We last heard from indie studio House House when they released Push Me Pull You, a local multiplayer game where each player controlled one head of a wriggling, two-headed worm person. Their next project, currently called “Untitled Goose Game”, is looking strange in its own way. They explain it thusly: “It’s a lovely weekday morning in the village and you are a horrible goose.” A video of pre-alpha gameplay shows said goose pestering a groundskeeper while accomplishing tasks written down in a han

This month Czech retro gaming site High-Voltage.cz ran a competition for DOS games, specifically MS-DOS 6.22 games in text mode that could be run on a 486DX / 50MHz with 8MB of RAM. Fortunately you can also play them on a more modern machine thanks to DOSBox . They include a sci-fi shooter called Space Assault and a dungeon crawler called Dungeons of Noudar, but the overall winner was action platformer Silly Knight. Silly Knight is about stabbing skeletons and bats (who follow the floaty traject

Warframe’s much anticipated Plains of Eidolon update, which adds a huge new MMO-esque open world to the otherwise corridor-y shooter, may launch within the next 10 days, according to Digital Extremes. Writing in a new update, the studio specifies that it’s a “goal” rather than a “guarantee”, but it’s still something. “The goal is to launch within the next 10 days – when the official Hub site launches there will be more information there,” the studio writes. Meanwhile, a map of the Eidolon plains

Heat Signature Review Heat Signature is from the creator of Gunpoint and one-time PC Gamer editor Tom Francis. With a wacky array of gadgets at your disposal, infiltrating spaceships in Heat Signature is just as much about the how as it is the why. But if you combine them with Heat Signature’s pause button, you can line up some pretty sadistic kills. Turn those shields inside outShielded guards are some of the hardest to kill in Heat Signature. If you’ve come up with your own devious ways of dis

Aftercharge is a multiplayer FPS in which a team of three invisible robots does its best to wreck stuff, while a team of three invincible guards tries to stop them. Next weekend, you’ll be able to judge for yourself how it’s coming along, as developer Chainsawesome Games is holding a three-day “open alpha,” which will be the game’s first public playtest. “On the defending Enforcers team, choose between invincible guards Striker, Liquidator and Builder. When on the attack team as an invisible Wor

Stardock has announced that Star Control: Origins, its upcoming reboot of the classic sci-fi strategy series, will soon be ready to enter a “public beta program.” That means that the Founder’s Program that launched last year will be brought to an end in a couple of weeks. That’s exactly 25 years from the release of Star Control 2,” Stardock said. “Some design changes we made have extended the development time (which I’ll be talking more about soon) but we will be releasing the Super Melee beta i

If you’re in the market of a new power supply, EVGA’s compact SuperNova 850W model is on sale today at Newegg for $85 after a $25 mail-in-rebate. The SuperNova 850 G3 (220-G3-850-X1) is a fully modular unit to make cable management easier. This is probably more power than most users will need, though it provides headroom to grow. Also working in its favor is 80 Plus Gold certification for better efficiency under typical loads. Connectors include:1 x 24-pin ATX2 x 8-pin (4+4) EPS (CPU)6 x 8-pin (

For those of you who don’t yet have enough Humble Bundles in your lives, the new one from Stardock is really quite good. For a minimum of $1, you’ll get Sorcerer King: Rivals, Fallen Enchantress, The Political Machine 2016, and The Corporate Machine. That’s a really good deal for a dollar. It’s obviously a strategy-heavy bundle, but it’s a heck of a deal if that’s your cup of fun. The Humble Stardock Bundle will be available until October 24.

Samsung is doing its best Miley Cyrus impression—entering the Windows VR scene like a wrecking ball with its Odyssey HMD. Announced in partnership with Microsoft, the Odyssey sets itself apart from other mixed reality headsets by upping the ante with 3.5-inch OLED display panels and more pixels. Samsung’s Odyssey is part of an initial group of mixed reality headsets based on Microsoft’s reference design. “With the widest field of view, built-in spatial sound and easy setup, the Samsung HMD Odyss

For now the issues persist, but the PUBG development team says it’s doing its best to fix things up. “First of all, we would like to sincerely apologize to everyone for the recent server issues which resulted in long waits and any inconveniences,” it wrote. The central issue is that the developers anticipated about one million concurrent users during the game’s early access period, but that number was surpassed long ago. Our development team is investigating the issue in order to prevent it from

