After just 11 months on the market, Intel is retiring its quad-core Kaby Lake-X high-end desktop (HEDT) processor family, the company revealed in a ‘product change notification’ (PDF) on its website. They’ll remain on the market for a bit, but after some time, vendors will not longer be able to buy additional Kaby Lake-X parts from Intel. In addition, Kaby Lake-X only supports dual-channel memory configurations, rendering half the memory slots on a X299 motherboard useless. If all that weren’t e

“This letter places you on notice that violations of the Warranty and FTC Acts may result in legal action,” the letters state in bold. “FTC investigators have copied and preserved the online pages in question, and we plan to review your company’s written warranty and promotional materials after 30 days. You should review the Warranty and FTC Acts and if necessary, revise your practices to comply with the Acts’ requirements. Some of those include the removal of warranty stickers. As it pertains t

In a world of bi-yearly processor launches, manufacturers simply don’t have the time to develop boards for this form factor anymore. And that’s the problem: There’s not enough micro-ATX boards. Seemingly, then, NZXT’s H400i is a bit out of place in this world of ATX and ITX giants. Those clever features that NZXT crafted around the brilliant structure of that mid-tower monster migrate well into the smaller form factor of this micro-ATX wonderdog. If nothing else, the H400i is a perfect excuse to

Another week, another Far Cry 5 live event, and this one has a particularly goofy reward: a rocket launcher that distributes shovels instead of explosives. Once you’ve opted in for the event, which is called White Collar Job, go on the hunt for wolves using a bow and arrow. When you’ve bagged ten of them—and those can include Jacob’s Judges (which are wolves but meaner)—you’ll receive the Shovel Launcher. We’ve already celebrated Far Cry 5’s shovel, the best weapon in the game, because it’s ridi

The preliminary round of the 2018 Overwatch World Cup are over and the Group Stage is set, with the top 24 countries set to do battle for a shot at the title at BlizzCon. The Group Stage breaks down into four groups of six, each competing under the auspices of a host nation:South Korea:RussiaFinlandChinese TaipeiJapanSouth KoreaHong KongUnited States:CanadaAustriaUSBrazilSwitzerlandNorwayThailand:ChinaAustraliaSwedenThailandSpainDenmarkFrance:UKPolandItalyGermanyNetherlandsFranceChina was the to

As well as jewellery crafting, wine and murder, the Psijic skill line is another notable part of the offering in Summerset, The Elder Scrolls Online’s upcoming expansion. The trailer above details how players will travel to the island of Artaeum to join the Psijic Order, and what they’ll be up against. This skill line opens up unique abilities for players, like being able to slow or freeze enemies, rewind time or meditate to give your health a boost. This is the first time in the series that pla

A new Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer has arrived showing some more cut-together cutscene snippets. It’s the third video Rockstar have released so far, along with these screenshots. Red Dead Redemption 2 hasn’t been announced for PC yet, but almost all Rockstar games end up on PC eventually. Having said that it seems like a Read Dead Redemption 1 port would have arrived by now if it was coming, but we’re still holding out for that and Rockstar Table Tennis. Here are the first two trailers if you w

Is teabagging ever okay in competitive shooters? Jarred Walton: I don’t careI gotta be honest: out of all the potentially offensive things that happen with multiplayer, teabagging has never really bothered me. James Davenport: It’s never okay, but hey, let’s rename itI can’t endorse teabagging. Teabagging never made me as mad, but it’s a pretty simple, silly way to make an opponent go on tilt. But it’s silly and harmless, especially compared to other forms of interaction in online games.

The quality of Amadeus, an Amnesia mod by Swedish creator Reminiscity, becomes clear when I step into the main hall of the old house where the story takes place. Which, this being a mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent, is a distinct possibility. I’m sure he feels well rewarded: the game has received a parade of enthusiastic 10/10 user reviews on ModDB, and was also voted as that site’s Amnesia Mod of the Year for 2017. The pacing is magnificent, leaving a good amount of tension-building space betw

In open-world RPGs my finger snaps to F5 at the first hint of danger, ready to quick save. But Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s save system has shown me that the aftermath of my mistakes is worth sticking around for, and that living with the chaos is often more enjoyable than reloading and trying again. My screw-up led to a nice little vacation, something a quick save system would’ve taken from me. Bruised, smilingI realize that such a cold, unforgiving save system can make Deliverance feel brutal at

