Lords of the Fallen 2 was announced back in late 2014 – shortly after the release of the series’ first instalment. “I was let go because of a reduction in team, in scope, in budget, in business approach,” he said. You may recall last week that CI Games admitted that their recent Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 release was too ambitious for the size of the team. Gop reiterated this point, suggesting that perhaps Lords of the Fallen 2 was also overly-ambitious. The first Lords of the Fallen was a decent, i

Full disclosure: I played a fair bit of the first Ni No Kuni on PlayStation 3 back in 2010, but even at the time, its storyline was an enigma to me. I played two sections, and while they were both boss battles with little-to-no exploration opportunities, I can confirm that the game looks beautiful – more beautiful than any other JRPG in recent memory. For those like me who occasionally dip into fantasy JRPGs for the soft-edge nostalgia of pastel animation and Saturday morning cartoon melodrama,

You made the impossible and this story is already scribed into the history of PC gaming and the Internet itself,” the OpenIV team wrote. “Unfortunately, our highly anticipated mod ‘Liberty City in GTA V’ will not be released because it clearly contradicts with Rockstar modding policy. Liberty City mod is a big loss for us, since it was a huge part of our motivation to push OpenIV functionality.” The Liberty City mod was a massive effort to recreate the entirety of Grand Theft Auto 4’s home city

Publishers including Blizzard, Riot, and Perfect World have in recent months revealed the drop rates for their games in order to comply with Chinese law. But none have gone to the extreme, you might say, of Warframe developer Digital Extremes, which has posted an incredibly detailed list of the drop rates for what appears to be nearly every single item in the game. Because Warframe is free to play, “our drop system is designed to maintain a balance,” the studio said. “Our free players can earn t

Crackdown 3 feels just like Crackdown but with more toys, and I mean that as a compliment. By the end of the game, you’re bounding over rooftops, lobbing cars and booting guys to their death. This demo of Crackdown 3 captures that power curve in a truncated way. Rather than hunting down crime bosses one-by-one like in previous Crackdown games, this time they’re lured out by losing territory. It might feel too familiar if you played hundreds of hours of the first game a decade ago, but Crackdown

Battle Brothers is basically an open-ended, Dungeons & Dragons-style campaign for players who prefer combat over storytelling. I like the grounded yet colorful look of Battle Brothers’ 2D art, but there just isn’t enough of it across the game. Battle Brothers’ writing is great, but structurally there’s little quest variety—a multi-part ‘city defense’ is actually just three combats back-to-back. I ended up putting 42 hours into Battle Brothers because the fundamentals of its combat (elevation, li

I got my first look at Aztez way back in 2013, and I was quite taken by it. It promised a mix of turn-based strategy and brutal, bloody 2D brawls—an odd blend, yes—rendered in a stark monochromatic visual style based on 16th-century Mexico and Central America. I’ve played around with the current build of Aztez, and it is very impressive. Aztez is scheduled to come out on August 1 on Steam, Humble, and other fine digital storefronts. The “Aztez in One Minute” trailer below breaks down the basics

Specifically, he thinks the “cadence” of post-release content has been a disappointment for players. As a result, he said in an interview with GamesIndustry that Activision is taking a more aggressive approach to DLC creation for the sequel. “We got a lot right with Destiny 1, but one of the things we didn’t do was keep up with the demand for new content. “One of the things you’ll see post the launch of Destiny 2, is that we have got additional AAA developers from inside the Activision ecosystem

Then you can take recorded clips into the Rockstar Editor and manipulate the camera to get the perfect shot. The depth of field function is particularly useful, allowing you to take some impressively realistic photos of Los Santos and beyond. You can tweak depth of field and field of view via a handy slider when composing your shots, although the interface is slightly clunky. Middle-earth: Shadow of MordorMonolith’s fun Lord of the Rings action game boasts beautifully cinematic battles, which ma

You might’ve spotted us chattering about the rather impressive Resident Evil 4 HD Project in the past—but if you haven’t, it’s an ambitious mod endeavour that’s spent the last wee while recreating Capcom’s Resident Evil 4. Back in April, the team released its final revamped version of the survival horror classic’s Salazar Castle level. People who are into modding already know that every single room pack contains ALL the item textures. For example, the green herb texture is inside every single ro

