Given the explosive growth of Marvel Comics into a Disney-owned multimedia colossus, it seems surprising to see a new Marvel vs. Capcom game. But here we are: Marvel and Capcom are set to do battle once again. Light punch, light kick, heavy kick, and then down and heavy punch becomes your go-to punish combo and sets up all the wild aerial stuff the MvC games are known for. Before all the hardcore start screaming about the game being dumbed down, fear not—the technical side of things comes from e

Call of Duty, Battlefield, StarCraft, Farming Simulator and Warhammer are but a few of the established videogames series that animal rights organisation PETA has complained about over the years. When it arrives, it’ll come minus Roger Jr—the boxing kangaroo who replaced his similarly disciplined reptilian family friend Alex from Tekken 5 onward. “There was a video of a man’s dog being headlocked by a kangaroo, and he punched it in the face. Despite the fact Roger Jr’s fighting macropod father Ro

Since arriving earlier this year, Halo Wars 2 has since introduced a free try-before-you-buy demo and has shown off Inferno—its “fierce and fiery” multiplayer leader DLC. At the PC Gamer Weekender, we invited Microsoft, 343 and Creative Assembly’s birds-eye-view RTS to the Dev Stage to learn more about its mechanics and HUD, the pros and cons of playing with mouse and keyboard versus doing so with a gamepad, and how best to utilise combos amid raging firefights, among a number of other things. O

Besides being one of the saddest games ever made, as well as one of the most difficult to define, Nier: Automata is beautiful. Much of this is down to concept artist Kazuma Koda who has now detailed the process of crafting the action role-player’s gorgeous amusement park locale. Koda then explains that he kicked off the process by screenshotting the setting as it appeared in a very early build of the game. “As long as you have the clear idea in your head,” says Koda, “this was a relatively easy

While not quite as comprehensive as its second Title Update, Ghost Recon Wildlands has launched its Title Update 3.5—an exclusive-to-PC patch that targets a number of bug fixes and introduces a key feature to its multiplayer. “Players can request for help now while in down state,” so says Ubisoft community manager Iker Azkarate in this forum post. Fixed an issue where the screen would flicker when exiting the vehicle while using the Tobii Eye tracking device. Fixed an issue where the game langua

Announced last November, Fireblade’s Abandon Ship instantly caught my interest with its self-proclaimed “FTL-meets-Sunless Sea in the golden age of sea” billing. The following short demos pre-alpha footage, however offers a convincing glimpse at some of the game’s combat features. Abandon Ship’s world is said to be “filled with conflict” which means while shuttling to and from quests and events you and your crew will lock horns with hostile ships on a regular basis. Between fires, flooded ships,

But when can we get our mitts on Sega and Relic’s incoming Warhammer-inspired RTS Dawn of War 3? According to this Steam community update, you’ll be able to storm the lost planet Acheron’s battlegrounds come 3pm BST/7am PST and everything else in between. With that in mind, the devs also posted this:After a cursory glance at the comments of that post, a few Steam users reckon there’s discrepancies with a few of those timeslots. While our previous Dawn of War 3 coverage is (obviously) top notch,

Overwatch esports has been electric over the last few months now that the meta is more focused on DPS. Sure, they had Soon and Nico on Tracer and Genji, but they also left AKM stay on as a third DPS. But his more traditional role is Ana, where several pro teams have commented on their difficulties in taking him out. If you find yourself doubting whether or not these tactics will work for your ladder team, you need to answer a couple of questions. Having strong supports is almost more important t

Sonic the Hedgehog, aka the 1990s video game mascot that just won’t die, is getting two new games this year, one of those being Sonic Forces. It looks like it’ll be decent too, judging by the above video and the fact that its format is pretty similar to 2011’s actually-pretty-good Sonic Generations. As you’ll see if you watch that video, there’s a lot of fairly traditional Sonic gameplay to be had in Forces, but kinda-on-rails 3D sections will feature too (gameplay from which you can see over he

Apparently a new holiday has been christened today, as Frontier Developments declared it Planet Coaster Cheat Day and took the opportunity to reveal some previously undiscovered cheats hidden in its theme park builder. Name a go-kart track in your park “Bollard” and you’ll be able to take direct control of a go-kart in first person. If you can avoid spinning out, you’ll rocket past the other racers in their pathetic, normal speed go-karts. Hopefully the modding community will find a way to make

