Solid State Drives continue to become cheaper and cheaper. Last month, Kingston’s 128GB SSD dropped to just $36 on Amazon, and now there’s an even cheaper drive—the Team Group L5 LITE 3D. This particular SSD has 120GB of storage, and uses 3D NAND to improve performance and reliability. 120GB isn’t a lot of space, but it’s enough for your OS and a few apps at least. You can buy the Team Group L5 Lite 3D from Newegg for $29.99.

Earthfall is an end-of-the-world shooter that’s very reminiscent of the Left 4 Dead games: Four players working together to fend off charging hordes of bad guys across multiple multi-mission campaigns. But instead of zombies, it’s aliens this time around, and you can build defensive fortifications to help hold off the horde, giving the game a bit of a Fortnite twist. It’s been in Steam Early Access for a little over a year now, and today developer Holospark announced that it will go into full re

Now the company is rolling out a pair of new mid-tower options that look equally intriguing, the H500 and H500i. It essentially combines the functions of the company’s HUE+ and GRID+ products, which run $59.99 and $29.99, respectively. If that stuff doesn’t interest you, however, the H500 strips out the Smart Controller for a cheaper $69.99 price tag. We haven’t had time to full test either case ourselves, but the early reviews seem to agree with Hou’s statement. The H500 and H500i are both avai

The latest round of Hearthstone balance changes is now live: That means a big jump in the Naga Sea Watch Mana cost, a smaller increase to Spiteful Summoner, a significant nerf to the amount Dark Pact heals for, and a change to the Quest Rogue quest reward that should make it a little less brutal against slow decks (but will still probably be annoyingly strong). We took a closer look at what the changes mean last week, but the broad goal is to shake up an otherwise somewhat stale meta now that th

To seed the program, Nexus Mods has put up $100,000, which it will use for payments to participating mod authors over the next 12 months. At the end of each month, mod authors will receive DP based on how many unique downloads their mods received that month. Mod authors are also able to donate the cash from their points to charity, or share their points with other mod authors they’d like to support. It’s worth noting that we don’t know how much Nexus Mods will pay out each month, nor do we know

Razer’s Blade laptop has served as the middle option sandwiched between the thinner Blade Stealth and more powerful Blade Pro, and like those other two models, it’s seen a few hardware upgrades over the years. There are three display options—a Full HD 1080 panel with a 60Hz refresh rate, another 1080p panel with a faster 144Hz refresh rate, and a 4K panel (60Hz refresh rate) with multi-touch support. Launching alongside the retooled Blade is the Core X, essentially a cheaper version of the $499.

Intel and Micron have jointly announced the production and shipment of the industry’s first 4-bits-per-cell 3D NAND flash memory, also known as QLC (quad-level cell), which is even denser than TLC (triple-level cell) NAND flash memory that’s commonly found on many of the less expensive solid state drives on the market. This effectively enables denser storage in a smaller space, potentially leading to higher capacity SSDs that are cheaper to produce. However, it will take some time for QLC NAND f

Stage four of Overwatch League started last week, and with it came the introduction of the newest hero Brigitte to professional play. Love her or hate her, one thing is for certain: Brigitte brought some immediate changes to the pro meta. Brigitte is anti-diveThe infamous “dive meta” has dominated Overwatch for the last year or so at all levels of play. In the dive meta, having players flex to another DPS role or Roadhog wasn’t that big a deal. Not everyone has a great projectile specialist, and

If you win that you can compete in the next day’s eight team bracket, and if you win that you get to go through to the final day’s sixteen team bracket. You can actually play on any of the three days, but the progression is always a four team bracket on day one, then an eight team bracket on day two and so on. This flexibility—starting on any of the three days, having options to try again, being able to do things like win a four team bracket on Friday and then pick up your eight team bracket on

There, he announced Imperator: Rome—a sequel to 2008’s EU: Rome—with a reveal trailer that failed to feature in-game footage. Behind the scenes at the expo, I’m shown a bare bones build which Andersson talks through. Taking place from 304BC to the founding of the Roman Empire, Imperator promises 7,000 explorable, conquerabled and developable cities—all within Paradox’s familiar, granular grand strategy framework. Continuing the positive strides made by stablemates Europa Universalis 4 and Stella

Great moments in PC gaming are short, bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. We called it copy protection, and it was everywhere. Photocopying manuals and such was almost part of the fun of ‘borrowing’ disks. Aside from anything else, it was often fun to see what happened when you failed to pass a copy protection test. You shouldn’t pirate games, and you shouldn’t copy that floppy.

