Jeff Minter—maker of Space Giraffe, Tempest 2000, and other psychedelic arcade shoot-’em-ups—has a new game out, named Polybius. Wait, wasn’t that the name of the urban legend arcade game that probably never existed back in the 1980s? But Minter has cheekily borrowed it for the title of his recently released PlayStation VR shmup—which as it turns out will be getting a PC version. You’ll be able to play the PC version with or without VR, he clarified in a further tweet, which of course is excelle

I’m intrigued by this roguelike that lets you be the enemy, then, firstly in a lowly imp form, and secondly by possessing your rivals’ bodies, and using their demonic powers against their kind. Isometric death labyrinth MidBoss released a few days ago, and its Big Thing is the ability to transform yourself into a variety of monstrous forms. Developer Kitsune Games describes MidBoss thusly:”Kill your enemies, possess their bodies, and take their abilities as your own in this turn-based procedural

The developers of Median XL describe their creation as “the greatest Diablo II full conversion mod”, and you know, they might have a point. It’s a massive modification that adds piles of new skills and items, improved AI, endgame “uberquests” and more. It’s where you go when you want more Diablo, but you don’t want to turn to Diablo III. The enormo-mod just got even more, er, enormous with its 2017 update, which arrived a few days ago. While you’re waiting for Diablo 2 to install, you can read m

An update to that forum post yesterday explained that “users might start seeing their accounts come back, though they will see Lvl. We are *pretty* sure that all of your save data is on the backend, still being tracked, but not displaying on your client. It’s our top priority right now and we need to make sure we can get our servers properly scaled and balanced to handle the current demand. Once we can alleviate some stress on the database this should all start working smoothly. We are working h

As usual, we’re on the ground at Computex to see the latest in PC gaming, and we expect some exciting new tech from companies like Intel, AMD and Nividia. We don’t expect to see a follow-up to that system so soon, but we do expect some new PC cases showcasing Corsair’s typically smart design. Now we’re seeing systems like the Brix Gaming VR from Gigabyte. But I’ve never seen a modular gaming mouse that includes interchangeable sensors. Cryorig TakuThis is not your usual PC case.

While Bradley believes only a small fraction of users have experienced problems with the game, the studio has identified some problem areas based on feedback. “We’ve also had users report that switching the VSync setting to Double Buffering significantly boosted performance, especially on 900 series Nvidia cards,” Bradley continued. Meanwhile, after some customer backlash due to the inclusion of Denuvo anti-piracy software in Rime, Bradley was frank. On whether Denuvo was hindering the technical

Pictured: Quantum BreakNo matter how Quantum Break was going to turn out, I wasn’t happy to see something from Remedy that wasn’t a sequel to Alan Wake. Alan Wake is ours so that was off the table, so it needed to be something else.” “I would love to [make Alan Wake 2.]” “We are not making Alan Wake 2 at the moment. We own Alan Wake, I feel there is value in Alan Wake, I would love to do more Alan Wake, but these things, they are more than just creative ideas: there is a business side to it.

Battlefield 1 developer DICE has revealed Operation playlists and a bunch of tweaks that are coming in the WWI shooter’s May update. The announcements were made during a recent livestream, in which DICE went into detail on the changes (via GameSpot). However, it will be quite limited at first—when the feature is introduced, the playlists will only play the same Operation over and over again, with the teams simply switching sides. Previously, players who were performing a bayonet charge would tak

As I type this, “surreal exoplanetary exploration game” Exo One stands at the precipice, having raised over AU$30,000 of its AU$35,000 Kickstarter goal. Last month I marvelled at this GIF——but now a video has emerged that better explains how Exo One will actually play. At the end of the video, Weston comes across what looks like an alien monolith: a device that will transport the ship away from this starting zone and to another planet (Weston mentions gas giants and water worlds as future areas)

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has grown from a promising Early Access game to full-blown sensation. If you’re fighting in the wilderness always give nearby bushes at least a cursory inspection and be aware of your surroundings. Tier 1 armor provides 30% damage reduction and has a durability of 80 on the helmet, 200 for the vest. Tier 2 armor provides 40% damage reduction and has a durability of 150 on the helmet, 220 for the vest. Tier 3 armor provides 55% damage reduction and has a durability o

