The official Far Cry 5 reveal is still a couple days out, but Ubisoft today released the first full-on promotional image for the game, and it is—to put it mildly—provocative. Bringing the series to America in what appears to be a very believable context of religious extremism and right-wing survivalists is a bold move. Previous Far Cry games have been set in remote locales crawling with fictional villains (and even mutants at one point—how far it’s all come) and were easy to dismiss as pleasantl

Because the game embraces hero switching, our players need to be aware of every hero in the game in every match. Ideally, every hero has a high skill ceiling, which allows players to continue to improve with a hero the longer they play. The goal of every hero is to have a low skill floor and a high skill ceiling, but sometimes a hero design doesn’t lend itself to having a low skill floor. As we approach the Overwatch World Cup, what work is the Overwatch team focused on to make the game an even

Like its Turbo series cousin before it, Trackmania 2 Lagoon has marked its launch with a complimentary demo. Following on from Canyon, Valley and Stadium—the latter of which produced this mesmerising clip of 20,000 cars floodings its tracks like locusts—the Trackmania 2 series, or Trackmania² as it’s stylised, takes a trip to the beach in its latest outing Lagoon. “As the fourth environment in the Trackmania² series, Trackmania² Lagoon has players racing on raised tracks above a tropical island

GSC Game World’s Stalker series is one of my favourites, a fact galvanised by the impressive array of mods its community has and continues to produce to this day. It’s now launched a new developer diary wherein its creators detail what’s new—from new locations to new weapons and more—before debuting a sliver of in-game footage. Here, the mod’s creators make use of its integrated voice chat as they take down a rival gang of forest-dwellers. From 8.10 on, the Ray of Hope team go into more detail o

In collaboration with Humble, they’ve made it so you can support the cause and get yourself some great games in the Humble Game On Bundle. As always, there are different tiers of games you unlock based on how much you pay. In the “Pay what you want” tier, you’ll receive zany battler Worms: Clan Wars, hit mobile-turned-Steam game 80 Days, and the acclaimed detective game Her Story. If you pay more than the average of $5.50 / £4.24, you’ll receive a few more games to add to your collection. Grim F

Back in February, Sunless Skies ran a successful Kickstarter campaign that was not only funded inside four hours but also accumulated four times its original ask. Failbetter’s airbound Sunless Sea non-sequel outlined a development roadmap thereafter, and is now recruiting prospective players for its closed alpha stage. Players with accessibility requirements, so we can build Sunless Skies with specific accessibility feedback in mind. “For those invited, we’d of course ask you to install and play

The point of League of Legends is to win, but how is it possible to win too much? Not only is this a meritocratic accomplishment, but SKT T1 being so good has given us some incredible series over the years. SKT’s existence raise the quality of League games as a whole. Every series with SKT becomes “this team made Gods bleed” or “drew blood against legends”. A team like SKT likely will not enter League for the rest of the game’s lifespan.

The game’s ‘Quality Update 1.6.1’ has now reworked the hotspot, nullifying its scope for unfair encounters, and has introduced Loadouts ahead of their proposed summer entry. “Quality Update 1.6.1 is a part of our new philosophy, where we do not wait for major updates to the game in order to release major bug and balancing fixes,” reads this update post. “With Update 1.6.1, we are taking our time to fix longstanding bugs and adding one of the most requested features—Loadouts—to The Division. It h

Although Steam got a few (initially very rough) Disgaea ports recently, the most recent instalment has remained a PS4 exclusive until it released for the Nintendo Switch this week. Now it looks like Disgaea 5 Complete Edition might be headed to PC, too. The listing for the Disgaea 5: Complete Edition includes PC in addition to Switch, though there’s no indication when the PC version will release – nor, indeed, whether it’s a dead certainty that it will. But I’m confident it will – besides, despi

Valve has just announced its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ‘Operation Hydra’ event, which will take place on a weekly basis until September. These events will feature “twists on the classic game rules”, and will play out on new maps across both casual and competitive. These events will mostly involve the aforementioned “twists”. Other varieties come in the form of War Games, which includes Heavy Assault Suit – a bomb defusal round with the added twist that one player is wearing heavy armor. T

