Dell makes excellent gaming monitors, under both its own brand and the Alienware label. If you’re in the market for a new display, one of the company’s 27-inch models with 155Hz FreeSync support is on sale right now for just $289.99. This display has a 27-inch LED panel, a resolution of 2560×1440, two HDMI connectors, one DisplayPort, and four USB 3.0 pass-through ports. This is a FreeSync monitor, so it’s mostly intended to be used with AMD graphics cards. It’s not certified as G-Sync Compatibl

How do you warm yourself by the fireplace in Fortnite? There are plenty of things to do in the cosy new Winterfest Cabin in Fortnite: you can open some Fortnite presents every 24 hours for two weeks, open a stocking every day to get yourself one of the new Fortnite Winterfest challenges, and shake off the wintry chill of battle royale by a log fire. There’s really nothing like a warming yourself by the Fortnite fireplace. How to warm yourself by the fireplace in FortniteYou’ll have visited the W

Last time we checked in on definitively superb, free Doom mod Brutal Doom, it was releasing a definitive Gold version that was pretty much expected to be the end of the thing. But mod developer Sergeant_Mark_IV obviously couldn’t keep away from it, because they’ve released a cooperatively oriented mod called Meatgrinder Co-op. I’d suggest Slaughterfest 2012, though the Meatgrinder developer also suggests Speed of Doom as an alternative. It’s aiming to be beautiful co-op Doom that works on a toas

Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 singleplayer mode has a new “visual teaser” trailer. We haven’t heard much about Squadron 42 in the last year, other than the news of a delay, but it’s good to see that Cloud Imperium Games is making headway on the campaign component of Star Citizen. Finally, it moves to scenes inside space stations and craft. Here’s the trailer in fat 21:9 format for proper cinematic flair:Squadron 42 is the singleplayer component of record-setting crowdfunded MMO Star Citizen, a spra

It has everything a good videogame should have: Torches, caves, procedural generation, mournfully wailing children. Anyway, Goblet Cave gives you simple tools like torches, ropes, platforms, and ladders, then sends you down into a cave to find the titular Goblet. Along the way you’ll rescue lost children, collect rubies, and curse viciously when you miss the toss of a grappling hook. Each playthrough is procedural though, so you can do it a few times before you get a little tired of it. You can

If you somehow haven’t played the fast-paced first-person masterpiece that is the 2016 Doom reboot, now is a pretty great time to give it a shot. The game was already discounted to $6 for the Steam Winter Sale, but now it’s 50 cents cheaper from Newegg. That’s a whole 50 cents you could put towards other games! Just like the regular Steam version, all DLC is included: Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall. That should be enough to hold you over until Doom Eternal comes out in a few months.

The first television yule log, according to Wikipedia, aired in 1966 in New York City. For something even more exotic, this Minecraft fireplace, created by YouTuber Denis, might be just the trick. After that, though, it’s all festive fireplace.) This is different from the official Minecraft Holiday Yule Log, which has been around since 2016. There’s nothing quite like snuggling up close to a roaring fire to conjure up those old-fashioned holiday feelings.

There are plenty of unique computer cases on the market, but iBuyPower’s Snowblind Element separates itself from the pack with a transparent 19-inch LCD side panel with a 1024×1280 resolution to both show off your PC and display various graphics. The Snowblind Element is based on NZXT’s S340 mid-tower, which is a good starting point. Unlike a regular S340, however, the side panel on the Element can display custom images, meters, and video wallpapers to give your setup a distinctive look. Priced

A hack has been causing issues for some Fallout 76 players, who have unexpectedly found themselves stripped down to their underwear while another player runs off with their items. The sneaky hack, which players were warned about on Reddit, let cheating players strip their fellow survivors of items. It acknowledged the severity of the hack, though it also said it just allowed players to steal equipped items. Since then, Fallout 76 has undergone maintenance on PC to shore up the game and deal with

Crowbar Collective has put out a Black Mesa: Xen update today, as well as releasing the Half-Life remake’s expansion on Steam, where it was previously only available on the public beta branch. Though still technically in Early Access, the full game is available. Black Mesa: Xen is a greatly expanded reimagining of the terrible Xen section of the original Half-Life. The next update will take Xen out of Early Access, so Crowbar Collective will be keeping an eye on things to see what needs polishin

