After months of farting in drinks, digs at Kanye West, and fan-made flatulence, South Park: The Fractured But Whole has been released into the wild. Andy likes it, and it’s now got a launch trailer. Here’s Andy on the game’s class elements, which sound pretty neat:Your class dictates your powers, and you can eventually have up to four at once. My own New Kid’s primary class is Blaster, which gives him fire-based ranged attacks that inflict burning damage. Experimenting with these varied powers i

South Park: The Fractured But Whole is out today and it’s really good. While I recommend going into the game as fresh as possible, here’s just under ten minutes of me exploring the open world. There’s a bit of puzzling, a bit of fighting, and a lot of farting. So I’m glad to see this return in The Fractured But Whole. And there are enough new jokes and remixed or rejigged locations to make it feel fresh, even if you already thoroughly explored it in The Stick of Truth.

A superhero-themed RPG set in South Park. It’s one of the most enjoyable combat systems I’ve ever encountered in an RPG, and honestly, who expected that from a South Park game? When you’re not fighting you’re probably exploring the streets of South Park. But if you love South Park, this is another faithful adaption of the series. The story is the only real weak link, with the pace occasionally grinding to a halt, satire that, surprisingly, lacks bite, and a general feeling of predictability—bar

From what we’ve seen so far, Football Manager 2018 seems determined to make pre-existing series features more noticeable. This is a good thing—particularly when applied to injured players, and how they fit with this year’s new Medical Centre. No one likes injuries, but their existence in previous FM instalments have sometimes felt random and unfair. The new Medical Centre should in theory put in an end to that. Here it is in practice:Football Manager 2018 is due November 10—look our for our prev

In the wake of this year’s They Shall Not Pass and In the Name of the Tsar expansions, Battlefield 1’s next slice of DLC is Turning Tides. Most of Turning Tides lands in December, with a few features saved for January. Post-new year, Turning Tides brings with it the British Empire’s Royal Marines as a new faction, and Heligoland Bight and Zeebrugge as new maps. In a twist on the signature Conquest mode, Conquest Assault sees attackers and defenders fight over key areas, exclusively controlled by

Following its Banned Footage Volumes 1 and 2, Resident Evil 7’s next DLC offering will be free-of-charge. Due December 12, Capcom has now teased footage from the Chris Redfield-starring Not a Hero in a new trailer. Towards its end, we also learn more about End of Zoe. As if sorting him out wasn’t enough incentive to return to the monster-run Louisiana plantation, here’s how the developer bills the Not a Hero expansion:The free Not a Hero DLC sees the return of Resident Evil fan favourite and vet

Valve has just announced a new ‘Jungle Inferno’ update for Team Fortress 2, with the highlight being a brand new map. Dubbed ‘Mercenary Park’, it’s a “new jungle-themed disease-ridden three-control point map” created by Valve. The video below doesn’t really show much of the map, it being a new animated short providing some narrative colour to the proceedings. But the map isn’t all there is: there are a handful of community-created maps as well, all jungle-themed, and for modes including Attack /

There are also two modes—one that brings mobs of zombies at night, and another that introduces an official survival mode. I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking Bethesda selling a survival mode for Skyrim SE is a bit dubious. Plus, when Bethesda’s survival mode for Fallout 4 was released it was (and still is) free. Even with the 100 free credits Bethesda gives you, you still need to spend $8 if you didn’t grab the survival mode while it was free (I forgot to). There’s something enjoyable about warmi

As a result, the same encryption key is used with nonce values that have already been used in the past. Fortunately, the wi-fi Alliance posted a security update notice today saying that “there is no evidence that the vulnerability has been exploited maliciously.” “Wi-Fi Alliance has taken immediate steps to ensure users can continue to count on wi-fi to deliver strong security protections. Wi-Fi Alliance now requires testing for this vulnerability within our global certification lab network and

Finally, Shin Megami Tensei has come to the PC … is what I’d love to write, but Atlus’ stellar JRPG series is still tied to consoles and handhelds. Though you wouldn’t know it from Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue, which released on PC today. Synchronicity is a free side-scroller by Krobon Station, makers of Pharaoh Rebirth+, intended to drum up the upcoming release of Shin Megami Tensei: Deep Strange Journey on 3DS, a remake of 2009’s Strange Journey. It started as a short gag in a tr

