Somewhere is a game which Studio Oleomingus has been working on for more than half a decade. The game you’ll find being outlined in 2013 has figures who act as vessels through which the player can interact with the game, swapping from one to another for new perspectives via a sneaking stealth process. Screenshots from the blog give a sense of a game being developed, with the team figuring out character models and implementing ideas. There are other games and experiences which have sprung up arou

Gambit is a 4v4 “hybrid” mode that will see two teams battling enemies in separate arenas, collecting and banking “motes” from fallen foes. “We want Forsaken to feel like a game that never ends,” Bungie’s Eric Osborne said during the stream. Likewise, Forsaken channels Destiny 1’s weapon system in new, free-form loadouts allowing players to equip any weapon type in any slot, and in seemingly any combination. Destiny 2: Forsaken will sell for $40, or $70 bundled with its own three-part “annual pa

Nvidia has begun doling out its 398.11 WHQL driver release to GeForce GPU owners, and with it comes ‘Game Ready’ performance tweaks for Vampyr (out now) and Jurassic World Evolution (due out next week on June 12). In addition to introducing game optimizations for Vampyr and Jurassic World Evolution, Nvidia also says this is the driver to install for the “best possible gaming experience on HDR-capable G-Sync displays.” They include:[SLI][Hitman Pro: DirectX 12]: With SLI mode enabled, the game cr

What I mean is the new Phanteks case, the Evolv X, keeps the Phanteks aesthetic the company is known for, but totally redesigns the interior of the Evolv to be roomier and more versatile. Without increasing the size of the case compared to the older Evolv, the Evolv X made room for more cooling, more storage, and added a second mount point for a mini-ITX system at the top of the case. The Evolv X is a dual system case in the size of a mid-tower. That’s the most attention grabbing new feature in

The FIFA World Cup 2018 kicks off next week, which GTA Online is celebrating with a GTA$250,000 giveaway. This week’s double RP and in-game money is tied to all Transform races, including the seven new tracks added today. For my money, the Shotaro isn’t quite as entertaining in free play, though. Detailed info on GTA Online’s seven new Transform races can be gleaned from this Rockstar Newswire post. If you can’t afford any of the above, learn how to make money in GTA Online.

One is a 28-core/56-thread single-socket chip that you can read more about here, and the other is a limited edition Core i7-8086K processor that can ramp up to 5GHz without overclocking. “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 5.0 GHz single-core turbo frequency out of the box, fully unlocked for overclocking.” The Core i7-8086K celebrates four decades of

The Destiny 2: Forsaken reveal event will begin at 9 am PT/12 pm ET today, June 5, bringing us details on what Bungie has planned for year two of its big online shooter and what we can expect in the expansion set to arrive in September. It looks an awful lot like this one will be about the Fallen and will take us to The Reef, home of the Awoken and the Prison of Elders—a place Cayde-6 has been paying particular attention to of late. Should be interesting—watch it with us below.

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Grim Fandango Developer: LucasartsYear: 1998Grim Fandango is a beautiful adventure, and never moreso than during Year 2. That wonderful, wonderful music. Rubacava is one of the greatest towns in gaming, give or take a couple of particularly painful puzzles. It’s not a place you’d likely want to live, but it’s a great place to have lived.

Fortnite’s latest content update adds the Bouncer Trap to Battle Royale, and new Chrome Commando heroes to Save the World. Bouncer Traps come in packs of three from chests, llamas and drops, and are designed to “send friend or foe soaring”. Elsewhere, content update v4.3 adds the Chrome Commandos to Fortnite’s Save the World variant. Epic isn’t clear on how these characters fit into Save the World, but does provide their names—Diecast Jonesy and Chromium Ramirez. Read more about Fornite’s conten

This year MSI made the best gaming laptop of the year with the stylish, thin, and powerful GS65 Stealth . MSI’s been improving its gaming laptop designs year after year, but has never done much outside the gaming space. The Prestige PS42 is an ultrabook, going after the likes of the Dell XPS 13 and Apple’s tiny MacBook. I think MSI has the potential to break open a section of the laptop market that no one is currently competing in: great portable laptops that can actually play contemporary games

