After being seemingly leaked by a rogue Amazon listing, Darksiders 3 was officially revealed by THQ Nordic earlier this month. We don’t have an abundance of information at this stage, however we do know that it’s a familiar hack-n-slash endeavour where players assume control of Fury—a female mage equipped with a whip and magic who’s set out to “restore the balance between good and evil on Earth”. Some of that is depicted in the following in-game footage:As reported by the folks at IGN, THQ Nordi

Image credit: dahshi on Deviantart (via Polygon)In more, ahem, game-related Overwatch news, Blizzard’s esteemed FPS is hosting a free-play weekend on May 26-29 to mark its first birthday. Over the course of the Overwatch Anniversary event a batch of as yet unrevealed stuff is coming to the online shooter, however its non-event-related loot boxes are getting updated too. Furthermore, Polygon reports Blizzard will add the fan-favourite shrug action Gabriel “Reaper” Reyes enacted in the recent Over

For all its virtues, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor must surely go down as one of the most drab and uninspiring game worlds in recent blockbuster memory. That’s just my opinion, of course, but it was a very brown video game. If you like the colour brown that much, good for you. It looks like the game’s sequel, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, may not suffer the same problem. As the trailer below demonstrates, the environments are much more varied and the colour palettes far less brown and grey.

For those who prefer to concentrate on a sole target, Quake Champions has a 1v1 Duel Mode. Fast-paced arena shooters don’t seem to be a great fit for this format, but it actually sounds pretty decent: each player selects three champions at the beginning of a round, before entering the arena in a best-of-three showdown. According to id Software, “in choosing their roster, players will have to consider which Champions are better suited to their unique play style and which are effective counters to

It may be a bit of irony that our pick for the “Best Mesh Router for Gaming” is more “mesh like” than “true mesh” as the Ally is a router and extender—not a series of equal mesh nodes. Mesh Network DesignMesh router kits fit into two categories: “true mesh,” and “router & extender.” A true mesh design has multiple devices, where each functions as a connected node on the network, and they all are interchangeable. How we test mesh router kitsAgainst that background, we went hands on with several o

Like most higher end mics, it’s a bit on the expensive side, though GameStop has on it sale bundled with Watch Dogs 2 for $90. By itself, the Yeti typically sells for around $130, with GameStop listing a retail value of $140 for the bundle that’s up for grabs here. Watch Dogs 2 isn’t what makes this deal worth considering (check out our review), though it’s a welcome bonus on top of the sale price. For $90, you’d be hard pressed to find a better microphone. Some online stores give us a small cut

It’s a game of huge spaceships in small-scale combat, as we put it a little over a year ago. We’ve actually had some hands-on time with it too, although nothing recent: Once in 2014, and then again in 2015. That’s a lot of time gone by, but it looked at least potentially cool, and let’s face it: it’s hard to go too wrong with huge spaceships blasting the stuffing out of each other at explosively close range. And with the launch of the open beta, you can find out for yourself how it’s all shaping

We’ve seen Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5, and there have been plenty of rumors floating around regarding Vega and now Threadripper. AMD’s alternative for the HEDT (High-End Desktop) market is called Ryzen Threadripper. We’ve already had a separate post about AMD’s Vega Frontier Edition, a top-end Vega part with 16GB HBM2 and 4096 graphics cores. RX Vega will also be coming in other flavors, and according to rumors and supposed leaks we’ll have Vega Nova (1.6GHz, 4096 cores, 16GB HBM2), Vega Eclipse (1.5GH

aHave you ever wondered what a “Toblestein” is? Why competitive rankings are based on win/loss ratios rather than skill rating? Or why people love Roadhog so much when the official lore makes it clear that he’s a big, nasty dinkus? Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan recently took part in an Overwatch “Tech Support” video with Wired—basically a video AMA—to answer these questions, and a whole bunch more. The short-and-sweet answers can actually be found on the OWSupport_JK Twitter feed, which I

Originally published as a pencil-and-paper game in 2009 by Paizo Publishing, the Pathfinder RPG is based on a modified version of the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 ruleset. I like the setting, the art style, the adventure paths, the card game, and the iconic characters. I’ve enjoyed playing Pathfinder with my friends (we used to be part of an Ocean’s 11 style game), and I’ve enjoyed the comics, the world, and the overall setting,” Avellone said. “I’m excited by the prospect of bringing Pathfinder to th

PNY set the MSRP at $330 for its 480GB CS2030 SSD. However, Newegg has it on sale for $217 currently, which you can knock down to $200 using promo code EMCSRFBG4. In this case, the 480GB CS2030 is rated to deliver sequential read performance of up to 2,800MB/s and sequential write performance of up to 1,550MB/s. And as for 4KB random read and write performance, PNY claims up to 300,000 IOPS and 270,000 IOPS, respectively. You can grab the 480GB CS2030 on sale here.

