Art by Deviantart user oclero for Zelda: Mercuris’ Chest, a Solarus engine game. Enter Solarus, a fan-made, open-source game engine and quest editor dedicated to the creation of Zelda-likes and other 2D action games. The engine, built in C++, is a result of five years’ work for creator Christopho, a dedicated Zelda fan. After five years had passed, Christopho’s team found themselves with three disparate yet completed projects—the Solarus engine, the Solarus Quest Editor, and the finished game, Z

Building a PC is a special kind of ritual: Shopping for parts, waiting eagerly for them to arrive, and assembling everything. It’s been two years since we last asked our community to open up and share their PC building horror stories. So that’s why this week we want your most gruesome, most despairing tales of how your build went wrong. And if you have a picture you can share, upload it to Imgur and share it. Next week, we’ll round up our favorite PC building horror stories and share them with y

Nothing has really gone right for Battleborn, has it? “As of this week, there will be no more Battleplans and there is currently no planned content after the fall update,” writes creative director Randy Varnell in a letter to the community. Once the fall update drops, Battleborn will continue ”for the foreseeable future”, but it will essentially be in maintenance mode. “I’ve been working on Battleborn nearly exclusively since 2012, and in some ways, that work stretches back to 2009 for me,” cont

Despite a rocky launch involving a power outage, Divinity: Original Sin 2 quickly claimed the stop spot on Steam. Last night it boasted the fourth highest number of concurrent players on Steam, with only PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 having more at the time. As PGamesN point out, this makes it one of the strongest launches for a CRPG, beating both the first Original Sin and Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity. They boasted a concurrent player peak of 22k a

Blizzard recently announced a lot heroes, skins and a new map for Heroes of the Storm, and this weekend they’ve shown off a bit more of Ana, Overwatch’s sniper mum, who will be appearing in the MOBA alongside her Aussie foe, Junkrat. The trailer also shows off all the new skins that are in development for other heroes, including D.Va and Varian. Other notable upcoming skins include Varian’s Soviet costume, which gives the Warcraft hero a fancy bearskin shoulder pad and, of course, a ushanka. Vol

But they haven’t often gotten under my skin the way they did in Localhost , a cyberpunk game I bought this week on itch.io. It cast me as a cross between a network administrator and a repairwoman in a chop shop where my job is to delete hard drives and free up space. Like all the best cyberpunk fiction Localhost’s vision of near-future technology is all about clunky 1980s-style tech, and in its future storage space is apparently at a premium. What makes the job hard is that each of the four driv

Total War: Warhammer 2, which launches on September 28, has become the victim of a heist this week. A delivery van transporting copies of the collector’s edition was robbed of its precious cargo in Milton Keynes, UK. Only 7,000 copies of the Serpent God Edition were created, but Creative Assembly have urged people not to worry—their pre-orders won’t be affected by the theft. “We’d like to reassure fans who have pre-ordered their Serpent God Edition that this incident will not affect them receivi

Did you know the weekend wasn’t really discovered by explorer Robert J. But Schmuhh didn’t have the funding Robert Weekend did, plus no one wanted the call the weekend the schmuhh. So, what are you playing this schmuhh? I’ve been having a go at Academia: School Simulator, which is in Early Access and is highly reminiscent of Prison Architect (which I love). Let us know what you’re planning on playing, and if you’re looking for company, join the PC Gamer Club for access to our Discord where you’l

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ unstoppable rise continues, with the game hitting yet another milestone today. The massively popular battle royale shooter has now broken Dota 2’s record for highest concurrent player count on Steam. Yes, Dota 2’s 1.29 million record has been shattered, with PUBG hitting 1.3 million concurrent players. This is even more impressive given that PUBG is still in Early Access, and the previous record holder is a free-to-play game developed by Valve. SteamSpy was chartin

The closed alpha for Wild West Online, the gunslinging, gold-mining MMO, has kicked off, opening the saloon doors to any card shark, outlaw and cowboy who bought the Pioneer or Collector’s edition. This first alpha will run for three weekends. Gold is what’s going to be driving the action during the alpha, developer 612 Games explain. In this version of the game, players will need to mine gold and even work together to create mining camps with other players. “We’re giving players a glimpse at wh

