“Back to school” might sound like a daunting prospect, but one bonus is that you get to take advantage of Back to School sales. Webcam: Logitech C920The Logitech C920 webcam has been the best in its class for a long time now. For the price, it’s the best quality you can get, and it has a nice flexible camera head too. Keyboard: Das Keyboard 4 ProfessionalBack to school probably means back to typing for a lot of people, and a good keyboard will make all the difference if you’re going to be writin

When AMD’s RX Vega 64 launched at the start of the week, demand far outstripped supply—nothing new for a hotly anticipated graphics card launch. “Radeon RX Vega 64 demand continues to exceed expectations. Our initial launch quantities included standalone Radeon RX Vega 64 at SEP [Suggested E-tail Price] of $499, Radeon RX Vega 64 Black Packs at SEP of $599, and Radeon RX Vega 64 Aqua Packs at SEP of $699. If a retail outlet can sell every Vega 64 it can get, why not sell it with the games at $59

Children of Morta, a “narrative-driven hack-and-slash roguelike” about the Bergson family, was announced in 2014 and then successfully Kickstarted in 2015. The pixel art graphics looks fantastic, but it’s the promise of “a powerful narrative of familial ties” about a family that’s guarded Mount Morta for generations that really grabs my attention. Take part in their journey, their struggles, and their victories,” the description on Steam states. That doesn’t sound like your usual hack-and-slash

Tarkov brandishes a hefty gear grind alongside the need to extract safely from an area to keep everything you found. I’ve spent more time staring at my stash menu than actually in the field. I’ve spent more time staring at my stash menu than actually in the field. I’m staring at dirt. There’s a whole meta-game to eking out as much empty stash space as possible in order to stock up on more items.

Last month, Darkwood developer Acid Wizard Studio released out a live-action trailer to announce that the top-down survival-horror game would finally be released on August 17. Joe said at the time that live-action promos for videogames don’t really turn his crank, and I agree—but the new trailer released to mark the game’s launch is pure gameplay, and it looks fantastic. The top-down gameplay in the trailer isn’t frightening in the way that first-person games typically are—the developers make a

The wiki informs me a good place to look is on barren planets, so I’ve been keeping an eye out for one. I’ve found one of No Man’s Sky’s new biomes. The synthetic plants, when scanned, are categorized as flora, and there are occasionally some hovering, slowly spinning hexes made of iron that can be harvested as well (there are also a few standard alien plants here and there). One thing of note is that scanning the synthetic plants and hexes doesn’t pay you credits the way scanning organic plants

Blizzard has begun testing a new StarCraft 2 design patch intended to “address underused units and abilities while also trying to reduce sudden game ending moments.” “To do this, we’d like to increase the amount of gas on Vespene gas geysers, as well as the large mineral nodes. The listed changes are live in the “Testing” section of StarCraft 2 multiplayer, but the patch will require “a large amount of testing, feedback, and revision” before it’s rolled out to everyone, Blizzard said. “Keep in m

Stage one of the dream: being able to play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on a PC. The Wii U and Switch may be locked to 30 frames per second, but in the land of 60 fps, that was never going to last. The good news is that a fairly simple hack appears to bypass Breath of the Wild’s 30 fps lock without causing any messy conflicts. Epigramx predicts that a couple CPU generations down the line we could see CPUs capable of consistent 60 fps performance. There’s also the possibility that upda

No, 640K of memory is nowhere near enough, at least for a modern gaming PC. If you’re short on system memory and want to give your gaming rig an upgrade, you have plenty of options to choose from. Here are the ones that are marked down as part of Newegg’s Gold Tag sale:Those are for the desktop and are all DDR4 memory kits. Newegg is also selling a couple of discounted SO-DIMM DDR3 (not DDR4) memory kits for laptops and certain small form factor systems. They include:All of these deals are valid

We have learned from experience that it is not worth being cheap on a crummy, no-name power supply. Maybe you’ll get lucky and it will work fine, but you run the added risk of it overextending itself and giving up the ghost. The market is flooded with different PSU models, and there is never a time when several good ones aren’t on sale. As of this moment, Newegg has a handful of models available at a discount as part of its shiny Gold Tag sale. Here they are:The Rosewill Photon is semi-modular,

