The Cinderella story would see its end in the Grand Finals rematch against Lunatic-Hai, but RunAway’s winning streak had already stolen the show. If you’re only reacting to what’s happening instead of making an effort to read the opposition and communicate, you’re going to have to work a lot harder than necessary. Never hold onto ultimates when you’re fighting for a point unless your team is telling you otherwise. When fighting in an open area, you need to be aware of how the other team has been

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. We’ll be talking about Overwatch’s newest PvE mode, looking at Bayonetta’s PC port, telling stories from EVE Fanfest, and more—including our usual Twitch chat Q&A! Bayonetta is suddenly on PC, and Wes talks Japan Week on PC Gamer. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podcast RSS feedW

Monster Hunter 4U and Monster Hunter Generations, for example, don’t have the Qurupeco (thank god). A Monster Hunter game on PC could ostensibly become the definitive Monster Hunter experience that fans have always wanted. A Monster Hunter game on PC could ostensibly become the definitive Monster Hunter experience that fans have always wanted. While I’m not opposed to giving the free-to-play version of Monster Hunter a chance, it also represents Monster Hunter at its most basic and exploitable.

So how is it that Valkyria Chronicles , a fantastic strategy JRPG set in an alternate reality World War 2, manages to recognize and address head-on the horrors of the Holocaust better than pretty much any Western war game? Valkyria Chronicles gives you command of a militia squad in the fictional Eastern European country of Gallia in 1935. None of the Call of Duty games have addressed these issues in even a fraction of the way Valkyria Chronicles has. In this regard, an alternate reality JRPG is

Ohio Inspector General. Using stolen login credentials from one of the guards, the inmates were able to infiltrate the prison’s network. Had this gone on longer before being detected, one of the inmates would have also committed tax fraud by filing false tax forms and having the refunds wired to debit cards. Ohio Inspector General. In addition to committing identity theft and attempting tax fraud, some of the culprits used the PCs to watch porn, surf through Tor sites, chat on Pidgin, and look u

A huge number of Caverns decks are seeing play, and still being refined—I’m updating mine several times a day and getting progressively happier with it. How the Rogue Quest works The Caverns Below is a 1-mana legendary Rogue spell that starts in your opening hand. People swung on the quest from, “it’s a bad card,” to, “nerf this” in a matter of hours. First, it is worth noting that I don’t think the Caverns decks are overpowered, at least not in their current incarnations. That’s a fairly-common

ModDB, the popular modding site, saw 74 stand-alone RPG Maker games added to its database. Why, after more than 20 years, has RPG Maker recently seen such an explosion of popularity? RPG Maker’s mapmaking tools have come a long way since RPG Maker 2000. RPG Maker VX Ace, released in the west in 2012, was essentially an enhanced version of RPG Maker VX, incorporating a number of improvements that had kept its predecessor from reaching its full potential. Combined with its release on Steam—the fir

Photo credit: Riot GamesThe top four North American teams for the Spring Split of the LCS have been decided: Team SoloMid, Phoenix1, Cloud9, and FlyQuest. So what can we learn from the spring split so far, and what do they mean for the future of the LCS? Photo credit: Riot GamesFun games go a long wayAfter Worlds 2016, North America limped home to a livid crowd. Which leads us to our next point:Photo credit: Riot GamesWe love our legendsFlyQuest has all of the ingredients for a potent anger expl

Microsoft even understands this, as starting with Windows 8 it changed many menu items that said ‘properties’ to read ‘personalize.’ Guess what the Windows 10 Creators Update does? I like the detailed view, and I also like adding a few extra columns to the Details tab, but when you update Windows 10 it goes back to the standard condensed view. Or there’s the OS X way, which is to just trust Apple and it’s regular update cycle, plus the lacking game library. Okay, Windows 10 is way easier than DO

In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. It was the weapon mods that made me fall in love. I love how they can combine with some of the other weapon mods as part of a strategy for clearing out waves of monsters. There’s enough delineation between the weapon mods that I feel a certain level of attachment to my favourites—and I never get this invested in guns in other FPS games. It will take this sort of daft, unfeasibly complic

