Blizzard has released a new Overwatch digital comic called Searching, starring everyone’s favorite Russian heavyweight, Sergeant Aleksandra Zaryanova—better known to the world as Zarya. Can she overcome her prejudices and learn a valuable lesson about life in time to deliver the heart-touching conclusion we all expect? They clash, Zarya comes out on top, but wait! Sombra has a secret, Zarya is shocked, and in the end it’s like the whole thing never happened. Then again, maybe I’m expecting too m

Divinity: Original Sin 2, then, is a blessing. With its co-op and Game Master modes, it’s not just a convenient alternative to a tabletop RPG, it’s occasionally an improvement. As I said in my review, Divinity: Original Sin 2 is the type of Game Master that lets you attempt almost anything. Original Sin 2’s combat system is one of the best in the genre, but it’s elaborate and, in my experience, very hard to balance when you’re making your own encounters. But in Original Sin 2, there are no compl

It’s what I’m thinking. Getting Over It is the latest game from Bennett Foddy, an evil, evil man. You may know him from such browser-based brutality as CLOP, GIRP and most famously, QWOP, all games with simple premises and madhouse controls. I don’t know it yet, but I’m going to spend a lot of time in The Pit. You don’t know this, but I’ve given each of these GIFs a dramatic title.

Gigabyte has updated its website with an upgraded external graphics dock for laptops that now features a GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card inside. The new Aorus GTX 1080 Gaming Box looks the same as the GeForce GTX 1070 version that is currently for sale, but has more graphics muscles for high-end gaming. In gaming mode, the GeForce GTX 1080 has a 1,607MHz base clockspeed and 1,733MHz boost clock. Gigabyte did not say when its upgraded Gaming Box will be available or for how much. As a point of ref

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. We’ll also dig into some hardware talk with Maximum PC editor Tuan Nguyen, and leave plenty of time to answer your questions. This week’s topics:A lot of games sure have released recently Invasion of the Thargoids in Elite: Dangerous! Your questions, our answersListen:Your flapping heads for this episode:Ev

Developed by Ilker Dagli, a system and network administrator at Near East University at Cyprus, this steampuunk-esque contraption is literally a valve that controls Internet bandwidth. Turn it left and it opens up the floodgates, turn it right and it throttles your Internet connection. Once plugged in, you can turn the valve to limited both upload and download speeds. “We thought that limiting the bandwidth shouldn’t be that much hard and made a valve that simply controls your bandwidth. Simply

Back in 2012, Valve debuted a mobile version of Steam that it said would “expand the service functionality of Steam to make it richer and more accessible for everyone.” Now Blizzard is making its own move into the world of portable account management with the release of a mobile version of its Battle.net software for Android and iOS devices. “Available for iOS and Android, the Blizzard Battle.net mobile app brings social features from the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app to your phone.” The Steam

The post begins with a rundown of the success of Soma, which has now sold approximately 650,000 copies. That’s “a very good result,” but it also counts “every single download of the game as a sale,” regardless of its source or price. “This game will be less about direct, visceral horror, and more about the player gaining an understanding of different concepts. This can, as we know from working on SOMA, be quite tricky to get right and requires a slightly different approach than when working on a

Agents of Mayhem developer Volition has laid off more than 30 of its roughly 200 employees, according to a Kotaku report. Exactly how Agents of Mayhem fared on the sales charts isn’t known, but it’s clearly not a big hit on the PC. Older games may still love Volition for the Freespace series, but Agents of Mayhem notwithstanding it’s best-known these days for the Saints Row series, which started off as a GTA-flavored open-world tale of life on the streets before eventually moving to the more ove

Lenovo is once again discounting its Legion Y520 gaming laptop, which you can grab with a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti tucked inside for $736, after applying coupon code LEVELUP20. The weak spot is storage—it is outfitted with a 1TB hard drive instead of a faster solid state drive. Unfortunately, Lenovo is using a 5,400 RPM drive instead of a 7,200 RPM HDD. Same goes for a build-your-own SKU that comes standard with a GeForce GTX 1060 GPU with 3GB of memory for $920. You can find the Legion Y520 here.

