Far Cry 5 is a very silly game. Far Cry is a series about a heavily armed lone gun infliciting carnage on an entire region, so let’s begin. It’s neat that the rules of Far Cry 5’s all-destroying repair tool also apply to your companions, but it does seem that Far Cry’s excellent fire-spreading system has been toned down. I miss the firestorms of Far Cry 2. I do miss the soaring peaks of Kyrat, but the final Far Cry 5 map may contain more topographical variety.

For the same $1,000 asking price, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 1950X gives you a 16-core/32-thread CPU—60 percent more cores/threads, balanced against slightly lower clockspeeds. All of the AMD Ryzen CPUs were tested with DDR4-3200 memory, though the Threadripper chips were tested with higher quality CL14 kits. Ryzen Threadripper CPU performanceI know, I know—it’s PC Gamer, where the hell are the gaming benchmarks!? Image 1 of 18 Image 2 of 18 Image 3 of 18 Image 4 of 18 Image 5 of 18 Image 6 of 18

Despite how the header image above may be construed, “England vs Scotland” as featured in KieranMerrilees’ GTA 5 Project London mod pertains to the national football (soccer) teams and not an inter-British Isles battle royale. The mod itself is a work-in-progress project of Merrilees’ that’s been in the works for the past several months. For now, Project London includes Heathrow Airport, St Thomas Hospital, The Royal London Hospital, a few London Fire Brigade stations, Great Ormond Street Hospit

Steam’s annual Summer Sale has been and gone, however there’s savings to be made while the sun’s still shining courtesy of Bundle Stars. Billed as its “biggest ever” Summer Sale, the online retailer is offering hundreds of Steam deals from now through August 21—with some games discounted by as much as 90 percent. Alien: Isolation: The Collection is subject to a 76 percent discount, while Tropico 5’s Complete Collection is 85 percent lighter. Here’s a collection of the Summer Sale Top Picks. The

First-person servers change everything in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, so reckons Ian Birnbaum, however until now doing so meant playing exclusively in the game’s Solo or Duo queues. Now, first-person servers are available in all game modes. Players, first-person only servers are now available in ALL game modes on NA, EU and ASIA servers. pic.twitter.com/us8IuDJ6PPAugust 10, 2017As you can see there, Bluehole suggests first-person leaderboards across all regions are en route, while this week’s

Ever since the birth of the company, Razer has stuck by its main colors: black and green. The two shades have been immediately identifiable by gamers and tech enthusiasts world wide. Which is why we were shocked to see the company go completely inverted on a number of its most popular accessories, and man do they look sexy. There are four products currently in the lineup:Blackwidow X Chroma mechanical keyboardKraken 7.1 gaming headsetLancehead gaming mouseInvicta dual-surface mousepad with alumi

A year ago this week No Man’s Sky released on PC, and its bumpy launch was both the end of a string of troubles and the beginning of many more. Murray and Hello Games as a whole retreated into a void of silence for months, save the occasional patch notes detailing bug fixes. When Hello did begin communicating, it was with only a few words but a boatload of new content for No Man’s Sky. While silent, Hello Games had been listening to feedback, and The Foundation update included base-building feat

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. This week we talk about some surprise announcements for games new and old, what we think of Ninja Theory’s Hellblade, and how fashionable the latest Overwatch skins are before wrapping with our usual Twitch chat Q&A! This week’s topics:We talk about the latest news What we’ve been playing Boverwatch breaks

The new Hearthstone expansion Knights of the Frozen Throne, as we told you breathlessly last week, will go live on August 10. According to an official blog post today, Knights of the Frozen Throne will arrive on a region-by-region basis, beginning with the Americas at 12 pm PDT. Do note that those times are estimates and could shift depending on how smoothly it all flows out the gate. The release of the expansion will also see the launch of the new Icecrown Citadel mission, which will be rolled

Starflight was originally released by Electronic Arts in 1986, and without overstating things in the slightest, it was brilliant. Cue inXile head honcho Brian Fargo, who recently weighed in on a Twitter conversation about how Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifices threatens to delete your save file if you die too often. When a user noted that Starflight was even harsher, Fargo tweeted, “We need a Starflight remake!” https://t.co/gNBr2EHvVIAugust 9, 2017An inXile rep said that Fargo had no further comment

