It’s no secret that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a tremendously popular game. It sold a million copies less than a month after going into Early Access, and three months later had pushed that number to five million. And earlier today it set another big milestone by breaking 500,000 concurrent players on Steam. Today’s peak actually climbed even higher, to a total of 523,436, before slipping to a little under 430,000 at the time of writing. That rapid climb up the ranks makes me wonder if Dota

The folks at Tweakers noticed that several motherboard makers are referencing an announced Threadripper 1920 CPU in their support documents. Here’s a look at one of them:These don’t look like dummy placeholders. According to the listings, the model number for the non-X Threadripper 1920 is YD1920A9UC9AE). Having lower clocks and lacking XFR support seems to have allowed AMD to drop the power requirements from 180W for its Threadripper X chips to 140W on the Threadripper 1920. Looking at the spec

This is a remarkable moment because of Grimoire’s long history of hype and broken promises. An old Indiegogo campaign promised, in italics and with multiple exclamation marks, that “this game will ship in May 2013,” and it did not. As for the game itself, it is 100 percent old-school, with “hand-drawn” 2D graphics, MIDI music, and 8-bit sound effects. Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar is available now (it still feels weird to say it) for $36/£27/€33 on Steam. And now, I invite you to enjo

It might be over two years old, but CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is still being supported with official adult colouring books and unofficial but equally neat player-made modifications. A great example of the latter is SkacikPL’s Devil’s Pit mod which comes packing a new playable area, 20 new items, a host of new NPCs, and a number of bombs and potions among other things. The mod’s creator describes all of that thusly: “[The] Devil’s Pit Mod offers you a chance to visit unused area o

After the runaway success of the first Grand Theft Auto in 1997, DMA Design—now known as Rockstar North—had to keep the momentum going with a sequel. Grand Theft Auto 2 was released in 1999 and refined the freeform structure that made the original such a hit, but with a wildly different visual style and a new respect system. Reviews were mixed and sales were lower than expected, but it was an important step towards the series’ influential leap to three dimensions with Grand Theft Auto 3 in 2001.

He and Samuel celebrate by talking about PC games, and also the Discovery documentary series Deadliest Catch. We chat about Guild Wars 2’s upcoming expansion, Path of Fire, and relive the highs and lows of GTA Online. Download: Episode 51: Lvl.99 Seabass. You can also subscribe on iTunes or keep up with new releases using our RSS feed. Discussed: GTA Online, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, crabs, salty boysThis week: Samuel Roberts , Phil Savage

Daniel Licht, the composer responsible for the scores of Dishonored and Dishonored 2 has died of cancer, aged 60-years-old. Licht was perhaps best known for scoring all eight seasons of popular crime mystery series Dexter, winning awards for it and his work on medical drama Body of Proof. Similarly, Licht composed music for the PlayStation 3’s Silent Hill: Downpour and the PS Vita’s Silent Hill: Book of Memories. Licht’s work on Arkane and Bethesda’s Dishonored and PC Gamer Game of the Year 2016

In February, we learned that Failbetter Games founder Alexis Kennedy is working on something within the Dragon Age franchise. “It’s a bit of lore which has not been addressed much to date in Dragon Age,” Kennedy told Eurogamer at the time. Beyond that, Kennedy remains expectedly tight-lipped. Speaking directly to the so-called “Kennedy bit”, though, he expects those well acquainted with the oddness of his past Failbetter works to feel at home. Speculate away in the comments below, or read about

Announced at E3 earlier this year and due in October—on Friday the 13th, no less—The Evil Within 2 revisits the seemingly perpetual struggles of intrepid cop-turned-fallen hero Sebastian Castellanos. Weaving a more personalised tale this time round, Shinji Mikami’s frightful sequel will adopt a more psychological horror-leaning guise than its forerunner. That’s according to Tango Gamesworks’ John Johanas who, while speaking at a Bethesda Live Q&A session, suggested action fans can expect some si

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Steam is huge, but sometimes it takes cold hard figures to really know how big something is. The most interesting one, to me at least, is that Steam has almost doubled its daily concurrents since 2015. Nowadays the company gets an average of 14 million peak concurrent users per day, while back in 2015 it was a (comparatively) small 8.4 million. Meanwhile, Steam gets around 67 million monthly active players, and a rather astonishing 33 million daily acti

