Since the announcement of Darksiders 3 yesterday, there’s been more chatter about the series than ever before. Darksiders and its sequel are pretty decent overall, if the pitch of “heavy metal Zelda” sounds even vaguely appealing to you. And if it does you’re in luck, because both are currently very cheap on Steam. Together, the whole package is US$9.99, but the original is only $3.99 by itself, and the sequel only $5.99. The sequel got a decent wrap when it launched in 2012.

Microsoft’s Terry Myerson introduces Windows 10 S.On Tuesday Microsoft announced a new version of Windows 10, called Windows 10 S, that can only install and run applications through the Windows Store. In other words, it’s an extension of the Universal Windows Platform, which locks down access to software’s innards in the name of security. With the Windows Store in its current shape, Windows 10 S isn’t a good platform for anyone right now. And when the entire internet can be a viable store for Wi

“Earthshatter tended to climb unexpectedly high, frequently hitting targets that were significantly above the ground,” read the developer comments. “Soldier: 76 is in a much better place lately, but his damage output was making him a must pick, compared to similar roles,” Blizzard said. “To help Orisa maintain the front line for her team, we’re reducing the cooldown of her Protective Barrier,” Blizzard said. Blizzard says this is a quality-of-life change that will make wall climbing feel better.

For many Hearthstone players, particularly newer ones, deciding which legendary cards to craft with your hard-earned dust is a stressful experience. To help guide your crafting decisions, we asked a panel of experts to rank their top 20. #20: N’Zoth, the CorruptorThe only Old God to keep a spot on our list is N’Zoth. Very few legendaries in the history of Hearthstone have had as big an impact on people’s deck building decisions as this tentacled menace. #19: Fandral StaghelmFandral is perhaps th

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. This week we’ll be talking about the recently announced Darksiders 3, our predictions for E3, the best game music of the year so far, and lots more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! This week’s topicsStolen synthesizers and good news for hack-and-slashersWe talk about what we’ve been playing recentlyE3 i

Game Mode in theory works best when you don’t take such measures and simply let the OS handle the dirty work. To do this, open the Windows Game Bar (Win+G) with the game running, and check the “Use Game Mode for this game” box. Without Game Mode, the video plays without any serious issues, but turning on Game Mode causes stuttering and occasional long freezes in all the games I tested. By tweaking the resource allocation to favor games, Game Mode can prevent background tasks from using otherwise

There is also, thanks to a trademark dispute with Bethesda Softworks, a new name—it’s now called “Praey for the Gods.” Something like a trademark opposition can be long and depending on how far someone wants to fight it can be very expensive,” the studio explained. “We didn’t want to spend our precious Kickstarter funds, nor did we want to have to ask for additional funds to fight this in court. And as it turns out, Bethesda also opposed that implementation of the title, because it looks too muc

Beginning at 1 pm ET on May 4—that’s tomorrow!—and running until 4 pm ET on May 7, Ubisoft’s multiplayer third-person shooter The Division will be free to play for everyone, without limit or restriction. The current trial offer, which provides access to the game for six hours or until players reach level 8, will be put “on hiatus” over the weekend, and any progress made during the freebie will carry over into the full game if you decide to keep playing. It’s hard to argue with “free,” but will a

His latest curation project is a little bit bigger, a collection of 1000 games, gathered in a single Twitter thread. 1,000 gamemakers thread, 1 tweet at a time.#1 @q_dork: https://t.co/Mjj3WHDx8h pic.twitter.com/KROxdmsnGpMay 14, 2016PC Gamer: How did you get so involved with curating games? This is where my trajectory was altered and I became curious about freeware games. Personally, I just enjoy challenging myself, which means searching out the most obscure freeware games I can find. The games

We couldn’t do a demo on both the console and on the PC, we had to choose. And besides, PC has Steam,” Arkane co-creative director Raphael Colantonio told AusGamers. “Steam players can just return the game [prior to playing] two hours so it’s like a demo already.” A refund policy is a nice feature that encourages purchases, absolutely, but it’s no substitute for a proper demo, and it’s really kind of disingenuous to suggest otherwise. Colatonio reiterated his earlier comments that Prey is not a

