Vortiger, the Black Prior, a new For Honor hero that Ubisoft teased in December, will join the fight on January 31 for Year 3 Pass holders, at the beginning of the Year of the Harbinger. When she was defeated, the Order scattered, but now they’re back to fight for Vortiger and make amends for their past misdeeds. Black Priors are heavy heroes who, in case you didn’t notice it in the teaser, wield a funky longsword and bear a kite shield that’s roughly the size of a VW Microbus. The Black Priors

Or to put it another way, Sapphire plans to launch a Radeon RX 570 graphics card with 16GB of GDDR5 memory, which is twice as much as a regular Radeon RX 570. This is the reason why Sapphire is plopping gobs of memory on a special Radeon RX 570 variant. “Although GPU mining will eventually tail off, there is a tremendous opportunity for first-movers to take advantage of the high rewards from early mining. “This will allow miners to see-saw between each one as the difficulty swings from back and

Unconventional 4X Warhammer 40,000: Gladius welcomed the ravenous tyranids to the war over the titular planet this week. I dove into the DLC to find out if the tyranids really deserve their bad reputation. Tom called it bland in his Warhammer 40,000: Gladius review, and while I have a more favourable opinion, it’s often too straightforward. Gladius’ hook is that it’s as much a hexy tactics game as it is a 4X. The more of Gladius I play, the more convinced I am that diplomacy should stop being a

Genesis Alpha One, an unusual mix of roguelike shooter and spaceship building management game, has a new trailer that gives us a better look at how the roguelike elements work. It was announced back in 2017, but it looks like I’ve sleeping on Genesis Alpha One. As the captain of the titular ship, players have to traverse space to find new homes for humanity, or at least humanity’s DNA. On planets, there are resources to harvest and new aliens to meet (and also harvest), and from the looks of thi

Its newest model—and only its second standalone case in over a decade—is the ROG Strix Helios that was teased at CES. Asus classifies the ROG Strix Helios as a mid-tower. It has 10 expansion slots, though two of them sit vertically so you can display your graphics card in the same orientation. It will be interesting to see how seriously Asus takes the case market going forward. As for the ROG Strix Helios, the company has not yet announced a price or said when it will be available to buy.

Black Desert Online is a sandbox MMO with a very detailed character creator and surprisingly brilliant trade system. As of today, it is also the latest victim of the ‘everything must have a battle royale mode’ craze. The new Shadow Arena mode is still in development, but you can try out an early access version in-game today. 50 players will be flung into an arena where they have to gather supplies and survive until they’re the last person standing. For now, the Warrior, Sorceress, Berserker, Tam

Hitman 2 developer IO Interactive is opening a new studio in Malmö, Sweden, it announced today. “We are super excited and proud to announce IOI Malmö,” says CEO Hakan Abrak. “We will expand IOI to join a buzzing game developer community and bring our own unique IOI culture to this amazing town. In other words, IOI Malmö and Copenhagen are one family.”IO Interactive broke from publisher Square Enix in 2017 after nine years. The developer was able to keep Hitman after the management buyout, which

Bandai Namco has announced a new Dragon Ball Z action RPG. We’ll find out more at the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour finals later this month. On the subject of Dragon Ball FighterZ, it’s getting a new character, also to be announced at the finals. In 2019, the project of a New Game focusing on the World of Dragon Ball Z begins! And more news coming to DRAGON BALL FighterZ!

Anthem lead producer Ben Irving has confirmed that BioWare’s impending shooter will feature matchmaking for every single activity, unlike Destiny or MMOs like World of Warcraft, which restrict the most challenging dungeons and raids to premade groups. There is matchmaking for every activity in the game https://t.co/D32Ty8YCQ8January 13, 2019Irving clarified that matchmaking will be opt-out, so you won’t need to tackle everything as a group, but for the harder stuff you’ll probably want to bring

If sending soldiers to die over hexes makes you feel a wee bit guilty, Civilization 6: Gathering Storm’s newest civ, Sweden, might be perfect for you. Sweden’s unique ability is Nobel Prize, and it’s a bit unconventional. The unique building, meanwhile, is the open-air museum, increasing loyalty and boosting culture and tourism for each type of terrain where there’s a Swedish city. It’s accompanied by a second building, the Queen’s bibliotheque, which provides two Great Works slots and lets you

