JAMIE VERNON Jamie Vernon, otherwise known as Young Jamie, is a huge PUBG fan. He might’ve lost some PUBG games, but I’m gonna hand him a tournament loss in front of all his Mighty Crew. I just got an Apple Watch so I’m going to start tracking my heart rate as I play. Oh man, I would say always, I love to talk shit when I’m playing videogames. He said he challenged him at some point 1v1 and said he got rekt, but he’s really good at it.

A good scammer avoids getting caught up in sympathizing with their mark the same way a combat pilot shouldn’t feel bad about the fate of his enemies. A good scammer needs to be willing to talk and build a relationship with their mark—especially if they’re not on voice comms. I ask what other qualities make for a good scammer. But just having the qualities of a good scammer isn’t enough. EVE allows subscribed players to have multiple instances of EVE open at one time, so you can effectively be tw

What I find instead is a sprawling battle arena crowded with desert trees, cacti, and a surprising number of buildings. It’s immediately noticeable how much more variation there is to the terrain than in Erangel, PUBG’s current map. I’m not playing a match, just exploring on my own, and the as-yet unnamed desert map is still a work in progress with some textures, features, and even entire locations missing. Like the map, PUBG’s vaulting system is still in an unfinished state, but after just a fe

Bad news for those of you who couldn’t wait to get your hands on a remastered version of legendary RTS Age of Empires next week: you’re going to have to wait a bit longer. Age of Empires: Definitive Edition was due out on Thursday, October 19th, but it’s been pushed back until early 2018, with no specific date set. To that end, rather than a final release of Age of Empires: Definitive Edition on October 19, we will instead be inviting thousands more players from the community into our closed bet

Following H1Z1: Just Survive’s recent renaming to Just Survive, I suppose it’s not a huge surprise that Daybreak’s battle royale shooter H1Z1: King of the Kill is now simply called H1Z1. In past interviews I’ve conducted with members of Daybreak and pro players, everyone pretty much just calls it H1Z1 anyway (and often just H1), so it makes sense. The name change may also suggest that H1Z1 could be preparing to leave Early Access, but Daybreak isn’t giving any specific details on that yet. From

I’m not normally into driving sims, but off-roader Spintires: Mudrunner has really got its towing hooks into me with a new gameplay trailer. The developers released a cinematic trailer a month ago but this is the first proper look we’re getting at the game in action. The third-person view is surprisingly cinematic, giving you an over-the-shoulder view of whatever vehicle you’re driving. It’s got all the realism you’d expect from a follow-up to Spintires, by the looks of it. You can switch to all

Sociable Soccer, the spiritual successor to much-loved footy classic Sensible Soccer, was due to get its first run out in Early Access this week, but it’s picked up an ankle sprain in training and needs a week to recover. “We’ve been working non-stop for the last few months getting Sociable Soccer ready for Steam Early Access. Unfortunately we have hit a last minute bump in the road which means that Sociable Soccer will sadly not be released today on Steam. “We can say with confidence, though, t

Chris: I’ll climb out on that shaky limb and say an Early Access game like PUBG can be GOTY. James: PUBG is going to be one of the most influential games of the century, but is it actually the best game of the year? Tell me some reasons I shouldn’t spend more time in Original Sin 2 than Sunless Sea and Prey combined. I mean, it could probably be debugged forever, but most of Original Sin 2’s problems stem from its commitment to freeform play. I’m going to close by typing OIKOSPIEL in all caps he

The next project for Klei Entertainment, the developer behind Invisible, Inc. and Don’t Starve, has just become a little less mysterious. Sci-fi RPG Driftlands will be a “pirate/mercenary sandbox” with a small cast of characters and procedurally-generated NPCs, designer Kevin Forbes said this week. “It’s more of a pirate/mercenary sandbox than a sequence of story battles,” Forbes told Rock Paper Shotgun. “There is a small cast of written player-characters/companions who have their own quest line

Mutant Football League has been kicking around for a long time now, from a failed Kickstarter in 2013 to a successful one earlier this year (helped along, no doubt, by a demo) and an Early Access release in September. Inspired by the early ’90s Genesis game Mutant League Football, Mutant Football League is a 7v7 arcade style sports game that’s a lot like regular football, except with explosions and bodies that tend to pop like overfilled sacks of blood and bone. Multiplayer support for competiti

