Valve rolled out a new update to Steam’s wishlist functionality today, adding a bunch of new ways to advise the UI what you want to see. Many have dozens of games in their wishlist, but what if you’re only in the mood for an RPG? Now you can sort your wishlist by genre, tag, price, and whether it’s on sale or not. Add these filters together, and it’s now possible to quickly find an RPG you’re interested in that’s below a certain price threshold. That’s the latest among Valve’s more granular upda

At the time I described the Graviton Lance, which is an Exotic void pulse rifle, as “a thing of absolute joy.” To fire the Graviton Lance is to know true love.” Here, a redditor explains why the Graviton Lance is actually worse than even the most bog standard pulse rifle, and only an idiot (ie me) would ever think otherwise. According to the latest This Week at Bungie update, the operation to buff Destiny 2’s under-performing Exotic weapons and armor is going well. In the post Weisnewski went in

We know that Extinction is a game about fighting 150-foot-tall ogres, who are trying to stomp people and villages into mush. We even got some hands-on time with it last summer. A new “features” trailer aims to clarify matters by providing a look at the story, combat mechanics, and some of the other things you’ll be doing while single-handledly saving the world. The promise of surprises and twists in the story sounds interesting, and the combat comes across as a lot deeper and more complex than w

2K Games has confirmed with Kotaku that Mafia 3 studio Hangar 13 has laid off a portion of its staff. Numbers weren’t revealed, but the Kotaku report describes the cuts as “significant.” “2K can confirm that there have been staff reductions at Hangar 13 in order to ensure that the studio’s resources are properly aligned with its long-term development plans,” a rep said. Mafia 3 moved the series away from its classic Mafia roots and into the racism-riddled Louisiana of the 1960s. The most recent

Earlier this week, Ubisoft gave us an up-close look at the five alien enemies who will be stirring up grief in New Mexico in the upcoming Rainbow Six Siege co-op event Outbreak. Now, finally, it’s time to get the lowdown on the two new Operators being brought in to help deal with them, Finka and Lion. Finka was chosen by Rainbow Six to help set up its CBRN unit; her first choice for recruitment was Olivier “Lion” Flament, a combat rescuer and biohazard expert with France’s GIGN. Like Finka, his

Spinch is, I imagine, how a drunk Popeye the Sailor would pronounce spinach. It’s also a promising psychedelic 2D platformer from Canadian developer Queen Bee Games and artist Jesse Jacobs. Jacobs is best known for his wonderfully bizarre illustrations and comics (which you can sample on his Tumblr), and has also worked on animated series like Adventure Time. You play as Spinch, “a hyper-agile organism consumed by a quest to rescue a litter of its missing offspring from an endless population of

Update: According to a series of tweets from the Hunt: Showdown account, there appear to be issues with intermittent crashing and high memory usage, likely due to changes made in today’s update. Hotfixes are on the way, but servers will stay up for 12 hours to collect data about the problems. We are aware of the issues that have been encountered since the release of today’s patch. Stable performance is Crytek’s priority this week, as creative director Magnus Larbrant stated in today’s blog updat

“There’s only three weeks left before prom and you haven’t got a date yet.” Such is the terrfiying premise of Monster Prom, an upcoming multiplayer dating sim about romancing the students of a very spooky high school. Monster Prom can be played locally or online with up to four players. To make a successful match, you’ll have to wade through the teenage dating landscape, complete with “selfies, dating apps, d**kpics, raves, emojis and more.” Monster Prom will release on April 27, 2018.

Thomas Brush, creator of beloved Flash game Coma, is back with a sequel eight years in the making: Once Upon A Coma, the story of protagonist Pete and his waking nightmare. “After Pete wakes from a strange coma, he discovers things aren’t exactly as he remembers,” the Kickstarter reads. Brush says Once Upon A Coma is indeed a direct sequel to Coma, but also describes it as a standalone game accessible to newcomers. Once Upon A Coma first caught our eye last November with a series of striking GIF

Last fall saw the introduction of five new acts followed up by a winter update that revitalized the entire endgame. These especially tough encounters offer up more than just more crafting options, however, but also Path of Exile’s first-ever gear sets. Veterans rejoiceWhile the Bestiary League is exciting all by itself, this new update also adds some crazy new challenges for Path of Exile’s most hardcore players. As a dedicated player, it’s wonderful and surprising to see how adeptly Grinding Ge

