The hits just keep coming for Overwatch 2’s PvE ambitions. Its initial plans—which included talent trees and long-term progression—were scrapped in May. Then we found out they’d be charging $15 for a less elaborate version of its promised story campaign. Now, as reported by Gamesradar, they’ll be released at a snail’s pace.

The announcement came from the game’s executive producer Jared Neuss on a Twitch appearance with streamer Emonng. “Don’t expect the next [round of missions] in the next season or the next season after that. It’s trying to find that balance between getting them in front of players quickly because we love story stuff, and [we want to give] ourselves enough time to make changes or add features.” 

He later outlines plans for a more piecemeal …

It looks like, despite the technical closure of the studio that first made it,  comedic action-adventure game Journey to the Savage Planet is going to get a sequel after all, with job listings and an intellectual property filing pointing towards a sequel called “Revenge of the Savage Planet.” Dissolved original studio Typhoon reformed as Raccoon Logic, and has since been working on an unconfirmed sequel codenamed Lodestar.

Raccoon Logic declined a request for comment from PC Gamer.

A report by MP1st identified the Canadian intellectual property filing for the new title, as well as the job listings for voice actors on a website for open casting calls. The filing gave the name Revenge of the Savage planet, while the casting calls were for a “formally dressed sci-fi spokes…

Slender Man—one of the few creepypastas that’s gone mainstream and whose videogame adaptations The Eight Pages and sequel-slash-expansion Slender: The Arrival captivated horror gamers at the time—appears to be making a comeback next month.

As spotted by PCGamesN, developer Blue Isle Studios has dropped a 14-second teaser trailer on its YouTube page, as well as throwing up a countdown on the Slender: The Arrival website. The teaser “He’s waiting…” doesn’t give much away, mind. It’s nothing more than a shrivelled-up Gollumesque lad hunched over in a dim, derelict basement while a ceiling lamp swings back and forth. The screen glitches a couple of times before fading to black.

As of writing, the countdown on the website is for a whopping 34 days from now. Wha…

It is common knowledge that arms manufacturers and the videogames industry have partnerships and sponsorship deals, with series like Call of Duty sometimes even including gunmakers like Colt in their credits. But we almost never get a glimpse at what these deals involve, both in terms of the finances and the thinking behind marketing real weapons in virtual worlds.

Internal emails and company records from Remington Arms, a subsidiary of arms manufacturer The Freedom Group, have been disclosed by a US lawyer following proceedings against the group. They were obtained as part of a lawsuit filed by parents of children killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which the killer used a Remington AR15 rifle, and were first reported by the Wall Street Journal…

OLED technology took its sweet time making the jump from TVs to PC monitors. The only snag is that the best OLED gaming monitors seem to be taking just as long to become affordable.

The good news is that this year’s Prime Day deals have taken a big step in that direction. Are they actually cheap? Not exactly, but you’re looking at savings upwards of $1,000 and prices that are certainly more accessible than when OLED monitors all had four-figure price tags.

Quick links

• LG UltraGear OLED | $599.99 @ Newegg (save $400)
• Alienware 34 AW3423DWF OLED | $699.99 @ Dell
• Gigabyte Aorus CO49DQ | $899.99 @ Amazon (save $200)
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Have you heard of the critically-acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14? Founding father of the Final Fantasy franchise Hironobu Sakaguchi sure has.

After leaving the company in 2004 to found developer Mistwalker, Sakaguchi kept Square Enix broadly at arm’s length, though the ice has melted in past years, with Sakaguchi joining forces with Square to re-release his mobile RPG Fantasian. He’s also really been getting into FF14, playing it for 12 hours a day and, occasionally, trolling the game’s director Naoki Yoshida live on stage.

In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Sakaguchi reflects on the eerie feeling of going to work with Square after over two decades, saying “It was almost like going to a 20-year high-school reunion”.

As for his new habit, an event he was asked to a…

Surely everyone knows this extremely specific frustration: a game expects you to accompany an NPC while they lead you to the next part of the quest, talking the whole way, but they travel slower than your running speed and faster than your walking speed. You have to alternate awkwardly between a stroll and a jog the whole way, instead of just being able to walk alongside them like a normal person.

While some games let you match the pace of NPCs when you need to, Skyrim does not. Which can be a real hassle when Esbern or some other mouthy plot-related character has to guide you to the next bit of story. Here’s modder wSkeever with the solution: Simplicity of Stalking—Automatically Follow NPCs.

It’s a straightforward mod. Simply hold shift and mouse over an NPC to make t…

Manor Lords is out today and it’s going gangbusters, having now surpassed 150,000 concurrent players on Steam. It’s also sitting atop a “very positive” user rating, with 90% of the more than 1,600 user reviews posted so far. That’s a pretty good first day, and at this point I’m left with just one burning question: Why the hell is the developer called “Slavic Magic?”

In all honesty it’s not really something I’ve been pondering for any length of time, but it did come up in a recent interview with Unreal. Manor Lords is actually being made by a solo developer, Greg Styczeń (with some outsourced work enabled by his Patreon and an Epic MegaGrant), but a cool studio name looks good in press releases. 

And in this case it’s not just a good (if somewhat odd) name, but ther…

There’s a hint for today’s Wordle just below, ready to help out if you need it. You’ll also find our quick tips if you’d like to give your puzzle-solving a more general boost, and the answer to the April 24 (1040) Wordle is further down if you really need that win.

Today’s Wordle became a heck of a lot easier once I stopped chasing the wrong answer. I’m kicking myself right now. If I’d been a little bit more careful, a little more aware, after my second go, I could’ve finished today’s Wordle in a flash.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Wednesday, April 24

You’re looking for alternative ways of saying something is obvious, or in plain sight today. If something is _____, then it’s clear for all to see. There are two different vowels hid…