The action-RPG card game Hand of Fate 2 was announced last year as a “more nuanced” take on its predecessor, with a greater emphasis on smart deck building and a focus on “improving and expanding the concepts and systems of the original.” Hand of Fate 2 features action-RPG gameplay—quests, battles, loot, and so forth—built on a tale told by cards dealt by the mysterious Dealer. “Each card will test players with hack-and-slash combat, dangerous locales to explore, tense minigames, of Dungeons & D

Assassin’s Creed: Origins is, as the title so subtly hints, a game about the origins of the Assassins. In case there was any doubt, the new trailer makes it very clear that this is in fact what’s going on. “There is a new creed now,” Bayek intones as the trailer reaches its climax. It goes without saying that you probably won’t see anything like that in Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Assassin’s Creed: Origins comes out on October 27.

After I bottle it, a few local drunks give it “FIVE PLOUGHING STARS,” which I cautiously take as a compliment. Sometimes it’s good wine, sometimes it’s bad, but booze will always sell. The weather was perfect this year, so I thought we’d have wine worth showing off. Local wine distributors in Toussaint are picky—we have to be careful to send them really good wine and sell bad batches to the peasants—but the quartermaster insisted that any purple alcohol will do. I set aside some for this year’s

Two hours spent with Assassin’s Creed: Origins left me with two strong impressions. Assassin’s Creed RPG? Tom has played the same section of Assassin’s Creed: Origins, focusing his thoughts on the new RPG systems. In previous Assassin’s Creed games, you’d likely only get the collectible. Is Assassin’s Creed: Origins a complete refresh for the series?

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. This week’s topics:What we’re playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 Cuphead Difficulty in modern games Your questions, our answersListen:Your flapping heads for this episode:Evan LahtiWes Fenlon

Epic Games said on Twitter today that more than seven million people have taken a shot at its base-building FPS Fortnite. We want to keep the Battle Bus flying, so Duos and Supply Drops are available NOW. But Epic beat it to that lucrative punch with the release of Xbox One and PS4 versions of Fortnite, and Fortnite Battle Royale, in September. 1.6 million concurrent players on Steam is undeniably a huge success, but the console audience could be much larger, and much more lucrative to whoever c

If you’re looking to back things up with a NAS appliance but need to store a lot of data, B&H Photo has a good deal for HGST’s 8TB Deskstar. It’s marked down to $230 today, making it the best buy around—Newegg has it on sale for $270, and Amazon is asking $267. For what it’s worth, cloud provider Backblaze has found HGST’s drives to be rather solid, and it’s early look at 8TB drives in general has been promising. While aimed at NAS solutions, you can run this drive in your system like any other

If you own an X299 motherboard from Asus, you might interested in the company’s new Hyper M.2 x16 riser card. The new offering is essentially a daughter-board supporting up to four PCIe 3.0 M.2 SSDs for blazing fast file transfers. What’s at play here is Intel’s Virtual RAID (VROC) technology. Using this card, you can add a handful of NVMe SSDs to your system and run them in RAID 0. Back at Computex, Intel stated that VROC would only work with certain Intel drives, leaving out third-party soluti

Patriot has a new mouse available that might be of interest to gamers who are primarily interested in FPS and MMO games. The company’s new Viper V570 RGB Blackout Edition targets both types of gameplay with an adjustable weight system and 13 programmable buttons. The Viper V570 sports an 8,000 dpi “Xtreme Precision” laser sensor that can be magically upscaled to 12,000 through Patriot’s software utility. The layout is intended to appeal to MMO gamers without going all out like dedicated MMO mice

Microsoft got our hopes up when it said that Steam support was headed to its mixed reality platform, only to later clarify that it would not be ready for launch. As we reported earlier, several mixed reality headsets are now available to preorder, with prices starting at $399. “The introduction of Windows mixed reality headsets is also a big step forward for VR. PCGamesN makes the argument that “up until recently, Windows mixed reality seemed to be a VR-lite product.” Depending on how things sha

That includes a previously announced 400-person PvP arena mode , which sounds laser-targeted at the growing crowd around PUBG and other battle royale games. “Currently you can literally nuke the whole world,” Thompson tells me, in what sounds like a killstreak award. He says they’re making a game that’s both authored and emergent, co-existing in the same space. 400-player battle royale? The overarching game is very different to a battle royale mode, Thompson says.

