It’s worse than we imagined. Gunships have arrived on Automaton planets alongside gigantic AT-AT walkers. They are indeed smaller like dropships, but they travel in packs.

Whatever you do, don’t look up. Following today’s triumphant victory at Malevelon Creek, Helldivers players are making alarming discoveries on Automaton planets. Lurking in the skies are what appear to be massive, cloaked gunships lying in wait. In wait for what? I’m terrified to find out.

The development first reached my desk via Redditor infinity_cube, who published screenshots showing several angles of the anomaly. It’s extremely easy to miss when you’re running around shooting robots, but if you look closely, the shapes come into focus. Users Firestorm_361 and Spartas72 got even …

While it’s true that the price of GPUs on the whole is still rather high, it’s the RTX 4090 that has really seen its pricing shoot straight up into the stratosphere in recent months. A quick hunt through the listings reveals that a lot of examples are currently priced well north of the $2,000 mark, with some coming close to $3,000. That’s a huge chunk of change for a single component, but above we’ve found two entire gaming PCs for not that much more money.

First up, let’s take a look at the HP Omen 45L GT22-1190. Not a particularly memorable name we’ll grant you, but this is an honest-to-goodness powerhouse of a system from a reputable manufacturer, and given it’s currently available for just under $3,300 the pricing here is very much on point. It’s not like HP skimped on the res…

Total War: Warhammer 3 has been in a weird place for a while, with 2023’s experimental Shadows of Change DLC being so poorly received that Creative Assembly ended up reworking the whole thing and giving out freebies in the form of new lords. Things have been steadily improving, though, and with the reveal of Thrones of Decay they’re poised to get even better—if CA sticks the landing. 

It’s hard not to be pumped after watching the Thrones of Decay trailer, which teases a helluva lot of Warhammer goodness. I confess I did shout “Yes!” when I spotted a group of dwarfs guzzling booze at a table on the thunderbarge. Flying into battle is the perfect time to get completely sauced. 

The DLC is focused on dwarfs, the Empire—about time—and Nurgle, introduc…

At last year’s Game Awards, Warframe maker Digital Extremes revealed that it was publishing Wayfinder, an online action game from Airship Syndicate which released in early access this August. Today, PC Gamer has learned that Digital Extremes is now closing its publishing wing and handing control of Wayfinder over to Airship Syndicate.

“We can confirm we have made the difficult decision to cease operations of our external projects division,” a Digital Extremes rep told PC Gamer in an email today. “We have had to say goodbye to a number of hardworking and highly valuable team members as a result and we’re working with Airship to transition full control of Wayfinder to them in the coming months.”

Digital Extremes declined to elaborate on the specific number of layoffs.

Th…

Fallout 76 landed with all the grace of an atom bomb. Back when it first released, PC Gamer’s Christopher Livingston called it a “A beautifully crafted but ultimately repetitive world”, giving it a 60 in his Fallout 76 review. 

It arrived with a bunch of glaring flaws, too: game-breaking bugs, a whole host of missing features like no FoV slider (this happened again with Starfield, somehow), and a bungled $200 edition which promised fancy canvas bags that… turned out to be made of nylon (which Bethesda did eventually fix, though not until a whole year later). ‘Troubled history’ is an understatement, which is something Todd Howard’s wildly aware of as per a quick jaunt through Bethesda’s history with WIRED.

“I think as people know, we struggled,” Howard says—…

This week, I discovered a TikToker deliberately developing the worst game of all time—complete with impossible platforming, unskippable dialogue, and a rocket launcher that has to be reloaded 150 times between each shot. I ended that post anxious that creator Everywhere Nowhere might one day release their abomination into the world for people to actually play. I’m afraid that happened sooner even than I feared. 

You can now try Monster Sniper Season 3 for yourself on the developer’s itch.io page, and… wow. I knew it was going to be bad, but watching it in TikToks really didn’t do it justice. Actually getting your hands on it is a whole other world of pain.

