Destiny 2 is still a couple of months away from the PC, but it’ll be out on consoles in just a couple of weeks, and that means that it’s time to check out the launch trailer. It’s not looking good for humanity, as we already know, but we aren’t entirely without hope. Destiny 2 comes to the PC on October 24. The open beta begins on August 28 for those who’ve preordered, and August 29 for everyone else, and runs until August 31. Find out what’s changed from the console beta right here.

Samsung’s 500GB 850 Evo solid state drive is on our list of the best SSD deals around, at a price of $175 (it’s also our pick as the best SSD for gaming). That’s a good deal, though it’s now on sale at several vendors for $150, making it an even better bargain. The 850 Evo line uses Samsung’s 32-layer 3D V-NAND flash memory and has a 512MB cache buffer. It offers sequential read speeds of up to 540MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 520MB/s. The drive is on sale almost everywhere you look,

The classic videogame voice in your ear—always there, always telling you about things you’re presently seeing on your screen—is about as chatty as they get in the new Need For Speed Payback trailer out of Gamescom. he says, as cops come from everywhere. The trailer isn’t as interesting as the gameplay trailer from June, but it does debut the 2018 BMW M5, which will be driveable in the game before the real thing is available in the spring. Car and Driver has more about the superpowered sedan—I’ll

The initial launch of 8th Gen Core is similar to Intel’s Broadwell rollout a couple of years ago, with a limited number of SKUs for the ultraportable market. These will be the first 15W quad-core Core processors Intel has ever created, with the full feature set of Hyper-Threading, AVX 2.0 instructions, Quick Sync, and more. Intel also compares its new 8th Gen processors to the typical 5-year-old PCs that are in common use, noting that a modern 8th Gen laptop can be more than twice as fast. The f

Following the release of the debut trailer for the new Star Wars Battlefront 2 Starfight Assault mode earlier today, Electronic Arts has unveiled the first proper look at full-on gameplay at Gamescom. The 24-player fight begins with a Rebel effort to destroy Imperial light cruisers defending the facility, followed by strafing attacks on shield generators that bear faint echoes of the Death Star trench run. Then it’s simply a matter of disabling the power couplings, and up in smoke she goes. It’s

After more than two years, Kel’Thuzad—one of the most-requested and highly anticipated characters in Warcraft lore—is finally coming to Heroes of the Storm. Ahead of Blizzard’s Gamescom event this week, Kel’Thuzad’s role and abilities have been revealed on the Heroes of the Storm website. Finally, his E is Chains of Kel’Thuzad, which launches a chain, dealing 97 damage to the first enemy or structure hit. Like most heroes, Kel’Thuzad has two Heroic abilities to choose from. His second Heroic cho

The Witcher 3: Alchemy and Combat buildMost crazy damage builds feel as though they’re breaking with the lore of their parent games, but The Witcher 3’s combination alchemy and combat builds tap into the very essence of what it’s mean to work in Geralt’s profession. YouTuber Ditronus detailed the best incarnation of this monster setup, which focuses on stacking everything that gives you both critical hit chance and critical hit damage. One of the most infamous overpowered DPS builds of all time

The vast majority of cases don’t allow you to properly display your graphics card because the heatsink and fan contraption—fancy decorations and all—face downward. There are a some exceptions, one of them being Gigabyte’s new Aorus AC300W mid-tower enclosure. With this case, you have the option of installing your graphics card vertically or horizontally, depending on which part you want to be seen. Mounting your graphics card vertically requires a PCIe rise cable, and presumably Gigabyte include

Overwatch is getting a new map soon: Junkertown, the junktacular Australian hometown of the junker Junkrat. “Junkertown is an Escort map located in the harsh and unforgiving Australian Outback,” reads the map’s description. When they aren’t pillaging the omnium’s skeleton for anything of value, the Junkers blow off steam in the Scrapyard—a massive gladiatorial arena whose combatants fight for glory, riches…and to survive.” Junktown looks to be a departure from the otherwise pristine set of fac

One of them is that Coffee Lake in desktop form will in fact require a new motherboard based on Intel’s 300 series chipset, as previously indicated by ASRock. Even though the pin count is expected to be the same as Kaby Lake (LGA 1151), upcoming Coffee Lake processors will not work in today’s 200 series motherboards. Perhaps in recognition of this possibility, Intel is increasing the core count on its 8th generation processor lineup. One final thing to note from the retail packaging—Coffee Lake

