Yogscast announced today that this year’s Humble Jingle Jam Bundle was a major fundraising success. Sales of the package, supported by its Jingle Jam event that saw more than 700 hours of livestreaming watched by 2.5 million people throughout December, raised $5.2 million for multiple charities. “But we couldn’t do it without the support of the developers and publishers who donate their games to the Bundle every year.” Yogscast began its holiday charity drive in 2011 with the Charity Goat Giving

A €2 million ($2.42 million) grant slated to fund Spanish indie developers is now dead in the water. According to a report from El Español (translated by Polygon), Àlvaro Nadal, Spain’s minister of energy, tourism, and digital agenda, cancelled the grant for unspecified reasons. The decision comes just one week before a presentation by DEV, a Spanish videogame association, on the state of the industry. While Spain isn’t the world’s biggest games market, as NewZoo reports, it is a major player as

NZXT’s best selling gaming case, the H440, is up for grabs at Newegg for $87 after a $20 mail-in-rebate. The sale price and rebate apply to the white and black version, though other color options are marked down as well. Here they are:All three are the latest variants with second generation VN V2 fans, including three 120mm fans in the front and a 140mm fan in the rear. You can add up to two 140mm or three 120mm fans up top for additional cooling, and/or swap out the three front 120mm fans for a

Hyper Universe is a 2D action game with MOBA-inspired systems like lanes, minions and towers. I had fun with it when I played it last September, and later this month it’s officially leaving Early Access and ditching its price tag. As of Wednesday, January 17, Hyper Universe will be free-to-play. To celebrate the game’s Early Access graduation, developer Cwavesoft is throwing in some launch week login bonuses. In the shadow of 2017’s loot box backlash, many players want to know how Hyper Universe

Bethesda’s Tamrielic MMO The Elder Scrolls Online is getting a new DLC pack in February called Dragon Bones that will feature a pair of brand-new dungeons populated with new and old enemies who are dead-set on unleashing “the deadliest plague Tamriel has ever known.” The release of Dragon Bones will come alongside the rollout of Update 17, which will bring the Outfit System to the base game that enables players to customize their appearance regardless of the gear they actually have equipped. “Ev

I was a diehard Saturday morning viewer in elementary school, and I put countless hours into online versions of the card game in high school. It’s a serviceable free-to-play card game, but in its pursuit of casual appeal and mobile viability, it’s lost a lot of what makes Yu-Gi-Oh distinct. Yu-Gi-Oh is a fast-paced, archetype-driven card game where one-turn kills are your bread and butter. Unlike Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering, many Yu-Gi-Oh decks are expressly about flooding the board and

Sure, we have plenty of excellent router choices in our Best Gaming Router Guide , with the latest features, including fast speeds, support for MU-MIMO, and have tested and proven Quality of Service (QoS) settings when it comes to gaming. However, when you want to choose the top end piece of gear, that makes no apologies and will take your network to truly the next level, then go with the Asus ROG Rapture GT-AC5300 Gaming WiFi Router. Of course the WiFi is tri-band with N1000/AC2167/AC2167 speed

Compared to some other external graphics boxes such as PowerColor’s Devil Box, Dell’s Alienware Graphics Amplifier, and Gigabyte’s Aorus Gaming Box, the XG Station Pro has a tone down demeanor. “The new ASUS XG Station Pro brings professionals the refinement you’d expect from our decade of experience with external GPUs. Either way, the XG Station Pro offers compatibility with the latest graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia. Going forward, Asus says it plans to make all future graphics cards compat

A strange teaser released in December hinted rather strongly that peripheral maker Mad Catz was coming back from the bankruptcy it filed for in early 2017. The first of the new Mad Catz products will be previewed at CES, which begins on Sunday. Included among them will be the RAT Air (technically it’s R.A.T. “Mad Catz has been a permanent fixture in gaming for almost three decades and we firmly believe it’s best days lie ahead,” Mad Catz Director of Sales and Operations Selena Change said. Ahead

The Logitech Brio is the most interesting webcam released in 2017. In addition to its great image sharpness, photogenic streamers will be pleased to know that the Brio is also the first webcam to support HDR. Some downsides of the Brio include a sky-high $200 price tag and an uncharacteristically shoddy clip. Though it’s nice to have 4K capabilities in a webcam, 4K video conferencing just isn’t mainstream yet. Nonetheless, for those who want to steam in 4K or need the sharpest image quality avai

