The Old Republic lets you play as a nautolan now, like the Clone Wars era Jedi, Kit Fisto. I made a Jedi, of course, but nautolans also get cool eye patches, effectively forcing me to also make a smuggler. (Image credit: Electronic Arts)There’s a bunch of neat additions with this expansion, not least of which are the new tactical items. These go in a new gear slot and augment your existing abilities, opening the door to new builds for every class. There’s more gear in general, of course, so you’

So clean and crisp, and pretty darn authentic to the PC-98 (an old Japanese PC), to which this retro-inspired adventure game is hearkening back to. You’re trapped on a spaceship with a roving, xenomorph-style monster, who will devour you if you happen to be on the wrong screen at the wrong time. Elsewhere, Zermatt impresses with its retro aesthetic, which looks remarkably similar to screenshots I’ve seen of PC-98 games. I think you’ll enjoy it, if you’re a fan of those—just be sure to keep an ey

(Image credit: ZA/UM)Drugs are an important part of Disco Elysium, even if you choose not to take them. Kurvitz then goes on to point out the many ways Disco Elysium has of tempting you. If you’re playing Disco Elysium already and aren’t worried about some minor mechanical spoilers, like the effect of certain thoughts you can equip in your Thought Cabinet, this deep dive into drugs is worth a read. Kurvitz also notes that the brand names on substances have no effect because, “Just like in real l

Piloting the TARDIS in VR? Yep, cool, sold on those big pepperpot weirdos as enemies. The Edge of Time is a VR adventure game being developed by Maze Theory and it features Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor. After being pushed back from its initial release window of September “in order to do Doctor Who justice” they’ve announced it’ll be out on November 12 on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. But much as I would like to reverse some polarities and solve everything with a sonic screwdriver in a Doctor W

The new GeForce 440.97 WHQL driver release is also tuned for The Outer Worlds. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is poised to reset the bar upon release this October,” said Matt Wuebbling, head of GeForce marketing at Nvidia. “Our work with Nvidia GPUs has helped us throughout the PC development of Modern Warfare,” said Dave Stohl, co-studio head at Infinity Ward. Looking past the specific game optimizations, the 440.97 driver release extends G-Sync support to windowed OpenGL and Vulkan applications

Amazon’s got a great cheap SSD deal on the WD Black series SSD just in time as the fall’s biggest titles start to take up precious storage on your PC storage. You can pick up the WD Black SN750 1TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD with heatsink right now for $179.99, the lowest it’s been all year, a $100 savings off the MSRP and $40 lower than the previous best. Transfer speeds of 3,470 mbps make it a great choice if you’re looking to improve load times on games over an aging HDD. While excellent for ga

The remaining 1 percent who fall out of bounds of the designated next-day shipping zones will still get free standard shipping on “thousands” of qualifying items. That’s well short of Amazon’s free shipping offer for Prime members, which extends to millions of items. There’s no membership required for this, though the next-day shipping offer necessitates a $35 minimum purchase. It’s worth keeping an eye on what kind of Black Friday deals Best Buy ends up offering. The free shipping perk also ext

Doom 64 was confirmed for PC and dated for March 20, 2020 a couple of weeks ago, but you may have missed it because it came along with the news that Doom Eternal is delayed into 2020. So here’s a reminder, in the form of the official announcement trailer. It’s not the announcement trailer, really, because Doom 64 was released in 1997 for the Nintendo 64. Games like Blood: Fresh Supply prove that new games can successfully retread the ’90s, and while I’m eager to give Doom 64 a go, my curiosity r

On paper, the Raptor 27 looks like a good candidate for fast-action and esports gaming, with a 144Hz refresh rate and up to (down to?) The Raptor 27 supports AMD’s FreeSync technology to smooth out gameplay. One of the somewhat unique features of the Raptor 27 is the ability to tilt the display back 90 degrees. We have not tested this monitor, but right off the bat, we can tell some users will take issue with Razer’s pricing. If you’re interested in the Raptor 27, you can find it here.

