The first (and only) time I got one of Braid’s incredibly well-hidden stars, its rare collectibles, I felt like an utter genius. I felt like I’d surely concocted a solution the game hadn’t intended, but it worked. Other games set you loose in a sandbox with the tools to build a genius moment for yourself. Headshots in shooters are satisfying, sure, but nowhere near as satisfying as outwitting your opponent to get the drop on them or sneak off with their flag. We want to hear your stories about t

Note: Before you attempt to clone your hard drive or SSD, w e highly recommend backing up all your data first. Samsung Data Migration:The first data copying method we’ll go over pertains to Samsung Data Migration. So make sure you plop that new Samsung SSD in along with your old OS drive you want to clone from. We always recommend making recovery media, just in case your hard drive or SSD fails on you. Creating an image of your hard drives: Under Backup Tasks, you can also create a disk image of

The most ambitious Quake map ever completed was uploaded on Quake mod site Quaddicted in June, and it looks unbelievable for a game that’s now more than 20 years old. Called The Forgotten Sepulcher, the map is a modern reinterpretation of the original Quake map E1M3: The Necropolis. Built by two Quake level designers, Simon “Sock” O’Callaghan and Henrik “Giftmacher” Oresten, The Forgotten Sepulcher is a stunningly intricate and densely interconnected map that pushes Quake far beyond its natural

He didn’t particularly notice any bugs, but nevertheless developer Hinterland Studio has been working its winter socks off to fix a few things that weren’t quite working as intended. In total, there’s been four patches since the game released: one on Thursday, two on Friday, and one early Saturday morning. You can tell the team are nearly getting there by the fact that the patch notes are shortening in length with every update. All the patch notes can be found here. Are you having issues with th

Good news, Twitch Prime subscribers: you get to play one of the best point-and-click adventures of all time for free. All you need to do is get the Twitch desktop app and head over to Day of the Tentacle Remastered’s Twitch page to start downloading. If you like point-and-clicks then you’ll probably love this one, but if you’re still on the fence head over to Andy’s review. Twitch Prime is included for free in Amazon Prime memberships — click here to find out how to activate it. It’s probably no

Hollow Knight’s Hidden Dreams update is now upon us, and it adds two new bosses, more music tracks, and fresh fast travel options to the excellent Metroidvania. The two new bosses are optional and tough to beat, while on the fast travel side the update adds Dream Gates, which are portals that a player can place at a location and warp to from anywhere. A new Stag Station — terminals on an underground network that the player can use to travel around — has sprung up as well. If you haven’t played H

After I’m through playing PUBG every weekend I think I’ll probably cozy up to some long, meandering RPG for a change of pace. For the time being, if I see you I’ll probably see you on a bridge, a favorite camping spot of Club member Julez and crew. So what are you up to this weekend? If you’re game, join us in the comments below for a chat about the state of PC gaming at this very moment. I hope someone is playing Slime Rancher because I haven’t had a chance yet and I want to hear all about your

So much so—shameless plug alert—I caught up with Razed over Skype and have a feature article in the works. Rather than a way to travel faster, Path of Fire’s mounts are a way to jump longer, jump higher, and blink around corners. I’m a sucker for cool traversal mechanics, and this seems tailor made to enable cool jumping puzzles. Tyler Wilde: Honk honkI love that people are driving up to streamers in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and honking at them. Bo seems excited to try it out, though, and I

The Humble Monthly Bundle for September is now available for purchase, once again offering over $100 in games for just $12. As is the way with these super-secret deals, all but one game in the package—Killing Floor 2—will remain hidden until the purchasing window has closed. It works like this: For $12 per month, you get one game immediately—in this case, Killing Floor 2—and the rest at the end of the month, when the next Humble Monthly goes live. The August monthly bundle offered Pillars of Ete

We’re talking 27-inch, WQHD resolution, IPS panel technology, 165Hz refresh capability, and support for Nvidia’s G-Sync adaptive frame synching tech. Indeed, ViewSonic has done a very nice job all round with its latest gaming panel. As you’d expect for an IPS panel, the viewing angles are super. There’s hardly a whiff of that nasty grain and sparkle that blighted those IPS monitors of yore. But as nice a screen as this ViewSonic is, $700 still feels like one hell of a lot for a 27-inch PC monito

