Ubisoft Reflections, the studio responsible for Grow Home and Grow Up, will release a new multiplayer FPS next week. “Atomega takes place at the very end of time where reality is rapidly dissolving,” so reads the game’s description. These multiplayer matches will support up to 8 players (so 4v4) and rounds are expected to take around ten minutes each. “Acquiring mass also grants points and the player with the most points at the end of the round wins. Sounds neat, and there won’t be a huuuuge pro

Mario 64 wasn’t designed to be played cooperatively, but then, it wasn’t designed to be played on PC, either. In the mod – which you can download here, though you’d best watch the tutorial first – you can play as pretty much any character in the extended Mario universe. Better still, they all have their own movesets, so Princess Peach can hover for extended periods, and Waluigi can traverse steep slopes. Is there much you can do that is actually fun in Mario 64 cooperative? You can challenge you

Amazon is having a lightning deal on a Samsung UN65MU7000 65-inch 4K LED TV (2017 model) for $1000—or $400 less than everywhere else—for the next 6 or so hours. The screen is well received by customers and currently has a near 5-star or complete 5-star rating in multiple places. As of this writing, 32% of the units are claimed by customers. The screen supports HDR 10, 3 HDMI 2.0a inputs that are HDCP 2.2 compliant, and all the usual smart TV features you’d find in competing units. Some online st

What surprised us most was that even though this idea was pitched as a long project, the idea of a magic school game drew everyone in and got people excited. Finn Brice: The response was wonderful and it was lovely to see so many people are just as interested in a magic school simulation as we are. Finn Brice: Stardew Valley is a masterclass in establishing tone, charm and theme. With this project we’ve taken that idea of simply falling in love with a game world and gone all in. Abi Cooke Hunt:

NetherRealm’s alt-DC Universe fighting game Injustice 2 was released for consoles back in May, and went over very well with critics. It’s basically the sort of thing that Mark Waid would write about as an excuse to kill off iconic superheroes, turned into a videogame. A couple of European game listings does not a release announcement make, but the PC edition of Injustice: Gods Among Us lagged behind the console versions too. The initial release came to consoles in April 2013, but it didn’t hit t

It’s been ten years since the Half-Life series last showed life, with the shocking conclusion of Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Here’s every Half-Life 3 hoax, rumor, and leak we’ve collected. By my calculations, that means we’re just about due for Half-Life 2 Episode 16. December 2011 – T-shirt guyAll I’m saying is I saw this at a local game developer event worn by a Valve employee. December 2011 – Wheatley gets involvedValve whipped up a video for the 2011 VGAs featuring Wheatley of Portal 2 fame, c

Update: Ys Eight is clearly delayed on Steam, but it also appears to be available for purchase on GOG. I’ve reached out to NIS America and GOG to clarify the situation, and will update when I receive a reply. Original story:We noted in our list of six NIS America games coming to the PC this year that Ys Eight: Lacrimosa of Dana is the first in the series to come to Western shorts in nearly a decade. “We regret to inform everyone that the release date for Ys Eight: Lacrimosa of Dana on PC has bee

Microsoft rolled out the Windows 10 Creators Update in April, and it wasn’t quite smooth sailing for everyone. Reports of stuttering in games quickly began to surface—not universal enough to prove there was a problem, but persistent enough to suggest that something, somewhere was amiss. In a recent post on the Microsoft support site, Microsoft support engineer Paul Aaron acknowledged that there is in fact a problem, and that a fix is in the works. “We have a fix in the Windows Insider build that

On the off chance that you have been waiting for this very moment, several online retailers are now accepting preorders for Intel’s Core i9-7920X. Interestingly, Newegg does not list the Skylake-X part as a preorder, so perhaps it has inventory ready to go. Shipping times aside, this is Intel’s least expensive Skylake-X processor offering up 44 PCI-Express 3.0 lanes, the Core i9-7900X being the other. For that you get a 12-core/24-thread processor with a 2.9GHz base clockspeed and 4.3GHz Turbo c

The Hearthstone Oktoberbrawl is now underway, pitting Team Void—Dog, Thijs, and J4CKIECHAN—against Team Light—Kripparrian, Reynad, and Alliestrasza—in a month-long battle for ultimate (at least until the next time) supremacy. The catch is that each pro must use a fresh account for the event, ensuring that everyone starts off on equal footing. Fans can get in on the action too by using one of two free card backs available through Amazon Prime to do battle on behalf of their chosen side. Twitch Pr

Limiting your budget to under a grand for a gaming laptop does not mean you have to settle for crummy specs. Over at Lenovo, you can pick up a 15.6-inch Legion Y520 with a respectable amount of horsepower underneath the hood for $950. Lenovo’s Legion Y520 employs an IPS display with a 1920×1080 resolution. This is powered by an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor and GeForce GTX 1060 GPU with 3GB of onboard memory. For storage chores, Lenovo paired a 128GB PCIe SSD with 1TB HDD (5,400 RPM).