Shadow of the Tomb Raider looks to be Lara’s darkest, deadliest and stealthiest outing yet. Tom was disappointed with an early build back in April, but I’m impressed with how its fire, water and smoke effects are shaping up today. Here’s Eidos Montreal technical artist Martin Palko with a behind-the-scenes look at Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s visual effects. Perhaps we’ll see some more of it in motion during Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s E3 gameplay reveal next week. Check out Shadow of the Tomb Ra

In his 80-scored Surviving Mars review, Fraser concluded that “managing a burgeoning colony never stops being compelling” despite at times being “a lot of hard work”. With so much going on, city-builders can overwhelm—which, following player feedback, is why Haemimont Games rolled out a five-part tutorial system in last week’s Curiosity update. “Before launch, we thought to ourselves: nobody wants to play a tutorial,” the developer’s CEO Gabriel Dobrev tells me when asked why Surviving Mars ship

In the fourth quarter of this year, Intel plans to start shipping a 28-core CPU clocked at 5GHz. And this is a single socket CPU that you’ll be able to use in a future PC build. Intel’s current top-end Core i9-7980XE, with a now pathetic 18 cores, is a $2000 CPU. Watch the video above, from near the end of Intel’s keynote, where they run through some benchmarks and give a taste of what the new CPU can do. This thing’s probably going to be able to run, like four instances of Crysis before it slow

PUBG players sell cosmetic items for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars on its Steam Community Marketplace. By extending its market restriction policy on bespoke crates, developer PUBG Corp hopes to reduce “abusive behaviour of the market system.” As outlined in this update post, the battle royale’s Aviator Crate was released on May 16 and is currently unmarketable on Steam. The developer aims to lift this crate’s restrictions on June 13 at 8pm PST / June 14 at 4am BST. As a semi-regular

Notaprofi’s Pure Darkness mod applies the same effect to the entire game. Look at these screens:As detailed by Notaprofi on the project’s Nexus Mods page, the darkness varies from area to area. The mod’s creator says Pure Darkness will also test your knowledge and memory of the world’s layout, and as such isn’t recommended for new players. Notaprofi’s Pure Darkness mod is compatible with the game’s Prepare to Die Edition. For a more lighthearted look at Lordran, here’s an area of Dark Souls recr

It’s the first exhibition day of Computex 2018, and that means I had a morning mission: find In Win’s booth. This case company always makes beautiful PC cases that go heavy on the glass, but that’s not the big draw. The Computex booth every year has a crazy concept case to draw attention, and no matter how outlandish, In Win always makes a limited number to sell to those who can afford them. This year In Win took a pretty different approach, but it’s still one of the most striking cases at the s

Lego Worlds isn’t just Minecraft with Lego* – players can also create their own games using some pretty intuitive in-game tools. Take this example: someone has built Dark Souls’ Firelink Shrine in the block-building game, and they’ve not forgotten to include those horrible respawning skeletons. The work of reddit user MythicMarty, it was created using Lego World’s in-game tools. Assuming MythicMarty doesn’t get distracted by other things, we’ll probably get to see more Lego Dark Souls in the fut

The first thing I saw upon walking into Taipei’s Nangang Exhibition Center, which houses tech convention Computex, was this gargantuan display of liquid cooling and RGBs. It’s called Inception Project, and it’s a huge collaboration between hardware companies and pro case modders spearheaded by Cooler Master. A ton of Cooler Master power supplies give the array juice, with cooling components from Bitspower and loads of motherboards, graphics cards, and SSDs from big names like Asus and Gigabyte.

Code Vein, which looks to be an anime take on the well-trodden Dark Souls formula, will release for PC on September 28, publisher Bandai Namco has confirmed. The news comes via a new trailer, which is Japanese language, though we’ll likely get an English equivalent soon enough. Revealed early last year, the game looks promising if you’re into gruelling combat and shouty anime stuff. The game will support online cooperative play, allowing you to summon other players to help in fights, Dark Souls-

Earlier today, the official Hitman Twitter account teased an upcoming new target for Agent 47. But the specifics of that target won’t be revealed until June 7, and the tweet had a feel of something bigger: A forthcoming announcement of season 2, perhaps? Io Interactive has already effectively said that it’s going to happen, but has been somewhat more reticent about actually, fully committing to it. Your next target is… pic.twitter.com/0l1Tyu4ghoJune 4, 2018Warner Bros. Interactive saved the st