As you might’ve spied back in January, Deep Silver and Codemasters are working on a new Micro Machines game, named Micro Machines World Series. In a nod to the original 1991 series starter, this one features familiar frantic races atop kitchen tables, school desks and, as a result of a partnership with Hasbro, Hungry Hungry Hippos board games. Observe:Across 15 battle arenas, players can race or engage in Battle Modes—in co-op or deathmatch—with up to 12 players at a time. 12 customisable vehicl

Code Vein was first teased last week with no name and the tagline ‘Prepare to Dine,’ which obviously recalls Dark Souls. That series is over, and as we learned from Famitsu earlier this week, Code Vein is a brand new action RPG. Today, Bandai Namco has released the first screenshots of Code Vein along with details which mostly mirror what we already learned from Famitsu. The press release declares that Code Vein is being developed by Bandai Namco Studios and will “release on major home consoles

Overwatch’s latest patch introduced a change to how ties are determined in competitive matches on Assault (two capture point) and Hybrid (Assault/Escort). This meant that Team B would be required to keep a person on the point at all times, in order to prevent a stealthy back-capture by Sombra or some other nimble hero. Team B then attacks, but they can only gain 20%. Team B attacks, and only gains 40%. Team B attacks the second objective on Hanamura, and captures it in overtime with 0:00 left.

League of Legends’ Twitch directory page just got an unexpected upgrade. Starting today , you’ll be able to sort all live League of Legends streamers on Twitch by their in-game rank, and even filter them to only see streamers currently playing specific champions you’d like to watch. It would also be interesting to filter a game like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds by how many players are left in each streamer’s current match. The system for League of Legends is all automated as well, with a stream

The Terraria 1.3.5 update, with support for 4K graphics, interface scale and zoom sliders, new language localizations, and a good number of bug fixes, is now live. Developer Re-Logic said the update isn’t content-heavy, but “will provide a solid foundation from which we can execute our other secret Terraria update plans—and we are pretty sure you will find those exciting!” For non-English-speaking players, the “professional localizations” are probably pretty nice too: The game now supports Russi

On top of all that, Lord de Seis can heal himself with the Bestow spell. “Diablo is almost a joke in comparison, but do watch out for his Lightning Snake.” [“Edge” is a three-part Runeword that works in three-socket bows, granting a level 15 Thorns aura when equipped.] “Without the level 15 Thorns provided by Edge, it would be wholly impractical (if not impossible) to continue. Nice work, DrCliche, even though I suspect PETA probably still won’t support this particular brand of pacifism.

(Image: © Matthew Jackson via Flickr)Audio company Bose is accused of using an app to collect and track the listening habits of its wireless headphone customers, and then selling that data to third parties without permission. In his lawsuit, Zak said he purchased a set of Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones for $350 and then followed Bose’s suggestion to download its app. Zak said he was surprised to learn that Bose had sent “all available media information” from his smartphone to third parties. Whi

Orcs Must Die! Orcs Must Die! Unchained features the “classic” gameplay of the original Orcs Must Die!, plus a three-player co-op Survival mode and an all-new three-on-three mode called Sabotage. A full breakdown of the changes that have come about in the full release version of Orcs Must Die! A trailer showcasing the new Sabotage mode can be seen below.

More Warhammer influence, less Total War holdoverLook, I know ‘Total War’ is in the name, and Warhammer 2 is designed to interlock with the first game like a mega expansion. I don’t know Warhammer lore well at all, but I feel like there are tons of things, big and small, that could make a future Total War: Warhammer feel more unique, keeping the core combat Total War does so well and building cooler, weirder systems around that. — WesRework the Agent system to be less roteWhen I first started pl

An 18-year-old student from Romania turned quite a few heads last month when he released a very early version of PC Building Simulator, a game he developed that focuses on building a computer from scratch. Now it has a better shot of living up to its potential, as it’s been picked up by The Irregular Corporation, the newly formed London-based publisher behind the sailing sim Sailaway. PC Building Simulator was conceived and built by Claudiu Kiss, a student by day and an independent developer whe

