Early Access racing combat game Grip , inspired by and made by some of the same developers as ’90s classic Rollcage, will be released in the autumn, developer Caged Element has announced. Its Kickstarter campaign failed in 2015 but that didn’t stop it zooming into Early Access in 2016, where it’s garnered “very positive” reviews from Steam users . Its 15 vehicles go obscenely fast—up to 767 mph, to be exact—and they’re loaded with a variety of weapons. At launch, it’ll have 19 tracks from “a var

Before the actual thing comes along and breaks our hearts, let’s indulge ourselves in some daydreaming: What do you wish they’d announce at E3 this year? Bo Moore: Dragon Age: Inquisition 2I know I’m in the minority, but I loved Dragon Age: Inquisition. BioWare dropped the ball on Mass Effect Andromeda, so hopefully whenever we get a new Dragon Age it won’t fall prey to the same pitfalls. Phil Savage: Dragon Age 2-IISure, Bo, Dragon Age: Inquisition was good. But did Dragon Age 2 have a ton of p

Image courtesy Tom’s HardwareEarlier this week, Wes wrote up Intel’s demonstration of a future 28-core enthusiast CPU that should launch later this year. There was nothing particularly shocking about the reveal, consider Intel already has 28-core Xeon Platinum chips. Intel showed the 28-core chip running at 5.0GHz, with all 28 cores and 56 threads loaded. The fallout from Intel’s 28-core enthusiast CPU demonstration has been interesting, but this was a publicity stunt and not something most user

Give me the good grind, Bioware. Give me the good grind. Speaking of the good grind, there’s a new Diablo project in the works. I’ll play Destiny 2 or 3 or 4 no matter what, so long as I can play dress up as a cool space wizard in cool space environments. Joe Donnelly: Stories playedGOG’s Summer Gaming Sale kicked off this week, bringing with it a typical deluge of savings on great games.

It didn’t do much to communicate the most interesting ideas in BF5, which include an overhauled revive system and new squad features. If they’re not Medics, they won’t be able to revive teammates outside their squad, and their revive animations will last longer. We could already spawn on our squadmates in Battlefield, so squad wipes were already important—does being able to revive a squadmate make that big of a difference? It seems that Battlefield 5 is about squad play more than Battlefield 1 i

Earlier this week, the first “in-engine cinematic” for Total War: Three Kingdoms introduced Cao Cao, a leader with a talent for grand speeches and strategy. Today, we’ve got a new gameplay trailer that demonstrates what he’s capable of in a fight. He’s one of the greatest warriors of the era but he’s isolated from his allies, and the master strategist Cao Cao sees an opportunity to eliminate him before his power becomes too great. Laying siege to the city, Cao Cao smashes the walls, then launche

Europa Universalis, in all its incarnations, is a game with ambitious scope and mechanical depth, let alone complexity. As part of their campaign to publish board games of their video games , Paradox Interactive is letting Aegir Games take a crack at creating a Europa Universalis board game. If you’re not familiar with reading previews of board games, know that this one especially is subject to a lot of change. The Europa Universalis board game prototype from PDXCon 2018. Three of those correspo

The E3 2018 press conferences are almost here. And kicking off E3 on Saturday—before E3 even starts—is Electronic Arts, with EA Play. We’ll get to see gameplay footage of Battlefield 5, learn more about 2019’s Anthem, see Battlefront 2’s Solo: A Star Wars Story content, and there’s bound to be a lot more. You can check out the rest of the E3 press conference schedule here , and of course we’ve once again got our own show at E3! It’s the fourth annual PC Gaming Show, and here’s what to expect and

The fourth and final playable hero in Overill’s The Walking Dead is Heather, a kindergarten teacher turned hardened survivor who’s introduced in yet another deeply unhappy trailer that’s also somehow even more brutal than the previous three. It’s interesting (and well-established in the Walking Dead world) that the most dangerous threat to survivors isn’t the hordes of undead, but other survivors: Fellow humans who won’t think twice about killing you to take your stuff. I had actually hoped that

A listing on the Brazil Advisory Rating Board that appeared in February pointed to the release of New Gundam Breaker on PC. That was confirmed in March when Bandai Namco announced a launch date of June 22 for PS4 and, “for the first time for a Gundam game,” PC. The PS4 version will still launch on schedule, but the PC version has been pushed back to the summer. “In order to deliver the highest quality experience for the players, Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe have decided that New Gundam Brea

