Hyakki Castle sets classic party-based dungeon crawling in an Edo period castle, pitting character classes such as Samurai and Ninja against “vivid monsters and supernatural creatures from Japanese literature.” Based on the trailer above, I think it’s fair to identify it as something like a Japanese Legend of Grimrock—that being the best and most recent first-person dungeon crawling series I can think of. “For instance, one character can lure a monster while the other three lay in wait for an am

Call of Duty: WWII will get a PC beta on September 29, and the good news is you won’t have to preorder to get access – anyone can jump aboard. It’ll run for a whole weekend before wrapping up on October 2, and it’ll take place on Steam. According to Sledgehammer Games in their announcement, the beta is designed to stress test “core gameplay systems and online backend infrastructure at scale”. It’s also designed to give PC users a hands-on period with the game while the studio goes about its busi

Hollow Knight is getting its second major expansion this Halloween, which is on October 31 if the annual tradition of looting neighbours isn’t your thing. Dubbed The Grimm Troupe, it’ll add a major new quest, new boss fights, new charms, enemies and “friends”. According to Team Cherry’s update, the new quest will involve lighting a nightmare lantern in order to summon a Grimm Troupe to Hallownest. Meanwhile, details are pretty scarce regarding the new bosses and charms, but rest assured they’ll

Former StarCraft pro, esports commentator, and host of our own PC Gaming Show Sean “Day[9]” Plott has revealed that he will soon be adding another line to his extensive CV: StarCraft 2 in-game announcer. SOON I will be announcer in an upcoming SC2 patch :> https://t.co/gmWrvEbTYaSeptember 14, 2017″Sean ‘Day[9]’ Plott began his journey into the spotlight with the original StarCraft and rocketed into internet glory with the release of StarCraft II. Known for his genuine personality, analytical str

Blizzard, having apparently decided that there are not yet enough people playing Overwatch, is making the game free for everyone over the weekend of September 22-25. The free period will begin at 11 am PT/2 pm ET on September 22, and wrap up at 11:59 pm PT on September 25. If you don’t already have it, you’ll need Battle.net to play, which you can grab here. Alas, it will only be playable in the Americas, Europe, and Asia—excluding Korea, for some reason—so if you live in Antarctica I guess you’

Bayek, the main guy of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Origins, is (as far as I know, anyway) the “original Assassin.” And you can’t have an Assassin’s Brotherhood without a Templar Order, right? A few commenters on YouTube have pointed out that Cleopatra, in Assassin’s Creed canon, was actually supported by the Templars and eventually offed by an Egyptian Assassin, Amunet. It also sets up a possible betrayal twist somewhere in the game, although that’s probably a little too obvious—at least unti

Back in June, Frontier Developments announced that the Thargoids, Elite’s infamous alien bad guys, would return to Elite: Dangerous in the 2.4 update, appropriately entitled The Return. “On launch day you’ll be interacting with the most mysterious and deadly things you’ve encountered in the Elite Dangerous galaxy – the Thargoids,” community manager Edward Lewis said in the Elite Dangerous forums. “Elite Dangerous 2.4 The Return will then continue to roll out with interactive narrative-based cont

Star Citizen, in addition to collecting record amounts of crowdfunding, has garnered no small share of criticism and skepticism. With myriad delays and missed deadlines, some backers who bought in early have been looking for a way out and requesting refunds. However, a representative of CIG has denied this story in an email to PC Gamer, calling it “totally fabricated” and “wrong on so many levels.” After some follow-up questions, the representative informed me that a refund was issued recently t

(Image: © YouTube via Qarnot)A company in France has found a unique way to leverage the heat output of toasty servers. The newest ones now use Ryzen Pro processors to get the job done, rather than Intel Core i7 chips found in previous versions. “In terms of performance and features, the Ryzen Pro is a fantastic opportunity for Qarnot. Qarnot claims that Ryzen Pro is producing the same amount of heat while providing twice as many cores. The switch to Ryzen Pro is being done in Bordeaux where Qarn

If it’s a relatively affordable mechanical keyboard with RGB lighting from a name brand you’re after, Logitech’s G410 Atlas Spectrum RGB might be your next plank. We see this keyboard on sale every so often. The G410 Atlas Spectrum RGB uses Logitech’s Romer-G mechanical key switches. You can read more about the different types in our guide on mechanical key switches. The G410 Atlas Spectrum is on sale at Amazon and Newegg.

