The Witcher 3 was released on May 19, 2015, almost four years to the day after The Witcher 2 first hit PC. A year later, CD Projekt put the final touches on the Blood & Wine expansion and a Game of the Year re-release. And that, a bit more surprisingly, was enough to make The Witcher 3 the second-best selling PC game on Steam in all of 2016 . And who knows how well The Witcher 3 has sold on GOG, the platform that CD Projekt owns? For two and a half years, The Witcher 3 has held onto a spot as on

Competition in the SSD market helped drive lower prices and innovations for the past decade, but you wouldn’t know it to look at current SSD prices. Into the high demand market, Toshiba is announcing its new retail RC100 drives, which have already been used in the OEM sector. Toshiba gets around the normal DRAM requirement for high-speed SSDs by using the NVMe protocol’s HMB (Host Memory Buffer) feature, which sets aside a chunk of system RAM for caching purposes. Pricing is expected to be ‘comp

Some might spend all their time grinding out hard to get achievements while others will run a raid boss hundreds of times in hopes of getting some rare loot. He beat the first raid boss of Antorus, The Burning Throne all by himself—and it only took him a measly eight hours. But Garothi Worldbreaker, the boss that Rextroy soloed, is a part of the newly released Antorus, The Burning Throne raid. So beating him alone is nothing short of extraordinary—if only because it took him a whopping eight hou

Today marked his official return to the game on Twitch, in full Draven cosplay with a Wonder Woman tiara, and it’s fair to say quite a few people tuned in hoping for fireworks. The concurrent viewer number is bouncing around, as they do, but at one point moved past 382,000. In fact, Twitch just confirmed that Tyler1’s return stream has set a new record for most concurrent viewers on an individual’s channel. It’s also fair to say that these numbers are piling up more thanks to Tyler1’s reputation

Matt Makes Games founder Matt Thorson is best known for TowerFall: Ascension, a delightful co-op action platformer. Thorson’s next game is Celeste, a self-described “hardcore mountain-climbing platformer” that’s coming to Steam this month. Celeste stars Madeline, a young girl hellbent on reaching the summit of Celeste Mountain. Celeste is an old-school platformer, after all, with one giant level broken into smaller stages. Although unreleased, Celeste was nominated for Excellence in Audio in thi

Back in 2015, we asked you to help us create the perfect first-person shooter. Let’s try it again, but this time let’s design the perfect battle royale game. 100 players enter a battleground (you decide what kind) , and the last one standing wins (you pick what they win, too). It will only take you a couple of minutes, and we’ll tally up your votes and suggestions and mash them together to come up with the perfect battle royale game for PC. We’ll post the results of the survey at the end of the

Bandai Namco trotted out some preliminary minimum system requirements for the 2D anime fighting game Dragon Ball Fighterz late last year, but warned that they weren’t actually finalized at that point. Now they are, and this is what you need to play. with ranked matches, an interactive lobby, a six-player “Party Match,” and a story mode featuring a new character named Android 21, whose creation was “supervised” by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. It’s available for pre-purchase now on Steam an

Update: In a tweet, Devolver Digital confirmed that this Steam sale is being held in conjunction with charitable speedrunning organization Games Done Quick. Devolver says they’ll donate 10 percent of the sale’s revenue to GDQ. Original story:Publisher Devolver Digital is running a quick Steam sale to ring in the new year. A handful of good indies are on sale through Monday, January 15, including gratuitous violence simulator Hotline Miami and contemplative puzzler The Talos Principle. Here’s the

We’ve talked about cryptocurrency mining quite a bit during the past year, and this latest surge in mining profitability is a bit hard to nail down. Whatever the root cause, the impact on graphics card prices is clear: everything is going up. I’ve also included an estimate of mining profitability for the past 30 days, though the specific numbers are prone to debate depending on your source. On the AMD side of things, prices are even further out of whack, and the 570/580 and Vega cards are all pr

I had a chance to speak with three of the members of Monothetic, the team working on Beacon. PC Gamer: When I first saw Beacon, what immediately struck me was the design aesthetic. Kiefen ZipfThe natives don’t have a very cohesive design aesthetic, since they’re all supposed to be their own little factions in their own right. The Monothetic team realized Haven was impractically large and complicated, and canceled it in favor of beginning of development on Beacon. Each enemy within the faction ha