But it was “successful,” according to an interview Respawn Entertainment CEO Vince Zampella gave to Gamespot, and the studio is “heavily invested” in the setting. Maybe because it was super crowded, the pricing was aggressive—it was a rough window to launch our game,” Zampella said. There’s some other things we’re doing that haven’t been announced just yet, but we’re heavily invested in the Titanfall universe.” There’s two or three times as many people playing Frontier Defense right now than all

Death Road to Canada was one of the best things I played last year, and today a bunch of new stuff has been added in a new anniversary update. The update follows another pretty big patch that added “multiple endings, many new perks and traits, an all new persistent unlock system, toilet upgrades, many new characters and events, and some stuff I’m forgetting,” according to developer RocketCat Games. – New system for AI followers using thrown weapons- New Rare Trading Camp system! Contains Hidden

When Hunt re-emerged earlier this year as Hunt: Showdown, you can imagine my surprise when it turned out to be “just incredible”—so good, in fact, that we named it our favorite game of E3. The first Hunt: Showdown dev diary, released today by Crytek, seems to bear that out. The video begins with gameplay footage from Hunt as it was originally envisioned, which everyone is very polite about, but obviously not particularly enthusiastic. There’s only so much you can glean from edited gameplay foota

Spend enough time in Skyrim (enough time being a few minutes) and you’ll probably wind up becoming annoyed with an NPC. And, while you’re obviously a bit touchy, you’re also honorable (I’m guessing), and you’d like that fight to be a fair one. Draw—A Dueling Mod, for Skyrim Special Edition (and original-flavor Skyrim as well), lets you challenge NPCs (any NPC you like, in fact, even essential ones) to a duel via a new magic shout. What’s the difference between challenging someone to a duel and j

Re:Legend is an adorable multiplayer RPG looking to combine life sims and monster raising. Six-person developer Magnus Games describes Re:Legend as a “sim-JRPG” inspired by Harvest Moon descendants not unlike Stardew Valley and Slime Rancher . At its core, Re:Legend is about taming and raising ‘Magnus’—monsters which inhabit the land of Ethia—and making use of their unique abilities. A water Magnus, for instance, might be able to quickly water your farmland, which is where the influence of Stard

That said, computer graphics programmer Edd Biddulph uploaded a video to YouTube that showcases his path tracer running Quake 2 in real-time. “This video shows new features of my GPU path tracer built into Quake 2. By Biddulph’s estimates, it will be another 15-20 years before GPU hardware is powerful enough to do real-time path or ray tracing. Despite the noise, this is a really cool demonstration of path tracing. And for those of you who are interested, Biddulph made the source code for his GP

That’s what came to mind when I read about a modder who made his Wii U console emulate a PC, which he then used to emulate a PC. The modder, who goes by Banjo Kazooie, posted his concoction on Sudomod. You may already be familiar with his work, such as the time he posted a RetroPie Wii U mod. According to Hackaday, he loaded the modded Wii U with Windows 10 and then installed Cemu, a Wii U emulator. In doing so, he is able to use the Wii U as a handheld PC while still retaining its original func

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus opens with BJ Blazkowicz in even worse shape than he was in at the beginning of The New Order. Obviously he did, but in the opening segment of Wolfenstein 2 he’s confined to a wheelchair. “As long as there are Nazis in the world, BJ will keep busy.” Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is set for release on October 27. We’ve got a couple of recent hands-on preview for you in the meantime: “My Favorite Bits” and “Punishing But Cathartic.”

If like me your pockets are bulging with Arcane Dust in anticipation of blowing it all on crafting meme cards when the next Hearthstone expansion hits, the good news is that the wait is almost over. Knights of the Frozen Throne will arrive on August 10 . That’s next Thursday, for the diary-averse among you. The set has 135 new cards, including a Death Knight ‘hero card’ for each class, one of which will be given to players for free in exchange for beating the prologue mission of the accompanying

If you’re looking to buy a gaming laptop but don’t want to spend a grand or more, Newegg has a pretty good deal going for MSI’s GL62M 6RD-032. It’s a 15.6-inch laptop that pairs an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPU that’s on sale for $959 before applying a promo code and cashing in a mail-in-rebate. Combined with a $150 mail-in-rebate offer, you’re looking at $804 for what is a respectable configuration. Connectivity options include two USB 3.0 ports and both USB