The devs describe The Good Life as “a Daily Life Simulator x SWERISM.” It looks as though The Good Life will deliver sweriness at a more relaxed pace. You play as a New York journalist trying to pay off massive debt in a quaint British town called Rainy Woods. The strange thing about Rainy Woods, except that it is somehow sunny in Britain, is that the inhabitants transform into cats and dogs in moonlight. The ‘life simulator’ aspect involves taking odd jobs around the town and using your photogr

If death doesn’t have enough meaning for you in Fallout 4, this mod will encourage you to respectfully mourn every time you’re battered apart by a deathclaw. In OW3Nx25’s Death Matters (get it on Nexus here), each time you die you have to retrieve every non-quest item from your corpse, wherever you left it. Your journey to retrieve your items will then come up as a quest. Keeping your settlements active is important, because for each respawn, the settler you’re playing as is gone forever. Check

The maps, weapons and classes of the They Shall Not Pass expansion are now available to all Battlefield 1 players. To get the free stuff log in to the Origin store, search for They Shall Not Pass and click the ‘add to library’ button—voila! Shock Operations will add a 40 vs 40 sector capture mode to Giant’s Shadow, Prise de Tahure, Lukow Pass, Zeebrugge and River Somme. All owners of the base game will be able to play on those maps in Shock Operations mode. Guess what, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

Dual Universe is only in pre-alpha, but players have already made their mark in its virtual galaxy. When it launches in the next few years, Dual Universe will be a sandbox universe where millions of players all play on one server thanks to innovative multiplayer technology . It’s still far too early to tell if Dual Universe will ever live up to that promise, but what’s there is still exciting. The pop in made appreciating some of the cool things a little more difficult, but I love how passionate

For those who enjoy zones and the battles that unfold in them, Battlezone is surely a dream come true. Originally launched as a PSVR exclusive in 2016, the VR take on the classic series first released for PC last year. Now, a tad over a year later, Battlezone has been given a new coat of paint and relaunched as a Gold Edition. It’s no cash grab: if you already own Battlezone, you’ll get this edition for free. All additional content released since launch is bundled in with the Gold Edition too.

I’d never heard of developer Caiysware until today, when I happened to catch their latest game, Skelly Selest, in the Steam new releases page. It’s an 8-bit bullet hell roguelike about dismembering ghouls in the pits of Hell, specifically in such scenic locales as the Bone Plains, Flesh Gardens, and Soul Necropolis. You can get it on Steam for $3 (or $2.24 if you buy before May 8), which looks like a bargain for the amount of game on offer. Apart from a standard dungeon-crawl mode where you unlo

A clever piece of misdirection at the beginning of Pato Box sums up the experience perfectly. Pato Box isn’t going to be just a Punch-Out!! In Pato Box, you play an anthropomorphic boxing duck who must use his fists to defeat Deathflock, an evil corporation who lost you an important match and left you for dead. Despite being a fairly ridiculous premise for a game, the team behind Pato Box wanted to play the story straight. Pato Box also has some fantastic animations, which mirror the exaggerated

Disgaea 5 Complete, which Austin said last month is the best Disgaea, is coming to PC on May 7. Publisher NIS America has hooked up with Alienware to give away a big bunch of Steam demo keys. Having jumped through requisite hoops, you will be presented with a Steam key, which will lead you to a roughly 6GB download. Finish that up and voila, a Disgaea 5 Complete demo is yours to do with as you please. The strategy-RPG Disgaea 5 Complete, which include the base game plus eight bonus scenarios, fo

Scythe was one of the real standout board games of 2016, marrying a strong strategy game engine with Jakub Rozalski’s beautiful and fascinating world of 1920+ . It’s the kind of strategy game you can get wargamers and more abstract strategists to play, with an emphasis on not just map control and conflict, but also on strategic economics. The bones of tabletop Scythe are here in full. Right now, the best way to learn to play this version of Scythe is to read the tabletop rulebook. I can happily

One of tabletop’s biggest miniatures games has a big shakeup today as Fantasy Flight Games announced a new edition that will tweak the core rules and add new force powers to the game’s pool of strategic options. The most major change to the game’s rules seems to be the addition of Force powers, allowing force-sensitive pilots to alter the battlefield with new abilities. Fantasy Flight Games also cites numerous refinements to the game’s “flow” aimed at “refocusing on the physical act of flying st