Titanfall 2 is getting its first cooperative mode next week as part of the Operation Frontier Shield update – which is free, as are all of the game’s updates. The new mode is called Frontier Defense, and it pits up to four cooperative players against five waves of “increasingly difficult enemies”. Meanwhile, playing Frontier Defense will let you earn Aegis Ranks, a new Titan progression system which can unlock new upgrades – though these will only apply to Frontier Defense for the time being. Oh

Creative Assembly announced today that the barbaric Norscans are coming to Total War: Warhammer as a playable race. The Norsca Race Pack is scheduled to go live on August 10, and will be given free to anyone who preorders the upcoming sequel, Total War: Warhammer 2, or purchases it within the first week of release. The description of the Norscans on Steam paints quite a vivid picture. Total War: Warhammer 2 is set for release on September 28. The Norsca DLC, for those who opt not to preorder or

I understand that he likes to talk shit, and I was right there with him until that one tweet,” he wrote. “I was told that I should have taken The Docs threat of violence as a joke. So now I will try explaining why I took this tweet seriously and tweeted out the response I did. The point, he explained, is that threats of violence in the real world aren’t a joke. Perhaps coming from an influential figure like Playerunknown, it’ll actually carry some weight.

But Blizzard may be about to run into some unexpected trouble courtesy of Major League Baseball, which according to the Morrison/Lee lawn firm blog is getting ready to oppose the trademark registration of the Overwatch League logo. “Following publication of the League’s logo on March 28, Major League Baseball took issue with the likeness of the logo to its own. The logos obviously bear some similarities in the juxtaposition of contrasting (although different) colors and Tracer’s pose, which puts

Image via thecakeisaliegamingKilling Floor 2’s Zed Time is what I imagine it’s like to get opera. Killing Floor 2 is a co-op game about shooting genetic freaks and watching their guts explode in beautiful, filthy slow motion. And then there’s Zed Time. Like so:All of Killing Floor 2’s reloads are motion captured, which includes its faster “tactical” reloads like the one above. And, finally, the best damn gun in Killing Floor 2: the double barrel.

According to The Paper, the Global Harbour mall located in Shanghai has implemented special pods where the men can play older games such as Tekken 3 while the women get their shopping fix. A Google translation of the article calls these gaming pods “husband restrooms,” though we’re betting BBC’s use of the term “husband storage” is more on point. Another person named Mr. Wu agreed, though he pointed to a lack of ventilation and air conditioning as areas that need fixing. “I sat playing for five

With the PS4 beta for Destiny 2 going live today, we now have confirmation that weapon and armor items will be getting mods for both stats and shaders. Dive into the inventory menu then inspect a weapon, and the mod slots are listed in the bottom half of the screen. In this case, as this is an ‘energy weapon’, the slot is used to change the weapon’s elemental type to Arc, which is basically sci-fi electricity. The remaining slot is for the more fashionable among us, and used for swapping out sha

Are you thinking about a building a system around Kaby Lake-X? Then if you decide that Kaby Lake-X is for you, check out this deal at Newegg a CPU and motherboard bundle. Newegg is offering Intel’s Core i7-7740X Kaby Lake-X processor and MSI’s X299 SLI Plus motherboard for $500 (after $10 mail-in-rebate) when purchased together. The Core i7-7740X is a lower tier Kaby Lake-X CPU and one of two that has four cores and eight threads (Core i5-7640X is the other). The Core i7-7740X offers one of the

Tom said in his January preview of Might & Magic: Showdown, just ahead of its Early Access release, that painting the game’s digital miniatures was great, but the actual PvP gameplay was among the “dullest” he’d seen in a long time. Several months later, it appears that Ubisoft is unable to figure out how to make it better, as Showdown is being shuttered at the end of the month. “We also owe a very special debt of gratitude to our Might & Magic fans who accepted this new take on the universe. Mi

Kingston is adding two new mechanical keyboards under its HyperX gaming division, the HyperX Alloy FPS and HyperX Alloy Elite. Both sport a solid-steel frame, use Cherry MX key switches, and are relatively compact, though the Alloy FPS is a bit smaller as it ditches the dedicated number pad (otherwise known as tenkeyless, or TKL). Starting with the larger of the two, the Alloy Elite measures 444mm x 226.8mm x 36.3mm and weighs a little under 1.5kg. Buyers will be able to choose between Cherry MX