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is one of the highest-scoring FPSes of PC Gamer’s history. I, too, have fond memories of the best entry in EA’s Medal of Honor series, and particularly of the atmospheric beach landing sequence. Much of Allied Assault is drawn from Saving Private Ryan, with settings and scenarios recreated from the film. There’s also some turret sections, because, despite everything else, Allied Assault is still a ’00s FPS. Fortunately, Allied Assault features a recreation of the M

It’s Independence Day in the US, but people around the world can celebrate freedom today. Freedom from DRM that is, in the latest Humble Store sale. The DRM-Freedom Sale is now on, and you can save money across hundreds of games. Some highlights include:There are plenty more great deals to be found, so head on over if you’re looking to exercise your right to buy whatever you want today. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links.

The Sniper Elite series developer Rebellion has announced it’s working on a new Evil Genius game that’s a “fully-fledged sequel” to Elixir Studios’ 2004 RTS. Rebellion goes onto say EG2 is a fully-formed sequel that won’t be free-to-play and will feature first on PC. Nevertheless, this news marks the first time Rebellion has spoken officially about an Evil Genius 2 in almost four years. With some big projects now out the door and being enjoyed by gamers worldwide, we feel like now is the time to

Off the back of last week’s character-shrinking mode, this week’s Killing Floor 2 Weekly Outbreak flips the switch, giving enemies and players enormous heads. Why did “Big Head Mode” ever go out of style, anyway? Complete this ‘Bobble Zed’ challenge, and you’ll earn a golden-colored ‘Precious’ variant of the Horzine Helmet. Here’s the rest of the schedule:July 4 – Bobble Zed – …that must hurt their necks. In this outbreak, Zeds increase their health, size, and reach when they hit players or ar

Inspired by the Bullfrog era management games of yesteryear—such as Dungeon Keeper, Theme Park World and Theme Hospital—indie dev Matt Luard brings us The Eldritch Zookeeper. Here, the rules are simple: manage a cursed zoo full of monsters, and try your utmost to prevent zoo visitors/yourself from being eaten. “But rather than a floating camera high above, you’re controlling the actual zookeeper,” explains Luard. “A Happy Monster Zoo™ is when a creature’s teeth/claws/exploding-tendencies are far

At the time a LucasArts adventure was expected to sell around 100,000 copies, but Full Throttle sold over a million. I ask the game’s writer/director Tim Schafer what it’s like going back to something he made when he was in his early 20s. Tim SchaferBut he still has fond memories of working on the game, particularly how encouraging LucasArts was. “We loved making Day of the Tentacle look like a Chuck Jones cartoon, but a lot of people thought it was too childish,” says Schafer. “It’s a verb skul

Since its reveal earlier this year, we’ve learned quite a lot about Destiny 2—not least information on its PC features, PvP and new subclasses. That was our priority… [it’s] a place that you believe could exist. To this end he adds: “Moments of glorious combat became the heartbeat for that raid. I love Wrath of the Machine.” No more on what shape or form Destiny 2’s first raid will take, then.

Last week, the GTA 5 Chiliad Mystery community discovered alien life for the first time in game’s Online segment by way of datamining. Billed by Guru Tadd as the “no shortcuts, no cheating, legit way”, he outlines the correct method to spawn the alien mission as Rockstar originally intended. “As you may know from before,” says Tadd, “We changed a global variable to 20 to forcibly trigger this mission. It appears that (brace yourself) the player must have: 601 completed gunrunning sales (the chec

A recently discovered prototype for a SNES version of Rayman is now playable on PC – but you’ll need an emulator. Cornut has the blessing of Rayman creator Michel Ancel, who re-discovered the abandoned prototype late last year. “It’s a really early demo, not really a playable game,” Cornut warned on Twitter. He continued later: “According to old screenshots and reports it did grow to a more fully fledged game but a later version wasn’t found yet.” To run it, you’ll need to download the prototype

I couldn’t believe it worked, but it did, thanks to a recent collaboration between Valve and Samsung to bring Steam Link functionality to Samsung Smart TVs. Getting up and running was as simple as searching for Steam Link on the TV’s app store, downloading it, and making sure my PC was online. Launching the app brought up a familiar Steam in-home streaming interface, and the TV saw my PC on the network right away. The introductory post on the Steam forums said that the beta version of the app cu