If you’re in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC, there is a pretty good deal at Newegg today for a system from CyberPowerPC with a Ryzen 7 1800X processor and GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card inside. The system is on sale for $1,850, and can be had for $1,700 with promo code EMCSPSPE2 applied at checkout. Given the choice, we’d roll with an Intel Coffee Lake foundation over a Ryzen processor for gaming. But with a meaty graphics card thrown into the mix, this setup should be capable of smooth gam

It still has more players than six of the ten most popular Steam games combined, a list that includes Rainbow 6: Siege, Grand Theft Auto V, and Warframe. If this deep, strange, ruthlessly difficult game is becoming niche, then, it’s still a really big niche. Other developers have found ways to make DotA’s fundamentals more accessible, but Dota 2’s guiding star has always been the original mod’s community-grown strangeness. As custodians of that strangeness, Valve has taken steps to make Dota 2 m

The month of March is upon us, and that means it’s time for a new Humble Monthly Bundle. This one is headed up by Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, God Eater 2 Rage Burst, and Mafia 3, complete with the Sign of the Times DLC. The Humble Monthly Bundles go for $12 each—it’s technically a subscription, but you can cancel whenever you want and the games are yours to keep—and feature one or more “early unlock” games that are available immediately, and a bunch more that are revealed when the bundle is over.

(Image: © YouTube via SmarterEveryDay)Back in November of last year, a company called HaptX (formerly AxonVR) announced its first product, a set of VR gloves with haptic feedback. Well, the folks at HardOCP picked up on a YouTube video posted by Smarter Every Day that shows the gloves being tested. “I’m not a VR believer, but you can actually feel each individual raindrop in your hand,” Sandlin says. Sandlin said the haptic feedback from the rain hitting his hand was the “exact moment I realized

But right now it’s Ubisoft (which was on our hypothetical Microsoft shopping list) that’s actually making the moves. Earlier this week Ubi revealed that it had acquired mobile developer 1492 Studio, and today it announced that Blue Mammoth Games, developer of the free-to-play fighting game Brawlhalla, is now parked in its garage. “The team at Blue Mammoth Games is expert at developing and running scalable, competitive, multiplayer online games, and they’ll be a great addition to Ubisoft’s networ

Echoplex is a creepy puzzle game that pits you against a stalking doppelganger. It’s also leaving Early Access later this month, and has some moving pictures to mark the occasion:Not much to go on there, admittedly. And the game now has a Her Story-style full-motion video story tied to all that, which means I’m even more invested than before. I’ve had my eye on this ‘un for a while, but spotted its full release news via Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Echoplex is due March 15 for PC and Mac via Steam.

If you absolutely can’t wait any longer, however, and are in the market for a GeForce GTX 1070, the best deal right now is an external graphics box. Specifically, Gigabyte’s Aorus GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming Box (GV-N1070IXEB-8GD) is listed on Newegg for $600. At the time of this writing, there is no cheaper GeForce GTX 1070 on Newegg (unless you’re willing to roll the dice with an open box model). Nvidia’s MSRP for a GeForce GTX 1070 is $450. We’re not necessarily suggesting you do that, but it is

Hot on the heels of Alfred the Great and Gaelic king Flann Sinna, Wales’ King Anaraut enters the throes of Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia. “Players can emulate Anaraut’s vision by achieving the Fame Victory Condition,” explains publisher Sega in a statement. “Which demands a powerful and prestigious Kingdom be built, measured via the metric of ‘Fame’ in the game’s Campaign mode. Fame can be increased through economic development, technological breakthroughs, wars, and a variety of event ch

On the Kingdom Come: Deliverance subreddit, a user named rogerhnn has been diligently working to create an interactive map for the medieval RPG. It’s zoomable, and you can add your own map markers that will be saved in your browser history (if you clear your cache, your custom markers will be removed). To add your own local marker, just click on the map, then click Add Marker. Rogerhnn’s post lists some features planned, like the ability to share your version of the map and all of your custom ma

VIDEO: The Cheeseburger Problem, also available on YouTubeMontana is one of the largest states in the USA, but the population has barely inched over 1 million residents. However, based on my latest demo with Far Cry 5, which is set in a fictional county in Western Montana, you’d think the game took place on the outskirts of a massive city. At times it can feel like there’s actually too much going on in Far Cry 5, and nothing demonstrates it better my bear buddy, Cheeseburger. As a result He’s co

During a preview event for Far Cry 5 on PC, I stumbled upon a container which, when opened, revealed a couple stacks of silver bars. Had I found a Far Cry 5 loot box? A Ubisoft representative confirmed that Far Cry 5 will not have loot boxes or any chance systems involving microtransactions. Then again, Far Cry 5 will have microtransactions for cosmetic items and time savers. Ubisoft, I’m starting a petition to remove all lakes from Far Cry 5.

