It’s time to party like it’s 2010, because League of Legends is getting not one but two new champions in one release. Rakan the Charmer and Xayah the Rebel are two lovers from the new region of Vastaya. Fey Feathers: Rakan will occasionally get a shield that scales with AP. Finally, Rakan and Xayah are a really excellent take on the concept of a dual champion. Xayah and Rakan work well together, have unique, built-in synergy, and can even take advantage of their shared recall for some speedy esc

Noah, aka Entropy-SoldierWith this sentiment in mind, GoldenEye: Source soldiered on and spent the next several years growing and refining the GoldenEye experience. Whereas other prominent shooters operate automatic health regeneration mechanics, for example, GoldenEye: Source instead still relies on armour. With this in mind, GoldenEye: Source is an archetypal labour of love, and a perfect example of hobbyist modders working with and for its community. Yet despite its most influx of players, th

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. From the intro to the dying moments of the main quest, the Imperial City dominates Oblivion, and it’s little wonder. It’s woefully underpopulated, something especially noticeable now, more than ten years after Oblivion’s release. The emptiness risks being jarring, but I find it conspires with everything else to lend the city a restful, even fading feel. With a few lockpicks a

I finished Mass Effect: Andromeda last night—the main story, that is, because I will never hundred-percent those wasted planets—and felt the opposite of what I’ve been feeling for nearly 10 years now. Start the whole thing over, because this canvas was primed with bad paint: a science fiction story that runs away from all its interesting science fiction ideas. If you watched all the dad fragments, you know the truth: the Reapers were the motivation for the Andromeda Initiative. If you believe Li

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hasn’t been in Early Access for long—not even two weeks, in fact. Optimization, optimizationJust as Battlegrounds entered Early Access, Bluehole released a roadmap of the progress they hoped to make with the battle royale shooter. I think the game runs pretty darn well for a fresh Early Access title, but I’m looking forward to seeing the optimization dialed in over the coming months. So it can feel a bit unfair in that respect, and in a competitive game like Battleg

While the i5-7600K is our pick for the overall best gaming processor, it’s not perfect. Choosing the best high-end processor, albeit with an eye toward gaming, ends up being one of the more difficult tasks. Besides gaming tests—because really, no PC is going to be purely for gaming—we also ran general system and processor performance. The Intel Core i5-7600K is our overall pick for the best gaming processor, see above. It earns our pick as the best budget gaming processor.

There are some stressful, scary, and occasionally sad moments in Firewatch, but between all that there’s hours of peaceful rambling across its gorgeous wilderness. Exploring the woods as Henry, using your map and compass to navigate, chatting with Delilah, is so relaxing that I wish there was more of it in the game. For a more authentic experience, disable the maker that shows you where you are on the map.

If Dark Souls 3 tried to close the loop on the series, The Ringed City attempts to erase it. All of time and space is converging towards a single point, a city created long before the events of the original Dark Souls. Level declineThe early environments are a literal descent through Dark Souls history, starting with imagery from Dark Souls 3, onto Dark Souls 2, and finally the original Dark Souls, before moving on to some completely new spaces. As slow and quiet as the environmental design is,

The PC Gamer GOG.com sale is now live, offering big discounts—up to 90%—on some of our favourite games. 67 percent off on GOGHer StoryBilled as “a video game about a woman talking to the police”, Her Story is an innovative detective game with a twisting story. It’s probably the best FMV game ever, and one of the few successful attempts to create an interactive movie. There’s elements of Dark Souls, The Banner Saga and Zelda here, all wrapped up by Thunder Lotus Games’ beautiful animations. Thief

As we’ve done in years past , here’s our round-up of 2017’s April Fools’ Day gags. This April Fool’s day is a sad one indeed. Square Enix: Tactics AlexanderSquare Enix released this video a day before April Fool’s, which makes the fact that it’s a joke all the more cruel. It may be a joke, but we’d play another Tactics game in a heartbeat. When you’re done, lose a day of your life to what we must assume helped inspire this one: ClickHole’s ClickVentures.

