It’s Borderlands 3’s new hub—a safe zone where players can chat with NPCs, shop, pick up quests and test weapons. And I’ve gotta be honest, when I saw Pandora out the window, it felt really nostalgic.” I’ve always enjoyed the Borderlands series because of its tone, style and ridiculous loot, but pure combat has always felt simply functional. “And so yeah, better guns, systems feel better, and we have a lot of quality of life changes with the sliding and mantling.” Bigger and betterThe one main q

That’s the conundrum Digital Extremes was facing when it first conceived of ship-to-ship space combat almost ten years ago—a problem it finally managed to solve in Warframe’s upcoming Empyrean update. But the physics calculations necessary to have ships that players can walk around in that are also pitching and yawing through 3D space are extremely complex and demanding. The trick is apparently so clever, even some of Digital Extremes’ own programmers were confused by it. From the demo, it’s imp

Marvel’s Avengers, Crystal Dynamics’ third-person action game, was only shown off behind closed doors during E3, leaving everyone else with an utterly forgettable cinematic instead. The first public gameplay reveal is coming soon, however, though the definition of ‘public’ is being stretched a little bit. At San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel is hosting a games panel that will show off footage from Marvel’s Avengers along with the announcement of new details. “Join Shaun Escayg, creative director at Cr

This month, developers told players to pirate games instead of using the platform, and a petition was set up demanding that it stop selling indie games entirely. On its website, G2A has announced what it claims is a solution: a key-blocking tool for developers to use. This tool will allow registered devs to list keys they don’t want sold on G2A. And even then, it adds that they only “represent a very small fraction of all the keys sold on the marketplace”. G2A does acknowledge this is not a solu

SCUM, the multiplayer survival sandbox, takes archery very seriously. Sure, the latest development video describes an arrow as looking like a “big pink dildo”, but the level of detail in its archery system honestly seems astounding. Depending on your bow, you’ll need to change where you’re aiming, and you might be more likely to break your string. Just like real life, however, archery in SCUM requires a bit of skill. Thankfully the archery skill is easier to learn in-game, but you’ll also want t

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Interestingly, Valve doesn’t give the model explicit information about games, but instead lets the machine learn about them during the initial training process. That includes things like tags and review scores: Users can filter their recommendation results with tags, but tags are not part of the underlying model. “We designed the recommender to be driven by what players do, not by extrinsic elements like tags or reviews,” Valve wrote. “We view this new Interactive Recommender as one discovery el

The Bard’s Tale 4: Barrows Deep was one of my favorite games from 2018, and I wrote a glowing review to prove it. In August it will get even better as The Bard’s Tale 4 Director’s Cut, which was announced in February, will go live. The Director’s Cut “directly addresses feedback received from the game’s initial launch with thousands of fixes and tweaks included,” developer inXile Entertainment said. The Bard’s Tale 4 Director’s Cut is available for pre-purchase on Steam, and will also be coming

There have been plenty of contenders for Diablo’s throne as king of the action-RPG, but Torchlight is a favorite of mine. Made by Runic Games, headed up by a bunch of ex-Diablo developers, it’s a cheerful singleplayer throwback with some of the best pets in videogames. Torchlight is free on the Epic Games Store right now, and will be until July 18. Their next free indie giveaway after that will be Limbo, Playdead’s 2010 platformer from the era when it seemed like every second indie game was abou

(Image credit: OverclockersUK)Maybe we should track the best gaming desks like we do for gaming chairs and everything else. “Most of our flagship systems are hefty beasts, swallowing up the space on your desk because they rarely fit under it—nor, really, would you want to hide such stunning bits of kit under a desk,” OverclockersUK systems manager Scott Bentley told Intel. The best way to build a high performance, hero PC without taking up a load of space on the desk? “The final design includes

The Corsair Hydro Series H75 Liquid Cooler is just $84.99 right now at Newegg, which is $10 cheaper than its regular price of $94.99. Then, with a $10 rebate card you must redeem by way of Newegg, you can get the price down to $74.99. The sale is going on for two more days, so you’ll have to hurry up if you want to snag one. This particular model uses just one 120mm radiator and a pair of fans as well as the latest generation of head units to offer near-silent performance and reliable cooling. I

Capcom has released a new developer diary video diving into the upcoming Monster Hunter: World expansion Iceborne. The video touches on a number of additions and changes coming in the update, most important among them a new and improved Gathering Hub, Seliana. Seliana is a “home base that provides a sense of warmth” by adding a hot spring to the cold world of Hoarfrost Reach that also serves as a new Gathering Hub. Iceborne will also incorporate new Squad functionality, with Squad Cards and Sub-

The very good 4X strategy game Age of Wonders 3 went free for a brief period a couple of months ago in the Humble Store Spring Sale. I have good news if your answer is no: It’s free again, this time directly from Steam. To mark the upcoming release of the next Age of Wonders game, Planetfall, which—as rumored in February—will be out on August 6. Age of Wonders 3 is free on Steam until July 15. Age of Wonders: Planetfall is available for pre-purchase for $50/£42/€50.

(Image credit: Taleworlds)The Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord multiplayer closed beta finally got underway a couple of weeks ago, and today developer Taleworlds decided to talk a bit about what’s going on. A new update posted to Steam digs into the details of the game’s multiplayer class system, which enables players to gear up in preset infantry, ranged, or cavalry-based loadouts before spawning. Players will use points to select their class, which is essentially a reworked (and renamed) version

Luca Redwood makes puzzle games. Quite good ones, if the reception of You Must Build a Boat and 10,000,000 are anything to go by. His new game, Photographs, is a narrative puzzle adventure that uses adaptive tutorials. And sometimes we use examples, particularly in our puzzle games, where I like to put a solved puzzle on-screen next to an unsolved puzzle.” They’re an entire way of thinking built around the player’s introduction to the critical pieces of a game.

This year has seen many exciting developments in the mobile phone market—making it even harder to decide on a carrier for the device most of us can’t live without, which is why PC Gamer is launching its latest survey on who’s hot right now. We want you to let us know which carrier you’re rooting for in 2019, what you’d most like from your operator and the things you’re really looking forward to reading about in the next 12 months. Amazon Prime Day deals: see all the best early offers right here.

finally got the ivy painting tool into a usable state, it feels kinda magic… but still need to optimize it, will probably release it for free tomorrow pic.twitter.com/brEVktIdcKJuly 1, 2019There are plenty of tools to help game developers create environmental objects, like SpeedTree, which has famously been used to help make the trees in everything from The Witcher 3 to Assassin’s Creed Origins. Game designer Robert Yang has just released a new open-source tool that can help developers create

Double Fine has published its post-E3 Fig backer update for Psychonauts 2, clarifying some of last month’s announcements. At E3, you probably heard that the studio had been acquired by Microsoft and will be published by the behemoth instead of Starbreeze. Double Fine mentioned the delay around E3, but it seems to have been lost under the avalanche of news and reveals. Watch the update video below for some E3 behind the scenes footage. 2020 is going to be a pretty busy year, it seems, not giving

Earlier this year, Furi developer The Game Bakers announced Haven, an RPG about lovers on a lost planet. Today the studio revealed a little more about what’s coming, including the first-ever gameplay trailer and a rundown of basic gameplay. “Haven is a story-rich adventure, with touching characters with whom you fall in love as you follow them through their challenges and everyday life. Haven is a solo game at its core, but at any time, a second player can jump in locally. “The story is told thr