Interestingly enough, the AG273QCX totes a TN panel with HDR support, which would make it one of the most colorful and vibrant TN panels out there. In addition to a fast response time and HDR support, the AG273QCX has a 2560×1440 resolution at 144Hz and FreeSync 2 support. Likewise, the AG273QCG also boasts a 2560×1440 resolution and a 0.5ms response time, but with a 165Hz refresh rate and supports G-Sync. And according to PR materials, it is using a VA panel, which typically isn’t known for fas

Enter Experiment 101’s Biomutant, a sprawling action RPG headed by Stefan Ljungqvist—whose credits include the Just Cause series and 2015’s underrated Mad Max. Despite not being able to play the build shown at Gamescom, Biomutant is easily the most intriguing game I’ve seen at the show so far. With that, there’s a strong Metroidvania element to Biomutant, and Experiment 101 confirms specific mutations will help players reach areas within the game’s world map. It’s a 16-square kilometre world, I’

Konami’s released some new screenshots and base camp details for Metal Gear Survive, the base defence spin-off, to keep those unable to play it at Gamescom sated. Yes, you’ll need to farm to survive, because you can’t eat rotting zombie flesh and you need to keep your strength up. The camp will also serve as a command centre, letting you plan co-op and single-player missions, craft gear and manage resources, including defences. Tim took Metal Gear Survive’s co-op for a spin during E3, and quite

GTA Online’s next huge update is Smuggler’s Run, and it’s coming to the game on 29 August. The title is a nod to Rockstar’s classic series (well, I say classic. These hangars are where you’ll activate missions related to smuggling, presumably similar to how offices, bunkers and biker hideouts already work in GTA Online. Rockstar also announced that this fall they’ll be bringing transform races to GTA Online, where passing through checkpoints will change your vehicle into a boat, car or plane dep

The European Dead Zone is overrun by a couple of factions. What’s the European Dead Zone like? European Dead Zone sounds like a place from a lost Cronenberg film. You’ll also receive EDZ tokens for a lot of activities, and these can also be found in chests that are tucked away in buildings, caves and so on. Playing as a Warlock, who are essentially the battle mages of Destiny, I was wearing an exotic helmet called ‘Eye of Another World’.

According to developer Psyonix, the Rocket League community’s most requested feature is transparent goalposts. “Transparent Goalposts will add transparency to the goals, goalposts, and specific pieces of the Arena wall,” A blog post from Psyonix explains. When defending in-goal, for example, the posts and walls around you will become transparent for better vision. Psyonix hope that transparent goalposts will make for more consistent visibility in every arena, but it will also be entirely optiona

The first thing I notice about The Evil Within 2 is that it doesn’t feature the first game’s memorable, albeit largely divisive, letterbox visual setting by default. “You can actually turn this on if you want,” a Bethesda rep tells me during my hands-on time at Gamescom. The Evil Within 2 is a similar deal, but a couple of key additions suggest it could be a better game. In a bid to distract a bigger group up ahead, a misdirected bottle alerts one undead soul to my whereabouts. Instead of journe

The Chosen Warlock is down to just three health. Lost city missions featuring zombies crop up infrequently enough to make these knotted three-way conflicts feel novel even 20 hours into the expansion. PERFORMANCE So far XCOM 2: War of the Chosen has run exactly as well as vanilla XCOM 2 on my PC. The new missions, classes, enemy types and Chosen bosses are exciting additions, but they stack your responsibilities high. Outside of the covert actions, War of the Chosen has been almost entirely reac

Earlier in the week, Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan broke down some of the changes coming in Overwatch’s next season of competitive play, including reducing the length of the season down to two weeks and stopping placement matches deliberately placing you lower. Now additional changes have been announced, tweaking skill ratings and tiers. With Season 6, diamond, platinum, gold and silver players will be demoted to a lower skill tier if they’re not able to keep up their rating. The skill rating system is

Experiment 101 are taking an almost Metroidvania or Zelda-style approach to Biomutant’s open-world. You can go wherever you want, theoretically, but practically you’ll need to overcome challenges to reach new areas with unfriendly biomes. It’s low in oxygen, and oxygen is important to even mutant raccoon-fox-cats. It’s a novelty to see a game announced and then properly revealed so quickly, especially one that seems so ambitious. If you want to see more of the game, there’s another video showing

