So here’s a quest for you—how can you make your PC more environmentally-friendly, and quieter and cheaper to run in the process? The study mentioned above found that gaming PCs only account for about 2.5% of PCs worldwide, but they account for about 20% of global computer energy use. Making your PC greener also means making it cheaper and quieter. Lower power usage means fans don’t need to run so hard, so your machine will be quieter too. Normally a PC build means trading off two things: price a

In Port Avon the residents will tire of your presence so you must periodically restock a resource called Port Avon Welcome by hosting tea parties or bringing exotic gossip. Sunless Skies is benefitting from those lessons learned in Sunless Sea. As a general sense of Sunless Skies, the game feels like it’s on the right track. The developers have clearly learned from Sunless Sea feedback and adjusted the core loops without losing what was magical about the Fallen London universe. One piece of advi

The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson revealed Gears of War 5 during Microsoft’s E3 press conference. The trailer shown was unusually character-focused and combat-light—and while it’s understood the game will be built from the ground up on PC, we didn’t see much of it in motion on stage. In conversation with Wired, Fergusson says Gears of War 5 targets 60 fps and 4K as standard on consoles, but can scale up to 120 fps on PC. “Having a game that we’re building from the ground up for PC [means p

Our legendary shots, whether or not we have them on video, are unforgettable and probably unrepeatable. If you’ve played shooters, you probably have a shot or grenade toss like that, and we love hearing stories of improbable accuracy, so that’s our mid-week PCG Q&A: What’s your single greatest frag? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/uLcavQbV1YJune 17, 2018Over the weekend I managed an extremely dumb frag in Rainbow Six Siege. With lots of time left, my opponent and I trade sprays through a fractured wall, missi

Sega announced today that the strategy-RPG Valkyria Chronicles 4, “a coming-of-age story in a time of war” featuring an all-new cast of characters, will be out on September 25. The new game will follow the adventures of the Federation’s Squad E as they fight a desperate battle against the enemy, the elements, and the god-like Valkyria. The new game will feature an updated version of the Blitz battle system, which will include a new Grenadier class, new offensive and defensive battleship support

Fortnite just can’t seem to get its shopping carts to work. After being disabled a few days ago due to bugs, they returned this morning only to be disabled again less than two hours later , again “due to ongoing issues.” Those issues probably have something to do with a bug that can clip you through the map when you dismount a shopping cart. Sometimes this bug just kills you, but as this YouTube clip from A4 shows, some players have been using the bug to get cheap wins:Falling through the world

It is also, according to analysis firm Sensor Tower, a massive financial success for Epic. The site said that the game needed just 90 days to pull in $100 million in revenues, making it one of the most successful mobile games to come along in years—and putting it far ahead of PUBG. Fortnite lagged behind Clash Royale, which earned $1.2 billion in 2017, in the time it took to hit the $100 million mark, but achieved it much more quickly than other top-selling games. And despite its major mobile su

Cuisine Royale began as an April Fool’s joke mode for MMO shooter Enlisted , and it’s now a standalone game (and currently free in Early Access until June 25 ) on Steam. Cuisine Royale matches support about 30 players at a time and the matches I played began just seconds after launch. In fact, sound in general is very well done in Cuisine Royale. Cuisine Royale has loot boxes, too, in the form of refrigerators you’ll find around the map. Cuisine Royale is free in Early Access on Steam until June

Remember Scrolls, Mojang’s strategy card game which was hit by a lawsuit from Bethesda ? Mojang ended development on the CCG in 2015, but its servers managed to hang on until February of this year. The folks who run the tips site Scrolls Guide have already set up a community server of their own, which the new client defaults to. “First, you’ll all get the opportunity for a fresh start, as we can’t bring everyone’s collections of scrolls and decks over to community servers. Second, there’s no ing

For fans of beautiful electronic music and brain-melting honking noises alike, there’s nothing quite like a modular analog synth. Send that voltage through a bunch of modules, each of which subtracts or alters the original waveform, changing its sound. Wire your new mixer’s output to the input of your original VCA (image below), and tweak the knobs to try out your new sound. If you don’t have a MIDI keyboard, you can still get a little more interactive with your instruments. Download and install

