“We’ve never worked with Sinclair Networks and they had nothing to do with the development of Mass Effect: Andromeda,” a rep said “Beyond that we don’t have any news to share at this time regarding DLC.” Original story:The Mass Effect rumor machine spun up quickly following a report yesterday which claimed that the planned story DLC for Mass Effect: Andromeda had been canceled. “For the moment the Mass Effect series will be on ice until BioWare can decide which direction the franchise will go.”

Here are some fun, some weird, and some very useful tools for getting a bit more out of Steam. Steam DB CalculatorWant to brag or, perhaps, shudder over the monetary value of your Steam library? Steam Game GauntletHow many times have you sat down at your PC and, faced with so many choices of Steam games to play, were simply unable to pick one and commit? This website generates a wheel of fortune, drawn from the massive pool of Steam games, which you can then spin. BnetlauncherWe’ve used Steam fo

We really wanted to make a game where you move and fight like a fighting game but against these enormous monsters.” We want to force important decisions on the player and all of that is something that is very core to the fighting game genre.” We want to force important decisions on the player and all of that is something that is very core to the fighting game genre.” But I think the bigger sense of progression will, like in any fighting game, come from mastering Avil’s moveset and learning how t

We noted in our April look at the future of World of Warcraft that a big part of it would be, with the release of patch 7.3, a journey to Argus, the homeworld of the Burning Legion. We said at the time that the update was “easily half a year away,” and while that’s presumably still true, it is playable now on the WoW public test realm. “Most (but not all) of the new stuff in 7.3 takes place on Argus—and as you might expect, this is hostile territory. Argus will have three mains areas to explore,

It is by now an established tradition that, at semi-regular intervals throughout the year, Valve rolls out a Steam sale, and Steam is immediately crushed by the flood of demand for cheap games. The number of support requests has tapered off somewhat over subsequent days, but it remains way above the norm. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of them are for refunds: Of the 228,722 support requests received yesterday (June 28), 205,761—that’s 90 percent—were for refunds. 15,130 support requests were

Amazon Prime Day is coming. Finding the best Prime Day deals can be overwhelming—Amazon puts everything on sale, not just PC gaming hardware. What to expect from Amazon Prime Day 2017Remember, the deals land this year on July 11th. Last year’s best deals for Prime day centered around several categories:Gaming displaysSSDs and HDDsMotherboardsFull gaming systemsAccessoriesNetworking gearIn 2016, Alienware heavily discounted some of its desktops and gaming laptops on Prime Day. UK dealsAmazon also

Best Buy is offering a pretty neat incentive to jump into VR gaming, at least for anyone who wants to join team Oculus. For those who do, Best Buy is bundling a $150 store gift card when you purchase a Rift headset and Touch controllers. Unfortunately you can’t apply the $150 gift card to the purchase, but in a way, you can choose your own free swag. Best Buy set up a special portal, which you can jump straight to by clicking here. From there, just tick the boxes next to the headset, Touch contr

If you found yourself being unexpectedly and repeatedly smoked in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare online combat over the past day or so, you can blame the new Proteus rifle that was added in the June 27 update. It’s sniper rifle/shotgun hybrid that enables the user to select highly-concentrated long-range fire or a heavy up-close punch as the situation warrants. The video above, via PCGamesN, clearly illustrates how the Proteus worked when it went live, which is absolutely not how it was supposed

Whereas MSI’s existing Clutch GM40 was billed as an ambidextrous rodent, the company’s new Clutch GM70 and Clutch GM60 take things a step further with interchangeable parts for a custom fit. With buttons on both sides, you can mold the new Clutch mice to fit your hand more comfortably than a one-size-fits-all design. The Clutch GM60 is equipped with a PMW 3330 sensor that can be adjusted from 1,000 dpi to 10,000 dpi. Many gamers scoff at ultra-high dpi settings, but if that’s what you’re after,

Installation 01, as it is described on its website, is a fan-made “artistic tribute to Halo that recreates the multiplayer experience of the Bungie-era games.” After “several months” of contact with current Halo studio 343 Industries, that effort, according to an update posted yesterday, has apparently paid off. They also gave us an opportunity to ask a lot of questions about the ongoing legal status of the project,” the Installation 01 team said. Through these interactions we have been ensured

