“As a program defying your operating system’s wishes, plunge into the depths of a dying computer,” its Steam page reads. Apart from discovery, your goal is to defeat the bosses of the PC’s four sectors. But to even make it to them, you’ll have to unlock six different abilities which focus on manipulating power, like “Jammer, Current, Turret” and others. It acts like some kind of overseer, its directives periodically cutting through the game’s synthy electronic soundtrack. Visual Out is dripping

RGB lighting is practically everywhere these days, but until now, you couldn’t purchase a liquid cooler from Cooler Master that had individually addressable RGB LEDs. That changes with the introduction of the MasterLiquid ML240R RGB and ML120R RGB, both of which are all-in-one liquid coolers. Cooler Master intends to release a new software utility called MasterPlus+ that will give users complete control over the lighting. Cooler Master said it designed both coolers in-house, meaning these aren’t

Blizzard kicked off a surprise short season of Competitive 6v6 Lockout Elimination in Overwatch yesterday, bringing the Arcade favorite to the more serious milieu of competitive play for the first time. Elimination, as the name suggests, foregoes objectives for straight-up Team Deathmatch action, while the “Lockout” rule gives it an interesting twist: Players can select any characters they want to start, but all characters chosen by the winner of each round are locked out for all members of that

“As it turned out, those sales agreements were worthless because the customers had not signed them. Pai selected Pierce in April of 2017 to be the chair of the BDAC. The board consists of 30 members, the majority of which work for telecommunications companies, according to The Center for Public Integrity. Under Pai’s leadership, the FCC voted 3-2 to remove net neutrality rules from the books, that were enacted under the previous administration. Prosecutors are charging Pierce with a single count

For those of a certain generation, playing Ion Maiden is like coming home. That’s exactly what Ion Maiden does too, maintaining Build’s classic crude geometry but featuring more of it than Duke 3D ever could. Ion Maiden has the old school’s vital kineticism, a sense of speed that more earthbound modern shooters has forgotten. In Ion Maiden there’s refreshing certainty to your actions, born of a simpler and less nuanced age. And, like Duke Nukem 3D, it’s published by 3D Realms, who published Bomb

Lovecraftian dungeon crawl might not sound like a typical genre to you, but board game Mansions of Madness is an entertaining and spooky romp in the shoes of a short-lived cosmic horror protagonist. A videogame adaptation called Mansions of Madness: Mother’s Embrace was announced today, and this hybrid of the tabletop rules with digital twists is scheduled to release on Steam early next year. Developers Luckyhammers and publisher Asmodee Digital seem quite excited about it, calling it “the next

I also remember the bookcase where I kept my games, which were still being sold in those big, beautiful cardboard boxes at the time. There was a ceremony to it, and the artwork on those blocks of cardboard felt, to my young mind, like portals to other worlds. So maybe that’s why, despite living in a flat smaller than some hotel rooms, I’ve decided to start collecting big box PC games. Every generation covets something from its past, even if it’s shit, and mine just happens to be impractical card

Over at Newegg you can score an Acer Predator 27-inch monitor (XB271HU) with a 2560×1440 resolution and 144Hz refresh rate for $550. This matches the lowest price we’ve seen this monitor go for—it lists for $800 and typically sells for $650-$700. To get it for $550, you’ll need to enter coupon code EMCPTEW32 at checkout, which chops $100 off the $650 sale price. It’s built for fast-action gaming—it has a 4ms response time, and you can overclock the refresh rate to 165Hz. Follow this link to buy

New Vegas prequel mod Fallout: New California has released one last teaser trailer ahead of a release date announcement later this month. It hit beta last month but it’s still not openly available to play. The trailer was stitched together from various clips taken by one of the testers, and it looks suitably impressive. New California is set in the same game world, but it adds outposts that are specific to its story. Find out more about the project on its ModDB page.

