It’s also about mining for gold, not in some cartoony Minecraft-esque fashion but in a realistic sandbox simulation. And this Early Access sim strives for that sort of extensive realism the best sims have. I park and unload the gear I’ve bought: the Hog Pan (pumpless), the Hog Pan Sluicebox Core, two Hog Pan mats, and a bucket. Of course, it’s not as easy as just picking up a mat and having gold appear in your inventory. I do, eventually, manage to pan some gold using the gunk from my second mat

Battlefield 1 Incursions is a 5v5 competitive mode that takes place on a smaller scale than conventional BF1 matches. The new mode went into closed alpha testing in September, and today the publisher announced that it’s on its way to the more open test bed of the Community Environment. The community environment update will also see the rollout of the Spectator Mode, “a feature that we will continue to improve on in various ways.” “We hope to see many players sign up in order to deploy a lot of s

Thankfully, developer Snowhound games has done the legwork for me with Deep Sky Derelicts, which they describe as “a mix of Darkest Dungeon and XCOM with a pinch of Hearthstone and FTL: Faster Than Light added on top.” It’s coming to Steam Early Access next month, and it’s definitely one to keep an eye on. Deep Sky Derelicts is a turn-based roguelike with card-powered combat. Snowhound expects Deep Sky Derelict to remain in Early Access for six to seven months and officially release in March 201

Of course, System Shock already has levels, but this reboot isn’t an exact replica of the Warren Spector-led 1994 shooter which inspired so many immersive sims that came after it, most recently Prey. Fader points to the maintenance deck—see a comparison between the original and concept art for the new System Shock above—as an example. Unless I’m vastly misremembering System Shock, these ideas point to a decidedly modern approach. Her husband, Eric Brosius (who also worked at the original System

Mechanical keyboards typically carry a pricing premium over mushy membrane-based keyboards, but if you catch one on sale, you can make the upgrade without the sting to your wallet. Now is one of those times with Newegg offering up Corsair’s Vengeance K65 for $55. The Vengeance K65 is a compact keyboard without a dedicated number pad. It’s also minimal in its design in that it doesn’t have any dedicated macro or gaming keys, though there are some multimedia buttons along the top-right section. So

As more gamers get into streaming, Razer continues to expand its product line with more broadcasting products, the latest of which include a new microphone and webcam with some interesting features. Starting with the webcam, which is arguably the more interesting of the two, Razer’s new Kiyo is the first desktop camera to have an adjustable light ring. Razer is taking aim at streamers who don’t have the funds or desire to invest in a professional lighting setup. The Seiren X is equipped with 25m

On October 26, Total War: Warhammer 2 is getting a free update that will stitch its campaign map together with the first game. Called Mortal Empires, this grand campaign will include all 35 playable legendary lords and a whopping 117 starting factions from both Total War: Warhammer games in a massive battle royale to see which can reign supreme. Today, Creative Assembly revealed the final layout of the mega-map, including where each faction’s legendary lord will spawn. If you’ve played Total War

Battlefront 2 is undoubtedly the most amazing visual representation of Star Wars I’ve seen in a game. Pandemic’s Star Wars Battlefront games were far less refined shooters than DICE’s games, are ugly by today’s standards and weren’t even best-in-class competitive games back then. The old Battlefronts had a lovely disposable quality that I don’t think you’d get from a modern Star Wars game. Old Battlefront benefitted from having all of its multiplayer modes working offline, too, with some limited

In this game, you get just one hat, and if something happens to it, well, you die. Here, you were born with a sacred Hat, and if it ever got killed, the wearer would die. They showed up stinking of milk and catnip, and had such a time at the Hat Parade that they came back and killed the King. King of the Hat is a “couch multiplayer” game for 2-4 people, with ten different characters, each with their own style of play and unique hat. The King of the Hat Kickstarter runs until November 7, and the

One of the new characters we’ve seen in trailers for Star Wars Battlefront 2 has a familiar face: Emperor Palpatine’s. Instead of the ol’ hologram projector, in Battlefront 2 the Emperor’s taken to having his face projected onto the body of a tall, imposing red-clothed messenger droid. The crew over at Tested (including longtime PC Gamer writer Norman Chan) partnered up with EA for a sponsored costume build of the messenger droid, complete with a wrinkly Palpatine mask and gorgeous LED-lit helme

