Last week, we learned that Diablo 3’s new Necromancer class, an adaptation of the series’ versatile grade, is coming sooner than expected. PC Gamer: How have you managed to turn the Necromancer class around much quicker than you anticipated? So when you first sat down and started contenting out the Necromancer in Diablo 3, what did you want to change and update about it? Travis Day: Yeah the Diablo 2 Necromancer was one of my favourite characters just in general in an RPG and in gaming. I really

Dead Cells is still in Steam’s Early Access right now, but people apparently already love it. It’s cheaper than normal to get in on the action today, as you can get the game for 31 percent off at Bundle Stars. Dead Cells is a Metroidvania-style 2D game with Rogue-like elements and some light Souls-y combat. While it’s not bringing anything particularly new to the table, from what Shaun played, what it does, it does well. If you don’t want to risk buying an Early Access game just yet, Dead Cells

Much of the headlines coming from Grand Theft Auto 5 of late have centred around OpenIV’s closure and Rockstar and Take-Two’s subsequent single-player U-turn. According to MCV, the recent turmoil didn’t stop the open world crime sim from becoming the UK’s highest selling game for the 13th time last week—and it certainly hasn’t stopped the game’s UFO hunters from uncovering new ‘Chiliad Mystery’ data. This wall marking kicked things off:In line with the PC launch, we dived deep into the scheme, w

Despite its somewhat slow Early Access start, Compulsion Games’ Aldous Huxley-esque We Happy Few has spent the past several months working towards full release by introducing new areas and playstyle options. “Originally we were planning to release two updates before the final release of the game: the Joy related update, and an update that would have contained the Parade District (a brand new biome),” explains Compulsion via this Steam Community post. “We have decided to push out only one major u

Doomfist is coming to Overwatch eventually – that much is certain. But it looks like we may be closer to the answer than ever, because a crashlog for the current Public Test Region (which is running the game with the still-forthcoming 1.13 patch), references both Doomfist and “Summer Games”. The latter is most likely a reference to the fact that, in the Northern Hemisphere at least, it’s summer. It’s probable that we’ll see a repeat of last year’s Summer Games seasonal event, which kicked off on

In an audience Q&A blog published last week, an id Software spokesperson confirmed that Quake Champions will run through Steam. That might not seem revelatory, but since the current beta launches exclusively through Bethesda.net, many had suspected the final game would too. “Quake Champions will indeed be released on Steam,” Bethesda Softwares senior producer Jason Bergman wrote. “You will still be required to have a linked Bethesda.net account, but users playing the game from Steam will not go

The most effective way of warming my cynical, wintery heart is with jetpacks. Games that let you fly are, in my view, much better than games that don’t let you fly. So this lengthy gameplay video of Piranha Bytes’ forthcoming fantasy sci-fi RPG Elex is interesting to me, because it has jetpacks in it. It’s also got bow-and-arrow combat, shotgun combat, and bludgeoning-with-nondescript-melee-weapon combat: all also very appealing. I am fond of the at-times-ropey Piranha Bytes RPGs (Gothic and Ris

Dragon Ball FighterZ is another excellent looking fighting game on its way to PC, and if Japanese magazine Jump is to be believed, then Future Trunks is joining its roster. Siliconera translated the magazine, but you don’t need to know Japanese to see Future Trunks near the bottom (image below). If you’re not sure of the difference between Future Trunks and regular Trunks, it’s simple: one is from the future, and the other is not. Dragon Ball FighterZ comes to the PC in early 2018. The anime fig

If you’re anything like most Prey players, then the game took you somewhere between 20-30 hours to finish. However, speedrunner Seeker TV has trounced Arkane’s sci-fi romp in just under seven minutes. Seven minutes is quite the feat, and if their YouTube page is any indication, Seeker has devoted a lot of time to achieving this. If you want to try your hand at a Prey speedrun, Seeker suggests CreeperHntr’s Any% tutorial. Additionally, there’s a Prey discord in which Seeker and CreeperHntr discus

You might have seen me single out model train set game Tracks as part of the Free Games of the Week, or the PC Gamer magazine’s Top 10 Downloads section, so I’m pleased to hear that the free prototype is being expanded and made into a commercial release. In the free version, you can build a pleasingly tactile model train network out of wooden parts, but in the full game you’ll then be able to hop into the train, and ride around your creation in first-person. “Once you’ve created your rail networ

