Showcased today at the PC Gaming Show, Shell Runner is an isometric PvE tactical extraction shooter set in a world where corporations have taken total control, opening the door to a thriving but brutal underworld where making a buck is as easy as pulling a trigger.

Well, maybe not quite that easy. Along with a gun, you’ll also need a “Shell” to carry about your dirty work—essentially a body you control remotely. Is it an android? A clone? A Syndicate-style sucker taken from the streets? That’s not entirely clear and frankly it’s probably best not to think about it too much.

Turn your attention instead to the numerous weapons, gadgets, and cyberpunk technology available to help get the job done, with loot rarity and “RPG-style progression” enabling characters t…

I felt like I was late to the party when I started playing Satisfactory like mad in 2020, more than a year after the building game first released in early access on the Epic Games Store. Another four years later Satisfactory has finally arrived at its 1.0 release and proven just how off base I was. It peaked at close to 200,000 players the weekend after launch, more than four times its previous record. Apparently developer Coffee Stain was just as surprised as I was.

“I think I’ve finally gained my sleep cycle, but the last week has been insane,” community manager Snutt Treptow said in an interview with PC Gamer. “I really thought once we dropped the game on release day, I’d be able to breathe, but no, it totally exploded, and we’re super stoked. We broke all our records. I thin…

One of our favorite RTX 4070-powered gaming laptops is back on sale. Best Buy is again offering a deal on an Asus ROG Zephyrus 16, equipped with an RTX 4070 and a 240Hz 1600p display, all for $1,500, a $450 reduction from its original price. Although this laptop was discounted a few months ago at $1,600, it quickly sold out before we could make a post about it. 

Fortunately, there appears to be an ample supply at Best Buy this time, and the retailer has lowered the price by an additional $100.

The Asus ROG Zephyrus 16 is a 16-inch laptop with an Intel Core i9 13900H processor and an RTX 4070 graphics card. Anticipate achieving impressive frame rates at 1080p and 1600p (yes, it boasts a 16:10 aspect ratio). 

On the memory side, the 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB N…

Valheim’s latest update has just hit the public test server, which means it’ll be released for all very soon, and introduces the long-promised world modifiers that will allow players to tweak the experience to exactly the atmosphere they’re looking for. As well as this, it adds a new quest-giving NPC, new locations, new hair and beard styles (very important in a viking game), and excellent-looking manual snapping when building.

The new world modifiers allow players to change the difficulty, but also add a creative mode called Hammer mode that should result in some spectacular creations. The modifiers are:

• Casual mode: In casual mode monsters will not attack you until provoked, there are no raids on your base, resources are more plentiful, you will not drop equipp…
  

The System Shock remake is finally here, eight years after it was first announced, and Nightdive is already thinking about what it wants to do next with the series. It might not be what we expect, either: In a chat with TechRadar, Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick mulled over a few potential projects the studio could attach the System Shock name to, including a straightforward remake of System Shock 2 or, intriguingly, an XCOM-like strategy game set on Citadel Station.

Kick said that Nightdive might prefer to let System Shock 2’s upcoming enhanced edition “breathe on its own for a bit” before the studio committed to a full remake of that game, meaning there might be a bit of room to experiment with the series. “We’ve talked about exploring the System Shock universe in different genres,” …

Obsidian recently showed off a sizeable chunk of Avowed, its upcoming first-person fantasy RPG. As you’d expect from the developers behind Pillars of Eternity, Avowed looks like a colourful, characterful affair. As we’ve also come to expect from Obsidian, it currently looks a little bit wonky. In particular, the combat depicted in the video drew criticism from the community, with complaints that fights lacked a sense of dynamism and impact.

As reported by IGN, game director Carrie Patel has now responded to these criticisms. Speaking on the Dropped Frames podcast, Patel explained that the footage shown in the video is from an older build of the game. “We’re getting to show more and more, but all of that is while the game is still in progress,” Patel said. “One of the heartening th…

Up and coming fantasy extraction game Dark and Darker has been taken down from Steam following a cease and desist as well as DMCA claim by publisher Nexon. It’s an apparent escalation of Nexon’s existing dispute with Dark and Darker developer Ironmace around the game’s development assets. Overnight, from March 24th into the 25th, assets and material from Dark and Darker’s Steam page were removed, followed by its co-op and PvP servers going dark, and culminating with the removal of the game from steam’s Store.

This follows the search earlier this month of Ironmace’s offices, where police seized materials related to the game project. At the time Ironmace said that “absolutely no stolen assets or code were used to make our game” and that players should not worry, as “nothing was foun…

A new update from Starbreeze on the status of the much-needed first patch for Payday 3 does not offer much in the way of good news: The patch is still not ready to go, and there’s no indication as to when it will be. Instead, the studio has come to us with a brief explanation of how it all went so disastrously wrong, and what it’s doing to try to fix it.

There is one bright spot amidst all the gloom: The first patch has been sent off for console certification, a process required by Sony and Microsoft to ensure, as much as possible, that game updates aren’t going to cause any unintended grief. Certification requirements forced a delay in the release of the patch in early October; at the time, Starbreeze expected it would be ready to go live by mid-October, but obviously that didn’t…