That’s the beautifully simple premise of Battlegrounds, the survival game taking the internet by storm. Over the course of a match the play area gets incrementally smaller, represented by a shrinking circle. But in Battlegrounds everyone wants to kill everyone else, so running into another player almost certainly results in violence. Battlegrounds has sold over 6 million copies and is so cosy at the top of the Steam charts, it’s just bought a house there. Although being a popular Steam game, it

In that sense Lost Alpha was a remix. Not an improved or ‘ideal’ version of the original Stalker but rather a reimagining of it. The Developer’s Cut, then, is an attempt to turn the original Lost Alpha into a polished, coherent experience. It’s a liberating feeling for anyone who has ever wanted to just lose themselves in the strange world of Stalker. It manages to immerse you in this strange role within a strange world, a real delight in videogames.

Dark Star Game Studios is a Hong Kong-based outfit whose team is comprised of ex-Ubisoft, Blizzard and Konami developers. Its debut venture, Sinner: Sacrifice of Redemption, is a boss battling action role-player that echoes the likes of Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus and Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Filling the boots of deceased soldier Adam, you’re tasked with thwarting a series of uber-tough bosses who’re said to “represent the seven deadly sins”. Before each clash, Adam must make a sacrific

This week on GOG you’ll find adventure games galore in the Telltale Games sale. Most of the games in the deal are from Telltale’s new line of adventure games which started with The Walking Dead, but there are a handful of the company’s older franchises available too. Here are a few highlights:Check out the main sale page for all the games on offer. You’ve still got seven days left until they all go back up to normal price, so plenty of time for you to decide. Some online stores give us a small c

More intimidating than the game itself is the fear of ‘watching the game wrong’—but in reality, the only way to watch Dota 2 wrong is to not watch at all. If you find yourself worried about diving into The International, here are some quick tips that will help you out. After all, many will say that their introduction into the game was The International 3, and the influx in player count shows this. Dota 2 is like rugby or American football: much of what’s going on can’t be explained until you see

Despite European console delays, the first two chapters of The Long Dark’s long-awaited and much-anticipated story mode land on PC tomorrow. Named ‘Do Not Go Gentle’ and ‘Luminance Fugue’ respectively, these segments of story centre on the relationship between bush pilot Will Mackenzie and Dr. Astrid Greenwood, how they’ve come to be separated, and how the world has wound up in its seemingly perma-frozen and very much abandoned state. More information on all of that is detailed here, however TLD

This month’s PC Gamer Club game is here! 12 is Better Than 6 is a top-down, Hotline Miami-esque action game with stealth elements, that averages out at very positive reviews on Steam. It’s set in the Wild West in 1873, and features real locations, a strong story element and stylish art, as well as authentic weapons and plenty of scope to upgrade. In this top down action game, you play a police officer who has to make quick and difficult calls in the line of duty. Back to the wicky-wicky-Wild Wil

Guild Wars 2 got its first expansion way back in 2015, and fans have been clamouring for another ever since. Well, they’re about to get their wish: developer ArenaNet will reveal details of the game’s second expansion tomorrow at 9am PDT (5pm BST). Details are scarce so far, other than a few unverified leaks that suggest it might be set in the Crystal Desert and areas from Nightfall, an expansion for the first Guild Wars. Hop onto the game’s official site for information on how to follow the upd

Dark Souls modder Abject has an impressive turnover when it comes to Souls mods. From Software’s equally nightmarish console cousin Bloodborne is the latest to receive Abject’s attention, which comes with a typical serving of tongue-in-cheek humour. There’s more to BloodSouls from a practical perspective, though, as it adds Bloodborne’s Saw Cleaver and Blunderbuss weapons, and swaps the base game’s Dark Sword and Light Crossbow icons to suit. As always BloodSouls requires DSFix in order to chang

According to Steam Spy, around six million people now own PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. As the screen below clearly identifies, PUBG now holds the peak player record for any non-Valve game. We now hold the record for the highest peak player count of any non-Valve game! GG WP everyone July 30, 2017Last week, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds surpassed five million sales and then six million sales shortly after. As it stands, Bluehole hopes to launch PUBG in full before the end of the year.

