You’d be very hard pressed to find a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card selling for $200, at least by itself. But as part of a new bundle deal with HTC’s Vive headset, that’s what it works out to. HTC is bundling a GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition graphics card with its Vive headset for $999. Considering the Vive headset normally runs $799, it’s like paying $200 for the GTX 1070. We don’t know how many cards HTC has earmarked for this promotion, only that HTC says the offer is good while supplies l

Star Wars Battlefront 2 promises to be different from its predecessor in some significant ways. And from a more practical, real-world perspective, it may not have a season pass—although there’s a bit of confusion on that point. “We don’t have a season pass,” creative director Bernd Diemer told Mashable earlier this week. Despite the lack of detail, “We don’t have a season pass” is a pretty black-and-white position to take, and it sounds like whatever they do have cooking is fairly well-developed

It’s been 13 years since Microïds released Syberia 2—the second instalment of its flagship adventure series. Kate Walker’s third outing, Syberia 3, was first announced back in 2012, expected in 2014, and pushed back to December 2016. As these occasions are often celebrated, Syberia 3 now has a launch trailer. I see flaking paint, cracked tiles, and vines crawling up the walls, as well as a few intimidating looking orderlies.” Syberia 3 is due April 20 in Europe and April 25 in the US.

Twenty two years after it was first released, beloved point-and-click adventure Full Throttle has been given a second lease of life. I talked to Tim about his memories of making the game and the challenges of remastering it. We loved making Day of the Tentacle look like a classic Chuck Jones cartoon, but a lot of people thought it was too childish. And we found this folder of Full Throttle stuff, which you can see high-res scans of in the remaster. But in the world of Full Throttle, which is kin

Update: Last week, Bandai Namco surprised us with an animated trailer, said to be tied to a new project that boasted the tagline ‘Prepare to Dine’. According to Gematsu, the following are considered “key items”:Blood Veil —The Blood Veil is a Revenant-original piece of equipment that sucks up the blood of Losts. —The Blood Veil is a Revenant-original piece of equipment that sucks up the blood of Losts. Special Ability: “Tempered Blood”—An action that can be triggered after a successful blood suc

Today, Samuel laments the threat of constant death in The Flame in the Flood. The Flame in the Flood is broken into islands, each with a different icon indicating what you’ll find there: shelter, a place to refuel and so on. Unfortunately this gives Scout parasites, and her hunger bar starts deteriorating quickly. Unfortunately, this gives Scout parasites, and her hunger bar starts deteriorating quickly. Could The Flame in the Flood be the saddest game ever?

Team 17 and Mouldy Toof’s The Escapists 2 was revealed towards the end of last year, when it promised improved visuals over its forerunner and a host of new features—including multiplayer. Like its predecessor, the aim of the game here is to jailbreak with as little resistance as possible. New methods of doing so befall The Escapists 2—such as using knotted bed sheets as makeshift ladders to vault prison walls, and crafting new kit such as tasers to take out guards. And if you struggle to break

Last year, the Museum of London launched its Great Fire 1666 campaign—an educational project that uses Minecraft to reimagine the Great Fire of London, in-line with the disaster’s 350th anniversary. Split into three distinct time periods during the event, different Minecraft maps portray events pre-fire, during the fire, and the aftermath and rebuilding of London in the wake of the fire. “Three maps offer immersive experiences, allowing players to enter the City of London in 1666 and explore the

Announced in September 2016, Failbetter Games’ narrative-rich Sunless Skies is the indirect, same universe follow-up to the wonderful Sunless Sea—both of which loosely follow the timeline of the developer’s 2009 browser game Fallen London. In February this year, Sunless Skies ran a successful Kickstarter campaign which not only met its total inside four hours, but also accrued close to four times its original ask. At the PC Gamer Weekender 2017, Samuel invited some of the Failbetter team to the

Announced in late 2015, Full Throttle is the latest of LucasArts and Double Fine’s classic adventure games to receive a shiny HD remake. With repainted artwork and overhauled sound and music, the aptly named Full Throttle Remastered is out now and boasts a limited time discount should you be interested in snapping it up. If you’re new to the Full Throttle table, or have simply forgotten the ins and outs of the now 22-year old original, Tom sat down with the developer’s Greg Rice and Tim Schafer

Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy adaptation tries to make a game out of that very dynamic, but the dialogue is never as snappy and the acting is never as charming. Rather than build an interesting narrative-focused game around this cast of characters, Telltale has jammed that cast into a mold growing brittle from overuse. Rather than build an interesting narrative-focused game around this cast of characters, Telltale has jammed that cast into a mold growing brittle from overuse. By the end of

Minecraft is used for a lot of different things. It’s used to emulate entire programming languages, it’s used to train AI, and people even sometimes use it to enjoy themselves (via actually playing the game, is what I mean by that). Now there’s a new thing you can add to the list of Cools Things Minecraft Is Used For: designing sets for movies. The English director of Kill List and High Rise tweeted two images today showing the Minecraft build he used to plot out the film’s grimy warehouse setti

G2A declined, saying that its practices are already above-board in every way Gearbox wanted, and that was the end of that. But in a recent blog post, tinyBuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik offered his take on how a deal like that could come about. If a company I don’t know is amongst reputable speakers, there’s no reason for doubt in making a business deal with said marketplace,” he said. “This is how I believe a deal like we saw with Gearbox and G2A could come together.” “Game conferences are the face

I do like an innovative roguelike, and here’s one that’s set on a sort of balance beam. Your goal in “rolly roguelike” TumbleSeed is to ensure a little seed safely ascends a big mountain, while “avoiding holes and defeating corrupted creatures”. “Grow powerful with upgrades,” continues the Steam store page spiel, “meet new friends and master the art of rolling to reach the peak and save your home”. There are 5 worlds to wobble past on the procedurally generated mountain, along with a daily chall

Tom wasn’t too keen on Everspace when he played the newly minted early access version back in September of last year, so I’m hoping it’s been made a bit more exciting since then. An update this week has added functional cockpit displays, a “mysterious alien race” and other changes, as the roguelike-ish, sci-fi, VR-enabled starfighter shooter transitions to a full release next month. Everspace launches (for real) on May 26, and you can watch the latest trailer below. So what does version 0.7 add,

We reported on the Tony Hawk game documentary, Pretending I’m a Superman, when its crowdfunding campaign launched last month. Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Game Story looks to cover the entire game series’ history, from Hawk himself pitching the game to the ultimate rise and fall of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise. “Our plan was never to entirely rely on an Indiegogo campaign,” reads the statement, which was posted on Twitter. However, the documentary didn’t reach the full fundin

2015’s Star Wars Battlefront had the spectacle of the movies, but not a lot of meat beneath that, particularly at launch. It’s an effort by three EA studios of different disciplines—DICE (multiplayer), Criterion (vehicle design), and Motive (narrative)—to build the ultimate version of what Battlefront has always promised: a soldier’s perspective of cinematic Star Wars battles. There’s multiplayer support for up to 40 players this time, with brand new modes and maps set across different eras of t

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is coming to PC on November 17th 2017, the game’s official website confirms. A reveal trailer (above) was also shown at Star Wars Celebration and showed off the single-player mode and a handful of classic characters. The story features “many of Star Wars’ greatest characters” and spans 30 years. Missing from the first game, Star Wars Battlefront 2 will feature intergalactic dogfights with up to 24 players. We’ve learned a lot more about Star Wars Battlefront 2 from EA, an

The discussion revolved around the use of “gaming” as an adjective in the PC component space, and the oftentimes ridiculous design language that accompanies it. Thankfully, most case manufacturers have matured quite a bit over the last decade to spare new builders the horrors of PC gaming design’s darkest hours. Here’s a list of some of the ugliest PC gaming cases history has ever seen. NZXT GuardianNZXT has created some of our favorite PC cases over the years and has certainly developed a reput

The man walked through Grand Prairie in costume, complete with the full armour and New California Republic flag. Oh, and a bunch of silver-painted Pringles cans attached to his back, which is what police mistook for a bomb. Some of the photos are quite intense—I definitely recommend you go to the CBC website to check them out. One of CBC News’ photos appears to show officers smiling and laughing after the incident—and yes, they have big guns. Shawn Graham told CBC News that they “have to believe