Several of AMD’s retail partners have already marked down its second-generation Ryzen processors, including the Ryzen 5 2600, which is found at a few different places for $189.99. At Newegg, however, there is a combo deal that tosses in a Team Group 120GB SSD at no extra cost. If nothing else, you could use pocket the SSD as a spare drive, or sell it and buy something bigger. Or use it as your primary drive and get a cheap HDD for your Steam library (some games are too big to squeeze on a 120GB

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 reveal event confirmed, as rumored, that the game will not have a “conventional campaign”—but will it feature a large-scale battle royale mode, complete with land, sea, and air vehicles from the previous games. The mode, called Blackout, will feature a map 1500 times bigger than Nuketown, with characters, weapons, equipment, and parts of favorite maps drawn from throughout the history of Black Ops—including the cast of Zombies. That’s all that’s been revealed so far

The Division 2 will release within the next year, Ubisoft has confirmed. The sequel to online multiplayer shooter The Division was announced in March without a release window, but in a financial report released today Ubisoft said it would be out in the 2018-19 fiscal year, which ends next April. In the same time period, Ubisoft will also release The Crew 2 and an “unannounced franchise title”, which is intriguing. In March, the PC Gamer team talked through what they wanted to see from it, which

As we reported a week ago, Valve is releasing an app for Android and iOS that allows users to stream games from their Steam library to other devices. The Steam Link app is now available in beta, for Android, and will let you stream games to your Android phone, tablet, or TV. iPhone and Apple TV users, you’ll have to wait a little longer—the app is still pending review from Apple before it appears for iOS. I got to test out the iOS version of the app this week, and I’ve compiled my impressions he

Be that as it may, there’s chatter that Nvidia is preparing to launch a next-generation GeForce GTX 1180 (or 2080—no official name has been announced yet) graphics card in July. That’s coming from TomsHardware and industry sources who spoke with the site on the condition of anonymity. The GeForce GTX 1180/2080/whatever will indeed be a brand new part. Take this with an extra dose of salt, but according to WCCFTech, the GeForce GTX 1180 will have 3,584 CUDA cores, 8GB to 16GB of GDDR6 memory pipi

Fortnite’s latest limited time mode, Solo Showdown, doesn’t actually change any of the battle royale shooter’s rules, unlike all the other temporary modes we’ve seen. Instead, it’s basically a competitive mode: you’ll play against “other self-selected competitors” and be placed on a leaderboard that ranks players based on their performance in their first 50 games. The top players will win prizes—the idea is that people will take it more seriously than the regular solo queue. Don’t get too excite

Activision will reveal Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 in a livestreamed event beginning at 10am PT/1pm ET today, and you can watch it all right here. Treyarch has already effectively confirmed that there will be a Zombies mode—not much of a surprise there. The bigger questions are whether it will have a single-player campaign, and whether it will dive into the battle royale brawl. At the Black Ops 4 reveal in LA. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 comes on October 12.

Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick has said that esports gambling in the US—which the Supreme Court opened the door for last week with a law change—could be “meaningfully positive” for the publisher. The Supreme Court ruling struck down a law that prohibited gambling on sports events, and although it didn’t reference esports specifically it’s almost inevitable that it will impact the industry, given the continued blurring of boundaries between conventional sports and esports. I

Total War: Warhammer 2, the best strategy game of last year, is getting some new DLC later this month called The Queen & The Crone, which adds a legendary lord to both the High Elves and the Dark Elves alongside new quest chains. The Hag-Queen, Crone Hellebron, of the Dark Elves, and Everqueen Alarielle, of the High Elves, will both be playable in the Eye of the Vortex and Mortal Empires campaigns, and they’ll bring with them their own sub-factions, elite units, quest chains, magic items and ski

Square Enix is doing its part too, with a patch last month that brought the graphics in line with the original, and yesterday it released a second patch that adds new options for both the battle UI and character models. The new UI is “based on the look and feel of the original Chrono Trigger”, and you’ll be able to switch to it in the settings menu. The UI that shipped with the port, which is still available, is meant to be used with a mouse or a touchpad. Another patch is due in early June that