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a great role-playing game , but only if you’re willing to put up with its messiness. Early in the game you’re trying to escape from a castle. I tried the direct approach—just sort of walking out—and a guard nabbed me and returned me to my room. The code is practicing self-preservation, gaining sentience and we’re sitting on our butts writing flavor text for short clips of funny ‘glitches’. After all that time fiddling with layering shit armor who can blame Henry for

Today’s PCs wield supercomputer levels of power by the standards of the Apple II, which was first released in 1983. His Apple IIe clocked in at 30ms between hitting a key and seeing a character pop up on its screen. Thanks to his engineering background, Luu understands the reasons behind that slower responsiveness, and they essentially boil down to complexity. “And yet, the median keyboard today adds as much latency as the entire end-to-end pipeline as a fast machine from the 70s.” At the top en

Today I was reminded that Activision Blizzard Studios is not a game-making division of the industry’s biggest publisher, but rather a film studio—one that’s working on a flick based on Call of Duty. And according to Variety, Sicario 2: Soldado director Stefano Sollima is in negotiations to direct. Not to put too fine a point on it, but let’s be honest, you could rename that trailer to “Modern Warfare: The Movie” and your work here would be done. First, though, it has to break the videogame movie

Two of the listings are for new Core i5 processors, including the Core i5-8500 (BX80684I58500) priced at $217 and Core i5-8600 (BX80684I58600) priced at $240, both through third-party sellers using Newegg as a marketplace. The other two processors are Celeron chips, also based on Coffee Lake. They include the Celeron G4920 (BX8068G4920) priced at $61 and Celeron G4900 (BX80684G4900) priced at $52. As for the Celeron G4900 and Celeron G4920, they’re said to be 2-core/-2-core processors, the forme

Over at Newegg, Intel’s Core i7-8700K processor is on sale for $335. In this case, however, Intel’s sale price is $15 cheaper than Micro Center’s asking price. You’re probably familiar with the Core i7-8700K at this point, but as a refresher, this is a 6-core/12-thread processor with a 3.7GHz base clock and 4.7GHz boost clock. One thing to keep in mind is that you’ll need to a Z370 motherboard to run this processor. You can find the Core i7-8700K on sale here.

As predicted in January, the Steam Lunar New Year Sale has begun! This sale will be a slightly shorter sale than some, running over what is basically an extended weekend and coming to an end on February 19. It’s also now possible to add games to your cart directly from your Wishlist, rather than having to hit a game’s page—with some limitations. “Some games have a Deluxe Edition or multiple Starter Pack options that make the offer more complicated. “With that in mind, games with a single purchas

Killing net neutrality may have been an unpopular move, and sure, the commenting period leading up to the FCC’s vote was a farce, but the process that was spearheaded by FCC chairman Ajit Pai was entirely legal. What may have not been, however, is a mega media deal that Pai made possible last year. Weeks after the rules were approved, Sinclair Broadcasting announced a $3.9 billion deal to buy Tribune MediaThe deal was made possible by the new set of rules, which subsequently raised some eyebrows

Corsair has managed to pack even more power inside its compact Corsair One gaming desktop, the same one that earned a favorable 92 score around a year ago when we reviewed it. Taking advantage of Intel’s Coffee Lake platform, Corsair added two new models, the Corsair One Pro Plus and Corsair One Elite. Both models sport an upgraded Z370 motherboard, versus the Z270 hardware that Corsair used for last year’s SKUs. This was necessary to support the 6-core/12-thread Core i7-8700K processor that is

While perhaps not the return of a classic, In Win announced on Twitter that it’s bringing back its popular D-Frame Mini, an open-air chassis it launched three years ago. The D-Frame Mini commanded an exorbitant $350 when it first came out. I’ve actually spent some hands-on time with the D-Frame Mini and built a system inside of one. Assuming you are looking to build a mini ITX system, the D-Frame Mini offers plenty of elbow room and has some cable routing options to help ensure a clean looking b

Osmotic Studios and Surprise Attack Games’ 2016 “surveillance thriller” Orwell took an interesting if novel look at totalitarian observation. Openly inspired by the current fake news phenomenon and social media echo chambers, its second chapter—named Ignorance is Strength—aims to go deeper than before. Similar to its forerunner, Ignorance is Strength will adopt an episodic release schedule with ‘Thesis’ arriving on the 22nd of this month, ‘Antithesis’ due March 8, and concluding chapter ‘Synthes