It seems like every new gaming headset (and gaming peripheral in general) has to have RGB lighting, and the new Asus ROG Strix Fusion 500 is no exception. “The Strix Fusion 500 can coordinate colors and effects across multiple headsets, making it easy for teammates to match their lighting during esports competitions,” Asus explains. The ROG Strix Fusion 500 is a step up from the ROG Strix Fusion 300 with various design upgrades, including gold colored metal earcup covers instead of plastic, and

Week two of Overwatch League saw the London Spitfire go up against one of the toughest teams from North America—The Los Angeles Valiant. It all came down to Lijiang Tower, where London’s spectacular holds proved to be too much for Los Angeles to handle. Unfortunately for Los Angeles, this would be the only time they looked dominant for the entirety of Lijiang. This decision caused all sorts of confusion for Los Angeles, as every change they made was met with the same result—headshots. By defeati

The Red Strings Club, a “cyberpunk narrative experience” about fate, happiness, pottery, and tending bar, is now live on Steam. That makes this a fine time to dive into the launch trailer to see what it’s all about. However, the bartender of a clandestine club and a freelance hacker don’t regard this evolution as an improvement but as brainwashing. Alongside unwitting company employees and a rogue empathy android, the duo will pull all the strings they can to bring down this scheme.” We’ll have

The boom in cryptocurrency prices and mining has dramatically affected recent graphics card prices. Overall, its Amazon price was more consistent, staying at $130 with a few minor spikes, until January of this year, when the crypto boom again hit graphics cards hard. Third-party sellers took this MSI card’s price even higher, and you can see how the Amazon price jumped from $130 to $150 in the summer of 2017, where it’s mostly remained since. We can only speculate about how many graphics cards N

A game of SOS typically ends with a violent showdown between improv groups armed with guns and skulls, like a prop comedy workshop gone terribly wrong. Coming up with a characterTyler: I sure love coming up with an improv character on the spot! You have to have a desire to perform and be liked, or at least be notorious in some way. James: Yeah, I don’t want to write it off as bad just because I’m uncomfortable with it, but it’s tiring as hell. I had fun playing along, I just think everyone is tr

If you’re ready for a storage upgrade and want to take advantage of those PCIe lanes on your motherboard, you can snag an Adata 256GB M.2 NVMe solid state drive (XPG SX8000) for $115 from Newegg. It’s actually sold and shipped by Adata, which is selling the drive on sale through Newegg as a third-party reseller. One thing to pay attention to when shopping for an M.2 SSD is the interface. Others, the one that is one sale here, are NVMe drivers that push data through the PCIe bus. In this case, th

The Assassin’s Creed Origins expansion The Hidden Ones will go live tomorrow, taking Beyak and the gang to the Sinai to throw down with occupying Roman forces four years after the events of the main game. Big picture, we already know how this all works out—the Yin and Yang of Assassins and Templars dueling through the ages over the fate of humanity—but it’s the journey that matters, as the saying goes, and not the destination. That’s not to suggest that The Hidden Ones will tread across unfamili

As of 8:00 am ET this morning, Fortnite went live in Korea. I can’t translate what they guy is saying, but I can imagine he’s explaining what Fortnite is in a punchy, enticing way. This battle royale thing shows no signs of stopping. The two biggest battle royale games are now fighting over most of the same turf. A battle royale battle royale.

The multiplayer survival game Rust debuted on Steam in December 2013. “Please try not to compare the game to some other finished game or some idealized version you have in your head. Compare the game now to how it was when we entered Early Access. That’s the delta that we feel qualifies us to leave Early Access,” he wrote. “Thanks to everyone that took the risk by buying our Early Access game.

