Wargroove is referred to as a smaller Chucklefish project, relatively speaking—six or seven people are working on it, with a release date targeted for early next year. I think the biggest thing we learned from Stardew Valley is that there’s an inherent value in [having] a game world that’s just charming to be in. Before you even start talking about the gameplay and the mechanics and everything else, am I in love with this game world? How do I put together a game world that really hits home, [tha

Due November 7, 2017, Nioh: Complete Edition will include the base game (which our sister site GamesRadar seemed keen on at launch) and its three DLC expansions—Dragon of the North, Defiant Honour, and Bloodshed’s End. Said to flaunt “stunning high-end resolution graphics”, the Complete Edition will come with an Action Mode and Movie Mode, which promise a “stable” 60fps and 4K support respectively. “I am thrilled to announce that this massocore game will finally be available for our die-hard PC

HTC earlier this summer dropped the price of its Vive VR headset to $600 to make it more competitive with the Oculus Rift’s also recently-reduced pricing. Now HTC is upping the ante by bundling Fallout 4 VR, a $60 value, with new Vive purchases. That’s a pretty sweet value-add, and one that could entice more gamers to take the plunge into VR territory. Fallout 4 VR will come in the form of a redemption code. If you already own a Vive headset, HTC has a lesser bargain available—it will gift a 3-m

I’ve played almost 80 hours of Metal Gear Solid 5, and much of it in a specific way. And when stealth does fail, I fall back on sleep grenades, smoke grenades, active decoys and—most effectively of all—running away. It’s a fun way to play, but, outside of boss encounters, I’ve rarely felt the need to switch up my tactics. My actual objective is to destroy some comms equipment in a nearby base. I shoot the comms station, completing the mission but alerting every nearby guard to my location.

It may lack the spectacle of football’s greatest stage, but the stars of the Elasto Mania World Cup have just as much power to amaze as the likes of Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo. But he tried to get it pulled from the competition when he saw how hard the prior World Cup events were. After an exhilarating few months, it’s now back to business as usual for the competitive Elasto Mania scene. “We have thought that maybe it should be like 2021, because that’s when Elasto Mania turns 20 years old,” Vill

Image credit: Reviewjournal.comDespite high profile forays into other disciplines, Conor McGregor is not the highest ranked pound-for-pound UFC fighter in the world. That accolade belongs to Demetrious Johnson—the sport’s long-serving, record-holding Flyweight champion who hosts Twitch livestreams in his spare time. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is his favourite game at the moment, Johnson tells me, and it’s one he reckons he could outperform company counterpart Conor McGregor at. Later this mon

But the battle royale megahit rounded off the last seven days with a slew of negative Steam reviews. Despite being fully-localised, Chinese players complain of lag-affected local servers and are often forced to join European or North American games. Conversely, native players in these forums report migrant players bring their own lag and can be at times unplayable. Chinese players have now reported in-game advertising for an ‘accelerator’ VPN service said to boost connections to international se

Mandragora was the developer behind Skyhill, a 2015 turn-based survival game in which Chris enjoyed dying repeatedly. Now the studio has announced a release date for their second title, a top-down action ‘rogue-lite’ in the vein of The Binding of Isaac called Freaky Awesome. That, in turn, gives you new powers that you’ll have to adapt to on the fly. If those over-the-top powers are as good as they sound, Mandragora could be onto a winner. You can go it alone or team up with up to three others i

LAN parties are a sacred part of PC gaming’s past, and one that we miss dearly. But the LAN party has definitely lost its appeal in a broadband internet age. This weekend, we want to reminisce about that golden era of gluttonous gaming by hearing your favorite LAN party memories. Hop into the comments and let us know about the best LAN party you’ve ever been to. We’re going to take our favorite stories and compile them into an article for next week so that we can all reminisce together.