But now we know why Quakeguy ran so much slower: it was because the levels were smaller. Reduce player speed, of course! In DOOM we could make huge maps and player speed was not a problem. “With Quake’s maps, the hallways, rooms, and outdoor areas were all smaller because of the file size. The post also goes into some detail regarding the rather clumsy (by today’s standard) level editor used to create vanilla Quake’s levels.

Something else to note here is that AMD says all Threadripper CPUs received the ‘best’ CPU cores from the Ryzen wafers. Besides the 1900X, there’s not a whole lot to add to what we’ve said previously about Ryzen and Threadripper. One thing that does need clearing up is that the Threadripper package, should you choose to delid your CPU, appears to include four CPU die. Two of the silicon chips are functional Ryzen die, while the other two chips are ‘dummy’ placeholders that allow the heatsink to

Pricing of Vega looks good, with the base RX Vega 64 starting at $499. There will also be a lower spec RX Vega 56 that starts at $399, with performance that shouldn’t be too far off that of the Vega 64. The Black Pack and will cost of $599 and includes the air-cooled Vega 64, the Aqua Pack includes a liquid-cooled RX Vega 64 card and carries a $699 price tag, and the Red Pack includes an air-cooled RX Vega 56 card and costs $499. Note that the Aqua Pack is the only way to get the liquid-cooled R

Konami is gearing up to push out another update for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Now, I know it’s hard to care about the Wormhole Generator after talking about Ocelot and swimsuits, but I have to. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain released almost two years ago—time flies—but it’s cool to see Konami continuing to support the game. One, it’s been a while since anything of major note came to Metal Gear Solid V. And two, it’s easy to forget that Konami still cares about its games. Despit

This means you’d have to shell out at least $75 USD for the Left Behind edition to get in—the standard edition costs $45 USD. However, with the launch of the closed beta, you can get in no matter which edition you bought: as long as you preorder the game, you’re in. Closed beta invitations will be distributed in waves, so if you haven’t received yours yet, then you should be getting one soon. As for what’s in the closed beta, Battlestate has listed off a handful of some of the more “significant”

Ninja Theory’s followup to DmC: Devil May Cry is almost out on PC—we’ve still got about a week to wait—but the developer has announced that the game has gone gold. In the meantime, the developer has released a new trailer (above), which gives us a look at parts of protagonist Senua’s journey. The real demons with real weapons she fights are manifestations from her mind, representing the inner demons she’ll fight throughout the game. Ninja Theory is a developer I’ve admired for quite some time no

Battle Chasers: Nightwar, AKA that JRPG-style roleplaying game with the entirely forgettable name, has a lovely animated intro that reminds me of ’80s cartoons. The following video introduces you to, presumably, the playable cast of the game, which includes a guy that resembles Berserk’s Guts, an elfy fighter with ginormous fists, and a gunslinging woman who looks like she’s come straight from the set of Darksiders. There might be a reason for that, as some of the people behind Battle Chasers pr

Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope, the virtual reality spin-off to Croteam’s gloriously over-the-top Serious Sam series, has just received an updated Steam Early Access build that adds a couple of surprising new features. “For the first time in series history,” the update notes explain, “Sam is not limited by his weapon handling skills and is able to annihilate even bigger alien armies thanks to the all new Skills and Power-Ups update.” That’s right, you can now enhance Sam’s skills with the new ski

After six days of intense matchups, it’ll all come down to two teams fighting with millions of dollars on the line in the grand final. The International’s grand final matches aren’t just deciders for millions of dollars. Here, we rank all six grand finals of Dota 2’s biggest event of the year. TI1: Natus Vincere vs. EHOMEThe first International was a strange, awkward affair, as it was Dota 2’s first public display. TI3: Alliance vs Natus VincereMany still claim to this day that The International

I’m going to tell you everything you need to know about getting the most popular look for your cables, heat-shrinkless and single sleeved. There are several ways to sleeve your cables while maintaining the clean heat-shrinkless look. First, use the wire you wish to sleeve to measure out the length of sleeve required. This will ensure that you aren’t cursing while snagging the terminal on the sleeve every half an inch. Sometimes you may need to melt the sleeve a bit more to ensure it fits into th