Image credit: CBCGreg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka co-founded BioWare in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1995, shortly after graduating from medical school. Honored to be named a Member of the Order of Canada with my friend @DoctorZee! Zeschuk and Muzyka left BioWare, and the games industry, in 2012, five years after the studio’s acquisition by Electronic Arts. “It’s not just what we did at BioWare, it’s what we continue to do to try to make everything around us better,” Zeschuk said. The Order of Canada was es

All-in-one kits make it easy to go the liquid CPU cooler route, and if you’re interesting in doing so, you can snag Corsair’s Hydro Series H55 for $49.99 today on Amazon. This cooler is especially suited for systems where you’re short on space, as it only occupies a 120mm fan slot. Amazon also has a few other Hydro Series models on sale. The H60, for example, is $5 more and comes with an upgraded PWM fan and white LED lighting. Corsair Hydro Series H60 | 120mm Radiator | $54.99Similar in design

It’s a relatively thick and heavy system, as these types of laptops usually are, but what’s interesting is the mention of three unannounced mobile RTX parts—Nvidia RTX 2080 MXM OC, RTX 2070 MXM OC, and RTX 2060 MXM OC. The only one we can’t compare is the GeForce RTX 2060 MXM OC, because Nvidia hasn’t announced a desktop RTX 2060 yet. We can’t say if the leaked specs are real, though they’re certainly plausible. In this case, the leaked specs indicate the system will ship with up to a Core i9-99

Well, a company called FeelReal is hoping its to up the virtual ante with a multi-sensory mask. “Imagine the depth of interaction when users can truly feel themselves on a racing track and actually smell burned rubber. Beyond bombarding your nose with different smells (gross or pleasant), FealReal’s VR mask accessory offers a range of tactile sensations:Water Mist: Users can feel the rain on their cheeks with the ultrasonic ionizing system. The mask is purportedly compatible with the HTC Vive an

Of course we ran our Top 100 PC Games 2018 mega-feature, and hosted the PC Gaming Show, which featuring a ton of new announcements and exclusive previews of upcoming PC games. There have been a few missteps along the way, just look at the dumbest armour in PC gaming history. There was also that time Pip raised a baby in the Sims 4, the PC Gamer way. You might be trying to find the best graphics card, or a classy gaming chair, we’ve got a guide for you. In addition to trying out tech and looking

Memory pricing is starting to come down, thankfully, and that trend is supposed to continue through early 2019 (and hopefully beyond). We’re not at dirt cheap levels, but there are deals to be had on RAM. If you’re new to Google Express, for example, you can snag a pair of 8GB Corsair LPX DDR4-3000 memory sticks (for 16GB total) for $99.99. The kit is on sale for $119.99, though if you apply coupon code HOLIDAY18, it will knock 20 percent off your first order, up to $20. We poked around Newegg a

Pick a pair of speedy sticksYou’ll need media to install from, and USB flash drives are the perfect choice. As HowToGeek points out, you can likely also use a Windows 7 or Windows 8 key to register, too, if you’re upgrading from an old PC. Select the USB flash drive option and pick the attached device you’ll be using as the installer. Hammer on it to bring up the boot menu, and select your USB flash drive from the list to load the Windows installer tool. Copy the driver folder from the USB flash

If you won’t want to spend around $400 on an Oculus Rift or $500 on an HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality headsets are a great value. They work with SteamVR, they don’t require external sensors, and they even have higher-resolution screens than the Vive and Rift. Right now, you can get Lenovo’s Mixed Reality headset for $199 from Microsoft’s eBay store—$200 lower than the original price. The Lenovo Explorer has two 90Hz 1440 x 1440 LCD screens (one for each eye), with a 105-degree FOV. Like all Mix

Atlas’s Early Access voyage is off to a rocky start. The UI and mechanics are, at times, unerringly similar—one of the top posts on the Atlas subreddit calls it “Ark with a little bit of pirates”. She told me this morning that the UI is “terrible” and that lag had, at times, made it virtually unplayable. She was also unable to connect to a server when she tried to launch the game this morning. Also, the plan is for it to be in Early Access for around two years, giving it plenty of time to evolve

Most of these computers only have integrated Intel HD graphics, but the ‘Crimson Canyon’ models have discrete AMD Radeon graphics. Right now you can get a Crimson Canyon NUC for just $409.00 from Newegg—$170 below the original MSRP. The limited amount of video memory means most AAA games probably won’t work well, but older titles and e-sports games will be fine. NUCs are great computers if you’re limited on desk space, or if you want a home theater PC. The 8th-gen Core i3 processor and 8GB RAM a

