Thick bezels on monitors are mostly distracting when configuring a multi-monitor setup with two or three panels plopped next to each other. If that’s your plan, or you simply don’t like bezels, you might be interested in one of AOC’s three new G90 series monitors. AOC equipped its G90 series with TN panels, each with a 1920×1080 resolution, 144Hz refresh rate (on two of the three models), 1ms response time, and FreeSync support. There are two versions of the 24.5-inch, one with a 75Hz refresh ra

Announced in mid-2015, Rising Thunder was pitched as an online-only, PC-exclusive free-to-play fighting game from Seth Killian’s Radiant Entertainment. Radiant was then taken over by Riot in March of last year, which led to the permanent closure of Rising Thunder following a short-live alpha phase. Now, Rising Thunder will be handed over to its players, with a Community Edition due next month. We’re calling it ‘Rising Thunder: Community Edition.’ With that, Radiant will release Rising Thunder’s

He’s also working on the PC port for Trails of Cold Steel 2, coming in 2018, and posted a short Youtube clip of an in-progress feature that I instantly want in, oh, practically every PC game. Durante added a second launcher option for Cold Steel 2, available as a right-click option in Steam, that automatically loads your latest save. The caveat, of course, is that implementing an instant resume like this takes work, will require different work from game to game, and probably wouldn’t work at all

Unlike movies so bad they’re good such as The Room or Trolls 2, you have to interact with a bad game. A bad game laughs at you while you struggle with its controls or wade through slow, tedious design. It’s either delightfully cliche or brilliantly self-aware, but either way, I love love love the clunky voice command system that lets players sing, line-by-line, the EDF anthem. Get a friend who hasn’t played it, sit them down with Goat Simulator, and you’ll be laughing together in no time. —Jody

Since its reveal in March, barely a week has passed without Total War: Warhammer 2 giving us something to report on. When Creative Assembly revealed the full map for Total Warhammer 2’s Mortal Empires campaign, Steven highlighted some gaping holes in its layout—one area of which the Tomb Kings will now fill. Rise of the Tomb Kings is a campaign pack that’s due on January 23, 2018 for the game’s Eye of the Vortex campaign and Mortal Empires. In typical cinematic form, the new faction has a neat-l

Similar to the likes of PES and FIFA, sports management simulator Football Manager is judged each year against its previous instalments. Of the game’s new features, the Dynamics system is its best. The scope for story-generation that FM 2018’s Dynamics system offers is huge. I’m regularly going to training sessions at clubs around the world and you get to see a lot of team dynamics and squad dynamics from that. If Football Manager is about reflecting the realities of running a football club, the

One game which hasn’t been reworked for a modern audience is 1987’s Maniac Mansion, but it’s nevertheless landed on Steam and is subject to a limited-time discount. The games noted above, and the likes of Double Fine’s Thimbleweed Park, owe much of their success and appeal to Maniac Mansion. Maniac Mansion is more honest with the player about the limits of their freedom, while also making those limits feel more expansive than what has gone before. In a way this is a hallmark of the broader Lucas

The Soulcalibur series has been around since the late ‘90s, but VI marks its first appearance on PC—and it’s long overdue. It’s classic Soulcalibur, and considering this will be many PC gamers’ introduction to the series, that’s a good thing. Charging a Reversal Edge leaves you briefly open to attack, however, so there’s still some risk involved in trying to trigger one. But the danger involved in pulling a successful Reversal Edge off also means that it won’t give them an unfair advantage eithe

Despite closing in on its three-year anniversary, Dying Light remains determined to treat its players to complimentary goodies. Content Drop #2 is live now and brings with it a new, much-requested gun silencer. Described by the dev as “100 percent community-inspired”, the Gun Silencer offers players new stealth options without the worry of alerting Infected baddies by gunfire. Because it wouldn’t be Dying Light otherwise, would it? Dying Light’s Content Drop #2 is live now.

