Pictured: bushA recent update to Fornite Battle Royale introduces a new potion that turns the player into a bush, and it’s completely uprooted the meta. Based on a short search for good bush clips, I fear Fortnite Battle Royale is going to pull me back in, morphing into some weird combination of PUBG with the goofy toolset of Team Fortress 2. You can turn into a bush by finding the potion in chests and supply drops throughout the arena. I dig it as a unique layer of subterfuge that works especia

Earlier this year, the artist formally known as Pure Farming 2017: The Simulator renamed and rebranded itself as Pure Farming 2018. Techland and Ice Flames’ forthcoming farm ’em up now has a new trailer that showcases the machines you’ll be touring around the long grass this March. Pure Farming 2018 in its final form will also include “the rest of the squad”, but I guess our collective introduction to them is for another trailer, another day. Here’s Techland’s Pawek Jawor on what Pure Farming 20

Another of my favourites was Johnny Gat’s The Knifethrower, which has now been modded into Fallout 4 to great effect. Straight from the workbench of GenghisKhanX—who also brought us the likes of The Beautifier and Commonwealth Trash Collection—Minigun Knife Thrower brings Johnny Gat’s weapon of choice to the wasteland. Blade-firing barrels can be attached to any minigun, so says the mod’s creator, while ammo can be crafted at Chem Stations under the ‘utility’ heading. Doing so will set you back

We had to look at what we felt would feel the best for veteran players, but would also work for new players. In these hotfixes that I was talking about earlier, we’ve really been able to make it feel better. Yeah, so I’m always in a perpetual state of worry with: How will this make Warframe feel for someone who doesn’t know what is it? On the subject of open worlds, your timing with Plains of Eidolon’s launch rubs shoulders with Destiny 2’s arrival on PC. But if you’re a PC player who hasn’t pla

Still, I can confirm that despite my fire-engine red face and slightly strained shoulder, punching dudes feels good in VR. Going into my playtest of LA Noire: The VR Case Files, I assumed that Rockstar would’ve just stripped out all the action-y stuff and stuck with the interrogation scenes. Because LA Noire tracks your hand position, it’s also possible to make yourself do some pretty weird Mr Tickle-style stuff with his arms. It’s easy to forget just how astonishingly detailed the faces and exp

The Clockwork Dragon is the only dragon card in the new set, and it’s also something of a tip-of-the-hat to the previous expansion, Heroes of Skyrim. It fits the theme of the Clockwork City by being clockwork,” Dire Wolf Digital creative director Paul Dennen explained. There’s a lot of new Clockwork City cards—the Fabricants—that have special abilities if you have a neutral creature or a neutral card in play. “[Return to Clockwork City] is more about treasure hunting and finding this lost magica

Chinese tech company Tencent is apparently still pursuing the acquisition of PlayerUnknown’s Battleground creator Bluehole—having had a bid turned down prior to the shooter’s runaway success. GamesIndustry.biz reports that IHS Markit analyst Piers Harding-Rolls had this to say of Tencent’s supposed moves:”If true this is big news (although expected) and also adds another perspective to Tencent’s recently announced copycat mobile title Glorious Mission. If a publishing deal has been agreed for PU

Bluehole, the creators of runaway hit PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has revealed its next game. Named Ascent: Infinite Realm (or AIR, if you prefer), it’s a high fantasy, steampunk-inspired MMORPG that’s published by Black Desert Online’s Kakao Games. There’s a lot going on in the following five minute-long announcement trailer, including, strangely, a fair amount of lag. Check it out:Kakao reckons an AIR beta will launch in the first half of 2018, and says the following of its “realm vs realm

Its whimsical characters and familiar cartoon-like aesthetic masked a deep and engaging platformer that I didn’t want to end. Tom Marks loved it and its soundtrack—the latter of which is in-line for a vinyl release. From the folks at Ghost Ramp—whose past game-to-record projects include Darkest Dungeon, Crypt of the Necrodancer and Nuclear Throne—Hollow Knight’s 2x LP Limited Edition vinyl is due next year. In his review, Tom Marks describe the game’s score as “sullen but energetic” and “excepti

