If you are and want to upgrade to a mechanical keyboard, first off, solid choice. Secondly, you don’t have to spend a ton of money on one—Zalman’s KM-K700M is just $40 on Newegg today. Zalman’s keyboard uses Cherry MX Red key switches. They’re also fairly quiet (see our guide on mechanical key switches for more info). It also features various lighting effects, a frameless design, and a set of dedicated gaming/macro keys, that last bit being a rare amenity in this price range.

Ben Brode, game director on Hearthstone and rapmeister extraordinaire, is leaving Blizzard. “After 15 years at Blizzard and almost 10 years working on Hearthstone, I have made the incredibly difficult decision to embark on a new journey,” Brode wrote. “There is no team like the Hearthstone team. A great team can do great things, and I think the Hearthstone team is the greatest. “Blizzard, thank you for taking a chance on me, and thank you for taking a chance on Hearthstone.

Over the past two decades, EK has built itself a reputation for designing and selling custom high-end liquid cooling kits and parts. Now it wants to try its hand at selling prebuilt PCs, starting with liquid-cooled systems built around AMD’s second generation Ryzen processor lineup. What will be interesting, though, is if EK can carve itself an audience from buyers who might otherwise look to boutique builders like Maingear and Digital Storm for high-end setups with custom liquid cooling loops.

Will AMD ever release a Ryzen 7 2800X? AMD senior vice president Jim Anderson explained why AMD chose not to include a Ryzen 7 2800X in its second generation Ryzen launch, even though the first generation of Ryzen chips include a Ryzen 7 1800X. In our own evaluation of the Ryzen 7 2700X, we saw it perform better than the Ryzen 7 1800X across the board. AMD could just have easily called it a Ryzen 7 2800X and nobody would have batted an eye. Still, AMD is leaving the door ever-so-slightly open to

Andy returns from his self-imposed exile to all things Jurassic World Evolution. He’s played Frontier’s upcoming park management sim, and reveals everything he knows about disaster, dinosaurs and Dr. Ian Malcolm. Meanwhile, Samuel and Phil revise their opinions of Vermintide 2 and Sea of Thieves. Download: Episode 63: Use Cider on Lemon . Discussed: Extinction, Jurassic World Evolution, Sea of Thieves, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Batman: The Telltale SeriesStarring: Samuel Roberts , Phil Savage , A

Those basic amenities pale in comparison, however, to what you’ll find in room 2425 at the Hilton in Panama. That’s the Alienware room, and it’s utterly ridiculous. Echale un vistazo al #Alienware Room 👽 🕹 en el Hotel @HiltonPanama ¡El primero de su tipo! In the center of the room there’s a racing simulator chair featuring upholstery developed by NASA and phase change materials to absorb heat. As you might imagine, this level of gaming luxury doesn’t come cheap—a night in the Alienware room runs

Open-world crime sim GTA 5, for example, is on sale for £19.19/your regional equivalent with 52 percent off. RTS-meets-dungeon manager War for the Overworld, on the other hand, is just £5.74 with a 75 percent discount. Elsewhere, elsewhere, grand space strategy-cum-4X ’em up Stellaris is going for £11.89, 66 percent less its recommended retail value. Elsewhere, elsewhere, elsewhere, Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition costs £6.99 with an 80 percent discount. Check out Fanatical’s Super 6 Sal

At last weekend’s Rezzed, Samuel caught up with head honcho Tim Schafer, who said he’d love to revisit more of his older games under the right circumstances. Schafer tells Samuel that despite Double Fine’s string of recent remasters, his primary instinct is to make games, leave them behind, and move onto the next. But then, 20 years go by for some of these games,” says Schafer. and I’m really glad we did decide to do them, even though we don’t own them,” says Schafer. Look out for Samuel’s chat

Last week, Sega revealed the first two Shenmue games, originally released in 1999 and 2001 for the Dreamcast, are coming to PC. Now, John Clark, Sega Europe’s vice president of publishing, has said this was tentatively planned internally for several years. “We saw the talk surrounding the announcement of Shenmue 3, and we saw the demand for that game,” Clark tells IGN. “We have a wishlist, and one of the first games that we brought out [from that list] was Valkyria Chronicles. I think that influ

Football Manager 2018 will host an in-game mental health awareness campaign in partnership with the UK’s National Health Service. Designed to target “hard to reach” young men, digital pitch-side advertising boards promoting NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group’s MindMate website will be added to the game’s 3D match engine. As reported by the BBC (via PC Games Insider), clicking through the ads takes players to the Mindmate homepage—which features mental health advice, resources, a games suite,