Ark: Survival Evolved is inching ever closer to leaving Early Access, and in preparation of its launch, hundreds of official servers are going extinct. “Legacy servers will remain on a separate cluster from the new cluster, which means you will not be able to transfer anything between Legacy servers and the new servers.” Legacy servers will “receive all of the same fixes and content that the new cluster will” the post says. If you can’t bear to say goodbye, you’ll also be able to download save f

The latest Need for Speed Payback video is a reminder that racing games are frequently gorgeous, especially if you’ve got a penchant for car porn. And they look even better in 4K, running at 60fps. I, lamentably, own neither a 4K monitor, nor a rig that could run any modern game at that resolution while maintaining 60fps, so I just have to sit here and dream. Need for Speed Payback looks striking, nonetheless. This is the second Need for Speed video to slide out of Gamescom, with the first showi

BJ will be getting a lot of help on his mission to cut a bloody swathe through the American Nazi regime in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. The hard man with soulful eyes will be joined not just by revolutionaries he meets along the way, but returning allies as well. Anya, the nurse-turned-revolutionary, returns as BJ’s wife and an expectant mother of twins. Other members of the Kreisau Circle, the group of rebels from the first game, have come to America to help BJ too. Wolfenstein 2: The New C

Creative Assembly have pulled back the curtain on Total War: Warhammer 2’s Vortex campaign map, giving us a tour of the New World and the starting locations for all eight of the game’s warring factions. You’ll see the general areas where the two Skaven factions begin, but not their hidden undercities. Where these factions begin determines, in part, the difficulty of playing them in the campaign and the types of challenges players might face. The flyover also serves as a reminder that the eight l

Neither person had ever heard of any KFC virtual reality training game. “KFC will provide yet another platform for training by bringing the VR simulation technology to its regional general manager training classes, quarterly franchise meetings, and employee onboarding.” According to Yum!, it takes 25 minutes to make KFC’s Original Recipe chicken, but only 10 minutes to teach the process in VR. KFC isn’t the only company that thinks it can make training fun with VR. “Will virtual reality become t

Gain access to new World Quests and Emissaries on Argus. Gain access to new World Quests and Emissaries on Argus. Additional World Quests in Mac’Aree are available along with access to Invasion Points. Week 3: Finish the Shadows of Argus storyline, unlock all World Quests, and venture into the new dungeon, the Seat of the Triumvirate. Alongside the new cinematic, Blizzard also revealed today that World of Warcraft Patch 7.3, Shadows of Argus, is actually very close: It’s set to go live next week

Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 “is finally a football sim worthy of the PC,” we said in our June hands-on preview. “[It] easily matches its PS4 and Xbox One counterparts, and may yet surpass them once the modding community sets to work.” That’s awfully high praise, but come August 30 you won’t have to take our word for it—you’ll be able to just play the demo instead. The PES 2018 demo will feature two stadiums—Camp Nou and Signal Iduna Park—and clubs including Liverpool, Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund,

In God’s Trigger things happen fast. Against Hotline Miami, God’s Trigger feels instantly familiar—if a little less forgiving and a touch more nimble. A game that’s able to repeatedly kill you without compromising the player’s enjoyment is doing something right. Despite playing and thoroughly enjoying God’s Trigger in local co-op, it’ll have online support when it arrives in 2018 too. God’s Trigger is due at some stage in 2018.

Back in June, the developers of StarCraft: Remastered gave me a long, thoughtful explanation on why they had decided to leave the antiquated gameplay of the original StarCraft virtually untouched. So, how has StarCraft: Remastered actually fared in its adopted home? The Remastered team signs limited edition copies at the launch event (Photo: Blizzard)To some extent, StarCraft didn’t need to be Remastered. StarCraft: Remastered failed to bring Korean players ‘back’ to StarCraft, but they had neve

Thermaltake has taken idea of using tempered glass on computer cases and ran with it. And by that we mean it went into full sprint mode—the company’s latest case, the View 71, is a full-tower enclosure with tempered glass on on the front, top, and both sides. Only the bottom and back are missing glass panels, neither of which are typically in view anyway. The tempered glass panes are 5mm thick. There is room for three more 140mm fans up top and two 120mm fans at the bottom.