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From Fallout to Stalker, GOG's 'Post-apocalyptic Sale' has some strong discounts on well-reviewed PC games

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No doubt celebrating the good reception that the new Fallout TV show has had, I've spotted that GOG has launched a week-long post-apocalyptic sale that discounts many games that offer some sort of 'the world's gone to s**t' setting, from irradiated wastelands to zombie apocalypses.

I've played many of these games, too, making it easy for me to make some recommendations, which I thought might be useful for anyone in the PC gaming community who, beyond the Fallout series, could be looking for something a bit different. As such, here are but a few of the discounted games available now that I think it could be worth checking out.

Days Gone | $12.65/£10 (75% off)
A cracking open-world zombie survival game with plenty of explosive action and, neatly for someone like me who rides and loves motorcycles, some epic motorcycle vehicle fun, too.View Deal

Dying Light: Definitive Edition | $8.85/£7 (75% off)
A strong first-person open world zombie survival game that offers plenty of fun in singleplayer or co-op. This Definitive Edition comes with all the game's DLC, including the large The Following expansion.View Deal

Mad Max | $4.04/£3.19 (80% off)
An open-world action game loaded with plenty of melee and vehicular combat, Mad Max tasks players with surviving The Wasteland. Upgrading your car is fun, as too is smashing bandits.View Deal

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl | $3.15/£2.49 (75% off)
Most the Stalker series is on sale right now, but the OG classic first-person shooter with surivial horror atmosphere is a great introduction. That bit with the Controller mutant still spooks me!View Deal

Kenshi | $9.19/£2.49 (60% off)
If you like the sound of a vast, post-apocalypse survival sandbox, then Kenshi will appeal. Under its not particularly pretty visuals is a game of deep depth, where you can do what you want.View Deal

Beyond a Steel Sky | $7.59/£6 (80% off)
The high-scoring sequel to classic point-and-click, Beneath a Steel Sky, Beyond a Steel Sky offers an immersive adventure game set in a cyberpunk dystopia. Charles Cecil directs.View Deal

Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition | $6.67/£5.29 (67% off)
OK, I've still got to recommend a Fallout game, and this is the best 3D one. The Ultimate Edition includes New Vegas' Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, and Lonesome Road DLC. Hundreds of hours of gaming.View Deal

If you like the sound of any of these PC games and want to read up on them some more, then be sure to check out PC Gamer's official Days Gone review, Dying Light review, Mad Max review, Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl review, Kenshi review, Beyond a Steel Sky review and Fallout: New Vegas review.



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Fallout 4's "next gen" update is out today and might break your mods - here's how to stop it

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Fallout 4's "next generation" update goes live today. Timed to capitalise on the Fallout TV show's mad popularity, it'll encumber the 2015-released open world wasteland RPG with widescreen and ultra-widescreen support, Creation Kit fixes, and a "variety of quest updates" across Steam, Microsoft Store and GOG. There will be new items for the Creation Club, including the Makeshift Weapon Pack, which lets you blast people with a piggy bank like Elon Musk, and a new quest, Echoes Of The Past, in which you try to "stop The Enclave from spreading their dangerous ideology and gaining a foothold in the Commonwealth".

They're also bringing the game to the Epic Games Store and upgrading it to Steam Deck Verified status. Such days of bounty we do live through, but beware - it's possible the update will break existing Fallout 4 mods, which will be a problem for the very large numbers of you who've been downloading mods after watching the show. Indeed, the possibility of today's update messing with mods has already seen the creators of the promising Fallout: London delay release to assess the damage. If you're similarly concerned, you might want to disable auto-updates right now.

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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Isekai Chronicles is a New Action RPG Coming in August

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Rimuru Tempest, the main character of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Isekai Chronicles



Bandai Namco has announced That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Isekai Chronicles, an action RPG coming to PC and consoles in August.
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Manor Lords Is Good, But Let’s Pump Our Brakes A Little

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It's got some good ideas, but it's also very unfinished

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Two Popular Fallout 76 Builds To Stop You From Dying In The Wasteland

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Fallout 76 isn’t like Bethesda’s previous open-world RPGs. While those single-player adventures were somewhat forgiving campaigns that let you build your character however you wanted, the multiplayer spin-off is full of bullet sponge-y enemies that require you to focus on a particular skill set in order to survive the…

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Nintendo issues takedowns against 20 years of Garry's Mod content, devs ask for your help "by deleting your Nintendo-related uploads and never uploading them again"

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Somebody at Nintendo has apparently just discovered the existence of the Steam Workshop, and the Garry's Mod devs are now scrambling to moderate 20 years worth of user uploads to make sure they're free of IP violations.

"Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down," the devs say in a Steam news post. "This is not a mistake, the takedowns came from Nintendo. Honestly, this is fair enough. This is Nintendo's content and what they allow and don't allow is up to them. They don't want you playing with that stuff in Garry's Mod - that's their decision, we have to respect that and take down as much as we can."

It seems it's quite a job, too, as the devs note "we have 20 years of uploads to go through. If you want to help us by deleting your Nintendo related uploads and never uploading them again, that would help us a lot."

I couldn't possibly begin to guess the full breadth of Nintendo-related add-ons people have uploaded for Gary's Mod, but a quick search for "Mario" on the Steam Workshop returns 5,624 results across 188 pages, and that's just one corner of Nintendo's IP library. Godspeed to the devs now forced to sort through all this.

Nintendo has famously been extremely protective of its IP, but its lawyers have seemed extra busy over the past year or two. There was the takedown of images for emulators, the death of the Zelda: Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod, and the lawsuit that killed Switch emulator Yuzu. With each new creation from the Nintendo fandom, we just have to keep hoping that Nintendo itself doesn't actually take notice of it.

Nintendo knows it can't prove emulation is illegal, but its latest tactic is very effective at knocking out sources of Switch piracy.



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