If you hate bards like Chris Livingston hates bards, you’ll be thrilled to hear that GOG is giving away the strategy dungeon-crawler Legend of Keepers to mark the start of its 2023 Winter Sale.

“I hate bards, so I’m having a great time killing them in this reverse dungeon crawler,” PC Gamer’s resident music hater wrote of his time with Legend of Keepers. “I really had no idea until I killed my first bard in Legend of Keepers, and took great pleasure in first poisoning, then burning, then slashing that lute-strumming tune-warbling flaxen-haired jerk to death. Wow. I really do hate bards.”

Legend of Keepers is free until December 16—to snag it, just head over to GOG and click the “add to library” button. That’s it, it’s yours. Kill some bards. (And other would-be do-good…

Palworld’s continuing to get updates since its whirlwind success—one that’s seen it hit the 25 million player mark (though that number does include Game Pass subscribers) in a mere month and a half.

The latest patch helps you continue to be the very best (that no one ever was) by adding a whole Paldeck’s worth of fixes, tweaks, and improvements. For starters—while most players will eventually get their own great industrial machines churning in time, it’s often necessary to help your pals out with the crafting thing early on.

Doing so required you to press F to craft respects—I mean, Pal Spheres—and hold the button down. Considering your piddly crafting speed at the outset, this was annoying. Now there’s an option to change this to a toggle, so you can…

No judgments, but did you binge all eight episodes of Prime TV’s Fallout show as soon as they dropped? I showed a lot of restraint by watching four episodes one day and four more episodes the next day, but I know certain members of PC Gamer watched the entire season in a single session. 

We’re not alone in jetting through the Fallout show, either: according to Amazon, 65 million people watched the show in the first 16 days of its release, which began when all eight episodes became available on April 10. That’s a lot of pairs of irradiated eyeballs making Fallout the second-most watched show ever on Prime, following The Lords of the Rings: The Rings of Power which aired in 2022.

According to Variety, which has access to a press release I was never sent (I’m not mad, I’m …

A considerable portion of the Modern Warfare 2 subreddit reacted scornfully to the game’s Season 2 roadmap reveal and its two 6v6 maps, but spirits improved a little during the launch today when Infinity Ward announced that another new map will release sometime mid-season.

The discontent comes from the perception that players who spent $70 on last year’s new Call of Duty haven’t been getting enough new 6v6 multiplayer stuff, a feeling amplified by the sense that the free-to-play Warzone 2 gets more attention. The main topic of discussion has been Season 2’s new 6v6 maps: One of them, Dome, is a remake, and the other, Valderas Museum, was already seen in the open beta. That’s left 6v6 fans feeling like they’re getting leftovers.

Perhaps sensing the discontent, Activision anno…

I’m not a fan of the name—if only we lived in a world where corporations dropped their katana obsession and made laptops called things like the Zweihander and the Falchion—but in all other respects this deal on an MSI Katana 15 gaming laptop is very tempting indeed. 

These things normally retail for $1,499, but Newegg has lopped a whole $340 off that price, creating a Prime Day deal that’s actually way cheaper than the one you can currently get on Amazon.

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The bang-to-buck ratio is pretty solid with this one. Your $1,159 will net you a laptop equipped with an RTX 4070, a serious bit of kit that is—if anything&mdash…

Deceive Inc., the new game from Sweet Bandits Studios and Killing Floor studio Tripwire Interactive, is holding a cross-platform open beta this weekend, giving everyone a chance to see what it’s all about ahead of its full release on March 21.

As we saw at the PC Gaming Show in 2022, Deceive Inc. is an extraction shooter that looks something like a cross between Deathloop and Prop Hunt, with a strong faux-’70s spy thriller vibe. The goal is simple enough—infiltrate a location, steal the objective, and get out—but the process is complicated by the presence of 11 other agents, working solo or in teams of three, all trying to do the same thing.

Each agent in Deceive Inc. has a unique weapon and skillset, along with various abilities and gadgets, like a bulletproof u…

Overwatch 2’s next season, which starts tomorrow, will kick off with not just a new DPS hero, but a two-week-long trial run of its newest game mode, Clash, which feels designed for constant, MOBA-style combat.

The Clash trial will take place on Hanaoka, a map that looks surprisingly similar to Hanamura from the original Overwatch. Hanaoka canonically exists within the Hanamura district in Overwatch 2’s near-future Japan, so Overwatch 1 players will get to play among the same cherry blossom trees and stone walkways that made the original map so iconic. It actually looks like Blizzard built Hanaoka out of the building blocks of Hanamura and I’m all for it.

Clash, however, is a very different mode than the multi-point mode assault (or “2CP”) from Overwatch 1, and season 10’s pa…

Ubisoft’s quietly huge FPS continues to prove it’s not going anywhere. Boosted by a week of free access and a frankly ridiculous discount to $4, Rainbow Six Siege surpassed its all-time Steam concurrents record this weekend with a new high of 201,933.

Not bad for a live service shooter entering its ninth year, but especially surprising considering this is far from the first time Siege has been cheap and momentarily free. Ubisoft has held over a dozen free weekends (and a few whole weeks) on Steam over the years, typically timed around the release of a new season. This time is no different—Year 9 Season 1 began earlier this month with a new operator and balancing tweaks.

So why are more people giving Siege a shot in 2024 than did during a similar free week in 2022? Twit…

Ubisoft’s wild attempt to create a software that can detect and defeat people using a mouse and keyboard on Rainbow Six Siege’s console version seems to have paid off. Makers of the hardware “spoofing” device XIM, which lets you use whatever input you want on your console, are saying that—despite their best efforts otherwise—you’re not using it in Siege any time soon. 

XIM isn’t inherently a cheating device, as it’s really just intended to let you use a mouse and keyboard with macros on your console, but in practice it allows console cheaters to pretend they’re using a controller while gaining the benefits of a mouse and keyboard. 

That can be a big deal for some in competitive games, especially so in console games like Siege that don’t have any form of…