Our love for mechanical keyboards is well known. The first is a tenkeyless Aukey mechanical keyboard (87-key) with Outemu Blue switches. Also relevant is our list of our favorite mechanical keyboards. Beyond anti-ghosting, neither of these Aukey keyboards have any gaming features to note. However, if it’s a cheap mechanical keyboard with loud click action you’re after, then here you go.

Many gamers will argue that nobody needs a mouse with an ultra-high dpi sensor. Be that as it may, if you want one, Razer has another option on the table in the Balistisk, its newest rodent with a 5G “true” 16,000 dpi optical sensor. This is the same sensor as found in the popular DeatherAdder Elite (our pick as the best gaming mouse) and Lancehead Tournament Edition. It is purpose-build for first person shooters, though a high sensitivity sensor is not the only thing this mouse has going for it

High Hell is a game about making entrances—the kind of entrances that begin with a large boot applied forcefully to a fragile door, followed shortly thereafter by gunfire, flying bodies, and burning drug labs. Publisher Devolver Digital urged players to “descend upon the criminal underground with an absurdly large gun and bring lethal salvation to those that have fallen from the light” in the High Hell announcement that came along with the trailer. Pop brainwashed chimps, deface corporate effigi

Ark: Survival Evolved, in addition to launching from Early Access this week, announced a $45 season pass, which includes the Scorched Earth DLC as well as two unannounced expansions. We’ve now learned a bit about one of those expansions, called Aberration, which is set to arrive in October of this year. The Ark (planet) in Aberration isn’t quite as friendly to organic lifeforms as the one we’re used to. So instead of a prehistoric world filled with dinosaurs it’s a bit more of an alien planet vi

Two and a half years ago, Peter Molyneux found himself under considerable press scrutiny. To this end, Molyneux visited Sean Murray shortly after the open-world exploration game’s turbulent launch. “For us, for me and Sean and whoever, we, hand on heart, we make these games because we love making games. Molyneux explains that his exile from the press allowed him to refocus his attention on coding—which manifests itself in his most recent game The Trail. Our full interview with Peter Molyneux wil

PAX West 2017 is underway today, and Evan and Steven are on the scene in Seattle to get hands-on time with new games, interview developers, and talk to the fans at one of the biggest gaming events of the year. But first, they met up to discuss what they’ll be getting a look at this weekend, from exciting newcomers like Tiny Metal to the biggest game of the year so far, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. We’ll be posting videos and articles from PAX all weekend, which you’ll find on our YouTube chann

Photographs appearing to show a Destiny 2 Gamestop game guide have made their way onto Reddit via NFSgaming. In Destiny 2 subclasses have ‘upper path’ and ‘lower path’ skill sets. nightstalker lets hunters summon a bow and arrow made of void energy that can entangle enemies and set them up to be nuked. The lower path lets you fire multiple arrows for massive, which ought to give the nightstalker more solo utility. Plus, there are probably more exotics to be revealed—Bungie cleverly hid a few in

When Incendium’s papercraft squad shooter Phantom Halls landed on Early Access earlier this year, it announced a tie-in with Sam Raimi’s ’80s horror parody Evil Dead 2. Now, the so-called “Evil Dead 2 x Phantom Halls” update will take that partnership further still. Moreover, these new areas will expand Phantom Hall’s base mansion and will now incorporate the Evil Dead film’s iconic cabin. That looks like this:Evil Dead 2 x Phantom Halls will also introduce mini-boss battles, and will pit player

It’s been a horrific couple of weeks over on the Humble Store, first with the Horror Bundle, and now with a Horror sale lasting until Tuesday September 5. Some of the highlights include 50 percent off the frightening Outlast 2, and the magnificent semi-text adventure Stories Untold. Arguably the spookiest game ever, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, is on sale for a huge 85 percent off. SOMA is from the same developer, and takes places under the sea in a facility where things have gone very wrong. You

Labor Day is coming up, and of course, there’s a whole bunch of hardware deals you can peruse on your day off. Head on over to Newegg’s Labor Day Sale page to see them all. You can get up to 60 percent off select items, and the deals will be around until Monday evening. Here are some of the highlights:There are over 700 items in the sale, so it might take you until Monday to browse them all. Some online stores give us a small cut if you buy something through one of our links.

