Photo via @HuangAnderssonPeople take games like Championship Manager and Football Manager pretty seriously, but probably not quite as seriously as Huang Wenbin, a Chinese player who travelled to the UK to see the team he manages virtually. They’re called Runcorn Linnets, and if you’ve never heard of them, that’s probably because you don’t follow the North West Counties Football League. Even here in the UK, you’d be hard pressed to find many people who have heard of the Runcorn Linnets outside of

Normally it’s pretty hard to halt an inferno, but Team Fortress 2’s Jungle Inferno update, which was meant to launch yesterday, seems to have been more of a small blaze. Valve is rectifying this, fanning the flames and adding some finishing touches, and it should be out today. “Typically we ship updates on a Thursday, so those of you expecting the Jungle Inferno Update to flip live today, you might want to sit down for this next part,” a post made yesterday reads. It will launch early today, say

If there was any doubt that Iden Versio, Star Wars Battlefront 2’s protagonist, was a total badass, the new single-player trailer certainly dispels them. A few seconds in, the soon-to-be commander of Inferno Squad launches herself into space to avoid capture at the hand of the rebels. The trailer suggests that she might have a bit of a problem taking orders, but otherwise there’s no hint that she won’t stick by the Empire. We see her witness the destruction of the second Death Star above Endor,

(Note: this article contains mild spoilers for Little Red Lie . The curtain has barely raised on Little Red Lie when this monologue is uttered. Little Red Lie is the latest slice of interactive fiction from Canadian writer and developer Will O’Neill. Her parents, at least, seem to believe Sarah’s little red lie. There’s much more to Little Red Lie than what goes on in the Stone household.

The details are out, thanks to a new update from Bungie outlining everything we need to know for the game’s imminent PC launch. At launch, the game will feature Nightfall Normal Mode strikes, Nightfall Prestige Mode and Nightfall Guided Games. Meanwhile, the game’s first raid will roll out a week after launch on November 1, along with the Trials of the Nine – an endgame 4v4 Crucible mode. Then, on November 7, the prestige version of the raid will unlock, as will its guided games. There’s a list

Ubisoft has kicked off a “Halloween-inspired” event in For Honor called Feast of the Otherworld that adds a monstrous new mode to the game called Endless March. It takes place on Dominion maps, but features skeletons in place of soldiers, and they’re a lot more dangerous than the usual fleshy hordes of minions. The only way to earn permanent points, and victory, is to kill skeletons, which means you’ll have to get out there and fight. Naturally, a Halloween-themed event requires Halloween-themed

Last year’s Overwatch Halloween Terror event saw the rise, and demise, of the mad maniac Dr. Jamison Junkenstein, whose horrific plan for Adlbersbrunn was brought to a halt by the combined efforts of four wandering heroes. This time around, four new heroes have been summoned to deal with Junkenstein: Torbjorn, Widowmaker, Zenyatta, and Genji. Alas, the comic is a beginning rather than an end—a fun bit of flavor layered atop the Overwatch universe—and so there’s no proper conclusion to the story.

We were also kids then, with vulnerable minds that willfully latched onto the more mystic and bizarre of PC gaming folklore. Jody: Compact brainsThere was always someone very helpful who would suggest a way of fixing a game disc when it got scratched. Of course, it very often didn’t work, but rather than admit we were chasing snake oil, whenever it didn’t work we decided that whatever we were playing didn’t fall into “most” games. I think I must’ve tried a few times and never understood why it d

Two things happened today in the world of Sid Meier’s Civilization that you should probably be aware of. First, the Fall 2017 update to Civilization 6 is now live, as is the Khmer and Indonesia Civilization and Scenario Pack, which 2K has recently been teasing. Second (and probably of greater interest), Civilization 3 Complete, which includes the Play the World and Conquest expansions, is free for the next two days on the Humble Store. To claim your gratis game, pop over to humblebundle.com, cli