Getting a gaming keyboard or mouse for $10 is a steal, but nabbing both for that price? That’s a score, and it can be done with a mail-in-rebate on two of Cooler Master’s peripherals. Cooler Master’s Devastator II keyboard and mouse bundle is marked down to $25 on Amazon and Newegg. Cooler Master’s keyboard is a ‘mem-chanical’ plank, meaning it’s a membrane keyboard with key action that is supposed to be similar to mechanical key switches, with tactile feedback. As for the mouse, it has an ambid

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. Unfortunately, we ran into some technical difficulties (our streaming PC bit the dust), so the show is audio only this week. We should be back in working order by next Wednesday. This week’s topics:Now playing Bo recaps his time at Blizzcon James talks Call of Duty: WWII Listener Q&AListen:Download the MP3

Recently, I wrote a list of the best chess games on PC in which I included Chess.com as the best free, commercial online chess game. Today, Twitch announced a formal partnership with the service with a goal to “grow the global brand of chess as an online spectator sport.” Chess.com will continue streaming at Twitch.tv/chess, where it’ll be broadcasting the next Speed Chess Championship on November 18 in which Magnus Carlsen will play Wesley So. The site also maintains a list of chess streamers—w

Intel just announced that ex-AMD Radeon boss Raja Koduri has joined its ranks as chief architect of a newly formed team called the “Core and Visual Computing Group” and will also act as General Manager. Koduri announced just yesterday in a lengthy letter to employees that he was leaving the Radeon Technology group at AMD after a long sabbatical earlier this year. He will now head up the new group at Intel, specifically focusing on integrated graphics as well as high-end discrete graphics solutio

A month ago, we reported on a Stardew Valley mod that enables idyllic country living in multiplayer, but we also noted that official multiplayer support is on the way too. I’m really excited, this is already really fun and it’s only going to get better before release. Check out my log cabin pic.twitter.com/f4YlHL3fCxNovember 8, 2017Seriously, check out that cabin. It’s not exactly a detailed developer update, but Barone’s public enthusiasm very strongly suggests that development is on track. And

And then of course there’s the king of boring games, Desert Bus (aka the most infamous part of Penn and Teller’s unreleased practical joke compilation Smoke and Mirrors), which challenges players to drive the eight hours between Tucson, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada in real time. These games offered us the chance to run everything from circuses to ski resorts to beer breweries to dinosaur parks. You’re not the driver of a tow truck: you’re the truck itself. And not the fun sort of talking Pixar

Released in 2011, Space Pirates and Zombies was more of a good idea than a good game: “Not quite ready for prime time, but with plenty of potential if the right choices are made,” as we said in our review. A few years later the opportunity to grow that potential came along in the form of Space Pirates and Zombies 2, which went into Steam Early Access in May 2016, and yesterday made it into full release. “As resource scarcity becomes critical, ships come into conflict just to survive. Fortunately

The San Francisco Shock of Blizzard’s Overwatch League has fired its manager, Max Bateman, in the wake of allegations that he sexually assaulted a streamer in September. “On September 30th Max and I were out at a beach club drinking with some of the NRGgg Overwatch players. I had a normal amount of drinks and started to feel sick which wasn’t normal. Krystlin filed a police report, shared with Kotaku, that contains a more detailed accounting of Bateman’s crime: “Bateman told her to lay on his be

The videogame voice actors strike that began more than a year ago is finally over. SAG-AFTRA, the union representing the voice actors, has announced that its members voted “overwhelmingly” in favor of the tentative agreement that was reached in September. “This agreement is the first step towards streamlining the work our members do in the video game industry,” SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris said. “The deal includes significant improvements in the area of transparency and the payment str

After a year-long stay in Steam Early Access, Battlerite, the MOBA-esque arena brawler our own Chris Thursten called “the best teamfight you’ve ever had,” has officially launched and is now free-to-play. “It’s been one hell of a year since we entered Steam Early Access,” said Peter Ilves, game director at developer Sunlock Studios, “and we can finally deliver on our promise to launch Battlerite as a free-to-play game, making it easily accessible to all PvP arena brawler fans to enjoy.” In additi

Independent publisher Nightdive, which specializes in resurrecting ancient videogames on modern platforms, is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a hefty one-day Steam sale. The sale is live at the time of writing and will continue through 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern) tomorrow, Thursday, November 9. At 75 percent off, the Classic Action Pack is $6.24 and comes with five games, including Slave Zero and Redline. You can get the Classic Adventure Pack, which includes Darklands, Bloodnet, Rex