(Image credit: Spoland)War of the Worlds meets Sir, You Are Being Hunted in the lightly tense The Last Resistance, a small, free game where you’re being hunted by a gaggle of murderous robots. You start with nothing, alone in an atmospheric wilderness populated by skittering little spiderbots, and by giant tripods with ominous laser scanners. Of course, some of the bunkers require keys, while others need to be smashed open with an axe. While the robots, particularly the War of the Worlds-style t

It’s a co-op survival game called Grounded, made by a small team at Obsidian that wanted to try something different. And it’s definitely different, both from Obsidian’s past work and the other survival games you can play on PC today. The natural question for everyone is: Why a survival game? (Image credit: Roby Atadero)”We’ve been interested in doing a survival game for quite a while now,” said Atadero. You can expect more of a focus on story in Grounded than many other survival games, though wi

It’s a survival game. The spirit of Honey I Shrunk the Kids is coursing through Grounded, a co-op survival game that casts you as a teenager, shrunk down to ant size. For example, like every survival game, Grounded has hunger and thirst meters (you’ll take damage if you let these deplete, though it will never kill you). Obsidian is actually planning to launch Grounded in Early Access next year, on Steam and Xbox Game Pass, to help shape those features. The way that we’re looking at it, it’s how

When the Radeon RX 550 first debuted, cryptocurrency mining was just getting its legs, and Ethereum had not yet shot up in value. It’s a much different landscape now two and a half years later, though be that as it may, ASRock has quietly introduced another RX 550 graphics card. The new Phantom Gaming Radeon 550 2G is ASRock’s second RX 550 card. That said, there will likely be a lot of Black Friday deals on Polaris cards, particularly in the mid-range section as vendors look to clear room for R

RGB lighting isn’t going anywhere, that much is clear at this point. “No other RGB fan comes close to the brightness and vibrancy of QL RGB. These fans also use semi-transparent blades to give the RGB lighting an easier time of shining through. Pricing is as follows:iCue QL120 RGB 120mm fan (single pack)—$44.99iCue QL140 RGB 140mm fan (single pack)—$49.99iCue QL120 RGB 120mm fan (triple pack)—$139.99iCue QL140 RGB 140mm fan (twin pack)—$119.99Both the twin and triple packs also come with Corsair

While continuing its work on Sea of Thieves, Rare is developing a brand new game called Everwild. What is Everwild? Well, it’s a vocal track with lots of “oooh-eee-ahh-oooohs,” a band of adventurers, and some very cute, No Man’s Sky-looking animals. Otherwise, we really don’t know anything about Everwild. It’s a forested world with some cute animals in it, and presumably multiple players.

Raw Fury revealed a new game during today’s X019 livestream today called West of Dead, a twin-stick voice set in a supernatural Wild West that looks like a between Diablo and Jonah Hex, starring Ghost Rider. The western setting is actually Purgatory, an ever-changing world where dead man William Mason has, for reasons unknown, been brought back to fiery-headed life to do what he does—which is, as far as I can tell, kill everything that moves. But is there more to this story than meets the eye? T

The next free monthly update for Sea of Thieves is near, arriving on November 20. It’s called The Seabound Soul, and will contain a ghostly new Tall Tale, plus a new tool for bombarding your fellow pirates: fireballs. The new Tall Tale will invite players to join pirate Captain Pendragon and chase down a spooky ghost ship, the Ashen Dragon. And it looks like you’ll need to use your trusty bucket for more than just bailing out your sinking ships, because flaming cannonballs are being added. The t

At the X019 fan event in London today, Microsoft rolled a trailer for a new game from Dontnod Entertainment that looks a whole lot like Life Is Strange. But it’s not: It’s a new game that appears to be in the same vein, called Tell Me Why. Set in beautiful small-town Alaska, Tell Me Why features true-to-life characters, mature themes and gripping choices.” The trailer ends by saying “all chapters coming Summer 2020,” so it seems Tell Me Why is an episodic adventure just like Life Is Strange. Unl

As promised, Microsoft delivered the first-ever Age of Empires 4 gameplay footage today at X019, revealing that the new addition to the long-running RTS series will be set in the Medieval era. The video also teased two of the civilizations that will be playable in the game, the Mongols and the English, and World’s Edge studio head Shannon Loftis said that there might be even more to find in the trailer. In related news, Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, which we recently slapped with a posit

