AMD’s second generation Ryzen processors are selling well below launch prices, and Newegg is sweetening the deal with some combo deals. One that caught our eye is a Ryzen 7 2700 CPU paired with an ASRock Fatali1ty X470 Gaming K4 motherboard for $349.98. Whether purchased alone or part of this combo, Newegg is tossing in a free HP S600 120GB SSD with the mobo. AMD Ryzen 7 2700 | ASRock X470 Mobo | $329.98This combo pairs a fast 8-core processor with an X470 motherboard at a $70 discount (after $2

If you’re looking to buy a gaming PC and you can’t quite wait until Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Acer is currently running a sale on its Nitro 50 desktop. The PC is $300 off on Newegg, lowering the price to $799.99. The specifications include an 8th-gen Intel Core i7-8700 clocked at 3.20GHz, a Radeon RX 580 graphics card, 8GB of DDR4 memory, and a 1TB hard drive. There is no SSD, but this is still a great price for the hardware you get—other PCs with similar specs (like this ABS Versa desktop) can

OpTic India’s CS:GO team has been given the boot from the $100,000 eXTREMESLAND Asia finals after player Nikhil ‘forsaken’ Kumawat was caught cheating during a match. A Dexerto report says that spectators realized that something was up when the match between OpTic India and Revolution was paused for no apparent reason. The match was called, and the team was immediately dismissed from the tournament. Nonetheless, OpTic India released a statement earlier today indicating that it has released its e

Steven predicted in early September that the big Warframe expansion Fortuna, which developer Digital Extremes had said would be released in “late summer or early fall,” might actually end up coming out in the late fall. The open-world Fortuna will be 4-5 times larger than last year’s Plains of Eidolon update, and will add “a different Orokin-infused look, feel, and experience to Warframe’s growing universe.” Players will take on bounties and missions in the underground internment camp of Fortuna

Listen, I know the ‘Souls-like’ label needs to die—but RamenYum’s Hard Mode Stardew Valley mod is so challenging I reckon it merits the comparison. Their Hard Mode mod increases monster damage by 200 percent. “The mod’s objective is to make the game more difficult without losing the general great feeling of Stardew Valley’s gameplay,” explains the project’s creator. “It is designed to make combat more challenging without being annoying, and to make all money-making strategies more difficult with

Quiet weekend ahead? Get busy with Fanatical’s Origins Bundle—a collection of 12 indie games for just $4.99. Split into two tiers, paying just $1/$0.89 for tier one nets you Grey Goo Definitive Edition, Rebel Galaxy and Punch Club Deluxe Edition, the latter of which Twitch finished in just two days. My pick of those is Rime, whose story and aesthetic I enjoyed despite some tedious puzzling. With savings of up to $200, Fanatical’s Origins Bundle runs now through November—or until stocks run out.

In his review, Andy described Night in the Woods as “a beautiful, heartfelt coming of age story that says something about life, and cracks a few jokes in the process.” I wholeheartedly agree with that, and would add its soundtrack is one of the best I’ve heard in ages. Courtesy of Ghost Ramp, its OST is in-line for a limited-edition vinyl release. Preorders for the Night in the Woods record are live now, with a launch date set for “late Q1 2019”. Here’s Ghost Ramp’s formal description:Ghost Ramp

It’s a bit like a real-life TIE Fighter engine, in that the sound is as important to the overall effect as the look, and so it was important that its unique engine noise be properly rendered in Battlefield 5. One goes to Arsunda, Sweden, as it turns out, for “Speed Weekend 2018,” an event that includes runs by a pulsejet-powered snowmobile. Whatever you want to call it, it’s basically a V1 engine rigged with skis, a handle, and someone nuts enough to hold onto it. (Although the Svarthålet team a

What’s more fun than playing PC games? Playing PC games on the go, obviously. This Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you can expect to see decent discounts on all kinds of gaming laptops—from budget models to high-end desktop replacements. What to expect from gaming laptop deals on Black Friday and Cyber MondayThere haven’t been any groundbreaking technological advancements in gaming laptops over the past year. The best Black Friday and Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals from last yearRazer Blade Ste

