If you’ve been following Tokyo 42’s development, you may have already been impressed with its pretty criminal underworld, its penchant for murder and/or its flexible mission structure. If not, you should absolutely check out what’s going on in those links as SMAC Games and Mode 7’s open-world murder-stealth simulator is fast becoming one of our most anticipated games of 2017. At this year’s PC Gamer Weekender, Chris invited SMAC’s Maciek Strychalski and Sean Wright to talk us through what Tokyo

Launched in January of this year, Resident Evil 7 received widespread praise for recapturing the essence of the series, despite its somewhat contentious decision to switch from third to first-person view. Its Banned Footage DLC followed shortly after and another complimentary epilogue expansion, named Not A Hero, was promised to land in spring. That’s now been delayed as it’s currently “not good enough to meet [the] high expectations” set by the base game. No hard release date has been given in

If you’ve been looking for a water block from EK for Ryzen, you wouldn’t have found one prior to today. However, EK today announced its first ever AM4-based monoblock, which is tailor-made for the Asus ROG Crosshair VI Hero motherboard. The EK-FB Asus C6H RGB moboblock is an all-in-one (CPU and motherboard) liquid cooling solution for the ROG Crosshair VI Hero. It supports every Ryzen processor currently available and features an integrated 4-pin RGB LED strip that is compatible with Asus’ Aura

If you plan on playing Outlast 2 at any point in the future (and I think you should), then don’t watch this video. However, if you really don’t think you’ll play Outlast 2, then you might be interested to know that the ending, which we’ve captured in the video above, is absolutely bonkers. The final stretch of Outlast 2 features some scenes—a big one in particular—that are pretty extreme, even by horror game standards. You play as a journalist who sets out with his wife, who’s also a journalist,

I’m not a walking Star Trek encyclopedia (though I’m not a horrible captain either), so when I asked the experts in the office whether or not anyone would recognize Stefan Ulrich’s latest case mod I was surprised they found it funny. Wes explained that space shuttles in Star Trek are more often the source of a problem than the means of escaping one. It’s appropriate for a case mod, really, because as much as we all love a well-oiled PC, they can be fickle beasts. Dorky in-jokes aside, with this

With no regard for anyone but himself, this pint-sized PC player is looking up cheat codes for whatever game he happens to be playing, and as we all know, cheat codes are basically gateway drugs to a life of cyber crime. Or at least that’s the bat-shit crazy findings of new report by U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA). Less controversial is the finding that easy-to-follow online tutorials for remote access Trojans, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and malware in general opens the do

This is the questline that captured my heart and attention in the closed beta for The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind. Recapturing that Morrowind magicThe laziest MMORPGs think all you need for a quest is some reason to run out and kill or fetch a few things, but Morrowind shows Elder Scrolls Online in healthy maturity, mixing moving conversations like these with puzzles, pickpocketing, and the occasional pun. There’s a justice system in Elder Scrolls Online these days, but I can’t help but thin

HyperX today announced the U.S. availability of its first ever gaming mouse, the Pulsefire FPS that was first shown off at CES earlier this year. The Pulsefire FPS is priced at $50, which is $30 less than the DeathAdder Elite, our favorite gaming mouse. The Pulsefire FPS also features six buttons with Omron switches, each of which is rated for 20 million clicks. “HyperX is a great partner for over five years now and we are very happy to now game with the new Pulsefire FPS gaming mouse,” said Ioa

Intel today announced the retail availability of Optane memory, which the company claims can speed up load times for everything from web browsers to games. Intel said at the time that it was planning a multi-phase rollout of XPoint, with Optane memory being next in line. Optane memory is not a standalone storage solution—it works in conjunction with your storage drive and memory. Intel also maintains a list of Optane memory ready motherboards, some of which might require a BIOS update. In the me

What Remains of Edith Finch isn’t presented as a question, but if you watch the launch trailer above you’ll probably come away with a few. The adventure game from developer Giant Sparrow invites players to learn the stories of the Finch family in an effort to discover why Edith is only one currently alive. From the official site:”The gameplay and tone of the stories are as varied as the Finches themselves. The only constants are that each is played from a first-person perspective and that each s

Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan responded to a thread on the Battle.Net forums today saying at least three new standard maps would “likely” release sometime this year. “We currently have 3 maps in development,” Kaplan said in his response , “all past the initial playtesting phase that are ‘standard’ maps (Quick Play/Competitive). Kaplan continue by saying they “also have 3 non-standard maps in development (these won’t go in QP/Comp).” The non-standard maps could be variants like that as well

Although AMD’s Ryzen processors are dominating the headlines these days, some early growing pains have left some users taking another look at Kaby Lake. If you’re one of them, check out Gigabyte’s G1 Gaming 7 motherboard, which is on sale at Newegg. Today’s sale brings the price down to $150, or $130 after $20 mail-in-rebate. Gigabyte also says its board is ready for EKWB liquid cooling. You can grab the Gigabyte G1 Gaming 7 motherboard on sale here.

When I hit the Windows key and start typing, there’s one thing I want Microsoft’s help with: getting to my files as quickly as possible. Even when I put it in places search is definitely indexing, like the desktop, Windows 10’s search can’t find it. Now the really aggravating part: Windows search hasn’t always had these kinds of issues. *Sigh*For Windows search to find those files, I have to specifically filter it for ‘Photos.’ Maybe a future Windows update will wash my concerns away.

My strongest memories of Star Trek are from my dad watch it nearly every day before dinner. None of us know what we’re doing, and that’s the primary thrust of Star Trek: Bridge Crew. But I had the most fun in Star Trek: Bridge Crew when I’m scrambling to do my job, to mash indiscriminate buttons expecting a positive outcome. During my four hour session with Star Trek: Bridge Crew, there wasn’t any mind-bending discovery or unbounding optimism and no kissing (damn!). We’re not professional space

Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson’s renowned Fighting Fantasy game book series first launched its debut entry The Warlock of Firetop Mountain in 1982. Ian Livingstone Ian Livingstone CBE co-founded Games Workshop, co-created and co-authored the original Fighting Fantasy game book series and has worked in the videogames industry for over 30 years. PC Gamer: The original Fighting Fantasy book series is 35 years old this year. Those familiar with the original Fighting Fantasy series will undoubtedl

More than six years after it made a splash on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Bayonetta finally came to the PC earlier this month—and it was spectacularly good. Yet a very small update to the game that quietly went live earlier today would seem to indicate that Platinum Games’ Bayonetta follow-up Vanquish is also on the way: A Vanquish avatar has been added to the avatars in the game’s “Extras” folder. Vanquish is a third-person shooter originally released in 2010, again exclusively on the conso

After developing Prison Architect for six years, three of which were in Early Access, developer Introversion Software’s next game is getting a much quicker turnaround. In fact, the first-person exploration game called Scanner Sombre will be coming out this Wednesday, April 26. No Early Access, no beta, just a full launch later this week for what Introversion’s lead designer Chris Delay tells us is a “palate cleanser” after Prison Architect. Scanner Sombre uses a unique visual mechanic that mimic

And one of them was Scanner Sombre, and the other one was a bomb defusal game called Wrong Wire, and I think we prototyped Scanner Sombre in about eight days. Scanner Sombre has suspenseful, almost horror-like moments, but it doesn’t feel like that’s really the point of the game—it doesn’t seem like that’s its genre. You mentioned the Wrong Wire prototype, which is actually available to play within the game, but what made you choose to do Scanner Sombre over it? And about three quarters of them

Over the last year or so former NFL linebacker Terry Crews has taken a shine to PC gaming. After building his own gaming PC, the actor was rumoured to be in-line for a role in Overwatch—to the point where he even held a mock audition for the shooter’s Doomfist hero. Courtesy of PC Tech YouTuber JayzTwoCents, Crews now has a very powerful PC packed with state of the art hardware and, of course, Old Spice. The colour scheme reflects his involvement with Old Spice, and there’s even an Old Spice rol

LKA’s chilling exploration narrative game The Town of Light came to PC last year, however is set to launch an enhanced edition in-line with its console debut later this year. In a three-part series of interviews sent exclusively to PC Gamer, the developer’s artist and environmental artist Lorenzo Conticelli explains how he and his team designed the game’s asylum setting—a recreation of the real-life Volterra in Italy—and how it tells its fictional tale against the horrifying truth and history of