As you may have spied last week, FIFA 18 endured a somewhat rocky launch whereby an issue with Origin prevented some PC players from downloading. To this end, this and shot accuracy have been tweaked courtesy of the latest update. Reduced shot accuracy and slightly increased goalkeeper reaction times in certain in-game situations. An issue where players could control the goalkeeper in FUT Single Player modes (Ultimate Team). FIFA 18 is out now—our review will be with you soon.

Overcast skies are looming, leaves are dropping from the trees, and there’s an icy chill in the air. Yes, it can only be autumn (or fall), the finest of all the seasons. And so, to celebrate, we’ve wrapped ourselves up in our thickest scarves to bring you a list of the best autumnal PC games to play whilst cradling a mug of hot chocolate, or whichever heated liquid you enjoy. — AndyVirginiaVirginia uses its autumnal setting (well, summer cusping on autumn as green leaves fade into golds) to augm

Image credit: MMA WeeklyDemetrious Johnson, the best pound-for-pound UFC fighter in the world, reckons he could beat MMA icon Conor McGregor at PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. When he stars in Uproar’s competitive PUBG tournament ‘The Golden Chicken’ next week, Johnson thinks he’ll come out on top there too. I’m looking forward to it and I’m looking forward to go out there and kill everybody in the woods. But while Johnson has more than proven himself in The Octagon, he’s relatively green when it

There’s an argument to be made that the Souls-like label needs to die—but the latest in-game footage to surface of Shift and Bandai Namco’s Code Vein looks a look like anime Dark Souls. Austin raises some good points in the above-linked article, but as a long-serving fan of Hidetaka Miyazaki’s uber-challenging nightmarescapes, the glaring likeness here with an anime twist, for me at least, is welcomed. As reported by AllGamesDelta, the following trifecta of B-roll footage teases young protagonis

South Park: The Fractured But Whole is a far better RPG than the first, so reckons our Samuel. And now it wants to include your very own fart in-game. Look, you’re probably best having a gander at this:From now through October 16, would-be pimp personages can enter their, um, work via this website. The lucky winner will be announced there, as well as via Twitter and Facebook, on Monday, October 23. If you plan on entering let us know why in the comments below.

Each experience should teach you how to leverage that knowledge into surviving just a little bit longer. Depending what circles you move in, you could be forgiven for thinking the term ‘roguelike’ has lost almost all meaning. While I’ve no particular preference either way, there’s something to be said for conquering impossible odds armed with only raw intuition. An unusual art-style, real-time gameplay, and a physics-driven combat engine do not add up to a traditional roguelike. Unexplored is ef

Divided We Fall is a Second World War RTS—”a strategic close-combat multiplayer game that emphasizes the importance of building an effective cohesive squad and executing well thought-out tactics on the battlefield,” is how the developers describe it on Steam—that launched on Steam Early Access in September 2016. Today it went into full release, and to celebrate the big moment developer Kava Game Studio is making it free to play until Thursday. The Divided We Fall launch announcement also brings

You won’t be buying the exact same crops season after season in Verdant Skies. Verdant Skies’ proxy for a town mayor is Jade Worthington, whose title is ‘administrator’ but whose fashion choices say ‘space goddess’. You won’t be buying the exact same crops season after season in Verdant Skies. Verdant Skies looks like it will be a solid spin on the farming life genre. Verdant Skies is currently in development without a set release date, but you can follow its progress on the development blog.

Mike Donais Mike Donais is the principal game designer on Hearthstone. When it comes to tweaking designs that aren’t great, is it your team sending new ideas back or does the initial design team have to come up with the new versions? We’ve spoken before about the idea that if you gave Priest a really good early game, the meta could become super unfun. One of the things that’s going on with that Priest deck is that it’s really hard to play. Our data showed that Keleseth was already a good deck, a

Blazing Chrome does not look like the run-and-gun games you played in arcades when you were younger. Developer JoyMasher is the first to admit Blazing Chrome is a love letter to Contra and Metal Slug, but its polished pixel art is leaps and bounds above anything from the ’90s. Protagonists Mavra and Doyle are over-the-top manly men among manly men, but there’s depth and detail to their beefcake physiques. Blazing Chrome captures it perfectly here, and with stunning depth for a 2D game. Here’s ho