First released on PC way back in 2002, the French-developed Syberia series has gathered a quiet cult following over the years. At the end of the second game Walker discovers the island, and that was the last we saw of the Syberia series for thirteen years—until now, with the imminent release of a third game. Syberia 3 is an adventure game, meaning a creative solution to escaping this prison will be required. It feels like a Syberia game, but is a hell of a lot prettier and much more detailed. Bu

One of the big new features for gamers in the Creators Update is a new Game Mode. For whatever reason, that is not the case with Windows 10, or at least it wasn’t before the Creators Update arrived. Theme colors now support the full rainbowThe Creators Update gives users more granular control over the appearance of Windows 10. But with the Creators Update, Microsoft has moved all of Windows’ security features into the hub—calling it Windows Defender Security Center. Ads suck… but you can turn th

A trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront 2 appears to have leaked, and if you manage to watch it over here before it’s inevitably pulled down you’ll probably glean a few interesting facts from it. Chiefly – and as we’ve already learned – Battlefront 2 will have a single-player campaign. It appears that the woman featured at the beginning of the trailer, an Empire soldier, will figure heavily into it. Then the trailer offers a collage of lots of real wars happening. Oh, and if you pre-order you’ll ge

Overwatch’s latest seasonal event is underway, introducing balance changes, new skins, and a new four-player PvE brawl: Overwatch Uprising. Here’s some tips to get you started taking the city back from the omnics:Know the fightOverwatch Uprising is a bit more substantial than the previous PvE event, Junkenstein’s Revenge. This time around, players will fight across the entire King’s Row map, rather than simply defend a single point. The Uprising event can be played on four difficulty modes: Norm

More to the point, do you like going into space and blowing things up? If you answered “yes” to either of those questions (and particularly the second one), then perhaps you’d like to take a look at the new Humble Intergalactic Bundle, which offers up to seven games, for $1 to $15—plus a free copy of Galactic Civilizations 1 just for signing up. And finally, at the $15 price point (or more, if you really want to make it rain), you’ll get the excellent Galactic Civilizations 3 and Offworld Tradin

Beamdog’s re-releases of classic RPGs are contentious, and today’s Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition is no exception. What’s newIf you haven’t played one of the best RPGs of all time, though, there’s nothing to wait for. As for the compatibility and graphics update, I’m convinced the Enhanced Edition is worth it. So for me, Enhanced Edition is an opportunity to actually play the game versus looking at a flickering screen. Enhanced Edition runs at your desktop resolution—there are no in-game

It took a lot longer than expected for the turn-based sci-fi JRPG Cosmic Star Heroine to arrive. Cosmic Star Heroine follows the adventures of Alyssa L’Salle, who at one time was one of the top secret agents at the Agency of Peace & Intelligence on the Planet Araenu. Combat takes place directly on the map, rather than on a separate battle screen, with multi-character combo techniques and a turn-based combat system “that focuses on flow and strategy.” If you can’t tell, Cosmic Star Heroine has so

According to game director Jeff Kaplan, not that bad at all. “Smurfing—and I know this isn’t what you want to hear—isn’t really that big of an issue,” Kaplan wrote. “For example, a few weeks ago one of the Pro Overwatch players created a smurf account and was streaming from it. Kaplan also said he’s encountered situations where players believed someone was smurfing, when it actually wasn’t the case. Some guys are sandbaggers, but others are just really good and on their way up—or might even just

Ghost Recon Wildlands: Narco Road, the off-road-racin’, parachute-jumpin’, let’s-have-a-party expansion we first heard about back in March, will be out for season pass holders on April 18, and on April 25—at a cost of $15—for everyone else. The expansion will include more than 15 new campaign missions, plus four new types of side missions and “racing challenges” that will earn “fame and followers” for hard-driving superstars. You’ll need to impress them with your mad extreme skillz. Screens belo

With Microsoft’s Creators Update starting to roll out today (and previously if you upgraded manually), now is a good time to revisit ways you can disable ads in Windows 10. Start Menu AdsWhile you might not view the Lock Screen all that often, visiting the Start Menu is a different story. To disable ads from the Start Menu, type Start Settings in search or go to Windows Settings > Personalization > Start. Windows Ink AdsIf you’re using a 2-in-1 device or a Windows 10 tablet, the Windows Ink work