We asked our community to share their worst horror stories and have gathered our favorites for you to read and enjoy. He wrote in to share not one but three PC building horror stories (each more devastating than the last). Commenter: Dallin GrimmI have horrible luck with PC building, as the following tales will describe. Whenever subsequent boots were attempted, the PC would [blue screen of death] before the boot screen and turn off. The glue that bindsThis is technically more of a PC repair hor

Before you start configuring your fan profile, I recommend checking the option to start Afterburner with Windows. Here you will be presented with the default fan curve. The vertical numbers represent fan speed while the horizontal numbers represent temperature. If we simply move the points back a bit we can solve any potential throttling issues. Even if you don’t intend on using the full feature set, I find afterburner to be the most intuitive option for customizing your GPU cooling.

Developer Black Matter has now launched a Kickstarter campaign, aiming to raise AU$136,000 (roughly $106,000/£80,000) before the end of this month. There’s things to be excited about, I reckon: there’s almost no HUD (or crosshairs) to speak of, which ties into the theme of realism, and there’s a heavy emphasis on player positioning and communicating with your platoon. What we do know is that capturing different points on the map will yield different resources: holding a fuel depot will allow you

The Call of Duty: WWII PC multiplayer beta only launched three days ago but the hackers have already invaded. “It’s becoming more and more difficult to find a game in the WW2 open beta without there being an incredibly obvious hacker not trying to hide it,” they said. “At one point I got 5 games in a row with these types of hackers, all different lobbies, all different hackers.” As Redditors on the thread point out, it’s not particularly surprising that the beta has attracted hackers, nor is it

The latest update to the Witcher-based competitive card game Gwent lifts the curtain on the game’s first holiday event, the Mahakam Ale Festival, and makes more than 40 cards in the game ‘agile’, which means they can be placed on any row on the game board. The boozy festival comprises three new single-player challenges that you complete to earn experience points. Perhaps more interesting, though, are the gameplay changes that the update introduces. It’s called the ‘Agile Update’ for a reason: it

Vaporum, out now, is not shy about its inspirations: it boasts that it’s in the ilk of “old-school games like Dungeon Master I and II, the Eye of the Beholder series, and Legend of Grimrock I and II”. The Grimrock comparison seems especially apt because Vaporum is a pretty dungeon crawler with grid-based, real-time combat that happens in first person. But where Grimrock had a party of four characters to control, here you’re one man in an exo-suit. The other main point of distinction is the steam

Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan’s latest blog post is a revealing read. On a thread asking whether the Overwatch team needs to grow in order to properly respond to fans’ requests, Kaplan said that posting on the forums was “scary” and “intimidating”, and that developers were constantly worried about saying the wrong thing. “Very few of us actually [post on the forums] because it’s extremely intimidating and/or time consuming. It’s very easy to post the wrong thing and make a ‘promise’ to the comm

It took a few days, but Elite Dangerous players have destroyed their first Thargoid vessel. Early reports suggested that the Thargoid ships had weaponry that could rip you apart in seconds—but pilots have now found a way to take them down. If you too want to take down the alien ship, you should first follow Commander Balladoc’s step-by-step instructions on how to encounter a Thargoid vessel. The SDC video serves as a decent tutorial to actually bringing the thing down, too. If you’ve tried to ta

It’s worth taking your time in Death of the Outsider, the recently-released expansion for Dishonored 2. Its world is dripping in atmosphere, full of detail and side stories that will take you the best part of 10 hours to fully explore. The best of the bunch is streamer Bjurnie, who has just achieved a new world record by zipping through the expansion in nine and a half minutes flat. Basically, you have to rebind jump to the mouse wheel, preferably on a free-scrolling mouse. Needless to say the r

The seventeen-year-old multiplayer space combat game Allegiance has finally landed on Steam. It was initially launched by Microsoft Game Studios in 2000 and the source code released in 2008, after which players could play the game free online. The hope is that the Steam version, called Microsoft Allegiance, will attract more players and help the game live on. The game is half RTS, half first-person space combat sim. You do that, primarily, by blowing up enemy ships, but there’s a lot of strategy

Though I know I shouldn’t, because I haven’t finished the game, I’ve started digging into Divinity: Original Sin 2’s mod tools. The problem is that by learning the tools (here’s how to set them up) I’m spoiling Original Sin 2 for myself, and may end up pulling back the curtain too far. If I can will myself away from the campaign and mod tools, I’ll use this weekend to get back on the boat and continue teleporting people into fire. Rocket League is such a gift, and if you haven’t tried a private