Come next year, Xbox Game Pass subscribers will be able to play their games on phones or tablets by way of Project xCloud, a Stadia-like game streaming service currently being tested by Microsoft. It’s available in preview version right now for Android phones, and it’s coming to iOS as well. More importantly, Microsoft also announced that xCloud is coming to Windows PCs in 2020, so if you have Game Pass, and for some reason find cloud streaming preferable to running your games locally, it’ll be

At X019 in London today, Square Enix showed up to announce a whole boatload of Final Fantasy games are coming to Xbox Game Pass, including Game Pass for PC. Here’s the list:Final Fantasy 7Final Fantasy 8Final Fantasy 9Final Fantasy 10Final Fantasy 10-2Final Fantasy 12Final Fantasy 13Final Fantasy 13-2Final Fantasy 13: Lightning ReturnsFinal Fantasy 15Phew. That’s a lot of Final Fantasy—though all of the above games are available on Steam, they’ll now also be playable for a hard-to-beat $5 per mo

Drake Hollow is latest game from The Flame in the Flood developers The Molasses Flood, just announced at X019. The official website simply describes Drake Hollow as “Action Village Building” which makes me think we’ll be fending off waves of enemies, venturing out to collect building resources, and slowly piecing together a nice little town. It’ll be a multiplayer game too, seeing how many teens come sliding in on that crystal telephone wire, and confirmed by a developer tweet. There are quick g

The first ever gameplay from inXile’s upcoming party-based RPG Wasteland 3 was revealed today during Microsoft’s big X019 livestream. The video showcased the snowy environs of Colorado, where a team of Desert Rangers has gone in search of one of their own, and also served up a release date of May 19. It’s an old-school style of RPG, but the previous game was excellent and I have high hopes for this one. You don’t need to have played that one to dive into Wasteland 3, however, as InXile CEO Brian

There’s a certain screenshot I wanted to use for this article, but sadly can’t: The Witcher 3 is coming to Xbox Game Pass, but not the PC version of the subscription. It and a ton of other games will be available with a Game Pass PC subscription this year and next. The new games available now are: Age of Empires 2, Hearts of Iron 4, The Talos Principle, and Tracks: The Train Set Game. Before the end of 2019, Halo Reach, Darksiders 3, The Red Strings Club, The Escapists 2, Vambrace: Cold Soul, an

Minecraft Dungeons will release in April 2020, according to a new (and very brief) trailer. The isometric dungeon crawler adopts the familiar Minecraft voxel aesthetic, except instead of building fully-functioning calculators and scale models of the Taj Mahal, you’ll be smashing enemies to bits and taking their loot. The trailer also indicates that signing up for updates may also grant you early access to the game. While it definitely looks like Minecraft, this outing will eschew mining and buil

In late 2018 it got a new Game+ mode with a more challenging difficulty, and earlier this year new levels were added in the free Picnic Panic DLC. And now it’s free for the week on the Epic Games Store: Hit the page, click the “get” button, take it from there. There’s only one free game this week, because The Messenger is rated E10+ by the ESRB. (Access to “Mature” games can be disabled by Epic Store parental controls, so whenever the weekly freebie is M-rated Epic gives away a second, more fami

Bungie promised in October, when it nerfed Destiny 2’s bottom-tree Striker and Dawnblade subclasses, that the Titan helmet One-Eyed Mask would be dialed back at some point in the future. Handy for anyone on the right side of a fight, yes, but a little too good to be left alone. I probably don’t need to explain why wall hacks in a supposedly competitive FPS rustle a lot of people’s jimmies. Although the precision damage modifier did not actually improve the efficacy of the weapon at its best, it

Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally on PC and its sweeping slice of the Wild West has never looked prettier. Lens(Image credit: Rockstar Games)This is one of the most powerful options in Red Dead’s photo mode. Send us your best shots Now that you’ve mastered Red Dead’s photo mode we want to see your screenshots. Mail your best snaps to letters@pcgamer.com with the subject line RED DEAD PHOTOGRAPHY and we’ll feature our favourites on the site. (Image credit: Rockstar Games)(Image credit: Rockstar Ga

Dwarf Fortress has become such a complicated society simulator that almost any new bit of information is automatically interesting—it’s a game in which you can use vampires to power logic computers, for example. One of the new dynamics coming to Dwarf Fortress, along with its Steam launch, is the presence of villainous networks in the game world. Once they’ve entered your fortress, these spies will seek out dwarfs they can corrupt using flattery, bribes, or promises of revenge. Adams says he’ll