A Hat in Time is still on track for release this year, although exactly when this year remains a mystery. I suspect it’ll be the 3D platformer to watch after Snake Pass and Yooka-Laylee have done their things, a feeling supported by the latest Kickstarter update, which reveals the setting of the game’s fourth chapter. Rather than the desert environment that developer Gears for Breakfast was planning on previously, the studio has instead settled on a setting high up in the clouds: a mountainous r

Back in 2010, on April Fool’s no less, Platinum Games’ ‘joke’ was the reveal of a sidescrolling, pixel art version of Bayonetta. At the time—as is the way with April Fool’s—many of us immediately wanted to play it, and then felt sad that it didn’t actually exist. Fast-forward to 2015, and a version of that game was made a reality, in the form of Platinum’s 404 Error page. Now, in the space year 2017, and again on April Fool’s, Sega has re-released the newly renamed 8-Bit Bayonetta on Steam. In t

If you want a build that’s easy to move and can still kick ass, a mini-ITX rig might be for you. That said, mini-ITX cases are often much tighter in terms of clearances and room for error. (Several mini-ITX cases can’t handle full-size video cards and power supplies)It’s worth noting that cable management is key to any mini-ITX build. Mini-ITX cases don’t offer a lot of place to stash your wiring mess, so make sure to cut down on cabling as much as you can. On a technical note, all case manufact

Users have reported bugs with task handling, memory support, FMA execute, storage support, and more. Getting back to the memory situation, Ryzen feels incredibly finicky on DDR4 memory. There’s no denying early Ryzen designs have the existing HEDT platform squarely in their sights. Ready for the early adopter enthusiastDoes that mean nobody should buy Ryzen motherboards right now? We haven’t been able to test every X370 board on the market (not even close), never mind the B350, A320, and X300 of

Update: The For Honor community has decided to call off the boycott following a Ubisoft livestream that took place this morning. Original story:Following months of turmoil within the For Honor community, players are rallying to boycott the game next week on April 3. The issues jbaayoun mentions have been a major complaint from the community since For Honor launched over a month ago. Other topics include the incredibly slow rate at which players earn steel, For Honor’s in-game currency. Despite U

And then there are those that intentionally flip one of Battlegrounds’ disused cars so they can turtle inside it. Earlier this week YouTuber Sir Lance and his partner stumbled into a pretty killer tactic to survive the chaos of the first 20 minutes. At one point, Sir Lance scores an amazing kill despite being upside down with his view obstructed by the long grass—one of the most badass things I’ve seen in Battlegrounds so far. Eventually Sir Lance and his pal are forced to abandon the vehicle as

Microids released a new Syberia 3 story trailer yesterday, offering a glimpse of Kate Walker’s strange journey to the sacred lands of the Youkol tribe. Today we’ve got something a little different: A sample of the Syberia 3 soundtrack, composed by award-winning videogame veteran Inon Zur, whose previous work includes Fallout 3, 4, and New Vegas, Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2, Eagle Flight, and—going back a little further—Syberia 2. The sampler includes three tracks: Kate and the Youkols,

The Titanfall 2 free weekend that EA announced last week is now underway. Running until April 3, the four-day trial will give players access to the game’s full multiplayer mode, as well as the Training Gauntlet and the single-player mission The Beacon. The trial coincides with the launch of the new Colony Reborn DLC, a reworking of the Colony map from the original Titanfall that also includes a new weapon, a new execution move, and various new cosmetic items. In keeping with EA’s promise from la

Hearthstone’s new expansion, Journey to Un’Goro, launches on April 6, 2017. The date was revealed today during a livestream this morning in which game director Ben Brode showed off the remaining cards in the set. Journey to Un’Goro brings a number of new features to Hearthstone. The set as a whole will contain 135 new cards, and its introduction also heralds the next Standard rotation. Be sure to check out our gallery of all the new cards, which is being updated right now.

Source: AGRcactus on YouTubeIn an expansion called The Ringed City, it makes sense that rings would be the best loot hidden about. Normally, you need to play New Game Plus to get +3 rings in Dark Souls 3, but in latest DLC, they’re hidden all over the place. Havel’s Ring +3This awesome equip load buff is hiding near the Ringed City Streets bonfire. Climb up, head right, and into the tower. Cloranthy Ring +3From the Ringed City Inner Wall bonfire, head down the elevator beyond the locked door.