(Image: © Flickr via Credo Action)The FCC voted 3-2 to strip away existing net neutrality rules that prevent ISPs from abusing their power, but one possible workaround is to impose legislation on the state level. In a 21-12 vote, the California State Senate approved SB-460, a bill proposed by Sen. Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) that would prohibit home and wireless service providers from “blocking lawful content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices,” Arstechnica reports. In addition, t

More about mining The right mining hardware is just part of the story. If you’re serious about mining Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, check out our guide to what you need to know cryptocurrency mining. So you want to start mining Bitcoin or Ethereum or another cryptocurrency, and you want to do it with the best mining hardware for the job. Cryptocurrency mining has driven up GPU prices and is hurting gamers. The best prebuilt Bitcoin mining rigBuilding your own cryptocurrency mining rig is no

Funcom’s open-world survival game Conan Exiles celebrated its first Early Access anniversary yesterday, and looks forward to its full release later this year . In conversation with the game’s director Joel Bylos, I learned that Exiles was partly inspired by the European migrant crisis . “When we started with Conan Exiles, the migrant crisis was dominating all of the news headlines. The reality of something like the European migrant crisis, then, helps frame how the game should feel for its playe

Last summer, Endless Space 2 launched from its early access pod into the cold, harsh cosmos of full release. So eight months on, with a couple of major updates under its belt and the release of its first paid DLC, The Vaulters. The Vaulters faction is good fun (even if Endless veterans may notice that their main trait is copy-pasted from Endless Space 1). When Endless Space 2 launched, pirates were roaming fleets with a random minor faction name slapped onto them. Endless Space 2 is doing the op

Skyblivion, the massive mod project to recreate Oblivion in Skyrim’s engine, has released a new trailer (above) called “Glory of Cyrodiil” and it’s four minutes of spectacular scenery guaranteed to keep Elder Scrolls fans transfixed. The trailer gives us a nice long look at Imperial City, Anvil, and other locations including Ayelid ruins. “You will be able to spot new colorful weathers, new trees and flora, new clothing, new custom designed weapons, NPC schedules, remade textures and models, cus

Chuchel, the game about an angry ball of dust with a nice hat and a powerful jones for cherries, will be out on March 7. The news of the release date comes by way of a new teaser that’s a lot like the old one: angry, percussive, and deeply weird. It’s a point-and-click adventure, but developer Amanita Design said in October that Chuchel will eschew complicated, multi-stage puzzles in favor of accessibility and laughs. The studio has previously demonstrated a well-regarded ability to tell stories

Paradox Interactive and Haemimont Games have announced a release date of March 15 for colony management sim Surviving Mars. And, we’re told in a press release from Parabox, when the game arrives it will be with “full modding tools and support—including mods available at launch from some of Paradox’s most talented community creators.” Above, you’ll find a short new trailer about the mysteries you may find when you establish your colony on Mars, including hovering spheres, shadowy cubes, and some

The ‘Total War Saga’ tagline represents a new category of full-size historical Total War games that take a tight focus on one particular historical flashpoint. Unit upgrades are tied to technology, not buildingsIn Total War, you typically need to build advanced tiers of military building to unlock new troop types. The Creative Assembly wants to emulate Total War: Warhammer to the extent that different factions should feel very different to play. If you haven’t played Total War before some of the

Total War’s first Saga outing, Thrones of Britannia, makes significant changes to the Total War formula. That’s according to strategy expert Tom, whose in-depth preview prepares us for some distinct design experimentation in the offshoot series’ debut venture. From a technical standpoint, we already know Thrones’ historical map stretches 23-times further than that of main series forerunner Attila. But the question is: how will your system cope in the face of all of this game’s new gubbins? If pr

Not only did The OC’s Seth Cohen popularise geek culture in the mid ’00s, he made Dynasty Warriors look cool. In practice, PS2-era Dynasty Warriors was not cool. What does look cool, I reckon, is Dynasty Warriors 9—a so-called open-world “rebirth” of the series, according to producer Akihiro Suzuki. Have a gander:Admittedly, I didn’t have a bad boy-turned-best pal to play Dynasty Warriors with in the mid noughties, and was instead left frustrated by its linear level design. Dynasty Warriors 9 is