Battlefield 1’s second major expansion, In the Name of the Tsar, promises six new maps, the Russian army, and the Women’s Battalion of Death. As such it’s billed as the “most extensive Battlefield expansion yet”, and now has a launch date: September 19. “The end goal of the conflict was to reclaim lost territory that is currently in control of White Guard.” In the Name of the Tsar is due September 19. If you fancy getting in early, though, Premium Pass owners can access the expansion from Septem

With Mania being the best Sonic game in two decades, and with most of Sonic’s back catalogue now on Steam, we thought we’d rank them for reasons we can’t entirely remember. Sonic 3 & Knuckles has Sky Sanctuary, which has the best music. It is clearly the best Sonic game. It hasn’t aged as well as Sonic 2, but it’s still just a really good Sonic game. Phil: There’s a bit in the 2006 game Sonic The Hedgehog (which was never released on PC) in which Sonic literally kisses a human woman, and yet Son

Earlier this year, I stumbled upon Vicn’s Glenmoril Skyrim mod—a ten-quest episode that brought From Software’s Bloodborne to Tamriel. In the process I discovered Vigilant, another of Vicn’s creations, which adds a splash of Dark Souls to the fifth Elder Scrolls instalment. Boasting four, fully-translated and voiced episodes, Vigilant has now been updated to work with Skyrim’s Special Edition. Let’s first watch some moving pictures:Episodes include ‘The Summoner’, ‘Bloody Matron’, ‘Child of Obli

It seems unthinkable now, because nowadays multiplayer maps are a fine art of their own (though plenty of level creators ended up making special deathmatch maps for Doom anyway). With Quake, id Software started adding multiplayer maps of their own, and in a recent interview with PCGamesN, Tim Willits made the claim that it was his idea. And that’s how multiplayer maps were started. DWANGO was a multiplayer-only service that had many multiplayer-only maps that are legendary today. He also points

Earlier this week, Larian Studios released a lovely new trailer for Divinity: Original Sin 2 that, among other things, suggested that the game’s final playable race would be the Undead. In a developer update video released today, the studio made it official, revealing the Undead race, a new origin character named Fane, and the very impressive-looking Collector’s Edition box. Fane, the new Undead origin character, was a scholar who was entombed centuries ago by his elders for pursuing forbidden k

Vaporum is an old-school, grid-based dungeon crawler that trades the fantasy RPG trappings usually seen in such games for a full-on steampunk setting. Vaporum doesn’t do away with all the conventional dungeon crawler tropes. “The gadget-based system allows you to equip various gadgets to help you define your own playstyle. It would be easy to look at Vaporum as simply a steampunk Legend of Grimrock, but—well, there is no “but,” that’s a game I want to play. It’s not currently listed on Steam, bu

Twitch unveiled a new way for streamers to share “interactive experiences” with their audiences today called Twitch Extensions, which can be integrated directly into live video streams to help “grow the unique relationship between creators and their communities.” Furthermore, Twitch isn’t targeting specific games with Extensions, so the field is wide open: “If the community wants an Extension for a given game, Twitch Extensions allows them to build it.” : A summary of the creator’s League of Leg

Bethesda’s Creation Club FAQ asks itself “Is Creation Club paid mods?” In related news, today I paid for $15 worth of mods from the not-paid-mods Creation Club store to try them out. Another gripe, and this one is substantially bigger: I don’t see a way for customers to rate the Creation Club mods—sorry, content—they’ve purchased. Call them mods, don’t call them mods, but let players tell each other if they like them or not. There’s currently not much to choose from in Fallout 4’s Creation Club.

Wild West Online, the open-world PvP MMO that we all briefly thought was Red Dead Redemption 2, will hold its first alpha test on September 15, developer 612 Games announced today, with access granted to everyone who owns either the Pioneer or Collector’s edition of the game. Otherwise you can wait until there is additional gameplay information, or you see your favorite streamer playing it, and then decide.” The first alpha test will run over three weekends: September 15-22, September 22-25, and

Pathologic is a first-person psychological horror-adventure survival RPG sort of thing—it’s hard to nail it down, really—that was originally released in 2005 by Russian indie studio Ice-Pick Lodge. It was intensely, impenetrably weird, as Phil noted a few years back when the studio launched a Kickstarter campaign for a remake, an effort that proved hugely successful. But then the studio opted to update and re-release the original game as Pathologic Classic HD, while still remaking the original.