At least one of AMD’s partners is planning to skip making a custom Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics cards, and another one is on the fence, according to TomsHardware. MSI told TomsHardware that it “won’t be making a custom card anytime soon,” but chose not to elaborate. Gigabyte, on the other hand, said it was likely the company would build a custom Vega 64 card, but was not 100 percent certain. Several others are planning to build custom Vega 64 cards, such as Asus, PowerColor, Sapphire, and XFX. For

Nvidia has teamed up with Warner Bros. to include a Steam copy of Middle-earth: Shadow of War with the purchase of certain GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards. Shadow of War is set to release in a couple of weeks on October 10, 2017. To run Shadow of War with the details settings on high, Nvidia recommends a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for 4K (3840×2160) displays, a GeForce GTX 1070 for 1440p (2560×1440) displays, and a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB for 1080p (1920×1080) displays. If you want

In case you were unaware, Moore’s Law is no longer relevant, as GPUs are advancing at a much faster pace than CPUs. Moore’s Law is the name given to an observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965. Around a year ago, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich downplayed reports of Moore’s Law coming to an end. “In my 34 years in the semiconductor industry, I have witnessed the advertised death of Moore’s Law no less than four times. “Intel’s industry leadership of Moore’s Law remains intact, and you

Would you like to take a guided tour of the pyramids of Giza as Queen Cleopatra? Assassin’s Creed: Origins is getting a free update in early 2018 that will let you do just that. Discovery mode will strip out all of the game’s combat and quests so you can wander peacefully around Ubisoft’s huge recreation of ancient Egypt in 20-minute guided tours with voiced narration and custom animations. The team considered the mode after hearing stories of teachers using their games to excite students about

My brief playthrough of The Evil Within 2 at Gamescom was familiar but frightening. And while I didn’t see much of its mysterious bosses, James got shown a little more during a hands-on last week. We’ve not seen much of mysterious priest Father Theodore before now, but the henchmen featured in the following trailer look pretty darn terrifying. I mean, as if being tooled up with flamethrowers wasn’t enough, what in the world (or otherworld, perhaps) is that flesh/gore breathing apparatus/mask thi

What used to be a seawall is now an impenetrable fort with an intimidating, fire-spewing gate blocking access to the Dead Barrens beyond. It’s a unique take on the world of Mad Max, and wonderfully evocative. Eventually you break through the gate and journey into the Dead Barrens, which was once the coastline of that forgotten ocean. It’s one of the prettiest, most atmospheric open worlds on PC, and is confident enough to make its own mark on established Mad Max lore. This makes it feel like a l

Last December, RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic—a remaster of 1999’s RollerCoaster Tycoon—launched on mobile devices. Remastered by series creator Chris Sawyer, RCT Classic aims to “combine the best features” from the 18-year old original and its successor RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. And it comes with the game’s Toolkit, Wacky Worlds and Time Twister expansions in tow. Time Twister adds 14 scenarios based around historical and/or fantasy themes; while Toolkit offers up a Park Scenario Editor. Head to th

Skyrim Special Edition’s isn’t just yet—the main game has not yet been updated—but its dedicated Steam page has been rolled out. “Get Credits to be used in Creation Club—a collection of all-new game content for Skyrim Special Edition,” so reads the Steam page’s blurb. Using Creation Club is easy—browse the selection in-game by category and use Credits to download the content. Similar to Fallout 4’s Creation Club, credits can be purchased in packs of 750, 1500, 3000, and 5500—which translates to

A frequent, and mostly unfair, question levied at ZeniMax’s The Elder Scrolls Online is: Is this like multiplayer Skyrim? It’s not, but the Skyrim Together mod is. It’s now got a comprehensive feature update trailer that explores cooperative combat, exploration and additional enemy placement, among other things. Look, see:The Skyrim Together team originally hoped to launch this month, however reckons October is more likely at this stage. Post-launch, the mod’s team also plans to create an API th

After an impromptu summer holiday, Samuel and Phil return with PC Gamer’s new deputy editor, Philippa Warr. We apologise for our month long break, and launch into an (ethically sound, disclaimer containing) chat about Heat Signature, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Paladins: Champions of the Realm and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Download: Episode 53: I got my head a bit too stuck in online. You can also subscribe on iTunes or keep up with new releases using our RSS feed. Discussed: H