He was able to push all 18 cores past 6GHz, not just one of them. This is a better overclocking result than der8auer was able to obtain on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X processor. With AMD’s chip, der8auer was able to hit 5.4GHz on all 16 cores, giving him a score of 4514 in Cinebench R15. He ran the same benchmark on the Core i9-7980XE running at 5.6GHz and scored 5635. A look at the Core i9-7980XE’s power consumption when running at 5.5Ghz shows around 70 amps being sucked through the +12V r

2K Games has announced that the upcoming pro rasslin’ game WWE 2K18 will be released for the PC on October 17, the same day as the PS4 and Xbox One editions of the game. That makes it the first game in the series to come out for the PC on the same day as the console releases. Previous WWE 2K games have made their way onto the PC, but it’s always been after a delay. It’s still possible for the console crowd to get a bit of a head start on PC players, as the four-day early access “perk” that comes

Few, however, could have predicted that Microsoft would broach the subject of quantum computing, let alone announce a new programming language for coders to work with quantum bits. In that way, it seems that Microsoft is putting the cart before the horse by developing a programming language for quantum computing. Quantum computing has the potential to shake things up in a big way, and by developing a programming language and tools for quantum computing while simultaneously working on hardware, M

In early August, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds surpassed 500,000 concurrent players on Steam, which led me to wonder if long-time chart champ Dota 2 might be facing an actual threat to its position at the top of the heap. Not long after, the answer came back a resounding “yes,” as PUBG very convincingly seized the crown, and then less than a week later stomped out Dota 2’s all-time record of 1.29 million players. PUBG broke 1.4 million concurrents on September 22, and then hit a new all-time pea

LG thinks it has a solution for the screen-door effect that is common among today’s VR headsets, and it wants to patent the technology. The patent, which was published last week and noticed by UploadVR, describes a “light diffusion member” that sits between the display panel and lenses. “In the display for virtual reality, a light diffusion member, which diffuses light emitted from a light-transmitting area of a display panel to a light-blocking area of the display panel, is interposed between t

My memories of the Road Rash games are vague but what I do remember is this: I played them with friends. Even with the PlayStation-exclusive Road Rash 3D, which didn’t have split-screen, we’d just pass the controller around and take turns. A couple of decades later Road Redemption, a spiritual successor to Road Rash funded via Kickstarter, finds its audience in a very different place. I don’t play Road Redemption like Road Rash. Each rider starts with a weapon or two so there’s none of that weed

Koei Tecmo announced Attack on Titan 2, a game based on “the bonkers anime about killing naked giants” as Fraser put it in our post, in August. The publisher said it was expected to come out in early 2018, but neglected to say anything about platforms it would appear on. “Attack on Titan 2 delves deeply into the fascinating narrative of Attack on Titan’s second season and offers players versatile action and new challenges, as it introduces the newly improved omni-directional mobility gear offeri

Daybreak Game Company continues to tweak, change, and enhance its multiplayer battle royale shooter H1Z1: King of the Kill. Above you can see the KH43, intended as a mid-range alternative to the AK-47, which doesn’t hit as hard but has a higher rate of fire and is easier to manage. With an adjusted choke and spread it requires more precision from players, but it’s also more forgiving thanks to a higher rate of fire and a bigger mag. With a higher fire rate and tighter spread, it will provide a n

“Our 8th Gen Intel Core desktop processors deliver tremendous improvements across the board and—for gamers, in particular—offer an unbeatable experience.” Coffee Lake gives us the long-awaited upgrade to 6-core, but it feels a lot like a knee-jerk reaction to Ryzen. Intel Z370 is for Coffee Lake onlyThe Coffee Lake launch is not without a bit of controversy. Z370 motherboards use the same LGA 1151 socket as Z270 boards, but do not support Kaby Lake processors. The opposite is also true—you can’t

Drew Wolf is an “experienced independent artist/designer” who once worked at Valve. New images posted to their personal website suggest the latter developer could have been working on a four-player fantasy adventure game, “centered around cooperative combat and driven by story”. Named ‘Untitled Fantasy Game’, Wolf’s gallery showcases a batch of “loose sketches” said to be part of an internal R&D project. Of course Wolf’s words neither confirm or contradict the idea that this untitled, ill-fated