There have been surprisingly few science fiction RPGs, but we finally have another in the form of Juggernaut Games’ StarCrawlers: a grid-based dungeon crawler set in a “gritty spacepunk universe”. The game hit Kickstarter back in 2014, and following a fairly lengthy period in early access, StarCrawlers has just launched for real. There’s a 25% discount for the first week of sale, which, oh dear, ends in just a couple of days. If you’re wondering what’s next for the game, Juggernaut has this to s

Around here, anything that can get upgraded to an SSD from an old fashioned hard drive does. While NVMe drives are on the faster cutting edge of storage, most existing systems—especially notebooks—need the more traditional 2.5” SSD format. When shopping for an SSD (or any storage device for that matter), an important consideration is the storage capacity. The entry size for SSDs currently are 250 GB drives, which range in actual size from 240 GB to 275 GB depending on the manufacturer. It is in

Rockstar Games has announced new bonuses that GTA Online players will be able to earn until June 12. On top of that, players will also be able to take advantage of some limited time discounts on in-game items. Players can get Double GTA$ and RP in all Special Vehicle Missions, which feature cars such as the Ramp Buggy and Ruiner 2000. As funny as it sounds, the in-game merchants are also holding discounts this week—it’s like Black Friday in the world of GTA Online. A new Gunrunning update is set

As GameSpot reports, that’s the date that was revealed in a trailer on Sonic Mania’s European Steam page. The funny thing is that the American Steam page’s trailer still says the game’s coming “summer 2017.” There’s been no official comment from Sega on the suggested release date, but we’ll keep you updated as more is revealed. Sonic Mania was originally slated to release in the spring, but it was delayed to the summer back in March. There’s another Sonic game expected to launch this year as wel

Super Mega Baseball 2 takes a more realistic approach to its visuals, while still keeping that charming, cartoony look. Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings featured players with much more cartoonish proportions, especially when compared to the new models in the upcoming sequel. The ballparks also took to that cartoony style, while the stadiums in Super Mega Baseball 2 look like they have much more of that major league feel. However, Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings provided exactly what I was l

Rockfish Games, the developer of rogue-ish space-’em-up Everspace, announced back in April that the game would break free from the orbit of early access on May 26. One of the bigger changes for Everspace v1.0 is the removal of scanning probes, an action that Rockfish elaborates on in the patch notes. “We watched a lot of streams and videos of people playing EVERSPACE and noticed that crafting/using scanning probes has become too obligatory. On the other hand, not being able to craft scanning pro

Robot-based Stalker-like The Signal From Tölva is to get a small expansion later this year, developer Big Robot has announced. Free to everyone that owns the game, it will add “a new campaign scenario on the surface of Tölva”, providing “a few more hours of combat and exploration”. There’ll be “unique secrets and new robo-life”—oh and a nice big dusting of snow as well, as you can see in the above wintry screenshot. The announcement post also finds the time to reveal the contents of a new patch,

The highsAndy Kelly: Wild open spacesAfter watching the trailer for Far Cry 5 and reading our first look , I am officially a bit excited. The outposts in the last few Far Cry games have been some of the most fun I’ve had in a PC shooter. Far Cry has always been a virtual photographer’s dream, and the brief glimpses we’ve had of the new setting so far hint at some pretty glorious scenery waiting to be snapped. A lot of major game series are being shelved or killed off lately, so I’m glad to see F

The PC port of Vanquish, released yesterday, is rock solid and fun with it: “A great port of an entertainingly subversive cover shooter,” as Phil put it. “If you lock the framerate to 30FPS AR mode will activate after 6-7 seconds of taking enemy fire but if you’re playing at a higher framerate, like 60FPS, it will activate in just 1-2 seconds.” Animated GIFs are easy enough to fake, but a number of people have said in follow-up comments that they’ve had similar experiences with unexpectedly dead

It would be a federal crime that there’s no Vanquish 2: Slide Harder and no Vanquish 3: With a Vengeance. After making the best action game of all time, Shinji Mikami decided to wait a few years and then make the best action game of all time again. These gun transformationsThere’s some stuff in the story about nanomachines and scanning weapons to transform your gun into these different states and blah blah blah who cares just look at how sweet these animations are. Quick time events that are act