Indie games digital storefront Itch.io is hosting a Holiday Sale, gathering over 500 discounted games “with a focus on curation”. Within, you’ll get horror adventure Whispering Willows, the autobiographical Memoir En Code, survival ’em up Walden, gorgeous point and clicker Samorost 3, and Cosmo D’s quirky narrative music game The Norwood Suite. I caught up with Cosmo D recently to chat about his most recent game, the lovely Off Peak follow-up, The Norwood Suite. I love that, having people asking

Upsilon Circuit, the fascinating game which limited players to one single life, has been cancelled. Studio Robot Loves Kitty made the announcement today, citing funding as the “primary” issue, though there’s quite a bit to it. Indeed, a spokesperson has written at length on the studio’s website, explaining what went wrong and why the team has had to abandon the project. “The oversimplified answer would be that the scope of the game was too ambitious and we underestimated the time and money neede

Dusk, the retro-styled first-person shooter that kinda looks like a 1980s Slayer album cover in action, is getting a multiplayer mode. The mode – dubbed DuskWorld – is currently in closed beta, but getting involved isn’t too hard and doesn’t require money, and you don’t even need to have purchased the first episode of Dusk. Just head over to the New Blood Discord channel (New Blood is Dusk’s publisher) and sign up there. Dusk isn’t “officially” out yet, though if you purchase it now on Steam you

Its latest update is a doozy, and brings sweeping changes to the research system. The updated research chambers are at the heart of the new system, so System Era singled them out in the patch notes, saying:”The Research Chamber uses the new streaming power system to operate. Thanks to this new power system, players can also overclock their research chambers to improve their output. The research update also brought a few usability tweaks to the UI, an improved tutorial which keeps up with old sav

The Destiny 2 update that rolled out last week added, among quite a number of other things, a Three of Coins consumable sold by Xur that the patch notes said “increases the drop chance of Exotics.” But following a weekend of play, an awful lot of people came away feeling like it wasn’t working like it was supposed to, and maybe wasn’t working at all. “When players use a Three of Coins consumable, this provides a 50% increase to the base chance of being rewarded an Exotic Engram upon activity com

Our favorite wireless gaming headset is the SteelSeries Siberia 800, which sells for around $210. If you’re looking for something more affordable, SteelSeries’ Arctis 7 is on sale at Amazon for $100. We haven’t sampled the Arctis 7, but according to SteelSeries, the 40mm neodymium drivers are the same as found in higher end options, presumably the Siberia 800 and Siberia 840. SteelSeries also claims lag-free 2.4GHz wireless performance with up to 24 hours of battery life, and a wireless range of

We have seen the future, and the future is 8K. Or at least, it’s 8K until we get 10K and 16K and augmented reality beamed directly into our cerebral cortex. But five to 10 years from now, you’ll love it. games at 8k right now, and probably won’t for some time. It costs about a third as much as the 8K display and should last you the next decade, while we wait for 8K hardware to become practical.

“I… got bored,” Leggerless writes in his Reddit post. I honestly didn’t realize that the lack of statistics relating to the size of fictional races’ genitals was a problem, but there you go. “While penis height doesn’t directly correlate to height, it provides an ‘acceptable’ measure for the human males,” he writes. The result is a disturbingly detailed chart listing each of World of Warcraft’s races’ penis size when erect. Of course, just mapping out the penis size isn’t enough for this amate

A week after the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) unveiled a new HDR certification program, Samsung today announced its CHG90 is the first monitor to carry the DisplayHDR 600 badge. To earn the DispayHDR 600 badge, a monitor must have a peak luminance of 600 nits, along with real-time contrast ratios with local dimming. “When granting DisplayHDR 600 certification to the CHG90, VESA cited the monitor’s use of HDR to elevate contrast ratio (3,000:1), color accuracy and overall presen

A new expansion called Chronogenesis is on the way that will add a new Portalcraft class and introduce limited rotations, which allows only cards from the five most recent sets, and unlimited, in which all the cards are playable. First up is Lancer of the Tempest, a 2 Play Point card with an “Enhance” ability that deals two damage to all enemy followers if it’s held back for 7 Play Points. And finally, we have Cursed Scarecrow, a Bloodcraft follower who can’t attack the enemy leader, but whose i

And rarely followed as faithfully as in Driftland: The Magic Revival, a new strategy game from developer Star Drifters which is about arranging floating islands into a livable kingdom. This leads me to Driftland’s building types, which I’d call resource, passive, combat and utility. You wouldn’t know it from Driftland’s tight-lipped tutorial, but passive buildings are incredibly important. For instance, building a granary is often cheaper and more efficient than building a new farm. But Driftlan