From a marketing standpoint, the two WX series CPUs are for “creators and innovators” and the X series SKUs are for “enthusiasts and gamers.” The differentiation between Threadripper processors within the same family is something new for this round. It’s just that the Threadripper 2970WX (24 cores, 48 threads) and Threadripper 2990WX (32 cores, 64 threads) are more suited for hardcore content creation tasks. Compared to Intel’s high-end desktop (HEDT) processors, AMD is claiming similar gaming p

Blizzard answers some of our biggest questions about World of Warcraft: Battle for AzerothQ&A We get the lowdown on how this war will shape Azeroth and what new tech is being used to make it feel epic.

After pulling in a hot 2.8 million on their revival of Fireball Island, Restoration Games is going back to the well for another nostalgic board game: Dark Tower. Return to Dark Tower will be a re-imagining of the classic game, known to many for its (wonderfully) campy Orson Welles lead commercial. The game will be designed by Rob Daviau, famous for pioneering the Legacy board game format, and Isaac Childres, famous for design work on the board game Gloomhaven . Restoration Games says development

The Destiny 2 Year 2 combat reveal livestream, a showcase of the changes coming with the release of Forsaken, will take place at 10 am PT/1 pm ET today, and you can watch it with us. Bungie hinted at some of the high points last week, including Destiny 1-style weapon loadouts and a potentially significant reduction in time-to-kill. I expect that Bungie will hit on these points during the stream as well. For those who can’t watch live, we’ll have a rundown of all that’s said during the stream whe

If you’ve done some exploring in No Man’s Sky you’ve no doubt encountered a clutch of ‘whispering eggs’. The swarm will appear as usual, but as long as you’re perched on an egg, they won’t actually attack you. Use your jetpack to land on top of one of the eggs, and then begin mining the others. For some reason, the horrors won’t attack you when you’re standing on one of their eggs. They’ll swarm, they’ll snarl, but they won’t be able to attack you if you’re perched on one of their babies.

Hot on the heels of real-world superstar DJs Solomun and Tale of Us, the Berlin-based house and techno producer Dixon is GTA Online’s latest After Hours inductee. This week’s update also adds the B-11 Strikeforce aircraft, and exclusive music from Tale Of Us to the game’s new LSUR radio station—including tracks from the duo’s upcoming Afterlight album. Furthermore, Guest Listers claim another complimentary GTA$100,000, and two free rides: the HVY Nightshark and Ubermacht Revolter. As noted above

He and his four-strong team worked practically every waking hour to make the deadlines for its physical release. Our only concern was to deliver on what we had set out to do.”Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone felt much the same. He was worried that he’d done too little promotion, thought streamers wouldn’t bother playing a story-driven game. He worried about his financial security and felt like he’d wasted the last 10 years of his life. I’m happy that so many people love Stardew Valley, and that I now

Yakuza 0 is comfortably the best, funniest and most heartwarming game about a desperate battle over real estate, reckons our Phil. And while Phil explains he had no major issues with its PC port in his review, some players faced crashes at launch. “While our patch showed no issues in testing, it appears that Patch 1 is causing issues for some users who had no issues previously,” explains Sega on the game’s Steam page. “Therefore, we are rolling back the patch while we continue to investigate. Th

Dark Souls’ interlocked Lordran setting is dangerous, deadly and, as its title suggests, dark. As reported by Kotaku, Reddit person theelfriede posted the following footage of Bright Souls, which portrays Dark Souls in, literally, an entirely new light. Spoilers afoot, with regards Dark Souls level design and boss zones:In the video’s description, El Friede explains the above is achieved by removing the DrawParam folder and tinkering with its RGB values. For the sake of comparison, Notaprofi’s P

Ghost Town Games’ co-op kitchen ’em up is here to ruin friendships once again. Overcooked 2 arrives today on PC, and comes with a launch trailer. Dinner is served:According to this community post, Overcooked 2 unlocks on Steam today at 9am PST / 5pm BST. Beneath Overcooked 2’s charming wrapper is a brutal co-op romp, says Evan, who seems equal parts exhausted and entertained by the end of that feature. More information can be read on Overcooked 2’s Steam page.

