It’s said that Dell is planning to release a “Light Gaming” series under its Alienware brand. These products would be significantly cheaper than your average Alienware system, at least in regards to laptops. If buying a new system direct from Dell, the cheapest current Alienware laptop is a 13-inch system starting at $1,100. In 15.6-inch territory, you’re looking at $1,250 and up, and for a 17.3-inch Alienware laptop, the cost starts at $1,350. In any event, this would be an interesting evolutio

Monster Hunter: World, the first of the series to launch on PC, will receive free DLC after it arrives next year. This is typical for the series, but still good news during a time when season passes and premium DLC are exceedingly common. The DLC will take the form of free quests, producer Ryozo Tsujimoto told Polygon, and while he noted that console players would need to pay for online services like PS Plus to play with friends, that’s not an issue on PC. “We have made sure we are putting the v

Today, Nerial and Devolver Digital announced its sequel for PC, Reigns: Her Majesty. Just like the first game, Reigns: Her Majesty will see you take control of a burgeoning kingdom, making decisions by swiping left or right. Choices change how much support you have from the peasants, church, army and how much gold you have in your coffers, as well as unlocking new advisers and events. Reigns: Her Majesty also introduces mystical items that you’ll be able to collect in your inventory, using them

HTC, makers of the Vive VR headset, might be getting out of the VR business according to a report from Bloomberg. According to a Bloomberg source, the company has been in talks with Google, as well. The company has been struggling over the last few years, with its smartphone market share dropping down to 2%. HTC’s share price has been dropping since 2011, but managed a 4.7% jump on Friday ahead of the Vive’s significant price cut. Despite the drop, however, the Vive is still more expensive than

The open world dink-around arcade racer is reaching a crisis point, thank goodness. If Burnout Paradise or Forza Horizon 3 weren’t already excellent open world racers, The Crew 2 wouldn’t have to be as strange and all-encompassing as it is. In The Crew 2, you can still do that, but while instantly switching between a car, a boat, and a plane with the press of a button. Between steering a nimble boat through a swamp and drifting a streetcar through a park in NYC, there’s a ton of diversity in veh

When Secret of Mana made it to these shores, it did so with almost no fanfare—despite being popular in Japan—before revealing itself to be on the best of the SNES-era JRPGs. Now it’s returning in the form of a 3D remake, and surprisingly it’s coming to PC. Secret of Mana will retell the story of the original, complete with local co-op for up to three players. If you pre-order or purchase the game within a week of the release date, you’ll get the Moogle Suit, Tiger Two-Piece and Tiger Suit for fr

Even though several Final Fantasy games have been given PC ports, it’s still very much seen as a console series. “Traditionally Final Fantasy has a bit of an image that everyone has the exact same experience and shares that experience with everyone that plays the game. With Final Fantasy 15, we went in a slightly different direction. PCs that have similar specs to current gen consoles won’t have any problems, so if your PC is a few years old, you shouldn’t need to splash out on an upgrade just t

Ubisoft have released a new developer walkthrough for South Park: The Fractured But Whole at Gamescom. It’s actually the same demo that was available at E3, but with Jason Schroeder, the game director, and Kimberly Weigend, the associate producer, providing commentary on looting, crafting and environmental puzzles. Schroeder notes that, as you craft items, you’ll gain crafting points that will allow you to craft better items in greater quantities. The crafting seems simple enough, and I’m glad t

Star Citizen’s Gamescom stream has provided the most detailed look at the planetary landings update we’ve seen thus far, revealing a lot more than last year’s presentation. MKIceandFire took the above footage from a 4-hour stream, showing off shenanigans taking place on a desert world. With the update, players will be able to bid farewell to space and head to a planet’s surface where they can meet up with other intrepid explorers to work together or just get in messy fights. Expect to see even m

In an alternate timeline, we all got to play Half-Life 3 years ago. But in this one, we haven’t even been able finish the saga of Half-Life 2. Today, however, we can get a bit of closure, since ex-Valve scribe Marc Laidlaw has posted his version of Half-Life 2: Episode 3’s story in the form of gender-swapped fan fiction. “My intention was that Ep3 would simply tie up the plot threads that were particular to HL2,” Laidlaw said in June. Laidlaw is no longer with Valve and who knows if we’ll ever s