YouTube via Linus Tech Tips. (Image: © YouTube via Linus Tech Tips)Linus from Linus Tech Tips took Walmart to task in his review of the company’s Overpowered gaming desktop (you can check out our own thoughts here), but he wasn’t singling the retailer out. Check out a new video he posted in which he points out various issues he discovered in several $1,500 gaming PCs. LinusTechTips finds Windows/Driver/UEFI issues in a range of $1500 gaming PCs, @Dell’s @Alienware with inexplicably broken Window

Between high GPU prices and the high cost of RAM, it made building a new rig difficult for the average gamer for the first half of 2018. While there was some buzz around AMD GPUs in 2018, Nvidia stole the show with their new RTX GPUs. Put in the simplest of terms, ray tracing involves tracing the path of a beam of light backward into a 3D world. But there was one small problem—few games at the end of 2018 were designed to handle ray tracing. We did get a thorough look at Battlefield 5 with ray t

Proof of my past relationship with card games, courtesy @TheScarfington. Finally, a card game for the haters. A card game. It’s surprisingly seamless for how disparate a tabletop card game and a gritty, character-based RPG sound on paper (cardstock). That Thronebreaker got me playing and enjoying a card game is nothing short of miraculous.

Rainbow Six Siege players will find a generous stocking stuffer waiting for them next time they login. Ubisoft is giving away a free Holiday Pack that contains a random DLC operator that you haven’t already unlocked or, if you have all the operators, 25,000 Renown. Some players that already own all DLC operators are reporting they’re unable to claim their Renown—Ubisoft is currently investigating. Twenty-five thousand Renown is the usual cost of a DLC operator, so it’s an ideal amount to bank aw

Of all the ambitious mods recreating areas of Tamriel, Beyond Skyrim is the one I’m most excited about. It’s essentially made up of seven separate projects aimed at remaking parts of the Elder Scrolls world—including Cyrodiil and Morrowind—in the Fourth Era, when Skyrim is set. Yesterday, the developers released their first ever development diary, showing just how much progress they’ve made in each region, and you’ll find footage from Roscrea, the lost continent of Atmora and Elsweyr. The video,

The Razer DeathAdder Elite, our favorite gaming mouse, is at a great price for both US and UK readers today. On Amazon US the Elite is $40, while on Amazon UK it’s £42. For UK readers, it’s within £2 of the best ever price it’s been listed for on Amazon. We’ve waxed lyrical about the Razer DeathAdder Elite countless times. “For the majority of games and gamers, the DeathAdder Elite is the best gaming mouse.

To celebrate the holidays and the Boxing Day sales, we’re doing a major discount on all PC Gamer magazine subscriptions over the next couple of days. Until 9AM UK time on December 28, use the code 20BOX to knock 20 percent off the price of any PC Gamer subscription. If you’re a UK reader, that’ll net you a 20 percent saving off our already discounted Christmas prices. That makes this a pretty great time to start getting the best in PC gaming, hardware and everything else sent to your door. If yo

A Roomba is an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner that, guided by various sensors, will slowly prowl your room of choice, keeping your carpet clean without knocking everything over. Thanks to the efforts of coder Rich Whitehouse, it is also now an automated Doom map-making machine: The DOOMBA. Doomba is actually a script for Whitehouse’s Noesis software, a tool for “previewing and converting between hundreds of model, image, and animation formats”. The script tracks and stores your Roomba’s movem

A new trailer for Escape from Tarkov, the loot-focused shooter currently in closed beta, shows off a new underground laboratory location, a new scav boss and some of the 100+ items that will arrive in the game’s 0.11 update, which is coming soon. TerraGroup Labs will be the sixth location to come to the FPS, and it’s a secret facility beneath the middle of Tarkov. Because the labs is a sealed location, extraction will be more complex than usual. Lastly, Battlestate revealed that it plans to add

Speedruning competition organiser the Global Speedrun Association will hold its first live event in April, where Celeste, Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Odyssey speedrunners will compete for cash prizes. It has previously hosted streamed speedrunning competitions with cash prizes, partly funded by its relationships with both developers and online gambling company Esports Entertainment Group, but hosting a live event represents a widening of its scope. The GSA said the event will include the gran