If you’re looking for an ultrawide monitor that makes the most of its screen real estate, head over to Newegg and check out LG’s 34-inch model (34UB88-P) that is on sale. Newegg has LG’s monitor marked down to $530. You can knock another $50 off the price with coupon code EMCBRBK63, which brings the total down to $480. That is not the lowest we have seen a 34-inch ultrawide monitor go for—LG’s 34UM60-P was available for $299 a few months ago, but that had a 2560×1080 resolution, versus 3440×1440

The battle royale survival game show The Darwin Project was revealed in June at E3 with a trailer that was half-cinematic and half-gameplay. The Darwin Project is “a competitive multiplayer third-person experience with an emphasis on survival,” set in the northern Rocky Mountains of Canada. That guy’s not wearing an orange jumpsuit with a number on the left breast for nothing, you know. The closed alpha will begin at 9 am PT/12 pm ET on November 10, and end at the same time on November 12. You c

High frequency memory kits might be of limited real world value, but G.Skill isn’t concerning itself with that. Instead, it keeps on kicking out premium RAM at record speed ratings, the newest of which takes aim at small form builds and other setups that use SO-DIMM memory. Its latest kit checks in at 3,800MHz, making it the fastest SO-DIMM memory on the planet. In this case, the new DDR4 Ripjaws SO-DIMM memory kit uses “ultra-high performance” Samsung B-die ICs. “Extreme memory performance is n

That also applies to the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti—Nvidia has not yet announced the rumored card, therefore it doesn’t officially exist. It all adds up to a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, unless Nvidia is planning to name its next graphics card the GeForce GTX 1070 Bow Tie. Both are plausible, though the bigger point is the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is as real as it gets, without actually being real…yet. It’s not even the first one to strongly suggest a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti on social media. As shown on KFA2’s websit

RPG Maker dev Degica has announced the release date for its latest game-making tool, Visual Novel Maker. The tool will launch on Steam on November 16, only a few weeks away. Time to start thinking about that magical murder mystery set in a Japanese High School that I’ve always wanted to make. Like RPG Maker, Visual Novel Maker will contain a multitude of tools that will, hopefully, let you make the visual novel you’ve had bouncing around in your head, including free-to-use assets for characters,

A lot of preparing needs to be done before a Steam Sale. Thankfully, the next three Steam Sale dates have all been leaked. Three developer sources confirmed the dates with Kotaku, providing images, so the leak certainly seems to be legitimate. It covers the Halloween Sale, Autumn Sale and Winter Sale. Steam Halloween Sale: October 26, 2017 – November 1, 2017Steam Autumn Sale: November 22, 2017 – November 28, 2017Steam Winter Sale: December 21, 2017 – January, 2018This should give you plenty of t

Valve’s been tormenting Dota 2 players for a while now. The 7.07 update, The Dueling Fates, was coming, but when? Lost and confused, players started wandering the streets, grabbing strangers and demanding to know when The Dueling Fates was coming out. Finally, Valve has announced the release date for the big update, and it’s soon: November 1. The Dueling Fates update will arrive on November 1stOctober 19, 2017We still don’t know much about it, mind.

Not being much of a League of Legends fan, I wasn’t really watching the World Championship quarter-final between SKT and Misfits. SKT and Misfits were facing each other in the League of Legends World Championship quarter-finals, and the Korean favourites had a real fight on their hands. From that point, the more passive SKT started to act bolder. In the space of a few seconds, Misfits were down four summoners. Even if you’re not into League of Legends, it might just be exciting enough to hold yo

The company’s later shooter, Quake, meanwhile, is often held up as the first ‘true’ 3D polygonal shooter. The first-person shooter genre as we understand it today arose from the artistic friction between these approaches, shaping and being shaped by them in turn. Into the ’90s: Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Duke Nukem 3Did’s career as a first-person developer began with Hovertank 3D in 1991. Released for the Mega Drive’s 32X add-on in 1994, Sega’s lumbering Metal Head is often touted as the first ‘true’

After 25 years, the Star Control series has almost returned. After delaying the launch of Star Control: Origins, which was originally planned for November, Stardock has announced its beta release schedule, along with a trailer that showcases some of the new game’s features, like sharing player-created planets and space combat. Star Control Origins takes place in 2086, and players will find themselves in the shows of the captain of Earth’s first interstellar starship, boldly going into a procedur