Rutger Hauer has done a lot of cool stuff over the years, but his best-known role has to be that of Roy Batty, leader of the renegade replicants in Blade Runner. Survivors wrap themselves in drugs, VR, and neural implants to escape from the grim ugliness of day-to-day life. Hauer plays Detective Daniel Lazarski, “an elite neural detective with the authority to hack and invade suspects’ minds” called an Observer. The Blade Runner “inspiration” is pretty heavy-handed in places, but I’m a big fan o

Little by little, Asus is fleshing out its socket AM4 motherboard lineup for builders who are looking to assemble a system around Ryzen. All of those fan headers are there to support both air and liquid cooling setups. Also, this board supports a fan extension card from Asus that brings the total number of fan headers up to 16. Two of the board’s PCIe x16 slots are reinforced with metal and spaced wide to accommodate 2.5-slot graphics card. There is also a third, non-reinforced PCIe x16 slot for

Prior to Maniac, adventure games and text adventures were pretty much the same thing. Step forward Maniac Mansion and its ground-breaking verb-object interface, designed specifically to eradicate the frustrating command-line guessing game from adventure gaming. Within a few years, nearly all adventure games had ditched command-line interfaces in favour of what eventually became known as “point ‘n’ click”. When you look at a LucasArts adventure game, the verb-object interface isn’t an overlay as

For the second time in a span of just three days, hackers have been able to make off with millions of dollars worth of Ethereum, leaving vigilante white hat hackers scrambling to prevent further theft. In doing so, the hackers were able to swipe over 153,000 Ether worth approximately $34 million from three separate multi-signature Ethereum wallets, according to the most recent estimates. He goes on to advise users to “immediately move assets contained in the multi-sig wallet to a secure address.

We first caught wind of Bedtime Digital Games’ Figment in March—a musical action adventure game set against a lovely-looking, hand-drawn world filled with colour and puzzles and nightmarish adversaries. It’s said to take place within the recesses of the human mind and, if its latest trailer is anything to go by, it seems its come on quite a bit since our last visit. I say trailer, but the latest short is fact a wonderfully weird music video with slivers of in-game footage spliced in along the wa

In partnership with Bundle Stars, we’re giving away 50,000 Steam keys for Neon Prism—a fun puzzler that boasts a ‘Very Positive’ review rating on Valve’s digital distribution platform. This giveaway celebrates the launch of developer Just1337’s latest game Slash It Ultimate, which has a limited time 25 percent discount via the Bundle Stars Store. For your chance to win a Neon Prism key, simply follow the instructions in the widget below. Don’t forget to confirm your email so that Bundle Stars ca

This week on GOG you can save money on a bunch of deep and complex role-playing games. You’ve got until Sunday to decide whether you want to buy any of the games in this RPG sale. You’ll find recent RPGs and games of yesteryear in the sale. You’ll even find a good chunk of money off this year’s Torment: Tides of Numenera (30 percent off). Head over to the main sale page to see a few dozen other games which are discounted this week.

His latest Main Hand Throwing Weapons and GKX Weapon Miscellany projects are, as the names probably suggest, less passive. Within you’ll find ‘Melee Shooters’, which contains a strange array of sweet roll-firing Rolling Pins, Pool Cue Shooters, and a Baseball Grenade Bat. ‘Throwing Junk’ lets you throw junk around, as opposed to relying on the Junk Jet; whereas ‘Meganades’ is simply a collection of large explosives—”throw them and run,” explains GengisKhanX. GKX Weapon Miscellany also houses ‘Ma

Remember Darkwood? You know, the successfully crowdfunded top-down survival horror game that entered Early Access in 2014? To mark the announcement, developer Acid Wizard Studio has released the following live-action trailer:I’m not a huge fun of live-action trailers, and interesting games like Darkwood don’t need them. “Remember: don’t trust anyone,” says Acid Wizard House. Whether you heed that advice or not, Darkwood is due August 17—more information can be found via the game’s official site.

