The last time we popped our heads into the enduring development of Star Citizen, Cloud Imperium Games showed us the minute details that go into crafting its space ships’ cockpits. Now, the developer has offered a look at its sprawling “very Blade Runner-esque” cities. Taking to the stage at this weekend’s CitizenCon 2947, CIG’s Chris Roberts showcased the game’s Area 18 that’s featured in previous videos. Filled with people scuttling around the neon-lit district, the city is living and breathing

Rise of Industry reminds me why I’m not an entrepreneur. Seconds after learning I could open both wineries and distilleries, I devised a “perfect” plan to devote two different towns on one map to wine and whiskey production respectively. Rise of Industry is an attractive sim that covers both logistics and production, so I went all out. Success, Rise of Industry tells us, is all about figuring out what other people want, not what you want. Rise of Industry is a fairly deep production sim, offerin

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds aims to roll out its long-awaited vaulting and climbing mechanics this week on test server—however it appears the online battle royale game could now face being banned entirely in China. That’s according to this Bloomberg report (via Gamesindustry.biz) which suggests the game’s last-person standing, battle to the death-style makeup presents a “deviation” from the country’s “socialist core values and traditional Chinese culture and ethical norms”. In turn, the Chines

Now, MachineGames and Bethesda have rolled out a beta hotfix patch that fixes Steam overlay and re-enables Async compute for AMD players, so long as they’re using the latest drivers. Most crucial for players in Japan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia—an issue affecting file deployment has been resolved. Re-enabled Async compute for AMD users (requires AMD driver version 17.10.3). Added driver version detection and dialogue. MachineGames advises those interested in the above

And with improvements in mind, developer EA Sports is this year reworking its FIFA Interactive World Cup, replacing it with the Road to the FIFA eWorld Cup event. The tournament’s qualifiers begin on November 3. With a new name and new format, the FIFA eWorld Cup begins on Friday with qualifiers for the Global Series. The FIFA eWorld Cup Grand Final will ensure a celebration of EA Sports FIFA at the highest level. Your road to glory in 2018 looks a little something like this 👉 https://t.co/EiJGi

PAX Australia hit Melbourne again at the weekend, and as with most previous years, the PAX Rising indie section was by far the most enjoyable part of the show. – Shaun PrescottDeveloper: Robot House | Release Date: Late 2017In Rumu you play as a sentient vacuum cleaner. – Shaun PrescottDeveloper: Lunar Rooster | Release Date: “soon”Your first impression of Sky Noon might be that it looks like Overwatch, only everyone’s McCree. – Jody MacgregorNecrobaristaDeveloper: Route 59 | Release Date: 2018P

In its latest update, which has been three months in the making, the mod introduces voice acting for its 32 hand-crafted quests. Gothic Orpheus is a total conversion mod for Bethesda’s RPG that focuses on the fall of Myrtana, one of the Kingdoms in the Gothic series. It’s a full story that starts after you’re captured by Orcs and forced to sail to Khorinis, a nearby island. The latest update also fixes issues with the AI, which was previously causing companions to get stuck on the environment. Y

While most people look up radiator sizes in terms of their lengths, the thickness of the radiator also impacts its performance. It’s not uncommon for thick radiators to compete for space with your RAM modules. Space constraints can also limit your ability to run in a push-pull configuration if you are using a thick radiator. For general purpose cooling, you can pair up a 120mm or 240mm thin radiator with normal case fans, but you’ll get more cooling from using static pressure fans. For the most

It’s dangerously easy to break Uurnog Uurnlimited, the latest game from developer Nifflas’ Games, best known for the Knytt series. The thing is, Uurnog isn’t a game about blocks. Uurnog is also a game about doors, you see, most of which are located in the Save Room, the central hub. The easiest way to get blocks back to your Save Room is to throw in them in one of the teleporters scattered around levels. In addition to your Save Room, you can store up to four blocks in your inventory.

