Drake Hollow is latest game from The Flame in the Flood developers The Molasses Flood, just announced at X019. The official website simply describes Drake Hollow as “Action Village Building” which makes me think we’ll be fending off waves of enemies, venturing out to collect building resources, and slowly piecing together a nice little town. It’ll be a multiplayer game too, seeing how many teens come sliding in on that crystal telephone wire, and confirmed by a developer tweet. There are quick g

It’s been over two years since Age of Empires 4 was first announced. Our first question was, of course, where in the hell has the game been these last two years! As we continue through development and show more of it, it’s our promise that it is all real. Age of Empires 4 doesn’t have a release date yet, but it is expected to launch for PC towards the tail end of 2020. We’ll have more on the upcoming strategy game soon, and we can already confirm that it’s looking bloody wonderful.

November 14-16, 2019X019 is officially in full swing and, while we didn’t get any official news on Xbox Project Scarlett, there were plenty of other big announcements during X019’s special Inside Xbox stream to keep us going for the next while. So, strap in, and we’ll take you through all the biggest announcements you may have missed from X019. Outside of E3 2019, X019 is Microsoft’s biggest event of the year. X019: the biggest announcementsBig updates to Project xCloudThe vast majority of the b

The first ever gameplay from inXile’s upcoming party-based RPG Wasteland 3 was revealed today during Microsoft’s big X019 livestream. The video showcased the snowy environs of Colorado, where a team of Desert Rangers has gone in search of one of their own, and also served up a release date of May 19. It’s an old-school style of RPG, but the previous game was excellent and I have high hopes for this one. You don’t need to have played that one to dive into Wasteland 3, however, as InXile CEO Brian

X019 was full of announcements for new games coming to Xbox One, but Microsoft still has more to share before the new year arrives. In a pre-briefing attended by GR+’s own Josh West, head of Xbox Games Studios Matt Booty told us that announcements like Grounded and Everwild the announcements were “just the tip of the iceberg”. While 2020 is going to be big ( Xbox Project Scarlett , duh), Microsoft still has more new games to reveal before the end of the year. “It’s really exciting. Since we’re r

There’s a certain screenshot I wanted to use for this article, but sadly can’t: The Witcher 3 is coming to Xbox Game Pass, but not the PC version of the subscription. It and a ton of other games will be available with a Game Pass PC subscription this year and next. The new games available now are: Age of Empires 2, Hearts of Iron 4, The Talos Principle, and Tracks: The Train Set Game. Before the end of 2019, Halo Reach, Darksiders 3, The Red Strings Club, The Escapists 2, Vambrace: Cold Soul, an

At a pre-briefing event ahead of today’s X019 show, Xbox boss Phil Spencer argued that Xbox Game Pass and subscription-based services like it can help game developers avoid the pressure to “chase service-based games.” However, Spencer said,the evergreen reach and accessibility of Xbox Game Pass can help offset this pressure and give devs the freedom to make games with conventional endings and sustainability models. “We see Game Pass as a really critical way to bring new games to new players, wit

Minecraft Dungeons will release in April 2020, according to a new (and very brief) trailer. The isometric dungeon crawler adopts the familiar Minecraft voxel aesthetic, except instead of building fully-functioning calculators and scale models of the Taj Mahal, you’ll be smashing enemies to bits and taking their loot. The trailer also indicates that signing up for updates may also grant you early access to the game. While it definitely looks like Minecraft, this outing will eschew mining and buil

Xbox Game Pass is a sweet deal that just got sweeter. At today’s X019 show, Microsoft announced over 50 new titles that will be added to the service in the coming months, including some high-profile Japanese games such as Final Fantasy, Yakuza, and Kingdom Hearts. There are plenty of other great games coming to Xbox Game Pass soon, and some of them are available right now. If you’re interested in trying the subscription, you can now get three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for just $1, and fo

In late 2018 it got a new Game+ mode with a more challenging difficulty, and earlier this year new levels were added in the free Picnic Panic DLC. And now it’s free for the week on the Epic Games Store: Hit the page, click the “get” button, take it from there. There’s only one free game this week, because The Messenger is rated E10+ by the ESRB. (Access to “Mature” games can be disabled by Epic Store parental controls, so whenever the weekly freebie is M-rated Epic gives away a second, more fami

