As of its last update, multiplayer horror game Evil Dead has a new mode that’s not quite battle royale, but instead is being called “Splatter Royale”. Up to 40 players fight to be the last deadite standing, choosing from uglied-up deadite versions of the game’s existing Survivor and Demon characters.

As well as scavenging for loot it can be earned through special events, some of which demand you take on elite or boss NPCs. At the end of each round you advance up Splatter Royale’s four skill trees, which let you get better at being an Assassin, Butcher, Commando, or Marksman.

The same update also adds two new weapons. The grenade launcher does pretty much what you’d expect, i.e. it launches grenades that explode, while the scythe looks like a particularly brutal limb-lopper t…

Programmer and Nintendo Jedi James Lambert has spent the last couple of years working on a demake of Valve’s first-person puzzler Portal for the Nintendo 64, a machine I wasn’t sure could even display a proper circle let alone a moveable hole in reality you can use to teleport through 3D space in real-time. That project, Portal 64, was recently canceled after Valve’s lawyers asked Lambert to take it down.

In a new video Lambert made it clear that he expected this, and he doesn’t want people who were excited about the project to be upset at Valve. “I don’t blame them at all,” he said, “and I don’t think you should either. Don’t be mad at Valve here. The project was probably doomed to be taken down from the beginning.”

Portal 64 was being made in Libultra, the official Nintend…

Update 2nd August, 2023: AMD has issued a new Adrenalin graphics driver specifically to solve the issue its GPUs had been experiencing with Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart when ray tracing was enabled in the settings menu.

The release notes state the fixed issue as: “Application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart with Ray-Tracing and Dynamic Resolution Scaling enabled on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.”

There are still several known issues, such as the high idle power that can reportedly be solved by enabling variable refresh rate if you monitors are capable, but you can download the new driver today.

Original story 27th July, 2023: Ray tracing technology has be…

The Asus ROG Ally isn’t going to ship with any form of game validation system because you “should be able to play all games without needing validation from either our team or the game publishers.”

That’s a confident statement, and a confident stance as to the power of the custom AMD silicon at the heart of the new gaming handheld and the Microsoft OS. The Steam Deck has a specific Deck Verified rating system to give gamers confidence a given game will run well on its hardware, on its Linux OS, and on a handheld device.

But Asus believes the combination of a Windows 11 OS and a powerful Zen 4/RDNA 3 APU will be all the validation you need to know your games will just work.

Asus has confirmed the ROG Ally will launch on May 11 this year, and that it will be sporting cust…

N 7 Day, the annual celebration of all things Mass Effect, is one again upon us, and BioWare is once again teasing the next Mass Effect with codes, encryption, and video clips—but whether or not we’ll get any insight into what’s actually coming in the next game remains to be seen.

The whole thing started with a message salted into the BioWare’s N7 Day announcement: A series of 0s and 1s that fans on Reddit quickly translated into “Epsilon.” That led to a site with a countdown, which eventually opened up to a small “Access code: Epsilon” site containing a mysterious tease about an encrypted distress signal from Andromeda.

That’s interesting. BioWare has previously indicated that the next Mass Effect won’t be a direct sequel to either Andromeda or the original trilogy, b…

Dave the Diver is a game we didn’t see coming. On the surface it’s a cute indie management game about going fishing and running a restaurant, but underneath all of that lies a compelling narrative, varied and delightful gameplay, and one of the best games of 2023. And now it’s even better, thanks to a major new quality-of-life update.

The update adds functionality for automated quick time events, an under-acknowledged accessibility issue in gaming for people with RSI or other disabilities,  so players will have the option to just push a button and be done with it. 

The overall UI size has been adjusted to make it more usable on both PCs and Steam Decks, an inventory sorting function has been added that enables players to easily ditch unnecessary items while diving,…

The upcoming fan-made Fallout 2 remake (known as Project Arroyo) is apparently making “fast progress,” thanks to the 100-plus developers working on it, according to the project lead, Damion Daponte. If that isn’t good enough news for you, there’s also new concept art and trailers to look at. 

Recently, Daponte discussed Project Arroyo’s progress in an interview with The Gamer and how the team will look to release it once it’s ready. “I’m leaning towards doing what Enderal: Forgotten Stories (a Skyrim mod with a similar aim) did and putting it on Steam,” Daponte says, “It’s just a platform that everyone has. It’s easier to access, easier to update, easier to install. It’s just more efficient.”

However, it’s not just as easy as putting it on Steam. The team working on Pro…

Early access game V Rising has, since launch, amassed a sizeable audience of wannabe bloodsuckers, dedicated to building majestic castles and striking down the holy. At the start of the year developer Stunlock Studios announced it would first of all be improving what one might call the castle fantasy of the game: You couldn’t build vertically, so vampires were reduced to building up hills in order to get that essential looming gothic vibe, but very soon you can.

Stunlock has now detailed what will be the game’s first major (and free) expansion, though this doesn’t mean it’s leaving early access. There’s some major changes incoming, including an overhaul of the spellcasting and magic system that’s at the beating heart of the game’s combat. Arriving in May, it will “let you b…

Haven’t you heard? The PC Gaming Show is returning on June 9 with over 70 games, promising a mix of world premieres, new content for some of your favourite games, and exclusive looks at some of the most exciting titles coming in the next few years. 

Today, we’re excited to lift the lid a little on what we’ve been cooking up, starting with the hosts: Mica Burton, Sean ‘Day9’ Plott and Frankie Ward are all returning to host the PC Gaming Show for the 10th anniversary extravaganza, celebrating not just 10 years of the show, but also a golden decade of PC Gaming. 

Mica Burton, presenter and actor, said: “It’s so great to be back next month presenting the tenth PC Gaming Show with Sean. I’m excited to bring the viewers some great new announcements, world premieres…