Each module comes with RGB lighting that you can program individually, leading to some interesting color combinations. These do not require separate power sources, they draw what they need from the DIMM slot. Corsair’s Vengeance RGB is compatible with several motherboard utilities, including Gigabyte’s RGB Fusion, MSI’s Mystic Light, and Asus’ Aura Sync lighting control software. Beyond the bling, these new kits bring fast frequencies and relatively tight timings to the table. The following kits

Fortnite’s surprise Battle Royale mode asks this very question, and the answer is that so far no one wants to build any bathrooms except me. Bluehole isn’t trying to claim ownership of the battle royale game mode , but some of Epic’s early marketing makes their inspiration clear by invoking PUBG directly. The sandbox just feels empty right now, even with such an intuitive and elaborate fort building system available to every player. Mix in far more trap drops and Fortnite’s Battle Royale is one

Dark Souls mods are already extremely good and weird. A quick recap of what we already have: Fidget Spinner swords, a Shovel Knight outfit, Epic Sax Guy cosplay, fixed mouse controls, and many more. But thanks to a new scripting environment implemented and demonstrated by YouTube user Wulf2k9, the doors for the Dark Souls modding scene are about to bust wide open—once it’s released that is. The same wacky videos used to announce mods like the Shovel Knight outfit could be made playable in-game.

The good news is AMD is still planning to implement support for multiple NVMe SSDs configured in RAID, but not just yet. “I just wanted to do a quick follow up on NVME RAID status from AMD. AMD is still very excited about bringing FREE NVMe RAID support to the Threadripper platform with no strings attached,” AMD told HardOCP. One possible scenario is a RAID 0 array, though NVMe SSDs typically boast really fast read and write speeds already. Regardless, NVMe RAID support is coming for those who a

Unlike the Sensei 310, however, the new Rival 110 is not an ambidextrous rodent—it only has thumb buttons on the left side, making it suitable for right-handed gamers. The Rival 110 uses a custom TrueMove1 optical sensor built by PixArt. “We continue to innovate in sensor tracking technology with the expansion of our TrueMove line of sensors with the TrueMove1 in the Rival 110,” said Jason Christian , SteelSeries Category Manager for Mice & Keyboards. That “welcoming price” is $40, compared to $

And how many times have you played as a talking skeleton? And this is the first reason to play as an undead in Divinity 2. There’s an undead origin characterConceived by legendary RPG scribe Chris Avellone, Fane is one of Divinity 2’s origin heroes. Poison heals youItems and spells that would heal a normal character in Divinity 2 will damage an undead one. Divinity is a light-hearted game, and being undead is the source of a lot of great gallows humour.

Devolver Digital and Reikon Games’ brutal cyberpunk brawler Ruiner is “dazzling, dangerous, and dripping in style” and is a “superb, if short, whirlwind of cyber-violence and sightseeing”—so says our reviewer Omri Petitte. It’s out now and, naturally, has a launch trailer. Set in the year 2091 within the dystopian, cyberpunk-scarred depths of Rengkok, a “wired psychopath” does battle with a corrupt system in search of his kidnapped brother. Without spoiling, here’s a wee excerpt from Omri’s revi

Processor (AMD): AMD FX-6350. Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB. Graphics card (NVIDIA): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB. Graphics card (AMD): AMD. Graphics card (NVIDIA): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB.

Despite founding the series in 1994, X-Com mastermind Julian Gollop has admitted his current project Phoenix Point wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Firaxis’ 2012 Enemy Unknown reboot . In 1994, Julian Gollop, alongside his Mythos Games team, redefined the turn-based strategy genre with the creation of UFO: Enemy Unknown—otherwise known as X-COM UFO Defense. “It just goes to show that maybe I was right to pursue this kind of game,” Gollop continues. “But what the new XCOM game has allowed me to d

Image credit: DeadlineIn October last year, videogame voice actors and motion capture performers elected to go on strike after SAG-AFTRA, the union representing them, failed to reach a contract agreement with major publishers. Over 250 people thereafter picketed outside EA, and while incremental progress has been made since, only now has the ordeal been settled. Speaking via the SAG-AFTRA website, union president Gabrielle Carteris stated its negotiating committee reached an agreement to end str