Far Cry 5 on PC will also come with PC-tailored UI elements. Far Cry 5 is just a few weeks away and we finally had the opportunity to get our hands on the PC version. While we’re still waiting on code to see how Far Cry 5 runs, we can at least eyeball the graphics settings and display options until then. None of this matters too much if Far Cry 5 doesn’t run well, but I don’t expect major issues. Previous Far Cry games haven’t been a nightmare on PC in my experience, though that may not be the c

VIDEO: 30 minutes of Far Cry 5 singleplayer running on PC, also available on YouTube. We finally got our hands on the PC version of Far Cry 5 and it looks and feels as great as we hoped. Co-op was on display too, which you can watch below. My partner and I rescue some hostages, find the keys to a hidden bunker, and try not to crash our helicopters while driving out the cultist threat. VIDEO: 30 minutes of Far Cry 5 co-op running on PC, also available on YouTube.

Personally, I’m one of those players who spends too much time tinkering, striving to achieve the ‘perfect’ build. Sea of Thieves’ time-respecting customisation suite, then, sounds like my cup of rum. Over to lead character artist Sam Chester and PC design lead Ted Timmins:There, Timmins outlines the familiar time-sinking scenarios Sea of Thieves hopes to circumvent with its slant on avatar-building. He explains that game’s character carousel cycles pirate builds, allowing players to quickly form

With a few exceptions, I don’t play games designed to be mastered. Some people will play an online game, get their arse handed to them, and use that as a catalyst for improvement. Finishing my turn of a real-time strategy game and then sitting there waiting for my opponent to do something (crush me, typically) is just too much of a drain on my patience. Shaun Prescott: I hate card gamesI hate card games in real life, and I hate them even more on screen. Phil Savage: I hate card games AND adventu

Midnight at the Oasis, send your camel to bed. Daybreak in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, wake your camel up and prepare it for war. After spending the last several weeks teasing its Vlandians, Aserai and Calradic Empire factions, Bannerlord developer Taleworlds has now revealed camels as a new-to-series mount for Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord. Naturally, camels are best suited to the Aserai’s desert homeland where they work as pack animals in trade caravans or as cavalry in battle. This time-lapse

We know a new Battlefield game is releasing this year: publisher EA confirmed as much in January. So the most pressing question now is what kind of Battlefield game it will be, and according to new rumors, the October instalment will be set during World War 2. The sources claim the game will be called Battlefield V (because DICE and EA don’t care about numbers running in order! It makes sense that World War 2 would follow a World War 1 setting, though I had quietly suspected EA might release som

Microsoft is now releasing Intel’s newly approved firmware updates through the Windows Update Catalog. The new patch includes Intel’s latest microcode release for Spectre Variant 2 CVE-2017-5715 “Branch Target Injection” vulnerability. In a nutshell, branch target injection wipes the intended memory address of a indirect branch, forcing the CPU to retrieve the true address which takes a few hundred cycles. They will be either applied as custom firmware updates through device OEMs, or through the

It’s a “tactical adventure game” called Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden that blends turn-based combat with real-time exploration on a ruined, “post-human Earth.” The unfortunate state of things in Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden was brought about by the combined effects of climate change, economic crisis, some sort of pandemic, and a nuclear war. “Our goal is to blend the deep and tactical combat of XCOM with branching storylines that unfold as you explore overgrown forests and abandoned cities wi

No development tool has had quite the same impact on indie games as Unity. Is it the panacea for the plentiful challenges facing indie developers, or is the update honing in on the wrong issues? What developers thinkThe developers we spoke with were most excited about Unity 2018.1’s Scriptable Render Pipeline and the new job system. I know that’s boring, but it would make a huge, huge difference.” “Much like Twine and GameMaker, Unity has done well to embrace the DIY culture flourishing in the m