Romance Of The Three Kingdoms 14—the latest in Tecmo Koei’s long-running historical strategy series—now has a release date on PC. Aspiring generals can begin their conquest of ancient China on February 28, and it might be just the thing for players who got a taste for this particular slice of history with the recent Total War: Three Kingdoms. The structure of the series has shifted drastically over the years. While the 13th game had separate strategic and tactical layers, the 14th will be a gran

(Image credit: AMD)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and The Outer Worlds are both out now, and if you’re running a Radeon graphics card, AMD’s latest driver could potentially improve performance quite a bit. According to AMD, its new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.10.2 driver release boosts performance by up to 18 percent for Radeon RX 5700 XT owners, when playing Modern Warfare using the ultra preset. And in The Outer Worlds, AMD says 5700 XT owners will see up to 8 percent better perfor

We’re in the final week of Skeleton Appreciation Month, so that means that all your games are getting dressed up for Halloween. The latest to don a pumpkin-headed costume is Two Point Hospital, the extremely British comedy healthcare management sim. Two Point Hospital is a minor favourite around here. As a fan of terrible puns, I must give credit to Two Point Studios for making the majority of illnesses utterly groan-worthy. Because Valve wouldn’t let them use 666 or 66.6, Two Point Hospital is

With a new week upon us, a pair of new games are now available for free from the Epic Games Store. First up, for the horror fans out there, is Layers of Fear: Masterpiece Edition, a first-person psychological thriller about family, madness, and a really deep appreciation of fine art. The Masterpiece Edition includes the Layers of Fear: Inheritance DLC, which expands the base game with the story of the painter’s daughter, who has returned to her childhood home to face her memories and “take part

While the release of Nvidia’s super cards may have left their standard counterparts in the dust, that just means better deals. Today you can get this RTX 2060 for $299.99 ($80 off) at Best Buy. The RTX 2060 isn’t terribly well suited 4K gaming, but offers great performance at either 1440p or 1080p. The standard 2060 comes with a 6GB of VRAM as opposed to the Super’s eight and has fewer CUDA cores, but has nearly the same performance at 1080p and costs about $100 less. The RTX 2060 features only

(Image credit: Intel)Coming off a record quarter, Intel has reason to celebrate, as well as be optimistic about where it’s headed. In a subsequent chat with investors, Intel CEO Bob Swan alluded to AMD racing past the company in process technology. He didn’t actually mention AMD by name, but did say Intel is “investing to recapture process leadership going forward.” Without taking a deep dive in architectures and process nodes, it’s fair to say Intel’s 10nm technology is roughly on par with AMD’

That distinction now belongs to Micron and its Crucial Ballistix memory, which topped 6GHz. “Ballistix memory has set three overclocking world records in the span of five months, which is a testament to our world-class Micron engineering and expertise,” said Teresa Kelley, CPG vice president and general manager. “We are committed to providing gamers and enthusiasts with high-performance memory that delivers maximum system capability and a rich experience, and our Ballistix memory is evidence of

The Lithoids Species Pack allows players to control an empire of planet-devouring mineral-based creatures. The Lithoids do sound like an interesting faction to play as. Whether you (or the AI) play them as a more intelligent and discerning pile of rocks or an all-consuming landslide is up to you. There’s also a new Lithoid voice pack which I’ve not heard yet, but I’m assuming sounds a bit gravelly. The Lithoids Species Pack DLC is out now on Steam, GOG and Paradox Plaza for £5.79/€7.99/$7.99.

Artificial Extinction is an indie title by 100 Hr Games where you have to defend yourself from an evil AI that controls drones and terraforming spiderbots. It looks a bit like the Sanctum games if you remember those, and has you running around to place sentries before the next wave of AI attacks. The aim is to protect your mining machines while they unearth fuel, and once they get enough a ship with a battery of lasers descends to take you to the next level. After nine days of collecting fuel, y

Modern Warfare aspires to be grounded and tactical while giving you the power to pilot your own heavy gunship. For as far as Modern Warfare moves the needle, it still spends so much energy checking the same old boxes. I can smell the piles of Activision money burned to make Modern Warfare look, sound, and animate this good. Modern Warfare shows more maturity than Modern Warfare 2’s “No Russian” while still stumbling into frustrating dissonance. Activision provided travel and accommodations for t

