Oxygen Not Included, the space colony management sim from Don’t Starve studio Klei Entertainment, slipped very quietly onto Steam earlier this year as a playable alpha—so quietly, in fact, that it was there for a month before we noticed it. The studio is making a little more noise about the next step, however, as it announced today that the game will go from alpha to Early Access on Steam on May 18. Oxygen Not Included will sell for $25 in Early Access, with a 20 percent “loyalty discount” for a

The abstract objective of Spaceplan is to accumulate potato power, which you then use to create more starch-based generators and initiate upgrades for your current space spuds. With a similar lack of gravity, your ship’s sophisticated tools are labeled Thing Maker, Word Outputter, and Idea Lister. Potato partyAfter finally landing, my Word Outputter regaled me with its thoughts on where we were and how to survive. Apparently, the Word Outputter enjoys light reading on the subject of space-time a

If you’re looking to beef up your backup storage, Newegg has a sale on HGST’s capacious 8TB Deskstar drive. HGST credits its RVS technology for allowing the drive to perform at a high level—in this case, it has a 7,200 RPM spindle speed with a less than 12ms seek time. The 8TB drive also has a meaty 128MB cache. Though this drive is built for NAS boxes, you can install it in a regular PC with a free SATA 6Gbps port. You can grab the HGST 8TB drive on sale here.

Less than 24 hours remain in the latest Humble Monthly subscription offer, which this time around puts together the 2015 racing sim Dirt Rally and the creepy puzzle-adventure Inside for just $12—or less, if you commit to the three, six, or twelve-month subscription plans. Games included in the Humble Monthly deals are yours to keep, even if you cancel your subscription, so at the very least you can look at this as scoring a couple of very good games at a very low price. The offer actually includ

Some owners of Intel’s Core i7-7700 and 7700K processors have been complaining for the past three months of unusual temperature increases. For processor specifications, please refer to the Intel Core i7-7700K Processor Product Specifications. We do not recommend running outside the processor specifications, such as by exceeding processor frequency or voltage specifications, or removing of the integrated heat spreader (sometimes called ‘de-lidding’). Another user called Intel’s response “BS,” not

If you’re planning to play tomorrow and own a GeForce graphics card or GPU, there is a new driver update you’ll want to install head of time. Nvidia just released its 382.05 WHQL driver package, which includes optimizations for Prey. Other than that, there are a handful of bug fixes in the latest driver package. [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti][Gears of War]: After the bootup movies, blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys. You can download the latest GPU driver package from Nvidia here.

Despite being Kickstarted in late 2013, arriving in Early Access the following year, and launching several wholesome updates along the way, The Long Dark has long missed one key feature: a story mode. Just over three weeks ago, the survival exploration game’s developer Hinterland Studio launched an unspecified countdown timer which we—and the game’s corner of Reddit—suspected was related to the much-anticipated story mode. Now it has and, due on August 1, 2017, the first two episodes of The Long

Whereas the majority of mice typically do not account for different and grip styles, Corsair’s new Glaive RGB rodent comes with interchangeable magnetic thumb grips to help gamers find a better fit. Glaive RGB combines a sweeping contoured shape with three interchangeable magnetic grips, allowing it to adapt in seconds for a customized fit,” Corsair says. Beyond the grip amenities, the Glaive RGB pairs a custom PMW3367 16,000 dpi (adjustable down to 100 dpi) optical sensor with six programmable

A video by Youtuber Thirty IR has been making the rounds (thanks, Kotaku ) showing Geralt gallivanting at 8K, which Youtube apparently supports at 60 frames per second! Even if you don’t have an 8K monitor (hell, we don’t) you can still enjoy a ludicrously downsampled video on your monitor. The 7680×4320 video is the result of four GTX Titan Xps in SLI pushing 33 million pixels. That’s four times as many pixels as 4K, which is still out of reach of most PC gaming hardware. Thirty IR recommends w

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds 2017 Charity Invitational gets underway at 10 am PT/1 pm ET today, with 64 streamers from the European Union kicking things off, followed by North American streamers throwing down at 2 pm PT/5 pm ET. Want to watch? Each region will play three matches, with victory going to players with “the highest overall placement from all three rounds.” The whole thing is being streamed live on Twitch, with donations (it’s a “Charity Invitational,” remember) going to support Game

