Below are five times where fans have forced publishers and developers to take notice. GTA 5 already had a lot of positive reviews, so it took tens of thousands to tank its rating. On top of the glut of negative Steam user reviews was a petition that ended with over 80,000 signatures. Lamentably, however, development on the ambitious ‘Liberty City in GTA 5’ mod ceased because it still contradicted the game’s mod policies. Paid mods on SteamIn 2015, Valve briefly allowed mod makers to sell their c

You can grab one of last year’s smash hit local co-op games today at a discount price. Chop vegetables, put the burgers on the buns, and deliver them without falling in the lava in Overcooked, which you can find for half off today on Bundle Stars. Tom’s review from last year says it’s “one of the most fun and challenging local co-op games ever made.” You can get the base game for 50 percent off today, and you can get The Lost Morsel DLC also for half off, which adds new levels and chefs to unloc

With what is easily one of the worst videogame antagonist names ever known, Fatal Frame’s Geese Howard is now heading to Tekken 7—the second guest character to grace Bandai Namco’s enduring fighting series, following Street Fighter’s Akuma. Perhaps best known as the baddie who contradicts the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series’ continuity—Howard appears dead in one and very much alive in another—Geese made his debut in 1991’s Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, and seems to harbour beef with Tekke

As it stands, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds offers scant customisation options beyond its default suite of hairstyles, skin tones and preset facial cycle. In conversation with PvP Live, executive producer Chang Han Kim said: “We plan to give our users much more control over character appearance by implementing Anticto’s Mutable character customization system. Soon, you will be able to design your character to a tee.” PvP Live reports that the latter will be fully customisable in something which

Dark Souls players familiar with Call of Duty and Counter-Strike’s Gun Game mode can now enjoy/tear their hair out with the arcadey, high stakes, random gear-generating mode in Lordran. For those unfamiliar, bqm11’s DaS_GG mod allows players to play the mode which once featured in CS: Source in mod form, before being adopted and renamed in CS:GO. Call of Duty featured its own slant on the mode which is now available for the original Dark Souls sans guns. Here’s how bqm11 describes their latest c

“To limit risk taking, this product will initially be launched within the framework of a crowdfunding campaign,” it said. As can been seen in the images below, the Ataribox houses two HDMI ports, four USB ports and has SD card support. As yet Atari has failed to reveal what’s under the new console’s hood, telling would be players to expect “current content” alongside classic games. Despite the hype surrounding Nintendo’s Classics foray, a PC iteration does not yet exist. Here are the games we re

It doesn’t sound like a particularly fun task, but someone had to do it: speedrun every single Fallout game in less than two hours. Speedrunner tomatoanus (tomato anus, geddit?) has managed to do so in 1:37 (one hour and 37 minutes), and you can watch them do so in the video embedded below. The run tackled each game consecutively without a break, which for most non-speedrunning players, would probably take around six months of playtime. Tomatoanus has earned the number one spot in the Fallout An

The sequel to Nidhogg – aptly titled Nidhogg 2 – is a much more colourful and lurid affair than its predecessor. Personally I’m glad for that, because judging by this recent gameplay video it looks beautiful in motion. It won’t be long before we’ll all get to marvel at its grotesque splendour for ourselves, because the game will release on August 15. The Steam page is up over here, where you’ll also find the typically undemanding system requirements. In addition to looking prettier / uglier, Nid

A little while back, a roster for Marvel vs Capcom Infinite was leaked on NeoGAF, and now, Jedah, one of the Capcom fighters it included has been confirmed. The gameplay (above), posted to YouTube by FGC Area, gives us our first look at the two characters. Marvel vs Capcom Infinite hits PC on September 19 in North America and September 21 in Europe. So far, Infinite feels like a less complicated game than its predecessor, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. This seems to be intentional as Capcom wants

Wulf2k’s Boss Rush mod intends on eliminating that busy work by letting you fight one boss after another. However, the Boss Rush mod also lets you select a specific boss, if you just want to take down the likes of the Asylum Demon or the Bell Gargoyles. If you do go all the way and attempt a Boss Rush, then you’ll accrue souls over the course of it. This isn’t Wulf’s first Dark Souls mod either. They made the Dark Souls Connectivity Mod, which “fixes the broken matchmaking by facilitating connec

I think Star Wars Battlefront II’s multiplayer looks absolutely rad. Star Wars Battlefront II was one of these games, and it received a video that focuses on the single-player campaign. The video, titled Behind the Story (above), stars a bunch of developers and actors that are working on Battlefront II. Sadly, we don’t learn too much of any real significance, but it’s nice to see EA isn’t ignoring the single-player campaign altogether. Star Wars Battlefront II launches November 17 on PC.