Jeppe Carlsen’s rhythmic platformer 140 has just received a free update, around four years after the game came out. The update adds a new, “expansive” fourth level that features “original mechanics and a new boss fight”, and that’s not bad at all for the price of free. But the update bungs in a few other features, including cloud saving, trading cards, “less input lag and improved player character physics”, and those are all nice things to have too. After 140, Carlsen went on to make the similar

Most internet service providers (ISP’s) sell their service on different tiers, with the faster speed commanding the higher price. A lower latency is preferred, especially for gaming, although while ISP’s advertise their download speeds ad nauseum, none indicate their latency. Ping often gets used synonymously and interchanged with latency, but while it is related, this is not correct. Now that we have a better understanding of latency, lag and ping, let’s look at what it means. While we all want

Pictured: The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimWe enjoy ourselves some The Elder Scrolls: Legends around these parts, with Tim calling it a “viable [Hearthstone] competitor with better deck diversity” in his review earlier this year. The first major expansion, Heroes of Skyrim, is due out on 29 June, and adds more than 150 cards. Reddit user ShiaLePork has collected community complaints into a thread on the Legends subreddit, singling out three cards that are “problematic… The Wildfire Dragon card has f

Super Mario Odyssey may be a Switch exclusive (and very obviously never coming to PC), but we can still throw Mario’s cap around and possess objects as much as we like, thanks to modder Kaze Emanuar. Emanuar has created a mod for emulated versions of Super Mario 64, which adds Odyssey’s Cappy and its powers to the classic platformer. This one lets you take control of almost every object, from rotating platforms to exclamation blocks (you can see this in the GIF above). If you’ve dumped a ROM of

All of Battleborn’s competitive multiplayer modes and maps recently went free-to-play, but developer Gearbox Software has shown that it won’t stop there. The shooter recently introduced a new PVP option, which mixes parts of the Meltdown and Capture modes. Supercharge has you earning Appeasement Points from Minrec, which Gearbox describes as “the robotic god of minion destruction.” To earn these points, you’ll need to lead minions to a specific area. You can also head over to Battleborn’s offici

That’s just how it goes in The Temple of Elemental Evil. The Temple of Elemental Evil is the video game that gets closest to recreating that experience. It may not be the best D&D game, but it is the most D&D game. It helps that The Temple of Elemental Evil is an adaptation of an actual printed adventure written by Frank Mentzer and Gary Gygax (D&D’s co-creator). As well as the rules, The Temple of Elemental Evil recreates the feel of a typical D&D game.

Funcom’s innovative, real-world-ish MMO The Secret World relaunches as the free-to-play Secret World Legends on Monday June 26, at least officially. What I’m saying is that The Secret World Legends has launched a little early, and you can sign up here. The game client can be downloaded from here (direct link), and if you’re waiting for it to come to Steam, that’s going to happen in around a month’s time, on July 31. You’ll be able to import certain things from the previous version of The Secret

Scanner Sombre, as it turns out, hasn’t sold very well, at least compared to Introversion’s previous game: the 2-million-copies-sold-and-counting Prison Architect. By comparison, the developer’s first-person cave-mapping game Scanner Sombre has only rustled up around 6,000, or in the words of Introversion’s Chris Delay, “It’s bombed”. Here’s Delay speaking about Scanner Sombre’s sales, via Gamasutra: “It’s bombed. It’s not that I arrogantly believe we’re the best people in the world or anything,

Earlier today tech and security site The Register posted an article claiming ” 32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak online .” The article stated that a massive archive of Windows 10 builds had been uploaded to the website BetaArchive.com, including source code. If that were true, as The Register points out, it could lead to a nasty wave of Windows 10 exploits, as hackers who gain access to the source code can pore over it for vulnerabilities. We can’t access the FTP ourselve

But I’m glad it’s happening, because judging by that trailer it’s going to be a game heaving with imagination. Then Ubisoft released this video of creative director Michel Ancel playing the thing—or at least an early development version of it. A good commander will constantly let SLs know when they’ve picked a good spot, and when they should move their mark. Hearing him call me out as assist notifications rolled by (“Nice mark SL3! But if you’re a professional and the faster CPU improves your ef