In June, Atari declared itself “back in the hardware business” with the announcement of the Ataribox—a retro-styled PC tech-based console. One month later it emerged Atari plans to crowdfund the project, and now we have some hard facts on cost, and what’s under its hood. When it does, it’ll cost between $250—$300 and will boast an AMD custom processor with Radeon graphics. “We wanted to create a killer TV product where people can game, stream and browse with as much freedom as possible, includin

LawBreakers is a very fun FPS. A very fun FPS that is, unfortunately, struggling uphill to establish a big playerbase. Boss Key Studios is working hard to support the game, both with a recent major update and now, a free weekend supported by a substantial discount. The free weekend will run September 28 until October 2, and starting from now you can get the game for 25 percent cheaper: for US$22.49 to be precise. And resident FPS expert Evan loved it too, describing it as “nimble, graceful, and

Necromancer abilities deal physical damage, making Warfare immediately useful. Polymorph is an interesting choice, if not perfectly complementary since it relies on Strength and deals physical damage instead of Intelligence and Magic damage. Class presets it’s included in: Cleric, Inquisitor, WitchPrimary attribute: IntelligencePrimary damage type: PhysicalA favorite among Original Sin 2 players, Necromancers are powerful healers, summoners, and physical damage dealers. Because Necromancer provi

This weekend, Gizmodo reports that Showtime’s website apparently got involved in mining cryto, without the users’ consent. What’s going on with Showtime, and The Pirate Bay when it tested the software a week ago, is a bit different. Instead of GPU-based mining, there’s a new service called CoinHive that works with JavaScript to do CPU-based mining. But isn’t CPU mining dead? Multiple sites reported finding CoinHive code on Showtime’s website, and Showtime’s only comment so far has been a ‘no com

The Call of Duty: WWII multiplayer open beta gets underway this weekend—September 29, to be precise—and those of you who want to avoid wasting time when ye olden shooting begins can start preloading it now on Steam. The open beta client is separate from COD:WWII on Steam, and is roughly 14GB in size. “Beta participants will experience the all-new War Mode where players compete against each other in objective-based, team gameplay,” the standalone Steam listing says. Team up with your friends to c

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare hasn’t proved the most popular installment in the long-running shooter series of shooters, but over this past weekend it introduced what may be the best CoD featured mode of all time. It’s called “Gesture Warfare,” and no, it doesn’t mean you get to flip people off when they kill you. There were nine different gestures to choose from, each with its own unique (and uniquely ridiculous) name and infliction of death. “Also, different gestures have different times to k

But with bragging rights on the line, Intel reclaims the top two spots in consumer CPU rankings with the i9-7980XE and the i9-7960X. The Core i9-7960X is in many ways the more sensible alternative to the i9-7980XE—you can read the full review of the 7980XE for additional details. You still need a very good reason to go beyond the base level i7-7800X, or a Ryzen 7 1800X, at least from a CPU performance standpoint. Core i9-7960X CPU benchmarksImage 1 of 11 Image 2 of 11 Image 3 of 11 Image 4 of 11

Fortunately, Original Sin 2 players are already finding equally absurd ways to kill enemies thanks to its much more refined combat. Sure, you could approach Original Sin 2’s tough-as-nails fights in a serious manner, or you could turn your enemies into chickens and watch them murder themselves. With more robust combat and a sprawling story, Divinity: Original Sin 2 is an even more complex RPG that the first. Right now, two popular methods involve a skill called Rupture Tendons . Once an enemy is

Doomtrooper is a collectible card game, based on the Mutant Chronicles RPG setting, that was originally released in the 1990s. The alpha version of Doomtrooper as it stands “looks and plays solid,” but cards and systems are still being added and tweaked. “Alpha tests are more focused and usually have some gameplay systems disabled,” Secret Cow Level founder Justin Reynard said. “Alpha testing is more reserved and under NDA to prevent sharing and streaming as we’re still testing and implementing

Now is a good time to build a Kaby Lake system, provided you’re not holding out for Coffee Lake. One of them is for an Asus ROG Strix Z270F Gaming motherboard. Both Amazon and B&H have the motherboard on sale for $130 with free shipping, versus around $180 and up at most other retailers. If you’re willing to take the latter option, this Asus motherboard is a good place to start. It has two reinforced PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, a regular PCI3 3.0 x16 slot (max at x4 mode), and four PCI3 3.0 x1 slots.