The Intel Extreme Masters pro gaming tour has kicked off in Oakland, California, and you can watch the action streaming all weekend for both PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Above, you can see the PUBG battle royale 20-team tournament, competing in four matches on Saturday and four more on Sunday, all in first-person perspective. The action is underway and will pick back up Sunday at 1pm Pacific. The teams are competing for a share of a $200,000 prize, with the

Ubisoft has detailed what’s new in the recent update for Ghost Recon Wildlands Ghost War. An post on the official blog confirmed that the first update—which dropped earlier this week—includes a new game mode, a new class, and four new maps. New PvP mode Uplink pits four against four in a race to hack a central access point (or kill them—either works, apparently). You’ll also get two new maps in Elimination: Cartel Depot and Farm Town. Oh, and if you’ve been making yourself invincible by setting

EA has told its investors that removing microtransactions from Star Wars Battlefront II will not have “a material impact” on the game’s projected earnings. Following intense community criticism, EA announced that it had temporarily suspended Star Wars Battlefront 2’s premium currency , Crystals, ahead of the game’s launch yesterday. The news was swiftly followed by a security report to its investors, which soughts to assaude fears that the suspension would impact earnings. “This change is not ex

Achievements and Stream Summaries are the latest features coming to content creators using Twitch . Twitch used this year’s TwitchCon to announce a trio of new features for its creators: Raids, Achievements, and Stream Summary. While the former launched not long after the Con, Twitch hadn’t detailed much else about the latter two… until now. These help budding Twitch Partners assess how they’re doing in terms of meeting the requirements of becoming an Affiliate or Partner. Stream Summary , on th

This week: which game would you take to a desert island? Plus, since I assume there’s no wi-fi on this island, I’d be able to experience it properly. The only other game that improves my mood as surely as Stardew Valley is Blood Bowl, a game about football and murder, but let’s gloss over that. Andy Kelly: The Witcher 3 and all the DLCIf I’m trapped on a desert island, escapism is going to be important. A trip to a desert island would give me time to finish things once and for all.

GOG Games is offering huge discounts on a range of Double Fine games this week. If you somehow missed out on some of these classic titles the first time around, GOG’s Weekly Sale is discounting games like Psychonauts and Grim Fandango Remastered by up to 90 percent. This means you can pick up Grim Fandango Remastered , Full Throttle Remastered , Brutal Legend , Day of the Tentacle Remastered , Psychonauts , Massive Chalice , Broken Age: The Complete Adventure , Costume Quest , and Stacking for a

Iron Banner is coming to Destiny 2 on PC for the first time. Running from November 21 until November 28, 2017, Iron Banner is available for all Guardians who’ve completed the single-player campaign. To access it, you need to visit A Place We Don’t Want to Spoil (the one that unlocks when you’ve completed the campaign), stop by our old pal Lord Saladin, and pick up the Iron Banner Quest. The Iron Banner playlist will then be available via your Director next to other Crucible modes. This time it’s

Electronic Arts is changing the way progression works in another game—this time, it’s Need for Speed Payback. On the Need for Speed Reddit , F8RGE acknowledges the changes have come about following fan feedback on their “experience with the progression.” “Our aim with these changes is to make the progression, especially around the ownership of cars a much more enjoyable experience.” “Coming shortly will be some changes to the way tune-up shops work, especially around the quality / level of parts

I foolishly tried it even though I know they barely sell any PC parts, and they had nothing for me, as I should’ve expected. What saved me was a wonderful coincidence: PC Gamer Club member Naomi happened to recall a computer parts store near me. And, as the editor of PC Gamer magazine, I’m here to suggest you give it a go. Head to My Favourite Magazines to get your 30% PC Gamer discount. I thought my backlog was big enough, but with this many creative, colorful indie games coming too, I’m comple

Back in May, Civilization 5 lead designer Jon Shafer joined Paradox Development Studio to make a new grand strategy game. It was a pretty big pickup for Paradox, and Shafer described it as “an exhilarating moment.” But just six months later, he has left over “creative differences.” Paradox didn’t reveal anything further about the reasons for his departure, but “creative differences” rarely indicates a happy split. Shafer is also working on a separate project at his indie studio, Conifer Games, c

