IO Interactive has outlined what’s coming to Hitman this month, and asks players to “save the date” for an announcement on October 24. The first two of those three will land on October 13, which marks the first Colorado-based Challenge Pack, while the third is expected “later in October”. Alongside the roadmap, IO says it’ll reveal some new Agent 47-related stuff on October 24. “That’s the date when we will reveal brand new content for the game,” says this update post. New Content Reveal.

A few, like the KOTOR II Restored Content mod or the standalone Stalker: Lost Alpha, are deemed essential by some fans. For a game already bursting with things to do, the Cutting Room Floor adds a lot that is substantial. “I elected to leave out the portions of cut content that referred to the civil war, the real-time carriage rides, and to the battle arena in Windhelm,” explains Arthmoor. What about the developers who worked on these games, how do they feel about the restoring of cut content? T

Planning goes a long way in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s Captain Mode, but what of its single player? Taleworlds has now outlined how ‘influence’ acts as a currency that’ll determine the strength of your army. Determined by the power of their party, allied lords command certain influence costs. If an army leader can no longer afford to spend influence then the army will start to disband.” Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord’s launch date is yet to be revealed.

If you played the original Call of Duty, its 2004 United Offensive expansion, or Call of Duty 2 one year later, you’ll probably remember Carentan. The French rural town was one of these games’ most iconic maps—and now a modern interpretation is heading to Call of Duty: WWII. Activision hasn’t said whether or not the map will be available to all players down the line, but we’ve reached out for confirmation either way. At present, there’s not much to go on beyond that brief description and this im

Middle-earth: Shadow of War has microtransactions, and people are mad. I reviewed Shadow of War and not once did the game flash up a message trying to sell me shit. Along with Gold, Mirian can be used to purchase Loot Chests and War Chests from the Market. I got a Gold War Chest free with my review copy of the game, so if you’re interested in what’s actually in them, here’s what I got. I still had fun befriending and beheading orcs in Shadow of War regardless of their existence.

Now, Bethesda has revealed the hardware you’ll need to power Sebastian Castellanos’ latest jaunt into the unknown. Much like its forerunner The Evil Within 2’s recommended specs are quite demanding, however its minimum requirements shouldn’t cause too much of a scare. 8 GB RAM, 40GB free HDD space. GPU: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB/AMD HD 7970 3GB or better. GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB/AMD RX 480 8GB or better.

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? Jail cells with rusted bars, pools of water on the floor of metal corridors, rattling keys, and locked doors? Inmates looks like a first-person version of that. Davit Andreayan’s indie horror game, published by Iceberg Interactive, has been released in time for the annual holiday we all know as Spooktoberween.

Discord has rolled out some new and much requested features today: namely, the ability to video chat and screen share. In the company’s words “you can share your face or screen pixels with another person’s eye pixels”, which is a very nice way of putting it, if you ask me. Video chat supports up to ten people in a group direct message, and it supports “picture in picture”, which means you can chat via video while also looking at other stuff. And the screen sharing works as you’d expect: other us

In a recent message about unfair play in Fortnite: Battle Royale, Epic said that tackling them is its “highest priority.” “We play PvP games like Fortnite: Battle Royale for their competitive integrity. And it’s ongoing, we’re exploring every measure to ensure these cheaters are removed and stay removed from Fortnite Battle Royale and the Epic ecosystem. Player progression will be coming to Fortnite: Battle Royale in the next several weeks, and Mooney said that will help deter “casual cheaters”

It was a year ago, almost to the day, that Double Fine showed off some Psychonauts 2 “prototype gameplay” in a recreated version of the original game’s summer camp. The elements on display “looked nice but weren’t designed to be part of the full game,” the studio explained in a Fig update. “They were simple spaces that didn’t incorporate any of the tricky platforming and open exploration we want to be be central to Psychonauts 2.” “The ‘First Playable’ is an area of the game that we’ve built to

Very soon, as it turns out—the features are now live in a beta version of the software that’s available to everyone. The beta client includes a new Social Tab, “your one-stop-shop for managing all your various social interactions,” Blizzard Groups that support multiple text and voice chat channels, user profiles with avatars, descriptions, and social media links, and yes, the long-awaited, oft-demanded “Appear Offline” option. “Appear offline allows you to set your status to show you as “offline

