It’s good news for western Lollipop Chainsaw fans, as the release date for upcoming remaster RePOP has been brought forward in America and Europe. Originally set to release on September 25, it’ll now launch almost two weeks earlier, on September 12. It’s a pleasant surprise, especially considering the game was actually supposed to release a year ago but was delayed until this summer.

The not-so-pleasant surprise, at least for some folk, is the price tag that was revealed alongside the date change. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP will set you back $45—not quite the eye-watering $70 of today’s standards, but some are arguing it’s still too much for what they consider a pared-down version of a 12-year-old game.

“Isn’t this a pretty barebones remaster and the soundtrack removed or…

A modder named VIIVII has created a trio of mods in tribute to their departed, Elder Scrolls-loving mum. The In Memory of my Mom mods for Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind add protective shrines to each game that confer a few buffs to your health, magicka, stamina, or stats. They are very slight things indeed, but I’m afraid to say their emotional impact on me specifically is pretty much equivalent to a meteor strike.

“My mom Teneele passed away in January,” reads the description on all three mod pages, “She was only 46 and in that time I have been trying to cope with the fact she is gone”. They decided that one way to do that would be to honour her memory in some of “the games she introduced me to.”

VIIVII has made a few mods before, but enlisted help from Elder Scrolls moddi…

The work continues on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, as Electronic Arts has unveiled the details of the game’s fifth patch, which is set to go live on PC today. The patch promises to address another big patch of problems, including a handful of PC-specific issues that will hopefully make for a smoother overall experience.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was not in a great state when it rolled out in April. The underlying game is actually quite good, according to our Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review, but it suffered from a multitude of bugs and “unacceptable” performance problems. That manifested in a very ugly “mostly negative” user rating on Steam, although the situation has improved since then to “mixed”—still not great, but at least not an utter catastrophe.

After making a numbe…

It may come as a disappointment to Dark Souls fans, but FromSoftware doesn’t currently have plans to release more DLC after Shadow of the Erdtree for Elden Ring. Dark Souls 2 and 3 had a trio of DLC releases before FromSoft moved onto other projects, but the developer is leaving the future of Elden Ring open for now.

“We don’t have any current plans to make a second DLC or a sequel, but we definitely don’t want to snuff out that possibility,” Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki told IGN. “We think that there could well be something in the future.”

In his answer, Miyazaki mentions a similar comment he made at an E3 presentation in 2015 about the future of the Dark Souls series after the third game. At the time, he said Dark Souls 3 wouldn’t be the end, but that it instead w…

You likely already know this if you keep track of our running list of Steam sale dates, but just in case you don’t—or perhaps you’ve just forgotten amidst all the Black Friday hubbub—the 2023 Steam Autumn Sale is live now, and runs until 10 am PT/1 pm ET on November 28.

As always, the launch of the Steam Autumn Sale also signals the start of the 2023 Steam Awards nominations, enabling you to show some love for your favorite games across 11 unique categories:

• Game of the year
• VR game of the year
• Labor of love
• Best Game on Steam Deck
• Better with friends
• Outstanding visual style
• Best game you suck at

Valve came prepared for Steam Deck OLED launch day. As people race to the store page for its improved handheld gaming PC, the estimated delivery dates for the three available models hasn’t been extended. Only the gray, translucent OLED model has had its expected delivery date pushed from days to weeks.

When the original Steam Deck launched last year, it went on backorder within a few hours, and it took Valve several months to catch up with the demand. The new version, which comes with a beautiful new OLED screen, improved battery life, and a list of other small improvements, looks like it won’t suffer from the same issue. The store page for the $549 (512GB) and $649 (1TB) OLED models still say they’ll be delivered within three to five business days. The same goes for the original …

The surprising news that came out of Bungie yesterday is that The Final Shape, the decade-long saga’s climactic expansion, is adding an entirely new subclass that will enable guardian’s to mix and match powers from all of the existing subclasses. (My emphasis there is to reflect how excited this made our resident Guardian (aka PC Gamer brand director Tim Clark). 

However, once the shock had died down a little, things got weird. You see, it turns out that a month ago someone on Reddit not only predicted that we would be getting a new subclass—an unlikely but not unreasonable guess—but also pretty much the exact details of how Prismatic works, which nobody would reasonably have guessed at that time. 

Which of course now has the community very interested i…

We need to do some kind of wellness check on the Team Fortress 2 community. Sure, the game might have gotten a big summer update and smashed its all-time concurrent player record in the last year, but it’s hardly the apple of Valve’s eye in 2023. Players of the venerable shooter were left to gaze forlornly over at Counter-Strike 2 when that game was announced back in March, wondering if TF2 might get similar treatment “in another decade”.

I think that loneliness might have driven the poor souls to breaking point. In a fit of nostalgia, players across the TF2 community are reminiscing about better times, the golden old days when the game was a brand new and potential-filled part of The Orange Box. Specifically, they’re all singing tributes to the game’s missing tenth class: The Mad…

My friends, it’s my delight to inform you that we have entered the era of magical gun wizards. At least, that’s my takeaway from the trailer for Veil, a just-announced, four-player co-op shooter based around squads of tactical warlocks as they try to keep demons from spilling over into our world. It got its first gameplay trailer today, which you can see above.

Billed as a “mission-based shooter, where you perform work for various power-hungry groups locked in century-long struggle,” Veil looks to me like someone took a Rainbow Six game and gave everyone in it Eldritch Blast. “You’re not just a grunt with a gun,” continues the description, “to even the odds against numerous and powerful enemies, you make demonic pacts that grant you supernatural powers.”

It looks and sounds …