Developer Team Cherry continues to pump out free content for Hollow Knight, one of the best indie games you can play right now. The Grimm Troupe, Hollow Knight’s second content pack, will arrive on Thursday, October 26 as a free update for Steam and GOG players. As previously reported, The Grimm Troupe introduces a new major questline complete with new bosses, enemies and allies. The Grimm Troupe is not item- or level-gated, so you can dive in at any point. Whenever you feel ready, “light the Ni

Boyfriend Dungeon is an isometric action game with procedurally generated dungeons and, crucially, swords you can romance. Part dungeon crawler and part dating sim, Canada-based developer Kitfox Games’ “shack-and-slash” is built around personified, dateable weapons who players must woo in order to grow stronger and “plunder the ‘dunj.'” But there’s more to Boyfriend Dungeon’s relationships than the occasional ‘Companion A didn’t like that’ jab. You learn their likes and dislikes and take them on

We recently took a look at six things we like (and five we don’t) about the recently-released Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. But there’s one particular aspect of it that we didn’t get into, because Microsoft, for some reason, hasn’t made much noise about it: It’s a new anti-cheat system called TruePlay. “A game enrolled in TruePlay will run in a protected process, which mitigates a class of common attacks,” Microsoft explained. “Additionally, a Windows service will monitor gaming sessions for

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We haven’t had a chance to test drive one ourselves yet, but if you’ve been waiting for the Kahn Pro, it’s now available, priced at $100. Hi-res certification aside, the Kahn Pro is being marketed as a “super light” headset for esports. The Kahn Pro is equipped with 50mm drivers with a frequency range of 40Hz to 40kHz. “The Khan Pro also features a real-voice mic, offering the most natural voice transmission deliverable in a gaming headset. The microphone of the Khan Pro can pick up lower freque

Hyakki Castle, as we saw in September, is a grid-based dungeon crawler—think Eye of the Beholder if you’re old, Legend of Grimrock if you’re not—that trades conventional D&D-style fantasy trappings for the 18th-century Edo period of Japan. One of Hyakki Castle’s most interesting features is the ability to split your party into two separate groups. Stats include HP and MP (hit points and magic points, I suppose), attack and defense values, and HG—no clue on that one. If the gameplay is up to snuf

It just happens that Newegg is offering a tantalizing discount on factory overclocked Asus GeForce GTX 1070 (DUAL-GTX1070-O8G) graphics card. However, we received an email from Newegg with a promo code (EMCXBRBK2) that brings the price down to $390. Supposedly this is a “super-special deal” that is only redeemable to “a select few” who received the marketing email. As for the card, it has a 1,582MHz base clock and 1,771MHz boost clock in Gaming mode, and 1,607MHz base and 1,797MHz boost clocks i

I prefer to leave the machine running all the time so that I can just sit down at my desk and get started immediately. This means no overclocking (seriously), excellent cooling, and uninterruptible power. Everything is connected to uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), and I use more than one. The longest I’ve had my PC running without shutting down is 416 days or so. I also use several UPS units for my NAS units, which definitely need to stay alive.

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is certainly big in performance, but it doesn’t have to be big in size. Zotac just proved as much with the introduction of its GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm Mini (ZT-P18010H-30P), a pint-sized card for liquid cooled builds where space is at a premium. This is a smaller version of Zotac’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ArcticStorm (ZT-P10810E-30P), although that card has a 16+2 power phase design that is conducive to overclocking. The miniature card measures just 212mm (8.35 i

Valve boss Gabe Newell can afford to buy whatever he wants in the next Steam sale without having to hide the receipts from his significant other. According to Forbes’ most recent list of the 400 richest people in the country, the answer is yessir. “It was another record year for the wealthiest people in America, as the price of admission to the country’s most exclusive club jumped nearly 18%,” Forbes wrote. “The minimum net worth to make The Forbes 400 list of richest Americans is now a record $

Today sees the launch of Dawn of War 3’s biggest update: Endless War. New multiplayer maps, extra Elites, more skins and a whole bunch of additional multiplayer options—that should keep you pretty busy. Probably the most important new additions, however, are the new multiplayer maps. And all of this, including the new maps and Elites, is part of the free update. Endless War is out now.