It can even cross operating systems, meaning you can stream a game from your Windows PC to, say, a Macbook. Try Steam library filtersAnother way to sort your Steam library outside the program itself, the Steam library filters website lets you break down your library by genre, platform, features, even by supported language, all without having to mess with the actual library in Steam. Use a custom skinDo you hate the way Steam looks? Shop better with Enhanced SteamEnhanced Steam is a browser exten

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was set to debut “something new to events” this weekend: a five to ten person limited-time squad mode named Platoon. “PC Players: Unfortunately, this week’s Event Mode has been cancelled due to a critical error,” reads a tweet posted by the PUBG Help Twitter account. Event Mode: Platoon will not be returning next week, but will return at a later date.” PC Players: Unfortunately, this week’s Event Mode has been cancelled due to a critical error. A number of prospecti

Ahead of its November 13 launch, Hitman 2 announced serial deadman Sean Bean as its first Elusive Target this week. Today, the first game reveals its Halloween Pack—a holiday-themed download that’s due at 5pm BST/9am PST and is free for everyone, not just owners of the base game. This includes murder-stealth ’em up’s Freedom Fighters mission, its Escalation Contracts and Colorado’s Featured Contracts. Developer IO Interactive says the Halloween Pack will be available on PC later today, following

But for all the pie-in-the-sky sales pitch lingo, game streaming still has serious technical hurdles to overcome. G-cluster (2000 – 2016)By far the earliest attempt at cloud-based game streaming was G-cluster , which started in 2000. GameFly Digital / GameFly Streaming (2011 – 2018)When it comes to aiming for “Netflix for gaming,” GameFly took it literally. Like Netflix, GameFly started expanding into game streaming after purchasing Direct2Drive , an early Steam competitor, in 2011. GameFly cont

The Warhammer 40,000 outer space RTS Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 will be out on January 24, publisher Focus Home Interactive announced today, and will be preceded by two “pre-order betas,” the first of which will begin in early December. The December beta will run for a week, with all 12 factions, full multiplayer progression, and 1v1, 2v2, and versus-AI battles. Beta 2 will include all the updates made after the first beta, plus the campaign prologue and the first sectors of two campaigns. The

Valve is hoping to enable “more players on more PCs to play high-fidelity VR games” by adding a featured called Motion Smoothing to SteamVR. “If you have a flatscreen TV, you may be familiar with the term Motion Smoothing. TVs apply Motion Smoothing by interpolating between two existing frames to create a new in-between frame. Motion Smoothing only kicks on when needed, and then turns itself off right after. For now, Motion Smoothing is in beta and only works in Windows 10 system running Nvidia

Just before Fortnite Season 6 kicked off, we saw the mysterious cube summoned in Season 5 melt into Loot Lake. Shortly after, it returned, taking the house at the center of Loot Lake on a magic carpet ride all over Fortnite’s map on a cyclonic floating island. Over the last three weeks, the island has visited the corrupted areas on the map, previously printed by the cube, and ‘activated’ them. Small streaks are also moving towards the top of the island (see the embedded tweet below). Wait a minu

In an interview with Vulture published earlier this week, Rockstar’s Dan Houser made mention of specific members of Red Dead Redemption 2’s dev team working 100-hour weeks. He later clarified the statement, and a number of current Rockstar employees have since spoken of their experience within the company. Here’s the start of that thread:R* has granted permission for us to speak frankly about this issue on social media. I can only talk about my personal experience not the company as a whole.For

Subscribers to the Windows Insiders program can already download and install an early look at what’s to come. “REMINDER: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle, builds may contain bugs that might be painful for some. If this makes you uncomfortable, you may want to consider switching to the Slow ring. Slow ring builds will continue to be higher quality,” Microsoft says. But with the upcoming build (Redstone 6), Microsoft is adding more apps to the list.

Samuel refers to Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden as “Duck XCOM” in his August preview, which is not a terrible way of putting it. But if you’d like a rundown of what it’s all about that’s maybe not quite so economical, Funcom has dropped a new trailer showcasing exactly—mostly—what it’s all about. The video demonstrates both real-time exploration and turn-based combat, which the developers are attempting to blend in a way that enables varied and efficient gameplay. As [former] Hitman developers,