We got underwhelming and under-supported multiplayer for games like F.E.A.R, Crysis, Singularity, Prey, Homefront, Far Cry 3, Medal of Honor, Call of Juarez, Duke Nukem Forever, Rage, and Syndicate. image by RAGEPANDDEMOMANTalking it outCredit for killing the trend of tacked-on multiplayer should go to Team Fortress 2. But most significantly, it helped teach the industry, and games like BioShock 2, how to tell stories in competitive multiplayer games. “A secret, exclusive seventh weapon has also

Some fans have been worrying about loot chests that have been appearing in Assassin’s Creed: Origins screenshots. Speaking to Eurogamer, game director Ashraf Ismail clarified that these loot chests can only be purchased with in-game currency. Read our investigation into the psychology of loot boxes for more. I wonder if loot box money may ultimately outweigh any sales impact that comes out of the loot box backlash that is bubbling away at the moment. Do you mind loot boxes?

Before it does, though, the latest series entry seems determined to squeeze some fun out of a game that otherwise punishes improvising players—something underscored by its newly-launched ‘Willard Wyler’s Halloween Scream’ event. Set to run now through November 1, the Halloween special includes giveaways, double XP periods, a new zombies mode and a new ‘Carnage map’, among other things. Boss Battle mode, which starts on 13th October, allows players to take on their favourite final bosses from eac

Konami has now struck up an official partnership with Arsenal which sees the London team and its stadium more accurately recreated in-game. The partnership also of course means Arsenal gets its real name and not, say, London Red, as well as fully-licensed kits and the Emirates Stadium. “The relationship we formed last year has gone from strength to strength, most notably when Emirates Stadium played host to the PES LEAGUE World Final. As such, we were keen to work even closer with such a highly

The Battle Chasers comic was popular, but plagued by delays. They prefer to label Battle Chasers: Nightwar a dungeon crawler with a story, rather than a JRPG with some dungeon crawling. The alpha for Battle Chasers: Nightwar began last spring for select high-tier Kickstarter backers, and the beta launched a few weeks ago, open to all of them. Battle Chasers: Nightwar is selling well, so are we seeing the beginning of a series? Check back soon for our review of Battle Chasers: Nightwar.

In the Indie GIF Showcase, we dig up the best-looking new and upcoming indie games and explore what makes them special. Are you developer with a game to submit? This is Phalanstery , an upcoming game its creator, ‘lectronice’, describes as “Cyberpunk adventures in a modular city where the freedom and privileges of inhabitants are physically defined by their social network.” Here’s our hero going to a bar with a blinking neon sign to order a drink called a ‘Russian multitool’. So, like a white Ru

If you’ve wondered where legendary Counter-Strike map Dust2 has been since it left competitive matchmaking in February, here’s the answer: Valve has been rejigging it. Following similar revamps, an “updated and refined version” of Dust2 will be available for testing in the next CS:GO beta depot. Valve has yet to publish anything elaborating on the updates and refinements, though they did tweet out the picture you can see above. …and that’s about all we know at the moment, but if you want an id

To mark tomorrow’s World Mental Health Day, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice developer Ninja Theory will be donating all proceeds from sales of the game to Rethink, a UK mental health charity. Hellblade’s main character, Senua, suffers from psychosis, and its symptoms are central to the game’s story and mechanics. Honestly, it’s pretty touching to see the messages players have left the developers, and shows that the game has helped some people deal with issues around mental health. This year’s World

Rogue Snail, the developer of Power Rangers-inspired RPG Chroma Squad and solid hack-and-slash Dungeonland, has launched a Kickstarter for its next project, a colourful loot-heavy shooter called Relic Hunters Legend. It’s a follow up to another of Rogue Snail’s games, Relic Hunters Zero, which was a free and popular top-down shooter. There’s a mixture of hand-crafted dungeons and procedurally-generated levels in Legend, plus a full story campaign. Randomised weapon drops and different item tiers

Tactical open-world shooter Ghost Recon Wildlands is going free-to-play from Thursday until Sunday this week. You’ll get access to the full base game and the new PvP team deathmatch mode called Ghost War, which launches tomorrow. It doesn’t look like the free weekend will extend to Steam, so to play you’ll have to sign into your Ubisoft account and click here. Ghost War will be free to anyone that already owns the game—it’s a 4v4 mode with 12 classes where you can revive teammates and tag enemie

Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a fantastic RPG that Fraser couldn’t get enough of. Swen Vincke Swen Vincke is the founder of Larian Studios, whose back catalogue includes the likes of Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Divinity 2: Ego Draconis, Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga, and Divinity: Dragon Commander. We scored Divinity: Original Sin a healthy 87 back in 2014, and its follow-up Divinty: Original Sin 2 92 last month. If you had to pinpoint one specific thing over the course

It’s a scenario that all but the richest Hearthstone players will be familiar with. Trading card games have always been an expensive hobby, as any Magic: The Gathering fan will attest, but when Hearthstone entered the market as a fully digital game, it offered a genuine free-to-play experience. There used to be one Legendary card for each class in each expansion, the rest were neutral and available to all classes. Most games also hand out level-up rewards, and the daily and end-of-season rewards

NES-inspired platformer Shovel Knight is getting a NES-inspired add-on: the three heroes from ultra-hard ’90s beat ’em up series Battletoads are leaping into the game. Rash, Zitz, and Pimple have been exclusive to Xbox One for the past two years but now you can stomp them on PC during three optional boss battles. The green amigos arrive in a free update, and players controlling Shovel Knight can find them in a secret room off the Hall of Champions (hint: go right). Defeat them one by one in leve

Battlestar Glamor Shot: Colonial tax dollars put to their most awesome possible use. A barrage of missiles that would spell doom for the Daidalos Shipyard, which anchored my fleet, hangs against the black of space. Nearby, a scrappy Manticore has been hacked by one of the toasters’ tech frigates and is utterly powerless to help. It’s in moments like these that Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock really captures the feeling of shit constantly hitting every single fan, which defined the first two seaso

For six years, Piranha Games’ president Russ Bullock has kept the series alive with MechWarrior Online. “A significant part of our design philosophy is asking, ‘What have players always wanted to do in a MechWarrior game?'” From the very first blast of my torso-mounted lasers, it was clear that MechWarrior 5 benefits from Piranha Games’ extensive work on MechWarrior Online. One thing MechWarrior fans will love is that damage modelling has been taken to a whole new level over MechWarrior Online.

Over the weekend Frontier Developments released the first in-game footage from dinosaur theme park sim Jurassic Park Evolution, as well as details about how you’ll build up your park and the kind of disasters you’ll have to overcome. At the start of the game you’ll send dig teams around the world to look for fossils, and then use those fossils to bio-engineer dinosaurs for your park. You’ll start on a single island and then expand to a total of five islands as the game goes on, with each one gra

DEMETRIOUS JOHNSON Demetrious Johnson is the UFC’s reigning 11-time defended flyweight champion, and is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the business. PC Gamer: You’re quite a prolific PUBG Twitch streamer nowadays. Demetrious Johnson: They’re definitely different but what they both have in common is that you have to be persistent. But I must say, PUBG is definitely my favourite game at the moment. This is my second competition and obviously this is one of my favourite games.

Total War: Warhammer 2 developer Creative Assembly has opened the doors to the title’s Steam Workshop, allowing players to easily mod the excellent strategy game. Technically, players have been able to mod the game since it released late last month but the Steam Workshop remained closed post-launch because a lot of mods were crashing the game. Creative Assembly has been focusing on getting the game stable, and now it’s satisfied that there won’t be many performance hiccups. The modding tools are

Football Manager 2018 is almost upon us, bringing with it a new graphics engine and a handful of new features. Perhaps the most interesting of the latter is ‘Dynamics’—a system that lets you manage the inner workings of the dressing room, which can in turn affect your performance on the pitch. As explained in the following video, Dynamics in-game applies to three main areas: Team Cohesion, Dressing Room Atmosphere, and Managerial Support. On the face of it, the Dynamics system sounds really inte

Larian Studios’ Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a wonderful fantasy role-player that is fast becoming my own game of the year. Studio founder Swen Vincke reckons D:OS 2 will grow further still in the coming months, with promise of “at least one big surprise” into the future. Given the success Divinity: Original Sin 2 has enjoyed so far, I ask Vincke what’s next for the series. It’s early days yet, but might we expect a Divinity: Original Sin 3, 4, or 5? Check out Fraser’s review of Divinity: Origina