The GX1325U is essentially a step down in backup power from our top pick in the UPS category, CyberPower’s CP1500PFCLCD (priced at $215 currently). Both models stand out from the crowd with pure sine wave support, as opposed to simulated or stepped sine wave, the latter of which is more commonly found at this price point. Simulated sine wave approximates what you get out of your wall outlet, and that can cause some electronics to behave in unexpected ways. When possible, pure sine wave is the wa

The holiday season is over, and you might think that means a break from the flurry of game sales, and more importantly, a respite for your long-suffering bank account. With the new year comes new year’s resolutions, and with those comes GOG’s New Year’s Resolutions Sale. The sale includes more than 100 games old and new, with discounts of up to 90 percent, and each day GOG will highlight a handful that it thinks deserves special attention. To get things off to a strong start, it’s headlining day

The closed-loop CPU cooler is supplied by the experts at Asetek, and it’s the same unit used in the ultra-high-end ROG GT51 desktop,” Asus says. On top of that, there’s a hot-swappable 2.5-inch drive bay to make upgrading secondary storage easier. The hot-swap bay lets secondary storage drives slide in and out in seconds, without tools or rebooting, making it perfect for busy tournament environments,” Asus says. The Strix GL12 ships with a solid metal side panel, which Asus says is to meet EMI r

Last year, a mock-up of a new Steam interface appeared in a client update and was quickly removed. We still don’t know if the image represents anything real—it’s just an image—but we did learn later from a Valve presentation that some kind of Steam UI refresh is in the works. In a Twitter thread about an upcoming Valve presentation in Milan, Kroll was asked if the UI update is still happening. Yes: We’re still working on it :)January 5, 2018So there you have it: The Steam UI update is happening.

GeForce Now, Nvidia’s cloud gaming service that promises to enable PC gaming on low-end hardware, is now in open beta testing on the PC. The free software is currently capable of running more than 160 games at maximum visual settings, at up to 120 fps. The GeForce Now hardware requirements are really simple: If you’ve got an Intel Core i3 CPU at 3.1GHz, 4GB RAM, and a DX9 GPU, you’re set. The service supports games from Steam and Uplay, including Call of Duty: WWII, Hearthstone, Middle-earth: Sh

That bold statement is backed by internals that leverage the chipmaker’s newly announced 8th Gen G-series processors, which combine Intel’s 8th Gen Core CPUs with AMD’s Radeon RX Vega M graphics and HBM2 memory. The company is apparently telling people that the custom Radeon RX Vega M can match the gaming performance of a GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q. The higher-end SKU (NUC8i7HVK) sports an unlocked Core i7-8809G quad-core processor running at 2.1GHz to 4.2GHz, with AMD’s Radeon RX Vega M GH graphics

Variant 2 (CVE-2017-5715): NVIDIA’s initial analysis indicates that the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver is potentially affected by this variant. NVIDIA’s initial analysis indicates that the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver is potentially affected by this variant. Nvidia’s 390.65 driver update includes a fix for Variant 1. Some gamers prefer to wait a bit before installing GPU driver updates, just in case there are unintended consequences. You can install the driver update through Nvidia’s GeForce Experience

If diligently cleaning the streets of Nazis in Wolfenstein 2 hasn’t quite sated your appetite, and you also think that cats are probably evil, then Rise of the Wool Ball and its predecessor, Shadow of the Wool Ball, might be just what you’re craving. The pair of Doom mods are filled with fascist felines and Doom, Wolfenstein and Rise of the Triad-inspired maps. Slap your eyes on the video below if you’ve got a completely understandable grudge against cats. To play Rise of the Wool Ball’s 6 level

Despite the mountain of incredible 2017 games I still need to play, I am once again back on my Skyrim nonsense. I reinstalled it over the weekend and I’m still in the process of adding all 10,000 mods that I simply cannot live without, including many featured in our best Skyrim mods list. I might need to add another, however, at least when the gargantuan Lordbound mod launches later this year. The Lordbound team is aiming to make an expansion-sized mod with around 30 hours of new adventures, inc

Blade Runner 9732, the unofficial virtual tour of Deckard’s apartment from the first movie, is now on Steam. Like a nosey neighbour given a spare set of keys, I’ve been rooting around in it this afternoon. I feel like I know Deckard just a little bit better. After all, this is a man who—despite being in his 30s—still uses Axe (Lynx if you’re from Blighty) body spray. Turning it on seems to play havoc with the lighting, turning the apartment into a very sad rave.