Electronic Arts finally confirmed earlier this week that Mass Effect: Andromeda will not be getting any single-player DLC or new story content. But gone is not forgotten, and EA executive vice president Patrick Soderlund told Gamereactor UK that he expects it to come back—and that he doesn’t think Andromeda really deserved all the criticism it got. The [second] thing I’ll say is, for Mass Effect as a franchise, that has such a big fanbase, and you know I’ve seen people saying ‘Oh, EA’s not makin

Biostar has its TB250-BTC Pro with 12 PCIe slots (11 x1 and one x16), and the ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ gets the plus-one treatment with 13 PCIe slots. Asus is looking to leave both solutions in its wake with its upcoming B2560 Mining Expert, a board with 18 PCIe x1 slots plus a physical x16 slot. There are also three 4-pin Molex connectors in the vicinity of the PCIe x1 apartment complex for good measure. The graphics cards do the real work, but with most motherboards you’re limited to six, perhaps

The new Humble Spooky Horror Bundle has some very good things in store for fans of horror games. It starts with Dead Age, DreadOut (including the Manga and OST), DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark, and the Lakeview Cabin Collection for $1. Drop a tenner on it and you’ll also get Dead By Daylight, the four-on-one survival horror game where “death is not an escape.” The default charity for this bundle is the Delaware Aviation Museum Foundation Corp., but as always, you can select an entirely different

Overwatch wasn’t the only Blizzard game to get a new animated short today: Hearthstone fans were treated to one as well, and while it’s not nearly as cinematic as Mei’s tale of snowy survival, it’s a whole lot more musical. The two videos actually share some basic similarities: A lone heroine lost in deep, thick snow, accompanied by only a small, non-verbal companion who lacks opposable thumbs. Yet both of those undersized sidekicks hold the key to escape—in this case, a magic box that opens a p

Here’s 10 of our favourite weird and wonderful shooters from the 90s, up to the dawn of the 2000s for good measure. It’s so bad—an X-Men game that, just for starters, doesn’t let you play as one of the X-Men. Yes, rather than pay the million bucks or whatever to actually license the engine, everyone involved just said ‘bring your own copy to run it on’. It doesn’t really work at all. VirusIt’s not often that a company invites you to install their Virus on your PC, but that’s what Sir-Tech tried

Watch live on Twitch right here! Every Wednesday at 1 PM Pacific we broadcast The PC G am er Show live on Twitch. This week we’ll be talking about the news out of Gamescom, including the Age of Empires IV announcement, the debut of Mei’s animated short, and more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! Watch along today on Twitch , and toss us some feedback on Twitter or here in the comments! You can also listen to last week’s episode right here .

Long gone are the days when a gaming laptop routinely commanded a king’s ransom. That’s especially true if you can catch one on sale, as is the case with Lenovo’s Legion Y520. Normally priced at $1,400, the Legion Y520 can be had be had for $1,080 after applying promo code GAMESCOM20. The Y520 that is on sale has a 15.6-inch 1080p IPS display powered by an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, 8GB of DDR4-2400 RAM, and a GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card. Unfortunately this version of the 1060 is the one

Earlier this year we caught a sneak peek of a super-wide 49-inch monitor from Samsung over at TFTCentral. Now four months later Samsung has officially launched what it claims is the world’s largest QLED gaming monitor, the CHG90, which delivers an IMAX-style viewing experience in the home. “Gamers can have a more immersive and realistic experience with the new CHG90 monitor,” said Seog-gi Kim, Executive Vice President of the Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. You can think of the CH

Tyranny may not have been the commercial success Obsidian and Paradox were hoping for, but it’s not been forgotten. Its first expansion, Bastard’s Wound, continues the story of fighting or working for Kyros, the titular tyrant, and is due out on September 7. Bastard’s Wound opens up a new region for players to explore, where a settlement has sprung up far from Kyros’ gaze. Though my playthrough ended in a series of mostly unsatisfying fights, it remains one of my favourite RPGs of recent years.

Call of Duty: WWII is coming in November, and before it does there will beta tests: August 25-28 on the PlayStation 4, and then September 1-4 on the PS4 and Xbox One. Of a beta test on the PC, however, there’s been no word. In response to a redditor’s succinct “PC beta please!” I’ve reached out to Activision for more information about the PC beta, and will update if I receive a reply. In the meantime, you can dig into what we know about Call of Duty: WWII’s new “Headquarters” right here.

