Image credit: YouTubeAfter several months of console exclusivity, it was revealed at this year’s Gamescom that Final Fantasy 15 is coming to PC. His previous works includes Monster Rancher 2, Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core, Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy Agito. Tabata is the director of Final Fantasy 15, having taken over from the FF7 Remake director Tetsuya Nomura in 2014. PC Gamer: How important is it for you and your team to bring Final Fantasy 15 to PC? Final Fantasy is a big name, but

After teasing a string of weird art house videos earlier this year, Kentucky Route Zero unveiled its TV Edition last week—an “enhanced” console edition that’s due alongside its fifth and final act. Cardboard Computer now wants to assure would be players that the console port will not stand in the way of Act 5’s development. To this end, the fact Act 5’s launch on PC won’t be compromised but its coinciding TV Edition is good news, then. Gray is in charge of the porting process so that Cardboard C

Blizzard has announced it will open its own esports arena in Los Angeles next month. Helpfully dubbed Blizzard Arena, the “cutting-edge live-event destination” is situated at Burbank Studios, and is designed for “pro players, esports fans, and everyone else who loves premier competition.” In addition to all the esports stuff, there will also be a Blizzard retail store. “We’re at a tipping point for esports and we look forward to helping usher in a new era of competition-based entertainment,” Bli

Among those changes is a nerf to the Warrior card Fiery War Axe. nerfing war axe around aggro deck that rotates out in 8 month but crippling all other archetypes forever. “Generally, changing the mana cost of a card is less disruptive, because you can always see the mana cost of cards in your hand,” the developer’s notes read. “We absolutely don’t think players are stupid.” “That’s why it’s less disruptive to change mana cost than Attack, Health, or card text.

Last year, YouTubers Trevor ‘TmarTn’ Martin and Tom ‘ProSyndicate’ Cassell were accused of promoting a CS:GO Lotto site without disclosing their interest in it (ie, that they joint owned it). Now, the Federal Trade Commission has ordered that they (and everyone else) should “clearly and conspicuously disclose” these connections in the future. The order also requires clear and conspicuous disclosures of any unexpected material connections with endorsers.” The FTC order follows last year’s uproar,

Perks from being part of the PC Gamer Club aren’t just limited to an ad-free experience, a digital magazine subscription, PC Gamer Discord community access, free monthly games, and rare, glossy JPEGs of our favorite magic man in a tub. All existing PC Gamer Club members and anyone that signs up between now and the end of September will get a key for the closed beta of The Amazing Eternals, a wacky first-person person shooter with deck-building strategy layer—quite the genre mix-up. It was one of

I am loathe to acknowledge the looming end of summer, but the bad weather, pervasive cold, and wet misery does have one bright side: It’s an excuse to have a videogame sale. This particular outbreak of markdown madness is the Humble Store’s End of Summer Sale, which kicked off today with free copies of the full first season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead for everyone. The Humblers say that more than 3,000 games have been discounted for the sale, from major publishers and indie developers alike.

If you’re not familiar with the form, visual novels can be considered the Eastern answer to SCUMM-era adventure games. So perhaps you can consider Tokyo Dark a protest against the visual novel status quo. “Our goal was to experiment mixing the narrative depth from Japanese visual novels and the exploration of western adventure games. “Looking at Japanese visual novels we felt that often the systems and stories are quite formulaic. For us to Kickstart Tokyo Dark we had to go via business connecti

Last month, indie outfit Butterscotch Shenanigans announced that its crafting-action-RPG Crashlands had sold more than 500,000 copies, 118,000 of them on the PC. This month, the studio revealed that it is now working on a new project called Scuffle Buddies, which may or may not be some kind of multiplayer esports thing with small animals and a ball. “Our PC launch reflected this in many ways—we didn’t have multiple control schema out of the gate, didn’t allow for proper Settings fiddling, and di

Magic: The Gathering Arena, originally teased last month, has been properly revealed today as a free-to-play digital card game based on—no surprise here—Magic: The Gathering, in development at Wizards of the Coast’s new Digital Games Studio. That’s been a problem for previous Magic games: They haven’t necessarily been bad, but neither have they been able to attract an audience comparable to that of the physical edition. Steefel promised that the development of MTG Arena will be “more visibly inc