Readers of a certain age will remember dial-up broadband. The UK government delivered on its promise to take superfast broadband—at least 24 megabits per second—to 95 percent of UK premises earlier this week. Now, the BT-owned provider Openreach has promised to introduce “ultrafast” connections to three million premises by the year 2020. As reported by the BBC, Openreach plans to increase speeds from 24 megabits per second to 100 megabits per second in the process. With this in mind, Openreach r

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. This week we’ll be talking about our time with the Hunt: Showdown closed alpha and the first weeks of the Overwatch League. Then, for some reason, James puts on a quiz where the guests have to guess which steamy Steam games are real and which aren’t. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab t

Fourattic are a Spanish studio who ran a successful Kickstarter for their game Crossing Souls, which looks like the Goonies and Fat Albert and maybe Stranger Things all mashed up together. This behind-the-scenes documentary doesn’t contain a huge amount of new info about the game, but it does have some insights into what it’s like being an indie studio in Spain. They’ve also had help from Devolver Digital, who are publishing Crossing Souls. It’s a game with an ’80s aesthetic and a rad soundtrack

One of the most distinctive things about the Deus Ex series is its music: Hearing the opening notes of the original Deus Ex theme in the midst of the very first Deus Ex 3 teaser took my breath away, and it still leaves me all a-tingle when it plays. So when Elias Toufexis, the voice of Adam Jensen, retweeted something about “Icarus,” “Embrace What You Have Become,” and @LeMetropolitain, I was naturally intrigued. (There’s no indication as to when the video was recorded, but Eidos Montreal just p

Hacktag is a two-player co-op stealth game about two spies from rival agencies working together to infiltrate corporations. You can play Hacktag solo by swapping between the two spies, but like Piece of Cake itself, the game was built from the ground up with co-op in mind. It supports local and online co-op, as well as online challenges and leaderboards. One player puts their boots on the ground as the Agent, opening doors and air vents and slipping unnoticed past guards. “While some tasks can b

“Some of these delivery dates may change, but everything you see listed here is being worked on the by the team,” game director Christopher Barrett wrote. “While there are larger projects in development, these are the game enhancements you’ll find in your immediate future.” It’s obviously not going to be a lightning-fast update campaign, but it’s good to see the game moving in the right direction. what has the greatest chance of drawing some of the lapsed playerbase back—is sandbox update coming

It’s been a long time since a fighting game has caused as much excitement as Dragon Ball FighterZ. Billed as the first competitive Dragon Ball fighting game, its bombastic 3v3 combat has captured the imagination of everyone from the Dragon Ball fan whose never thrown a Hadouken before, to Evo champions looking for their next challenge. There have been plenty of Dragon Ball fighting games—with Super Dragon Ball Z being developed by ARIKA, the studio of Street Fighter II designer Akira Nishitani—b

It’s almost frightening when Ben Brode laughs. Nominally, Ben Brode is the game director of Hearthstone. But Ben Brode is different. Ben Brode is now Ben Brode, professionally. Every games company in the industry wants to have their very own Ben Brode, and trust me, they’re looking.

The Sea of Thieves beta ends today, and in large part we’ve enjoyed our time with Rare’s open world multiplayer pirate game. While the activities in the beta were a bit limited, Sea of Thieves’ water-filled sandbox proved a great place to make our own fun. Here are our favorite moments from the Sea of Thieves closed beta. If you could only re-load other people’s guns in Sea of Thieves, we’d be completely co-dependent. Pirate dance partyIt’s kill or be killed in Sea of Thieves, and everyone has a

Gigantic, the free-to-play MOBA-hero shooter crossover that launched in mid-2017, will come to the end of its run on July 31. Publisher Perfect World said the game enjoyed “outstanding support” from an “awesome community,” but in the end that community wasn’t big enough to keep the wheels turning. Unfortunately, it did not resonate with as many players as we’d hoped,” Perfect World wrote. “Over the last several months, the teams at Motiga and Perfect World looked into viable options to sustain G