On September 26, EVE: Valkyrie is launching a massive update called Warzone that, in addition to sweeping changes to the core game, will also let those without VR headsets play. Ahead of that launch, CCP Games has given us a sneak peak at the new ship class that it’s been teasing for a few months. The Warzone update also includes new ultra abilities that players charge up during the course of a match (Overwatch, anyone?). When Warzone launches tomorrow, old players will find sweeping changes to

At Gamescom last month, Rare and Microsoft declared Sea of Thieves’ cross-play as “no asterisk”—meaning PC players will face-off against their Xbox counterparts in the same world, at the same time, at launch. Senior designer Shelley Preston adds: “The more personalities you’ve got, the more different motivations you’ve got—going on different crews, doing different things, that’s what makes Sea of Thieves come alive. Timmins notes that cross-play is something he and his team wanted Sea of Thieves

The Core i9-7980XE is the fastest consumer CPU Intel has ever released, and you don’t need it. Doubling yet again to go from 8 to 16 cores, and then adding two more for good measure to get to 18? From a certain perspective, the Core i9-7980XE is Intel’s equivalent of AMD’s RX Vega GPUs. Core i9-7980XE Gaming performanceImage 1 of 16 Image 2 of 16 Image 3 of 16 Image 4 of 16 Image 5 of 16 Image 6 of 16 Image 7 of 16 Image 8 of 16 Image 9 of 16 Image 10 of 16 Image 11 of 16 Image 12 of 16 Image 13

With Halloween just around the corner, Planet Coaster has unveiled the Spooky Pack—a new so-called “cauldron of creativity” with new rides, scenery pieces, entertainers and more. Have a gander for yourself:Suitably Halloween-themed, Planet Coaster’s Spooky Pack brings with it “hundreds” of scenery pieces including static and animated attachments, shop fronts, special effects, custom signs and triggerable coaster doors. The Spooky Pack also gives players two new rides in The Hoax and The Huntsman

As we learned last month, when Monolith and Warner Bros’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War arrives in October it’ll do so packing microtransactions. This has, somewhat expectedly, upset facets of the game’s would be players, however design director Bob Roberts maintains the inclusion of microtransactions “will not distract from the rest of [the game]”. “We’re working our tails off to make this massive game and as a designer—the design director—I focus on balancing it,” says Roberts. Roberts maintains

The Chinese Room—the studio behind the likes of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture—has laid off all but three of its staff, “going dark for the next few months.” Pinchbeck continues, suggesting this isn’t the end for The Chinese Room but that it’s “just a pause” in its lifeline. Pinchbeck says he and his team will still be around, but just not as a fully-active development team for the foreseeable future. “We’re essentially artists, Jess and I, who made a hit game without realising

Conversely, adding Batman to Skyrim Special Edition is great fun too. As this mod’s name suggests, the latter is exactly what TuffMcKagan and Doc117’s The Batman in Skyrim is all about. “An urban legend haunts Tamriel; all of the holds… the townsfolk whisper of him… of it,” reads the mod’s description. The new race, so say the mod’s creators, is outfitted with the skills necessary to become Batman, while the new set of armour is a “severely overpowered” Batsuit. Lastly, The Batman in Skyrim

Earlier this year we caught up with Christopher Obritsch, the indie developer whose boss is his 6-year-old daughter Maddi. Their game, Battle Princess Madelyn, marks Causal Bit Games’ first project—one which scored over three times its original Kickstarter ask back in April. Boasting a flurry of spritely demon-slaying, big boss bashing and Ghouls ‘N Ghosts-inspired 2D platforming, Battle Princess Madelyn now has a teaser trailer:Expected at some point in the first half of next year, Battle Princ

Publisher Devolver Digital has just released a new trailer for Reikon’s top-down cyberpunk action game Ruiner, focusing on four of its boss enemies. Ruiner is due out on September 26 and we’re already pretty excited by its opening levels. I take out baddies right and left and siphon their health and energy drops as if they were krill to a whale, keeping myself alive and upping the timer. It’s a frenetic, blood-soaked party, with one hell of a hangover. Check out the trailer below.

And because the Australian dollar has been a bit up-and-down compared to the US of late, it’s getting increasingly difficult to make a ballpark estimation on any game’s price. Oh, and sometimes the price on Steam ends up higher than what Australians would expect to pay at retail. But it looks like Steam will soon catch up with the likes of GOG soon, despite promising it would happen back in 2014. Spotted by Kotaku, War for the Overworld studio Brightrock Games warned its users of some imminent c