It’s not too often that you’ll hear game developers talk trash about the platforms they’re working on. But Josef Fares, whose Hazelight studio is currently developing the co-op prison escape game A Way Out, had some harsh words about the PlayStation 4 console in an interview with Engadget. “This is like a five-year-old PC. Most of the work developers put out there is to make them work on consoles.” To be fair to Sony, the PS4 basically is a five-year-old PC: It was announced in early 2013 and re

However, that mentality may change if the external GPU enclosures catch on. While that remains to be seen, you can add Gigabyte’s Aorus GTX 1070 Gaming Box to the growing list of options. Similar to Razer’s Core enclosure, Gigabyte’s Gaming Box is a plug-and-play solution that is compatible with Thunderbolt 3-enabled laptops. But unlike the Core, this particular Gaming Box comes outfitted with an overclocked GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card already installed. The argument against going that route

Case in point, Netgear apparently felt its AC3200 Nighthawk X6 (R8000) was not fast enough, so it’s now offering an upgraded variant, the AC4000 Nighthawk X6S (R8000P). Beyond a simple speed bump, Netgear added some new features to its X6S model, including link aggregation. As with most routers, there is a built-in four-port switch for wired connections, though somewhat unique is the ability to combine two of the Ethernet ports for faster speeds. You’ll also find a USB 3.0 port and USB 2.0 port

One of them is AMD’s Ryzen 7 1700X processor. If you add it to your cart and opt to pick it up in-store, Walmart will deduct $59.38 from the price, bringing the cost down to $295.84. The Ryzen 7 1700X has 8 cores and 16 threads clocked at 3.4GHz to 3.8GHz. One thing to keep in mind is that the Ryzen 7 1700X does not come with a cooler in the box. Go here to grab the Ryzen 7 1700X from Walmart with a pickup discount.

If you’ve been having trouble connecting to Final Fantasy 14 over the past several days, there is a reason. And that reason, according to Square Enix, is jerks on the internet. 16th, we have been experiencing DDoS attacks from an anonymous third-party targeting the Final Fantasy 14 game servers on the NA data center,” the company said in a “Network Technical Difficulties” notification. A DDoS attack is an attempt to “increase the server load to an extensive level by flooding the network of the t

WHY I LOVE In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. Nex Machina describes itself as a twin stick shooter, though it works very nicely with WASD and a mouse. I’ve played a few hours since Nex came out yesterday and it fills a Geometry Wars shaped hole very nicely. Your death is the only time Nex breaks its laser logic—yes, there is such a thing. Whether things are going right or wrong, something is always exploding beautifully

In his 2014 review of This War of Mine, Tamoor Hussain described 11 bit studios’ sombre survival game as “a stark statement about war delivered through deftly designed stealth survival and resource management.” This War of Mine is a fantastic videogame, but it’s also one whose subject matter requires determination and resilience in spades. Here’s more from Tamoor:”This War of Mine explores the harrowing realities of living amid war. Its resource management, life-sim and exploration mechanics are

So far, Sega and Creative Assembly’s incoming Total War: Warhammer 2 has fed us snippets of its world and what lives within. We’ve saw the Lizardmen in this ‘in-engine’ trailer, we’ve learned about its ‘elite’ High Elves and their interests, and we now know mods from the first game are, in theory, transferable to the sequel. Now, CA has unveiled a new ‘Campaign First Look’ trailer that covers new continents Ulthuan and Lustria via the game’s campaign map. Here, you’ll find both the Lizardmen and

“I’m curious to know, does the colour of the sky matter to you?” asked Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown’s E3 trailer. As you might expect, I like it best when it’s blue because when it’s green it normally means I’m hurtling towards the ground at a rate of knots before—Crash. This is normally how my own cloudbound ventures into combat flight sims end, however if you’re more adept in the cockpit I’ll bet the latest Ace Combat 7 campaign footage floats your skyboat. Kono then dives into the campaign and

Since its January reveal, Obsidian has been steadily drip-feeding new information about Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire and its new nautical-leaning setting. And we have a really really cool crew system that we’ve been working on, and ship-to-ship combat and stuff like that… you have a ship crew. On board, I found Suikoden 4 to be great fun—if Pillars of Eternity 2 can replicate something similar I’m all for it. As for ship-to-ship combat, Brennecke adds: “We’re taking advantage of our scripted