In the meantime, if Nvidia really want to take the wind out of AMD’s sails, it could inject a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti into its product lineup. It lists out a set of systems specs highlighted by an Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Strix O8G graphics card. We also saw plenty of rumors of a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti well before its launch, and almost all of them got the specs wrong. According to what it’s hearing, the 1070 Ti will be positioned between the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 in performance. If Nvidia does release

The Humble Store is giving away another old-time classic as part of its End of Summer Sale: Psychonauts, the Double Fine adventure-platformer about a kid with a cool hat who goes off to summer camp. I loved the writing, the voice acting, and the bizarre, beautiful game world that was filled with things to discover. I never did finish it—I ran out of patience midway through the godawful Meat Circus, and decided I was close enough to the end to call it a day. Which is what you’ll get with this Hum

Gigabyte’s motherboard division is seeing a curious drop in shipments, but the company isn’t fretting, especially as it pertains to the gaming market. For Gigabyte, the Aorus brand it created is the key tapping into the growing gaming sector even if the rest of the PC market sees a decline. There was a report by Digitimes noting that Gigabyte expects to see its motherboard shipments drop below 13 million units this year, down from 16-17 million in 2016. The motherboard market has already consoli

Mixed reality experiences are headed to Windows 10, and Dell is trying to get in front of the pack by being the first to offer its mixed reality headset for preorder. We’re having one of those seminal moments right now with the imminent release of the Dell Visor, our first-ever mixed reality headset for the Windows mixed reality (MR) platform,” Dell says. We are not faulting Dell for romanticizing the mixed reality movement that Microsoft and its hardware partners are now pushing. There are more

Well, um, if you use the mod that removes Creation Club news from Fallout 4’s main menu that I wrote about yesterday, you may have missed this Creation Club news: a few items from Bethesda’s content shop are discounted or free for a limited time. Both the ‘horse armor’ and Morgan’s space suit from Prey are free at the moment, and items like the modular military backpack and modern furniture workshop pack are 25% off. It’s not clear how long a ‘limited time’ is, and after clicking around Bethesda

Bethesda has released a new trailer to mark tomorrow’s release of Dishonored: Death of the Outsider that features Billie Lurk, the one-time right-hand of the master assassin Daud, demonstrating her considerable talent for killing things. Billie in the trailer is clearly on a path to a high-chaos ending, and some players are going to be perfectly fine with. Bethesda recommended giving stealth a chance in its list of hints and tips for Dishonored newcomers:Don’t feel constrained to stick to one pa

That trend continues with its newest Zbox Magnus EK and ER PCs featuring desktop-class GeForce GTX 1070 and 1060 graphic card options. For that to be possible, Zotac is using shortened versions of the GTX 1070 and 1060. The rear port selection on all of these systems offer up four USB 3.0 ports, two GbE LAN ports, and a Wi-Fi antenna. Front ports consist of a USB 3.1 Type-A port, USB 3.1 Type-C port, and a microphone input. Looking at other Zbox Magnus systems on the market, we expect pricing to

Corsair is now part of a select group of memory makers to offer a DDR4 RAM kit rated to run at 4,600MHz. The company’s new 16GB (2x8GB) Vengeance LPX was developed in partnership with ASRock for use in its X299 OC Formula motherboard and is the fastest memory Corsair offers. Like G.Skill’s kit, Corsair’s new RAM features hand-sorted Samsung B-die ICs. You don’t need an ultra-fast memory kit for gaming, as any gains in performance will be minimal and not in line with the asking price—in this case

Galactic Civilizations 3, Stardock’s gargantuan space 4X game, got another update this week, bolstering the base game with some of the Crusade expansion’s UI and design changes, along with general performance and balance tweaks. Crusade lavished improvements upon Galactic Civilizations 3, and while you’ll still need to shell out for the expansion to see most of them, some important ones have been ported over to the base game. The UI, from the tech screen to the ship list, has been upgraded, and

Fighting piracy is a constant, ongoing, and typically fruitless challenge for developers and publishers: if people want to play a game without paying for it, chances are they’ll find a way. But that doesn’t mean developers can’t strike back from time to time. Many developers have used inventive and amusing methods over the years to troll pirates, interrupt their illicit gaming sessions, and even trick them into outing themselves in forums for the amusement of others. From Arkham Asylum to Red Al