I spent three hours playing Foxhole, an isometric massively-multiplayer shooter that hit Steam Early Access today, without shooting anyone. It’s an ambitious, exhausting game whose scope will excite as many players as it will bore to death. On a persistent battlefield that can host wars that take days to complete, it’s sabotage and subterfuge that really get the pieces moving around the board. On a persistent battlefield that can host wars that take days to complete, it’s sabotage and subterfuge

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus is now just three months away, which makes this a fine time indeed for Bethesda to reveal the details of the season pass, entitled Wolfenstein 2: The Freedom Chronicles, and the introductory chapter preorder bonus. The Freedom Chronicles is actually a trilogy of entirely separate adventure tales featuring three new characters doing battle against the Nazis in other parts of the United States. The season pass will be available for purchase for $25/£18, or can be ha

Gaming peripheral maker is in full gloat mode over its new Khan Pro stereo gaming headset being in the first one in the world to receive hi-res audio certification, presumably from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The Khan Pro has a frequency range of 20Hz to 40kHz powered by 50mm drivers. Roccat also talks up the microphone performance, noting that it can pick up frequencies ranging from 100Hz to 10kHz. As for build quality and comfort, the Khan Pro is fairly light at 230g. The Khan P

“I think I played Call of Duty and Halo Wars with it, and then I just started playing other games. Rocky StoutenburghRocky plays on the FPS QuadStick model, which boasts additional sensors and a stiffer joystick compared to the basic model, designed for less twitch-based gaming. Slow-paced genres like adventure games and turn-based RPGs “where you can take your time” are easiest to play with a QuadStick, Rocky says. After watching Rocky play live, I have a hard time arguing with him being the wo

Nubia joins Civilization 6’s cast today, along with a scenario which pits the ancient Nile civilization against its neighbor to the north, Egypt. For those uninterested in high-quality ancient arrows, there’s more news: Nubia’s release joins a patch that adds, finally, a restart button which regenerates the map, and a function that saves game configs so they can be reused. The update also brings a bunch of balance changes, such as a +10 price increase for archers (Nubia-related inflation?) There

Today is July 27, and you know what that means, right? Doomfist, the man whose knuckles look like a row of Volkswagen Beetles lined up on a dealer lot, is now live in Overwatch. And that, my friends, means it’s time to watch a video. Doomfist isn’t playing for money or power: he has bigger things in mind. To find out more about Doomfist and how to play him well, be sure to catch our rundown of his skins, abilities, and an all-pro analysis of his strengths and weaknesses.

Update: Despite prior speculation—including my own, featured below—it seems motion capture actor Tim Neff is not in fact working with Rockstar on Grand Theft Auto 6 and/or Red Dead Redemption 2. When asked about Neff’s potential involvement in GTA 6 and/or RDR 2, talent agent Brittany Love said: “We asked Tim and he’s not a part of that. Original story:Grand Theft Auto 5 made its way to PC in 2015, however is fast approaching its four-year console anniversary. It’s also worth noting that Grand T

What spooked the researchers is that the phrases used by the AI seemed like gibberish and were unintelligible to them, but made perfect sense to AI agents. This allowed the AI agents to communicate with one another without the researchers knowing what information was being shared. AI technologies use a “reward” system in which they expect of a course of action to have a “benefit.” “There was no reward to sticking to English language,” Dhruv Batra, a research scientists from Georgia Tech who was

On July 26, Derek Yu, creator of Spelunky, posted a screenshot to Twitter (see above) using the hashtag #UFO50. Also mysterious: two other game-makers have posted screenshots using the same hashtag on July 24 and July 25 (see below). The two screens are from Jon Perry, who worked with Yu on tactical card game Time Barons, and Eirik Suhrke, who worked with Yu on Spelunky. None of these screenshots appear to be from the same game, so is UFO50 a compilation of games? In the meantime, keep watching

HTC has teamed up with Qualcomm to launch a standalone VR headset that initially will only be available in China. Called the Vive Standalone, the headset is based on Qualcomm’s all-in-one reference design and powered by a Snapdragon 835 system-on-chip (SoC). Just two weeks ago there was chatter about Oculus partnering with Xiaomi to build a standalone VR headset, which would also be powered by a Snapdragon processor (with Adreno graphics). With today’s launch, HTC was able to beat Oculus to the

