Earlier this year, 612 Games revealed its ambitious open-world MMO Wild West Online. Let’s look at that first:As you’ll spot from the outset there, newspapers play a “key part” of Wild West Online’s world building and serve to update players on the goings on in the world. Shortly after we last covered Wild West Online, rumours suggesting controversial The War Z figurehead Sergey Titov was involved with the project and its funding surfaced. However, 612 Games is neither a subsidiary of Free Reign

Nier: Automata is very good, but the PC port isn’t. In his review, Andy called the game remarkable, but lamented the 30fps cutscenes, cursor problems, and crashes with AMD cards. With AMD’s help, Square Enix and PlatinumGames have successfully resolved some of the issues, and we hope to achieve similar results with other hardware makers. We appreciate your continued patience and support for Nier: Automata. How does Nier: Automata run for you?

Last month, Hello Games kicked off its Waking Titan ARG whereby mysterious cassette tapes were distributed to Reddit mods. A PDF file marks the latest discovery which talks of “180 Access IDs” and “new experiences in version 1.3 of a familiar universe”. “We intend to keep the process alive until the completion of Project Waking Titan in August. Input from the Mercury Subroutine will pave the way toward new experiences in version 1.3 of a familiar universe. No Man’s Sky’s patch 1.22 brought “exoc

Packing two new dungeons, a new Battlegrounds map and game mode, and a number of quality of life improvements, The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest slice of DLC—the minotaur-themed Horns of the Reach—is due in August. If you can’t wait that long, it lands on the PTS this week. Both are available in normal and veteran modes and, as you might expect, contain goodies by way of unique armour sets, monster sets and achievements. On the PvP front, Update 15 adds to the game’s 4v4v4 mode with the new Arca

Oculus wants everyone to take a VR vacation this summer, and to tempt more people to leave reality behind for a little bit, the Oculus Rift and Touch controller have been reduced in price significantly, but only for the next six weeks. And while the deal might not be as good in the UK, Oculus’ Jason Rubin reckons that it’s a very mass market price. “We think that [a £399] price point is very mass market,” he told MCV. If you don’t pick up the bundle during this sale, don’t fret—more sales like t

This year’s Summer Games Done Quick has come to a speedsprinting close, raising $1,760,400 for Doctors Without Borders—surpassing last year’s $1.3M total in its wake. Packed full of impressive speedruns—the best PC games of which Steven gathered here—SGDQ saw over 30,000 donors contribute to the week-long event that housed more than 130 games across a host of platforms. My favourite, which Steven highlights above, is Nier: Automata which skilled player Halfcoordinated bests in one hour, 43 minut

There are plenty of Mega Man games on PC – thanks to the Mega Man Legacy Collection and its imminent sequel – but that’s not enough. So it’s nice that this fan-made Mega Man level editor is in the pipeline – providing Capcom don’t get nasty about it. Like Nintendo’s Mario Maker, Mega Maker will allow users to create and share levels, and is scheduled to release this Friday. Stats wise, the game offers 46 enemies, 29 level objects, 12 bosses, 24 special weapons, 40 backgrounds, 129 tilesets, 63 m

Whatever the reason, if you choose to go with Nvidia, you are saddled with a big green logo. Start by removing the three screws on either side of the cover and the four that hold the fan shroud in place. Next you will need to remove the four Phillips screws (two on either side) that are holding the fan shroud in place. Gently pull the fan shroud over to the side. Once removed, set the fan shroud aside so it is out of the way for the next step.

“When we started out, Dead Cells had a tower defense aspect to it,” he said. But, instead, Dead Cells became an engrossing action-roguelike. Bernard revealed that to make its weapons feel impactful, the developer used fighting games as reference. “The references for the feedback in Dead Cells are all fighting games, like Street Fighter IV, BlazBlue, or Mark of the Wolves,” Bernard said. The rest of the article goes more in-depth on the feel of Dead Cells’ weapons and how Motion Twin achieved it.

