In 2015, seven UFC championship belts changed hands. Jon Jones pleaded guilty to a felony and fell from grace. Ronda Rousey got knocked into oblivion by Holly Holm. Deadspin reported that Vitor Belfort was allowed to compete despite suspicious testosterone levels. Reebok ruined everything. And yet, it’s been a damn good year of fights. Where…
There is, unfortunately, more grim news from the set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, where a crew member was reportedly crushed to death earlier this month. A stuntwoman who’d been injured also recently said that her injuries will cost her an arm. South African website IOL reports that a resident of Cape Town, South…
The big winter Steam sale sure appears to be Just Another Steam Sale, doesn’t it? A handful of Steam users, however, think it’s all a ruse. They believe they’ve found evidence of a secret Valve alternate reality game. It begins with the theme of the Steam sale comic: it’s about a detective named Gingerbread Jake.…
Batshit disaster factory masquerading as a (sometimes disappointing) video game Just Cause 3 is starting to get player-made mods. No one is safe. Case in point: here is a gun that fires air. Air that kills Tristan Miller’s Typhoon Air Gun mod adds a weapon to Just Cause 3 that blows away all the others.…
Single-file lines. The world teaches us to stand in them, almost without thinking about it. Counter-Strike proposes an alternative: you really, really should just never do that. Counter-Strike player ggHushHush posted a highlight in which they took a Scout sniper shot at what appeared to be one enemy player emerging from a smoke grenade haze.…
If you check Steam, you’ll notice that the big Steam winter sale kicked off today. It’s got a couple good deals, a bunch more alright ones, and… that’s kinda it. No big game-like event, no real frills, no surprises. Just like the autumn sale before it. Is it just me, or are Steam sales getting…
No, that’s not a screenshot from the first Halo. That’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Counter-Strike player Itszu went above and beyond in recreating the famous/infamous site of many a brutal fight, tested friendship, and timeless rivalry—most of them in the classic Rooster Teeth series Red vs Blue. Also I guess some people played Halo matches there…
Today the Steam surprise fairy dropped a particularly peculiar game on our doorsteps: Oh… Sir, a one-on-one fighting game where you duel not with sticks, stones, or guns that fire cars, but words. It’s a small game born of a game jam, but it’s charming and good for a few hate-laughs with your friends, rivals,…
Counter-Strike: Global Awakening. WeAreSOLST1CE took Counter-Strike and added a dash of Star Wars. How? Perhaps they spoke words with such mellifluous power that we’re collectively hallucinating something that isn’t there. Or maybe they, you know, edited a replay. One of those.
Valve has come under fire from a French consumer association called UFC Que Choisir (slightly different from that other UFC). The organization litigates on behalf of the public, and they feel that Steam is letting customers down. I like what they’re trying to do, but I don’t love their chances here. UFC Que Choisir believes…
Team Fortress 2 recently got a new update. In broader strokes, it’s pretty standard stuff: new contracts, new weapons, new maps, coordinated aerobics, etc. Players, however, have uncovered some small details that impact the game in a big way. The update, titled Tough Break, includes four community-made maps and a new $5.99 campaign with 26…
“It just feels like we’re dying for nothing, trying to take this base,” lamented one of my teammates during a multiplayer match of Squad. “Well, that’s war,” replied another in a remarkably somber tone. “A whole lot of dying for nothing.” Squad is a large-scale (current max is 72 players in one match, but the…
In Counter-Strike, players can submit their own weapon skins, which Valve will then consider for use in the actual game if they get enough upvotes. One player decided his self-promotion efforts weren’t enough, so he called in a little assistance. Yes, that’s Danny Trejo—of Desperado, Machete, and, er, Spy Kids fame—telling you to check out…
Street Fighter is a game of precise input and output—a delicate tightrope walk of fistic physicality. Hacked together Steam controller motion controls? Maybe not the best idea. And yet… On a whim, ConstableBento took a crack at a motion-centric Ultra Street Fighter IV control scheme that—among other things—replaces the joystick with movement of the controller,…
In many games, people die left and right, and nobody bats an eyelash. In Fragments of Him, one character—controlled by you—dies right at the beginning. The rest of the game is about making that death matter. The upcoming narrative game tells the story of one man, Will (whose last name I really hope is Him),…
The Steam controller got another big update. Now in open beta, it allows you to register your Steam controller for easy access to your configurations anywhere. It also adds a selection of adorable chime noises for when you power on. Watch PocketEngi’s video of them above. I’m especially partial to “triumph.”
The most recent big Counter-Strike update pissed off a lot of players, first with an overpowered new pistol, then more subtly with an overhaul of the way rifles and pistols work. Now, though, Valve’s admitted that they messed up. In the wake of the changes, members of the Counter-Strike community spent a whole week lobbing…
Rainbow Six Siege got its first big update. Hit registration is better. There’s also an auto-kick feature for team killers and an HD graphics pack for PC players. More divisive, meanwhile, are HUD changes that make casual and ranked modes similar. Ubi plans to add a third, less forgiving mode, Hardcore, next year.
Unlike the other gaming platforms we’ve been evaluating here at the end of the year, the PC’s been around for decades. Recently, the PC’s long legacy of openness and customization has come into conflict with a mainstream that’s finally—finally—realized just how big of a deal PC gaming actually is. This is part of our 2015…
Meet the person that has guns for hands and likes to clean trapped in Rainbow Six Siege. PC Gamer associate editor James Davenport decided to try and be a (peaceful) cleaner in Rainbow Six Siege. The resulting faux-interview with his character, Cleany Gunhands, is comedy gold.
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