Rockstar Games has announced that it will debut the first trailer for “the next Grand Theft Auto” — widely assumed to be titled Grand Theft Auto 6 — in early December.
19.10.2023 - 22:19 / pcgamer.com / Shinji Mikami / John Johanas
The Epic Games Store is bleeding money, but it's also still bleeding free games, and a couple of good ones are on the line right now. This week you can pick up The Evil Within, the hit survival horror game headed up by original Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami, and next week it'll be the sequel, The Evil Within 2. This is the first time that either of The Evil Within games have gone free on Epic, so you'll probably want to grab them while you can.
The Evil Within "[goes] all-in with the awful quite early," PC Gamer brand director Tim Clark said during a «first impressions» gameplay video that's now nearly a decade old. (Man, time flies.) Former associate editor Tom Marks, who joined him on the journey, concurred: «Tyler and I played Alien: Isolation before, and it was an hour long of not much happening and really slow, subtle build-up,» he said. «This is three minutes and we're already in a slaughterhouse.»
So that's what you can expect from The Evil Within: awfulness, fast—but in a good way, if you're into that sort of thing.
The Evil Within 2—which was actually not directed by Mikami, but rather his Tango Gameworks cohort John Johanas—is largely more of the same, but it «improves on its forerunner in almost every way,» we said in our 80% review. I think, though, that it's the words of former PC Gamer editor James Davenport in his classic tale of the milk-wife monster boss that really sums up the spirit of the thing:
«You're in the evil Matrix where everything is made of digi-milk. The lead character's wife is made of milk too, and she can wield the digi-milk like a milk sorcerer, a milkromancer, if you will. At one point you must fight the milk-wife, and it's one of the most ridiculous scenes in a videogame ever contrived. It's dumb and it rules.»
These are not the only free games this week and next: The Evil Within this week is accompanied by Eternal Threads, «a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence» that's actually quite good, and next week The Evil Within 2 will be joined by Tandem: A Tale of Shadows, a highly-regarded puzzle-platformer about a girl, her teddy bear, and a quest to solve the mystery behind the disappearance of a famous magician.
The Evil Within and Eternal Threads are free now and will remain so until October 26, at which point The Evil Within 2 and Tandem: A Tale of Shadows will go on the block until November 2.
Rockstar Games has announced that it will debut the first trailer for “the next Grand Theft Auto” — widely assumed to be titled Grand Theft Auto 6 — in early December.
Next week marks the third year since PS5 launched and we wanted to take this opportunity to thank the more than 40 million players who’ve joined our global PS5 community. In these first three years, PlayStation Studios and third-party developers have introduced more than 2,500 PS5 games for players to enjoy, including fan-favorite titles in recent months like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Final Fantasy XVI.
Xbox has announced a partnership with a company called Inworld AI in order to «empower game creators with the potential of generative AI» and no, you aren't the only one who thinks that sounds incredibly ominous.
The $90 Epic Edition of The War Within grants a three-day head start.
Exciting things are afoot in Azeroth with expected to release not one, but three new expansions as part of their upcoming trilogy, beginning with the upcoming expansion. This expansion will introduce the Horde and Alliance to a new threat that stirs beneath the ground with a new subcontinent full of diverse zones and new races to meet or possibly do battle with. was announced at BlizzCon 2023 through a series of cinematics and discussions with lead developers for the project.
Black Friday is still a few weeks away, but several retailers have already begun rolling out some excellent deals worth checking out this weekend. For example, our top deal this weekend is the inaugural discount on the Asus ROG Ally, knocking $80 off the speedy handheld PC at Best Buy. Some other noteworthy deals include a pair of Humble bundles, a sizeable discount on the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, and some personal favorites from my board game library.
On the WoW: What's Next Panel, one of the new systems announced for The War Within are Delves — New outdoor vaults filled with seasonal treasure, leading to a new Great Vault row for outdoor content! One of the things mentioned about systems in general in The War Within is their expressing of a desire to continue to extend the philosophies first explored in Dragonflight, which includes a focus on evergreen content — Wanting to create content for every type of player and making World of Warcraft better, forever. With that in mind, one of the new systems being announced for The War Within is Delves! Delves are composed of outdoor vaults that players will be able to explore in search of treasure, together with the Dragonscale Expedition.
Recovering legendary magic items, negotiating with world-shaking creatures that wield godlike powers, and facing the enormous apparatus of a wizarding empire. The team behind Worlds Beyond Number’s inaugural Dungeons & Dragons actual-play podcast, The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One, have seemingly done it all — and they’ve done it all while playing their characters at level 1. For producer and audio maestro Taylor Moore, it’s at times just a little bit more than he can believe. During the recording of an upcoming episode, Moore said, he literally ran from the sound booth to the door of the playspace during a break in the action.
Asteroids have posed a threat to Earth with their close approaches throughout history. While most of these ancient space rocks have passed the planet at close proximity, a few of them have impacted Earth, altering the course of history itself. Perhaps the most famous asteroid impact in history is the asteroid which struck Earth 65 million years ago and kicked off the extinction of dinosaurs. Therefore, it is imperative that we discover and study these space rocks up close to minimize any uncertainties around their close approaches and predict any potential impact. This is where NASA's Lucy mission comes in.
Grabbing free games on the internet sounds like a recipe for disaster waiting to happen right? It usually does, but not this time around. Epic Games has been known to give away some amazing games from time to time for free. Over the past few months, we've seen giveaways of popular games such as Horizon Chase Turbo, Wolfenstein: New Order, and even Grand Theft Auto 5! Now, the platform is currently giving away two free survival horror games directed by Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami. Know all about this giveaway.
Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAA - Oh, there you are, Snake. This is just a quick Codec to let you know that Konami's stealth blockbuster bundle Metal Gear Solid - Master Collection Volume 1 is now available to buy. Did you ever play Metal Gear Solid, Snake? It's this sprawling philosophical epic about war, surveillance, AI, nationalism and anti-heroism, a baroque metafictional saga spanning generations that is also a complex series of videogame design experiments. I know - it's a lot to take in, Snake, but you can sort of boil the series down to the difference between two varieties of wall. There are the ones you hide behind, so as to get the drop on your foes, and there are the ones you break, because they're fourth walls, Snake. Do you see?
If you want some early Tango Gameworks horror, you can pick up 2014’s The Evil Within for free through Epic Games Store right now. However, the offer won’t be on forever, so you best pick up a copy before it’s too late.