Dark Souls for PC was a legendarily crappy port, and yet people continue to play it because a) it’s an amazing game, and b) due to the hard work of modders. Joining the legions of benevolent Dark Souls mods is Input Customizer. As the name implies, it lets you customise inputs for gamepad, Steam controller and mouse and keyboard. “[Input Customizer] uses an intuitive input system that allows the rebinding of every action to arbitrary combinations of keys or buttons on the controller, mouse or ke

For 16 months, Samantha pretended to be a member of the Amamake Police, a group of EVE Online’s most elite pirates. A 300 billion ISK reward isn’t great for 16 months of work, but Samantha didn’t do it for the money. Death in EVE Online is a whole lot more than a slap on the wrist like in other MMOs. Having a few killmarks on a ship is pretty common, a hundred is plausible—but 400 and on an extremely rare ship like an AT frigate? “He traded fun in EVE with a good group of people for five minutes

Get Even, a psychological horror / shooter hybrid by Polish studio The Farm 51, has been delayed by a month. Originally scheduled to release on May 26 – ie, later this week – publisher Bandai Namco issued a statement today explaining the last minute date change, alluding to yesterday’s Manchester, England terrorist attack. “Given recent events and out of respect we have decided to postpone the commercial release of Get Even to June 23rd,” the statement reads. It’s not hard to see why the publish

Esports organization IEM [Intel Extreme Masters] has announced on Reddit that for the first time since 2011, it will not feature League of Legends events in its current season. “Our 2017 events won’t happen to be in a period where pro LCS teams are free to compete. “As I write this, I am not sure if we will or will not run LoL events in IEM in the future. “It’s our goal to balance regional play with consistently high-quality international events that pit top teams from different regions. Interna

The future of the Hitman series was put in jeopardy earlier this month when Square Enix announced plans to “withdraw from the business” of developer Io Interactive. The situation seemed to brighten shortly after, when a rumor surfaced indicating that Io will retain the rights to Hitman and proceed with work on the second season. It’s obviously not good news, but the potential upside is that reduced staff levels could help make Io more attractive to potential buyers. A Square Enix rep said the co

Bethesda Softworks is teaming up with independent British publisher Titan Comics to create a new series of comics based on the upcoming Quake Champions FPS. Titan said the books, slated to debut later this summer, “will delve into the bloody backgrounds of the Champions of Quake: Ranger, Visor, Nyx, and more,” with art by Titan and IDW veteran artist Alan Quah. “Exciting characters with crazy elaborate techs and environments that I will love drawing—I couldn’t have wished for more!” The Quake Ch

PC gaming can be an expensive pursuit, and building your own rig even more so. Not everybody can afford a high-end gaming PC. PC Gamer’s high-end PC build guide is aimed at a price tier of $2,000 / £2,000. Sure, you can go cheaper with a PC, but racing to the bottom isn’t what PC gaming is about. Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 TiThe GTX 1080 Ti has officially launched, taking the crown of top-tier graphics performance.

Electronic Arts took to Twitter today to reveal that the Women’s Battalion of Death, a new Russian unit and the game’s first female multiplayer soldier, is on the way to Battlefield 1 in the upcoming expansion In the Name of the Tsar. Yes, she’s a female from a brutal WW1 formation, the 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, represented by the Russian Scout class. pic.twitter.com/Tcp8JW0szBMay 22, 2017The real-life 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, as noted by Wikipedia, was one of severa

Box art images taken from Mobygames.com, the best information repository for games around, unless otherwise noted. It’s hard not to judge a book by its cover when that cover looks like… this. The PC has never been quite as artistically cursed as some platforms, as anyone who’s ever seen the NES Mega Man box or just about every Sega Master System game will know, but that doesn’t mean it’s been an artistic home-run. For every bit of stunning box art that we’ll remember forever, there’s a monstro

In a statement issued shortly after the hiring came to light, however, Kerbal studio Squad clarified that these were employees that had left Squad, then later joined Valve. “There was news today that former KSP developers have joined Valve. We want to clarify that Squad is not joining Valve, and we continue to be an independent studio with the core KSP team remaining at Squad, hard at work on the improved KSP for consoles port, Update 1.3 and the Making History Expansion. If some of them joined