EA has ceded some ground to Star Wars: Battlefront 2 beta players who were displeased with the progression system by announcing today that it’s downgrading the importance of loot boxes. Some Epic Star Cards will come with pre-orders, the Deluxe Edition, and starter packs, though. So crates are still going to be around, and purchasing them with in-game currency (or real money) will still award some weapons, Star Cards, and crafting materials which can be used to upgrade Star Cards. But it sounds

Geralt, the Witcher, will soon embark on a brand new adventure as the star of a musical theatrical production in the Polish city of Gdynia. And this isn’t some rinky-dink daycare project held on a Saturday morning in someone’s back yard, either. The Google-translated announcement says it’s the first musical based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher stories, a claim that I have no problem believing. It’s not as though musicals have a long and well-grounded history of being serious entertainment for se

Both the Steam Controller and Steam Link are marked down, to $35 and $15, respectively. Otherwise, the price of the Steam Controller amounts to a 30 percent discount, while the Steam Link is marked down 70 percent. But for games that don’t support controllers, the Steam Controller is a serviceable option, especially at $35. Likewise, the Steam Link is worth checking out at $15. You can find the discounted Steam Controller and Steam Link at a few different places, though your mileage may vary if

More surprising is how much success smaller indie games are finding on the Switch. Games like Death Squared, Oceanhorn , and Wonderboy: The Dragon’s Trap are all doing better on the Switch than on PC. Mixed Bag’s lush Metroidvania forma.8Is the option for portability a big part of a game’s success on Switch? That being said, we’ve always been a bit of Nintendo fanboys and it was a childhood dream to make games for a Nintendo platform.” It seems likely the success of indie games on Switch will be

“By enabling Full Duplex DOCSIS, the upstream and downstream traffic can flow at up to 10 gigabits concurrently, doubling the efficiency of spectrum use.” There is more at play here than just super-fast upload speeds. In current DOCSIS networks, spectrum is typically split or shared between the upstream and downstream. That is where full duplex over existing HFC networks could be a potential benefit, especially as upload performance becomes more important than it is now. With the specification n

Cooler Master is not the first company to release a mouse pad with RGB lighting, and we have a hunch it will not be the last. “It isn’t all about looks—the RGB gaming mouse pad is also optimized for peak performance. The result is a mouse pad that performs as well as it looks,” Cooler Master says. There is an aluminum bracket at the top that is supposed to ensure a solid connection between the mouse pad and PC. The new mouse pad is available now for $30, which is cheaper than Corsair’s RGB Polar

PC Gamer: You mention in this video that you’ve incorporated a lot of actual science into Surviving Mars. We don’t really have an agenda in that sense. Surviving Mars is a very good learning process, because we’ve really learned why you really have to sometimes simplify things. We have difficult ones that are really, really limited in what they can offer you. There might be like, Joe’s Mars Colony Supplies and Sandwich Shack?

The usual suspects—Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, and Zotac—all have specially binned and custom cooled GeForce GTX 1070 Ti cards ready to go on launch today. Amazon has quite a few GeForce GTX 1070 Ti cards up for grabs as well. Even though Nvidia has talked up the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti’s overclocking capabilities, it looks like it will be up to consumers to push clockspeeds. “Out of the box, all GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics cards run at the same stock clocks. But with the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, you wi

In his review earlier this year, Jody struggled with The Surge—and while I got on better with it myself, I did feel restricted by its at times overly linear junkyard setting. Announced today, A Walk in the Park marks the mech brawler RPG’s first major expansion that’s due in December and is “more open and colorful, though no less deadly.” Said to give players a “breath of fresh air”, A Walk in the Park takes players to CREO World—an amusement park originally designed for the organisation and the

There are loads of great games competing across 21 different categories in next month’s Golden Joystick Awards presented with Omen by HP. The Best Indie Game category celebrates exactly that—the achievements of smaller studios and lone developers, who continue to prove that phenomenal experiences needn’t be fueled by huge amounts of money. As a reward for taking part in the process, you’ll receive a free copy of PC Gamer’s ‘The Best PC Games Ever’ bookazine, worth £10/$10. The 35th Golden Joysti