Thanks to maybe the most ungodly control scheme ever devised—in which you control the hero’s mov…

We’ve been waiting patiently these last eight years for Rocksteady’s next game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Warner Bros. has been pretty sparse with the details about Suicide Squad since its formal announcement in 2020, only really going as far as to say it has four-player co-op. 

After today’s 15-minute State of Play presentation, we now know that Suicide Squad is definitely not a Batman-type stealth action game: in fact, it’s a bombastic third-person looter shooter that seems to have more in common with Crackdown than Arkham Asylum. A few quick facts based on the State of Play showcase:

• One “core” of Suicide Squad’s gameplay is traversal: every character has a different but similarly floaty means of getting around
• There’s loot, gear scores, an…
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The best high-performance gaming is no longer a dream for the future. The hardware necessary to pump out 4K resolution gameplay at high frame rates is here. AMD’s latest CPUs and GPUs can work together to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of games. For those gamers looking to push their performance levels to the limit, AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX brings the graphical might, while the new Ryzen 7 7800X3D provides potent CPU performance to keep frame rates high.

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is AMD’s flagship graphics processor. It’s remarkably capable in a wide range of gaming scenarios. In competitive shooters, its ability to spit out high frame rates at any resolution isn’t likely to leave you craving more performance. Even in demanding AA…

Remember For Honor, Ubisoft’s vikings-vs-knights-vs-samurai multiplayer melee game? It’s been some time since we last gave it a look, but here are a couple of things about it that you might find useful today: One, yes it is still running (and has actually added a pair of additional factions, the Wu Lin and Outlanders), and two, it’s free to play for a week.

For Honor is a hell of a thing. It was revealed in 2015, seemed reasonably good when it launched in 2017, and very quickly tanked. Six months after it launched, we took an in-depth look at where it all went wrong: It wasn’t quite a eulogy but it was awfully close, noting that even though Ubisoft was making an effort to turn things around, the game had taken such a battering by that point that “it might already be too late” to s…

There was a time when ICQ—that’s “I Seek You”—was as ubiquitous as mIRC and a good FTP program. But after nearly three decades of operation (much of it, I’m sorry to say, in obscurity), the end has finally come: A message posted on the ICQ website (via PCMag) says the software will stop operating on June 26.

It’s hard to overstate just how big ICQ was at the turn of the millennium. It was released by Israeli developer Mirabilis in late 1996; I came to it in ’97 by way of an in-the-know friend who breathlessly regaled me with tales of this exciting new program that let us talk to online friends anywhere, at any time—no more having to wait for your pals to show up on Undernet! Believe me, this was huge.

At one point ICQ had more than 100 million registered us…

This Noctua power supply is really something. It’s an optimised and improved version of Seasonic’s Prime TX-1600. It now comes in brown, of course, including the cables, and includes a single NF-A12x25 fan and redesigned grill. 

For these seemingly small changes, it’s 8-10 dB quieter than the standard Seasonic model. 

“Depending on where in the RPM range, you’ll look at around six to eight of that is coming from the fan and around two decibels contributed by the fan grill,” Noctua’s Jakob Dellinger tells me.

“So that’s custom designed to reduce turbulence.”

I’m told the idea with the new grill is the fan blades are never, ever parallel to the grill’s struts. If that were to happen, the high and low pressure fluctuations that would occur would increase n…

Vampire Survivors has gotten its second round of DLC, Tides of the Foscari, and like the first, Legacy of the Moonspell, there’s a lot to love here: more characters, maps, items, and secrets for 2022’s best roguelike, all for just two bucks. While the starting map, Lake Foscari, didn’t immediately light my fire, the continuation of Vampire Survivor’s signature secrets and unlocks really won me over.

I missed Moonspell on the first go-around, so I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect when I broke my long absence from Vampire Survivors and loaded into Foscari. If I have one complaint about the whole package, it’s that this primary new map just needed some more visual flair. It’s got a great layout with more distinct landmarks (including a cheeky hedge maze) than many of the base game’…