There’s an eerie feeling that settles in when you approach the booth of cooling company Noctua on the Computex show floor. All Noctua really cares about is cooling, which has paid off with its latest fan design, the NF-A12. Case in point: probably the most exciting upcoming product at Noctua’s booth this year is a new CPU cooler, the NH-U12. It was set up against a dual tower 140mm cooler that dwarfed it in size. The new CPU cooler, the NH-U12, will cost around $100, and should be out by the end

Just a day after Valve announced a new ‘anything goes’ policy for Steam—simplistically, as long as a game is not illegal or “trolling,” it will be allowed—it has removed AIDS Simulator, ISIS Simulator, Suicide Simulator, Asset Flip Simulator, and Triggering Simulator from the platform. Even so, it seems likely that the games would have been taken down under the new guidelines, had they been in place. “In addition, the developer had been involved in numerous misrepresentations, copyright violatio

Technically, adding a 960GB solid state drive to your PC doesn’t get you into the 1TB club. Besides, there’s not much to quibble about if you’re only paying $148.74, which is the price after coupon for an Adata SU650 at Rakuten today. The sale price makes this drive considerably cheaper than Corsair’s MX500 1TB, currently our budget pick among the best SSDs for gaming. The SU650 is rated to deliver up to 520MB/s of sequential read performance and up to 450MB/s of sequential writes, with 40K/75K

I’m still impressed by the power in the diminutive Raspberry Pi , a flexible hobbyist PC that can be used to run emulators or a home server or other creative projects. But the Raspberry Pi looks practically gargantuan next to the Pico PI225-GK, which I checked out at Zotac’s booth at Computex 2018. This is actually the second generation of the mini PC, which is about the dimensions of a half dozen credit cards stacked together. But I was impressed by how much of a genuine PC the Pico is. Wi-Fi,

MSI unveiled a couple of new laptops at Computex, both of which are svelte machines with up to an Intel 8th generation Core i7 processor and discrete graphics. There are two main models, the GF63 8RC with a GeForce GTX 1050 GPU inside, and the GF63 8RD with an upgraded GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. This is more of a business machine, though it does have a GeForce MX150 GPU inside for some lightweight gaming. What’s interesting, however, is that MSI might stuff a GeForce GTX 1050 GPU inside before it ship

Corsair’s software has come a long, long way in four years. Early versions of Corsair’s software made customizing lighting for RGB keyboards a confusing, overly complicated process. Corsair lighting and fan controllers make those customization options listed above more powerful, if you want everything integrated. Corsair demoed iCue putting on a coordinated light show between fans and even its RGB-equipped RAM, which is pretty slick. iCUE’s available now, so if you’re rocking the older version o

Intel’s newest Coffee Lake processor, the Core i7-8086K, is now to available to order from several online vendors, though maybe not for long. Like that part, the Core i7-8086K has 6 cores and 12 threads to go along with 12MB of L3 cache. “The Intel Core i7-8086K limited edition processor is more than just a commemorative processor. “The Intel Core i7-8086K processor is also the first Intel processor to deliver up to 5GHz single-core turbo frequency out of the box, fully unlocked for overclocking

Last year, we learned Bandai Namco and Dontnod were developing a new narrative adventure game. It promised “AAA quality” and plenty of investigation—à la Life Is Strange—from a team separate to the one then working on Vampyr. The project now has a name: Twin Mirror. “With no memory of the night before and an ominously bloody shirt as his only clues, it’s time for Sam to find the truth.” With that, Twin Mirror is billed as a “story-driven investigation game”.

Perhaps this is unfair, but I associate the Dead or Alive beat ’em series with scantily clad female characters—be that in an official or unofficial capacity. I also understand its DoA 5: Last Round PC variant was a bit of a disaster at launch 2015. As told by IGN, Dead or Alive 6 boasts a new engine that aims to pretty-up the existing formula. Note the hearty facial expressions and sweat-dripping bodies of the fighters that feature here:The fighter’s official website tells us that an update beyo

PUBG’s latest limited-time event marks the return of War Mode. Live now through June 10 at 11pm PST / June 11 at 7am BST, players can expect “spicier” rules this time, where instant death follows every knock. Set within a small and static Erangel safe zone, War Mode equips players with a 4x-scoped Karabiner 98 Kurz, a handgun, one frag grenade and a ghillie suit. Killing enemies nets your ten-person squad three points, and the first team—of which there are three at any given time—to reach 150 po