We don’t suspect many people will miss it, but in case you haven’t heard, Raptr is shutting down. The company announced on its website that it is closing down the Raptr service on September 30, 2017. Raptr was once a somewhat popular tool for tracking game achievements. However, Raptr will start the process of shutting off access and disabling features at the end of the month. In the meantime, existing users can export their tracked gameplay by signing into their account on Raptr’s website and c

If it is an outrageously wide monitor you are after, clear up some desk space and get ready to choose between multiple options. According to Anandtech, Philips will charge around €899 ($1,077) for its own version (492P8) when it debuts sometime next year. That’s a few hundred dollars less than Samsung’s monitor, which can be found on Amazon for $1,500. However, Philips’ model lacks certain amenities found on Samsung’s panel, such as quantum dot technology/QLED backlighting and FreeSync 2 support

Every Monday, Build of the week highlights a unique rig from the web’s most dedicated PC building communities. This is a good PC, I guess. A scratch build that claws at the iron cage around my heart, again, I say this is a very good PC (I guess). Image 1 of 11 Image 2 of 11 Image 3 of 11 Image 4 of 11 Image 5 of 11 Image 6 of 11 Image 7 of 11 Image 8 of 11 Image 9 of 11 Image 10 of 11 Image 11 of 11Put together by modder thechoozen over on the Bit-Tech forums, the bark-encased bambino is the pro

This means rather than comparing HDR to SDR, you’re comparing two SDR images, and that’s not going to enlighten anyone. With HDR’s two extra bits per pixel, that gives 30 bits of color, or a color palette of 1.07 billion colors. 2020 HDR standard comfortably exceeds it. Again, the choice of whether to tonemap down to SDR, rather than work up to that fabled HDR standard. So even in standard SDR TVs today, those panels exceed the capabilities of regular SDR.”

The stealthy spaceship hijacking game Heat Signature being developed by former PC Gamer editor Tom Francis and the team at Suspicious Developments has come a long way since we got our first look at a prototype in early 2014. For the first week of Heat Signature, a ship carrying a unique weapon called the Everything Gun will be plying the spacelanes. It’ll be easy to find, thanks to the way it pulses with light, and if you’re able to steal the gun, you’ll also unlock it as a random drop in the ga

Take for example the PowerColor AXRX Radeon RX 580 Red Devil with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. In what appears to be an obvious attempt to thwart miners, Micro Center will sell up to two of these cards for $350 each. For example, Intel’s Core i7-7700K processor can be bought for $300 in a Micro Center store, versus around $340 online from vendors like Newegg. Micro Center seems to be adopting this new price policy across the board and not just for Radeon RX 580 cards. It is also not clear if customers c

We already know the basics about the Star Wars Battlefront 2 multiplayer beta that’s coming in October: A Galactic Assault mode battle between Republic clones and Separatist battle droids—truly the heart and soul of Star Wars!—and a deep-space fighter duel in Starfighter Assault. And now, thanks to redditor Some_Info, who according to VG247 is pretty reliable when it comes to this sort of thing, we know a little more. There should be “a little improvement” graphically over what was seen at E3, a

A good router can make a surprising amount of difference when it comes to gaming. Modern router tech means your gaming traffic will be prioritized, and beamforming delivers a stronger signal in its target direction rather than transmitting equally in all directions. If you’re looking for high-end, you can grab yourself an ASUS RT-AC5300 router today on Amazon for £260. It’s related to our favorite high-end router, the Asus ROG Gaming Router, which has an even more gaming-centric interface and ev

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds just tweeted some new screenshots that give us a foggy look at the new fog effects headed to the Early Access battle royale shooter, after teasing a single image earlier. The next update will also bring a new rifle and leaderboards for first-person servers, as well as the usual smattering of tweaks and bug-fixes. I suppose my question is: do people really want to play PUBG in fog on a regular basis? When it’s foggy in Fallout 4, for example, I’ll find the nearest be