It turns out that we won’t have to wait “a few days” after the launch of SteamWorld Dig 2 on Switch for it to come out on PC, as was originally announced. Image & Form Games have revealed the PC release date, and it’s only a day after it lands on Nintendo’s console: September 22. Now that you know when it’s coming out, why not watch the release date trailer again? And to get yourself in the digging mood, you can still download the original SteamWorld Dig for free courtesy of Origin. It’s a great

Hi-Rez’s deck-building tactics game, Hand of the Gods: Smite Tactics, launched on Steam Early Access yesterday, after 3 months in open beta. It’s free-to-play, too, so you can take it for a spin right now if you fancy battering some deities. Being a F2P card game, there are of course several starter packs that you can purchase through Steam. A new pack has been released to coincide with the Early Access launch, containing 7 core packs and a skin for the Egyptian god, Ra. The two other bits of DL

Everyone’s favourite unhinged moll, Harley Quinn, will be joining the likes of the Joker and the Riddler in Telltale’s Batman: The Enemy Within. The shrink-turned-psychopath will make her debut in the game’s second episode, due out on October 3. Originally episode 2, The Pact, was due out on September 26, so it’s a delay of a week. Though the screenshot shows off a familiar look for Harley, that doesn’t mean that she’s the Harley we know. Telltale have crafted their own version the Dark Knight a

Spoilers follow for the final fight in The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. Anyway, I recently undertook the full-on Witcher 3 experience, which had been going swimmingly for many hours until I neared the finale of the Blood and Wine expansion at the Tesham Mutna Ruins. I consult the internet where many suggest that, while it doesn’t provide full defence against Dettlaff’s attacks, Quen is the most useful sign in this fight. And checking the stats, I’m not entirely surprised to find that I’ve put prec

God-killing grand strategy game Dominions 5: Warriors of the Faith has been announced, with a tentative November release window, and a development post details some of the new features that will, if you’re lucky, allow you to ascend to godhood. If you’re not familiar with the Dominions series, it’s a grand strategy affair where you lead a nation as a pretender god, running the gamut from talking monoliths to fire deities. The goal is to defeat the other pretender gods using armies and magic befo

Dying Light: The Following, the expansion to the original game which added a new countryside map, a car, and a whole bunch more zombies, improved things greatly. You can get 60 percent off the game and several pieces of DLC today on the Humble Store. You can get the standard edition, or opt for the more expensive (but still on sale) Enhanced Edition of Dying Light: The Following. It’s described as the “definitive Dying Light experience,” and has improved visuals and a year’s worth of bonus conte

If you’re the sort of sadist or masochist who quite fancies starring in their very own slasher flick, either as the killer or one of their potential victims, then have I got great news for you: Dead by Daylight is having a free weekend on Steam from now until Sunday. Dead by Daylight pits a group of survivors against a seemingly unstoppable killer in appropriately menacing maps, like foreboding forests and abandoned labs. It’s a straightforward format that’s got some extra wrinkles thanks to the

Just in case you’ve been stranded on a desert island and haven’t been paying attention to Rare’s piratical multiplayer romp, Sea of Thieves, the studio’s put together a trailer listing the top 10 things you need to know about the game. Sea of Thieves is all about setting out on nautical adventures with a crew of friends in a shared world—every ship you sea sailing the high seas is another group of players on their own journey. Steven had similar concerns after playing Sea of Thieves at E3. If yo

I have a mask in Absolver that’s shaped like a hand. It’s the only bit of game loot I’ve really cared about in a long time. Ah, the exotic ‘pre-order.’All my Absolver mask really says about me is that I was lucky. When everyone else is working toward the same thing, the loot that’s really special comes as a surprise. But when everyone else is working toward the same thing, the loot that’s really special comes as a surprise—whether it’s in a secret location, or just won in the RNG lottery.

