The highs and lows of the week in PC games

The hights

Tyler Wilde: War, recreated

I'm going to play Warcraft 3 again. At BlizzCon this week, Blizzard announced that a remaster, Warcraft 3: Reforged, arrives next year – and of course, I'm going to play that. Now, if only someone could reforge gaming cafes that exclusively serve Bawlz and tower defense cards, I could be 18 years old.

Samuel Roberts: reappearance

The prospect of two Respawn games in 2019, it is rather exciting. We know that one is a Star Wars game and the other is almost certainly a Titanfall. It will also be a year skiing on Battlefield, making it a good time to launch a multiplayer shooter, although I feared another great solo campaign at Titanfall.

Since EA got the license in 2013, it's crazy that it took six years for a non-Battlefront Star Wars game to be released by the publisher. Surely someone could have done a sequel to Yoda Stories at that time?

Chris Livingston: Falling in

It's great, after all this waiting, to be able to play Fallout 76 on PC instead of speculating on it. There was definitely a lot of inconvenience to launching the beta version of PC, especially regarding missing features, some of which are very critical, such as lack of text chat and a number of missing graphical options (please let me disable motion blur). Not to mention the major problem that forced us to download the full beta version twice again. It was not pretty.

But I like it too. I've always preferred to play Fallout 3 and 4 by using stealth, sneaking and styling enemies from afar, and at level 10 with a legitimate sniper rifle, I removed a dead super mutant. I just scratched the surface of the game and its large map, but it's nice to be able to at least play it at last and find out what it's all about. I play mostly solo and I do it with a lot of success, although having other players around adds some nice tension and not too much trouble (up to present) unless their pickups are open while they are eating. I really appreciate the benefits system, too. There is two more beta sessions this weekendand Bethesda just gave each beta participant three keys to shareso maybe I'll see you there.

Philippa Warr: Looking in the abyss

No Man's Sky finally decided to fully enjoy my underwater enthusiasms with his latest update. Space fish! Weird things about barnacles that seem to burst from time to time, which means it could be strange vents or volcanoes instead of barnacles! Components of dedicated aquatic buildings so that I do not have to wedge an observation deck in the sea and pretend that it has structural integrity! Mention of a kind of submarine on which I did not investigate because I was hijacked by geese! Let's just ignore the fact that, following a series of quite reasonable decisions, I found myself trapped under a glass dome in the middle of the ocean and unable to get out.

Tom Senior: Remediation

I'm really excited about Control. I like Remedy's style and I'm really up for a concentrated shooter set in a surreal facility that can move and warp around the player. I also love the way the game uses intense lighting and simple geometry to create its sinister atmosphere. This horror flavor – ordinary objects that is against us – is a recurring theme in SCP fictionand Sam Lake loves David Lynch a little. This mix of influences seems incredible to me.

This week we put our mag function dig into the development of Control. It covers the configuration of the mysterious Oldest House and addresses the character of the player, Jesse, and his telekenetic powers. Unless Blizzard announces Diablo 4 or something like that, it's probably my most anticipated game of 2019.

Jarred Walton: Reasonable RTX

The launch pricing of Nvidia RTX cards is pretty ridiculous. We went from 1070 to the official base price of $ 380 at launch (currently $ 300 to $ 350), RTX 2070 Founders Edition at $ 599. We had been told that the RTX 2070 reference models would be more widely available, but I was skeptical. Two months after the launch and the lowest price I can find on the fastest map is a Gigabyte RTX 2080 Ti Windforce and a 750 W power supply for $ 1,288.

But I'm misleading. What I really want to talk about is the EVGA RTX 2070 Black, which comes with reference clocks and also hits the target price of $ 499. The stock market performance is slightly better than that of a GTX 1080, and overclocking has worked as fast as an overclocked 2070 FE. It's not the biggest GPU in the world, but it's at least a more reasonable option than the Founders Edition.