If you didn’t figuratively fill your boots with Memorial Day sale items over the weekend, you’ll be pleased to hear that Best Buy still has a few solid offers for the PC gamer with money to burn, including a whole host of pre-built gaming PCs and gaming laptops up for grabs, plus loads of discounts on mice, keyboards and Samsung’s 240Hz CRG5 monitor.
With all the various E3-type events starting to kick off in earnest now, the number of new PC games coming out in 2020 is getting bigger and bigger with every passing week. As a result, I thought it would be a good time to give our list of 2020 PC release dates another chunky update to make sure you know exactly when all the biggest and best PC games are coming out this year (as well as which big PC games have since been delayed until 2021).
Ordered by month, I’ve rounded up all of this year’s new PC games so you can see exactly what’s coming out and when. There are still lots of games whose release dates are TBA at the moment, but I’ll be updating this list regularly as and when they get confirmed. In the mean time, here’s your complete guide to PC gaming in 2020 as it currently stands.
The Dota 2 International 10 Battle Pass has landed, and the ground hath buckled beneath its weight. There is a silly number of new cosmetics and features for those who buy it, and a few new features for those who don’t. Everyone now gets to play mini-games during those inevitable mid-game pauses when one player vanishes, and everyone can join newfangled player guilds where you jointly earn cosmetic rewards. Only Pass owners can create guilds, but I bet you know at least one sucker.
Folks rooting around in the recent release of Mafia III‘s Definitive Edition have found part of Berlin, a level scrap likely from a cancelled espionage game. Supposedly a project Hangar 13 started after Mafia 3, the game known as Rhapsody was never announced but whispers have leaked out before. Now here’s a rough outline of Berlin, which might be the most we’ll ever see of Rhapsody. That’s a nice little find, though it’s less nice that some players are reporting the Def Ed has brought new technical problems too.
Quantic Dream’s trio of old PlayStation exclusives are being plonked in front of a new set of PC players next month, as Heavy Rain, Detroit: Become Human and Beyond: Two Souls are arriving on Steam on June 18th. They first launched on PC last year via the Epic Games Store, and it’s not long now before they’re freed of their exclusivity shackles. So, which will you try first? The murder mystery about finding your stolen kid? The android simulator that makes you decide if robots should be free? Or will you become a young girl trying to figure out what’s up with her weird friend? You decide!
may have borrowed very little from its parent game in terms of features, sticking largely to the blockbuster construction game’s aesthetics instead, but that’s not to say it hasn’t given plenty back. While Dungeons was being developed, according to executive director David Nisshagen in my interview with him, its team came up with illagers, a.ka. angry squidwards, in order to provide a staple humanoid mob for the player to batter by the dozen throughout the blocky ARPG’s levels. But the idea was swiftly nabbed by the regular Minecraft team, and before Dungeons was even in the game, illagers were HARR-ing their way across Minecraft worlds from the spring of 2019. So, if the folks at Mojang are open to sneaking elements into Minecraft from its younger sibling, what else should make its way in? Here’s my pick – but let me know what you’d like to see make the jump across in ye olde comments section.
Good news for readers that pay in US dollars rather than pounds: Ubisoft are having a pretty comprehensive sale on their big hitting titles over on their US store right now, including 67% off Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and The Division 2, and a whopping 75% off Far Cry 5.
Maybe there’s not much Minecraft in Minecraft Dungeons, but there is a pretty decent action-RPG or so I hear. Mojang’s click-click-click-click-clicking dungeon crawler launched today, with nary a block to mine or tree to punch but some weird and fun builds to experiment with. I’m up for an ARPG where one armour perk gives you a pet bat.
In Minecraft Dungeons, you are a hero tasked with stopping the Arch-Illager and his army of monsters from taking over the Overworld. The journey will be a long one, spanning multiple difficulties, but there is plenty of loot out there to help you along the way.
If you are used to Minecraft’s focus on building and exploring, then the RPG style of this new game might be as alien to you as an Enderman in daylight. Help is at hand though as we will guide you through the monsters and the hidden treasures of Minecraft Dungeons. (more…)
Just when you thought the excellent Logitech G915 Lightspeed wireless keyboard couldn’t get any better, Logitech have just gone and announced they’re making a compact tenkeyless model of it, the G915 TKL. Launching this June for £200 (US pricing TBC), it’s still going to cost you a pretty penny when it comes out next month, but if you’ve been searching for a space-saving gaming keyboard that does away with all those pesky wires, then the G915 TKL could be just the thing.
