According to the most recent Bloomberg Billionares Index, that would be Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. “Following the transaction, Sweeney’s stake in the business is calculated at 44.7 percent. Newell’s net worth estimate is a little shakier because, since Valve is a privately held company, he doesn’t have to tell anybody anything, and generally doesn’t. The billionaire or their representatives won’t comment on the net worth calculation, or the valuation relies on information they provi

It won’t be long before the company launches its 7-nanometer Zen 2 lineup for the desktop—it recently showed off a 64-core Zen 2 server CPU—though in the meantime, it’s trotting out a new round of mobile Ryzen processors with Vega graphics. AMD doesn’t use that term anymore, but that’s essentially what these new Ryzen 3000 series mobile processors are. They’re intended for ultrathin laptops and gaming notebooks, the latter of which is where the Vega graphics come into play. AMD says new notebook

If it ever did, it would probably look like the new Asus ROG Mothership (GZ700), because that’s exactly what it reminds us of. Only the ROG Mothership is not a Surface Pro at all—it’s a desktop replacement laptop with some serious hardware inside. The ROG Mothership is all of those things—it measures 16.14 x 12.6 x 1.18 inches and weighs a hefty 10.36 pounds. Does it make sense to offer a gaming laptop in a detachable form factor? They also make concessions to conform to a clamshell form factor

Corsair came to CES this year armed with three new gaming mice, including a wireless model and a late 2018 update to its longstanding M65 Elite. The brand new mice are the Harpoon RGB Wireless ($50) and the Ironclaw RGB ($60). The Harpoon RGB Wireless uses Corsair’s “Slipstream wireless” tech, which it says works at up to 65 feet and can handle poor network congestion like a champ. Then there’s the M65 RGB Elite, which actually released late last year. The M65 RGB Elite is available on Corsair’s

It was at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show that Nvidia announced its 65-inch big format gaming display (BFGD) initiative, and at the time the company said these massive gaming monitors would be available in the summer. This time around, HP is signed up as a launch partner and will get things started with its Omen X Emperium 65. HP’s Omen X Emperium 65 (and presumably other BFGD models to come) sports a full-array local dimming backlight with 384 lighting zones, and can peak at 1,000 nits. W

The latest trailer for Anthem has appeared ahead of CES 2019, showing off lots of striking environments full of Javelins and monsters battering the snot out of each other. Not surprisingly for an Nvidia trailer, the focus is on eye candy, and crikey does Anthem look pretty. Anthem’s world, so far, looks not only gorgeous, but more tangible, too. There’s a new Javelin, as well, though we don’t yet know how it compares to the Ranger, Colossus, Storm or Interceptor. A demo for preorders and Origin

The 2019 edition of the week-long Awesome Games Done Quick, the world’s largest speedrunning event, is now live. The first day includes runs of Hollow Knight, Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter and a Portal race. You can watch all of them on the Games Done Quick Twitch channel (or in the player above)—after a short pre-show, it’ll launch straight into speedruns. Videos of all the runs will be available individually in this thread on the speedrun subreddit, as well as on the Games Done Quic

Stardew Valley, which added multiplayer last year, now has a battle royale mod called Battle Royalley. If you host a server, you can choose where the storm closes in on, as well as pick chest placement and player spawn locations. Instructions for how to do that, along with an installation file for the mod, can be found on its Nexus page. If you host, you can also choose exactly how many players you want to join a match. But this is the kind of thing that could take off, at which point you’ll pro

Half-Payne is, as the name suggests, a mash-up of two classic PC shooters: Half-Life and Max Payne. Creator suXin has now released what they call its “last major update”, which adds a random mod feature, Twitch integration, and a new nightmare dream sequence. If you turn random mods on, you’ll periodically activate one of the many tweaks that suXin has added during development. It transforms all enemies and NPCs into Max Payne, but doesn’t alter their body shape or head size, which leads to some

We’re definitely prepared to see some crazy hardware combinations, maze-like liquid cooling, and mesmerizing RGB at CES next week. While it remains to be seen if either one will be formally shown or announced at CES, the hype surrounding the two leading into CES is palpable. We can hope we’ll get some answers at CES 2019 for either one of these cards. Processors—Intel’s 9th Gen CPUs are still new enough that we don’t expect any announcements at CES for 10th Gen parts, but we expect to see plenty