Master Chief will be a main character in the upcoming Halo TV series on Showtime, it was revealed yesterday. As reported by Deadline (who call Master Chief a ‘muscular astronaut’, which made me chuckle), the show, which is targeted for a 2020 release, will offer “a new story”. “It is an enormous undertaking,” says Showtime’s network president of programming Gary Levine, speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour. The Halo series has a showrunner already: Kyle Killen, known for wel

Chances are, if you’ve watched a Dark Souls speedrun in the last few years, you’ve watched a SpeedSouls community member in action. As the header image above outlines, the SpeedSouls Charity Marathon runs from November 9-11. No matter your speedrunning skill, though, submissions for the SpeedSouls Charity Marathon are open to all, and are not limited to the Dark Souls series. Here’s a quick blurb on guidelines:The SpeedSouls Charity Marathon will be held 9th to 11th of November 2018. Again, host

Patch notes for Fortnite’s update v5.20 have landed, and, yes, they come with the double barrel shotgun. Likewise, the Double Barrel Shotgun has a two second cooldown when swapped out. Update v5.20 applies a host of balances and checks to Vending Machines—the sum of which can be read here. Update v5.20 also adds new weekly Horde Challenges to Save the World, as well as the so-called ‘Mythic Outlander’ Ragnarok, The Dark Viking. He looks hard as nails:The patch notes for Fortnite’s update v5.20 c

InXile announced today that the first part of The Bard’s Tale Trilogy, a remastered release of the ’80s Bard’s Tale RPGs that was announced in 2015 as a Bard’s Tale 4 Kickstarter backer reward, will be out on August 14. Work on The Bard’s Tale Trilogy began at Olde Skuul Games, but that hit a snag in early 2017. InXile said in a Kickstarter update posted in May of this year that it had “agreed to part ways” with Olde Skuul, but still wanted the games remastered for new players. Those who didn’t

No Man’s Sky modders are hard at work in the wake of the game’s long-awaited Next expansion. While modders like Redmas crank out revamped vehicles and creatures ( among many other impressive mods ), modders like cryogen4000 are adding nice little touches to the galaxy through mods like this one, which makes ringed planets more colorful. You can get cryogen4000’s Colourful Planet Rings mod on Nexus Mods . It pretty much speaks for itself: it “makes all planet rings randomly colourful.” Cryogen sa

Apart from the whole ‘die horribly whenever you sting someone to defend your hive’ thing, the life of a honey bee doesn’t sound all that dramatic. Yet the new trailer for Bee Simulator , a game about literally beeing a honey bee—and don’t expect those world-class puns to stop anytime soon—makes that simple idea look incredible. The mere existence of Bee Simulator raises the question, what do bees do all day? And it gets better: Bee Simulator was scored by Mikołaj Stroiński, who also handled the

@MrProblemX has defeated the reigning #SFVAE champion @tokidoki77 in #GrandFinals here at #EVO2018! #CPT2018 pic.twitter.com/qObYWgmKM7August 6, 2018Street Fighter’s grand finals were once again the capstone event, and last year’s champion, Japanese veteran Tokido, nearly took the title again. But Problem X’s M. Bison was too strong, and he became the first UK Street Fighter Evo champion. Kotaku reported that the audience booed players who opted to use the Bayonetta character in the Super Smash

Previously, all battle pass challenges were reserved for the paid version but now, you can complete three free ones per week. you’ll earn five battle stars, then every 10th level will give you 10 battle stars (10, 20, 30 etc.). You earn XP from just playing the game, while kills and higher placements will earn you more. Once you complete your battle pass, all challenges that would normally reward battle stars reward XP instead, and typically 1000 XP per star. If you have a full squad with the ba

The Fallout 76 beta FAQ states, among other things, that “the B.E.T.A. The Fallout 76 purchase page also bears only a generic “PC game” logo, with no mention of Steam. “The PC version of Fallout 76, for both the B.E.T.A. and the launch, will be available only via Bethesda.net, not on Steam,” a Bethesda rep said in an email. The Fallout 76 beta test is set to begin sometime in October.

The double barrel shotgun, a videogame classic since 1994, is coming to Fortnite Battle Royale. Evidence of the new weapon was dug up yesterday by XDA dataminers, and confirmed earlier today in the game. pic.twitter.com/mVWqY5zvxBAugust 6, 2018A two-shot boomstick is a common break-action shotgun in Fortnite: Save the World, but it hasn’t made an appearance in Battle Royale yet. The shotgun could be Epic’s attempt to bring back the ‘double pump’ tactic, where players would pick up two pump shotg