It’s not that hard to get started, and RPG Maker is a great tool which is becoming more and more popular. There’s a big Degica sale going on right now on the Humble Store, where you can find various RPG Maker versions, plus a bunch of actual RPGs, at discount prices. RPG Maker is responsible for hundreds of games per year being released on Steam. RPG Maker MV is the newest of the tools on sale, and can be found for 60 percent off. Prior to MV’s release, RPG Maker VX Ace was the most robust of th

Telltale has announced that Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 is coming out soon, confirming what we gleaned from the Australian ratings board earlier in the week. Season 2 will continue the blocky adventures of Jesse and chums, featuring voice work from Patton Oswalt, Catherine Taber, Ashley Johnson, and Scott Porter and well as some YouTube cameos. After saving the world, Jesse gets into a spot of bother by sticking his hand in a cursed gauntlet belonging to an ancient underwater temple. “Your ch

Overwatch’s competitive ranking system, I assumed, was powered by arcane forces and could only be understood by folk with dark, eldritch knowledge. The thing that’s been bothering a lot of people is that Overwatch sometimes ranks them low despite a slew of victories at the start of a season. That’s because it takes into account skill ratings from previous seasons. Some players have been demanding a reset at the start of every new season, but Mercer says that’s not going to happen. During the fir

Samuel and Phil gather – sans Andy – to discuss the latest PC gaming delights, from Dirt 4 and Prey to… er… Anachronox, for some reason. Can Dirt 4 satisfy both simulation and arcade racing fans? And is Anachronox worth playing, or indeed worth talking about? Discussed: Dirt 4, Prey, AnachronoxThis week: Samuel Roberts , Phil SavageShow notes: I can’t remember what we were going to link to in the show notes. The PC Gamer UK Podcast is a weekly podcast about PC gaming.

NEED TO KNOW What is it: The next chapter in the Elder Scrolls MMO and a return to TES:III’s iconic titular landscape. Upon first launch three years ago, The Elder Scrolls Online did not have this essential ingredient. In ESO, and its new Morrowind excursion especially, I ache for the freedom of character development proffered up by the game’s mainline inspirations. ESO: Morrowind, despite being hugely improved from the base game, still isn’t going to scratch that itch. It’s also an ideal way fo

Creative Assembly isn’t quite done with Total War: Warhammer, even though it’s busy working on the sequel. The developer revealed that it has at least two more bits of DLC planned, including a new race pack. The first bit of DLC will be free and out soon. Again, the developer is keeping their cards close to their chest, and isn’t revealing exactly what race it will be. This particular Free-LC will benefit not only main game owners, but also DLC owners too this time.”The new race will be out late

The North American Open Qualifier for Overwatch Contenders took place last weekend, with hundreds of professional and amateur teams fighting it out in Blizzard’s “developmental league”. With $50,000 on the line and Overwatch League glory in their sights, players from all over the region put on quite the show for tens of thousands of Twitch viewers in this online showcase. Initial thoughts on Overwatch ContendersIf you had told me a month ago that the Overwatch esports scene was healthy, I would

In what could possibly be one of the biggest E3 2017 spoilers yet, a now removed listing on the Game Informer website points to a possible sequel to Bully – Rockstar’s 2008 high school adventure. Dubbed Bully 2: Kevin’s Back Jack, it might just be a troll or a data entry error, but Game Informer often reveals new games on its monthly magazine covers. After removing the listing, the official Game Informer Twitter account had the following to say: “You might be seeing reports we have reported Bull

Last month we rather breathlessly reported that Yooka-Laylee would soon get a patch, allowing you to ‘reduce gibberish voices’, among other things. Well, now the full patch notes have emerged, and for anyone unsatisfied or massively irritated by certain aspects of the retro 3D platformer, it’ll probably be worth revisiting once the patch is deployed later this month. The camera has been tweaked in other areas, too: there are less scripted camera sequences, and “door cams” will now appear behind

The promotion tournament put the worst LCS teams in an arena with the best CS teams, and they would fight for the bottom two LCS slots. Organizations will be buying into the league and maintaining the staff it takes to maintain a healthy, positive environment. Orgs will be getting a share of league-based revenues, including media deals and digital goods with a teams brand on it (think League icons with your favourite LCS team’s logo). This agreement goes both ways: teams share what they make as