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor didn’t have the greatest story, but it did feature some excellent voice acting, especially when it came to the dozens of orcs you’d make nemeses out of. Well, Warner Bros. has revealed who’ll be lending their voices to its sequel, Shadow of War, and the cast this time around features some excellent actors (via GameSpot). Silicon Valley’s Kumail Nanjiani and The Walking Dead’s Pollyanna McIntosh also have roles, but it wasn’t revealed exactly who they’d play. Middle

Redout was conceived at a time when playing Wipeout on a PC seemed like an impossibility (emulation aside, of course). Regardless, there will always be a place for the Wipeout-inspired—not to mention Rollcage- and F-Zero-inspired—futuristic racing genre, and Redout seems to have gone down better than most. Ben Griffin wasn’t overly enthusiastic when he reviewed the game last year, but it’s since been embiggened with a range of DLC, including the Neptune-set, er Neptune Pack, and the more abstrac

July 12 next week, that’s how. Amplified takes place before Necrodancer proper, introducing a vampiric new protagonist named Nocturna (pictured above), but more importantly an additional zone, extra clobber, and more than 20 new tracks. Get yourself pumped up by watching the banging launch trailer, below. If you’re wondering what we thought of it, have a read of Chris Thursten’s review. He called it a “beautifully designed, tough, and cheerful roguelike that rewards perseverance with a singular

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has had quite the successful launch in Early Access, selling over four million copies in its first three months and attracting enough players to keep it firmly wedged into the number three spot on Steam’s Top Games list by playercount. Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, tweeted earlier that PUBG had climbed to number two on Steam’s Top Games list—albeit briefly—marking the first time Bluehole’s Early Access battle royale shooter has had more concurrent players than

Titled Plains of Eidolon, it will add the game’s first large, open world area called a Landscape. While you fight the more traditional Grineer during the day, enormous creatures called Eidolons roam the plains at night—another first for Warframe. Read on to hear more details about Plains of Eidolon and the new direction Warframe is heading. PC Gamer: How large is Plains of Eidolon relative to other Warframe maps? In the day, you will experience the Warframe you know and love—kill Grineer, get re

Pictured: WarlockMuch like Bungie did with the first Destiny, the FPS developer has kicked off the artist reference portal for Destiny 2 on its website. The page currently only features Parade Armor for each of the three classes: Warlock, Titan, and Hunter. Bungie plans to update the portal as more reference art becomes available. If Destiny 1’s page is anything to go by, you can expect to see a bunch of different armor, characters, and weapons. As boring and rote as Destiny 1 could get, there’s

The song that featured, titled ‘The Wanderer,’ got stuck in my head, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Court documents obtained by Polygon reveal that DiMucci claims ZeniMax neglected his terms for using the song in marketing. The court documents say ZeniMax didn’t comply to either of these terms, which is why DiMucci is now seeking damages. “Defendant’s Commercials were objectionable because they featured repeated homicides in a dark, dystopian landscape, where violence is glorified as sport,” the co

Mass Effect: Andromeda’s latest patch was set to improve stability and facial animations, but it seems like it also did something else that we weren’t aware of at the time of the update’s reveal. DSOGaming has discovered that since the release of patch 1.09, Andromeda’s Denuvo anti-tamper technology has completely disappeared. It’s not clear if this was done intentionally, but it’s not a new thing for developers to remove DRM, only to re-add it in a future patch. And while Andromeda doesn’t feat

Epic’s years-in-the-making, Minecrafty tower defence game Fortnite will finally release, albeit into early access, later this month. By now you will have seen a ton of footage of the co-op-focused game, but here’s a new ‘cinematic short’ that shows off the various playable characters’ personalities, and the light-hearted, zombie-slaying humour we can hopefully expect from the actual game. In other news, I finally ‘got’ the pun in the title, in that you’re building forts, often at night, in Fortn

The Creation Club was Bethesda’s most contentious E3 announcement . A follow-up to Valve’s failed paid mods program, the Creation Club will allow third-party developers, including modders, to create sanctioned add-on content for Fallout 4 and Skyrim: Special Edition. This content will be sold through in-game marketplaces for Creation Club Credits, which can be purchased via Steam. Above: Enderal is one of the most ambitious Skyrim mod projects to date, but it won’t be sold on Creation Club. To o

Star Citizen’s latest Around the Verse video focuses, primarily, on the sophisticated procedural generation that’s being used to create the enormo-space adventure’s many planets and moons. In the video, the occasionally slightly boring technical talk is supported by some lovely footage of science fiction planets, from barren desert worlds to more lush environments, with a variety of ecosystems on each. It’s work-in-progress footage, but I’m impressed at this stage at how vast these planets look—