AMD has a new Crimson ReLive driver package available for Radeon graphics owners, including anyone who might have been able to swoop in and pick up a Radeon RX Vega card before inventories disappeared. The latest driver release, version 17.8.1, is optimized to deliver the best performance in Agents of Mayhem, released last week, and Quake Champions, which opened up to anyone and everyone on Steam Early Access yesterday. With Enhanced Sync enabled, video playback on desktop or YouTube playback in

The newest Overwatch animated short, unveiled by Blizzard today at Gamescom, is called “Rise and Shine,” and features none other than everyone’s favorite (and most heavily armed) climatoligist, Mei. The video was introduced by director Ben Dai, who made the very valid point that without science, the Overwatch team would be in deep trouble. And it’s not always a glamorous job: Mei’s morning routine looks about as exciting as mine. Except it turns out that on this day, she’s slept in a little long

It’s very convenient that the naming conventions of Middle-earth: Shadow of War’s Orc tribes skew a little towards the literal. So it should be pretty obvious how members of the Machine Tribe like to spend their time. Diligently working away on the ferocious engines of destruction that Sauron plans to use to conquer Middle-earth—you’ve got to respect these hardworking Orcs. Hopefully we’ll be able to recruit a few of these smarty-pants Orcs before we destroy their keep and slaughter them by the

Bundle Stars’ sixth Indie Legends Bundle launched today, with nine indie crackers crammed inside it. Together, they’re worth a not inconsiderable $140, but you’ll only need to throw $3.49 at them if you want to add them to your Steam library. Inside the bundle you’ll find the likes of Shadowrun: Dragonfall – Director’s Cut, the gloomy cyberpunk-fantasy RPG from Harebrained Schemes and the chaotic physics playground of Coffee Stain Studios’ Goat Simulator. Physics appears to be the word of the da

Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene revealed a glimpse of Battlegrounds’ upcoming desert map during his Gamescom keynote today, specifically a sand-covered city. Not the sort of place you’d want to take a holiday, but I hear that it’s rich in chicken. It’s hard for me to not look at the rundown city and see countless places where I’ll probably die. With its plethora of high-rise buildings looking over large open spaces, it looks like a sniper’s heaven, and thus my hell. The cliffs off in the distance

Bandai Namco and Dontnod have teamed up to create a new narrative adventure game. Details are slim, and even the name is being kept under wraps, but the Life is Strange developer has been working on the game since 2016. The unnamed project will be set in a fictional US city and, not unlike Life is Strange, will feature quite a lot of investigating. Like Vampyre, however, it’s being developed by a different team, and it won’t get in the way of Life is Strange 2’s development. “Obviously, with a s

A new trailer for Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has just dropped from the heavens, and it’s every bit as silly and melodramatic as you’d hope, unless you’re new to the series—it’s one of the few times Ace Combat has been bound for PC—and then you might be a little surprised to find so much geopolitical tension and soapy drama in a game about flying rad jets. Amid all the royal speeches and news reports, the trailer reveals a bit more about the latest crisis facing Strangereal, which involves dispu

A new Tropico 6 trailer has escaped from El Presidente’s vault, showing off the new engine, customisable palaces, bridges and archipelagos. And if you’re at Gamescom, you’ll be able to take it for a spin yourself. As the trailer reminds us, the big change coming with Tropico 6 is the introduction of the new infrastructure wrinkles that come with trying to connect an archipelago. I’m a sucker for designing transport networks, and it looks like that’s going to be one of the main concerns for new T

As is traditional for Assassin’s Creed games, Origins will see players rubbing shoulders with some larger than life historical figures, and few are as a big a deal as the likes of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. The newest trailer shows how they and Ptolemy XIII vie for control over Egypt, each trying to grab and consolidate power in their own way. While Ubisoft play fast and loose with history, there’s always a kernel of truth in their depictions of historical figures, as well as an air of authent

We can hardly go a single Monster Hunter: World video without that poor, ugly dinosaur getting slowly beaten to death by eager hunters. The latest Anjanath to give up its life did so in service of a four-player co-op video, which you can watch below. Take the big fish that gets taken out when Anjanath flees to the water. Co-op looks fun—if a little messy—but I’m definitely looking forward to seeing new hunts. Monster Hunter: World is due out in 2018.