Indeed, Kaplan says that while the studio has a responsibility to manage its community, there’s a degree of self-awareness the community must have in order to keep things in check. If Blizzard didn’t need to use so many resources developing disciplinary and reporting systems, he said, they might have more time to work on other, more exciting things. “There’s not going to be a moment where we have a magic patch in Overwatch that makes bad behavior go away,” Kaplan said. But also, there’s a degree

Things these days are much more refreshing, thanks in large part to the addition of Doomfist to the character roster. At this point, we’ve probably all been on the receiving end of a Rocket Punch. “The only thing questionable about his kit is the Rocket Punch cooldown. One change that has occurred for Doomfist was a small reduction in the hitbox for Rocket Punch. “The hitbox nerf came in and it wasn’t too big of a deal because good Doomfist players know how to work around it,” Agilities says.

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 XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, our impressions of Destiny 2 so far, the DMCA confusion surrounding PewDiePie and Campo Santo—all before closing with our usual Twitch chat Q&A! Give Celestial Archive a listen here, and if you like it, add it to your permanent collection for

The Ghost Recon Wildlands team deathmatch mode that Ubisoft promised in March and detailed in July is just about ready for eyes. A “stand-alone open beta” will begin on September 21 and run until September 25, and will be available to everyone—even people who don’t own the base game. Ghost War will give players access to 12 classes (six of them available in the beta) spread across three categories: Assault, Marksman, and Support. More information about the new mode will be revealed on Twitch at

As always, live and virtual attendees of this year’s BlizzCon will be given a number of different digital goodies from Blizzard’s biggest and best games. Two of them, you can pick up right now with the purchase of a virtual ticket: A swanky pair of two-person mounts for World of Warcraft. On the Alliance side, you’ve got the Stormwind Skychaser, a majestic-looking boat with propellers and a throne. Blizzard revealed the new mounts in a BlizzCon 2017 pre-show stream that you can catch up with on

Fans of not starving will be pleased to hear that Don’t Starve developer Klei Entertainment has unveiled new single-player DLC called Don’t Starve: Hamlet. First on the list is Don’t Starve: Hamlet, in which the intrepid hero Wilson stumbles upon a lost town of aristocratic Pigmen and decides to pay a visit. As DLC it requires the original Don’t Starve, and it’s expected to be out sometime in the first half of 2018. Don’t Starve Together: The Forge will be the first in a series of time-limited g

When it comes to competitive Hearthstone, the baying mob that is Twitch chat loves nothing more than a catastrophic misplay. It’s therefore entirely unsurprising that the most viewed game from last weekend’s Dreamhack Montreal Hearthstone Grand Prix is also the most poorly played one. Nozdormu’s effect means he only has 15 seconds to execute his turn, but the game absolutely should be over, provided he keeps his cool. It goes on this way for a few turns, before CoachTwisted runs out of cards and

During today’s pre-Blizzcon livestream, it was revealed that the now-massive game company Blizzard was founded with a loan from CEO and president Mike Morhaime’s grandmother. “In order to get my $10,000, I borrowed $15,000 from my grandmother. The information was revealed during a dive into the Blizzard Vault, a division of the now-massive game company that collects art, artifacts, and other things relevant to the company’s history. The loan—a scrap of paper complete with signatures from Morhaim

Bethesda’s Creation Club, which sells small pieces of content created by paid modders, hasn’t received an entirely warm welcome from the Fallout 4 community. Among other concerns and complaints, there’s the fact that since updating to version 1.10.20, a rather large and unsubtle advertisement for the Creation Club now appears in the upper right corner of the main menu. The mod, created by ‘InAComaDial999’, is called No More Creation Club News, and it’s currently the second most voted-for mod thi

And if you to jump start things, you can grab a portable 2TB hard drive from Amazon for relatively cheap. Amazon has on sale Western Digital’s Elements portable HDD in 2TB capacity (a lower end and version of WD’s My Passport, which is our pick as the best portable HDD). On sale, you’re paying 3 cents per gigabyte. This is a USB 3.0 drive that is formatted NFTS for Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 7. If you need more (or less) storage, Amazon also has on sale 1TB ($55) and 4TB ($110) capac

If you’ve paid any attention to Steam’s most popular games listing, you might have noticed Black Desert Online has, surprisingly, occupied a top spot for months now. According to Kyung In Jung, CEO of Pearl Abyss, Black Desert Online currently operates in 100 different countries across seven regions. That’s impressive since, according to Jung, Black Desert Online only cost a paltry ￦1.2 billion ($1 million USD) to make. Since launching on Steam, Jung reports that Black Desert Online has sold 530