Last week, I set up a short survey on what players want from the future of GTA Online. Indeed, I suspect heists are the only way I’ll get all the PC Gamer guys to put more hours into GTA Online again. Only 3.5% like the idea of GTA Online being a paid subscription fee MMO, which isn’t enormously surprising. I really enjoy GTA Online and like seeing it grow, but it’d be nice to have both, eh? GTA Online is fascinating to me: with no mandatory paid expansions and no public roadmap for the game, it

The Humble Store End of Summer Sale is into its final days, but there’s still time to pick up one final free game: Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, an adventure-platformer about a Mudokon slave who seeks to free his compatriots from the RuptureFarms meat processing factory. Abe’s Oddysee is a pretty old game—it originally came out in 1997—but also a very good one. And it’s free, which is a tough price to beat. Head to the Abe’s Oddysee page on the Humble Store, click the “add to cart” button, check your

The latest Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus trailer, “No More Nazis,” is more focused on gameplay than previous teasers, but that doesn’t mean that it’s entirely without a narrative bent. The Nazis have destroyed Manhattan and turned New Orleans into a walled ghetto. And small-town America hasn’t escaped their predations, either: “They brazenly walk the streets,” Bethesda said, “going where they want, taking what they want, and behaving however they please.” It’s a brilliant bit of world-building

The nature of Billie’s task, and the nature of Billie herself, means that Death of the Outsider diverges from the standard template of a Dishonored campaign. But, across the ten hours Death of the Outsider took me to complete, I never felt short of options. New for Death of the Outsider is a contracts system, which lets you pick up optional objectives from the black market. When Death of the Outsider is at its best, though, it’s a worthy accompaniment to the series at large. Disclaimer: One of t

In celebration of Bundle Stars’ seven-day Epic Loot event and the latest BundleFest event, we’ve partnered with the digital distributor in giving away a host of big PC gaming-related prizes over the coming days. For the next four days, a new part of the Epic Loot Giveaway will be unveiled. And you’ll have a chance to submit a daily entry to the competition to improve your chances of winning. Worth $600, today’s Day 1 prize reveal is an HTC Vive virtual reality headset—which you can read about in

Let’s start with the features checklist:Given its PC and EA roots, it’s no surprise that Ark gets many things right. If you’re running a 144Hz 1440p display, good luck on maxing out the refresh rate—even at minimum quality you’re going to come up short. And how about 4K epic quality, the holy grail of gaming? This is Ark at epic quality, crapping on your PC’s hardware. As for performance, Ark also joins the ranks of some of the most demanding PC games currently available.

Knights of the Frozen Throne is one of Hearthstone’s stranger expansions. But there are more complex reasons why Knights of the Frozen Throne hasn’t quite worked. I’m confident in saying that Frozen Throne landed its big theme better than Un’Goro did. Frozen Throne also includes the least amount of unplayable ‘pack filler’ cards, and absolutely nailed The Lich King in terms of flavour. Cold comfortThe real lesson I think we’ve learned from Frozen Throne is how futile trying to predict the meta a

Image credit: Zone of the Enders wikiShuyo Murata and Hideo Kojima’s Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner is coming to PC, after first launching on PlayStation 2 consoles in 2003. Due in Spring 2018, Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner—Mars marks a 4K and VR-supporting remaster. This is the first time the series has come to PC, though, which is of course cause for a new trailer. Thus, using theJehuty unit’s advanced technology, the player is charged withstriking deep at the heart of the BAHRAM army

GTA Online’s added a new adversary mode as part of its Smuggler’s Run update this week: Bombushka Run, where two teams of up to four take to the skies and try to bring each other down. One team pilots the new and deadly Bombushka aircraft, which has three turrets, while the other team tries to take the bomber down in Buzzard helicopters. You can get double experience and GTA$ playing this mode until 25 September. Liveries, resprays (both for cars and planes) and aircraft weapons are also 25% off

Now, one modder has introduced Final Fantasy 7’s Tifa Lockhart to Red Hook Studios’ brutally unforgiving dungeon crawler. Like Solaire above, Muscarine’s Tifa Lockhart Class Mod not only adds Tifa’s likeness—à la the Geralt skin included here—but also adds traits and abilities akin to dive bar-owning Avalanche member. Limit Break, followed by Dolphin Blow then Leviathan, can cost around 30 percent HP from your remaining 66 percent HP. To this end, Muscarine adds: “Hence why you have to be extra