Sleep Tight is a twin-stick shooter about building a base and fending off waves of monsters. It’s kind of like Monsters Inc. meets Killing Floor, and as appropriately named developer We Are Fuzzy announced today, it’s coming to PC July 26. We first saw Sleep Tight late last year. These kids apparently have no bedtime, so your goal is simply to survive as many nights as possible. There are 12 kids in total, each with unique and imaginative abilities styled after their hobbies and fantasies.

Dark Souls Remastered is due this Friday, May 25. To mark the occasion, the Humble Store has both sequels, Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3, on sale with a 75 percent discount. Otherwise priced £29.99/your regional equivalent, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin is now going for £7.49. Dark Souls 2 is my least favourite of the series, but that’s mostly because I adore the first and third. Check out Humble’s Dark Souls discounts in full here.

What is that magic thing that makes a joke funny, then unfunny, and eventually, when you’re worn down by the same repeated joke, funny again? I get this when I watch the above trailer for handheld spin-off Duke Nukem Trilogy, released at the downsized E3 of 2008. You’ll see badly animated cutouts of guns open fire on the Duke Nukem symbol more than once. Only one part of the Duke Nukem Trilogy came out, sadly—and living up to this would’ve been impossible anyway. But this is the perfect E3 trail

Having worked on everything from Wolfenstein to Bulletstorm, Doom and Gears of War, game developers Tor Frick, Arcade Berg, Erik Gloersen and Jonathan Heckley have formed a new studio. Named Neon Giant, the new outfit boasts over 70 years of collective industry experience and will reveal details of its debut venture in the coming days. With investor support from Goodbye Kansas, Neon Giant joins the likes of Tarhead Studio, Fall Damage—a team founded by ex-DICE employees—and Palindrome Interactiv

Devolver Digital, the outfit Steven once described as the industry’s most eclectic studio , has confirmed its own dedicated showing at E3 2018. The aptly named Devolver Digital E3 Press Conference 2018 will take place on Sunday, June 10 at 8pm PST/June 11 at 4am BST. Devolver Digital E3 Press Conference 2018Sunday, June 10 @ 8PM PacificApologies in advance. pic.twitter.com/z22K4L0bC1May 18, 2018Despite being forced to cancel its Indie Picnic event in the run up to last year’s E3, the publisher’s

Space Hulk: Deathwing took a board game that had been the inspiration for four other videogames and did something different with it, turning it into a first-person shooter whose main strength was atmosphere. Leading a squad of Space Marines into a hulk in Deathwing was eerie. But Streum On have been tweaking and patching away and now are unveiling their Enhanced Edition of Deathwing. Deathwing remains a game for the 40K hardcore, who will lap up the environments and spend hours earning renown po

We Happy Few, a dystopian survival game set in a retro-futuristic 1960s England, has been refused classification in Australia—meaning it’s effectively banned. That’s per the Australian Classification Board website, which published its decision earlier today. It’s likely that this incentive to take drugs in-game is the reason the game was refused classification. Hotline Miami 2 was famously refused classification in 2015, prompting studio Dennaton to encourage Australian players to pirate the gam

Games Workshop’s Warhammer settings have been adapted into novels since the late 1980s, but never anything quite like the two books they’ve just announced. The Warhammer Adventures line is, as their website puts it, “perfect for bookworms aged 8-12 who want to read about heroes, aliens and monsters.” Young adult fiction doesn’t shy away from mature themes, but it’s still tough to imagine the Warhammer 40,000 universe—the setting that gaves us the phrase “grimdark”—being the basis for kid’s books

Valve’s crackdown on sexual content in games on Steam has been averted, at least temporarily. The day after the surprise announcement came to light, Valve apologized for the confusion and told HunieDev and others to disregard the email about their games violating Steam’s guidelines on pornographic content. Lupiesoft has also just received word from Valve that Mutiny!! Regarding the removal of Tropical Liquor on Steam, we received word that it will be re-evaluated.😺May 20, 2018And visual novel lo