Around this time last year, World of Final Fantasy arrived on PS4 consoles and the PS Vita handheld. Now, Square Enix has confirmed the role-player for PC with a launch date: November 21, 2017. With turn-based fights, the series’ familiar Active Time Battle system, a sprawling fantasy world, and a cast of whimsical characters, World of Final Fantasy portrays a more traditional-leaning RPG as it follows the quests of twin protagonists Lann and Reynn. Stricken by a typical bout of amnesia, the sib

For those of you still playing The Elder Scrolls: Legends card game, and I have to confess I’ve lapsed for the last few months, a new expansion is on the way, and might finally make your dwemer-based dreams come true. Return to Clockwork City will be released on 30 November, and will add 55 new cards plus 35 story missions to the game. This is the second PvE expansion Legends has received, the first being The Fall of the Dark Brotherhood which launched in April this year. There are three main ad

I tinkered with No Brakes Games and Curve Digital’s physics puzzler Human Fall Flat on my lonesome last year, and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Now, you can do so alongside seven other players with the introduction of its new online multiplayer. Billed as a “hugely requested” feature by the game’s community, the addition of an eight-player online multiplayer lets players create their own lobbies, and invite their friends to join the fun. Speaking to the new update, Curve Digital’s development direc

With all the frantic shooting and looting in Destiny 2, it’s easy to forget to stop and smell the weird space roses occasionally. Developer Bungie’s environment artists are some of the best in the business, and the vivid, colourful sci-fi worlds they created for their addictive FPS are stunning. So here’s a closer look at some of their finest work without the usual distractions. EarthThis expanse of autumnal countryside is dominated by the Shard of the Traveler, which your Guardian will return t

As Andy told us back in May, co-operative play in Far Cry 5 will be available across the game’s entire campaign. Unlike its main series forerunner Far Cry 4, where co-op play was reserved for specific side quests, the next Far Cry will let players band together immediately following the game’s tutorial. Earned experience and items (excluding quest-based trinkets) will carry over following each co-op session, however it’s the host player who keeps their story progress each time. Far Cry 5 is due

Despite thoroughly enjoying its first-person perspective and cast of new characters, I wasn’t as taken with Resident Evil 7’s faceless Molded zombie-likes. Its incoming and complimentary Not a Hero DLC, however, looks to add some new, terrifying baddies to its bounds—which you’ll see a brief snippet of in the game’s latest trailer. Fresh from Paris Games Week, the latest short centres on returning series star Chris Redfield and his pursuit of familiar villain Lucas Baker. But I guess that’ll be

The Humble Bundlers have launched a new collection of games and other things to raise funds for Extra Life, the fundraising program that works in support of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. ), and more Pathfinder RPG stuff: the GameMastery Guide, the Advanced Player’s Guide, the Bestiary, the Strategy Guide, the Society Season 6: 23-Adventure Super-Pack, and the Ultimate Equipment guide. The Humble Extra Life Bundle is live now and will remain up until November 12. This year’s Extra Life ch

Nvidia’s impressive GeForce GTX 1080 graphics cards have been around for over a year now, how time flies. The best EVGA GTX 1080 dealsThe EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW DT Gaming ACX 3.0 may have been bumped from our high-end gaming PC build guide, but it still puts out real good performance and doesn’t use a blower fan. [ No US deals available ]The best Zotac GTX 1080 dealsZotac’s GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme has a whopping 1771 / 1911 MHz base / boost clock speed, and the memory is all the way up a

Here’s what you need to know to fight Shadow of War’s orcs with the best possible performance. And if you want to run with the ultra quality crowd, that may require investments in new hardware. The only chance you might have is to dual wield GTX 1080 Ti’s in SLI. Image 1 of 4 Image 2 of 4 Image 3 of 4 Image 4 of 4Yeah, you’ve already done that. Also, SLI only tends to help at 4k with GTX 1080 Ti, or 1440p and above with GTX 1080.

Back in April of 2014, Vreski released a “prototype trailer” for the succinctly-titled, top-down shooter The Hong Kong Massacre. Three and a half years later, there’s still no release date in sight, but a new trailer released today to announce a PS4 version very clearly shows that the project has come a long way since, and is looking cool like a liquid nitrogen chaser. (I didn’t actually see any doves in the trailer, but Vreski knows the score.) Working on the most important feature for HKM now: