EVE Online’s February update rolled out today, introducing a new limited time event as well as big balance changes to certain ships and structures. In celebration of Valentine’s Day, EVE pilots can gatecrash a pirate party from February 13 to the 27 and earn some sexy ship skins. The Guardians Gala is a returning event where players can locate and crash special NPC gatherings happening all across New Eden. Now, Citadels have high and low power modes, the latter of which makes them significantly

If it’s a big and wide monitor that you’re after, head over to Newegg and check out this deal on Dell’s Ultrasharp U3415W. The U3415W is a 34-inch monitor with a curved IPS panel. It has a 3440×1440 resolution and 21:9 aspect ratio, making this an ultrawide display. It’s missing amenities such as G-Sync support and HDR, but is otherwise a really nice monitor (as most Ultrasharp displays are). Other specs include a 300 nits brightness rating, 2,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio (1,000:1 typical),

Unabashedly ’80s adventure game Crossing Souls has been on our radar since it was successfully Kickstarted in 2014, and it’s come a long way since. A free demo was released last week, and a behind-the-scenes developer diary the week before that. Yesterday, developer Fourattic dropped the game’s long-awaited launch trailer, flaunting the same old-style cartoon funk that first caught our attention. Sam spent around nine hours finishing Crossing Souls’ story and found it to be a nostalgic, retro ro

Dead Space, EA’s 2008 game of weed-whacking in space, is really good, but the PC version is a little wonky, specifically with regard to the mouse control. Disabling vsync and futzing around with the sensitivity can dramatically improve things, but out of the box it often suffers mouse lag, weird sensitivity, and other issues that can make it feel anywhere from “off” to nigh-unplayable. Keep that in mind when you snag it from Origin, where it is currently yours for the taking, for free. Trouble i

GOG is celebrating the Year of the Dog in the form of a Chinese New Year sale that features discounts on more than 500 games, hourly flash deals, additional games on GOG Connect, and until 9 am ET on February 15, a free copy of King of Fighters 2002 for everyone who wants it. The current flash sale is Shadowrun: Hong Kong, which is 85 percent off for the next 55 minutes as of right now, and Thief Gold, down to $1 for the next couple of hours. Those choices will likely have changed by the time yo

AMD has a new Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 driver package available for Radeon GPU owners. Specifically, the new driver release is optimized for Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Fortnite, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Depending on what specific graphics card you own and what resolution you’re running, AMD claims its latest driver can deliver up to a 7 percent performance boost. There are no bug fixes or feature updates/additions in the the 18.2.2 driver; AMD instead focused entirely on performance op

Bethesda has announced the dates for the 23rd Quakecon: it will be held in Dallas, Texas, from August 9-12, and it’s returning to the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center where it was held in 2017. Registration isn’t available yet, and tickets won’t be on sale until April, but in the meantime Bethesda is promising there will be twice the space available for BYOC. That’s right, the massive LAN party is getting even bigger. Over 9,000 fans attended QuakeCon in 2017, according to Bethesda. He

If you were to look up information on the GPU manufacturer Colorful, however, you might notice something peculiar, as Reddit did. Colorful’s About page mentions a Step-Up program, something that is exclusive to EVGA, and claims it is headquartered in Brea, California where EVGA happens to reside. For comparison, here’s what EVGA’s About page states:”EVGA is one of the top NVIDIA authorized partners in channel sales throughout North America. With headquarters in Brea, CA, EVGA’s global coverage i

The PC Gamer Weekender 2018 kicks off this Saturday at the London Olympia, and we’ve got two stages of developer talks running all weekend. Attendees will have the chance to see more of the game in action on PC ahead of its launch in March. We’ll be showing a ton of previously unseen footage including a world-exclusive gameplay reveal where we’ll reveal to viewers a brand-new in-game illness! Making PC Building Simulator (The Irregular Corporation)Join producer Stuart Morton as he shows gameplay

That’s because QLC flash memory offers a 33 percent higher bit density and lower per-bit cost compared to triple-level cell (TLC) flash memory that is commonly found in high-capacity SSDs currently. As its name implies, QLC flash memory consists of 4 bits per cell, versus 3 bits per cell for TLC memory. SLC NAND only tracks two voltage states, MLC (2-bits per cell) tracks four voltage states, TLC has eight voltage states, and now QLC has 16 voltage states. When Toshiba announced QLC flash memory

The sprawling, pseudo-historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance went live today, and so far fans of the genre really seem to be digging it. The bad news is that it’s going to be awhile: Vavra said the next patch is currently expected to be ready in roughly two weeks. To be fair to Warhorse, it’s a relatively small studio and so doesn’t have unlimited resources to throw at patches. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is off to a strong start on Steam, where more than 52,000 people are currently having at it

In preparation for Chinese New Year, digital storefront Fanatical has dropped its Lunar New Year sale—launching new deals from now through February 15. Headliners include Rockstar’s sprawling crime simulator Grand Theft Auto 5 , Prey —the game that spawned this glorious PC Gamer magazine cover art—and PCG’s Game of the Year 2016 Dishonored 2 . In that order, they’re going for £15.60/your regional equivalent (52 percent off), £20.40 (51 percent off), and £15.60 (52 percent off). Head in this dire

The PC Gamer Weekender is just four days away, bringing with it competitive tournaments, exclusive access to new PC games ahead of release, and a host of developer talks. Not only will Murderous Pursuits—Blazing Griffin’s indirect follow-up to 2006’s The Ship—be playable on the show floor, its creators will join us on stage on Saturday at 5.30pm to talk about its upcoming assassination game. By way of a guided demo, we’ll learn about the Victorian stealth-em-up’s cast of colourful characters and

Towards the end of last year, Hawaii state legislator Chris Lee called out videogame loot boxes. As reported by the Hawaii Tribune Herald (via Rolling Stone), House Bill 2727 and Senate Bill 3025 aim to force publishers to prominently label games that contain purchasable items—as well as their probability drop rates. House Bill 2686 and Senate Bill 3024, on the other hand, would prohibit the sale of games containing electronic gambling systems that use real money to anyone under the age of 21. ”

Pirate legend status is your overarching goal in Sea of Thieves. It was already in our closed beta, but no one could become pirate legend and unlock it—but it was there.” Or you sink a pirate legend ship. What an amazing story it would be: we took down a pirate legend ship. So [we’ll have] new ways to progress for pirate legends [for post-launch], but new ways to enrich the journey for people who aren’t yet legends.”

A couple of weeks ago, Tyler and Chris summed up the eight things they’d like to see in Sea of Thieves at launch. Actual loot, not just chests you can sell”In the game for launch,” Chapman says. “I think Sea of Thieves has always been about enriching the journey,” Chapman says. What is Sea of Thieves at launch? And beyond that, we’ll look to alliances and potentially guilds or factions or whatever we term it in Sea of Thieves.

With Rare’s swashbuckling sandbox adventure Sea of Thieves due next month, the developer has now revealed the specifications you’ll need to sink or swim within its sprawling pirate-infested world. In order, here are its recommended, minimum, and the game’s aforementioned below-spec 540p settings . Cruise liner (1080p @60 fps)OS: Windows 10Windows 10 CPU: Intel i5 4690 @3.5ghz or AMD FX-8150Intel i5 4690 @3.5ghz or AMD FX-8150 RAM: 8GB8GB DirectX: 1111 VRAM: 4GB4GB GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 or

Think of all the Saviour Schnapps you’ll be able to afford once you throw away your morals. Pay Theresa’s uncle ASAPOnce you wake up in Rattay, you’ll be in debt to the miller that paid your medical expenses and housed you during your recovery. Once you find the ring and deliver it, you’ll unlock a merchant that buys stolen goods and a thievery questline. You’ll need a lockpick or three and to watch your back, but there aren’t many people that wander through the area during the day. You’ll need

From what I’ve gathered, success in Sea of Thieves’ pirate world is hinged on dance parties, weathering high seas storms, and locking irritating strangers in the brig. What we will say is there will never be loot crates in Sea of Thieves.” “There’ll never be a form of gambling in Sea of Thieves, of any description,” he says, while underscoring that pay-to-win mechanics are “completely out of the question”. No, what’s a Sea of Thieves way of doing it? Sea of Thieves is due March 20.

This is a problem Kingdom Come brilliantly avoids by only marking the general area where something you need to find is. Like many games with this level of depth and ambition, Kingdom Come is a festival of bugs. But in Kingdom Come, you have to drink booze called Saviour Schnapps to quick-save, which gets you drunk and is quite expensive to buy. You can be a detectiveOccasionally Kingdom Come turns into a medieval police procedural. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a really interesting game, and as s