Today he unveiled that project as The End is Nigh, “a sprawling adventure-platformer where you die a lot, but that’s okay because you are probably already dead anyway.” The End is Nigh puts players in control of Ash, “one of the few ‘things’ that have ‘survived’ the ‘end of the world’,” as the Steam description puts it. McMillen said in his May tease that The End is Nigh is “easily one of the largest games I’ve ever made,” and it appears that he wasn’t kidding. The End is Nigh looks really good

Ark: Survival Evolved is probably the poopinest game ever made, with dinos and humans constantly dropping turds all over the map. I can’t tell what’s wrong: there’s water in the tank, there’s water in the pipes, and there’s water in the toidy. Maybe the toilet doesn’t work with the tank, which would be odd since toilets are traditionally, you know, tanks. I have to demolish the existing toilet, run the new pipe in, and build a second toilet. The new toilet won’t sit against the wall on top of th

Photo credit: E3 Expo, 201515,000 general admission tickets have been sold for the first E3 in a long while that’s invited fans to join the fracas on the show floor. For first-time attendees, being crammed into the LA Convention Center with investors, salespeople, journalists, developers, and Snoop Dogg can be a little overwhelming. They’re going to be crowded, but they’re the best way to maximize E3 time and still catch a game. —Tim ClarkPhoto credit: E3 Expo, 2016Bring hand sanitizerThis will

Deconstructing lossesOne of the most important traits of great poker players is what they do after the game. To survive in a poker tournament, you must find a way to build your chip stack while the blinds escalate. In the parlance of a poker tournament, you are doubling up. To survive in tournament poker, you simply cannot play a majority of hands. This is generally a no-no in tournament poker, where losing an all-in means you are done.

I’ll admit I’ve begun to lose track of the various Elder Scrolls mod projects that are recreating one Elder Scrolls game inside another Elder Scrolls game. You’ll be visiting a Fourth Era Bruma with new characters, quests, and stories. Above, you can watch the announcement trailer for the Bruma portion of Beyond Skyrim. I’m pretty darn interested in visiting Bruma in Skyrim, to see what’s changed in the 200 years since the end of the Oblivion storyline. The Beyond Skyrim team is also looking for

It was around this time a year ago when renowned overclocker “Toppc” broke the DDR4 5GHz barrier using G.Skill memory plopped into an MSI Z170I Gaming Pro AC motherboard. Anyone attempting to one-up his feat will now have to set their sights on topping 5.5GHz, the new DDR4 frequency record that Toppc just set, again using G.Skill memory. This latest one will eventually be broken as well, though for now it stands the highest frequency ever hit on a DDR4 memory module. G.Skill did not say which sp

Watch live on Twitch right here! Every Wednesday at 1 PM Pacific we broadcast The PC Gamer Show live on Twitch. It’s your chance to get your questions answered and hear us talk about gaming news, hardware, and what we’re playing. This week Wes is back to tell us all about his time at Computex, Jarred is here to breakdown all the exciting stuff going on with CPUs right now, and lots more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! Watch along today on Twitch, and toss us some feedback on Twitter or here

But Second Life is so much more than that—a point driven home after I spent a whole evening reading a Second Life beauty blog. Berry doesn’t just make unboxing videos, however, she also runs one of the more popular beauty and fashion blogs in Second Life. Berry tells me that unboxing videos are a relatively new trend in Second Life. Just like the real world, Second Life has a host of players who design and sell everything from makeup to clothing. While she’s adamant in keeping her real life sepa

The bad news is that the insistently weird Death Stranding will not be shown at E3, as creator Hideo Kojima said on Twitter today that his Kojima Productions studio is “fully focused on development.” The bad news, continued is that this tease is just as cryptic as everything else we’ve seen so far. pic.twitter.com/jFYc2B0vqBJune 7, 2017A spiderweb and the word “Bridges” isn’t exactly a step-by-step diagram labeled with block letters, but for those who have been keeping up, the connection is clea

Yesterday publisher Team17 announced sci-fi city builder Aven Colony would be coming out in just over a month, July 25. But you don’t have to wait that long to get your hands on it, because we’re giving away 5,000 Steam keys for an early demo of Aven Colony! We’re giving them away on a first come, first served basis, which means you’re out of luck if we run out. If you want to guarantee you get a key next time we do a giveaway, you should join the PC Gamer Club! All Club members get early access