My knowledge of American Civil War strategy is limited to those (excruciating) episodes of Twin Peaks where a mentally distressed Ben Horne re-enacts the historical conflict, but I gather that Ultimate General: Gettysburg, and its sequel Ultimate General: Civil War, have been extremely well received by strategy fans. Now, after a period in early access, the latter game has been declared ‘finished enough’ and finally released for real. Ultimate General: Civil War, available on Steam here, allows

You’re probably already aware, if you’re a CRPG fan, but Underrail—that’s the isometric, post-apocalyptic RPG set on and around an underground train network—has an expansion in the works. The Expedition DLC is still subterranean, but features an underground sea you’ll be exploring with the aid of jet skis. A lot of work has been done on it though, as a new blog post on Stygian’s site explains. Oh yeah, that’s the other thing: there’s a new trail—er, a new short video, offering nearly nine minute

(Image: © Wikipedia.com)A DNS server stands for Domain Name System Server, and it is the process that translates a web site address, such as http://www.pcgamer.com to the IP Address 185.113.25.59. An alternate DNS server has multiple purported benefits including:With these benefits in mind, the question came up (actually in the comments from a previous “Ask PC Gamer” piece ) if there would be benefits for gaming of an alternate DNS. Many folks espouse the benefits of the Google Public DNS service, with

Following on from April’s triptych of Dawn of War 3 covers, we wind the clock back a few thousand millennia to bring you another great Warhammer cover, this one focused on the new lizardmen race that will be winging its way to Total War: Warhammer 2. Chris Thursten went hands-on with the armoured reptiles for this month’s cover feature, although there’s another Total War: Warhammer treat waiting inside. The Grim & The Grave, DLC for the original game, is included free with this month’s print iss

World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion is headed toward a climactic finale with patch 7.3—which is likely the final major update until the next expansion is announced. Patch 7.3 won’t be available for several months, but a good chunk of it is playable on WoW’s Public Test Realm (PTR) server. Containing three sizeable zones, Argus looks like the biggest addition to World of Warcraft since Legion first launched last year. The Future of World of Warcraft Legion will likely soon wrap up its story, lea

Street Fighter V is a touch disappointing, especially when compared to previous games in the series, so why not remind yourself of those earlier, happier days? Street Fighter V is adding a stage and three costumes on July 25, and they’re all from various parts of Street Fighter’s history. Street Fighter II’s Suzaku Castle, also known as Ryu’s home stage, is making its way to Street Fighter V. Unfortunately, Capcom hasn’t revealed whether the stage will be free or if it’ll cost the normal $4 USD,

So it seems only fitting that the game’s update notes have a little humour to them as well. Hitman’s July update has launched on PC, and as updates are apt to do, it tweaks the game in various ways. These changes don’t affect Professional Difficulty, but IO Interactive will take player feedback into account to make further changes. Speaking of Professional Difficulty, IO has lowered its unlock criteria. Anyone who’s somewhere between level 5 and 19 will have the difficulty unlock automatically.

You know that bit in crime films where, after a messy murder in a particular location, a character will make a call to a ‘cleaner’ who will tidy things up, no questions asked? You play as that cleaner in the aptly named Serial Cleaner, which asks you to spruce up grisly crime scenes while avoiding the cops. It’s a little bit Viscera Cleanup Detail, and a little bit Metal Gear, and the whole thing is set in a bright and jazzy 1970s setting. Here’s the stylish-as-hell launch trailer:What a fab ide

The RTS genre isn’t in particularly rude health at the moment, so it would be nice if Pocketwatch Games’ Tooth and Tail could give it a bit of a shot in the arm. You’re probably aware that it’s from the developers of Monaco, and takes the form of a “distilled” real-time strategy game featuring cute/murderous little animals, like out of Redwall. Tom Marks got to play some of its single-player campaign back in March, so head here if you’re interested in how the “Mario Kart of RTSes” plays. Tooth a