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Surviving Mars dev explains how we'll set up shop on the Red Planet
https://www.pcgamer.com/surviving-mars-dev-explains-how-well-set-up-shop-on-the-red-planet/
Surviving Mars is Haemimont Games and Paradox Interactive's incoming city builder that's set on our fiery neighbour. Complete with mysterious anomalies, criminal colonists, and disasters back on Earth that can disrupt your new man-made environments, Surviving Mars is due March 15, and will launch with full mod support.

 

The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragon Bones DLC out now alongside character customisation update
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-elder-scrolls-online-dragon-bones-dlc-out-now-alongside-character-customisation-update/
MMO The Elder Scrolls Online has just added two new dungeons as part of its Dragon Bones DLC pack: Scalecaller Peak, the burial site of a long-dead Dragon Priest that's now full of cultists, and the ancient Dwarven ruin of Fang Lair, which is packed with necromancers. And yes, there will be a dragon to fight—or the reanimated bones of one, at least—and you'll get a Dragon Priest mask as soon as you set foot in one of the dungeons.

 

Biomutant shows off intricate character customisation and some of its 500,000+ weapon combos
https://www.pcgamer.com/biomutant-shows-off-intricate-character-customisation-and-some-of-its-500000-weapon-combos/
Despite being shown a hands-off demo at Gamescom, Joe described Biomutant as one of the most exciting games at last year's event. Playable for the first time at the PC Gamer Weekender 2018, developer Experiment 101 joined our livestream to chat about the hybrid action role-player's systems, classes, combat and more.

 

Steel Division: Normandy 44 DLC adds seven new missions and 58 units
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-steel-division-normandy-44-dlc-adds-seven-new-missions-and-58-units/
Excellent real-time wargame Steel Division: Normandy 44 has just deployed its second DLC package, and it's a meaty one. Back to Hell adds seven historically accurate missions, such as Operation Deadstick, an airborne campaign that formed part of the Normandy beach landings. Those seven missions will let you play as 11 divisions that haven't appeared in the game before, including the 1st (US) Infantry Division, or the 'Big Red One', as they were known (you might recognise them from various Call of Duty games, including WW2). Five of the missions are available in co-op.

 

Grimlore Games explains how to balance Spellforce 3's RPG and RTS elements
https://www.pcgamer.com/grimlore-games-explains-how-to-balance-spellforce-3s-rpg-and-rts-elements/
Launched in December last year, Spellforce 3 marks the series' first full entry in over a decade. Combining high fantasy with real-time strategy, Leif spoke warmly of it in his review—and you might have taken it for a spin yourself on the PC Gamer Weekender 2018 show floor.

 

Frozen Synapse 2 spills murderous techno factions all over the PC Gamer Weekender livestream
https://www.pcgamer.com/frozen-synapse-2-spills-murderous-techno-factions-all-over-the-pc-gamer-weekender-livestream/
Like its forerunner, planning is everything—and you're only ever one poorly executed strategy away from meeting your maker. Talking us through one particularly aggressive assault on the PC Gamer Weekender 2018 livestream, here's Paul and Ian from developer Mode 7 Games

 

Smell a rat, and a Chaos army, in Warhammer: Vermintide 2's PC Gamer Weekender livestream panel
https://www.pcgamer.com/smell-a-rat-and-a-chaos-army-in-warhammer-vermintide-2s-pc-gamer-weekender-livestream-panel/
With Warhammer: Vermintide 2 fast approaching, developer Fatshark Games recently showcased its Overwatch-like supers and RPG elements. To this end, while the incoming sequel's tone and atmosphere appears to reflect its forerunner, Vermintide 2 looks to be moving in some different and interesting directions.

 

Next Guilty Gear game will be less complex to attract wider audience, says series creator
https://www.pcgamer.com/next-guilty-gear-game-will-be-less-complex-to-attract-wider-audience/
Developer Arc System Works has found success with Dragon Ball FighterZ, a gorgeous brawler that strikes the right balance between complexity and accessibility. It wants to do the same in the future, and for its Guilty Gear games that will mean streamlining the number of systems in order to attract a wider audience, series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari has said.

 

5 major changes coming to Rainbow Six Siege
https://www.pcgamer.com/5-major-changes-coming-to-rainbow-six-siege/
At Rainbow Six's biggest tournament in its two-year lifespan, the Six Invitational in Montréal, the Siege dev team revealed a handful of significant changes coming to its multiplayer shooter in 2018, all in addition to the new operators and maps coming in Year Three.

 

PQube's Indie Showcase is a colourful explosion of neat-looking games
https://www.pcgamer.com/pqubes-indie-showcase-is-a-colourful-explosion-of-neat-looking-games/
We've had some big hitters here on the PC Gamer Weekender 2018 livestream, but we're just as interested in what PC gaming's smaller studios are up to. Gathered within PQube's Indie Showcase, the following videos look at some of the publisher's typically colourful, quirky and outlandish wares.

 

Oxeye Game Studio explains why Cobalt WASD is such a good fit for PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/oxeye-game-studio-explains-why-cobalt-wasd-is-such-a-good-fit-for-pc/
After much refinement—not least mouse and keyboard support—Oxeye Game Studio's Cobalt returned to PC late last year with Cobalt WASD. In doing so, the original game was almost completely transformed as the developer learned what makes the perfect PC-centric platformer along the way.

 

Rare talks listening to critics and running Sea of Thieves on a potato
https://www.pcgamer.com/rare-talks-listening-to-critics-and-running-sea-of-thieves-on-a-potato/
A few years ago, we published an article asking developers to stop making horrible PC ports. It's a guide that should have been inscribed on massive stone tablets throughout the land, but it's 2018 now, and rubbish PC ports are still happening. One developer our words did get through to is Rare, who took to the stage at the recently concluded PC Gamer Weekender to reveal just how close Sea of Thieves comes to following our extensive list of commandments to the letter.

 

Julian Gollop shows off pincer-wielding boss monsters in new Phoenix Point footage
https://www.pcgamer.com/julian-gollops-shows-off-pincer-wielding-boss-monsters-in-new-phoenix-point-footage/
Following his Saturday stage presentation at the PC Gamer Weekender 2018, Julian Gollop brought 17 minutes of Phoenix Point in-game footage to the event's livestream.

 

Kingdom Come: Deliverance dev explains patch process, targets respec potion and pickpocketing
https://www.pcgamer.com/kingdom-come-deliverance-dev-explains-patching-process-targets-respec-potion-and-pickpocketing-tweaks/
We already know the developer is working on better lockpicking and is mulling a 'save on quit' option—however it's now outlined the behind-the-scenes process of patching the medieval role-player, and its plans for update 1.3.

 

Automaton lifts the lid on Mavericks: Proving Grounds' impressive tech
https://www.pcgamer.com/automaton-lifts-the-lid-on-mavericks-proving-grounds-impressive-tech/
Announced at the PC Gamer Weekender a couple of days ago, Mavericks: Proving Grounds is a massively ambitious 1000-player MMO that will also find the time to cram in a 400-player Battle Royale mode, which will launch first. There's no real footage yet, but in the first of two highlight videos from the PCG Weekender, Automaton Games' James Thompson offers a glimpse of the enormous 16km map we'll be able to explore, while going into detail on some of the technical wizardry that's making it all possible.