Following a round of closed beta testing, Boss Key Productions is about to kick off an open beta period for LawBreakers that will run from June 30 to July 3. If you own a GeForce GPU, you can prepare for the beta by downloading the latest Game Ready driver package, which is available through GeForce Experience. The latest 384.76 WHQL driver package is not yet available on Nvidia’s website, though it does appear under the “Drivers” tab in Nvidia’s GeForce Experience software. Beyond game optimiza

It wouldn’t take much time for LG Evil, the new squad, to outshadow the native LG Loyal roster by leaps and bounds, leading to their eventual hiatus. Not only is Jake a phenomenal star in tournaments, but he’s also quite the writer and Overwatch theorycrafter. It’s counterintuitive if you think about the type of game Overwatch is. Catch Jake and the rest of LG Evil at the Overwatch Contenders playoffsA stellar showing at Blizzard’s developmental Overwatch Contenders tournament has earned LG Evil

Along the way, we’ve learned what’s really important to the PC audience. Yeah, ultimately whether you look at console, PC or mobile, you make games specifically for the way that they’re played on that platform. Does the engine and the way that the game was built enable us to elegantly port it onto PC? But we also bring in our own expertise from some studios that we work with in the UK, and some talent that we know understand how we want to align PC games to the audience. But we don’t feel that a

What do we know so far about Star Wars Battlefront 2? Now, we also know how its crates, crafting and progression system works, courtesy of the latest Star Wars HQ video. Showing off some in-game footage, the following trailer explores the incoming game’s—due November 17—new crate, crafting and progression system, before taking a look at its classes and how these tie in with its upgradable crate-delivered star cards. Observe:As you’ll note there, crafting supplies can be used to upgrade more comm

After stumbling over its awful pre-modded PC port in 2012, the Dark Souls series has gone on to become one of the most revered on our platform of choice—well deserved of its silver medal placing in The PC Gamer Top 100. Its console cousin Bloodborne, however, remains a PS4-exclusive to this day which is a right shame because it’s, ahem, bloody brilliant. Japanese modder Vicn seemingly thinks so too and has spent the last year working on Glenmoril—a gorgeous Skyrim mod that aims to transport Yhar

They’ve now arrived as part of the free-to-play shooter’s latest ‘Chains of Harrow’ update, which also brings with it a new lore-based quest, new weapons, and a neat Void power-harnessing priest playable character, among a host of other things. Here’s a wee look at Harrow in action:On the weapons front, the Chains of Harrow update adds a new pistol named the Knell which increases Critical Chance for a limited time by virtue of headshots. (The Chains of Harrow Quest will appear in the Codex for t

The Swords of Ditto is a neat looking action RPG unveiled in the week leading up to E3. Published by Devolver, it has a minty fresh Saturday morning cartoon aesthetic and, most importantly, a protagonist with a box for a head. There was a trailer issued back then, but now we’ve got a solid 12 minute video showcasing its gameplay. It looks fun and straightforward enough: you wander a beautifully illustrated world, whittle down enemy health bars with your sword, talk to whimsical non-violent chara

It even scooped the critics’ award for PC game of the show at E3. As any player who stuck out the first three years of Destiny will tell you, it got rough between content releases. The bad news is that the DLC plan looks very similar to what Bungie did with Destiny 1. For Destiny 2, Bungie has made a radical change to how weapon class distribution works. So it makes sense for the developer to spend commensurately more resources on creating features for PvE players first.

And then, on April 28, this happened:Nier: Automata’s Steam reviews over time, via SteamSpy. 1,113 negative reviews slammed Nier’s Steam page in a single day, essentially doubling the total number of negative reviews overnight. For many gamers, leaving a negative Steam review is the only actionable way to make their voices heard. Football Manager 2017 had its Steam reviews hammered by Chinese players. Chinese players also review bombed Rise of the Tomb Raider on April 28, giving it negative revi

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds is kind of a big thing around these parts, and it will likely become an even bigger thing when it comes to the Xbox One later this year. If we’re going to allow players to use controllers we need to have the aim assist added in and things like that. The more the merrier, but I’m not sure what adding cross-platform play to PUBG would accomplish aside from creating headaches for its developers. The online intermingling is limited to “Social Quickplay,” while Core and