You arrange them into teams of three and try to sync up their super attacks to cover the screen in explosions. Over the last couple of years I’ve really dived back into tabletop gaming, even selling my soul to Games Workshop. Nope, not a thing, other than it feels weird somehow to play a baseball game in winter. But this time I wanted to play in Safe Mode, which removes the threat of death from the game. But it basically means that you can play the game without having to sneak around and hide fr

Original story: I’m up to my neck in assassination contracts thanks to Hitman 2, but IO Interactive reckons there’s room for more Hitman in our lives. The developer announced Hitman HD Enhanced Collection today, remastering the excellent Hitman: Blood Money and its disappointing sequel, Absolution. “Hitman: Blood Money and Hitman: Absolution have helped us on our journey to where we are today, and we’re looking forward to players enjoying them in 4K and 60 fps.”While it’s already possible to pla

The latest attempt, Unreal PT, remakes the demo from scratch and took developer Radius Gordello 10 months to create. It’s got that unmistakable Unreal game look, however, so it doesn’t quite look exactly like its inspiration, which was developed using the Fox Engine. “The biggest difference is the very end of the game has been changed slightly to make beating it more consistent.”While there are several P.T. remakes and homages on Itch.io, Konami has been known to shut them down. Last July, PT fo

Activision Blizzard is down a second chief financial officer this week. The publisher terminated its CFO, Spencer Neumann, early in the week, and now Blizzard’s CFO, Amrita Ahuja, is leaving for Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s mobile payment company, Square. 2018 wasn’t a stellar year for the company, which saw shares drop by 26 percent in 2018. Blizzard president Mike Morhaime left the developer last year, and it’s reportedly paying staff to leave in order to cut costs. At the end of 2018, Bli

The Radeon RX 570 is one of AMD’s mid-range graphics cards, roughly between a GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1060 in terms of performance. Now you can get Sapphire’s 4GB Nitro+ RX 570 for just $129.99 on Newegg. That’s about $20 cheaper than other RX 570 cards, and $70 cheaper than the typical price for a 3GB GTX 1060. This is a good graphics card for 1080p gaming, and it definitely can’t be beat for under $200. The RX 570 also comes with two free games—you can pick from The Division 2, Resident Evil 2, an

If so, check out CyberPowerPC’s Gamer Master 2787T desktop. It’s on sale at Newegg today for $1,199.99 and comes outfitted with a Ryzen 7 2700X processor, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, a GeForce RTX 2070 graphics cards, and a 240GB solid state drive paired with a 1TB hard drive. Ideally we’d like to see a more capacious SSD and perhaps 16GB of RAM, but those are both easy upgrades, if and when the need arises. CyberPowerPC Gamer Master | RTX 2070 | $1,199.99This powerful gaming PC comes equipped with a Ryzen

Open-world cyberpunk platformer The Last Night has run into “massive business, legal and funding issues” and is looking to raise more money, its creator Tim Soret has said. He said he “can’t talk about” the issues that his studio Odd Tales ran into, and asked potential investors to get in touch. Since then, it has been wishlisted 186,000 times on Steam. As the Steam page will tell you, it follows the story of Charlie, “a second-class citizen living in a city brimming with augmentation and citize

The internet has spoken—actor Jack Black is relevant, not just as a movie star or musician, but also as a game streamer. It’s hard to argue otherwise after his new YouTube channel Jablinksi Games amassed over 1 million subscribers in less than a week, and then more than doubled that number to over 2.1 million subscribers a few days later. “I am proud to announce the launch of my new channel, Jablinksi. That short video has racked up nearly 6.4 million views, whereas a second video announcing the

China’s media regulator has ended a nine-month freeze on new video game approvals by licensing 80 games for release in the country. None of the approved games belong to Tencent, the world’s largest games company, which has been hit hard by the freeze—its stock has fallen by around 25% since the start of the year. The regulator will have to work through a backlog of around 5,000 games facing approval, and gaming executives in China told the FT that they expected censorship to be tightened as the

Fortnite’s newest item is a boombox that destroys structures and, at first glance, it looks like it could have a huge impact on 1v1 firefights. To stop an enemy’s boombox, you just have to shoot it—but it has 600 health. It has a range of three tiles, will take more pulses to destroy metal than brick, and brick than wood, and does not deal any damage to players. I reckon it could have a huge impact on 1v1 firefights, especially between two players that like to build. A quick YouTube search for F