The quote featured above may sound poetic, but it seems War of the Chosen’s Assassin has the skills to back up her words. Announced at our E3 PC Gaming Show last week, the new XCOM 2 expansion will come with three distinct alien adversaries—the first of which Firaxis has chosen to showcase is the sword-wielding cyborg Assassin. A stealth based melee unit, The Assassin has the ability to vanish before your eyes which helps her sneak up on her foes. That said, The Assassin poses a threat from dist

It’s already been nearly two months since the Kiev Major, and if you blinked, you likely missed several important tournaments on the road to The International 2017. North American team NP had a surprisingly strong presence as well, taking a respectable third. As the other finalist, Evil Geniuses certainly performed well, though, holding onto their reputation as the top North American team. With a $100k prize pool, teams have reason to take it seriously. It’s worth more in prize pool than The Sum

Housemarque is one of the most respected developers of arcade style shooters in the industry, though most of their titles tend to be PlayStation exclusives. Stuff like Resogun, Dead Nation and Alienation has yet to – or probably won’t – hit PC, but the studio’s newest game Nex Machina in available right now. As the trailer embedded below will sufficiently demonstrate, it’s a pedal-to-the-medal twin-stick shooter with explosive voxel art stylings. If their previous titles are anything to go by, a

Everyone I’ve ever spoken to about The Witcher 3 wishes it had never ended, so it’s nice that this new Polish film project aims to create a new story in the universe. The non-profit short film stars familiar characters such as Triss Merigold and Lambert, though Geralt himself will not appear, whether in a bathtub or otherwise. “Shortly after a young renegade sorceress suspected of obtaining legendary Alzur’s Almanach flees from the Aretuza, a newly rebuilt magical school. Triss Merigold, a veter

The card design in the set was generally excellent, and eight of the nine classes are currently playable and represented on the competitive ladder with decent win rates. No one card, deck, class, or strategy feels particularly oppressive, which if you’ve spent any time in the Hearthstone scene feels… unusual. With that in mind, I’ve picked the best and worst examples of Un’Goro cards according to five key categories. Early game cards that can singlehandedly win the game are often frustrating. (I

Late last year, Crowbar Collective released the first screenshot of the Xen area of its Half-Life remake Black Mesa, which was not included with its original release. The plan at the time was to have Xen out this summer; unfortunately, getting it right is taking longer than expected. “As some of you may have already predicted, we are going to need to push back our planned release of Xen to later this year, in December. To soften the blow, Crowbar posted the first two public images of a Xen exter

The past couple of months have been a wild ride for Hitman studio Io Interactive. For its first “hello” as an indie operator, the studio has made the introductory ICA Facility location, which essentially serves as the game’s tutorial, free for everyone. And as usual, if and when you upgrade to the full game, any progress you’ve made will carry over. “There is a lot of love out there for Hitman and with this offering we hope that many more will fall in love with the game,” Io Interactive CEO Haka

Capcom has shared a 25 minute Monster Hunter: World gameplay video showcasing the “truly living ecosystem” that had Steven so excited when he wrote about it last week. But it’s way too early to get hung up on the game’s technical competence—Monster Hunter: World isn’t expected to be out until early next year—and the video does hint at some interesting and ambitious ideas. A complicated plan, but ultimately effective. The gameplay starts around 46:30, and runs to 1:11:18. A release date for Monst

You can solve that problem a different way—by slapping a monster capacity 10TB Seagate Barracuda Pro hard drive into your system (or NAS box). Seagate’s Barracuda Pro drives also feature the longest warranty among the company’s consumer HDDs—five years, compared to two years for the its non-Pro Barracuda drives. There is no data yet on Seagate’s 10TB capacity HDDs, though its 8TB models seem to be doing well in the very early going. We’d still prefer a dedicated SSD for our primary storage, but

Twitch Prime subscribers can look forward to scoring some special in-game content for Blizzard games, beginning with an Overwatch Golden Loot Box containing a guaranteed Legendary item. To claim your stuff, just log into your Twitch account and click the “Get Your Code” button, then fire up the Blizzard app, launch Overwatch, and head to the Loot Box section. You must have a Twitch Prime subscription to get the loot, but once you’ve claimed it, it’s yours to keep even if you drop your Prime subs