They were pinched, and stored in the subterranean facility you find yourself exploring during Remnants. How else to explain the vibrant, possibly even forbidden colour palette of this gorgeous top-down adventure game? Instead, there are items to pick up and find a use for, adventure game-style, as you explore each level of this strange facility. You see the remnants of a world gone before, as you delve deeper, and deeper underground. For more great free experiences, check out our roundup of the

The latest This Week at Bungie update doesn’t reveal the name of Destiny 2’s next season, I’m sorry to say, but it does offer a look at some of the changes coming to weapons when it begins in March. Sniper rifles, grenade launchers, shotguns, fusion rifles, and auto rifles will all be tweaked to varying degrees in the new season. “The nature of the way Destiny is played tends to have Semi-Auto based weaponry be more effective in general and so we’re compensating for that with these tweaks,” Bung

There are a lot of Warhammer games out there, especially if you take Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K as one great lump of grimdark, as I generally do. There are shooters and strategy and space combat and even sports, but one thing we haven’t seen yet (as far as I know, anyway) is a flight sim. You can now consider that niche filled, courtesy of Dakka Squadron, announced today by developer Phosphor Games. (This is all legit WH40K lore, by the way: Flyboyz are a semi-outcast branch of the Ork

Kerbal Space Program has come a long way since its initial public release in 2011. A sequel was announced last year, being developed by a different studio, Star Theory Games, but that plan has now changed somewhat: Take-Two said today that development of Kerbal Space Program 2 has been taken over by a new studio founded under its boutique “indie” publishing label Private Division. A Private Division rep emphasized in a statement to VGC that the goal of the move is to ensure that developers are f

The Epic Games Store continues its free-wheeling ways today with a two-way giveaway of Faeria, a digital card game played on a “living board,” and the brother-and-sister murder sim Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. Still, it’s a full-on Assassin’s Creed game, and far from the worst of the bunch—and it’s free. It was also given a fairly hefty update for its launch on the Epic Games Store, appropriately entitled the Epic Update, with new features and upgrades including new PvP map rotations, in-game lea

Kings Canyon was the first, and during the first two seasons, only map in Apex Legends. It went through a number of changes over those seasons, but the start of season 3 brought a brand-new map to fight on called World’s Edge, and that was that for Kings Canyon. 😎Starting tomorrow through Feb 24, in addition to World’s Edge, Season 1 Kings Canyon will also be available to play. pic.twitter.com/OLDCegRrPXFebruary 20, 2020This won’t be the first time Kings Canyon has returned to Apex Legends—it wa

In addition to showing off a couple of prototype VR headsets, which I wrote about earlier, HTC also announced an expanded Vive Cosmos lineup today. There are three new models, including the Cosmos Elite, Cosmos XR, and Cosmos Play. HTC isn’t sharing pricing on anything but the Cosmos Elite, but did say the Cosmos XR will debut in the second quarter of this year. Here’s a handy breakdown, inspired by RoadToVR:Cosmos Elite ($899)—enthusiast, 2 base stations, SteamVR tracking, Vive wand controllers

Hot Coffee is an inaccessible minigame in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in which main character CJ has coffee with his girlfriend—except it’s not coffee, but sex. And so it is that Red Dead Redemption 2 now has a Hot Coffee minigame of its own. “The mod doesn’t contain any nudity or nude models, and only uses assets that are still in the game,” they said. Also, they mention ‘online services’, however this mod is only available for single-player.” For now, Hot Coffee for RDR2 remains available, a

Dark Souls 3 speedrunners picked up a similar trick for one of its DLC areas to bypass obstacles in the same way. “There was kind of a drama story happening in Dark Souls 1 where this skip specifically was faked by someone online. Another video narrowed his search area even further—showing off an attempted skip very similar to what would become Sen’s Gate Skip. The Sen’s Gate Skip in particular ended up cutting off about three minutes from speedruns in one of Dark Souls’ any% categories. These d

The monitor market is not exactly flooded with 35-inch gaming displays featuring 200Hz refresh rates and ultra-high brightness levels to do HDR content justice, but it did just grow by one today. We’ve known about this monitor for nearly a year, and it’s finally launching, with AOC saying the AG353UCG will be available in Europe this month for £2,159. The AG353UCG is a 35-inch monitor with a curved (1800R) VA screen. As with the PG35VQ, AOC’s model is a G-Sync Ultimate model capable of hitting a

