No Man’s Sky’s Atlas Rises update has added a bunch of interesting biomes that Chris has enjoyed exploring. But it’s also brought some bugs to the game—bugs that developer Hello Games hopes to squash with its latest patch. Unfortunately, some players are still having trouble post-patch, and Hello Games says it is continuing to investigate. The patch also fixes bugs linked to the terrain editor, glyphs, unresponsive NPCs and some missing animations, all of which are detailed in the patch notes. I

To ease you into this blind transaction, I will first share how I’ll spend my weekend with an emphasis on digital media. This will all be in preparation for an evening spent playing Nidhogg 2, an excellent (and beautiful) multiplayer fencing-shooting-throwing-stomping game. But hungover from drinking two beers over the real weekend, I’ll spend the day in rest anyway and file a formal complaint to the day committee another time. Maybe I’ll check out the latest No Man’s Sky update—you should reall

It’s the final day of the 2017 PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Invitational at Gamescom, and you can tune in above to see who claims the last available chicken dinner. Well, in PUBG, it’s not about how many people you kill, it’s about being the last one standing, and hiding is often the best way to stay alive. There were also some scoring issues when a leaderboard didn’t display the correct information, according to community manager Sammie Kang in this write-up over at Kotaku. “There was a bug in

Divinity: Original Sin 2 was never meant to have voice acting. It initially experimented with one-liners and voice barks but “it just didn’t feel right”, the the developer said in a Kickstarter update. But it just didn’t feel right. Let’s fully voice Divinity: Original Sin 2!” The cast includes Downton Abbey actor Harry Hadden-Paton, who was one of the male Inquisitor voices in Dragon Age: Inquisition as well as Edmund in Divinity: Dragon Commander.

When Microsoft announced a slick HD remaster of the original Age of Empires at the PC Gaming Show, we secretly hoped that it might mean something for the future of the series. I loved the old games, but the most exciting thing about this week’s announcement is the fact that Relic is making it. The creators of Homeworld and Company of Heroes—one of the best RTS games ever—have never tackled historical combat before. I loved the old Age of Empires games because they let me play with vibrant depict

We’re giving out Dauntless Alpha codes to 20 lucky PC Gamer Club members subscribed to the Legendary tier. How to hunt down a Dauntless Alpha keyBecome a PC Gamer Club member and subscribe at the Legendary tier . Whether you get a key or not, a Legendary PC Gamer Club membership is a win. We’re giving out 50 codes to Legendary members, so if you subscribe, you’re automatically entered in both giveaways. We’re always looking for more surprise goodies to hand out to PC Gamer Club members, and more

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus has gotten a lot of attention for its alternate history portrayal of a Nazi-conquered USA, and it’s easy to see why. “We decided to focus specifically on the original Wolfenstein 3D [for inspiration],” creative director Jens Matthies tells me at QuakeCon earlier this week. The slapstick dopiness of Nazis falling for the same trick over and over is exactly the kind of silliness that characterized Wolfenstein 3D. Feeling free and unafraid of consequences made Wolfen

Friends don’t let friends use cheap power supplies, as in cheaply made. Over at Newegg, you can snag a Corsair CX500 PSU for just $13 after mail-in-rebate. As the model name suggest, the CX500 is a 500W model. It is 80 Plus Bronze certified to run efficiently. Connectors include:20+4 pin main (x1)4+4 pin EPS 12V (x1)6+2 pin PCIe (x2)SATA (x5)Peripheral/Molex (x4)Floppy (x1)You can grab the CX500 on sale here.

With a new solo-target, “E skill” Resurrect and new ultimate ability, Mercy looks like a completely different character on paper. From the way skill rating works to the fact that she promoted sloppy or passive play, Mercy was much more of a hindrance than many would like to believe. A complete lack of utilityFor all of Mercy’s attractiveness as a healer, she doesn’t have a whole lot more to offer her team. Their survivability surpasses Mercy’s in every way, and they have a handful of debilitatin

Star Citizen is starting to really take shape. My hands-off demonstration begins with the player hauling himself out of bed and standing in his pyjamas. In 3.0, players can’t yet buy ships themselves—however that’s expected in update 3.1, whenever that may be. After loading up on hardware, the demo’s duo stick on their space suits and find their way to a Rover space vehicle. Nevertheless Star Citizen looks fantastic, and the fact that all this will be possible, all going to plan, within the same

