I can’t stop watching Star Citizen’s ‘Around the Verse’ videos, which chronicle the development of this incredibly ambitious game. The latest looks at the animation system, and how players and NPCs will interact with usable objects in the game world. Sadly, there’s no word in the video on when exactly the big alpha 3.0 update is due. Characters will physically remove elements from ships when they’re repairing them and slot them into place when they’re finished. Oh, and Joe sat down with the deve

Every week, we ask our panel of PC Gamer writers a question about PC gaming. This week: you have a three-slot loadout you can fill with weapons from any PC game—what do you put in them? The gravity gun would have saved me time and energy, plus I could have launched my neighbor’s tacky nightstand into the next town. TF2’s medigun: Let’s face it, with a gravity gun and portal gun I’m going to wind up injuring someone, likely myself. Particle Cannon (Wolfenstein ’09): This little-remembered gun is

Cuphead, the platformer inspired by 1930s cartoons, is out now. You control one of two characters, Cuphead or Mugman, trying to repay a debt to the devil. As you can see from the launch trailer above it looks and sounds great, and judging by the overwhelmingly positive user reviews it plays pretty well too. It seems the long development time (it was first shown off at E3 way back in 2014) has paid off. It’s £14.99/$19.99 on Steam, GOG, the Windows 10 store and Humble Store.

My original article said that the issues plaguing the game over the past few days had been fixed. But as soon as the article went out players contacted PC Gamer on Twitter to say they were still having trouble. Then, shortly after, the developers put out this tweet:Investigating: We are aware of server connection issues. Those issues are now, thankfully, resolved, so you can play to your heart’s content (as I will be doing this weekend). If there’s one thing that could turn players away from PUB

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the original Fallout, Bethesda have made it free on Steam for the weekend. You’ve got until 11.59PM on September 30 (Pacific Time) to grab it and even if you don’t install it, Fallout will remain in your account forever. Fallout’s debut, or Fallout: A Post Nuclear Roleplaying Game to give it its full name, was a top-down RPG with turn-based combat that ran counter to the grain back when Diablo had made real-time combat the flavor of the day. If you’d like to

The HighsSamuel Roberts: NEXT-COMThis week I interviewed X-Com creator Julian Gollop about Phoenix Point, his return to the turn-based strategy genre. Jody Macgregor: My high is elvesWhen I was a kid playing Warhammer Fantasy Battles the High Elves were my first army. This week, Total War: Warhammer 2 came out and the High Elves are one of its playable factions. Gaming communities are big exchanges of ideas and discoveries, and groups like Game Detectives dedicate themselves even more earnestly

Earlier this week we scoped out a Star Wars Battlefront 2 video hosted by John Boyega that hyped up everything the game will have to offer. Today, Sony unveiled the rest of the “single player story scene” that clip comes from, and it’s pretty good—and a little creepy, too. It’s interesting that Versio appears as committed to Team Bad Guys as her father, who appears to be a highly-placed and trusted member of the Imperial command structure. She seems quite eager to dive into Operation Cinder, and

The Humble Bundle folks have kicked off a new “Gems” bundle of indie games, and a special one-day sale that’s underway too. In fact, it’s called the One Special Day Sale, and 100 percent of payments for games in the sale will go to SpecialEffect, a charity that helps make videogames accessible to people with physical disabilities. Beat the average and you’ll also get Pinstripe, Slayaway Camp, and Apotheon. Over to the One Special Day Sale, the selection of games is relatively small, but there ar

If you’re an Assassin’s Creed superfan and you need some new headphones, the Ubisoft Store in the UK has a nice “Listen Wireless” Bluetooth rig from Focal with a 15 meter range, 20-hour battery life, 15Hz-22kHz frequency response, and the Assassin’s Creed logo emblazoned tastefully on the cups. The cans in question are the Assassin’s Creed Origins Utopia by Tournaire handcrafted headphones, created through the combined talents of a 3D artist, an art caster, and a goldsmith, all of whom “worked t

I was more of a Lincoln Logs kid, but I do remember the magic of assembling wooden train sets, sliding those little nubs together and hearing them clink around when you wiggle the track to test its strength. Tracks, the self-proclaimed premier wooden train set game, is all about that nostalgic creativity. Developer Whoop Group describes Tracks as a creativity toy first and foremost. Build loops, ramps and stations, surround them with trees and buildings, fill your train with passengers and watch

