Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom, which was unexpectedly announced for the PC in January and slated for a release later this year, is ghoing to take a little longer. Publisher Bandai Namco announced today that the game is now scheduled to come out on January 19, 2018. “We have decided that more development time is required in order to deliver the full Ni No Kuni 2 experience to our fans,” Akihiro Hino, CEO and President of developer Level-5 Inc., explained. “I deeply apologize to those who have be

This was the case with the opening section of Aporia: Beyond the Valley: a one-time university project-turned-fully fledged puzzle adventure game that marks the Copenhagen-based Investigate North’s debut project. Games like Myst, Portal, Quantum Conundrum, The Talos Principle and Ether One have spent years refining the universally applicable systems associated with the puzzle adventure genre, and Aporia is no different. Each vista is as stunning as the last and with each passing puzzle you gain

If I were only allowed to use one game client, it would be Steam. If I were to choose my favorite client, it’d be GOG Galaxy. I had a folder called ‘GOG Games.’ I went to the website, bought a game, downloaded it to the folder. Galaxy includes a feature every other game client should adopt. Plus, Galaxy includes a feature every other game client should adopt.

Ultrawide monitors aren’t for everyone, but if you’re looking to dive into the world of the 21:9 aspect ratio, there’s a cheap option for you today. You can get the LG 25UM58 on eBuyer right now for £130. You can end up spending hundreds of pounds on a good gaming monitor, but if you’re just looking for something on the budget end that’s of a decent quality, you can start here. It’s 25-inches with that ultrawide aspect ratio, and it has an IPS panel, which gives you nicer colors and viewing angl

Update: Brendan Greene, PlayerUnknown himself, has confirmed dedicated first-person servers for PUBG’s next monthly update, despite prior reservations voiced earlier this week. 1st person servers are coming to @PUBATTLEGROUNDS in our next monthly update! Due in two weeks, this feature will be specifically tied to the game’s first-person view. Seem like its gonna be implemented with this monthly patch =D pic.twitter.com/wBxcBxhVjjJuly 10, 2017A dedicated first-person mode for PUBG may be a ways a

Roadhog’s Chain Hook ability has been the subject of much discussion among Overwatchers, following February’s PTR patch which reduced its power. That’s according to the game’s principal designer Geoff Goodman who assured Overwatch official forum goers that “survivability” lies at the heart of any prospective Roadhog changes. “The focus of changes we’re trying are around his defenses, rather than his offensive capabilities. If defensive is Blizzard’s focus, would upping his armour be better than

After outlining its monthly road map last week, Hitman has confirmed its 26th and final Season One Elusive Target. Starting tomorrow at 1pm BST/5am PST, the target will feature in game’s Marrakesh level for ten days. Should this be your first ever Elusive Target kill in sunny Marrakesh, you’ll land yourself the Summer Suit with Gloves attire. And should you earn the ‘Silent Assassin’ rating, your progress will count towards unlocking Agent 47’s Winter Suit, although I don’t imagine that’s needed

Randomly generated co-op Zelda is the simplest way to describe The Swords of Ditto. You claim the hero’s sword, and become the hero known as the Sword of Ditto (this being the setting of the game). The Swords of Ditto is a roguelike, then, and if you fall short in defeating Mormo, your equipment from a previous playthrough appears at a lonely grave instead. I only played one game of Swords of Ditto, so I’m interested to how this change manifests itself. The way the world is presented makes Ditto

You could play Moirai again if you wanted to, but its impact was vastly diminished. Oddly enough, there was a small community who actually played Moirai over and over again. Moirai used to be one of the weirdest games on PC, but due to sustained attacks on its database—not to mention in-game abuse—it’s now gone forever. The CaveSince Moirai is gone forever, you’ll have to allow me to explain the whole thing from scratch. “[I’d tell them] I’m actually the game developer behind this game,” Johnson

In an official slide Intel put together as part of a presentation promoting its Xeon processors over AMD’s competing Zen-based Epyc server chips, Intel described AMD’s offering as being a “glued-together” solution. The less-than-flattering description is catching heat by some observers and could very well spark a war of words between Intel and AMD. In another slide, Intel calls out AMD for not having an ecosystem in place and says to “expect software optimizations needed for Naples, just like Ry

Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates, announced today by developer Coin Operated Games, is an isometric RPG that puts a “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” twist on an early 20th century “neo-Victorian” New York City. In this alt-history timeline, the oceans have risen and the city is flooded—but none of the water is any good for drinking. “One of the things we strove for when designing Empyre is authenticity during an ‘Age of Technical Wonder’ in the United States, the Gilded Age. We feel this level of det

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show, our weekly livestreamed podcast. This week we’ll be talking about Overwatch’s Doomfist, the upcoming XCOM 2 expansion, Warframe’s open world expansion, Hollow Knight, and lots more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! We gush about Hollow Knight because it’s great. And Warframe is getting a massive open world area. We take your questions from the PC Gamer Club Discord.

Blue Isle Studios, the developer of Slender: The Arrival and Valley, has announced that it’s working on a new project of a considerably broader scope called Citadel: Forged With Fire. The new game is “a massive online sandbox RPG rife with spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting,” the studio said, and it’s actually just a couple of weeks away from an Early Access debut on Steam. I’m honestly not sure if that’s good or bad, but it’s certainly ambitious. “Citadel is a completely new genre f

A solid 60/100 review score is a tough place for a game to be, especially one that costs $50. It’s too good to easily ignore, but a hard buy at the price without trying it first. Available next week on PS4, XBox One and PC. A solid release date hasn’t been announced, so keep your eyes open if you want to give it a try. And for those of you already into The Surge, Focus Home also confirmed that DLC is in the works and is expected to be ready for the end of the year.

As detailed in another video from IGN’s month of Destiny 2 reveals, the new Sentinel Titan subclass just might be the series’ most versatile yet. The Sentinel class, which replaces the Defender from Destiny 1, is described as an “aggressive support” in the video, which likely indicates the shield throw won’t be a particularly big damage dealer, but a nice way to manage crowds. Note that, as revealed in our interview with director Luke Smith, the Sentinel can still choose to pop Ward of Dawn—whic

Update: In the wake of this incident, Itch.io has updated its refund policy, which founder Leaf Corcoran said was “extremely out of date.” That system is no longer available to new sellers, meaning that they must wait for payment until the sale is properly verified. Coupled with the scammer taking advantage of the old payment mode, it turned into a huge mess. And unfortunately, Itch.io doesn’t offer a Steam or GOG-style “no questions asked” refund policy: Its terms of service state that the site

Today, Joe shivers in terror at Little Nightmares’ horrible antagonists. This week I finally finished Tarsier Studios’ Little Nightmares and while thoroughly enjoying its mix of mechanical puzzle solving and frenzied platforming, its horrifying ensemble of antagonists left a lasting impression on me. Or, more accurately, Little Nightmares’ enemies did. Without spoiling the plot of Little Nightmares, The Lady, the game’s ultimate antagonist, is for me just as awful as Bobby Barrows or Mary or God

I recently sat down with XCOM boss Jake Solomon and played through a mission from War of the Chosen. You’ll fight them multiple times in a campaign, and they’ll get stronger as you do. Assassins can kidnap your soldiersDon’t get too attached to your soldiers in War of the Chosen. The Chosen have traitsThe Assassin I fought in my demo had two positive and two negative traits, which will be different for every Chosen you encounter. Just about every new feature in War of the Chosen adds to the tact

Last week at 2K Games’ office I played The Lost and Abandoned, a new mission from War of the Chosen that introduces many of the expansion pack’s new characters and mechanics. At The Lost and Abandoned’s mission prep screen, I formed two pairs of soldiers to each escort a Reaper and Skirmisher operative. In addition to stealth, Reapers carry a Claymore mine that can be thrown and later detonated, both without breaking concealment. I mopped up a few remaining Lost waves and made it to my extractio

The latest weekly patch for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is live now on the game’s test servers, and is due to launch in full tomorrow, July 13. Focusing on bugs and UI tweaks for the most part, the Week 16 patch has finally fixed the irritating stutter suffered by the pre-fight care package plane. A number of other adjustments have been applied—such as now being able to “always spectate your teammate’s screen in colour”. Bug fixesFixed an issue where the starting airplane became immobile in sk