I spent most of Sunday playing the CoD:WWII multiplayer beta, and I didn’t want it to end. Whether it’s set in the future or the past, Call of Duty is still old fashioned and overpriced. Good: Three-lane mapsWithout claiming encyclopedic knowledge of every map in every yearly CoD, the maps in the CoD:WWII beta felt more rectangular and symmetrical than I’m used to from the series. Call of Duty doesn’t provide enough tools or enough room to move to make each stage more than a slaughter, though. I

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. But limitless choice doesn’t entirely explain why our writers chose to give up on some of the most critically acclaimed games on the PC. Except Dark Souls released a month beforehand and, having played that game religiously, finally getting hold of Skyrim felt like a huge anti-climax. Again, The Evil Within is far from a bad game, and Joe Donnelly hit the same point and gave up. Share the biggest games you’ve quit on (and why) with us in the commen

The Dota 2 Midas Mode Tournament is as clever as it is simple. Judicious money management will enable teams to make the right moves at the right times, but blowing it on bad calls will leave them struggling to compete with a no-budget lineup of Dota chumps. Each hero will be assigned a cost based on its capabilities and popularity, which can change from match to match depending on its performance. And of course they won’t be able to make bans or pauses, putting them even deeper in the hole. Mida

MSI is kicking off its new Force series of game controllers with the Force GC30 and Force GC20, both of which look similar to Microsoft’s Xbox One controller. The GC30 and GC20 look nearly identical, save for a slightly different color scheme—the GC30 has different color X, Y, A, and B buttons and red accents around the thumbstics and D-pad, while the GC20 has red buttons and no accent coloring. MSI’s product pages are not yet live so we don’t have full details on these controllers. The new cont

October is now upon us, and that means that Halloween will soon be here—and that means that the Overwatch Halloween Terror event is just about ready to begin: Blizzard announced today that this year’s festivities will begin on October 10, and run until November 2. The nights grow coldAnd monsters appearA great evil gathersAnd Halloween draws near… pic.twitter.com/98CXWqQ0gcOctober 3, 2017This year’s Halloween Terror will feature “spooky new content,” although what exactly the Overwatch team wi

If you’re looking to build a new gaming system around Kaby Lake, you can save a few bucks by going with a bundle deal. Specifically, Newegg is offering a nifty discount on an Intel Core i5-7600K processor bundled with an ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming K6 motherboard—the two pieces sell together for $290, plus there is a $10 mail-in-rebate available. One thing to note is that Intel’s 8th generation Core (Coffee Lake) processors do not work in Z270 motherboards—they require a new Z370 mobo. Building

Western Digital announced it has begun providing cloud and hyperscale data center customers with the world’s first 14-terabyte hard drive, through its HGST subsidiary. The HGST Ultrastar HS14 offers 40 percent more capacity and twice the sequential write performance of its shingled magnetic recording (SMR) predecessor. Earlier this year, Seagate said it would have 14TB and 16TB HDDs in 18 months, and a 20TB HDD by 2020. Whether you want to trust so much capacity to a single drive is another matt

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is a big, beefy game. It’s also one that you can, if you are so inclined, play from start to finish in not much more than a half-hour. And if you don’t believe me (which would be an entirely reasonable position to take), then watch this video of a guy named Onin actually making it happen. At around the six-minute mark, for instance, he goes after a group of large crocodiles, but only attacks the one that’s carrying a particular pair of gloves he needs. But as fast as thi

Gaynor tells me that the videogame landscape has since shifted considerably, and that Gone Home’s runaway success met the demands of a then shifting industry: away from violent videogames into more experimental territory. As our Andy explained in his review, Tacoma is a great game yet it’s reception against its forerunner has been lacking—a fact underscored by Gone Home’s 700,000+ sales, and Tacoma’s ~10,000. There was no review that didn’t start about Gone Home for a while before then talking a

Since the launch of Skyrim Special Edition, thousands of user-made mod creators have updated their projects to handle the jump from the original game. The Skyrim Script Extender finally entered its alpha phase last month, and now SkyUI has launched an “unsupported alpha version for testing.” The Skyrim Script Extender, for those unsure, is a mod that expands Skyrim’s scripting capabilities, and is one that many popular Skyrim mods rely on. So what does “unsupported alpha” actually mean, and, giv