(Image: © Flickr via Arbeitskreis Vorratsdaten)The Federal Communications Commission is on the verge of tearing down net neutrality rules that were put in place by the previous administration. However the biggest reason net neutrality rules are in danger might be due to a lack of understanding of what exactly net neutrality is. Given the extensive media coverage, most people have probably heard of net neutrality, even if they don’t know what it is. And according to a new survey, the majority of

Spintires is one of those games that you either really dig, or completely don’t. Not only that, but a new version called Spintires: Mudrunner is on the way as well. The “ultimate version” of Spintires will feature a “total graphical overhaul,” a new sandbox map alongside the five environments in the original game, a challenge mode with nine dedicated maps, and 13 new vehicles, taking the total to 19. And happily, development is once again being headed up by Pavel Zagrebelny, the creator of the o

For Honor circumvented this problem by having players connect to every other player instead of to a single host. On March 29, Reddit user jbaayoun rallied the For Honor community and called for a boycott until Ubisoft responded to their list of complaints. The boycott was scheduled to begin on April 3, but a day after jbaayoun’s post exploded across the For Honor community, Ubisoft responded. All quiet on the western frontIn the weeks following the proposed boycott, the frustration of For Honor

Everything we’ve seen about Monster Hunter: World looks very promising, and the new videos Capcom released today are no exception. The first is a trailer showcasing the new Wildspire Waste, a desert environment that echoes Sandy Plains from Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. For any Monster Hunter veteran, this is all basic stuff but it’s comforting to see how little Monster Hunter: World deviates from the core formula (something that a lot of people were worried about when it was first announced). Mons

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game change as dramatically as Paragon. But developer Epic Games has never hesitated to totally rewrite Paragon’s fundamental systems if it meant getting closer to their action MOBA ideal. Paragon entered early access on Epic’s own launcher in March 2016, and ran into serious growing pains almost immediately. Throughout the first half of 2017, Epic hammered a few busted heroes into line and made some modest improvements to the card system. Finally, deck building fe

We started discussing memorable melee attack and takedowns that work particularly well in the context of the game world in which they feature. Might & Magic’s levels find many contrived ways for you to finish fights using this signature melee attack. Teamwork takedowns in Batman: Arkham KnightThere is an outstanding level in Arkham Knight when Batman teams up with Robin to infiltrate a hideout. The Arkham games use slow motion to create snapshot moments that look like living comic book panels. D

The Dawn of War series of Warhammer 40,000 games has been popular for many years now, and right now is the perfect time to jump in if you’ve been holding off. Over on the Humble Store you can save money on the entire Dawn of War franchise this weekend. If you’re just looking for the more recent game, there’s a 25 percent discount on Dawn of War III. Or, if you’re looking for a massive chunk of the old stuff, the Dawn of War Franchise Pack includes the first two base games and a ton of DLC, and y

Multi-gold medal-winning and recently retired sprinter Usain Bolt will, rather strangely, feature in the next instalment of Pro Evolution Soccer. Konami has now announced that David “Golden Balls” Beckham will also appear in PES 2018, blonde mohawk and all. Cue some typically Pro Ev, and therefore typically dodgy, commentary:Pick that out. Pro Evolution Soccer is due September 12, 2017. Here’s Lee Hall’s words on last year’s offering.

One of the VIP missions in GTA Online’s Executives and Other Criminals expansion tasks you with stealing a tank from Fort Zancudo, the game’s high-security military base. What we haven’t yet been able to do is drive the tank from the base to the drop-off point. Eventually I do get the hang of things, but it’s slow going—and this car is definitely lighter than a tank. By this point in the mission, the tank is usually on fire, or making a sound to indicate it’s going to explode. Samuel: As the mis

World’s tallest hybrid roller coaster (205 feet tall)2. World’s fastest hybrid roller coaster (74 miles per hour)3. World’s longest drop on a hybrid roller coaster (200 feet)5. World’s longest hybrid roller coaster (5,740 feet)6. Most inversions on a hybrid roller coaster (four)7.