The first Megaton Rainfall trailer was released two years ago, and though it wasn’t the prettiest looking game even at the time, the promise of flying around like Superman blowing up entire skyscrapers (while meaning to blow up aliens) was pretty tantalizing. The developer went fairly quiet after that trailer, posting just a couple blog updates, but today brings good news: Megaton Rainfall is alive and well, and the second trailer (above) looks leagues better than the first. There’s an Earth Def

Artifact is a digital Dota card game coming in 2018, and we know almost nothing about it. But from our experience with Valve and tons of other card games on the market, we can make informed guesses about what form Artifact will take. Really interested to see how @PlayArtifact impacts the saturated card game scene. Some form of limited trading would add to the current crop of card games. Whatever happens, it won’t be the first card game with lanes .

Do you need a new gaming laptop? If so, Newegg is selling a relatively well-equipped 15.6-inch gaming laptop from Asus for $1,109 after applying promo code 7807EDSC2. The promo code knocks $20 off the already discounted price (this laptop normally goes for $1,249). Powering the 1080p display is an Intel Core i7 7700HQ processor flanked by an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 GPU with 3GB of GDDR5 memory. You get a couple of extras with this laptop, including a digital code for Rocket League and an Asus RO

Bethesda Softworks has released yet another cinematic video for the upcoming alt-history FPS Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. This one is all about chocolate, and the dangers of stuffing it into your face when your brother is a willing collaborator with the murderous Nazi regime. But whenever Ronnie stumbles, his big brother Dale will always be there to catch him—and inform on him to the authorities! More videos providing “a glimpse into the world BJ Blazkowicz will be saving from Nazi oppressio

In most cases, becoming a psycho killer themselves likely isn’t part of the plan. But in the Friday the 13th videogame, it apparently is. There will still be some ways for counselors to do harm to one another. “Our team believes that the ability to hurt other counselors is something that this game should have as it adds tension and requires players to make tough calls. “We will include this mechanic in private matches for now, with the hope of better options in the future.”

As AMD’s Threadripper rolls into view, expect to see companies come out with brand new cooling solutions built specifically for socket TR4 setups. Enermax is one of them—it just announced two new all-in-one liquid coolers for Threadripper. The company’s new Liqtech TR4 coolers are custom-made for AMD’s socket TR4. “Liqtech TR4 liquid coolers can deliver extremely high TDP of 500W+; this cooling solution can easily handle a large amount of heat generated by the overclocked CPUs,” Enermax claims.

For self-taught hobbyist modder Jamal Rashid—who goes by the pseudonym Razed—this potentially meant sacrificing 1,200 hours of unpaid labour on his ambitious, and at that stage unfinished, NaturalVision Remastered project. In turn, what began life as a less complex reshade mod, NaturalVision Remastered took on a life of its own while becoming one of the prettiest and most sophisticated GTA 5 visual overhaul mods the community has to offer. Not every modder will tell you that your mod looks bette

When Hearthstone’s Journey to Un’goro rolled around, I attempted to predict the power level of all the Quest cards . You also get an upgraded hero power, quite like Justicar Trueheart , which is something Paladin has historically leveraged successfully. Druids didn’t use Justicar because they weren’t looking to get a lot of value out of their hero power over time. Malfurion only feels average because I have a hard time imagining a deck that wants the hero power that badly. Unfortunately, the app

The Humble Microjumbo Bundle is a little different than most previous Humble Bundles, because two of the games in the package are straight-up free: Just give them your email address and enjoy. DRM-free (that is, non-Steam) versions of Space Pilgrim Episode 1 and Pony Island are yours for the taking, or for a minimum of one penny (although that’s kind of a dick move) you can also lay claim to Space Pilgrim Episodes 1-4. For $1, you get Steam keys for all of the above, plus Geometry Dash, Pony Isl

The Guild Wars 2 expansion Path of Fire that was announced last week will take players to the Crystal Desert region south of Ascalon, a location that veterans of the original Guild Wars will likely find familiar—that’s where it was first seen. You can read all about it here, and soon you’ll have the opportunity to dive in and experience it yourself during a free “preview weekend” that runs from August 11-13. The event will be open to everyone, with no catches: Sign up here if you’re not already