In the Indie GIF Showcase, we dig up the best-looking new and upcoming indie games and explore what makes them special. I know that because I grew up watching Spongebob Squarepants, and because Flotsam is a promising-looking survival sim from the delightfully named studio Pajama Llama Games. Billed as a “survival town-builder,” Flotsam is set in a world of pure ocean, which makes for some interesting structural challenges, namely: everything not sinking. Deep water is the only thing more terrify

Here’s a mouthful for you: Starborne is a free-to-play, massively multiplayer, 4X space strategy game where rounds last six months. Solid Clouds wants to fill a perceived void between multiplayer games and 4X strategy games. Inspired by Travian T3, Civilization and Hearthstone, and obviously influenced by EVE Online, they set out to create “the first 3D MMORTS game,” a PvP-powered space strategy game with persistent multiplayer campaigns. Customization is also powered by a card system, but Solid

Session (formerly known as Project Session) finally has a new teaser trailer. The developers at Creā-ture Studios are taking their skateboarding sim to Kickstarter on November 14, hoping to revitalize a genre formerly controlled by big development studios. With no hope for a Skate 4 and different ideas about what a skateboarding sim should play like, the small team at Creā-ture Studios got to work building the prototype on display in the teaser above. It’s not hard to see footage of Session in a

The 12th century Cambodian king Jayavarman VII “is generally considered by historians the most powerful Khmer monarch of all time,” according to the unimpeachable sources at Wikipedia. So with the Khmer people on their way to Civilization 6, as 2K Games announced today, it only makes sense that he’d be the one to lead them. “Rising to power during a period of crisis for the Khmer, Jayavarman was a military leader. By 1181, Jayavarman VII had repelled Cham invaders to the north and when hostiliti

Destiny 2 has been available on consoles for a while now, but it’s not coming to the PC until next week. It sucks having to wait, yes, but the upside is that we get our very own launch trailer—and it’s time to watch. The PC version of Destiny 2 is going to be functionally identical to its console cousins, but it will bring some distinct advantages to the table too, including uncapped frame rates and support for 4K graphics if you have the hardware for it. I’d say that playing with a mouse and ke

Every Monday, Build of the week highlights a unique rig from the web’s most dedicated PC building communities. Oh Cap-Ten, my Cap-Ten! Behold ROG Carbine, a computer that is also a gun, also . Imagine them swirling around, gaining speed, faster and faster, until a larger, more perfect object takes shape. That’s where the gun comes out (I don’t know anything about guns.)

Without mods, Kerbal Space Program is already an amazing accomplishment—a deep, rewarding sim that captures the majesty and challenge of going to space. Kerbal Space Program sticks around because it is everything that makes PC gaming great: freedom, creativity, flexibility, and mods. The best mods for Kerbal Space Program add new ships, new parts, and small touches to keep Kerbal fun and fresh after a hundred hours of rocket science. Out of all of the fine work available, these are our favorite

The online shooter Overwatch is popular, that’s no secret. But how popular? That’s actually hard to say without a specific breakdown of player numbers over the year-and-a-half since it came out, which isn’t forthcoming in the latest announcement of another big, round number surpassed. 🙌 pic.twitter.com/aBENKWS17fOctober 16, 2017As we noted when Overwatch broke 25 million players, and again at 30 million, these aren’t the most practically useful accounting of its player base. Some of the “players

You and up to three friends play as parents who have quite reasonably been charged with child endangerment and neglect. It’s a bit like a game of tag where all the parents are ‘it’ and chasing the kids around. Each area comes with unique tasks for the parents and dangers for the kids. When you’re out shopping at the local supermarket, make sure nobody winds up crushed under a mountain of cans. The clean voxel aesthetic makes for some amusing characters, and customizing your avatar should make he

Windows 10 includes tools to help you use less drive space, one of which is a compression utility called Compact. Several users on Reddit claim it is working wonders on their game libraries, essentially working as advertised. “I saw this a few hours ago and saved 8GB on Total War Warhammer 2 with zero performance loss that I can tell,” one user wrote. “For most modern computers there will be no (or very little) performance loss. That’s quite a big difference, and there was no obvious performance