But I’m still looking forward to another trip into that dark and dying world. Jarred Walton: System Shock remakeI missed the first game at launch (long story, but basically I had a two-year break from gaming), but I loved a lot of the old Looking Glass games. The problem is that the old interface for System Shock basically sucks. I’m also looking forward to seeing what happens with the Underworld game from OtherSide Entertainment, not to mention System Shock 3, but System Shock comes first. Joe

Tower of Time, a “new take on classic RPGs” about a shattered land, a mysterious tower, and a gang of champions who decide to venture inside and see what’s cooking, was expected to trade Early Access for full release by the end of 2017. It will (hopefully) happen soon, however, as developer Event Horizon now says that it will be ready for release in April. The Early Access version of the game has been updated and now includes an estimated 30 hours of play, double what was available in the initia

Overwatch pro Félix “xQc” Lengyel of the Dallas Fuel has been suspended from the Overwatch League in the wake of a homophobic insult directed at Austin “Muma” Wilmot that came shortly after Wilmot’s Houston Outlaws swept the Fuel 4-0 on Thursday. Lengyel made a show of recognizing that he’d crossed a line in the stream, no doubt in part because Wilmot is openly gay. The team will be taking disciplinary action related to recent comments made by Felix “@xQc” Lengyel. xQc should not get a pass for

Andy Kelly: Spy hardAlpha Protocol is one of those games I always assumed people just lied to themselves about liking. Wes Fenlon: Final Fantasy XII is coming to PC at lastOK, this was Sam’s high last week, but I’m excited about it enough to double-dip. My favorite Final Fantasy, IX, came to PC in 2016. The best Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy VI, landed in 2015. And now, finally, the last great Final Fantasy is coming to PC, too.

Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy 14: Stormblood’s 4.2 update will be arriving January 30, and it’s bringing some heavy nostalgia with it. But it’s the special tease at the end of the trailer that’s really exciting: Kefka, the maniac wizard from Final Fantasy 6, is back. For those unfamiliar, Kefka is a raging lunatic who destroyed the world and is easily one of the most enigmatic villains, standing just as tall (if not taller) than the infamous Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7. While n

The trouble with deep space exploration is that it’s awfully easy for the people doing it to die. And it’s not just the extreme weather on the planet that’s out to kill your team: “Life-threatening supernatural activities” will become increasingly common as time passes. “As a survival management game, Symmetry’s storyline will propel you forward toward big payoffs depending upon the strategies employed across the survivors,” Dariusz Leczycki of developer Sleepless Clinic said. “At first look, Sy

It’s a marvel that Awesome Games Done Quick runs as smoothly as it does. The backstage area at the week-long speedrunning marathon—which doesn’t stop for its entire duration—looks like a makeshift flight control room. Sleeping on the jobMarathons take a physical toll on participants—sometimes a dangerous one—though unlike other streams, AGDQ isn’t about testing individual stamina. Some of big equipment used at AGDQ isn’t exactly top-tier, but what’s important is that it works. Aside from wrangli

It appears that things are once again happening in the No Man’s Sky ‘Waking Titan’ ARG that began way back in May 2017. The Myriad website, uncovered during an earlier stage of the ARG investigation, also contains the hex code for the word. I have more ideas @charltonbrooker pic.twitter.com/wKOxAqjoOyJanuary 10, 2018The whole thing seems incredibly complex, and there appears to be quite a bit left to come, as five glyphs on the Waking Titan site are still locked. I am, however, happy to see that

If you’ve been wanting to go with an ultrawide monitor and are okay with a 2560×1080 resolution (21:9 aspect ratio), good news—LG’s 29-inch ultrawide display can be had for $184 right now. It’s listed at BuyDig for $400, but if you apply promo code at C1178118222 at checkout, it knocks the price all the way down to $184. We’ve never seen this monitor sell for less—Newegg has it on sale for $310, plus $13 shipping, as a point of reference. It has a 5ms response time, 75Hz refresh rate, 1,000:1 co

If your answer to all the above is yes, then might I suggest Life is Strange: Before the Storm. Before the Storm captures the zeitgeist just like its predecessor, Life is Strange. In Before the Storm Rachel is no longer a plot device, but a fully fleshed out and complex character, making the later events of Life is Strange even more tragic. Love at the center of the stormAt the start of Before the Storm, Chloe is isolated. Rachel quickly fills that gap left by Max in Episode 1, then their relati

