Just over four years ago, Sins of a Solar Empire developer Stardock announced it had acquired the rights to Star Control from publisher Atari in order to create Star Control: Origins, a reboot of the space strategy series. “We are now working on a direct sequel to Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters, called Ghosts of the Precursors.” Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters released on MS-DOS PCs in November of 1992. Recently, Paul told me the good news: Activision was going to let him do a true sequ

Steam Family Sharing was announced in 2013 as a way for friends and family to share their game libraries with one another. Not all games support the feature, however, and according to Reddit, Middle-earth: Shadow of War is one of them. “My friend and I alternatively buy all the good games and share amongst ourselves, but this game doesn’t support sharing,” DoorHandleWalah wrote. PC Gamer tested Steam Family Sharing on our own and confirmed Shadow of War is not supported—it shows a “Purchase” but

If you’re willing to play the mail-in-rebate game, you can score a pretty good deal on a high-quality power supply. The CS750M is a 750W PSU with 80 Plus Gold certification. For many people, 750W is more than enough power (there are various online PSU calculators to help determine how much wattage you actually need). The Photon is also 80 Plus Gold certified (there’s a typo in Newegg’s description that says it’s 80 Plus Bronze), and is fully modular with most of the cables of the flattened varie

At first glance, we assumed Patriot’s new Viper LED mouse pad was another RGB accessory. In this case, the Viper LED mouse pad features six different LED color settings and the same number of lighting effects. The mouse pad measures 35.32 x 24.27 x 4.6 cm. Patriot has priced its Viper LED mouse pad at $60, which could make it a tough sell—users who are willing to spend that much on a mouse pad might prefer an RGB model, such as Corsair’s MM800 RGB Polaris, currently our top pick among RGB mouse

Still, there’s something funny about those first minutes of West of Loathing—not in the sense of ha-ha funny, but something ever so slightly different. After implanting the idea in your mind West of Loathing refuses to establish it as a rigid general rule. Susie Cochrane can be found brooding at the Boring Springs saloon. Aggressive misdirectionThese hinted possibilities, hidden stories, and unexplored locations are the main reason why West of Loathing is an immensely replayable game. A pesky hu

Like the vengeful spirit of a demonic prom queen, the Overwatch “Halloween Terror” event has returned! Dr. Junkenstein’s thirst for revenge still burns…So heroes beware: Overwatch Halloween Terror returns!👻🍬🎃 https://t.co/0RUYK9XFzn pic.twitter.com/8hX98gij4vOctober 10, 2017″For the next three weeks, we’re celebrating the spookiest time of the year with a seasonal event. Expand your collection of seasonal-themed items and relive a chilling tale in our PvE brawl: Junkenstein’s Revenge,” Blizzar

Silverstone has a new accessory that can turn your M.2 form factor solid state drive into a USB thumb drive, provided you’re ready to move onto something faster or more capacious (or both). M.2 SSDs are those gum stick-sized SSDs that plug directly into a compatible motherboard. However, not all M.2 SSDs are the same—some still use the SATA bus and are limited to the same speeds at 2.5-inch SATA SSDs, while others are NVMe drives that tap into the PCI-Express bus for much faster read and write p

You wouldn’t know it from the intimidating pile of Alien Isolation and Rise of the Tomb Raider DLC on offer, but there are some good deals in the Humble Store’s Female Protagonist Sale. The aptly titled sale is now live and will run through 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific) this Friday, October 13. It boasts a small but strong selection of big and indie games alike, including such highlights as:On top of the aforementioned DLC stampede, you’ll also find more modest deals on Bayonetta’s excellent

Destiny 2 appearing on Battle.net (in two weeks!) Watch the video above to see Lord Saladin, Destiny 2’s PvP announcer, spout off “Die, die, die!” in his best Reaper impression after Reddit user Crissyronaldo92 nabs the ‘We Ran Out of Medals’ accolade. If they sound similar, it’s because Keith Ferguson provides the voice for both Reaper in Overwatch and Lord Saladin in Destiny 2. Either way, Saladin is known to shout all sorts of nonsense when you excite him.

