Late last week House Party was removed from Steam amid complaints over ‘pornographic’ content. On sale for a month in Early Access, it depicted fully simulated sex scenes with uncanny physics-boobed women, enabling the player character to whip their dick out at will (and put it on a charcoal barbecue, for instance). But now House Party is back, albeit in an altered state. The issue was specifically with the portrayal of sex acts.”Whether that means the simulated sex is completely out or not, I’m

You poor, poor mess of a Kickstarter project. And there’s more big news—unsurprisingly, despite the three years Unsung Story has been in development, Little Orbit will be starting from scratch. Developer Little Orbit has a number of games under its belt, including the likes of Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations, Kung Fu Panda Showdown of Legendary Legends, and Barbie & Her Sisters Puppy Rescue. A second Kickstarter update today, from Little Orbit CEO Matthew Scott, lays out the realiti

Today, ArenaNet announced Path of Fire, the new expansion for cheery non-subscription MMO Guild Wars 2. It’s a location that will be familiar to players of the first Guild Wars, but Path of Fire is set 250 years after that game. ‘Desert’ doesn’t mean beige and sandy”The quality hasn’t dropped for how huge these maps are,” says Horia Dociu, franchise art director for Guild Wars 2. “Guild Wars 2, from the beginning, is a story about humans learning to deal with the Elder Dragons. In the traditiona

The online arena shooter LawBreakers comes out on August 8, and when it does Twitch Prime members will be able to score a bundle of exclusive free loot, including a unique skin, stickers, and a Kappa account portrait. To express its “general appreciation” for all that Twitch is, the studio whipped up the “Bleed Purple” pack which will be available exclusively, and free, to Twitch Prime subscribers. It includes:Abaddon “Bleed Purple” unique character skin3 “Bleed Purple” Weapon Skins for the Lobb

My opening moments in Citadel: Forged with Fire will sound familiar to anyone who has played a survival game in the past few years. One thing that is immediately different about Citadel, however, is what’s missing: there are no meters for hunger, thirst, and stamina, the sort of systems we’ve come to expect from Early Access multiplayer open world games. I spoke to managing director Alex Tintor of Blue Isle Studios, developer of Citadel: Forged with Fire, about the decision to not include hunger

It’s been awhile since we last heard anything about Hob, the lovely mechanical-world action-adventure being developed by Torchlight studio Runic Games. Later, like most projects, we had an internal code name for the game, which was Hob. “But what’s important is that ‘Hob’ isn’t his or her name; in fact, the Hero in Hob is gender-neutral. We got some hands-on time of our own with Hob at PAX West last year and it made a very positive impression. Hob is available for pre-purchase now on Steam and G

Today is August 1 and, aside from coworkers pinching and/or punching you inappropriately, that means EA’s humongous-robots-with-guns game Titanfall 2 is now available on Origin Access, the subscription-based service that offers unlimited access to Origin games for $5 per month, or $30 per year. There’s also a Plan B on the table in the form of the new Titanfall 2 Ultimate Edition, which bundles all DLC maps, modes, and weapons that have been released so far, along with a few extra bonuses. Inclu

BioWare Montreal was relegated to a “support studio” role back in May, following the tepid reaction to Mass Effect: Andromeda, a reduction in status that saw a number of its employees moved to the also-Montreal-based EA Motive. And we brought our BioWare Montreal team into that same facility. EA confirmed in a statement sent to Techraptor that BioWare Montreal is being folded entirely into Motive. With multiple major projects in development in Montreal, we are merging BioWare Montreal with Motiv

Anyone who owns PUBG can access the test server by downloading the separate client through Steam. Greene also used the patch notes to say a few words about the upcoming “crate and key system,” which hasn’t been universally popular with Early Access players. “But still, I must admit that our messaging wasn’t very clear, so I extend my sincere apologies for the confusion caused. The full update 4 patch notes, and a few crate pics, are below. This HUD UI will be updated further in the futureAdded n

That would be the Radeon Pro SSG. Built for serious content creation, the Radeon Pro SSG pairs 16GB of HBM2 ECC memory with 2TB of NAND flash storage plugged into a pair of M.2 ports for extended memory support. AMD did the same thing with its prototype Radeon Pro SSG (based off Fiji), but that card had just 4GB VRAM and topped out at 1TB of extended memory support. Obviously no one is going to buy these to play games, or more precisely, solely to play games. The Radeon Pro WX9100 ($2,199) and R