An advert in GamesMarkt, a German magazine, unveiled a new game from THQ Nordic and Experiment 101 seemingly earlier than planned. Biomutant is an open-world action RPG with a kung-fu critter who bears a striking resemblance to Rocket Raccoon. As well as the above leak, an Amazon listing has spilled more details, including some screenshots. Details about the story are slim, but the listing mentions an interactive narrative with a contextual storyteller. An announcement trailer, sadly absent game

Oh snap, it’s the PC Gamer Top 100! Samuel, Phil and Andy—yes, he’s here this week—run through the entire thing, making brutally honest judgements based on a list voted for by almost 20 PC Gamer staffers and freelancers. Why not follow along at home, with a copy of PC Gamer in your hands? Download: Episode 52: I have a complicated relationship with Bathtub Geralt. Discussed: The PC Gamer Top 100, 2017Starring: Samuel Roberts , Phil Savage , Andy Kelly

Microsoft have announced ReCore: Definitive Edition, a spruced up version of Armature Studio’s sci-fi action platformer. It’s due out next week, and if you own the original version, you’ll get it as a free update. The Definitive Edition adds increased resolution and HDR, along with a new adventure, Eye of Obsidian, and the T8-NK Corebot—a tank you can drive over quicksand. James didn’t get on well with the original version, calling it a great action platformer buried under layers of open-world b

Final Fantasy 15 is coming to PC next year. “At some point we will publish the recommended and minimum specs, but we can’t say exactly what they are at the moment.” Are you ready to be made into a fan of Final Fantasy? 15 is a high fantasy roadtrip starring four chums who like to beat up wildlife. It has its flaws, but it’s the best Final Fantasy in years and who doesn’t want another 100 hour open world RPG in their lives?

Fear Effect, the cel-shaded PlayStation action romp, is getting the remaster treatment. It’s been 17 years since it first launched, and now it’s being resurrected by Sushee as Fear Effect Reinvented. Sushee is also the studio behind Fear Effect Sedna, a real-time tactics game. Fear Effect Reinvented is part of Square Enix’s Collective initiative, where the publisher works with indie developers and even gives them access to its large back catalogue of games. I don’t know if you’ve played Fear Eff

To celebrate BioShock’s release ten years ago, here’s our 2016 making of what was arguably its best level, Fort Frolic. It helped us fight back against people thinking Cohen was just The Joker.”ENRAPTURED Fort Frolic isn’t Bioshock’s only great moment. After you defeat them he grants you entry to the atrium—a visually stunning central hub for the Fort Frolic level. The developers also planned to make a zoo part of Fort Frolic, and some have expressed regret at having to cut it. “Fort Frolic taug

Earth’s a bit rotten these days, so why not consider relocating to Mars? Haemimont and Paradox have put together a new in-game trailer for martian management game Surviving Mars, and it continues to look promising. Colonists, for instance, come with their own skills and agendas, and may even be driven mad by the harsh red planet. Or they might not be too happy with the way you’re running things and attempt to get in the way of your plans. Here’s everything we know about Surviving Mars so far.

Even though it’s still to launch on Xbox One, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has already sold over 8 million copies. Today also sees the game receive Nvidia Shadowplay Highlights support. After only four months, it already boasted over 5 million players, and a couple of weeks ago it hit a whopping 500,000 concurrent players. An update today adds Shadowplay Highlights support, so you can capture and share clips of your misadventures. If you’re one of the millions of chicken dinner hunters who play

The first episode of the Life is Strange prequel is out on August 31, which makes this Gamescom launch trailer a little premature. Still, we get a dose of the hazy coming-of-age teen drama vibe and some angst from Chloe, who was angry long before the events of the first series. Teenage troublemaking aside, the series seems to focus on Chloe’s relationships with her stepdad, David, and the mysterious Rachel Amber. I’m normally allergic to high school dramas, but I’m halfway through the first seri

Final Fantasy 15 will soon be freed from its console prison. Hopefully it won’t be another Final Fantasy 13 disaster, then. For a game like Final Fantasy 15 which relies on showing off a world, it’s such a useful piece of technology they can give us.” Nvidia’s involvement means Final Fantasy 15 will get to use TurfEffects for realistic grass simulation, Hairworks for realistic hair, Flow for liquid and smoke simulation, fancy ambient occlusion and advanced shadow algorithms. Final Fantasy 15 is