The Microsoft Store is starting to flesh itself out with mixed reality headsets in preparation for Microsoft’s push into mixed reality experiences, starting with the Fall Creators Update in a couple weeks. It costs $399, making it the least expensive mixed reality headset available alongside Lenovo’s Explorer. “Mixed reality may usher in one of the biggest transformations of our time. At present, each of the mixed reality headsets comes bundled with motion controllers, which is why none of them

The voice actor who provides the voice of the Innkeeper in the French version of Hearthstone may have unintentionally revealed details about a new card coming in the next expansion. De Garrigues speaks French in the video, obviously, but the good people of Reddit translated thusly: “Gift! Believe it or not, this actually isn’t the first time that information about a Hearthstone expansion has been leaked by a voice actor. The latest expansion hasn’t actually been announced yet, although it’s a go

Yesterday, it emerged one fast-fingered speedrunner had (somehow) bested Divinity: Original Sin 2 in less than 38 minutes. As such, death has become a semi-constant feature of each of my sessions—which is something Hybrid’s Paladin Class mod addresses head on. Healing Touch: Heal a target for a large amount, melee range—can be self casted, costs 2 AP, and requires 1 in Hydrosophist. Holy Leap: Jump to a nearby location, knocking down and setting enemies on fire—costs 2 AP, and requires 2 in Warf

I always hoped that Assassin’s Creed would top the silliness of the ‘air assassinate an ocelot’ quest at the start of AC4. Assassin’s Creed: Origins delivers early when I unleash an adrenaline attack on a hippo’s face. Life is brutal in Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Life is brutal in Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Assassin’s Creed: Origins is out on October 27.

Fallout: New Vegas could have been a very different game had it not been for console support, so reckons the open-world action RPG’s lead world builder Scott Everts. “[Fallout: New Vegas] would have been a lot different if it was PC only,” Everts tells PCGN. Everts also reckons the game’s oft-criticised performance issues would have been less glaring had the game been PC-only. “We would have had fewer performance issues,” Everts adds rather explicitly. Ah well, I guess we can instead console our

Abandon Ship held its first public demonstration at this year’s PC Gamer Weekender, and has since teased its deadly weather systems and doomsday cults. Now, developer Fireblade Software has shown off how we’ll explore its sprawling water world and the perils that lie within. We want you to constantly make interesting and difficult decisions in Abandon Ship, so systems can combine to push you right to the edge. All of that sounds quite brutal, but Fireblade continues to say that ship destruction

Red Hook Studios’ Darkest Dungeon is one of the hardest yet most enjoyable games I’ve ever played—an experience that’s been bolstered over time by its range of neat player-made mods. The base game is subject to a 60 percent discount on Steam till Friday, and there are a number of cool new class mods which make it worth checking out. Now, Sadbady’s Corvian Knight adds a cool bleed-blighting, ACC debuffing class that lets players heal over time and also leverage a deadly low HP maneuver. Moreover,

This week on GOG you can find money off over 35 Disney games. Plus, since Disney also incorporates Star Wars and LucasFilm games, there are a number of classics to be found. There are in fact two Star Wars bundles to choose from. The Star Wars Blaster Bundle has a lot of the spaceship games, like Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D, and Star Wars: Tie Fighter Special Edition. You’ll be more on the ground in the Star Wars Saber Bundle as it includes the likes of Knights of th

Info on unlocking loot cases via in-game currency is here: https://t.co/ZmJQQJ7Bin. Unlocks can be earned through loot cases and progression in both MyCareer and Road to Glory. There are three levels of loot cases: Bronze, Silver and Gold. You can purchase loot cases in MyPlayer, MyCareer and Road to Glory. That last paragraph is a little misleading in that it seems to suggest two ways for unlocking loot cases.