About a week and a half ago, Intel acknowledged that firmware updates intended to mitigate security threats posed by Spectre and Meltdown were causing reboot issues on some Broadwell and Haswell systems. Intel now thinks it knows why and is making “good progress” on a solution. “We have now identified the root cause for Broadwell and Haswell platforms, and made good progress in developing a solution to address it. However, Intel noted at the time that the general public was not directly affected

Just a few days after PUBG Corp announced its plan to drop the ban hammer on more than 100,000 cheaters in one fell swoop, a new type of cheat appears to have cropped up in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. Instead of enabling players to kill better, this one, shared on Reddit by MagicIsBull, enables them to heal better. The kill cam footage shows a player reviving a fallen partner almost instantaneously, after which he immediately heals himself. The timing of also comes off as rather brazen, comin

Human: Fall Flat is less dopey than it looks, though it does look very dopey. Human: Fall Flat encourages that kind of experimentation throughout. Row, row, row your boatHuman: Fall Flat’s odd controls make everything look a bit silly. You’ll be doing a lot of pulling levers in Human Fall Flat, as you’ll see soon. A big fanBut Human: Fall Flat’s levels are not always trying to crush you—sometimes they will give you a helping hand.

The cryptocurrency mining craze has created a crummy situation for gamers who just want to upgrade their graphics card. “For Nvidia, gamers come first. “To ensure that GeForce gamers continue to have good GeForce graphics card availability in the current situation, we recommend that our trading partners make the appropriate arrangements to meet gamers’ needs as usual,” Böhles added. ComputerBase notes that some retailers limit graphics card orders to two of the same model per person, in an attem

I’m feeling very Resident Evil-y today, in light of the second game’s 20th anniversary Stateside. The Resident Evil HD Remaster—the 2015 reworking of the 2002 remake—is one of my main series favourites, and the prospect of a modern age RE2 excites (read: terrifies) me. The Resident Evil 4 HD Project is a fan-made venture that we’ve covered several times in the past and, as the name suggests, aims to retell the fourth Resi today. And here’s some of that in moving picture form:I’m a sucker for the

How to define Seven: The Days Long Gone. If you like what you see, know that Seven: The Days Long Gone is subject to a 30 percent discount from now through the next seven long days. Intimidating military outposts sit next to cyberpunk slums and swampy villages that wouldn’t look out of place in a fantasy romp. All that’s left on Earth is the remnants of humanity, those left behind when the ‘ancients’ fled to the stars. Seven: The Days Long Gone is out now on GOG and Steam.

In the forest to the south, my two flanking mechs really need to take out that power generator. And Dekker’s wingmate—no small mech herself—needs to take out the enemy mech that is acting as a spotter for that distant artillery. In response, Dekker’s wingmate charges the enemy mech and performs a melee attack—a first for a BattleTech game. Mechs don’t have melee weapons, and there’s nothing elegant about ramming them into each other—this is a sprinting shoulder-charge that smashes catastrophical

Resident Evil 2 celebrated its 20th anniversary yesterday, debuting on PlayStation consoles in the US on January 21, 1998. What is more reassuring, though, is original sequel director Hideki Kamiya’s faith in the upcoming and much-anticipated remake. When asked via Twitter if he felt the team in charge of the RE2 remake would do the first game justice, Kamiya spoke positively about a conversation he had with the new game’s director last year. “I went drinking with him last year and told him ‘Do

Some problems with barbarians and a couple of lost wonder races left the civ’s notable moments somewhat diminished, ushering in a Dark Age, a period of turmoil. Every city now has a loyalty meter, reflecting how happy its citizens are with being part of the empire. In Rise and Fall, cities automatically exert loyalty pressure on nearby cities, so even when you’re not focused on it, your propaganda machine is still ticking away. It might even end up being worth dealing with a Dark Age just so you

Looking for a new gaming chair? We have two premium special-edition GT Omega Racing gaming chairs to give away, each emblazoned with the Golden Joystick Awards logo. These GT Omega Racing chairs are worth more than £200, featuring “4D” armrests, body-hugging shape and an excellent range of height and backrest adjustment for maximum gaming comfort. There can only be two winners, and you must live in the UK to enter. For a chance of winning one, email tom.senior@futurenet.com with the subject line

After an extended Christmas break (sorry! ), Sam and Phil convene to catch up on the latest in PC gaming. After a brief discussion on our Christmas gaming habits, we launch into an extended conversation about GTA Online’s latest update: The Doomsday Heist. Download: Episode 59: The Doomsday Podcast. Discussed: Prey, NieR: Automata, GTA Online, Dishonored 2Starring: Samuel Roberts, Phil SavageThe PC Gamer UK Podcast is a weekly podcast about PC gaming.