Inbetweengames’ “tech-noir tactics” game All Walls Must Fall wrapped up a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year to the tune of $36,576. All told, that’s well over double its original ask, which may be why it’s heading to Steam’s Early Access initiative and itch.io a month ahead of schedule. And to reiterate what the game is all about, here’s the blurb that features on its Kickstarter campaign page:”The Cold War never ended. “All Walls Must Fall is an isometric tactics game where acti

Still, I’m enamored with X-Morph’s physics-driven environmental destruction, something I’ve never seen in a tower defense game before. It’s a classic tower defense strategy, made flashier with physics and scale. After the first three missions of X-Morph I’ve only unlocked one tower upgrade, an anti-aircraft gun, so there’s plenty of strategic depth here I’ve yet to touch. So far, X-Morph’s missions feel on the long side for a tower defense game, especially starting out. But I feel like it also s

One of Rocket’s crew was approached by a character named Boneless Steve, from the nearby Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA), requesting an audience. The plan was that Boneless Steve would fly out to the POS in a battleship and begin shooting the shields. With the RekkingCrew fleet formed, all it needed was their bait, Boneless Steve. By then, Boneless Steve had exited their comms and was long gone. In the aftermath, Rocket realised that his teammate, who Boneless Steve first contacted, never did

Last week I played two missions from Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, and I killed a lot of Nazis. Blazkowicz has gone through a lot since he first started killin’ Nazis back in 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D, but this might be his toughest mission yet. Wheelchair combatBattered and broken after the events of the previous game, Blazkowicz is consigned to a wheelchair in the game’s chaotic opening level. Power armourYou may remember the Da’at Yichud Power Suit from the previous game: an armoured exoskelet

But anyone who played The New Order knows that, actually, the nazis shoot back and they shoot back hard. See, MachineGames’ take on Wolfenstein isn’t the stupid power fantasy the trailers lead us to expect: unless you’re very very good—which I am not—Wolfenstein is partially a stealth game. That’s my fault, of course, but it’s a good reminder why Wolfenstein: The New Order managed to succeed, despite how unfashionable single-player shooters were in 2014. In fact, from what I played of The New Co

Following its E3 PC confirmation last month, Monster Hunter: World has spent the last few weeks teasing details of its drop-in multiplayer, info on its camouflage suit items, and snippets of its sprawling dino-laden world. Earlier this week, Sam Horti reported that Capcom had “confirmed a total of 14 videos of all of the game’s weapons in action would be arriving ‘in the coming days’.” In alphabetical order—deep breath—the game’s Bow, Charge Blade, Dual Blades, Great Sword, Gunlance, Hammer, Hea

It’d probably be more newsworthy if Need For Speed Payback didn’t have a customisation system, but it does, and there’s a new trailer embedded above showing it off. As you’ll probably expect, the freedom to customise slowly opens up the more and more you do in-game, so expect to accrue some form of currency if you want to look as cool as you aspire to be. It’s not just cosmetics, though: performance enhancing customisations are here and available in six categories including Block, Head, Turbo, E

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’ll be talking about Supergiant’s new wizard basketball visual novel Pyre, the games we’re looking forward to this fall, and wrap with our usual Twitch chat Q&A! This week’s topics:We talk about what we’ve been playing Wes and Bo talk Pyre Boverwatch gets excited about the Doomfist release The r

My tale isn’t exactly relevant to Law Mower, a retro-styled action game set for release on August 10, but reading about it did immediately make me think of that glorious old machine. “Law Mower is a game about one man’s epic journey to achieve his life’s purpose—to cut every blade of grass in the world,” the Steam description explains in words that stir my very soul. I’m honestly starting to wonder if my dad was a consultant on this game. Best of all, there’s a free demo on Steam, so you can get

I whipped a giant snake with my briefcase snake. West of Loathing is a singleplayer RPG adventure with turn-based combat from Asymmetric, developer of browser-based multiplayer RPG Kingdom of Loathing. West of Loathing is drenched in amusements, just like my character’s hand is now drenched in revolting spittoon slime. Most of my time in West of Loathing has been spent attempting to fully explore and find every last shred of text in every single location. West of Loathing is set to release on Au