 will mark the 21st anniversary of the release of the original Half-Life, and according to rumor it will also be when Valve announce a flagship virtual reality game called Half-Life: Alyx. Valve are rarely interested in celebrating their own game’s anniversaries, so take this rumor with a mouthful of salt. As for how this entirely hypothe

(Image credit: Square Enix)When the Google Stadia launch games were announced last week, no one seemed particularly impressed: it was a mere twelve games, and most of them have been available on other platforms for months (in some cases, years). But now Google has expanded the launch line-up by an additional ten games. Google vice president and GM Phil Harrison made the announcement on Twitter today. The additional games include:Attack on Titan: Final Battle 2Farming Simulator 2019Final Fantasy

After over eight years in development, logistics simulator Factorio will reach version 1.0 midway through next year. Developer Wube Software has announced that it will release the game out of early access on the 25th of September, 2020. Factorio is an elaborate game of logistics, engineering, clever design, and shooting waves of alien bugs. An appropriate statement because Factorio has received a metric boatload of polishing in the past few years. It describes the most important things about Fac

Space sim Elite: Dangerous’ latest community event is a neat sci-fi story as the Federation and Empire face off over the Golconda, a long-lost generation ship launched from Earth more than a thousand years before the game’s current time. Called The Golconda, the ship’s inhabitants are the first found alive on a lost generation ship in the game. The generation ship had long ago arrived at its destination, but had chosen to preserve itself as a closed society and never contacted the outside world.

It’s Half-Life 2’s 15th Birthday today! Without Half-Life 2 and its Source Engine, we wouldn’t have a lot of landmark games: Team Fortress 2, Portal, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and Insurgency, to name a few. Half-Life 2 also heralded the launch of Steam’s new look and new role as a storefront for Valve’s games. To many, the success of Steam has wholly eclipsed the Valve games that launched it. If you’re looking to get back into it, can I recommend the popular combat enhancement Half-Lif

Sprawling The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind total overhaul mod Morrowind Rebirth released the final part of its 5.0 update today, marking a six-month journey from start to finish on this phase of the project. The centerpiece of the 5.0 Part 2 update are reworked versions of many of the game’s towns and outdoor locations, all of which I’m quite fond of:Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: Morrowind Rebirth) Image 2 of 5 (Image credit: Morrowind Rebirth) Image 3 of 5 (Image credit: Morrowind Rebirth) Image

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a gorgeous moustache and horsenut simulator you may have heard of. It’s a real pretty looking game, with some intimidatingly high specs. And that’s why the YouTube cowboy who calls himself The LowSpec Gamer has ridden down from the ranges to find ways to get Red Dead 2 running on potato PCs. As he explains in the video, it’ll take modders to really unearth all the possibilities, but until then just messing with the system.xml file in your Red Dead Redemption 2 > Settings

Terry Cavanagh, creator of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV, released his latest game Dicey Dungeons three months ago. The combat-focused RPG about heroes who’ve been transformed into dice has apparently had an even more successful launch than either of his previous commercial games, and those were nothing to be sneezed at. As he wrote on his blog, “Within just its first month, Dicey Dungeons outsold the lifetime sales of my previous two games on Steam combined.” Dicey Dungeons already received a Hallow

There lies a vast periphery where EVE Online’s player-built empires battle for sovereignty and resources. EVE Online’s community had taken notice, and some EVE players wanted nothing more than to ruin Sae’s fun. Unlike known space, wormhole space doesn’t have stargates linking each of its 2,604 systems together. It is the first time that a player has ever been officially canonized in EVE Online’s lore. If travelling the real world makes you more worldly, what does traveling EVE Online’s galaxy m

After tinkering with the graphics options a bit, I’m able to play Jedi: Fallen Order at 60 fps or higher at 2560×1080 on medium settings. (Image credit: EA/Respawn)Tom Senior is having a similar experience with slightly lower specs: a GTX 970 and Core i5-4670k. Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Future) Image 2 of 4 (Image credit: Future) Image 3 of 4 (Image credit: Future) Image 4 of 4 (Image credit: Future)At medium quality and 1080p, multiple Nvidia GPUs are sometimes bumping into the 144 fps framer

Best Buy has started the Black Friday sales season early by offering a bevy of gaming accessories on sale this week. What caught our eye was the Logitech G Pro wired gaming headset, aka one of the best gaming headsets. Right now, the G Pro is going for $49.99, almost half off its regular price. The G-Pro is a lightweight wired gaming headset designed to keep you comfortable for long gaming sessions. Make it a point to bookmark our Black Friday gaming deals page where we will be combing all the m

You’ve got another opportunity to pick up Company of Heroes 2 for free this weekend. Relic Entertainment is holding a franchise-wide sale on Company of Heroes through this weekend. Now through Sunday at 6 pm GMT, you’ll be able to grab Company of Heroes 2 for free. Then you’ll have until Sunday November 24 to grab any Company of Heroes game or DLC at 75 percent off. Company of Heroes 2 has been free before, both on Steam and the Humble Store, but if for some reason you’ve missed it in the past,

If you’d like to see what Garden Story is all about, you can get in there now, courtesy of a demo that’s just turned up on Steam. Developer Picogram says the demo is “a vignette that showcases a concentrated slice of what the full version of Garden Story will have to offer.” If that sort of relentlessly cute, no-pressure exploration-RPG is your thing, you probably want to give the Garden Story demo a shot. “With the demo being set in ‘Autumn Town’ we thought the idea of having the demo only avai

For the second time in two months, PowerColor has taken to social media to tease its upcoming Radeon RX 5700 XT Liquid Devil graphics card. PowerColor had collaborated with JayzTwoCents, who posted a darkened image on Twitter with the caption, “PowerColor brought gaming enthusiasts one HELL of a card with the Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil…soon they will open the Flood Gates!” According to the accompanying hashtag, PowerColor plans on unleashing the Liquid Devil variant on Tuesday, November 19. T

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a well-known member of the Democractic Party in the US who serves as the Representative for New York’s 14th Congressional District. She stepped into to our little spotlight recently when she, along with other US politicians, signed a letter calling on Blizzard to reverse the punishment it imposed on Hearthstone Grandmaster Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai. But it recently came to light that she actually plays League of Legends, too—and she’s pretty good at it. Her Silver 4 p