And though the vast majority still left me underwhelmed, I found one that managed to capture the spirit and imagination of the game’s core story: ‘The Wandering Couple.’ Spoilers for The Wandering Couple and multiple Nier: Automata endings follow. Just like the woman and her partner, 2B and 9S are also caught in an endless cycle. Throughout Nier, 2B and 9S spill blood, sweat, and oil to fight against a neverending scourge of machines in order to make the planet safe for people again. Much like t

Last month we learned that Total War’s first Saga venture, Thrones of Britannia, will boast a British map 23-times larger than that of TW: Attila’s. Enter the King of Wessex himself, Alfred the Great:Set in 878AD on the British Isles, Thrones of Britannia takes place following the Viking Invasion of Britain—which Alfred the Great spent most of his adult life in power wrestling with. In reality, the King of Wessex eventually forged a peace deal with the Norseman, however the above shows that it w

We predicted this trend was almost certain to spill into 2018, and now free-to-play hero shooter Paladins: Champions of the Realm has assumed the mantle. Announced today at Hi-Rez Expo 2018, Paladins: Battlegrounds bills itself as “the first-ever hero shooter battle royale”, that combines “ability-driven combat with survival gameplay and a fantasy setting to create something new.” Here’s a trailer:”Designed from the ground-up to be played in teams, players must work together to survive in Paladi

Amplitude Studios’ Endless Space (2012), Endless Legend (2014) and Endless Space 2 (2017) reinterpreted the 4X playbook, working within its strict rulesets to push the genre further than it had ever gone before. Spock believes that the 4X genre lends itself naturally to a subtle brand of worldbuilding, which still affords the player the agency they’ve come to expect from a 4X game. Instead, the Endless series relies on hand-drawn pictures and evocative prose. It’s why between Endless Legend and

Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios has announced a number of new features heading to its third-person MOBA Smite—including a new Conquest map, an upgraded art style, a new playable character, and the introduction of two new pantheons later this year. Set to arrive with the game’s forthcoming fifth season, the new Conquest map will be playable on Smite’s public test server as of January 17. Later this year, the developer is also expected to introduce new gods from two new pantheons, Voodoo and Slavic

Agony is a first-person survival horror game that’s set in hell. Created by Polish outfit Madmind Studio, what we’ve seen so far looks positively terrifying—and now the developer has teased one of the game’s central characters, the Red Goddess. Covered in blood and surrounded by tortured demonic beings, here she is in all her, um, glory:According to the game’s Steam page blurb, Agony has players filling the shoes/curled toes of a tormented soul trapped within the depths of hell. By harnessing th

If “Darth Vader in Pink” isn’t your thing, then allow me to direct your attention to another amusing mod. Kylo Ren, commander of Starkiller Base, Vader-esque bad guy of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 hero character, takes on an entirely different (but no less malevolent) persona in this mod called Matt: The Radar Technician. Matt was introduced a couple of years ago in a Saturday Night Live skit based on the Undercover Boss television series. The mod

Still, 2018 is likely going to be a weird year for World of Warcraft. If you wanted to kill others while questing in the open world, PVP servers let you deal death without restraint. World of Warcraft: ClassicHow Blizzard is bringing back Vanilla WoW There’s a lot of questions surrounding World of Warcraft: Classic. What I do expect is that 2018 might have some more information on how exactly Blizzard plans to implement a return to World of Warcraft as it was back in 2004. Until Battle for Azero

Darth Vader in white probably doesn’t make sense, versus in black. Not to mention you probably don’t want Darth Vader in pink. It appears, however, that he underestimated both the interests and the will of gamers, as a modder by the name of Destauch has shared a “Darth Vader in Pink” mod over on Nexus Mods. There’s nothing more or less to it than what’s advertised: Darth Vader, but pink. The mod only works with the PC version of Star Wars Battlefront 2, and you’ll need the Frosty Mod Manager to

First, let’s start with the claim that this is not a bug and that things are working as intended. What Intel actually states is, “recent reports that these exploits are caused by a ‘bug’ or a ‘flaw’ and are unique to Intel products are incorrect.” Either way, it doesn’t mean there aren’t potential exploits, but that Intel isn’t alone. Intel does say that the performance impact from any patch will be workload-dependent, which again doesn’t tell us much. So it’s not that this vulnerability and its