250 years of post-civilised society living has left the Commonwealth in a bit of a mess, which is where GenghisKhanX’s Trash Collection mod comes into play. “You can download mods that remove those trash piles for you, or let you scrap them in the workshop,” GenghisKhanX tells me. I in turn ask if he plans to eradicate Fallout 4’s Commonwealth of every single one of its trash piles. “There are over 30,000 trash piles affected by this mod,” he says, “so I’m going to go with no. GenghisKhanX’s Tra

Virtual reality has been in a perpetual state of being promising for years and years now. And so while there are lots of good VR games out there now, we can’t help but imagine what the VR games of tomorrow will be like. Arktika.1Release date: 2017 | Works with: Oculus Touch | Website: 4a-games.com.mtCover shooters are a common use of VR so far, but Arktika.1 is especially exciting because it comes from Metro developers 4A. ), so we’re naturally excited for Bridge Crew and the kinds of VR games i

If you’ve been following our run of PC Gamer Weekender videos of late, you might have spotted Creative Assembly’s Oli Smith chatting about Halo Wars 2 live from the Dev Stage. There, Smith spoke about the sci-fi fantasy RTS’ mechanics and HUD, and the pros and cons of playing with mouse and keyboard versus doing so with a gamepad among a number of other things. During the show, Chris invited Smith to the Studio, where the latter explored Halo Wars 2’s place in the strategy genre and how despite

Next month we’re bringing back the PC Gaming Show, our E3 showcase of some of the most exciting upcoming games and hardware. We’re broadcasting the PC Gaming Show on Monday, June 12 at 10 AM PT. I’m glad to mention that we’ve teamed up with Intel to make this year’s PC Gaming Show our best one yet. Also supporting the event will be Bohemia Interactive, Tripwire Interactive, Cygames, and Nexon. Joining these folks on stage will be our returning host, Sean “Day9” Plott, the ever-likable StarCrafts

It was supposed to be routine—sneak into the Camp Omega detention centre, locate the prisoners, extract them, and bail. It’s at this point that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes—like every other Metal Gear game before it—encourages you to lay low. This all-chaos approach is of course possible within Ground Zeroes’ non-modded state. This is especially true when Snake enters the game’s boiler room area and CQC makes way for point-blank shotgunning. Tactical espionage operations it ain’t, but there

Over the past few weeks, we’ve learned quite a lot about DICE and EA’s second bite of the Battlefront cherry. As Sam details in this month’s cover story, that last part is interesting because Star Wars Battlefront 2 features a huge single-player element. Join him as he explores the latest jaunt into the galaxy far, far away to learn if expansive solo play can transform the 2015 original. Elsewhere inside, Hannah Dwan enrols in a long-serving Jedi Academy roleplaying server that’s still active ov

Bossa Studios—the team behind Surgeon Simulator, I Am Bread and the in-development Worlds Adrift—is hard at work on its next game Decksplash, a skateboarding sim that echoes Splatoon. Said to also draw from the likes of Jet Set Radio, OlliOlli, Rocket League, Tony Hawk’s, Sunset Overdrive and Crazy Taxi—Decksplash is now gearing up for its first alpha playtest, and Bossa wants the PC Gamer readership to get in on the action. With 1000 invites up for grabs, all that’s required of you is to follow

Steam players are also required to sign up for a Black Desert Online account, however patches and updates will be accessed via the Steam client. “Black Desert Online is frequently updated with free expansions and evolving content.” While Black Desert Online operates a tiered package payment system, it’s unclear at this stage how much the game will cost when it appears on Steam. If you’ve ever fancied Black Desert Online but have been put off by committing to a new MMO—why not have a gander at St

Dare I say, it might be time to bench Reinhardt and take Winston out for a spin in most situations—even on defense! Let’s take a look at some examples of this from OGN Apex Season 3, and what you can learn from two of the best teams in the world. The best defense is a good offenseWhen you’re defending a point, it’s natural to consider what composition will give you the best wall. High level teams are not winning in spite of fielding a Winston, they’re winning because Winston fits the current met

Under circumstances where it’s not straightforward, the giver can turn into a beast or, in worst case scenarios, start burning down buildings. Valve presumably doesn’t want its users to turn into beasts or start burning down buildings, so the company has made some changes to how gifting works on Steam. When there is a large difference in pricing between countries, gifting won’t be available and you’ll know before purchase.” Meanwhile, if someone declines your gift for whatever reason it won’t ju