One thing most of today’s VR headsets have in common is they are relatively large and somewhat boxy. I don’t expect that to change anytime soon, though it does look like HTC is aiming for something a bit more stylish with Project Proton. From the vantage point of HTC CEO Yves Maitre, the prototype headsets look “really, really close to normal glasses.” However, the renders shared by HTC do look like googles, and are distinctly different in appearance than headsets like the Vive. While most of th

Despite being more than five years old, Dying Light just keeps on getting updates. The latest introduces a whole new difficulty setting for free runners who prefer to focus on the game’s story. Story Mode makes the undead menace weaker, while your attacks are much stronger and don’t require as much stamina. Traders pay more for the items you sell them in Story Mode, while airdrops remain on the map twice as long. The only real downside to playing Dying Light with this easier difficulty is that y

If you played Metro Exodus, you might remember Sam Taylor. It was a bit part really, but in the latest Metro Exodus DLC, Sam’s Story, he gets to be the hero. The best parts of Metro Exodus were those big, open, explorable spaces, which were almost STALKER-like, encouraging (and rewarding) thorough exploration. And so begins another very Metro mix of exploration, brutal, fast-paced combat, scavenging supplies, and meeting talkative oddballs out in the kipple. If you played Exodus, you know exactl

No Man’s Sky’s Living Ship update has arrived, and with it a strange new way to travel the galaxy: inside your very own living spaceship. But how do you get a living ship in No Man’s Sky? Drop out of pulse speed and you’ll encounter an alien flying a living ship, which will kick off the Starbirth mission. You’ll need to collect and craft a number of new items as the eggs directs you, which can eventually be used to repair a crashed and damaged living ship. Once you’ve completed the Starbirth mis

Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 has begun. Complete those and, if you have the Battle Pass, you’ll get the choice of two more challenges to take on. The Hideout is also where you’ll meet Maya, who will give you a Battle Pass challenge each week, and is also one of the Battle Pass skins. The other Battle Pass skins include buff cat-man Meowscles, Mastermind, TNTina, and Peely in a tuxedo. There are no helicopters yet, but the teasers for Chapter 2 Season 2 suggested there would be.

A new early access update for Subnautica: Below Zero has appeared, dropping the wreckage of a crashed ship into the massive ocean. I’m not sure if that’s my favourite addition the Lost Ship update brings, though. They’re Below Zero’s version of the main game’s cuddlefish. Unknown Worlds also notes that the Lost Ship update will be your last chance to play through the current version of Below Zero’s story. With the next update, a new story will appear, so make sure to finish up the old one soon.

It looks like Gearbox’s CEO Randy Pitchford has let loose some info on the Borderlands movie a little too early. Last night, Pitchford revealed that Eli Roth is the film’s director in a tweet that was quickly deleted. (Image credit: Randy Pitchford)Eli Roth directed Cabin Fever and the Hostel films, and he likes movies about hurting people in horrendous ways. His involvement suggests that the Borderlands movie will be a bit on the gory side, though possibly tempered by the series’ cartoon violen

Review bombing as a form of consumer protest isn’t new, and it’s something that platform holders like Valve take very seriously. “Kunai was randomly targeted by a single person claiming to be high and in a state of anger.” De Jager points to a recent (and since deleted) Reddit post by a user claiming to have brought the metascore for Insurgency Sandstorm down. I won’t post the quote, instead I’ll direct you to this screenshot of the Reddit post (the thread, without its opening post, is still ava

It doesn’t always make sense to spend $50, $100, or more on a keyboard, and for the price-conscious among you, Razer has a great deal on its Cynosa Chroma right now. The budget keyboard is now just $34.99 from Walmart, a saving of around $5-10 from the usual price (the same keyboard is $44 on Amazon at the moment). Despite being a budget gaming keyboard, the Cynosa Chroma has a fairly expansive feature set. Razer Cynosa Chroma | $34.99 (save $5-10)This budget keyboard usually goes for around $40

One of the reasons I like Fangamer is that it happens to make merch for so many various PC Gamer GOTY award winners: Slay the Spire, Darkest Dungeon, Spelunky, and Papers, Please. Among that group is Into the Breach, our favorite game of 2018. This grey-purple variant is the Shell Psion, which reduces incoming damage against all other Vek, something to be aware of if your household is occupied by subterranean invaders. This post is mainly an excuse to publish the image above, a rare confluence o