GTA Online’s new mode is basically The Italian Job’s famous car chase scene on repeat, and it sounds brilliant. In The Vespucci Job, two players jump into Weeny Issi Classics and weave through the back streets of Los Santos, while their two opponents try to blow their bloody doors off from pursuing cop cars. Alongside the new mode, the latest update adds two more vehicles to the game—the Flash GT sports car, which you can buy from Legendary Motorsport, and the Sea Sparrow chopper, which can land

Skyrim’s protagonist is famously silent, but a new mod allows you to give them a voice: yours. Dragonborn Speaks Naturally adds voice recognition into the VR version of the game, which means you can speak your dialogue lines out loud to select them during conversations. Dragonborn Speaks Naturally works by running a background speech recognition service that hooks into Skyrim’s code and identifies lines of dialogues, selecting them in-game if you say them out loud. I often find myself saying dia

And that’s what makes The Pillars of the Earth so refreshing. Pillars of Earth is strikingly atmospheric. While Pillars is indeed a point-and-click adventure with character movement, exploration, and object interaction, anyone expecting something heavily puzzle-focused like, say, Broken Sword will be disappointed. While Pillars deals with religion, politics, and war, and uses the complicated real history of The Anarchy to flesh out its setting, the characters keep the story grounded and relatabl

I forgot just how pretty DICE’s 2015 shooter Star Wars Battlefront was until I saw this collection of mods, which strips back the HUD, removes lens effects and stops the game shouting that annoying “return to combat” message when you venture off the beaten path. A lot of the decisions feel personal to the mod’s creator, Cornel, and the package is designed to be customised by fiddling around with the project files. “This mod collection was made by me, according to my personal tastes, and for my p

That sounds an awful lot like the minigun that’s already in the game, which is great for tearing down buildings but not much else because of its massive bullet spread. The image for the LMG shows a bipod, and I’m wondering if that’s for more than show. Perhaps you’ll be able to deploy it and fire from a prone position when you want to be more accurate? A datamine of game files last month by Fortnite site Storm Shield One uncovered the M249 Saw LMG and, judging by the image, that’s the one we can

The greatest hybrid of strategy and roleplaying games ever developed for me, Crusader Kings 2 is a juggernaut of the last decade of PC gaming. It was made in the late ’80s as Fief, and restored recently by Academy Games and Asyncron as Fief: France 1429. Fief plants players into some of the great, last gasps of internecine strife in the burgeoning state of France. It’s the kind of random chance that makes Crusader Kings 2 so enjoyable, and it’s just as good in Fief. Much like CK2, I’m also going

PUBG’s Savage map just began its second round of player testing on experimental servers, and if you aren’t planning on participating yourself, patch notes detail some of the changes that have occurred since the 4x4km map was first tested two weeks ago. Even more interestingly, there’s a change to the blue zone as well:”A new feature enables the blue zone to calculate and adjust its waiting time based on the number of players left alive.” During a round where the majority of players are killed ea

A tornado tore through North Carolina yesterday, leading to a state of emergency, widespread power outages, and plenty of property damage to the town Greensboro. But it also caused a dedicated Fortnite player to forfeit their game early. “I was sitting at home and I was playing Fortnite, and all of the sudden I hear a bunch of noise,” Fortnite player Anton Williams told WXII 12 News. Williams wasn’t going to let a victory royale get in the way of safety, though. And remember kids, if catastrophe

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana was originally meant to launch last September. But in the days leading up to its release date, publisher NIS America announced that the PC port would be delayed indefinitely. “Barebone graphical options, fixed internal resolution… gamepad issues, horrendous keyboard+mouse support… a Dark Souls 1 PC tier port, if you want a comparison.” More infamously, the PC port of Tales of Symphonia was woeful upon launch, though that has since been fixed as well. So I’m hopeful

Last year we wrote that despite its runaway success, “technical and creative challenges” make Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds difficult to watch as an esport. That’s something that PUBG Corp is aiming to overcome, as creator Brendan Greene told Eurogamer that it is now “heavily investing into setting up an esports infrastructure” that he hopes will literally bring the game to the big leagues. “We’re building an esports team globally now, between the US and Europe and Asia, and really trying to dev

We got our first look at PUBG’s new 4x4km map, Savage, two weeks ago during its first round of player testing. Today, the second round of player testing begins for Savage on PUBG’s experimental server, and we’ve got 2,000 keys to give away! We’re giving away these 2,000 keys in a raffle today. Today at 6 pm Pacific time we’ll close the raffle and codes will be emailed to randomly-selected entrants. ), April 16, at 6 pm PDT, and the testing will end on April 18 at 6 pm PDT.