GOG has just launched its Big Deal sale with discounts of up to 75% on games like X-Com-a-like, Xenonauts, Age of Wonders, Crypt of the Necrodancer and more. Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is also free for the duration. To celebrate we’re teaming up to run a raffle to give you a chance to grab a free game from a collection of great titles. All you have to do to to be in with a shot of picking up a code is follow the instructions in the widget below. There are more than 400 codes available, and they wil

Billed primarily as a “content” expansion—against its forerunner Heart of Thorns’ “feature” leanings—Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire is almost upon us. Announced last month, and previewed by Phil here, developer AreaNet has now dropped its launch trailer. Again, Phil’s got you covered with all the how, whens and whys this-a-way, however I think it’s worth noting that despite being set in the Crystal Desert, Path of Fire’s locale isn’t an uninteresting place. Every type of desert you can dream of is i

This is Sonic Mania’s mini-boss theme ‘Danger on the Dance Floor’. With ‘Danger on the Dance Floor’ he had a different aim. The classic 1990s sound of Sonic is what Sonic Mania is all about. It shares a funfair-esque “Danny Elfman soundtracks Halloween” vibe with ‘Danger on the Dance Floor’ and another source: ‘Dr. Despite the shared vibe, the similarities between ‘Danger on the Dance Floor’ and ‘Dr.

When Monster Hunter: World was unveiled at this year’s E3, Capcom announced it’d arrive on PCs later than consoles. The developer later confirmed this was “just a resources and manpower issue”, and has now set January 26, 2018 as the ARPG’s console DOA. Despite the announcement ahead of this week’s Tokyo Game Show, Monster Hunter: World’s PC launch remains unconfirmed—said to “follow at a later date”, as per a Capcom statement. This was my first foray into a Monster Hunter game mind you, and wit

In the wake of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ meteoric success, we’ve pondered which games might benefit from introducing a battle royale mode. Powered by Improbable’s cloud-based SpatialOS tech and the CryEngine, the currently in-development “cutting-edge” and untitled MMO tactical shooter will support 1,000 concurrent players within a shared world, however will also include a last-person standing, PUBG-like arena combat mode that supports up to 400 players “in direct combat”. For the sake of r

Ahead of this weekend’s Tokyo Game Show 2017, Square Enix has revealed Left Alive—a new “survival action shooter” that’s coming to PC via Steam next year. As you may have spotted in the header image above, the Metal Gear series character designer Yoji Shinkawa is involved too—forming a team which will “join forces to create Left Alive’s dark and gritty world.” Here’s a brief glimpse at that world in motion:Square Enix says more information will be revealed over the course of TGS. In the meantime

Yes, GOG had a sale only last week, but now the site is running another sale. And this time, they’re calling it ‘The Big Deal Sale’. Why is it a big deal? Because in addition to there being upwards of 200 items on sale, there will apparently be something “absolutely, definitely, positively special” for everyone who visits the site on Tuesday (or Wednesday in Australia). As for what tomorrow’s “absolutely, definitely, positively special” thing, I’ve got no idea what it is, but I’d guess it’s a fr

Grim Dawn developer Crate Entertainment announced earlier this year that two new classes, the Inquisitor and the Necromancer, and a new Illusionist merchant would be coming to the game in a future DLC release. We haven’t heard anything more about it since March, but today the studio released a new trailer revealing that the expansion, entitled Ashes of Malmouth, will be out next month. The expansion will add two new chapters to the game set in the Ugdenbog and fallen city of Malmouth, which appe

That meant when NPCs loaded in with that tag attached to their data, their health bars immediately dropped to zero. Thus, the mystery of the despawning enemies was solved, and Stiernberg heaved a sigh of relief. Perhaps you’re wondering why the bug wasn’t caught sooner, but Zeboyd Games is made up of exactly two people. Don’t PanicOne of the things Stiernberg remembers best is the crucial day-one patch he needed to deliver to the PS4 servers. If it didn’t mean that much to me personally I don’t

The Monolith Visual Update to Epic’s third-person MOBA Paragon was initially slated to be out in August, but was pushed back a couple of weeks before its release. Last week, Epic announced a new rollout date of September 21, and today the full patch notes are out. The Monolith Visual Update also makes balance changes and bug fixes to numerous heroes, and provides a “full visual rework” to the map, including an opened skybox allowing characters to jump through and over gaps in some walls. The pat