GTA Online has picked up the slack with wild racetracks, remarkable co-op heists and a new adversary mode set in colourful Tron-esque cyberspace arenas. Up to four teams can compete across seven maps, and the team with the most scores the end of the round wins. The seven maps are linked on the Rockstar Games site if you want to bookmark them. To celebrate the launch of the new mode you learn double GTA$ and RP until Monday April 24. Land Grab is one of a bunch of modes coming to GTA Online this

Playtonic Games is a studio comprised of seven Banjo-Kazooie veterans and the masterminds of the recently launched ’90s-style platformer throwback Yooka-Laylee. In 2015, the team launched a Kickstarter for the latter—asking for £175,000 which it ascertained in just a few hours. By the end of the campaign it’d accrued well over £2 million. It’s a popular game, then, which is why we invited the Playtonic team to this year’s PC Gamer Weekender to talk us through the cutesy platformer’s development,

On May 18 the Cities: Skylines gets more syklines in the Mass Transit expansion. Monorails, cable-cars, ferries and blimps are included in the $12.99 / £9.99 pack, which also adds new types of landmarks, and roads, and massive transport hubs to link all these things together. The update also includes new scenarios that challenge you to solve traffic problems. “Become an expert in traffic flow,” says the blurb on the official Mass Transit update page, “use that knowledge to improve your city!” Ci

Image 1 of 3 Maddi’s Battle Princess Madelyn artwork. Image 2 of 3 Maddi’s Battle Princess Madelyn artwork. Image 3 of 3 Maddi’s Battle Princess Madelyn artwork. Of course Battle Princess Madelyn has now been funded with quite some change to spare. Battle Princess Madelyn is currently in development and is provisionally expected in February 2018.

This weekend’s schedule and stream can be found over on LoL Esports . League of Legends: 2017 NA LCS Spring SplitFlyQuest faced Counter Logic Gaming last weekend in the quarterfinals of the North American LCS. Meanwhile, CDEC Gaming had a great time against Wings Gaming and they swept them in a clean 2-0 victory. This weekend’s schedule and stream can be found over on the official Dota 2 StarLadder site. G2 Esports were crowned the champions back in season one when they managed to beat Luminosit

Respawn Entertainment has offered a little bit of a hint into its plans for the next few months of Titanfall 2, which between April and June will see the addition of two more “general” multiplayer maps, two new Live Fire maps, a new Titan, and a pair of new Prime Titans. More Pilot executions, matchmaking refinements, and camos, skins, and other buyables are also planned. Details are light—”We’ll let you folks speculate as to what else we could be working on,” Respawn said—but it looks like the

In Oikospiel, one of the most surreal, surprising games I’ve ever played, the 3D camera is a goddamn mess, but that’s the point. “He” refers to Donkey KochFurther, every visual component of the game is put together using Unity store assets. Developer David Kanaga even pointed out that one scene is actually mirrored in one of the worst PC games of all time . But even for those unfamiliar with the game industry, Oikospiel still works as a psychedelic videogame culture mashup. It’s a game about gam

Bohemia Interactive revealed today that the Arma 3: Jets DLC, which “will enhance the combined arms experience by adding three new air-superiority jets, an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV), a new Showcase scenario, and more,” will be released on May 16. And since jets aren’t much good without someplace to park them, Bohemia is also going to throw in an aircraft carrier, absolutely free. The carrier—designation CVN-83, USS Freedom—will be given to everyone who owns Arma 3 as part of the plat

Oculus VR came out on the wrong end of a lawsuit filed last year by ZeniMax Media, to the tune of $500 million—even though the jury found that it did not actually misappropriate ZeniMax technology. But as reported by UploadVR, it is now seeking a new trial, saying that “the verdict is against the great weight of the evidence, [and] the damages award is excessive.” The motion seeks a partial new trial for Oculus VR, as well as co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe, on the claim of false des

In that light, Bluehole should probably update their Steam forums rules, which makes no mention of deleting posts about cheaters. However, players wishing to report cheaters are directed to this post for instructions. As for today’s update, the full patch notes are below:Config Changes:Fixed configuration files (ini) so that it cannot be used to hide trees, grass, etc. Prevented adjusting the FOV by changing the game settings file (ini). FOV will be adjustable from the settings menu in-game in a