After a short holiday in Los Santos , Kratos debuts on PlayStation 4 consoles today with the arrival of God of War. Which seems like the perfect time to revisit the RPCS3 emulator. Having already brought esteemed console exclusives Demon’s Souls and Persona 5 our way—and having showcased its ongoing work on Red Dead Redemption, Silent Hill: Downpour, Drakengard 3, and more—the project is in the process of bringing both God of War: Ascension and God of War 3 to desktops. First the latter, which f

As Luke Winkie wrote earlier this week, Fortnite may dominate the battle royale scene in the west, but it’s not on top of the world. It’s hardly a stretch to assume that this means Fortnite will launch in China next week. PUBG has managed, but Fortnite may not have the same momentum it did in the west: consoles aren’t big in China. For some fascinating insight into Fortnite’s chances in China, Luke wrote about it earlier this week. Or… it could have nothing to do with a China launch at all, as

This week’s PUBG event, dubbed Metal Rain, takes us to Erangel, where eight-player squads (up to 12 squads in total) get to fight over flare guns hidden throughout the map’s usual loot locations. And no, you won’t be fighting with the flare guns, that would be silly. The flare gun spawn spots won’t be fixed, so the event won’t devolve into a desperate sprint to a series of hotspots. If the flare gun is shot inside the safe zone, care packages will be dropped, but if you shoot one outside of the

Interestingly, the Gaming Authority report also appears to highlight the inadequacies of existing law in dealing with issues like loot boxes. As a licence cannot be issued for this offering under the applicable legislation, these loot boxes are prohibited in the Netherlands,” it states. Loot boxes on the lower end of the addiction risk potential scale, on the other hand, are more akin to “small-scale bingo.” The report succinctly sums up the legality of loot boxes in its final section, stating,

Electronic Arts is making maps from Battlefield 1 expansions available to all players, beginning today with Rupture, a map set during the Second Battle of Marne. Originally released as part of the first expansion, They Shall Not Pass, Rupture features poppy-covered fields bisected by a river, crossed by a medium-sized bridge that overlooks the middle of the map. It will be playable on the Giant’s Shadow, Prise de Tahure, Lupkow Pass, Zeebrugge, and River Somme maps, all of which will be availabl

In Satellite Reign, the spiritual successor to Bullfrog RTS Syndicate , you guide four agents through top-down battles in a neon cyberpunk city. We enjoyed it when it first released in 2015, and now you can get it for free on the Humble store. “I love how it blends tactical combat with an open-world structure and Deus Ex-inspired freedom,” Andy said in his 80/100 review. “Creeping through a heavily defended enemy base unseen is a thrill, and if things go awry, there are lots of combat options to

There’s a new patch being tested on the Overwatch PTR, and this one has some pretty big changes. Primarily, it contains the long-awaited Hanzo rework, which replaces his Scatter Arrow with a new ability: Storm Arrows. JunkratFrag LauncherProjectile size decreased from 0.3 to 0.2RIP-TireTire movement speed decreased from 13 to 12″These changes are aimed at lowering some of the most frustrating parts about playing against Junkrat,” Blizzard said. SoundwaveNo longer consumes ammo”Wall Ride has been

Being bloodied, injured, and on the brink of death is obviously nothing new to the characters we play in GTA 5. Joe wrote about the GTA 5’s Gunshot wound | Realistic Damage System mod, but since he’s been busy starting riots with his singing skills in GTA Online, I thought I’d try out the mod in singleplayer to see how it works. With the GSW mod installed, I take exactly two punches and I’m not just KO’d but DOA:The first punch gives me a moderate bruise. Since I died immediately, I have to obje

Ahead of its upcoming April 26 release, Murderous Pursuits, a game where you try to murder other players while disguising yourself as an NPC to avoid being murdered, will hold a final beta this weekend. The open beta begins on Friday, April 20 at 7 pm Pacific (10 pm Eastern) and runs through Sunday, April 22 at 9 pm Pacific (12 am Eastern). A spiritual successor to 2006’s The Ship, Murderous Pursuits is all about mind games and a very particular brand of stealth. The steampunk Victorian airship

The Witcher 3 with a “no weight limit” mod is even better. Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, game director of The Witcher 3, outlined a few arguments for encumbrance when I emailed him. All that being said, maybe there’s a way to make encumbrance better without completely purging it from the code. Personally, that doesn’t sound like my kind of thing, but it also feels a tad more honest than how most other games deal with encumbrance. “The encumbrance mechanic has to be viewed as part of the broader experien