Remember when Mass Effect 2 launched on the PlayStation 3? Because the original game had been an exclusive, PlayStation owners were thrown a bone in the form of the free Genesis DLC, a story recap that caught them up on the events of the original game in case they didn't own a PC or Xbox to play it on.Mass Effect: Genesis condensed a 30-hour RPG down to roughly 14 minutes....

Tyler Wilde, US EIC(Image credit: Future)This week: Published a preview of Borderlands 4 (it seems alright!) and listened to classic Debbie Deb single "Lookout Weekend" several times.Rocket League released July 7, 2015, and with its big 10th birthday around the corner, Psyonix has dedicated the latest season to celebrating the milestone. Has it been that long already?I've shamefully been letting my rocket-powered battle car collect rust so far this year,...

GTA Online's Money Fronts update may not seem as exciting as the other criminal activities available in Los Santos, but money laundering is actually now one of the best ways to add some extra digits to your bank account without much effort.In addition to the passive income rewarded just for owning money laundering businesses, you can also accept missions from Raf and Mr. Faber to infuse your illicit operations with...

At Summer Game Fest, I spent half an hour cruising through desolate dunes and restoring ancient ocean life in Sword of the Sea. As the Wraith—the game's hoversword-riding magical hero—you're given little guidance about what to do or why, but the pieces of the puzzle are in its surroundings, communicating how this sandy, barren land was once an ocean, and my ethereal little surfer is powerful enough to fix it.Part...

With how much has foundationally changed in World of Warcraft recently, it feels like just about anything could happen. Warbands have revolutionized account-wide progression, player housing is on its way, and you can drift in a racecar now. Blizzard could tell me it's adding a battle royale to Azeroth and I'd believe it—oh wait, that already happened.So when I heard the recent reveal video for the upcoming patch 11.2 Ghosts...

The newly announced AETHUS is a sci-fi survival game all about doing things differently, set on an alien planet ravaged by a mega corporation. The hook here is in carving your own path through the capitalist wreckage, building a different world, and forging a new kind of future.The planet has been exploited by the Astral Research Corporation (ARC), which still looms in the background. You play as former ARC engineer,...

Dune: Awakening's 1.1.0.15 patch makes a couple of notable changes to PvP, including a fix for the notorious goomba stomp meta where players were squishing each other with ornithopters.How did that work? Well, since players realized that 'thopters take no damage from collisions with the environment, there was zero risk in repeatedly slamming the flying vehicle into players running around on the ground in PvP zones. It was a viable...

The PC Gamer hardware team has 60+ years of collective PC hardware-testing experience, and I've personally been at this for 20 years now. So, in our time we've had our hands on just about every important piece of tech that's been released for our favourite gaming platform.And I think that puts us in a great position to help you find the perfect thing when you're searching for that killer product...

This feels like a weird nostalgia pull for a PC gaming site, but think back to the first time you really struggled in a Pokémon game—I bet the bleating of your caught companion's dwindling health bar still makes your palms sweat. Well, it turns out Gemini starts to make questionable choices when its Pokémon team is on the ropes too.While bigging up the Gemini 2.X model family in their latest...

The Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 is probably one of the most long-awaited keyboards in my possession. No, that isn't a joke—I've been waiting to get my hands on it for the best part of a year since its initial announcement.Therefore, it comes with quite high expectations, and for good reason, too. Das has been one of those manufacturers, like Filco and Ducky, who've been in the business for a long...