Rare’s co-op pirate sim Sea of Thieves is slowly sailing towards release early next year, and the latest developer update video (above) shows some of the progress being made in the alpha version. The mechanics for the smaller ships have been simplified to make it easier to sail. The wheel turns quicker and the sail won’t obscure your forward view as it will in other ships, for example. Speaking of battles, if you’re overwhelmed and about to perish then your crew can now vote to intentionally sin

The first thing you notice about Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark is the hand-drawn maps, which are bright and colourful and generally gorgeous. The game is a tactical turn-based JRPG in which the story plays out as a series of cutscenes and battles on floating arenas. Enough people like the look of it that it’s just passed its $40,000 Kickstarter goal, and an Early Access version is due in March. It’s inspired by the likes of Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre, and the influence of those games is

Punch Planet is a good-looking 2D indie fighting game created by a three man studio that includes a Double Fine designer. The game will hit Early Access on November 8, and you’ll be able to duke it out online with four playable characters, one of which is simply called ‘Dog’, which made me giggle. I’m not normally into fighting games but I’m digging the futuristic sci-fi art style, and the animations look fluid. The Early Access version will come with 1v1 local and online multiplayer and a train

Just when you thought Brutal Doom was as ridiculous as it could be, it goes and adds a 3x zoom night vision scope to its rocket launcher. That’s just one of many changes announced for the next month’s update to the gory fan-made Doom mod, which is now approaching its 21st version. The night vision scope is part of a suite of alt-fire modes that will be added to weapons. Mark IV is adding a new offline deathmatch mode with bots alongside 10 new levels, some of which are updated versions of classi

It hit Early Access in July and was due to squeak out this year, but now it’s been pushed back slightly and had a more concrete date slapped on it: March 2018. The team are still working on quests, dialogue, animations and more, but development will be complete by the end of the year. Expect to pay $24.99 (roughly £19) when it goes on sale, although it will remain $19.99/£14.99 for the remainder of Early Access on Steam and GOG. I haven’t played it yet but flicking through the screens and some v

If you’re a fan of both Minecraft and sci-fi horror show Stranger Things (and I imagine there’s a fair bit of crossover) then you’re in luck: the two have teamed up to bring the series’ main characters into the block-based sandbox. All the main characters from season one and the newly-released season two of the quirky, retro drama are depicted in an official skin pack, which you can buy for £2.50/$3 on the Minecraft marketplace—it’s only available to those with the Windows 10 version of the game

Start your engines folks, because off-road driving sim Spintires: MudRunner is due to squelch on screens in three days’ time. One clip shows a jeep trying to tow a mammoth truck up a hill, only to be pulled back down the slope and flipped over by the weight of it. In another, a timber lorry carrying a load of logs flips over while on the side of a hill (I’m noticing a theme here), shedding wood as it goes. I didn’t take a ride in the original Spintires, of which this game is a semi-sequel, but I

So I’m pleased that Heat Signature, the 2D space stealth ’em up, is doing something interesting this Halloween: until November 1, you can’t die in the game. Missions with a Ghost Clause (you can’t be seen and can’t knock out or kill anybody) turn you into an actual ghost. Of course you can become a skeleton ghost,” the developer said in a blog post announcing the changes. If you want to read more about Heat Signature, check out Steven’s review. Disclosure: Heat Signature creator Tom Francis was

“I hate n***ers”These are comments I’ve read on Steam Community forums, user reviews, and in Steam Groups. And without better moderation tools and a more proactive stance from Valve, Steam is becoming a pretty shitty place to be. Of those 10 items, number five is “The Steam Community feature needs better ways to deal with toxic users.” Of the 222 developers willing to share their opinions publicly, 147 feel that Steam needs better tools to combat toxic users and trolls and 63 were neutral. “I th

Asymmetric multiplayer murder sim Friday the 13th is getting a mysterious new game mode called Paranoia, available free to everyone that owns the game. However, fans are speculating that the mode will disguise the killer as a camp counselor, meaning players won’t know who the murderer is until they’re getting stabbed in the neck. The theory fits with the trailer for the mode (at the top of this article) and with the #whoisfiVe marketing campaign on the game’s social media accounts. It’s not hard

Not so, according to the system requirements that came out yesterday on the game’s Microsoft Store page. The minimum recommended specs are a GTX 760 or equivalent, an i5-2400 or FX-6100 CPU and 8GB RAM, alongside Windows 10. Still, it’s good to know that those with more budget builds will at least be able to play the game and have it run smoothly. The PC version is set to become the definitive version of the JRPG, which first released on consoles last year. Final Fantasy 15 is due to release ear