Ark’s next patch, v257, was due at the end of April, but it’s been pushed back to May 3 both to give Studio Wildcard time to finish their work and so players can move any bases or structures they’ve built inside the dormant volcano. The volcano, see, is going to receive “an active remodeling” which I presume means a bunch of lava is going to start flowing. Any player-made structure within the highlighted borders (see image below) is toast, so grab the nearest Quetz and get packing. A small clien

Most of the recent trailers for Quake Champions have been Intense™, full of transhuman punks and edgy skaters. “Time weighs heavy on the Ruins of Sarnath and nature has taken hold, dripping verdant greens into the wreckage of this ancient temple,” so reads Bethesda and id Software’s official notes. “Now, untold ages after they rose from the inky blackness of the Dreamlands, the Ruins of Sarnath are a blood-soaked killing field where Champions from the waking world fight to the death.” This map f

My first run of Dark Souls 3 took over 40 hours. Meanwhile, the current world record speedrun for Dark Souls 3, including all bosses and both the DLC expansions, is 1 hour 24 minutes and 19 seconds. Yesterday, speedrunner Distortion2 broke the world record for an All Bosses run by nearly two minutes, pushing Nemz38 into second place . Whether you’ve finished Dark Souls 3 or don’t ever plan on playing it, the run is fascinating look at the elaborate smoke and mirrors of game design. Through such

Rokh, a survival crafting game set on Mars, is being created by an increasingly impressive list of developers, including two ex-Assassin’s Creed devs, Benjamin Charbit and Marc Albinet, who were later joined by Viktor Antonov, art director and conceptual artist for Half-Life 2 and visual design director for Dishonored. In addition to the new gameplay trailer you can see above, the date of Rokh’s arrival on Steam Early Access has been announced: May 16. We got a hands-on session with Rokh, and ta

“I’m still absolutely mesmerized this is incredible,” Bahriz wrote on Reddit. Understandably, Bahriz was upset. With HSAN 2, Bahriz understandably requires a lot of medical care. “We thought he was a troll…” wrote Adviko. While he is stunned by the community’s response, he also hints that things might’ve been taken out of proportion.

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. This week we’ll be talking about the freshly revealed Call of Duty WWII, Outlast 2, Introversion’s new game Scanner Sombre, Heroes of the Storm’s 2.0 update, and lots more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! This week’s topics:HotS 2.0 has launched, Conan: Exiles got dances, and Forza is getting loops. Call of Duty: WWII details have been revealed. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podcast RSS feedWat

ASUS ROG is back! ASUS, Intel and PC Gamer are uniting at Dreamhack Austin 2017 to bring you an epic weekend of gaming and prizes Friday April 28th – 30th. ROG’s booth (#350) at the Austin Convention Center will be front and center as you enter Dreamhack. Enjoy the free-to-play area where you can play games like Overwatch, CS:GO, Dishonored 2 and Witcher 3 on ROG gaming desktops and laptops. ROG Dreamhack 2017 Details:Date: Friday, April 28 – Sunday April 30Time: 10 AM – 6 PMLocation: ROG Booth

His eyes are vacant and frozen, the empty character shell loaded by the server while a player joins the game. Hearing a handgun rack, I turn and see the newly-spawned player join the game with a pistol in hand. The longer you spend looting, the greater your risk of running into another player who wants to take all your stuff. Aside from the glitches, my biggest worry about Tarkov is that it might be unnecessarily harsh—especially for new players. It has some serious design talent behind it, but

Call of Duty: WWII has been in development by Sledgehammer Games for three years, and releases on November 3, as is the nature of Call of Dutys. Daniels is from Texas, because every World War II story needs someone to say “You’re a long way from Texas, farmboy,” and CoD: WWII delivers on that front. Though I can nearly guarantee that someone in CoD: WWII will whisper to us about taking the one on the left, while they take the one on the right. But regarding the goal of presenting a more horrific

SteelSeries is a just a tad late to make the claim that its QcK Prism is the first RGB mouse pad, but it can (and does) boast that it’s the first dual-surface RGB dance floor for your rodent. SteelSeries says the QcK Prism is “built with purpose” that goes beyond the aesthetics of illumination and extends into the performance benefits of PC gaming. It delivers premium surface performance with brilliant lighting and zero mouse cable interference,” says Jason Christian, category manager for gaming