For a 24-hour period earlier this week, anyone who grabbed Mirage: Arcane Warfare on Steam got it free, and got to keep it. Today, the free promotion torch has been passed on to Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine, a 2013 game about committing heists with friends (and a really good one). All you have to do is add Monaco to your Steam library before the promotion expires tomorrow, the 8th, at 10 am Pacific, and you can keep it forever. According to the announcement post, grabbing Monaco for free also ea

The humanitarian faction is important because it unlocks a different kind of perspective on the battlefield. Jay Crowe“The humanitarian faction is important because it unlocks a different kind of perspective on the battlefield,” said Jay Crowe, creative director for Arma 3. In Laws of War, players can step into the civilian role in a new way, with briefings and missions that don’t involve direct combat. By doing this, Bohemia brings the specific challenges of International Humanitarian Law direc

Every year PC Gamer’s editors and contributors vote on a list of the 100 best PC games to play right now, and every year our Top 100 list is contentious. But this year, we decided it would be fun to transform the heated comment threads under our list into a list of their own—the Readers’ Top 100. Last week, I asked you to pick your top two games from our Top 100 list, and suggest two games to add. (Games that aren’t on our Top 100 list are in bold.) It was 11th on our list, but 2nd on the Reader

The new ROG Horus GK2000 RGB from Asus is a mechanical keyboard that gets its name from the god of war of hunting, though we are not sure how Horus would feel about the design. Asus took its existing ROG Horus GK2000 with red LED backlighting and gave it an RGB upgrade. You can also detach the wrist rest to give the keyboard a smaller footprint and toned down look. As to the keys, Asus opted for Cherry MX RGB switches. Asus did not mention a price or say when the ROG Horus GK2000 RGB will be ava

AMD is getting ready to release a new Crimson ReLive driver (17.9.1), which may already be available by the time you read this. The GPU driver update does not deliver any specific game optimizations, as new drivers often do, and instead is focused on fixing a handful of issues Radeon graphics card owners have been having. One of them applies specifically to Radeon RX Vega graphics cards. Moonlight Blade may fail to launch on some Radeon Graphics Core Next series products. As of the time of this

Are you tired of waiting for Cannon Lake, or even Coffee Lake to appear on the desktop? One of the most popular options for new builds right now is the Core i7-7700K, a Kaby Lake processor that can be had for $310 on Ebay. It is being sold by “refurbforless,” though despite the moniker, this is for a new retail boxed chip. You are probably already familiar with the Core i7-7700K, but to recap, it is a quad-core processor clocked at 4.2GHz to 4.5GHz. This is the cheapest we could find for a new,

More Darkest Dungeon mods Our collection of the best Darkest Dungeon mods includes more must-have additions and tweaks. The dank crypts and decrepit cellars of Darkest Dungeon are horrific places in need of some gross incandescence, and this mod is the perfect solution. It adds an entire new class inspired by Solaire of Astora, the Warrior of Sunlight who ascended to Dark Souls fame thanks to his zealous adoration of bright objects. Complete with a gorgeous Darkest Dungeon-style skin and abiliti

Activision’s last-good-war FPS Call of Duty: WWII will arrive in a couple of months, and as is the way of things those of you who pony up in advance will enjoy a few extras when it gets here. This round of preorder bonuses is actually kind of interesting, because it includes a permanent unlock for the multiplayer weapon of your choice, right from the get-go. Focused on stealth and target identification, Mountain Division snipers generate constant fear in the enemy and strike when least expected.

As with many videogames, South Park: The Fractured But Whole includes a slider that players can use to adjust the difficulty level. But as reported by Eurogamer, this slider doesn’t just make the game easier or harder, it also adjusts the color of your character’s skin: The higher the difficulty, the darker your skin tone. Interestingly, it’s Cartman, normally the most wildly (if obliviously) offensive character in South Park, who points out the impact of the change. I do feel reasonably safe in

The 2017 US Market Report by Ookla is based on Speedtest intelligence data captured during the first half of 2017. Out of all those tests, Comcast Xfinity customers averaged 69.58 megabits per second (Mbps) for downloads. Ookla also credited Comcast with increasing the amount of DOCSIS 3.1 channels in order to deliver faster speeds to customers. While encouraging, Comcast’s ranking is marred by a history of poor customer service and implementing data caps in some areas. To its credit, the compan