Along with preparing for Destiny 2, the new drivers also contain improvements and optimizations for F1 2017 and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. AMD also lists other fixes for the new drivers, mostly centered around Vega 64:Display may blank or go black after install upgrade with Radeon RX Vega Series graphics products. Random corruption may appear in Microsoft desktop productivity applications on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products. Radeon WattMan may not reach applied overclock states on Rad

The “Game Ready” driver package brings support and optimizations to half a dozen games, whereas as Nvidia usually focuses on just one or two. Other games that Nvidia focused on include PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, ARK: Survival Evolved, F1 2017, Pro Evolution Soccer 2018, and Quake Champions (Steam Early Access). And if you’re gaming on a laptop, the latest driver release introduces Whisper Mode profiles for F1 2017 and Destiny 2. For GeForce GTX 970 owners playing Lawbreakers, the 385.41 driv

(I still think of the two central characters as Blue Man and Browncoat, and if there are more than two central characters, well, that just reinforces my point.) To help close that knowledge gap, the studio has put out a pair of brief videos introducing Cayde-6 and Hawthorne, and it’s a good bet that more are on the way. The original Destiny grew into a game “that became difficult to recommend,” project lead Mark Noseworthy told Rolling Stone. “It got to this point where, you know, your brother-i

I admitted back in July that I didn’t know anything about Donut County, one of the new games on the slate at What Remains of Edith Finch publisher Annapurna Interactive. The reveal trailer released today helps improve that situation somewhat: Now I can say that it is a game about a hole, that may or may not involve a talking raccoon. It’s possible that the raccoon is only there to narrate the trailer, although he does appear in the Donut County Twitter avatar, too. Whatever role he plays, it won

Summer is coming to an end, but before it does, Corsair is looking to unload a whole bunch of refurbished products, including keyboards, mice, headsets, and more. These are all “Corsair certified refurbished” products, which include demo units, open box items, and customer swaps. “They go through our stringent refurbishment process and are 100 percent to meet the performance specifications of brand new products,” Corsair explains. “Some returned products have not been used at all, but only the p

But Final Fantasy 15 direct Hajime Tabata told PCGamesN that Square Enix is going to leave the matter up to the discretion of the community. That’s not to say that the developers aren’t worried about the possibility of “strange things” being done to the game. “When we were getting together for discussion, all the people together in the project were airing out their worries, [nude mods] were something most people were really worried about,” he said. “I don’t think it’s a good thing, but we’re goi

Dual Universe is a sci-fi MMO with serious ambitions: “A 3D, ‘single-shard’ MMO where everyone plays on the same server across millions of planets,” as we described it in our September 2016 preview. Those worlds can be modified or built upon, claimed, shared, fought over, or destroyed, while large-scale space stations and ships can be built from scratch and individual object behavior is modifiable by way of Lua scripting. Things have been pretty quiet on the Dual Universe front since it was succ

QuakeCon 2017 has begun, and you know what that means—it’s time for a Steam sale! Okay, maybe that’s not the most obvious and logical move from proposition to conclusion, but there is a QuakeCon Steam sale on, and there are some pretty good deals to be had, especially on older games you may have missed out on way back when. A few choice selections:Prey – $30/£20/€30- $30/£20/€30 The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited – $10/£7/€10- $10/£7/€10 The Evil Within – $5/£4/€5- $5/£4/€5 Fallout: New

While Antec has been fairly quiet as of late, it does have a new mid-tower chassis available, one that sports a tempered glass side panel and costs less than a Benjamin. It measures 443mm (H) x 210mm (W) x 470mm (D) and weighs 16.5 pounds without any hardware shoved inside. Antec includes three 120mm fans, two up front and one in the rear. The front of the case can accommodate up to a 360mm radiator, and there rear can hold a 120mm radiator. There is room for a 120mm or 240mm radiator at the top

Want to see giraffes utterly stomp and mutilate every other animal on earth until there’s nothing left but bones and gore? Well, in Battle Beast Simulator that’s not a problem, because the giraffes in this game are waaaaay OP. Okay, maybe I’ve been taking it easy on the giraffes and it’s time for some more dangerous game. I’ve seen my share of nature documentaries, and I’ve watched (through my horrified tears) lions kill giraffes lots of times. Somehow this fight is over even more quickly than w