Darwin Project, the multiplayer survival game set in the great white north of the Canadian Rockies where the weather will kill you only slightly more slowly than a bullet, will kick off open beta testing with a weekend event set to get underway today at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET. During the beta, developer Scavengers Studio will host a series of matches on Mixer in order to test the new “Live Spectator Interactions” feature. Even crafting items will leave behind clues that can help other players track yo

LG is expanding its monitor line with a new 27-inch model (27UK650-W) featuring an IPS panel with a 4K resolution (3840×2160) and FreeSync support. VESA only recently introduced its DisplayHDR program, which offers three levels of HDR certification—DisplayHDR 400, DisplayHDR 600, and DisplayHDR 1000. That’s not bad overall, though as it pertains to HDR, it’s 50 nits below the DisplayHDR 400 standard, and a long ways off from DisplayHDR 1000. IPS panels generally offer better color reproduction t

The release of We Happy Few, the game about getting high and getting along in the jolly old England of an alt-history 1960s, has been pushed a little deeper into the year. Developer Compulsion Games said in an update on Steam that it’s now “content complete” but requires more time to polish than was originally expected, and so it won’t be released until sometime in the summer. “So, we find ourselves caught between Early Access (where it’s important to have a price that reflects the current game)

As much as I fancy the idea of treasure hunting, storm-weathering, and drunken sea shantying, I’m most looking forward to exploring Sea of Thieves’ vibrant world when it docks later this year. And who better to showcase what’s in store than art director Ryan Stevenson, who says Sea of Thieves’ animated style is designed to be “timeless and evocative of a pirate adventure playground.” Here’s some of that:Whenever I think of sidestepping confrontation in favour of exploration in games, I think of

Turns out NZXT has been receiving the same feedback, so it’s gone and snipped $50 off the MSRP, bringing its N7 motherboard down to $250. “We were surprised—and humbled—by the PC gaming community’s reaction to our new N7 motherboard. Those two are $110 by themselves, so given that, the price for the motherboard is actually now just $140! “We also heard from the PC gaming community that they are concerned with our ability to produce a high-quality motherboard. Whether a $50 price cut and addition

Announced this week, Two Point Hospital is a new management sim from the creators of Theme Hospital. Two Point Hospital marks the developer’s first project and is a modern throwback to 1997’s Theme Hospital. When we did Theme Hospital, we had ideas for Theme Prison, Theme Resort. Webley: There have been a few hospital games since Theme Hospital, but [they’ve] certainly missed the point of not taking themselves too seriously. Beyond Two Point Hospital, what does the future hold for Two Point as a

In December, GTA Online added a Red Dead Redemption 2-themed challenge, which was nice, even if the game it’s promoting has not yet been announced for PC. Here’s how you do that, in handy video form:VIDEO: How to get the revolver in GTA Online, as detailed by our pals at GamesRadar. Secondly, for lapsed GTA Online players who fancy a quick cash injection, this is extremely good value for the time demanded in my opinion—you can treat it like a singleplayer mission. The quest itself is pretty fun

“There has been a lot of feedback on some of the changes made to Faction Rallies in Season 2,” so says community manager Cozmo in this weekly update post . “There was an issue in the previous Faction Rallies where players were earning hundreds of Faction Tokens per hour without firing a single shot. In the recent December 12 update, Faction Token rewards were added to an existing system that was locking players out from Lost Sector Rewards. We’ll share more details on this before the next Factio

UPDATE: all these keys are now gone. Battalion 1944 is a WWII shooter that evokes memories of the likes of COD2, and it launches in Early Access on the 1st of February. This weekend, developer Bulkhead Interactive is hosting a beta for the game, and we’ve got 5000 keys to give away so readers can take part. Existing PC Gamer Club Legendary tier members will get a key at that time, too, as part of their membership. Note: due to limits on number of codes, signing up to the PC Gamer Club before tom

“We are hoping to give you an update on what we have been working on soon”, said PUBG Corp in this forum post. Moreover, balance adjustments have been applied to the blue zone, which will first appear on test servers. We will continue to check the data logs like this even if it means the anti-cheat team has to filter through hundreds of billions of data logs manually.” As for the blue zone, the following changes will be applied and tested over the coming days:Slightly decreased the waiting time