We reported last month that Football Manager 2018, the somewhat popular soccer boss sim, will be out on November 10. Most of the above video is just faux-speculation about upgraded AI, a new graphics engine, revamped scouting options, and “dynamics,” whatever that means. Jacobson doesn’t delve into great detail, but he confirms that the scouting system in Football Manager 2018 will “better reflect how real clubs recruit players,” and that it will feature “improved stadium designs and match prese

Given that RAM prices have skyrocketed over the past year, we are always on the lookout for a good deal. Relatively speaking, we found one—an 8GB (2x4GB) kit of Corsair’s Vengeance LPX (CMK8GX4M2B3000C15R) is on sale at Amazon and Newegg for $80. Granted, this was a $50 kit at one point in time, though you have to back to 2016 for that price. This kit is rated to run at 3,000MHz with timings set at 15-17-17-35, and at 1.35V. You can grab this kit from Amazon here, and Newegg here.

Rumors of Nvidia releasing a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics die simply will not die, and most likely because they’re true. Now it’s being said the GTX 1070 Ti will launch on October 26. Rumors of a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti first gained steam when blurry photo emerged on a Chinese website earlier this month. According to Nordic Hardware, the GTX 1070 Ti will have 2,432 cuda cores, with a 1,607MHz base clock (same as the GTX 1080) and 1,683MHz boost clock (same as the GTX 1070). Over on another corner of

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has a line of Lightsaber motherboards, the newest of which is the Z370-Lightsaber supporting Intel’s 8th generation Core Coffee Lake processors. The Z370-Lightsaber also wields three PCIe 3.0 x16 slots and three PCIe x1 slots. ECS is advertising high end components on this board, including durable chokes and MOSFETs for stable power deliver, especially when overclocking. Including the rear I/O and internal headers, this board offers a total of 15 USB ports (two

The Call of Duty: WWII PC multiplayer beta got underway yesterday, a day in advance of its scheduled start date for reasons that remain a mystery. We look forward to a healthy and constructive dialog throughout the weekend on our forum,” Condrey wrote optimistically. “This year, we made a renewed commitment to the PC community for Call of Duty: WWII, and it was great to see players rally to some of the PC focused features that are available in the Beta. Over the next few days look for us to cont

Thir runaway popularity has inspired the development of a new kind of mini-console that’s a bit closer to our PC-loving hearts: The C64 Mini. For those who’d rather get straight to the chunky pixels, it will also come with a “classic style joystick” and 64 “legendary” preinstalled games. “Most of these were rated over 90 percent by leading publications of the day, with many winning coveted awards,” creator Retro Games said. “Our aim is to deliver the C64 Mini console set to Indiegogo backers and

Looking even further down the road, however, Intel’s website hints of a possible 7nm product called Sapphire Rapids. Sapphire Rapids will be Intel’s 12th generation Core processor family. The company’s just-released Coffee Lake line for the desktop is considered its 8th generation Core family, so Sapphire Rapids is several generations away. It is reasonable to speculate that Intel’s 12th generation Core processor will represent a move to 7nm. For Intel, Sapphire Rapids will be a major architectu

For new players the game explains itself better than any other Total War to date, through detailed tooltips and sensible campaign introduction tutorials. Total War: Warhammer 2 is forgiving during the opening stretch, but a campaign isn’t the best place to learn an army and experiment. Plus, how are you supposed to know what to build if you don’t know how the units you’re unlocking really function? Then I like to find a few high level units I like so I can later aim for them in the campaign. Loo

Developer Bluehole announced today that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now being maintained by PUBG Corp, a Bluehole subsidiary “focused entirely on the development and global business opportunities” for the battle royale shooter. PUBG development lead Chang Han Kim is now CEO of PUBG Corp, and Woonghee Cho, former CEO of Maui Games and head of business development for Neowiz, will join as COO of the new company to focus on “accelerating overall business development and managing global operati

You’ve heard about the PC Gamer Club, right? You know, the membership programme we launched earlier this year that nets members a digital subscription to PC Gamer magazine, monthly game keys, ad-free-browsing on this site, and more. Anyway, this month’s PC Gamer Club game is Tropico 4. It has enhanced diplomacy options over its predecessor, and is generally considered a better game than Tropico 3. And, for even more Tropico action, you might like to check out Bundle Stars’ Nemesis 3 Bundle.