Developer Bedtime Digital Games calls Figment “an action-adventure game,” and I don’t know why. I’d much sooner describe Figment as an environmental puzzle game. It’s primarily about exploring and interacting with its dreamlike, Dr. Seuss-esque world, which isn’t a bad thing. There’s a wonderful sense of tactility and imagination to Figment’s world. Which is great, because while Figment’s puzzles are engaging enough, its atmosphere is what really captures my imagination.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (not to be confused with Star Wars Battlefront 2) lost its multiplayer support in 2014 when the GameSpy matchmaking it depended on shut down. “Star Wars: Battlefront II (Classic, 2005), the critically acclaimed shooter of massively entertaining warfare, has received a critical update,” GOG announced today. “Powered by GOG Galaxy, the multiplayer function of the game has now been restored AND with added Crossplay support between GOG Galaxy and Steam.” It’s almost enough t

Battle.net, on the other hand, is mainly that thing you just have to fire up so you can play Overwatch. One of the features referenced in the list is an option to appear offline, something users have been after for years. Group and channel features also figure prominently, suggesting that Blizzard may be aiming for a Discord-like environment. “Groups are the social hub for you and your friends across Blizzard,” one set of strings states. I’ve reached out to Blizzard for more information, and wil

Gigabyte’s latest motherboard for Threadripper brings the bling in a big way. The company’s new X399 Designare EX is part of a series designed to combine aesthetics with performance, which in this case entails a whole lot of armor. Unlike Gigabyte’s Z270X Designare, which pairs silver armor with a sort of off-white PCB, the X399 Designare EX plops a heaping pile of silver onto a more traditional blackish slab. It’s actually the same PCB as found on Gigabyte’s X399 Aorus Gaming 7, it’s only other

Eurogamer ran a story last year about a Witcher-based game being developed in the mid-’90s by Metropolis, a studio headed up by former People Can Fly boss Adrian Chmielarz. “To be honest I don’t know why they don’t have any of the data. And I just never deleted it after leaving the company,” Sobierski says in the video. “Also, once we left Adrian’s company, and we both left at the same time, I think the whole project collapsed. Most of the conversations focus on the programming of the game rathe

It never hurts to have extra HDMI cables laying around, right? Now is the time to stock up because Newegg is offering a pair of 6-foot HDMI cables on sale for just $2, with free shipping. We don’t normally post deals on HDMI cables (or cables in general), but given the price point here, we decided to make an exception. They don’t have a fancy anti-aliasing chip inside like Marseille’s mCable Gaming Edition HDMI cable, but you get two cables instead of one and save yourself $117. These are male-t

Meanwhile, the augmented reality (AR) segment is quickly gaining ground. Microsoft has been successful in convincing its hardware partners to jump on the bandwagon—Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are all readying lower cost mixed reality headsets starting at around $300. As it pertains to gaming, these mixed reality headsets will eventually support Steam, though probably not until sometime next year. Microsoft is also working with 343 Industries to bring some kind of Halo experience into the fo

Today, however, the developers announced that the bright future promised earlier this year is about to go completely dark. “After 3 great years, we are shutting down the PC Steam servers to refocus our development efforts. The PC game will officially be removed on January 2, 2018, and all DLC and purchasable content will also be unavailable starting today,” the Hawken team announced on Facebook. Hawken was first revealed to the world in 2011 with a “work-in-progress” trailer that looked so great

RAID 10 offers both speed and redundancy, with the caveat of requiring four or six NVMe drives. In both RAID 1 and RAID 10, drives are hot swappable on Threadripper. But RAID users know that scaling matters, too, and X399 NVMe RAID still looked great in our lab: 6.00X read scaling, and 5.38X write scaling, from one to six disks,” AMD said. Obtaining NVMe RAID support first requires updating your motherboard’s BIOS. Once that is in place, you can configure your NVMe RAID array from within the BIO

When Evan caught up with Wargroove at PAX last month, Chucklefish’s community manager Tom Katkus outlined how branching narratives will affect individual playthroughs. After visiting the developer at its London headquarters, Samuel discovered how player-created mods will affect the game’s outcomes further still. I think it’s fair to say we’re almost making a tool as much as we’re making a game, and that’s always exciting.” To this end, artist Jay Bayliss suggests the game’s entire campaign could