Untitled Goose Game (and yeah, they might just leave the name) is coming from House House, the team that brought us the cute and horrific Push Me Pull You. Stuart Gillespie-Cook, one of the developers, posted a stock image of a goose in the House House group chat and said, ‘We should make a game about this’. As the goose, your wings rear up, you drop whatever you’re holding, and you’re limited to running away until your goose wings settle and your pursuer gets back to their business. These are g

After a few lessons I begin a new game, determined to grow a lovely Halloween pumpkin patch. I pull up to the pumpkin seed silo and try to back my seeder under it, which turns out to be rather a large professional mistake. Aaah yaaa aaah yaaa ahhh, etc. Ahhh yaaa ahhhh yaaa ahhhSigh! I hook up the new seeder to the new tractor, drive to the proper side of the silo, fill it with pumpkin seeds (Ahhh yaaa aaaah yaaaa aaaah) and get back to farming.

Baranowsky is dropping a new batch of tracks next month, but this time it’s an album, not a score. In case you were confused by the trailer: “dannyBsides” is a collection of 12 previously unheard tracks from Baranowsky. Although he’s best known for scoring The Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy, and Crypt of the Necrodancer, Baranowsky says the album doesn’t echo any particular game or theme. And they were made within the last couple years, so it helped assuage my neurosis of releasing super old s

Soma is a first-person horror game from the crew that made Amnesia: The Dark Descent, so even without the details at hand you can imagine how it goes: Not well at all, especially if you don’t like horror games. A “Wuss Mode” mod came out in September of last year that rendered its monsters harmless, but that was both unofficial and not entirely perfect, since they remained in place and continued to cause the “screen freak out” effect when encountered. Soon, however, those of you who want to expl

The Rainbow Six Siege Season Four update will bring three new operators to the game, including two from South Korea’s 707th Special Mission Battalion. The first, a hacker named Dokkaebi, was partially unintentionally revealed earlier this week. Her compatriot, a high-tech ninja named Vigil, was more officially unveiled today. Despite his achievements, not all is well: Serving his new homeland “was the realization of his life’s ambitions … but not everything has turned out rosy and Chul Kyung i

While recently testing an absolute beast of a system, I noticed it was pouring out quite a bit of warmth. The system is equipped with a pair of GTX 1080 Ti GPUs in SLI, and we pushed the duo to the limit with some 4K ultra gameplay. During those tests (The Witcher 3, of course), we measured a surface temperature of just north of 80C on top of the GPU. That’s within normal range, of course, but we had to ask: could it cook an egg? So next time your stove is broken, just know you can always cook y

A Star Wars shooter with big multiplayer modes, dogfighting, and a brief campaign. Link: Official siteThere is a right way to play Star Wars Battlefront 2’s 40-player Galactic Assault mode. Your primary goal in any multiplayer mode is not your team’s objective, whether that’s blowing up a giant transport tank in Theed or stealing an AT-AT on Endor. I don’t want to sit through the loot box animation to get a Star Card I don’t care about. Its snappy levels run through all the best Star Wars moment

It’s been a couple of years since we first looked at Shadowhand, the “strategic RPG card game” in which you play an aristocrat masquerading as a notorious highwaywoman in 18th century England. Shadowhand offers 180 levels spread across 20 chapters, with locations including “stormy coastlines, mysterious woods and gloomy manors.” The basic card mechanic seen in the trailer looks like Golf Solitaire, but there’s clearly a lot more going on, including unique weapons, gear, loot, and RPG-style chara

As the quote-spamming simulacrum reeled on the floor, I fled Grim Consequence for the first time. Once you’ve slipped the boundaries of your life, there’s the tendency to push it as far as you can. This seemed like freedom, but I could not foresee what Grim Consequence had in store for me. I even kicked the melons, but it wasn’t until I knocked over a soda display that Grim Consequence once again reared its ugly head. I didn’t know what I’d find there, but I knew what I wouldn’t: it was a place

Asus is adding a FreeSync monitor to the mix, this one a 35-inch model (ROG XG35VQ) with curved VA panel and 100Hz refresh rate. It’s a bigger version of the company’s 32-inch ROG XG32VQ, but with a higher resolution and lower refresh rate. The 35-inch panel has a 3440×1440 resolution (21:9 aspect ratio) and an 1800R curvature. What’s perhaps most interesting is that it can hit a 100Hz refresh rate with FreeSync enabled at that frequency. The ROG logo on the back of the monitor lights up, as doe