Former developers from Torchlight and Hob creator Runic Games, which was shut down by its publisher Perfect World last year, have founded a new studio to build a “PC-first” co-op combat game. When asked about PvP, the team didn’t rule it out, but pointed to their background as co-op game developers, and said they weren’t working on anything “competitive”. That suggests it’ll be a third-person game: Torchlight had an isometric view, while Borderlands was a first-person shooter. “It made me miss t

(Image: © Wikimedia Commons via Steven Arnold)eBay occasionally releases site-wide coupons, and that has happened again today. While this isn’t one of the usual 15% off discounts, the latest promo code will take 10% off any purchase, at a maximum value of $100. While you can easily pick up used PC components with the coupon, here are some new products from reputable sellers (Newegg, EVGA, etc. ):To use the discount, you just have to enter code PICKUPTEN at checkout. eBay says the code will expir

The RTX 2070 is the cheapest of the bunch, and it still costs $600 new. In what might be the first sale of an RTX card, EVGA’s 2070 is $539.99 ($60 off) right now using today’s eBay coupon. It’s sold through EVGA’s eBay store, and you can get it from the link below. EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 | $539.99 ($60 off)In what might be the first sale of an RTX card, this 2070 is $60 off the original price from EVGA’s eBay store. Buy at eBay (Posted: 10/25)Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy som

You’ve befriended the stratosphere’s gentle giants, and have made peace with your space angry neighbours—what’s left to conquer on your Stellaris journey? Stellaris has unveiled its “economy-focused” MegaCorp expansion, a “revolutionary new way to conduct business on a galactic scale by seamlessly synergizing new markets and city planets with state-of-the-art citizen solutions and more marketable human capital.” And if that reads like the Financial Times, know that in practice MegaCorp tasks pla

Turn back time with XYK’s Team Fortress 2008—a TF2 throwback mod that “reverts the game back to it’s 2008 version”. “We payed the Steam Direct fee, and are now working on an official Steam release,” says XYK on this Facepunch forum. “The Steam team approved of me generating beta CD keys, but we’re still waiting on Valve to approve the store page.” We have done as they recommended, and are now waiting again, on the store page review.” Here’s a trailer:And here’s some screens:Not much else is know

Halloween is just around the corner, and Fanatical is celebrating with its horror-filled Scream Sale. Better still, adding coupon code SCREAM666 gets an extra 6.66 percent off each sale price. Even better still, adding our own SCREAMPCGAMER code gets you a further ten percent off again. As I am wont to do, I’ve included my sale picks up there in the header so let’s explore those first. Live now through November 4, 2018, Fanatical’s Scream Sale can be browsed in full here.

Millions of virtual soldiers have fought and died in the forum wars arguing over the relative merits of AMD and Nvidia GPUs. But really, what are the differences between AMD and Nvidia graphics processors? Internally, both AMD and Nvidia GPUs do the same primary calculations, but there are differences in the implementation. As an example, the AMD RX Vega 64 has 4,096 GPU cores, while the competing Nvidia GTX 1080 has 2,560 cores. We’re also still recovering from the more recent cryptocurrency cr

Hopefully you won’t live long enough to see her turn your blood into a bomb that she uses to kill your friends. Garuda is surely the most violent Warframe Digital Extremes has created so far, but if you’re going to create a blood mage archetype, there’s got to be some blood. Garuda’s other two powers manage her health and energy reserves, but they are just as bloody as her offensive powers. Garuda is going to need that healing, because her ‘3’ ability causes her to rip her own blood out of herse

We’re talking about a completely free day, where school, work, chores, showering, and eating meals at normal times are all off the table. Often, these important days happen to coincide with a major game release, and with a few big ones coming up, today’s PCG Q&A asks: Have you ever skipped work or school to play games all day? Wes: Senior year of high school, a friend and I both skipped school on Oblivion’s release day, then drove around 45 minutes to the closest Gamestop to pick it up. Julez.a:

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. On this week’s show we talk about Chris’s time with the Fallout 76 beta, James’s impressions of the massive Fortnitemares update, and Wes regales us with tales and photos from his vacation in Korea. We finish with listener questions as always. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podca