Killing Floor: Incursion is basically a VR version of the zombie splatterfest Killing Floor, although as we said in our preview, the actual gameplay is somewhat different. There’s still plenty of killing—”Killing Floor: Incursion has some good killing,” as Steven opined—but instead of “wave-based hordes that slowly wear you down,” the action is interspersed with puzzles, object interactions, exploration, and trading. The central element of the update will be a new game mode called Holdout, a “co

Obviously you were not expecting to be releasing a game about Nazism in America in the midst of our current political climate. It’s not something that has any real bearing on the game, because the game isn’t a commentary on current topics. I think that’s what’s interesting universally, because I don’t think that’s uniquely German. But on a more personal level, it’s B.J’s homeland, and no Wolfenstein game has ever taken place in the U.S. I think that’s amazing about Bethesda, they have such amazi

Ubisoft is making some changes to the Ranked and Casual map playlists for the upcoming Rainbow Six Siege season three. The number of maps in the Ranked playlist will be reduced to nine, and will be identical to the lineup used for the Pro League. Both Ranked and Pro League lists will be rotated each season, and new maps added during the season will be excluded from both. Some of the maps removed from the Casual playlist will be “reworked,” presumably with the intention of redeploying them down t

If you preordered from a retailer rather than online, you’ll need to redeem your “Bungie code” at bungie.net/redeem to get your beta early access code. There’s also a list of “confirmed issues that may impact gameplay”:Players may encounter issues when playing the Destiny 2 Beta with drivers that are out of date. The Destiny 2 Beta may not run when installed to a folder with some localized character types in its name (e.g. AMD Crossfire support is not available in the Destiny 2 PC Beta. If playe

Crypt of the Necrodancer developer Brace Yourself Games has announced its new project, which is about as unlike its previous effort as you could imagine. It’s called Industries of Titan, and it’s an “industrial city building sim/strategy game” set on Saturn’s largest moon. You can outmaneuver or outmuscle them politically, technologically, and/or economically, or you can just blow them into nothingness with your custom-designed battleships. And while you probably can’t dance to it, it will featu

I admit I deal in hyperbole here and there, but I mean it when I say that Nidhogg 2 is one of the best-looking games of the year—the best in my mind. —-Idle animationThis is a happy tree. Aside from the happy tree guy ruling, check out the glow from the water, and if you hadn’t noticed yet, the way the arrow drips blood off the screen. And check out the luminous smog—the effect is similar wiping oil paint away with solvent to reveal the underpainting. You can check out our review of Nidhogg 2

Transparent goalposts aren’t the only thing coming to Rocket League in its Autumn Update. Developer Psyonix announced today that it will also be moving to Standard Arenas exclusively for both Competitive and Casual matches when Competitive Season 6 gets underway. Non-standard arenas have been “extremely divisive,” and “the alternate layouts we devised simply didn’t add enough strategically to offset the corresponding loss in predictability and muscle memory.” “While we still value the variety th

(Image: © Reddit via KikiGGG)At least one company is fighting back against the cryptocurrency craze that is depleting the market of graphics cards. We reserve the right to void the warranty if there is any damage associated with this application,” the sticker reads. Sapphire recently came out with headless cards designed specifically for mining, and Asus is prepping a motherboard with 19 PCIe slots. AMD and Nvidia have both acknowledged the demand for graphics cards from the mining community as

The top-down horror game Darkwood is one of the creepiest things I’ve played in a long time, which I really didn’t expect—I mean, how scary can a game be if it doesn’t immerse you directly into its world, right? It’s also not terribly expensive, going for $15/£12/€14, which I think is pretty reasonable for a niche indie game. But if that’s out of your reach, you can play it anyway, because developer Acid Wizard Studio has uploaded the whole thing to The Pirate Bay. If you don’t have the money an

Pretty much every modern router offers some kind of traffic prioritization scheme. Be that as it may, Linksys insists its WRT32X is different in that it is laser focused on provided lower ping times and less lag when gaming. To accomplish that, Linksys teamed up with Rivet Networks and incorporated its Killer Prioritization Network (KPE) into this router. The claim is that KPE can reduce peak ping times by up to 77 percent. High end routers from Linksys are known for delivering decent range, and