It’s actually about indie games big and small, and I hope you’ll join us there as we try new things and cover games that might otherwise struggle to be noticed. My other high is stumbling across a trailer for The Hex , a forthcoming game from Pony Island creator Daniel Mullins. Why, if only there was a place dedicated to indie games that could keep me abreast of developments such as this. But I want to highlight a game I’m especially excited about, myself: Into the Breach, the turn-based strateg

The video begins with Pewdiepie saying that Let’s Plays and their creators exist is a sort of “grey area” with regards to copyright law. Interestingly, he argues from there that while Campo Santo’s copyright claim probably overrides the permissions granted on its website, he doesn’t think it can retroactively withdraw that permission from videos that already exist. And especially when the reason to take down the content has nothing to do with copyright, it sort of shows that. “It’s important tha

Earlier this week, we set out to catalog every PC game coming out before the end of this year, from Fruit Golf to What!? Even though there’s only a few months to go, it feels like 2017 in PC gaming has barely started. And for more details on the year’s games, released or not, pop over to our larger preview of all the new games of 2017. Arktika.1October 10 | OculusA VR game from Metro creators 4A Games, Arktika.1 is set after an apocalypse during “a new ice age.” ElexOctober 17 | SteamAn action R

Leatherface joined the cast of Dead by Daylight yesterday with a bit of $4 DLC that adds the “skin clad maniac,” who the devs also note just wants to be accepted, to the asymmetrical survival horror game. Leatherface will kill with “devastating sweeping attacks” from his chainsaw, of course, and his perks include Knockout, which hides dying survivor’s auras; Barbecue & Chili, which reveals distant survivor’s auras after you hook one of them; and Franklin’s Demise which forces survivors to drop a

Digital Extremes has released a new teaser showcasing some of the environments and action from the upcoming Warframe expansion Plains of Eidolon, which will see the launch of the game’s first large, open-world “landscape.” Warframe: Plains of Eidolon will also see the introduction of the Ostrons, who scavenge biomechanical tissue from Orokin Towers, and new mission types that will enable the discovery and construction of new weapons, Warframes, and other items. We took an up-close look at Plains

A new Total War: Warhammer 2 gameplay video takes an up-close look at the Lizardmen campaign, as Lord Mazdamundi, ruler of Hexoatl and the greatest living Slann Mage-Priest, shows off a number of features and abilities that are unique to his cold-blooded faction. From there, the video touches on the four Rites unique to the faction, unit summoning, army abilities, the building browser, tech tree, and more. Another major Lizardmen feature: “blessed spawnings,” which are “effectively elite version

I’m taking a quick break from my adventures in Divinity: Original Sin 2—I keep telling everyone I’m undead, which I shouldn’t, but I’ve also made lots of animal chums, so it’s not all bad—to fling some of my (questionable) wisdom at those of you planning on starting your own. Save money on lockpicks, get a skeletonIf you’re not going to play as Fane, the Undead origin character, then you should at least bring him as a companion. Click on everything and everyoneYou never know who or what is impor

Most of the gamedevs I’ve spoken to seem to see marketing as this secondary element of releasing a game, like QA or localization. They’ll ask questions like “when is a good time to start marketing our game?” Leverage these attributes and think of what will make your game attractive or stand out compared to every other game. If you can’t get traction on that, you don’t need to invest the time and money to ever build the product. The mistake I see a lot of devs making is comparing their game to ga

You can also looking the new Asus ROG Strix Fusion 300, the first gaming headset in the new ROG Strix Fusion family. One of the things Asus is promoting about this headset is an “exclusive airtight chamber design” with rubber seals to prevent air from escaping. If you don’t like the feel of the hybrid design, Asus also includes a set of all-protein leather ear cushions. The ROG Strix Fusion 300 will be available by the end of the month for £100 (there is no mention of US pricing at this time). I

Two years after Larian’s fantasy-RPG Divinity: Original Sin 2 quadrupled its Kickstarter goal, the game is now out of early access and in full release. Ultimately, though, Original Sin 2 did make it out the door more or less on time. Modding support is also rolling out, and the first hotfix is on the way today as well. We’re rolling out the modding support for #DOS2! Check out our quick guide: https://t.co/ZFexmTbiF1 & Modding Wiki: https://t.co/BdvRimTzwb pic.twitter.com/jLb7xNELEISeptember 15,