Reaction times are one thing, but if you’re trying to compete with crummy hardware, you could find yourself at a disadvantage. Razer wants to take that excuse away with its new BlackWidow Tournament Edition Chroma V2, a compact mechanical plank built for competitive gaming. The compactness of the keyboard is due in large part to ditching the dedicated number pad. Either way, one of the primary selling points is Razer’s “Instant Trigger Technology.” You can load up lighting profiles for games lik

BioWare has announced that Corey Gaspur, a longtime designer at the studio whose credits include Mass Effect 2 and 3, and the upcoming online shooter Anthem, has died. Gaspur was with BioWare for more than nine years, during which he worked as a gameplay/level designer on Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2, and its DLC. He served as the lead combat designer on Mass Effect 3, and was working on Anthem as the lead gameplay designer. His LinkedIn profile also

Chucklefish said earlier this year that the multiplayer update to Stardew Valley that everyone’s looking forward to would not be out this summer, and sorry to say, I’m not here to deliver any happy surprises—that still holds true. But work has progressed far enough that the studio is now ready to start talking about how the new feature will work and what it will include, and said that beta testing is expected to begin around the end of the year. Friend invites will be handled through Steam, rath

This has been going on for some time now, though up until Vega, AMD was still pushing Crossfire, especially when making performance comparisons with Nvidia. With the arrival of Vega, however, expect AMD to cool its jets when it comes to Crossfire configurations. “This time, it seems, none of the Crossfire claims were made; in fact, ‘Crossfire’ wasn’t once mentioned during any of the day-long media briefing. When the discussion did finally turn to Crossfire, AMD noted that the industry at large i

If Brendan Greene actually did run naked across E3’s showfloor, I reckon PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds would only sell more copies than it already has. This pushes the game by just a few more months, however Greene puts his initial optimism down to his own naivety. “Oh yeah, I’m very confident,” Greene tells me when asked if launch before the end of the year is feasible. “I’m lucky to be where I am. It’s been an amazing four months,” Greene explains.

Codes are mailed out once per day at 10 am PST/1 pm EST/ 18:00 BST while supplies last. Yesterday, we revealed this month’s PC Gamer Club game to be HypeTrain Digital’s 12 is Better Than 6—a Hotline Miami-styled action stealth ’em up that boasts a lovely-looking hand-drawn aesthetic. Today, we’re throwing in a little extra: seven days of Runescape and a PC Gamer-exclusive Fire Lycan pet, created for the game especially by Jagex. A creature of mystical origins, the Fire Lycan is ready to stand st

But there are a few PC games out there that buck the trend. Memorable characters, vivid locations, and a great twist at the end make this one of the studio’s most beloved, memorable games. Proof that a Star Wars game doesn’t have to copy the films to be great. It’s a rare example of a spin-off game complementing a film, rather than just existing as a half-baked playable analogue of it. But it’s the neat nemesis system, which sees you forming bitter rivalries with enemies, that really stands out.

In the past month or two, Tripwire has been playing fast and loose with the size of its dismemberable heads and torsos over the course of its Weekly Outbreak events. Tripwire tells me via email:”Whenever Zeds damage a player they get bigger and gain more health. Be sure to kill Sirens and King Crawlers quickly because the siren scream will ‘grow’ any Zeds in her scream radius. The king crawler and Zeds that pass through the gas cloud will also ‘grow.'” Here’s next week’s event, the final one of

As you might have spied a couple of weeks back, we caught up with former NFL star-turned-Hollywood actor Terry Crews about his newfound love of PC gaming. Thanks @terrycrews <3"Holy shit! Terry Crews' foray into PC gaming was spurred by an equally heart-warming display of father-son bonding. "Oh… well I'd love to see my captain Jean-Luc playing but that would probably never happen," says Greene. The reason I like Terry Crews is because I watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine on repeat I love that show.

Stardew Valley, on the other hand, is not a game I’d automatically associate with speedrunning records. But as reported by Kotaku, one player has shattered the game’s previous ‘marriage’ record—whereby players rush to tie the knot as expeditiously as possible. Underscore76 now holds that record, having made it to the altar in just 26 minutes and nine seconds. Admittedly, I’m far from well-versed in Stardew marriage speedrunning, however Kotaku also suggests wooing Maru is a favourite of speedrun