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 Chris will be telling us about his time at PdxCon where he saw Surviving Mars, we’ll talk about Far Cry 5 and The Crew 2 coming this year, lament the loss of Alan Wake, and lots more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! Watch along today on Twitch, and toss us

May 24 will be the one-year anniversary of the release of Blizzard’s hit FPS Overwatch, and to mark the big day the studio is holding a free-play weekend set to run May 26-29. Blizzard also announced the upcoming launch of a loaded-up Overwatch Game of the Year edition, which will release digitally across all platforms on May 23. The Overwatch GOTY will include ten bonus loot boxes filled with random items, and skins from the original Overwatch strike force including Blackwatch Reyes, Strike Com

Ubisoft confirmed yesterday that South Park: The Fractured But Whole will (finally) be released sometime during its 2017-18 fiscal year. Today it came across with a proper release date—October 17, 2017—and also a new trailer showcasing the subtle and sophisticated humor of “The Farting Vigilante.” South Park: The Fractured But Whole (heh) sees crime on the rise in the quiet Colorado town of South Park, leading Eric Cartman to form a new team of superheroes, Coon and Friends, led by himself as Th

To that end, you can save a few hundred bucks on a pretty sweet SkyTech Omega gaming PC on Amazon. The system is listed at $1,699 with free shipping but if you apply promo code 67U5XOFB, it will bring the price down to $1,393.18. What you get for that price is a nice collection of pre-assembled hardware culminating in a Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Individually, these parts add up to around $1,750, perhaps a little cheaper if you shop around and/or take advantag

Without any fanfare, Nvidia has gone and added an affordable line of graphics cards with Pascal underneath the hood. The GeForce GT 1030 sports 2GB of GDDR5 memory on a 64-bit bus and 384 CUDA cores. Part of the pitch here is that the GeForce GT 1030 is an inexpensive upgrade over integrated graphics. They include:GeForce GT 1030 SC Passive Low ProfileGeForce GT 1030 SC Low ProfileGeForce GT 1030 SC Single SlotThe single slot card is a full-height part with DVI-D and DVI-D output and active cool

The Gwent closed beta wrapped up this weekend in the glorious spectacle of the Gwent Challenger Tournament, which saw Adrian “Lifecoach” Koy take home the lion’s share of a $100,000 prize pool. Next week, phase two will get underway with the kickoff of the Gwent open beta, which CD Projekt Red revealed today will begin on May 24. The move to public beta will bring about a complete reset of card collections and player progress, to ensure equal footing for everyone when the light goes green. To cl

We’re bringing the PC Gaming Show back to E3 for 2017, and this year’s event will once again see the good folks from Xbox take to the stage as both a sponsor and “key presenter.” Members of Microsoft’s gaming division will take some time to show off upcoming PC games and talk about upcoming developments. “PC gaming is a huge part of our gaming ecosystem—across Windows, Beam, and Xbox,” Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Xbox marketing Mike Nichols said. “The PC Gaming Show is the perfect pl

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. In the absence of brothers or sisters to play/bicker with or share my toys/parents’ affection with I turned to my dad’s Atari ST for company—our first so-called ‘family’ computer that ostensibly stood in for similarly-aged blood relatives during my formative years. While I continued to enjoy PC gaming as I got older, I can’t guarantee I’d ever have discovered it had it not be

Western Digital just expanded its WD Red and WD Red Pro hard drive lines for NAS boxes with new 10TB capacity models. The Red and Red Pro lines are purpose built for always-on NAS appliances with up to eight drive bays (Red) or 16 drive bays (Red Pro). The difference between the Red (WD100EFAX) and Red Pro (WD101KFBX) models is the spindle speed—the Red drive spins at 5,400 RPM while the Red Pro operates at 7,200 RPM for a bit of added performance. Backblaze’s latest reliability report shows no