Shortly after the long-lost Destiny 2 guardian Saint-14 turned up in the tower, players noticed something very amusing: He’d take notice of anyone who approached him while wearing his helmet, a Titan exotic that was added in the Curse of Osiris expansion. He doesn’t seem to mind sharing, though—in fact, he suggests using it to prank Zavala, the stoic, famously humorless command of the Vanguard. But because of required reworks, it was marked to be cut, which is where Shuman got involved. This is

The charity organization was quickly proven correct when it sold 700,000 units of its introductory Raspberry Pi Model B in 2012, and now seven years later, cumulative sales of the Raspberry Pi product stack has ballooned to over 30 million units. Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton announced the milestone on Twitter, saying the company sold its 30 millionth unit sometime in early December. In contrast, the Raspberry Pi has gone through several iterations, so the beloved C64’s record still stands.

In the spirit of the holiday season, Ubisoft is giving away a Rainbow Six Siege operator, selected at random, to everyone who logs into the game. 🎄 HAPPY HOLIDAYS from the Rainbow Six Siege team! ❄🎁 Find your surprise in the Holiday 2019 Pack in the Pack section from the Home screen! You can learn more about all of them (except Kali and Wamai, who are very recent additions) in our very handy Rainbow Six Siege Operators Guide. If the operator (or skin) doesn’t appear in your account, try re-loggi

Remember the 2017 holiday season, when Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan dominated Twitch by sitting in front of a fire for ten hours? It returned in 2018, this time with a number of different “hosts,” including Kaplan, and in 2019 it’ll be back yet again. The 2018 Yule log featured appearances from McCree voice actor Matt Mercer, D.Va voice actor Charlet Chung, and caster Soe Gschwind, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see the guest-cast lineup expanded even further this year. pic.twitter

We write all the time about the best games you can play on PC, but the end of the decade is an invitation to examine which games have changed PC gaming itself. Not all of these games released between 2010 and 2019—following one of the biggest trends of this decade, some PC games have had tectonic effects on our hobby long after their launch day. Those years of angst over casual games now seem childish, and the PC is home to a more vibrant and diverse range of games than we could’ve imagined a de

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is celebrating its first holiday season with an official Christmas mod, Winter Celebration 2019, that you can download for free until next year. The mod adds lots of cheery, festive touches that, I’m sorry to say, raise some questions about historical accuracy. Did villagers venture outside to root around in naturally occurring piles of gift-wrapped presents so they could feed their family? The latest iteration of Age of Empires 2 is also the best, leaving li

G.Skill is closing out the year with dozens of new DDR4 memory kits designed for Intel’s X299 and AMD’s TRX40 Threadripper platforms, under its Trident Z Royal and Trident Z Neo product lines. Several of the kits are based on its new low latency 32GB modules, including a bunch of 256GB capacity kits at different speeds. Have a gander:(Image credit: G.Skill)From a technical standpoint, the new DDR4-3200 kits based on ultra-low latency 32GB modules are the most interesting, with 128GB and 256GB ki

Elgato, which was recently acquired by Corsair, is currently the leading brand in game capture hardware—we use some of its equipment for our own gameplay capture and streaming. If you’re looking to upgrade your streaming setup, Amazon and Best Buy are currently offering holiday deals on the Elgato HD60 Pro, HD60 S, and Stream decks at up to 30 percent off. This older version of the Elgato Game Capture HD Pro is a low latency internal capture card that streams and records at 1080p 60 fps. If you

The priority for the first season of The Witcher, showrunner Lauren Hissrich said in November, was setting up stories “that really capture audiences for years at a time.” With the show now live and a second officially locked down, Hissrich gave GamesRadar some insight into what fans can expect in season two. “What’s great about season two, I can tell you, is that, in what we’ve written, the story becomes much more focused. There’s a stronger drive in the story, because all of the relationships t

Solid state drives just keep getting cheaper… and cheaper… and cheaper still. Now you can get the 2TB version of Crucial’s popular MX500 SSD for just $199.99 on Amazon. That’s a $13 drop from the previous price, and the lowest price yet for this drive. This is a 2.5-inch SATA SSD, so it will fit into every desktop or laptop with a spare SATA slot. If you’re looking for a different drive that’s also on sale (maybe an NVMe one?