The 8-inch floppy disk (also known as a flexible diskette or memory disk) first became available on the market 1972 and had a whopping 80 kilobytes of data—or 0.000008 gigabytes. But for the time, the 8-inch floppy disk was considered the most cost-effective “high speed, mass storage” device. Most active-duty Air Force personnel who are trained for computer work are trained to manage modern IT infrastructure. And of course no one stores information on floppy disks these days—except the Air Force

(Image credit: Negative Space)NordVPN, one of many VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) available to anyone with an internet connection, has confirmed it’s been hacked. It appears an expired internal security key was exposed, allowing anyone outside the company unauthorized access. “We don’t track, collect, or share your private data,” the company says on its website. They can also connect to proxy servers to further protect personal identity on the internet (for good or evil intent). If you are a No

(Image credit: Warner Bros)The next Batman game will be called Batman: Arkham Legacy, if a previously reliable leaker is correct. Well, you could hardly call them “details,” but at least two interesting rumours can be gleaned from the leaker: The game will be called Batman: Arkham Legacy, and some or all of the Batman family will be playable. Here are the tweets:The stuff about the playable family seems to be legitOctober 21, 2019WB Games Montreal dropped a series of teases for a new Batman game

They’re not even PCIe/NVMe or M.2 form factor drives—the KC600 line unabashedly gives another go-round to the 2.5-inch SATA form factor. For gaming, there’s nothing wrong with that, and the best SSD for gaming can very well be a 2.5-inch SATA drive when factoring in the cost. Besides, with Black Friday deals right around the corner, prices may drop well below what Kingston is offering at launch. In most cases, there is virtually no perceptible difference when gaming between a SATA and PCIe SSD.

Valve has rolled out a new feature for Steam that enables users on remote PCs to play local multiplayer games together. In fact, that’s what it’s called—Remote Play Together—and it’s available now to Steam beta participants. (Image credit: Valve)To access Remote Play Together, you’ll need to be signed up for the Steam client beta. Hit the “Change” button and select Steam Beta Update, press OK, then exit the menu. Comments and conversation can be found in the Steam Remote Play forum.

Pre-built PCs sometimes get a bad rap for being poorly constructed and overly expensive. But, you can grab this T730 gaming desktop from Lenovo for just $1,979.99 ($744 off). This compact form-factor features all the trappings you would expect from the best gaming PC without compromising an iota of build quality. Lenovo doesn’t provide the option to customize the hardware attached with this build but still provides awesome power right out of the box, and the option to upgrade down the line. One

For Coffee Stain Studios, the developer behind Goat Simulator and Satisfactory, the opportunity to trade exclusivity on Epic’s storefront for financial security during development was well worth it. Of course, we had some backlash, but I think it’s a loud minority.” “Epic is trying to do something for game developers to make it better for them, so we can deliver better quality of products, basically,” she said. Satisfactory, which is still in early access, has been Coffee Stain’s “best launch ev

A class action lawsuit (PDF) filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, alleges Equifax used the default username “admin” to protect a portal used to manage credit disputes. Same goes for the password—at the time of the breach, it too was still the default “admin,” according to the lawsuit. It’s certainly boneheaded, if in fact Equifax never bothered to change either the username or password, as the lawsuit alleges. According to the lawsuit,

Woot (a store owned by Amazon) is now selling Windows 10 Pro discs for $99.99, a savings of $100 from the regular price. Even if you already have Windows 10 Home (the version that ships with most pre-built systems), it might be worth making the jump to Windows 10 Pro. There are a few features exclusive to the Pro version, including Remote Desktop, BitLocker full-disk encryption, and Hyper-V virtualization. Here’s a full breakdown of the difference between Windows 10 Pro and Home. You can buy a c

Back in 2015, Tom Sykes tried to explain Manifold Garden (then a few years into development) as “an exploration puzzler set in a 3D world that wraps around on itself”, noting that it was inspired by M. C. Escher’s Relativity. In fact, Manifold Garden was originally called Relativity. One year later he was writing about the “physics-defying puzzle game” again, pointing out that now it had a Steam page with a release date of 2017. Apparently they tried that during development and the results were

“The Art of Diablo” is a handsome-looking hardcover coffee-table book that’s due out November 3, and which—according to an advertisement for it that appears in the German magazine Game Star—contains artwork from “Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Diablo 3, and Diablo 4.” The announcement of the mobile-only Diablo Immortal only served to increase that frustration. We’ve been expecting a Diablo 4 announcement for several years now. This ad would seem to indicate—along with everything else we’ve learned in the p