Jigaw puzzles shouldn’t leave you grinding your teeth and shaking with rage, I don’t think. And a good way to reduce stress when designing a puzzle is to ensure that pieces snap together. Alas, I have to begin with “Japanese Woman Seems, In My Opinion, A Little Too Pleased To Own An Umbrella.” Playing in complete quiet, the puzzle game is quite puzzle-like and doesn’t stress me out. Sorry, Japanese Gaming Week, I failed in my intended goal to make my way to the puzzle of a Japanese woman eating

Bullet Hell: A genre defined by enemy bullet patterns with few safe spaces. Traditional: There’s a communal debate about the exact term, but traditional refers to shmups styled like those prior to the advent of bullet hell. Touhou: Referring to a long standing series of Japanese PC shmups which stretch into additional media. Doujin shmup: Japanese hobbyist titles, a predecessor to the modern indie scene which still carries on today. “There’s a certain generation where their first encounter with

AMD this week announced its Ryzen 5 series of processors with fewer cores and lower prices than its Ryzen 7 lineup. Arguably the most intriguing one of the bunch is the Ryzen 5 1600X, a 6-core chip that is clocked the same as the Ryzen 7 1800X. Renowned overclocker “Der8auer” was able to crank a Ryzen 5 1600X to just over 5.9GHz (5,905.64MHz, to be exact). Der8auer was then able to run the chip at a base clockspeed of 129.79MHz with a 45.5X multiplier. While overclocked, Der8auer ran a few bench

Amplitude Studios announced today that the 4X strategy game Endless Space 2, which debuted on Steam Early Access in October, will go into full release on May 19. We dug into Endless Space 2 last fall ahead of its Early Access release, and it sounded like a really interesting take on the 4X genre. And if you haven’t got time for that, you can get a crash course in what it’s all about in this four-minute “first look” trailer. The final price for Endless Space 2 will be $40/£35/€40 for the standard

You might not even remember that Dell once announced a 30-inch 4K OLED display. A visit to Dell’s website shows the UltraSharp UP3017Q available to order for $3,500, with shipping to take place in 1-2 weeks. What you get for that sum is a big and beautiful OLED panel with a 3840×2160 resolution at 60Hz. The UltraSharp UP3017Q can reproduce 1.07 billion colors. On the ergonomics side, the panel’s stand support tilt (5 to 21 degrees), pivot (+90 to -90 degrees), and height (100mm) adjustments.

Among its lineup of graphics cards is the new GeForce GTX 1070 Katana, which to the best of our knowledge is the only single-slot, air-cooled GTX 1070 in the world. The GTX 1070 Katana measures just 16mm thick and uses what Galax calls a turbo radiator—a fancy name for a thin cooling solution. Galax built a custom PCB for this card. Not only does this air cooled card take up just a single slot, it’s also factory overclocked. Galax hasn’t said when this card will be available to purchase or for h

The value proposition is even better when an ASRock motherboard goes on sale, as is the case here. Over at Newegg, you can bring home an ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K4 mobo for just $80. The Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K4 can accommodate DDR4 at speeds 3,866MHz and higher (OC). This board uses high-end components, such as 12K platinum capacitors that ASRock claims are 20 percent more durable than other high-end motherboard caps, and extra large aluminum heatsinks. You can grab the Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming

Meet the teamAndy Kelly (Zeus) I’ve played a lot of Arma 3 and am well-versed in Zeus mode, particularly spawning sheep. I’ve got one last shot at revealing Tom: I’ve got to find Phil’s body. There’s a lot of things Arma does badly, including the handling of various non-military vehicles, but I won’t hold that against Bohemia. Andy: Zeus screwed this one up, but you try using an engine designed for military simulation to create a comedy sports day. Tom: I’m up first.

I didn’t feel a huge need to creep around, except when this electrified monstrosity one-shotted me. At one point, discovering a “homosapien” prisoner deep in the Psychotronics lab, I freed him in order to gain access to an armory. “I’m sure he wasn’t a good man, but… would you have done otherwise, given the opportunity?” Morgan didn’t answer and, frankly, neither did I. I didn’t get to fiddle with all of Prey’s most interesting abilities, but I also didn’t feel like I really needed to. I just di

This time next week Rick and Morty fans will be able to “probe, prod, throw, and smash iconic items like the Plumbus” in Owlchemy Labs’ Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality—a VR collaboration with Adult Swim Games. That’s due April 20, however if you’d rather take Rick Sanchez on an outlandish adventure before then, look no further than Jedidiah515 latest GTA 5 mod. The Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty) [Add-On] adds the nihilistic alcoholic genius scientist’s character model to the streets of Los San