(Image credit: Bohemia Interactive)Following a turbulent and frankly amusing couple of weeks, DayZ’s Australian ban is no longer official, with the country’s Classification Board issuing a new MA15+ classification today. The new classification is the result of a ‘modified’ version of the game submitted to the Classification Board. This version is more than likely the one which removes the offending depictions of drug use from the game. The board has issued several ‘Refused Classification’ ruling

If you missed out on snagging a free copy of For Honor on the Epic Store earlier this month, you’ve got another chance. Ubisoft’s slash ’em up is free to keep through Uplay until August 27. For Honor Standard Edition is free on PC with Uplay until 27th August! And hey, right now it’s free, and it’s hard to argue with free. For more of this sort of thing, check out our list of the best free PC games in the world today.

4A Games said when the Metro Exodus expansion The Two Colonels was announced that it would be more in the style of the first two games in the series, with linear gameplay in “claustrophobic environments.” Based on the reveal trailer released today, it wasn’t kidding. The Two Colonels is set in the tunnels beneath the dead city of Novosibirsk, where Colonel Khlebnikov has traveled to visit his son, Kirill. The trailer does look like a slice of 2033 or Last Light: It’s all filthy tunnels, bad ligh

(Image credit: CD Projekt Red)Cyberpunk 2077 will have boxing, hacking mini-games and racing, but will it have a Gwent equivalent? Well, we don’t know yet, but it’s possible that it’ll get a Mancala variant, if that screenshot above is any sign. Seven new screenshots were released today by CD Projekt Red, to coincide with Gamescom. (They’re “outsiders brought in for special jobs”, according to one of the gruff and burly men in the screenshots). We’ve learned of late that it’ll boast a New Game +

Skyrim Special Edition’s Creation Club is having a sale, and as part of that sale you can get your own pet Nix-Hound for free. It’ll cost your in-game character 400 gold and a trip to Solstheim, but you the player won’t need to spend any real money on Creation Club points to get it. The Nix-Hound is a bug-eyed dog creature you might remember from Morrowind. You’ll have to access the Creation Club via the main menu to find the Nix-Hound add-on. If you’re after free mods then here’s our list of th

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In the upcoming Blight league, players will find a small tower defense mission in every zone. Talking to Grinding Gear head Chris Wilson, he explained that this is still Path Of Exile first and tower defense second. (Image credit: Grinding Gear Games)Every tendril that you successfully defend against spawns a treasure chest at the end of the encounter. Lastly, Grinding Gear is making a few tweaks to how the endgame’s optional daily side-missions (Delves, Incursions and other previous leagues) wo

(Image credit: Corsair)The best capture card for PC gaming in 4K is Elgato’s 4K60 Pro, or at least it was until today. At Gamescom, Elgato announced a newer model, the 4K60 Pro MK.2, which retains the same features as it predecessors while adding HDR10 support. It’s also cheaper than AVerMedia’s competing Live Gamer 4K, another 4K HDR capture card, which currently sells for $290.99 on Amazon. “4K HDR10 capture at 60fps lets you play high-fidelity games while simultaneously streaming to Twitch in

(Image credit: HP)For the first time ever, HP is rolling out a gaming laptop built around an AMD processor, and specifically a third-generation Ryzen chip. It’s called the Pavilion Gaming 15, and as the model name suggests, it’s a 15.6-inch laptop. For connectivity, the Pavilion Gaming 15 serves up three USB ports (USB 3.1 Type-C, USB 3.1 Type-A port, and USB 2.0), a GbE LAN port, HDMI 2.0 output, and a headphone/microphone combo port. Overall, this looks like a toned down gaming laptop. So, it

And the good news for them is that when Gears 5 comes out, they’ll actually be able to play it. This was in question because the Gears 5 system requirements on the Microsoft Store indicate that Windows 10 is a hard requirement to run the game. But the minimum requirements on Steam say that Windows 7 64-bit will get the job done. When asked about it on Twitter, Gears multiplayer design director Ryan Cleven confirmed that the Steam listing is accurate. The Steam version will also support Steam tra

Continuing on its well-established and apparently successful path of acquiring and resurrecting mid-tier game series you remember enjoying when you were in high school, THQ Nordic announced at Gamescom that Comanche, NovaLogic’s 1990s helicopter flight sim series, is coming back. ), and ran through a half-dozen-or-so expansions and sequels before wrapping up in 2001 with Comanche 4. There will be multiple Comanche variants and drone types to choose from, each designed to fill specific roles, wit

(Image credit: Oddworld Inhabitants)Oddworld: Soulstorm will release exclusively for the Epic Games Store, the game’s creator Lorne Lanning announced today. “What I would like to do is provide you with the reasoning that went into bringing the PC version of Soulstorm to the Epic Games store as an exclusive because you deserve to know,” Lanning writes. But to create the version of Soulstorm we want, and you deserve, we needed additional financial assistance. What pushes me even more is my commitm

Gears of War is the reason everyone knows what “horde mode” is, and so it’s fitting that Gears 5 is placing a pretty heavy emphasis on it. This time around, though, horde mode is going to look a bit different, and we have a new trailer that explains a bit about what’s changing for horde mode in the next Gears of War game. Horde mode in Gears 5 is going to push players out from their defence points, forcing them to capture new ground and be more aggressive. Gears 5 has structures called “Taps” on

The Marvel’s Avengers footage we were promised a month ago is out now, and it’s pretty weird if you ask me. It’s a pretty lengthy look at gameplay, and that looks mostly fine—but the voiceover work is, charitably, a bit of a rough listen. Fresh from Gamescom, what you are about to see is gameplay footage from Square Enix’s Avengers game. That’s all present in this extended gameplay clip, and to be fair, that specific bit looks like a ton of fun. Clearly, the voiceover work is what’s most immedia

Ubisoft unveiled a new trailer for Watch Dogs: Legion during Gamescom, detailing the way the game’s ‘play as anyone’ system will actually work, and it works a bit like XCOM. Meanwhile, “old codger” Alan Murphy has a 100% damage boost on rifles, though he may die randomly (because he’s old, you see). Once they’re acquired, you can level characters up and unlock new abilities and perks, with the trailer narrator guy promising “thousands of possibilities”. In addition to useful customisation, there

Fortnite Season X is all about when worlds collide, so the appropriately titled “Worlds Collide” missions have you using a bunch of rifts and meeting up in certain locations. Here’s every challenge associated with the Worlds Collide mission, and if they’re particularly challenging, we’re working on getting some individual guides up for them. Fortnite Season X Worlds Collide MissionsHere they are! If you’re in need of some help wading through all the Fortnite content out there, allow us. And if y

V1 Interactive, founded by Halo creative director Marcus Lehto and SOCOM director Mike Gutmann, gave us a proper look at its debut game today at Gamescom. Announced just last month but in development for several years, we finally know what Disintegration is: a first-person shooter blended with real-time tactics. Scientists adopted a means in which the human brain was removed and surgically encased into a robotic armature; a process known as Integration. Disintegration will have a full single-pla

There were rumors of a Resident Evil Netflix series doing the rounds back in January and whether that’s still in the works (if it ever was), now there’s news of a movie reboot. Screenrant asked director Johannes Roberts, previously responsible for several movies I’ve never heard of like 47 Meters Down and Forest of the Damned, about the untitled Resident Evil project his name was attached to on imdb. It’s gonna be super scary. It’s super, super scary. (I thought the first of Paul W. S. Anderson’