Nestled in those last two announcements, I noticed Mei and Genji sporting some sweet team-branded jerseys—or in Overwatch parlance: skins. Was this an indication that Overwatch would be getting OWL-themed skins and cosmetics for players to show support for their favorite teams in game? “We look forward to sharing more information about Overwatch League-affiliated in-game items in the coming months.” Blizzard might go that route, letting players pick their favorite skin and then slap it with a Dr

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War is a familiar sequel. Developer Monolith Productions hasn’t made any astronomical changes or additions to the excellent foundation that was Shadow of Mordor. You have a ‘might’ meterIn Shadow of Mordor, abilities worked on a combo system. Thankfully, unlike the combo system, you don’t have to spend might immediately. You can upgrade gearThe process of acquiring and improving your gear is considerably more involved in Shadow of War.

There have been times when I’ve encountered an upgrade that was so substantial, I had to do double-takes. Replace your clunky spinner with a SSD though, and you’ll witness a boost in total system performance that no other upgrade will match. If you’re running on SATA SSDs, the next big upgrade for you would be to switch over to NVMe drives. Going from SATA SSD drives to NVMe SSD drives yields substantial performance, one that you’ll see too, but it won’t be as dramatic. Moving to SSD drives was

Chris Avellone is an RPG machine. He also had a hand in Fallout 2 and Fallout: New Vegas, which is why a recent bit of activity on his Facebook page has caused quite a stir among fans. Avellone is a busy guy these days, with projects including Pathfinder: Kingmaker, the System Shock reboot, and Bard’s Tale 4 on the go. And aside from this image, I’m not aware of anything he’s done to indicate that he might be involved with the Fallout series again. I’ve emailed Avellone to see if he’s willing to

A couple months ago we added an extra bonus to the PC Gamer Club Legendary tier: Aside from the monthly game key that comes with every subscription, new members also received seven days of Runescape and a PC Gamer-exclusive Fire Lycan pet, created especially for Club members by Jagex. We still have a big pile of Runescape codes to give away, and they’ll continue going out to new Legendary tier members while supplies last. Please note: Codes are only available through the Legendary membership tie

Street Fighter 5 was released way back in February 2016, and it was really good but not really complete. As we noted in our review, it released with no arcade mode, no story mode, and no best-of-three versus mode, which by all rights should be standard features for a modern Street Fighter game. The backlash was enough to prompt Capcom to commit to “completeness” in future releases a few months later, and while the newly-announced Street Fighter 5 Arcade Edition probably isn’t a direct result of

CyberPowerPC’s new Crystal Series lineup features Corsair’s 570X RGB mid-tower chassis. There are three baseline configurations to start from, two of which sport a Coffee Lake processor, while the middle option has a Skylake-X CPU inside. The least expensive of the bunch is the Crystal Series Basic starting at $1,599. For example, CyberPowerPC carries Intel’s full line of Coffee Lake processors, starting with the Core i3-8100. Each system also comes with a Corsair K55 RGB keyboard and Corsair Ha

Do you need a new case but don’t want to spend a big chunk of change on one? Cooler Master’s MasterBox 5 is on sale at Newegg for $60, plus there is a $10 mail-in-rebate available. For whatever reason, Newegg lists this as an E-ATX case, but it’s not. The MasterBox 5 supports ATX, micro ATX, and mini ITX motherboards, so look elsewhere if you’re building a system around a larger E-ATX mobo. For cooling, the case comes with a 120mm fan installed in the front and another one in the back.

An overclocker has taken a Core i7-8700K processor and cranked it all the way up to 7.405GHz using a healthy dose of liquid nitrogen cooling. At stock, the 6-core/12-thread Core i7-8700K has a base clockspeed of 3.7GHz, and max Turbo frequency of 4.7GHz. HWBOT user Kovan Yang blew way past both speed limits, hitting the record frequency (for now) for a Core i7-8700K CPU. To hit 7.4GHz, Yang set the chip’s multiplier at 73x and goosed the bus speed to 101.44MHz. When adding an extra 0.05V and pus