Somewhere in the Midwestern United States, apes overlook a ranch in a moonlit valley. He cites David Cage’s preposterous serial killer yarn Heavy Rain as the studio’s biggest inspiration—although hopefully the writing is better. I’m sure that’ll bite me in the ass later. Ultimately, story is everything in Last Frontier, and Imaginati is promising a variety of paths to take on the journey towards its multiple endings. The scenes I played were too brief to get a sense of how everything will come t

Earlier this week, Square Enix unveiled Left Alive—an action survival shooter from an all-star team of Armored Core and Metal Gear veterans. Yesterday, Gematsu reported a load of new information about what it’s all about via various translations from Famitsu magazine. And now, the publisher has revealed new screens and a brief glimpse of some in-game footage from this week’s Tokyo Game Show. First, the stills:Sharing the same world as the Front Mission series, Left Alive is said to star three al

Newegg’s latest sale is called the Set Tech Trends sale, and it appears to be based around the big brands you’d want to show off. There’s a lot of flashy hardware on show, but despite all the bells and whistles, there’s a lot of good quality underneath too. Here are some highlights:There’s plenty more on offer too, so head over to the main Tech Trend Sale page to see all the deals. It lasts until September 25, so you’ve got the rest of the week and all weekend to decide what to buy. Some online

Billed as an “action puzzler filled with cars and aliens”, Mugsters marks the debut PC project of Finnish indie developer Riku Tamminen. Having previously worked on a string of mobile games, his latest project—under the banner of Reinkout Games—has now been picked up by Team17. In a quest to save the world, Mugsters tasks players with solving puzzles, fighting aliens and rescuing survivors—all within a gorgeous physics-based sandbox world. “All the single player campaign missions are fully remix

A couple of weeks ago, we learned that Resident Evil 7 Biohazard’s long-awaited Not a Hero DLC will arrive free-of-charge alongside its End of Zoe counterpart. Now, Capcom has teased a few minutes of some Chris Redfield-starring in-game footage from the former. The Not a Hero DLC will land alongside RE7’s Gold Edition, and will be free for owners of “any version” of the game, so says Capcom. Here’s the dev on why Chris Redfield is back in action:”The free Not a Hero DLC sees the return of Reside

Back to Bed is a puzzle game about saving a sleepwalker named Bob from falling off ledges. As a creature from his subconscious named Subob, you have to block his progress across rooftops and sky-ledges with oversized green apples to steer him back to bed. Originally released back in 2013, Back to Bed’s unusual aesthetic and warped voice-acting, which sounds like it was spoken backwards and then flipped front-to-back again, were pretty memorable. Its creators at Danish studio Bedtime Digital have

There’s no doubt in my mind that Steam user review scores matter. SteamSpy already offered graphs like this, which we recently used to demonstrate review bombing in China. But the histogram isn’t really a solution, per se, because Valve doesn’t entirely see review bombing as a problem to be removed. If Valve wants to curb review bombing, it must decide when a review bomb is unjustified. At the worst, it’s a leaderboard for review bombing, and PC gamers love leaderboards.

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. This week we talk about our time with Divinity: Original Sin 2, more Quake Champions, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider’s creative new powers, Valve’s changes to Steam user reviews, and wrap with our usual Twitch chat Q&A. This week’s music comes from Localhost, a cyberpunk game where you convince AIs to de

It’s not hard to understand why Amazon’s 2014 acquisition, Double Helix, was put to work on Breakaway, especially given its track record of refining existing formulae with a combination of skill and charm. Breakaway is a 4v4 fantasy sports game. Unfortunately, the gameplay felt too homogenous between matches for me to get much of an impression of either Alona or Thorgrim, my chosen characters. As you play Breakaway, you gain gold to upgrade your character’s four different traits during the match

Battlerite, the indie competitive brawler described by Chris Thursten as “the best teamfight you’ve ever had”, is leaving Early Access on November 8. That milestone will coincide with it transforming to a free-to-play title (which has always been the plan – only the Early Access period has a price tag). But if you’re keen to play the game free before its official launch, there will be a free week starting September 25, and ending October 1. If come October you still want to play and can’t wait u