Watch Dogs Legion, Ubisoft’s dystopian romp through the surveillance state city of London in the near future, has been delayed. Rainbow Six Quarantine and Gods and Monsters were also delayed into the next fiscal year. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot acknowledged that those two games fell far short of expectations. “For Ghost Recon Breakpoint, while the game’s quality appeared on track—based on E3, Gamescom, previews and our latest internal playtests—critical reception and sales during the game’s firs

Currently, TSMC’s 7nm process is used for some of the best CPUs, and all of the best graphics cards use either 12nm or 7nm TSMC. “Well, let me answer the first question, first the 5nm ramp for next year. And hopefully because we spend big money, hopefully that it will ramp up much in terms of revenue, be much faster than 7nm,” TSMC said. Here’s how thing have progressed so far:Zen (Ryzen 1000 series)—14nm node (Globalfoundries)Zen+ (Ryzen 2000 series)—12nm node (Globalfoundries)Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000

(Image credit: Epic Games)Fortnite wants you to find and dance at Compact Cars, Lockie’s Lighthouse, and the Weather Station locations for the Forged in Slurp challenge set this week. If you’re not quite familiar with the new map yet, then we’ve found locations for the Compact Cars, lighthouse, and weather station marked on the map above. If you’re not sure what to look for, we’ve also included images of each location below. You likely won’t get them all in one match, but the right bus pattern i

That’s when Nvidia will supposedly launch a new GeForce GTX 1660 Super graphics card, though on the software side, a fresh rumor also points to the company integrating support for Reshade filters into GeForce Experience. According to Videocardz, Nvidia will allow users to “tap into hundreds of filters” through this integration. It’s not clear if users will also be able to manually import filters, only that this will be supported through GeForce Experience using Nvidia’s Freestyle and Ansel techn

Dell’s had a recent string of killer deals on a number of their desktops and laptops. This XPS Tower normally goes for $1,099.99, but Dell is slashing the price down to $685, courtesy of this killer coupon code: XPSDTAFF0. The XPS Tower has an Intel Core i5-9400, 8GB RAM (upgradable to 64 GB), 1TB HDD, and a GTX 1660—a nice build for budget gamers who still want the room to upgrade. What we like about the XPS Tower is how upgrade friendly it is. At this price, you can easily upgrade this rig wit

Call of Duty is giving away 300 pairs of trainers, for some reason. While this suggests that you can play Modern Warfare, and appreciate its attention to detail, on the trainer, shoes are unfortunately not one of the game’s planned platforms. But Modern Warfare doesn’t really have the same aesthetic chops. The trainers aren’t for sale, but you can get a chance to win them by registering here and reaching Officer Rank by November 1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is due out on October 25.

Bethesda has launched private servers for Fallout 76, alongside a membership subscription that you need to buy if you want to use the feature. The membership programme is called Fallout 1st, and it’s available now. placement are saved, but the servers aren’t persistent. A monthly package is available for the surprisingly high price of $12/£12 per month, more than some MMO subscriptions, while a yearly package is also available for 36 percent discount at $100/£100 per year. You can read the patch

With September now a few weeks behind us, Valve has compiled a list of the 20 biggest new games of that month. As always, because it doesn’t provide actual sales figures, the list is chronological, but Valve, being Valve, doesn’t send these things out without a few interesting bits of trivia for background. 18 of the games on the list also support controllers, and that led Valve—again, being Valve—to look into how many people are actually using them. “In measuring the number of controller sessio

2-in-1 laptops are versatile, powerful and look super cool. Using code YOGABOO35 will save you 35 percent off either of Lenovo’s Yoga 730 laptops. These 13-inch laptops are sleek and flexible and make for excellent workstations or even makeshift tablets. While neither of these laptops are suited for intense gaming, they are awesome for anyone who needs to get work done on the go, weighing less than three pounds. This is a spectacular offer if you’re looking to get a jump on the best Black Friday

(Image credit: AOC)AOC is getting ready to expand its growing gaming monitor lineup with a high refresh rate model, the Agon AG273QX. It’s a 27-inch display with a VA panel capable of up to 165GHz at 1440p. This is also a certified FreeSync 2 HDR monitor. As such, it supports variable refresh rates to keep the action in sync with your Radeon GPU for smoother gameplay, and technically supports HDR content. It’s also worth noting that AOC recently bolstered its warranty coverage, albeit just in th