The new Humble Bundle is here, bringing you games by the bucket load for much cheaper than normal. This time we’ve got the Telltale Games bundle, so prepare to be doing a lot of adventuring and making decisions that will stay with you for the entire game. Telltale has been churning out its new style of adventure games for years now, and in the bundle you’ll get The Walking Dead, Minecraft Story Mode, Tales From the Borderlands, Game of Thrones, and Batman among others. As always, you can choose

After a little less than two weeks on the Overwatch PTR, Blizzard has announced that Doomfist, the world’s foremost knuckle sandwich artist, will go live on July 27. “Everything that the sound guys did, the VFX artists and the animators, they really sell that impact,” he says in the video. “The first time you hold down that right-click, and you just square somebody in the face and they bounce off a wall—man, this is my character.” An official rundown of Doomfist’s abilities is up at playoverwatc

Co-branding a product can sometimes feel tacky, though if you have the dough to splurge on a custom liquid cooled R2 Razer Edition system from Maingear, you’ll have a sweet looking setup. “Like our own Razer Blades, Maingear takes a similar no-compromises approach to building PCs,” says Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder and CEO. “Gamers who demand the very best performance in compact form factors will appreciate the craftsmanship and performance offered in Maingear’s R2 | Razer Edition.” Pricing s

Two big bits of news were announced on the BioWare Blog today: First, that general manager Aaryn Flynn is leaving the company after 17 years. And second, that Casey Hudson, who left in 2014, is “coming home” to assume the role. It sounds like Hudson’s return was in the cards prior to Flynn’s final decision to leave, and actually helped him settle on it. “I’d also like to wish my good friend Aaryn Flynn the very best in the future. Flynn’s record goes back just as far as is possibly even more ext

Unless you’ve had your head buried under a protein shake for the last couple of decades, you’ll know Terry Crews. My question to him, though, is: why does Terry love PC gaming? TERRY CREWS Terry Crews is a former professional NFL linebacker who found Hollywood stardom in the early ’00s. PC Gamer: Does Terry love PC gaming more than yogurt? I think that’s a great analogy and the pleasure that comes from building PCs is something that arguably can’t be replicated with consoles.

Fans of both Crews’ work and Overwatch itself have expressed their dismay via social media and the game’s forums, however Crews himself remains typically upbeat. “When I saw that Doomfist was created, that they’d went with another guy, the whole thing, it’s actually quite perfect, it’s absolutely amazing. Crews continues, suggesting collaborating with Blizzard down the line remains a possibility. I’m a playable character in Crackdown 3 which is more than I could ever have dreamed of. “Believe me

The last thing I expected from The End is Nigh, Super Meat Boy creator Edmund McMillen’s latest game in the controller-busting platformer genre, was for it to suddenly open up into an exploration adventure with forking paths and curious characters. Air control and momentum are still emphasized and feel similar to Super Meat Boy’s floaty but precise controls. Looking and leapingEach challenge takes place on a single screen, but unlike Super Meat Boy, every screen is directly connected to the next

Last November, Wargaming announced its acquisition of Total War: Arena following Sega’s handover. Today, the online free-to-play specialist has partnered with long serving UK developer Splash Damage. “Multiple projects” are said to be in the works as a result of the deal, while Wargaming aims to leverage Splash Damage’s “vast multiplayer expertise” over time. “What impresses me most about Splash Damage is their passion for every project they take on,” says Victor Kislyi, the CEO of Wargaming, in

But while this may have ruined a lesser company, the PC Gamer evil megacorporation has a plan to dig itself out of this hole. Spinnortality is a game about managing the kind of evil corporation that’s usually the antagonist in a cyberpunk story. There’s a lot more to Spinnortality, but I’ll let you discover the rest yourself when the game is released on August 31. Maybe I’ll spread some fake news to gain media influence, or research an advanced AI to replace my fleshy, fragile human workforce. T

Frozen Cortex developer and Tokyo 42 publisher Mode 7 Games has announced The Colonists—a settlement building game that echoes the likes of Anno and The Settlers. Developed by Codebyfire, Richard Wallis’ one-person Bristol-based studio, the civilisation-crafter will launch into Steam’s Early Access initiative in August. Optimising your networks will allow you to trade with your allies or, naturally, conquer neighbouring civilisations. “Explore, research, manage, tweak and refine to your heart’s