Microsoft doesn’t want people clinging to Windows 7 the way they did with Windows XP, and it has tried numerous tactics to get people to upgrade to Windows 10. The freebie offer has long since expired, and for businesses that decide to stick with Windows 7 once support ends in 2020, Microsoft will charge a fee to continue receiving security updates. With that in mind, today we are announcing that we will offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) through January 2023,” Microsoft stated

Destiny 2’s next raid, Last Wish, won’t arrive until this Friday, but some players have already looted everything in it thanks to a newly discovered exploit. After some extensive poking around, they discovered a raid chest which dropped raid-exclusive armor and weapons. This will reset the raid chest, allowing you to glitch back into the raid on your main character and loot it again. Reports are coming in there’s an additional Destiny 2 Forsaken glitch that’s letting people reset the raid chest

Koei Tecmo announced yesterday that Dead or Alive 6 will release worldwide February 15, 2019. That includes a Steam release, and though this isn’t the first Dead or Alive game to come to PC, we’re hoping it’s a bit better than Dead or Alive 5: Last Round. Seriously, though, check out this paragraph exclusively dedicated to Nyotengu’s hair:”Her dark bluish hair is intricately done, with perfect straight cut style bangs and perfectly cut hime side-locks. The rest of her hair is worn in perfectly s

Expect to pay £45/$60Developer Eidos MontréalPublisher Square EnixReviewed on GTX 1080, Intel i5-6600K, 16GB RAMMultiplayer NoneLink Official siteBuy it Steam / HumbleIt’s in the moments of quiet spectacle where Shadow of the Tomb Raider is most compelling. If Shadow of the Tomb Raider was nothing more than a series of beautiful locations filled with puzzles like these, I would have been happy. All the way through the previous game, Rise of the Tomb Raider, I groaned every time I had to slog thr

While most of these have since been ironed out, a second-generation chipset brings with it a certain level of reassurance. It’s worth noting that there isn’t a lot that’s obviously new with the X470 chipset when compared to the older X370. This board is compatible with the original Ryzen family as well, and likewise X370 motherboards can be flashed to support the newer Ryzen 2000-series processors, too. In fact, the new X470 motherboards aren’t a direct replacement for the existing X370 motherbo

From Software showed off a wee bit more of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice in the form of a new trailer at Sony’s pre-TGS show. There’s no English trailer yet, so the story bits were all lost on me, but you’re probably not interested in a From Software game because you crave exposition. Otherwise, there’s a bit of everything: stealth, lightning-fast duels, plenty of grisly executions and, apparently, a yeti? If you fancy a longer look at the game, check out our 16-minute playthrough. Sekiro: Shadows D

Shadow of the Tomb Raider rolls out later this week and Andy likes it. Within, an ‘Outfits’ tab will let us tinker with Lara’s aesthetic—with the following low poly Lara à la early PSOne Tomb Raider games as default. Andy tells us a Tomb Raider 2 variant is also unlockable, as is “a skin from that terrible PS2 game, Angel of Darkness”. But Shadow shows impressive restraint, rarely using combat as a crutch and focusing more on what makes this series special: namely, raiding tombs. Shadow of the T

If the first Call of Cthulhu gameplay trailer left you craving more creeping horror and hardboiled detective shenanigans, you’re in luck. Publisher Focus Home Interactive hosted a stream with developer Cyanide Studio, showcasing the first hour of their tabletop-inspired RPG. All in all it seems like a nice day out and emphasises that Call of Cthulhu is an atypical RPG where talking, not fighting, is the main way you’ll interact with the world. To get out of conflict, Pierce will need to run, hid

Though objectively not nearly as good as Metal Gear Solid 2 or 3 (fight me), the fifth and final Kojima entry in the Metal Gear Solid series, The Phantom Pain, and its brief but excellent predecessor, Ground Zeroes, are cracking games. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Definitive Experience collects both games and more DLC than you could probably be bothered to buy individually in one package. If you want to traipse around Afghanistan in a tuxedo, that is absolutely your prerogative. The whole thing is no

Last week, League of Legends ranked 26th in The PC Gamer Top 100. As the animated cinematic above shows, players join loose cannon Jinx and the rest of the Morning Star crew “on a sci-fi adventure” meets new PvE game mode. “Each time you play the mode, you’ll permanently unlock these valuable upgrades to help you through the higher tier difficulties,” says Riot in a statement. The dev lists these exclusive skins too, available for the Morning Star crew:Odyssey Kayn (Legendary 1820 RP)Odyssey Son