This piece is part of a series of articles that ran in PC Gamer UK issue 326celebrating Baldur’s Gate, 20 years on. While the prudent adventurer builds a party balanced by all the standard classes and capabilities, powerful warriors alongside erudite clerics and canny rogues, Baldur’s Gate has always been as much about who these characters were as what they could do. I have no doubt that, like me, you remember your favourite character’s one-liners far better than you remember their stats. Take X

Beginning January 17, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale mode is going free for everyone for a week. Bring your friends — the Blackout Free Trial is coming.Play #BlackOps4’s Blackout Battle Royale for free from January 17th to the 24th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. But its price tag is a real barrier for the casually curious, so this is a good opportunity for that particular demographic to see what it’s all about. New Gauntlets are coming in Zombies, as are three new Elixirs

After months of speculation and rumors, Nvidia officially announced the RTX 2060 graphics card earlier this month at CES. Sure enough, you can now buy the Founders Edition model for $349, or various custom cards in the realm of $350 to $420. Several custom cards also went on sale today. You can see all of Newegg’s RTX 2060 cards here. If you missed it, be sure to check out our RTX 2060 review.

One of TCL’s most popular TVs is the 65-inch ’65R617.’ It has a 4K resolution, support for Dolby Vision HDR, and the ever-dependable Roku OS as the main interface. Now you can buy the TV for $849.99 from multiple retailers, a $150 reduction from the usual price of around $1,000. The 65R617 is 57.1 inches across, 32.9 inches tall, and 3 inches thick (without the stand). As previously mentioned, it runs Roku OS, so you can watch most streaming services without plugging in another device.

Rainswept, as Austin told us a year ago, is a mystery adventure game set in the small town of Pineview, where detective Michael Anderson has gone to investigate the cold-blooding killings of Christopher Green and Diane Miller. At the time, it was expected to be out later in 2018; now it’s 2019 and developer Frostwood Interactive has announced that it will launch on February 1. The story of Rainswept, laced with “themes of love, relationships and unresolved trauma,” is told from multiple perspect

The Humble Double Fine Presents Bundle is a collection of games that are not made by Double Fine, but are published through its Double Fine Presents indie publishing label. (Tyler liked it; lots of other people, not so much, although it now has a “very positive” user rating on Steam.) At the $10 top tier, you’ll also get the multiplayer party game Gang Beasts and Everything, an “epic, award-winning reality simulation game” that is extremely unfriendly to title searches. Soundtracks for every gam

Distant Worlds 2 is Elite: Dangerous’ second organized journey across the Milky Way to the remote Beagle Point, and it’s the space sim’s largest group expedition yet. Last weekend, over 10,000 players launched from Pallaeni as the expedition kicked off, a number confirmed by Frontier CEO David Braben. One consequence of gathering so many players in each instance was an invasion of NPC ships. In memory of The View’s multiple casualties, Commander Flimsie offered a poem on Reddit:There once was a

One of the main selling points of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX series graphics cards is the prospect of real-time ray tracing. That’s what UFD Tech aimed to find out in a blind test. There was also an added wrinkle—not only did they have guess if RTX was on or off, they also guessed if the RTX setting was on low or ultra. Secondly, real-time ray tracing in games is in its infancy. They could only test this with actual gameplay in Battlefield 5 because that’s the only game that supports ray tracing at th

(Image: © TomsHardware)Cooler Master today launched its first mouse designed specifically for MMO games, the MM830. Part of what makes this rodent unique compared to Cooler Master’s other mice is an integrated D-pad on the left side. “We wanted to offer an MMO mouse that provides a solid thumb grip without having an overabundance of buttons,” says Bryant Nguyen, peripheral general manager at Cooler Master. Cooler Master armed the MM830 with an Avago PMW3360 optical sensor. It’s housed in a “dura

Last year, a massive purple cube rolled around Fortnite’s map for a long time before blossoming into a transdimensional butterfly. The iceberg appears to have a universal health bar that depletes for everyone on all servers whenever it’s hit with a pickaxe. O aqueous sphere, set us free! Heathens, those that follow the smoke, that cube which rolls and rolls and rolls, hearing nothing, answering nothing. May the orb set us free and drown our sins!