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The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 8/18/2015

Can you handle the blistering heat from a plasma rifle? The howling screech of an insectoid army? The earth-shaking rattle of armored cyborgs? Prepare for the fight of your life, soldier! Helldivers Super-Earth Ultimate Edition is coming to PlayStation this week. Super-Earth Ultimate Edition packs in the tremendous Helldivers experience along with all the DLC…

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Conan Exiles whips out a massive Unreal Engine 5 upgrade that includes an ‘enhanced endowment slider’ to further improve player penises

Conan Exiles received a major update earlier this week, upgrading Funcom’s sword & sorcery survival game to Unreal Engine 5 with all the graphical whizzbangs that entails. Conan Exiles Enhanced introduces Lumen-powered global illumination, enhanced geometry, improved character models, lighting and effects, among many other things. This includes an, er, improvement to one of Conan…

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Learn more than you ever wanted to know about the weird world of Santa games on Steam in our Christmas quiz!

More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. It’s Christmas, and as custom dictates, I’ve got a present for you! Once you’re done singing carols, roasting chestnuts, kissing…

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To celebrate 5 years in early access, Valheim gets a new hat, better Steam Deck performance, and—wait for it—frosted sweetbread

It’s been five years since Valheim revitalized the survival craft genre. At the time I remember thinking “why would anyone want to play a new game in this style when there’s already Minecraft, Ark and Rust?”. With the benefit of hindsight I know that two things worked in Valheim’s favour. One was its clever finetuning…

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‘We need to do lightweight, but fine, what else?’ says Logitech chief engineer, and after getting tons of hours in with the Superstrike I agree the new tech is worth a heavier gaming mouse

The Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike is the first gaming mouse to offer adjustable actuation and rapid trigger for super-quick click response. I’m already sold on it, having used it a ton over the last week in my Counter-Strike matches, and it looks like a bunch of other competitive gamers are sold on it, too….

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