Every so often, Logitech’s Z906 speaker system dips to $199.99 on Amazon, which is half off its list price. If you’re looking to upgrade your tinny speakers that you picked up on clearance for a few bucks, this will do it. The Z906 is a 5.1 channel surround sound system with four 67W satellite speakers, a 67W center channel speaker, and a booming 165W subwoofer. Audiophiles who spend thousands of dollars on speakers may turn up their nose at this multimedia speaker set. But at $199.99, the Z906

The word on the street, courtesy of the Steam Database Twitter account, is that the legendary Steam Summer Sale will start—gasp!—tomorrow. Steam Summer Sale will begin in 24 hours. Last year’s Summer Sale started on June 22, and in 2016 it was June 23. Steam Summer Sales are usually big ones, so you can probably expect the queue-browsing and card-collecting activities we’ve come to expect alongside the usual bevy of bargoons. In the meantime, the Itch.io Summer Sale is live, and they’ve got some

But cinematic quests push Warframe’s main narrative forward in dramatic steps, telling engaging stories of cyborg ninjas battling robots, clones, and capitalists while often introducing entirely new progression systems in the process. The most recent cinematic quest, The Sacrifice, is unfortunately light on those big progression changes. Players’ omnipresent handler, the Lotus, has been spirited away by an ancient politician who helped create the titular Warframes. Warframe’s absurd world of pro

Raja Koduri, the former graphics boss at AMD who spearheaded the launch of Vega, is still assembling a team at Intel where he now works. Forsyth was largely responsible for Larrabee, which failed to launch as a consumer 3D graphics card like Intel hoped. Bringing back Larrabee’s chief architect might not instill confidence in Intel’s present and future graphics play, but if you ask Forsyth, Larrabee was not actually a failure. Whisper words of wisdom…June 19, 2018As for what exactly he’ll be w

While you or I still can’t view the Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay demonstration shown behind closed doors at E3 2018, we can now listen to it, as the full audio of the presentation has leaked. The files come via DSOGaming, which has posted the audio in two parts on Vocaroo: here’s part one and part two. If you’re wondering what V sounds like, have a listen. Still, it was our favorite game from E3, so you might be able to get a better sense of what we liked. We’re hoping the gameplay demonstration will

The season of summer sales is upon us: GOG’s recently wrapped up, Steam’s hasn’t quite started yet, and in that narrow space between, indie platform Itch.io has kicked off a seasonal deal-fest of its own. It’s a very different sort of sale than what we get in Steam’s achievement-hunting, card-collecting extravaganzas. Six words lead into it: “Itch.io Summer Sale! A lot of the games on offer aren’t exactly household names, but there are some good deals to be had. Here are a few that I think you m

The article shows a CPU-Z screenshot that identifies the chip as a Threadripper 2990X, with a 3.4GHz base clock. In short, the 32-core/64-thread part serves up twice the number of cores and threads as AMD’s Threadripper 1950X, and double the L3 cache, without jacking up the clocks. To put that into perspective, we scored 2,917 with a Threadripper 1950X, and 4,061 with an overclocked Intel Core i9-7980XE (18 cores, 36 threads). The Threadripper 1950X has ‘fallen’ to around $750. It wouldn’t surpr

In April, a study of loot boxes by the Netherlands Gaming Authority concluded four out of ten videogames considered fell foul of the country’s gambling laws. That’s today, of course, and it now appears loot boxes in both Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 have been deemed illegal. The letters don’t tell us how to do that, but the Study into Loot Boxes does contain one rather simplistic statement:”Loot boxes contravene the law if the in-game goods from the loot boxes are transfer

GOG has a new (or at least newly uncovered) Easter egg that lets you play Pong and Snake on the site. As the official GOG account explained on Twitter, all you have to do is go to GOG and enter the famous Konami code: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. Pong and Snake have been available for free online for ages, but GOG’s Easter egg stands out for two reasons. Firstly, the Pong AI is really, really good. I’ll never give up, not with Tiny Geralt and Poster Geralt cheering me on.

After a flurry of unwarranted bans, PlayerUnknown’s Battleground developer PUBG Corp will grant those affected with a “small compensation” of 20,000 Battle Points (BP). The post continues: “For those players who were affected, we will be granting a small compensation of 20,000 BP to your accounts. Compensation should already be showing up in affected players accounts. PUBG Corp concludes by identifying affected players as those wrongfully banned by internal ban detection failures, and/or those w