Dino shooter Second Extension pulled from sale before even making it out of early access: 'It regrettably did not achieve the success we hoped it would' ( www.pcgamer.com )
The servers will be closed sometime in 2024.
Everybody's either mad or sad about the Alan Wake 2 system requirements ( www.pcgamer.com )
Remedy shared the final PC requirements today, and they're pretty steep....
EA Games will Shut these Online Servers Down in 2023 — Gaming Arcade ( www.gamingarcade.co.uk )
Online gaming has become an integral part of our lives, offering us the opportunity to connect with friends and players from around the world. However, as technology evolves and new games are developed, older titles must inevitably make way for the future. Electronic Arts (EA), one of the gaming ind
COCOON has released on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
Sea of Thieves is adding private single-crew servers in December ( www.eurogamer.net )
Five and a half years and endless requests from the community later, Rare has announced it'll finally be adding private servers to Sea of Thieves - meaning a single crew of up to four players can explore the world without fear of PvP encounters - starting this December, as part of the multiplayer pirate adventure's Season 10....
Former BioWare manager wishes Dragon Age had kept a 'PC-centric' and 'modding-driven' identity like Neverwinter Nights ( www.pcgamer.com )
"Dragon Age in the early days had its fair share of identity crises," Flynn says. "Was it going to be a tools-driven, modding-driven game like Neverwinter Nights? Was it going to be a big singleplayer RPG like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?"...
Unity reportedly considering cap on hugely controversial per-install fees ( www.eurogamer.net )
A week after Unity announced dramatic changes to its Unity Engine business model - drawing immediate and widespread condemnation from the development community - the company has reportedly told staff it'll be making adjustments to the controversial new pricing plan....
Out of the blue, seven-year-old FPS Titanfall 2 has fully working multiplayer again ( www.pcgamer.com )
Beloved robot friend simulator and first-person shooter Titanfall 2 has had a matchmaking problem for years. Even after its previous server issues were fixed, players would still be disconnected if they had to queue for any length of time. And, given that Titanfall 2 came out in 2016, it's pretty likely you'd be waiting in that...
Stalker 2 developer GSC Game World's servers have been damaged by a fire at its Prague office ( www.eurogamer.net )
A fire has destroyed part of the offices of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl developer GSC Game World....
Meet Diablo 4 and Path of Exile's biggest rival (Last Epoch), an ARPG designed and built by Redditors ( www.pcgamesn.com )
Diablo 4, Path of Exile, and the rest of the ARPG genre has competition in the mega-ambitious Last Epoch, built by its Reddit community and heading towards 1.0....
Where is Microsoft’s handheld Xbox? ( www.theverge.com )
The Steam Deck has kick-started a wave of handhelds from some of the big names in PC gaming. Asus has its Windows-powered ROG Ally, Lenovo just announced its own Legion Go handheld PC, and Logitech released a cloud-focused handheld. AMD has been quietly arming an entire new wave of Steam Deck competitors, and that got me...
Why not try out this blissful oceanic Zelda-style puzzler ( www.rockpapershotgun.com )
Friend, are you weary of talk of blockbuster space-faring RPGs and blockbuster D&D adaptations and blockbusters in general? Do you yearn for the older, simpler days before the great Unrealification and the invention of sex scenes, when people called a spike pit a spike pit, and you could count all the different colours in a...
You can now play as a Minotaur, Kobold, and even FFXIV races in Baldur's Gate 3 ( www.pcgamesn.com )
While Baldur’s Gate 3 takes place in the land of Faerûn, Dungeons and Dragons is home to a whole multiverse of lands, characters, and history. This means that the Baldur’s Gate 3 races you can play as focus on the Sword Coast, but not anymore, as a colossal mod for the RPG game gives you over 50 races to choose from across...
Valve bans thousands of Dota 2 smurfing accounts, threatens greater future punishments ( www.rockpapershotgun.com )
"Smurfing is not welcome in Dota," say Valve, as they ban 90,000 alt accounts and say they've traced the main accounts …
AMD regains (a tiny bit) of GPU market share from Nvidia ( www.pcgamer.com )
The latest data from JPR shows AMD regaining some market share from Nvidia. Don't get too excited. The new figures put AMD at 17.5% of overall desktop graphics card market share for the second quarter of 2023....
[Rumor] Intel 14th Gen Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K, Core i5-14600K CPUs Listed By Retailer ( wccftech.com )
(Ukrainian) retailer, Telemart, has listed Intel's 14th Gen Core i9-14900K, Core i7-14700K & Core i5-14600K CPUs on its online site....
How Alan Wake 2 Hopes to Solve One of the Original’s Biggest Criticisms ( www.ign.com )
Alan Wake 2 creative director Sam Lake stopped by IGN's gamescom studio to discuss the upcoming survival horror sequel and how it hopes to solve one of the original's biggest criticisms....
NVIDIA DLSS 3.5: Enhancing Ray Tracing With AI; Coming This Fall To Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Portal with RTX & More ( www.nvidia.com )
NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction further improves the quality of ray-traced effects, taking image quality and realism to another level.
Baldur's Gate 3 Mod 'Bags Bags Bags' Aims to Ease Your Inventory Management ( wccftech.com )
Among the prolific world of Baldur's Gate 3 mods, a new one has caught our attention. Created by Nexus Mods user Liareth, the mod 'Bags Bags Bags' seeks to improve the game's not-so-great inventory management by adding 21 new containers, several of which support auto stacking of items....
MSI Boosts Gaming Performance By Up To 12% With New "High-Efficiency" Memory Mode on AM5 Motherboards ( wccftech.com )
With its latest AMD AGESA 1.0.0.7c BIOS firmware, MSI is introducing a new memory tuning setting known as "High-Efficiency" mode. This new feature supports pre-configured memory profiles for a set of popular modules on the market, offering higher bandwidth and lower latency through a set of optimizations. These optimizations...
Vampire Survivors adds local co-op and fully switches to new engine ( store.steampowered.com )
Deprecated old engine, it won't be updated anymore. All main branches are now on the new engine. The old engine is only available on a private beta branch accessible using the password PhaserVersion. It will not be updated anymore....
Intel's next-gen Battlemage GPU could take the fight to Nvidia's RTX 4080 after all ( www.pcgamer.com )
Big Battlemage is, well, big!
The Main Lesson From ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Should Be ‘People Hate Microtransactions’ ( www.forbes.com )
If reception to Baldur’s Gate says anything, it’s that people hate microtransactions in their AAA games.
Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine ( www.pcgamer.com )
Titan Quest II announced for PC ( store.steampowered.com )
Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution, is out of control. She is corrupting the Threads of Fate and punishing all those who oppose her. Take up your weapon, fight alongside gods, and change fate itself in Titan Quest 2, an action RPG inspired by Greek mythology.