Microsoft will launch a new controller designed for players with limited mobility later this year. The Xbox Adaptive Controller, which will be compatible with Windows 10, comes with two large, central buttons plus a number of attachment slots on the top, each of which corresponds to a button on the standard Xbox controller. It was developed alongside organisations including The AbleGamers Charity, The Cerebral Palsy Foundation, Craig Hospital, SpecialEffect, and Warfighter Engaged, as well as di

If you want the full range to play, you’ll have to stump up on a subscription-based model. That’s not a great way to play games with hidden information. But you can also play games by email, sending log files back and forth. There are a lot of websites that let you play games online, but BGA is unusual in offering real-time play alongside asynchronous games. The best known is probably BrettSpielWelt , a German community that offers free real-time play via its Java client.

Cultist Simulator is also a single-player digital card game. Discovering combinations and sequences more esoteric than this pretty obvious one is what Cultist Simulator is all about. Cultist Simulator eventually becomes a game of spinning plates. Philippa played an earlier build of Cultist Simulator back in March, and a few new things have been added since then. Cultist Simulator will be available from May 31 on Steam, Humble, GOG, and itch.io.

Much has happened in the, uh, world of World of Tanks of late. If you haven’t played World of Tanks for a while, or never have, it now looks much nicer than it used to. But more recently, the game rolled out a new Australian Army tank in the form of the Centurion Mk5.1. According to Wargaming, this tank was standard in the Australian Army between 1950 and 1970, and in the game it features “reinforced front armor, improved machine guns and a more powerful engine”, compared to the British Centurio

Mechanical keyboards are pretty great, but they’re also usually pretty expensive. There are cheap options, but most of them suffer from lower-quality switches and a poor software experience. G.SKILL’s Cherry MX Speed silver keyboard is on sale for $62.99 right now, with the price normally hovering around $85. This keyboard has per-key customizable RGB lighting, with eight built-in light patterns. You can grab the keyboard right now from Newegg and Amazon.

Destiny 2: Warmind is out the door and, some technical issues aside, doing pretty well for itself. With that big step taken, Bungie is now looking ahead to the summer. Also coming, on May 29 if the schedule holds, is something called Crucible Labs, which sounds an awful lot like a public test server. “Crucible Labs will give every player of Destiny 2 access to experimental PvP content,” Bungie explained. A proper explanation of Crucible Labs will be provided sometime prior to launch.

Wizard of Legend is probably the closest we’re ever going to get to a good Avatar: The Last Airbender game. You’re going to want to play Wizard of Legend with a controller. I can use what I learn to improve my strategies and expand my arsenal, which is what makes Wizard of Legend so compelling. Elements have a rock-paper-scissors thing going on, meaning certain elements are strong against, and weak to, certain elements. I’m sure I’ll find out, because I’m not going to uninstall Wizard of Legend

Have you ever wanted to own King Llane’s ring, or perhaps the staff wielded by Gul’dan himself? You can, sort of: Hundreds of props from the 2016 Warcraft film, including weapons, armor, and various pieces of décor, are now on the auction block. That ring of King Llane’s? Update: It has been brought to my attention that this auction also includes several pieces of real, live horse armor. Bidding on basic Alliance Knight horse armor is currently at $225, while King Llane’s is at $300 and Lothar’s

(Image: © Flickr via Credo Action)The United States Senate has just voted to restore net neutrality regulations, which the FCC voted in December to eliminate. The vote was the result of a last-ditch effort by numerous websites and Senate Democrats, and thanks to the magic of C-SPAN, you can watch the process unfold. The vote is obviously good news for net neutrality proponents, but it’s also just the first step, and the next will be much more difficult. The Senate session voting to restore net n

Ubisoft has revealed a new teaser and background information for Maestro, the second Italian operator coming to Rainbow Six Siege in Operation Para Bellum. Following that experience, he retired and went into business for himself, training special forces troops and PMC mercenaries. He eventually decided to re-enlist, first to help train a Tuscania unit to a Tier 2 classification, and then as a member of the Rainbow team. None of which tells us what he’s going to do when the bullets start flying,