Fight’N Rage is so retro I was worried I wouldn’t be able to play it without buying an arcade cabinet, or in a pinch, a USB operated coin slot. Retro-style games inherently embody nostalgia, but Fight’N Rage may well be the most authentic tribute since Shovel Knight. A level around the middle of the arcade campaign swiftly ended my honeymoon phase with Fight’N Rage. The trouble is, Fight’N Rage is not a precise game. If you’re going to brave Fight’N Rage, I recommend doing it in local co-op with

The best thing I saw at IndieCade this year was a rhythm game called Overpass . Rhythm games have always been played on a two-dimensional plane, but Overpass breaks that crucial rule. That means that IndieCade wasn’t hosting all-star independent developers like Supergiant or Playdead, but frankly, I’m not sure how much videogame star power means in 2017. That game has been added to Steam accounts 24 million times , all without the slightest whiff of publisher support. They grew up in the era of

In the Indie GIF Showcase, we dig up the best-looking new and upcoming indie games and explore what makes them special. Solo developer Marc Fleps may well satisfy that hunger with Fading Skies, an action platformer “with a focus on exploration and interactive storytelling.” Fading Skies is so early in development that Fleps doesn’t have a release date in mind, but even in its current state it looks stunning. The way they glide and pirouette reminds me of Naughty Dog’s iconic duo Jak and Daxter,

THE HIGHSSamuel Roberts: Valve timeThis week’s highlight is an easy one for me. There are some great insights in there about the making of Portal, and why GLaDOS was created for the game. Writing all this stuff was a great reminder of how crazy good 2007 was for games. On top of three new Valve games, we got BioShock, Supreme Commander, Stalker, Crysis and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Andy Kelly: Good cropI know I’m a year late with this, but man, Stardew Valley is great, isn’t it?

We are fairly confident that Nvidia is readying a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card that slip into its product lineup between the non-Ti variant and the higher-end GeForce GTX 1080. However, if you are hoping to squeeze out GTX 1080-like performance through overclocking, you might be in for a rude awakening—the latest rumors suggest Nvidia is locking the frequency on the GTX 1070 Ti. Eteknix says it heard from an “industry insider” that the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will not support overclocking in an

If you are looking to build a new PC around one of AMD’s Ryzen processors, you can score a feature-rich AM4 motherboard at a discount. ASRock’s X370 Taichi is on sale for $185 at both Amazon and Newegg, with the latter sweetening the pot with a $30 mail-in-rebate (and adding a buck for shipping). ASRock went with high-end components on the the X370 Taichi to help with stability and overclocking performance. To that end, it has a 16 power phase design for smooth power delivery, along with premium

With South Park: The Fractured But Whole a mere four days away, Ubisoft has finally dropped the details on the game’s season pass—because of course, there’s going to be one. First, the DLC:Danger Deck: Players will face “the ultimate combat challenge” in Doctor Timothy’s Danger Deck, where they’ll also be able to unlock exclusive costumes and artifacts. From Dusk til Casa Bonita: A new story where players will team up with The Coon and Mysterion to defeat a demonic presence at Casa Bonita. A new

“In short, our approach is similar to that of ESRB (I think all rating boards do, USK in Germany as well). “That is the responsibility of a national gambling commission. If a gambling commission would state that loot boxes are a form of gambling, then we would have to adjust our criteria to that.” Loot boxes “are already covered by and fully compliant with existing relevant UK regulations,” she said. We kicked around some thoughts of our own about loot boxes in the wake of uproars over their pre

Cooler Master has added another mid-tower chassis to its lineup, one that features multi-zone RGB lighting, an acrylic side panel, and some decent cooling options, including support for liquid coolers. In fact, this is one of the more affordable cases for users who plan to liquid cool their PCs. The new MasterBox MB600L comes three different color trims—red, black, and sliver—and with or without an optical drive bay. Drive options are pretty sparse as well. While the MB600L doesn’t look especial

We gave it a score of 84 in our Tacoma review,We recently caught up with Fullbright’s Steve Gaynor to discuss launch, how the core AR recordings mechanic was developed, the changing state of the indie market, and the studio’s future. Steve Gaynor: Well I think it’s like you said, we only have one data point to compare it to. So I guess what I would say is I think Tacoma is more interesting and has more going on in the mechanical gameplay space. I think that’s there’s definitely much more in the