I’m not a huge fan of sim-leaning racing games but I have a place in my heart for the F1 series. Crashing into barriers and smashing through my opponents seems funnier when the game is angrier at me for doing so. The new trailer embedded above showcases this year’s career, which will reportedly be “massively expanded”. This means the introduction of invitational events throughout the F1 season, and the different types of events include overtake challenges, pursuit events, checkpoint and time att

New details regarding Destiny 2’s PC beta were revealed this afternoon as part of Bungie’s weekly update . The content will largely be the same as what console players experienced a few weeks ago—with one obvious exception. PC players will have access to a new Control PvP map, Javelin-4. The news follows a system requirements and date announcement for the beta, set to run from August 28 to 31. Bungie also noted that feedback from the console beta has led to tweaks which have been implemented in

In June, Perfect World Entertainment and Neverwinter developer Cryptic Studios announced a new, “truly unique AAA game” based on the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. About a week after that, Magic publisher Wizards of the Coast said that another Magic-branded game was also in development, as part of its “Magic Digital Next” program. That digital game we are working on has a real name now: Magic: The Gathering Arena! The June announcement also indicated that “much, much more” about the

We’ve been looking forward to Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord for a long time now—a really long time. We failed at connecting with our community, and sometimes it might appear as if we are not paying you as much attention as you deserve,” TaleWorlds wrote. To improve its relationship with Mount & Blade and and make the Bannerlord development process more “transparent,” TaleWorlds said it will start a new weekly blog, with posts going up every Thursday. I’ll always miss working on @Mount_and_Blade! I

Ari Gibson’s sketches of Hollow Knight characters on the edge of an early map design. A great Metroidvania map makes you want to master every square centimeter, and remains fun to traverse the second and 10th and 20th time you follow the same path. We talked about what defines an adventure game like theirs and why they never use the term “Metroidvania” themselves. We pretty much shied away completely from describing the game ourselves, in marketing and stuff, as a Metroidvania. Do you make a con

He’s the founder of Gamers Gift, a non-profit charity that uses videogames to help sick kids, the elderly, and those with disabilities escape their physical boundaries. I tried to visit Chris as much as I could, and for a few weeks it wasn’t great. Being in the hospital is not a good experience,” Dillon tells me of that formative moment. There’s a lot of people in bad situations and technology like VR can really help them. “There’s a lot of people in bad situations and technology like VR can rea

We are big fans of mechanical keyboards, but not everyone prefers them. Some people like the feel of a membrane plank, which are typically less expensive than their mechanical brethren. For example, Aukey has a membrane keyboard with a spattering of bells and whistles, and it’s on sale at Amazon for just $26. Aukey says it set out to design a keyboard that looks like a mechanical plank but with quieter keystrokes. Some mechanical keyboards are quiet too, though membrane planks usually have the a

I use the phrase ‘worst Star Wars games’ in the headline above, but that doesn’t mean I hate the games on this list, as such. For some contrast, check out our list of the best Star Wars games on PC. While it’s barely believable as Star Wars canon, it’s roughly as authentic-feeling as the stories told in Marvel’s current Star Wars comics, where there’s an evil version of R2-D2 and C3PO , and Poe Dameron goes looking for a giant space egg . Players would have to wait until Galactic Battlegrounds f

AltspaceVR, the biggest social virtual reality app for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, will close today. The developers posted a farewell letter late last week explaining that “the company has run into unforeseen financial difficulty” and can’t keep the service online after today. “We had a supportive group of investors that last gave us money in 2015,” wrote AltspaceVR. The developer is hosting a farewell party in the game at 5 pm Pacific today before the servers shut down. It’s a sad loss, as ma

The most recent round of Valve’s Steam-tinkering brings in changes to Steam community groups, aimed at simplifying the process of joining them and cutting down on their misuse by spammers. But finagling an invitation, even in situations where a closed group makes sense, “is more complicated and messy than it needed to be.” Thus, Valve has implemented a new “Restricted” type of Steam group that users can request entry to. Restricted groups will effectively fall between the previous two group type