The footsteps of other players begin in the Fallout 76 Xbox beta while I’m still in character creation mode. It’s as if I’m trying to grab a few moments of grooming time in a mirror while standing in a busy public bathroom. The opening hour of the Fallout 76 beta is a crowded one. This is in stark contrast to what comes later, when everyone spreads out and Fallout 76 begins to feel quiet and lonesome. I decide to track down a couple bounties, which turns out to be way, way more fun than boiling

Unsportsmanlike? But it hardly compares to breaking Rule 1 in Rocket League, which would be like if Hertl first squared-up for a fight and threw down his gloves before turning around and taking a shot. The rule is rarely spelled out by the community, but a sense of mystique is incompatible with encouraging respect for the sport. You can see an example of a side-to-side Rule 1 above. Update: Following the publication of this inescapably correct article, Rocket League’s SVP of Game Development Cor

Perhaps I’ll fare better in this week’s limited-time event mode, which also asks players to commit to one method of attack. It removes weapon spawns from the map entirely. One Gun Warrior sets players loose on Erangel with just one firearm. You can however relieve fallen enemies of their arsenal, but can equally commit to whichever gun you’ve been sent in with. Set to run from today at 7pm PDT / 3am BST tomorrow, through the same times on October 28 / 29, One Gun Warrior will operate third-perso

For me, the best Skyrim mods transform the realm’s aesthetics. Be that by way of weather overhauls, lighting ENBs, or, my newest favourite, BuzzDee84 and PhenomFazMFQ’s Ultimate HD Fire Effects SSE. I’ve a particular fondness of the dark arts in high-fantasy RPGs, and the College of Winterhold is always my first stop during new playthroughs of Skyrim. As always, the best way to show off mods of this calibre is with pictures. More information on Ultimate HD Fire Effects SSE, including installatio

An innovative Call of Duty Black Ops 4 player has created an interactive map for its battle royale offshoot, Blackout. In his Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 review, Steven T. Wright complimented Blackout by saying its compact and loot-filled map “produce a much faster, more thrilling game that’s more akin to Fortnite [than PUBG]”. Moreover, the interactive map lets users alter the field by plotting their own routes, placing markers, and highlighting specific spots with coloured circles among other th

And then there are Dark Souls 3 mods like TKGP’s Enemy Onslaught. Enemy Onslaught does this by duplicating enemies—both run of the mill baddies and end-of-zone bosses—and by removing the event IDs of clones. “This mod duplicates every enemy in the game, including bosses,” explains TKGP’s Nexus Mods description. “Most of the game is very hard but still doable on 3x enemies, but some bosses are practically impossible on your own. More information on Enemy Onslaught, including installation instruct

Super Meat Boy is getting a new multiplayer “Race Mode” later this week, allowing players to, you guessed it, race through the game’s levels. On the Nintendo Switch at least, these races are split-screen local multiplayer only. In its announcement, Team Meat didn’t say whether online multiplayer would be supported, but I’d hazard a guess it won’t be. Whatever the case, the game is currently $1.49 on Steam, so if you’re among the very few who don’t own Super Meat Boy yet, now’s a good time to bit

Image source: FnaticFlorian Le Bihan is a core gameplay designer at DICE, currently working on Battlefield 5. Despite that affiliation, he’s also a big fan of Treyarch’s new military shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. But he wasn’t cheating at all: You see, Florian Le Bihan, gameplay designer, is also DRUNKKZ3, a former pro player and manager with the Fnatic esports organization. Hey @Treyarch @TreyarchPC i want to play Blackout with friends when i get home from work, please unban!!! Fortunatel

PC Perspective founder and EIC Ryan Shrout announced today his departure from both PC Perspective and his consulting company, Shrout Research, to join Intel as the company’s chief performance strategist. https://t.co/ZEA74huCopOctober 24, 2018On his transition, Shrout looks back fondly at the 19 years he spent leading PC Perspective. For loyal PC Perspective readers, this news may or may not have come as a surprise. As Shrout notes in his farewell letter, the growing commitments to his consultin