In his warm review last year, Andy suggested American Truck Simulator at launch was a “great start”, but that it’d “really begin to take shape when more states and trucks [were] added”. But what happens when its road networks are compromised by real world events? In light of the Big Sur landslide that occurred earlier this year—a natural accident born from the region’s wettest season on record—SCS Software is gearing up to incorporate the ensuing traffic disruption into its digital landscape by

Announced a while back, Hollow Knight fans have been eagerly anticipating the forthcoming Hidden Dreams update. Promised for some time this month, it’ll actually come a tad later: on August 3 to be exact. “In classic Team Cherry style, this is a little later than we said, but we felt the update needed a little more testing and fine tuning before we send it out,” the studio’s announcement reads. As for what has been announced, Hidden Dreams will include two new bosses, both entirely optional as t

If you’re still running Windows XP or Windows Vista, then here’s unwelcome news: a handful of Blizzard games will no longer support those operating systems come October. The studio made the announcement today that World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm will cease to function with those systems by the end of the year. “However, there have been three major Windows releases since Vista, and at this point, the vast majority of our audience has upgraded to on

Unlike the beta for the original game, which gave players great swathes of mission content and two planets to explore, much of Destiny 2’s mechanics remain locked off this time. Speaking of which…New class abilities are a welcome additionEach of the three main classes now has a unique ability, available in two slightly different flavours. Of these, the Hunter’s Dodge class ability is a strange outlier in that it feels as if it was designed independently from the Warlock and Titan abilities. Mo

After hosting a Fire Festival for the last two weeks, Hearthstone has cooled things down a bit with the start of the new Frost Festival. In addition to a Lich King-themed Tavern Brawl this week and some icy cosmetic changes, the festival brings some Arena-focused perks for players. Anybody who logs in during the event will get a free Arena run. On top of that, all Frost Festival Arena runs you play will automatically start with a free win, making it easier to win back the gold you’ve paid to ent

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show, our weekly livestreamed podcast. Today is Tom’s last day at PC Gamer, so we had a longer show with lots of guests as we bid farewell! This week we’ll also be talking about our early impressions of the Destiny 2 PS4 beta, Doom’s DLC becoming free, the Oculus Rift’s second price drop, and lots more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! This week’s topicsSome recent news, including Doom’s DLC going free. Tim and James dive into their impressions of the Destiny 2 PS

Path of Exile: The Fall of Oriath, the expansion with “six acts and a whole lot of deicide,” will be out on August 4, developer Grinding Gear Games announced today. The new expansion will bring Path of Exile to a total of ten acts, with both new and familiar locations, some of them changed by “the drastic results of your past actions.” We saw some of that during our hands-on time with Fall of Oriath in February. Battling gods for their powers sounds intense, and of course the opportunity to get

The cover for the original Doom is one of the most iconic pieces of videogame box art ever created. John Romero, one of the original Masters of Doom, revealed today on his blog that the cover art was actually based on a “male body model” who was photographed as a reference by illustrator Don Punchatz. And it’s someone you know—and if you don’t want the mystery spoiled forever, I suggest you stop reading now. “The body model took his shirt off and started posing with our plasma gun toy. Don took

In the accompanying video, we look through every subclass skill tree, and below, show off each of the corresponding ‘super’ abilities in action. But first, let’s examine the skill trees up close and call out some of the more interesting abilities in the mix. 00:02—With the Voidwalker Warlock’s Cataclysm ability active, you can actually shoot your Nova Bomb super to activate it early. Arcstrider HunterThe Arc Staff super is pretty self explanatory: It summons an Arc powered staff the Hunter can s

I played around with the first public alpha release of Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr that developer Neocore Games put out in February, and it was interesting, but also very bare-bones. Today the studio announced the release of the alpha 2.0 update, which balances classes and gameplay, adds new items and features, and upgrades the game’s visual quality. “Ever since the first day of the Founding we received numerous feedback about the alpha build of Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr. T

A new gameplay trailer for Bethesda’s upcoming horror game The Evil Within 2 showcases some seriously unpleasant-looking bad guys, and beats the drum of a single, equally-unhappy theme: “This is all your fault.” I mean, I’ve suspected for a while, but it hurts to have it spelled out…”That’s the mantra running through Sebastian Castellanos’ mind. Until an old friend-turned-traitor reenters his life with an offer: Return to the nightmare and save your daughter.” “Provided you can scrounge up the