The Hearthstone Championship Tour America Summer Playoffs took place over last weekend, and it didn’t go especially smoothly. The redditors are clearly (and loudly) unhappy with the situation, but they’re not the only ones speaking up about it: Many pros involved in the weekend-long event took to social media to voice their displeasure as well. “Over the course of the event, playoff venues experienced multiple DDoS attacks and equipment malfunctions that disrupted the tournament. “We are current

Fugl, now in Early Access on Steam, is meant just for that. Billed as ‘a meditative bird flying game’, there are no goals, no guns, no ticking clock, and nothing to kill or to be killed by. As it’s in Early Access, the controls (on keyboard and mouse, at least) are a still a little clunky and it sometimes feels as if you’re fighting them. The camera, too, could use a little work, especially while you’re on the ground or bobbing in the water (I spied some large fish, and was attempting to morph i

In the Indie GIF Showcase, we dig up the best-looking new and upcoming indie games and explore what makes them special. Virgo vs. the Zodiac is a fantasy JRPG with sci-fi themes couched in the Zodiac calendar. Virgo’s abilities fall under ‘fixed’, ‘mutable’ and ‘cardinal’ and vary in effectiveness based on enemy types. At its core, Virgo vs. the Zodiac is classic pixel art, which makes the motion conveyed through its animations that much more impressive. Characters bounce and dash with delightfu

Last month, Electronic Arts announced a new 5v5 competitive mode for Battlefield 1 called Incursions, a smaller, more intensely-focused take on the game in which “only the sharpest strategic teams will rise to the top.” In a blog post that went up today, DICE producer David Sirland revealed more about what’s in store for players in the closed alpha test, which will get underway tomorrow. “Though you’ll experience a more compact scale in the 5-versus-5 matches of the Battlefield 1 Incursions Clos

If you’re looking for an affordable racing chair, you’ll find one at Rakuten (previously Buy.com). It has for sale an Essentials racing themed chair available in several color options for $43. After that, the next lowest price we found for the same chair is $74 at Amazon, or $94 for the black and gray model. While we haven’t sat in one, we doubt it’s on par with Vertagear’s SL5000, our current top pick for a racing chair. The Essentials chair has padded arms, segmented padding, and an integrated

The slippery devil recently got a series of ability tweaks, coinciding with the release of a juiced-up variant called Hydroid Prime. The slick, crowd controlling combo makes Hydroid unique among his peers. With loot as their prime motivator, Warframe players naturally gravitate toward what gets them the best stuff most efficiently. It also makes Warframe’s sprawling selection of mission types feel awfully similar over time. Hydroid Prime: more robot, less fish man.

FPS roguelike Strafe will receive a raft of new features in an upcoming ‘Millennium Edition’ update, developer Pixel Titans announced today. An exact release date has not been confirmed but the free update is expected to release soon, and a beta version is now available exclusively via Steam. Headlining the Millennium Edition is a save system allowing players to record their progress mid-run via Cryo Chambers. All playthroughs will benefit from the update’s myriad other additions, including thre

Last month, Nvidia delivered a showroom-fresh 4K, 60 fps trailer for EA’s upcoming racing game Need for Speed Payback. This month, it’s done much thesame thing—but this time we’ve got some system requirements too. Origin still lists Payback’s required hardware as “coming soon,” but Nvidia’s breakdown is pretty clear, and at this point I think it’s fair to acknowledge that they know what they’re talking about. Obviously there are no AMD display cards listed, but the “or equivalent” part should be

In response to the hoopla surrounding Threaderipper and its four dies, two of which are non-functional, or “dummy dies” as AMD calls them, an AMD exec took to Twitter to clarify things. According to James Prior, AMD’s Senior Product Manager, the two so-called dummy dies are “basically rocks” and cannot be enabled. This suggested that AMD wasn’t being entirely truthful about the use of dummy dies, and some speculated that it might somehow be possible to enable the two non-functioning dies. Differ

What might, however, is a new system seeking funding on Indiegogo that promises to play all of your old CDs from virtually any platform. At the heart of Seedi is an open-source software that uses emulation to bring old CD games back to life in the modern era. Seedi also serves as a backup for these old games, which suggests that you don’t need to keep a game CD inserted to play what’s on it. And beyond playing games, it also supposedly plays movies and music, and can function as a CD/DVD burner