The company is introducing two new power supply certifications, one for overall efficiency and another for noise levels. The efficiency and noise certifications are labeled as ETA and LAMDA, respectively. Cybenetics also takes into consideration power factor, vampire power (standby power), and the +5VSB rail’s efficiency when determining a final rating, “whereas these measurements are not even considered in other efficiency certification tests.” As of this time, to the best of our knowledge, the

Bethesda’s latest Quake Champions trailer actually showcases the original Quake champion, the super-solider named Ranger, who was sent through a “Slipgate” teleporter to confront and destroy a mysterious extra-dimensional enemy named “Quake.” Of course, “hope and humanity” won’t get you very far in a free-to-play arena of gib-ification, so it’s fortunate for Ranger than he brings a couple of other tricks to the table as well. If it’s deployed and then left alone, it will eventually explode, caus

One of them can be found at Newegg—the online retailer is selling Adata’s Ultimate SU800 1TB SSD for $240 with a promo code (EMCSRFRD2) that brings the price down to $226. That’s not the lowest price we’ve ever seen on a TB-class SSD, but it’s lower than we’ve seen in recent months. The 1TB Ultimate SU800 is a 2.5-inch drive with a SATA 6Gbps interface. There’s not much left to say on this one other than the warranty—Adata backs this drive for three years. You can grab the 1TB SSD on sale here.

In what qualifies as the best deal we’ve seen to date for a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card, Amazon today has on sale EVGA’s custom cooled and factory overclocked GeForce GTX 1070 SC Gaming ACX 3.0 Black Edition for just $336.35. To put this deal into perspective, the cheapest GTX 1070 on Newegg currently is Zotac’s GeForce GTX 1070 Mini, which is listed at $340. EVGA’s model is a few bucks cheaper, but also faster—it has a 1,594MHz base clock and 1,784MHz boost frequency. EVGA’s ACX 3.0 cooling

First, it brings all the bells and whistles that we’ve come to expect from an ROG Maximus product—especially one tagged as “Extreme.” Secondly, it features a built-in liquid cooling monoblock. Asus says its ROG division teamed up with Bitspower to build a brand new solution from the ground up. “The embedded flow meter sensor monitors the monoblock’s water-pump status in real time, while the temperature sensor monitors the temperature of both the water input and output ports. Asus says they’re st

Original story:Something very strange is afoot in the world of GTA Online. As reported by Kotaku, all the clerks in the game’s convenience and liquor stores have simply disappeared. Their absence is vexing for players whose daily missions include robbing a convenience store, but it’s even worse for new players, because no store clerks means the tutorial can’t be completed. It’s not clear how widespread the problems are, but reports of missing store clerks had appeared in the GTAV subreddit less

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. Today, Joe frantically applauds The Long Dark’s searching system while fending off head injuries from angry wolves. But before long, when you’re starving, dehydrated, injured, sick, freezing, or, as is often the case, all of the above, a single search can be the difference between life and death. During one venture into the icy wilderness, I’d become slightly over-encumbered

China recently passed a law requiring games which offer randomized loot for money—like Hearthstone’s card packs—to publish drop rates so that players know exactly how likely (or unlikely) they are to get rare items or cards. Yesterday, Dota 2’s publisher in China, Perfect World, published the drop rates for the rare items available in the Treasure of the Dota 2 Asia Championships 2017. That’s the only Treasure currently available to purchase in China as Valve and Perfect World have taken the oth

Low resolution adventure game scenery is a favourite subject of mine, and a field I’ve been working in for several years, and I regularly look to the adventure game art of the early 90s to study those graphics and see what makes them great. Simon the SorcererFew were better at intricate, detailed pixel art scenes than Adventure Soft, and this location is a testament to their attention to visual detail. The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of FateIt’s hard to deny that Westwood were masters of pixel art,

Prey’s long and winding road—from the announcement of Prey 2 in 2011, to its reworking, renaming and rebranding last year, and the multitude of trailers that have since followed suit—is almost complete. Due on Friday, May 5, Arkane’s incoming space station shooter now has a launch trailer. With that, there’s a typical amount of shooting, morphing, floating and running around the increasingly hectic Talos 1 space station as it becomes steadily overrun with Typhon aliens. “Some people will never u