House Flipper 2's sandbox mode basically looks like The Sims build mode in first person (www.pcgamer.com)
The much-requested Sandbox Mode lets you build houses from scratch and then un-flip them.
Dead Island 2 trades zombie fiction for the everyday reality of Silicon Valley by adding a 'billionaire's secret techno-death cult' in its first expansion (www.pcgamer.com)
Haus will take players on a bizarre journey to the sunny coast of Malibu in November.
This new indie game mashes up Diablo with Escape From Tarkov in a 'PvPvE fantasy extraction RPG' (www.pcgamer.com)
Seekers of Skyveil, a new game being developed by veterans of Riot, Blizzard, and BioWare, will begin alpha testing later this month.
Diablo 4's poor Sorcerers spot a glimmer of hope for the Hydra to the tune of a 400% damage bump—turns out it's likely just to compensate for a bug fix (www.pcgamer.com)
False alarm, everybody.
Starfield pioneer murders the same elite enemy 100 times to reach a damning scientific verdict: The loot is bad (www.pcgamer.com)
Never tell me the odds.
Meta Quest 3 review (pcgamer) (www.pcgamer.com)
Leak suggests Nvidia is aiming to release a faster RTX 4080 in early 2024, but that's not going to fix the mess that is the Ada GPU line-up (www.pcgamer.com)
Wow ambassador, with this Ti model you are really spoiling us.
AMD adds System Lag monitoring to its Adrenalin overlay for games that support Anti-Lag+ (www.pcgamer.com)
Radeon RX 7000-series users now have another metric to fret over.
Portal player achieves fastest-ever test subject death thanks to a speed-boosting cup (www.pcgamer.com)
GlaDos would surely approve.
Leak suggests Nvidia is aiming to release a faster RTX 4080 in early 2024, but that's not going to fix the mess that is the Ada GPU line-up (www.pcgamer.com)
Wow ambassador, with this Ti model you are really spoiling us.
Dave the Diver gets crabs and lobsters this month, among other new stuff, in its first content update (www.pcgamer.com)
Dave forever.
Old School Runescape player goes on an emotional roller coaster after hackers strip his account of items worth 4.8 billion in gold (www.pcgamer.com)
It's a sad story with a happy ending, but some players are unhappy about 'streamer privilege'.
Starfield truly beaten as player constructs faithful and ludicrously huge Star Destroyer after taking build limiters off: 'It's not practical at all but it was worth it' (www.pcgamer.com)
They ain't natural, ships that big.
3 of the 5 top wishlisted Steam games are city builders, and I want to play them all (www.pcgamer.com)
Despite sharing a genre, they're all vastly different games.
Epic Games head of publishing strategy Sergiy Galyonkin has left the company: 'I am not a good fit for this new version of Epic' (www.pcgamer.com)
Galyonkin joined Epic in 2016 but said the company now requires people "of a different kind."
You can already hack Ray Reconstruction into Cyberpunk 2077 without the path tracing limitation, but Nvidia promises to open it up officially soon (www.pcgamer.com)
Ray Reconstruction makes Cyberpunk 2077 look absolutely stunning, but it can only be enabled with path tracing, or via some hacks.
CCP's CEO on life, the universe, and EVE Online: 'It's worthwhile to spend our lives taking care of it' (www.pcgamer.com)
2024 games: All the PC games scheduled for launch next year (www.pcgamer.com)
2024 isn't that far off now, so take a look ahead at what's confirmed for the PC release schedule.
You probably don't want a high-level DLC for Baldur's Gate 3, anyway (www.pcgamer.com)
Mo' spell levels, mo' problems.
D&D's next book is about Planescape, and 'fans of the Planescape: Torment videogame will see all sorts of nods' (www.pcgamer.com)
There's a long tradition of connections between Dungeons & Dragons and the videogames based on it. Pool of Radiance, the 1998 videogame that kicked off the Gold Box series, was also released as a pen-and-paper adventure called Ruins of Adventure in the same year. More recently, Baldur's Gate 3 incorporated parts of the adventure...
[Spoilers] PSA: You can lock yourself out of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty's main questline early on (www.pcgamer.com)
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is a preem spy thriller adventure. However, if your V really isn't that interested in working with government types, you can choose not to sign on to a life of martinis shaken, not stirred....
Ayaneo Air 1S review (www.pcgamer.com)
At 22.5 x 9 x 3 cm, the Ayaneo Air 1S is more like a Nintendo Switch than a Steam Deck. In fact, it's a touch smaller than the Switch. Or slightly bigger than a medium-large banana. The retro model I've got in for review weighs only ~405g on my scales, which is a little heavier than my Switch at around ~400g but far lighter than...
Dune: Spice Wars review (www.pcgamer.com)
You should delete your Cyberpunk 2077 mods ahead of update 2.0, and you may need to do a clean reinstall of the game (www.pcgamer.com)
I figured I was going to have to uninstall my Cyberpunk 2077 mods before checking out Phantom Liberty and update 2.0. Most of the mods I went for on my last playthrough were difficulty and loot adjustments that'd clash with 2.0's big changes, and for the rest, mod authors would likely need to update their files to play nice...
Ubisoft casually announces The Division 3 (www.pcgamer.com)
Star Wars Outlaws creative director Julian Gerighty will take a new role at Ubisoft once that game is done: executive producer of everything Tom Clancy's The Division. That includes oversight of all the Division-branded games: The Division 2, The Division Heartland, mobile game The Division Resurgence, and, what's this? The...