The latest of Bethesda’s Quake Champions has been revealed as Galena, an “Unholy Paladin” and hard-hitting healer trained from early childhood by the Celebrants of Volkerh that “blood is judgment and penance is sacrifice.” The fiction behind the characters in Quake Champions doesn’t have a whole lot of actual impact on the game—this isn’t an RPG, you know—but Galena does bring a couple of neat tricks to the party. Her Unholy Totem, as seen in the trailer, is basically a land mine that can turn e

Standing on the wing of a plane as it takes off is no longer an option. It’s a little harder than it was in Battlefield 3 and 4, because in BF1 you can’t just toss explosives onto a motorcycle and have them stick. Instead, you have to stack a bunch of mines onto a breakable object, such as wooden boxes, and then drive through it. If the mines stick, your wheeled bomb is ready to go. Now we wait and see how long it takes for DICE to patch out this powerful new anti-tank weapon, if it does.

It seems that LG is trying to unload inventory of its 29-inch ultrawide 29UM58-P, or at least its retail partners are. LG’s 29UM58-P offers up a 2560×1080 resolution at 75Hz. This one uses a 6-bit IPS panel with Frame Rate Control, which LG advertises as 8-bit. Frame Rate Control is a temporal dithering technique that cycles between different color shades with each new frame to simulate an intermediate shade. You can purchase the LG 29UM58-P here.

Buy slaves, train them, equip them, keep them stuffed with food and water, then send them out into the fighting pits to do battle with other AI controlled gladiators. There are also bonuses you can earn (in the form of cards) that get applied to your entire roster. Sword in hand, the nearly-naked Junius goes to work, and somehow quickly cuts down the other gladiator for the win. My next match ends in a single, two-handed sword swipe from the opposing team. Domina is a lot of fun and I’m really e

AOC has a new monitor available that will appeal to anyone who is looking for a gigantic 4K display to plop on their desk, though it is a bit short on gaming amenities. The new C4008VU8 is a curved monitor with a 3840×2160 resolution at 60Hz. That is where having a true 10-bit panel can help, and the high color gamut is a selling point, too. For gamers, there is less for AOC to brag about, though the C4008VU8 offers a rated 5ms response time. The C4008VU8 is available now with an MSRP of $900, t

Watch live on Twitch right here! Every Wednesday at 1 PM Pacific we broadcast The PC G am er Show live on Twitch. This week we’ll be talking about all the new info on Star Wars: Battlefront 2, StarCraft 1’s switch to being free, and lots more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! Watch along today on Twitch , and toss us some feedback on Twitter or here in the comments! You can also listen to last week’s episode right here .

So if you’re not too keen on companies scooping up your data, there are some things you can do to protect your privacy. When you’re using a third party VPN provider, you’re offloading trust from your ISP and placing it onto your VPN provider. To use Tor, you’ll need the Tor browser, which is basically a modified version of Firefox. Instead of selling you live sex shows, today’s malware aims to read your browsing data and resell it to third parties. For some, going full-bore with a VPN, Tor, and

Chinese gaming company Tencent isn’t as well known in North America as it is in, say, China. So it seems it will support both Chinese and Global users. But if it does make a meaningful move to broaden its reach with WeGame, it could have a huge impact. This Gamaustra blog post demonstrates how the Chinese market is both massive and, from the perspective of Western developers, largely untapped. That, coupled with its significant reach advantage over Steam in China, means Tencent could quickly app

You might be kicking yourself if you recently purchased a Radeon RX 470 or 480 graphics card, only to have AMD refresh its Polaris lineup with new Radeon RX 570 and 580 cards. And secondly, some users are reporting success flashing their RX 470 and 480 cards into RX 570 and 580 parts. Over at TechPowerUp, forum user TonybonJoby download the BIOS from a Sapphire RX 580 Limited Edition card clocked at 1,411MHz (boost) and flashed his XFX Radeon RX 480 card with it using ATIFlash. He now has a card

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 succumbs to Memoranda and its nod to classic adventure games. The remastering of old games is a popular trend which shows little sign of slowing down. And then Christmas came, then new year, then some big post-holiday releases and poor Memoranda completely dropped off my radar. It’s never unfair—you’re almost always overlooking something right in front of your nose