Square Enix has released a new trailer for Left Alive, the survival shooter set in the Front Mission universe, ahead of TGS. There’s a war, there are mechs, and the rest of the trailer is… well, it’s largely incomprehensible. David O’Keefe’s Left Alive preview from PAX West doesn’t paint a prettier picture. I haven’t been bleaching my brain with an overload of new games on the packed convention center floor in those hours, Left Alive just failed to leave a lasting impression.”The mechs, at lea

Right around a month ago, Lenovo spilled the beans on a couple of unannounced Ryzen processor SKUs, the Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X, both of which temporarily appeared as CPU options for its ThinkCenter M725 line of small form factor (SFF) desktop PCs. The Ryzen 5 2500X is a 4-core/8-thread processor clocked at 3.6-4.0GHz, with 10MB of Smart Prefetch cache and a 65W TDP. The Ryzen 3 2300X, meanwhile, is a 4-core/4-thread CPU clocked at 3.5-4.0GHz, also with 10MB of total cache and a 65W TDP.

We already have a review posted for Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Spoiler: it scored an 84), so check that out when you get a chance. In addition, the new 399.24 WHQL driver package brings “Game Ready” status to the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout open beta, and also Assetto Corsa Competizione (Early Access). For anyone who needs a refresher on what comprises a Game Ready driver, it’s basically performance optimizations for specific games. And as an additional verification of quality, every Game

Fortnite is the latest to get the Monopoly treatment. Thrilled to show you the final art and game board for Fortnite Monopoly! It’s so so fun and such a unique spin on the classic game mashed up with last player standing Fortnite. Not surprisingly, it still very much looks like Monopoly, though the streets have been replaced with familiar Fortnite locations like Tilted Towers, and it looks like passing go will net you HP instead of cash. Fortnite Monopoly is due out on October 1.

Don’t go Googling it—Red Dead Redemption 2 still doesn’t have a PC release date, or even an announcement, but that doesn’t mean we can’t soak up every little detail in preparation for the day it inevitably happens. After all, you don’t want to be the only one who doesn’t know about Arthur Morgan, the Van der Linde gang or how you can flirt with horses. It was great, but Rockstar set a different goal for Red Dead Redemption 2’s story. “Dutch’s presence loomed over the original Red Dead Redemption

When Halo Infinite was announced for Xbox One and PC at E3 this year, we thought we were getting our first Halo (not counting RTS spin-offs) since the PC port of Halo 2. Don’t worry, Halo Infinite is still on its way, but we might be getting another PC Halo before that with Halo 5: Guardians. Xbox’s Phil Spencer said it probably wouldn’t appear on PC because it was designed specifically as a console FPS. Developer 343, on the other hand, said there was a good chance of a PC port. In the meantime

I’m pretty sure he’s still playing Scum too, although someone else has beaten him to the best way to play, which is by lying down and eating fat. (Don’t worry if you’re one of the many passionate fans of Destiny 2 in the comments, one or two other members of our team are playing Forsaken so you’ll hear all about it.) We’ve also got a reviewer on the big release of next week, by which I mean Megaquarium of course. Are you one of the 700,000 people playing Scum? If you’ve found any good NSFW games

These days, the best gaming mice come packed with so many buttons and features that shopping for a new one can be overwhelming. The best gaming mice Looking for a new gaming mouse? Let’s start with some basics: higher mouse DPI means that the cursor will move further with less physical movement from your hands. In terms of FPS games, your character will turn slower at low DPI numbers and faster at high DPI numbers. On paper it sounds like players with higher DPI numbers would be at an advantage,

Starsiege: Tribes Developer: DynamixYear: 1998Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. It was never intended it to be part of Quake, but after players started using it, it became impossible to imagine the game without it. But everyone knows about rocket jumping. So instead, let’s highlight a similar mechanic from the less successful, but incredibly awesome, Starsiege: Tribes. Tribes had rocket jumping, but its real secret was skiing—a

On an average day, about a dozen new games are released on Steam. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. Still, what’s there so far seems to be pleasing people: it’s got 3,247 “mostly positive” reviews on Steam. Omni LinkSteam pageRelease: September 5Developer: RoenciaPrice: $14.99Omni Link is a sci-fi game mixing the visual novel with fast-paced top-down space combat. There’s three ga