The spiritual successor to the Roller Coaster Tycoon games is coming to consoles: Frontier Developments has announced that Planet Coaster, the theme park building sim it first released on PC in 2016, will finally arrive on PS4 and Xbox One in 2020. The company celebrated the news with a new trailer that shows a family who has bits of their house replaced with soda stands and roller coaster tracks, but in a good way. If you’ve never played Planet Coaster or the Roller Coaster Tycoon games, they’r

Bungie promised in October, when it nerfed Destiny 2’s bottom-tree Striker and Dawnblade subclasses, that the Titan helmet One-Eyed Mask would be dialed back at some point in the future. Handy for anyone on the right side of a fight, yes, but a little too good to be left alone. I probably don’t need to explain why wall hacks in a supposedly competitive FPS rustle a lot of people’s jimmies. Although the precision damage modifier did not actually improve the efficacy of the weapon at its best, it

2010’s Halo: Reach is making its way over to PC on December 3 as part one of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Microsoft announced at X019. The entire collection is available on Game Pass for PC, so if you’re subscribed you’ll automatically have access to Halo: Reach next month. Halo: Reach is the prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved and the last entry in the franchise by the original developer Bungie. The entire PC collection can be pre-ordered on Steam or the Microsoft store for $40 USD, or you ca

Final Fantasy 14 was conspicuously missing from the batch of Final Fantasy games coming to Game Pass , but Phil Spencer promises we’ll see the cross-platform MMO on Xbox One eventually. Speaking to press in a pre-briefing at X019, Microsoft’s executive vice president of gaming Phil Spencer said Microsoft is in the process of finding a “solution” to bringing Final Fantasy 14 to Xbox One. Microsoft announced at X019 that a slew of popular Final Fantasy games would be coming to PC and Xbox Game Pas

She’s expanded her craft into That Cheese Class, which teaches a cheese plate design method she’s coined Cheese By Numbers. As an added bonus, she says, “cheese boards bring people together … and the best part about cheese plates is that you do not need to be a chef to make one.” And, as a bonus, here are two great recipes: one for a great cheese plate that costs less than $3 per person and takes less than 30 minutes to put together, and another for an on-the-go cheese plate to make your hecti

Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally on PC and its sweeping slice of the Wild West has never looked prettier. Lens(Image credit: Rockstar Games)This is one of the most powerful options in Red Dead’s photo mode. Send us your best shots Now that you’ve mastered Red Dead’s photo mode we want to see your screenshots. Mail your best snaps to letters@pcgamer.com with the subject line RED DEAD PHOTOGRAPHY and we’ll feature our favourites on the site. (Image credit: Rockstar Games)(Image credit: Rockstar Ga

In 2005’s Super Princess Peach, the royal highness drowns enemies with her own tears. There’s another theory, ignited by a scene in 2002’s Super Mario Sunshine where Bowser Jnr. But let us not forget that Princess Peach is the totalitarian ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom. But what of 1986 anime Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! (rough translation: Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!

Looking for a new gaming laptop for yourself or a loved one? Here’s a model from MSI being sold as part of the early Walmart Black Friday sale for an absolute steal. This is a 15.6-inch, 1080p gaming laptop with the latest in entry-level Nvidia graphics hardware and a spacious solid-state drive (SSD) for a frankly insane price this far ahead of Black Friday. Slap another monitor onto this setup with the laptop’s HDMI-out or mini DisplayPort – or both – and you can rock a screen arrangement of up

If you’ve been oggling the specs of the latest Apple laptop but been disappointed by the price, Best Buy might just have the 16-inch MacBook Pro price to sweeten the deal. The 16-inch MacBook Pro was ushered into stores this week, boasting eye-watering spec possibilities and a gorgeous new intelligent Retina display. We’ve put together an even longer list of the latest Best Buy Black Friday deals too. Best Buy 16-inch MacBook Pro 2019 price cutMacBook Pro 16-inch 512GB SSD | $2,399 $2,299.99 at

At the time, it was made clear this was a decision that would play out going forwards, so it’s no surprise that Disney Plus has launched without it. The real reason Simpsons fans are mad at Disney PlusThe episode removal isn’t worth getting that upset about. Besides, The Simpsons launched on Disney Plus this week with some actual controversy among passionate fans of the show. The arrival of The Simpsons on Disney Plus still feels like a big deal, then, but it’s not the total slam dunk it could’v