Radeon GPU owners should see the best performance in those two games with Crimson ReLive 17.10.1 installed. One word of caution to multi-GPU users—AMD says your system may hang or crash when upgrading to the latest Crimson ReLive drivers in Windows 7. Unstable Radeon WattMan profiles may not be restored to default after a system hang. When recording with Radeon ReLive on Radeon RX Vega Series graphics products GPU usage and clocks may remain in high states. A workaround is to disable and then re

The 387.92 WHQL driver package also contains tweaked code for Arktika.1, an atmospheric FPS game that is exclusive to the Oculus Rift with Oculus Touch gameplay. Beyond ‘Game Ready’ optimizations, the new driver release brings with it few new features, including support for OpenGL 4.6, GameStream support for HDR in Windows 10, and Fast Sync support for SLI. Nvidia also coded in a bunch of bug fixes, as it typically does with each new driver release. [NVIDIA Control Panel][ASUS 4k display]: “Use

Today’s case in point is Assassin’s Creed: Origins, which has Ubisoft announced will have a season pass with two expansions, plus a pair of cosmetic packs, 500 Helix Credits, and an “exclusive rare weapon” called the Calamity Blade. Following that will be The Curse of the Pharaohs, in which “players will fight against undead Pharaohs and explore a new, mystical realm.” Epic boss battles against Egyptian gods that take place during special timed events, victorious players will receive prestigious

MSI is back with another small form factor (SFF) gaming desktop under its Vortex line, but unlike the Vortex G65 we reviewed last year, the new Vortex G25 sports a slim design and a much more friendly price tag. The new Vortex G25 takes things in a different direction. “Traditionally, desktop computers are imposing and bulky, but the Vortex manages to put desktop power into a compact and aesthetically appealing body. It’s equipped with pull-ring slotted screws, providing an easy way to remove th

Rob Zacny enjoyed his time with World of Warplanes back in 2013, despite finding it occasionally over-complicated. Its imminent version 2.0 aims to make the flight combat sim more accessible, and now has a launch date: October 11. When it lands tomorrow, World of Warplanes’ version 2.0 will allow players to skillful operate bombers with “only one hand”, get to grips with bomber tree branches which include Soviet bombers and machines with multiple turrets, and strive to capture territories in the

The Elder Scrolls Online is heading to Sotha Sil’s Clockwork City for a ten-hour expansion, due out on October 23. The update is included as part of the ESO Plus membership, and otherwise costs 2000 crowns in the in-game Crown store. The update seems to otherwise be largely set in the mechanical clockwork city, built around a hub area called the brass fortress. The DLC works alongside the upcoming update 16 to add a new transmutation system that you can use to alter traits on your gear. Catch a

Game director Henrik Fahraeus breaks down the features arriving in the Jade Dragon DLC for Crusader Kings 2, due later this year. The expansion lets you interact with China, which behaves as a off-screen force led by the powerful Emperor. You can curry favour with the Emperor using the new grace system. These can ensure peace with China, grant your strategies, or even encourage China to attack your enemies. A full-scale invasion of the west is the biggest threat the DLC adds, but unlike the Mong

The Orange Box unlocked on Steam at 00.01 Pacific time, 10 October 2007. Ten years later, we’ve put together a series of articles celebrating this unforgettable bundle of Valve’s games, with new features on Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2, as well as an interview with Valve on what this release represented back then. We’ve also published Tom Francis’s original reviews of the games from the UK magazine, for some context on what it meant to PC Gamer for all of that to launch a

The promise of Half-Life: Episode Three never really died, kept alive by jokes and hopes and increasingly desperate attempts to see a ‘3’ even hinted in anything Valve did. In short, a more explosive cliffhanger, not a big series finale. There’s a reason that everyone wanted Episode Three so much, and it wasn’t just to see what happened next. While Episode Two wasn’t Valve’s best moment, it was Valve at its most exciting time creatively. The promise of Episode Three, much like Half-Life 2 before

The Orange Box launched ten years ago. PC Gamer: What did the release of The Orange Box mean for Valve at that time, and what does it represent as part of Steam’s history? The Orange Box was also a great product to really highlight why the retail channel was reducing game developer’s options. The Orange Box avoided this by combining multiple quality products into a single box that was worth that full amount, but in doing so it created other problems. The Orange Box really solved Portal’s biggest

“The cake is a lie” is good fun, but Portal is so much more than a cute combination of words. Hoop dreamsPortal writers Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek didn’t set out to make Portal’s cake catchphrase a meme—they were born before the ’80s so they still don’t know what memes are. According to Caldwell, memes without an attachment to a specific image are easier to distort and deploy. The trend isn’t surprising: popular game memes come and go with increasing frequency. “The cake is a lie” isn’t the f