A few early results on the web have looked promising, including a new post by Reddit member callingthewolf, who claims to have overclocked AMD’s top-end Ryzen Threadripper 1950X CPU to 4.1GHz. He then pushed the voltage to 1.4V and squeezed another 100MHz out of the chip, landing the 1950X at 4.1GHz. In this case, callingthewolf benchmarked his overclocked Threadripper 1950X in Geekbench 3 and Cinebench R15. The overclocked Threadripper 1950X also performed well in Cinebench R15. None of this me

Now it’s adding a pair of new products to help streamers step up their game—the Elgato Green Screen and Cam Link. Starting with the Green Screen, it’s a collapsible chroma key panel that rolls up neatly into a rectangular case. The screen measures 148cm x 180cm (58.27 x 70.87 inches) when fully deployed, and collapses into a 148cm x 10cm x 11cm (64.76 x 4.13 x 4.53 inches) aluminum carrying case. Check it out:Elgato’s other product entry, the Cam Link, is a USB camera link attachment that you co

It’s that nesting doll of intangibles that Moons of Madness is shooting for, a first person game about a family’s battle with mental illness set inside a Lovecraftian horror story, itself set within a sci-fi adventure on Mars. After a short hands-on demo with a vertical slice of Moons of Madness, I’m inclined to believe they’re on the right path. The man on the moon, which is Mars, not the moonMoons of Madness plays like Gone Home with gadgets and hallucinations. Luckily, I broke down near a pow

Rez, for those uninitiated, is an uber-colourful on-rails shooter inspired by the works of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky that first starred on consoles in late 2001/early 2002. A VR version named Rez Infinite popped up on PlayStation 4 last year, and last night its developers Enhance Games posted this on Twitter:The mention of 8.9 there had many suggesting a big announcement was due today (August 9), and now it appears those people were right: Rez Infinite is out now on PC with and without V

GTA Online’s latest update adds a new variant to the game’s Overtime Rumble Adversary mode, called Overtime Shootout. Playing Overtime Shootout from now until August 14 will bag you double GTA$ and Rockstar Points. Most excitingly, though, is the new vehicle pictured above: the HVY Nightshark, a double machine gun-equipped truck that’s just been added to Warstock. Every new military vehicle that arrives in GTA Online prompts me to think ‘I want one’, and this is no exception. The HVY Nightshark

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has deployed its 20th weekly patch to Test Servers ahead of live introduction tomorrow. With it, comes a typical host of bug fixes, some optimisation tweaks, and a world and mini-map adjustment designed to aid team play. From front to back, a bug that caused players to stand before crouching has been fixed, as has one which prevented players from rebinding ‘Unarm’ to an alternate key. The latest update’s biggest asset, though, lets dead players view their still-livi

Offbeat publisher Devolver Digital is known for its eccentricity as much as it is for representing neat indie videogames. Its Films division has now announced CODumentary—”a documentary following a story centered about the blockbuster videogame Call of Duty.” It’s a rich story of evolution told through the eyes of games developers, fans, industry experts and professional players. The rich experiences of developing games, playing them or waiting in line to buy them will always remain center stage

Earlier this year, hobbyist modder Eoghan Wolfkin released an alpha state, work-in-progress Total War total conversion mod that brought World of Warcraft to Total War by way of the latter’s Medieval 2 instalment. Posted in Total War Center in March, Wolfkin stressed that their mod was incomplete but could be used as a “resource” for future Warcraft mods. “I think you could gut the good bits you want to keep, and merge them into your mod,” suggests Wolfkin here. As it stands, Warcraft: Total War

– of ARG shenanigans, it looks like Hello Games is gearing up to unveil the next major No Man’s Sky update. Today they lifted the curtain just a tad, enough to reveal that update 1.3 is called Atlas Rises and that it will release some time this week. Announced via email to the game’s followers (via NeoGAF), Atlas Rises “focuses on improving the central story of No Man’s Sky and adds the ability to quick travel between locations using portals”. On the topic of the ARG itself, that was studio Hell

Valve has just announced a brand new game during its Dota 2 International livestream. And fittingly enough, it’s a Dota themed card game. Artifact will release some time in 2018, and that’s precisely all we know about it at this stage. The trailer above, while pretty enough, doesn’t provide any more clues. In the meantime, there’s a Twitter account, which is already receiving numerous demands for beta access.

A new Destiny 2 trailer hit today, this time with a focus on the competitive PvP modes. For those unfamiliar with the game, class breakdown is pretty helpful—and I never tire of seeing the agile Hunter class wield a hand cannon. I get the impression mouse and keyboard will mean they’re going to be a nuisance on PC, but maybe Bungie’s already on the case. There’s some heavy super usage in there too, if you’ve yet to see those yet. For a clearer picture, check out our impressions of Destiny 2’s Pv

Gearbox, the studio responsible for Borderlands and Battleborn, is working on a 1v1 shooter which is also, somehow, a collectible card game. The “top-secret” project, dubbed for the time being Project 1v1, was revealed via this official website, rendering it immediately no longer top secret. According to the site, it “combines the action of fast-paced 1v1 first-person combat with the metagame strategy of a collectible card game”. I’ve personally only ever done those things separately, and genera

Heroes of the Storm players have not been happy with Hanamura. A quick perusal of the Heroes of the Storm subreddit and Blizzard forums finds a mountain of Hanamura hate threads over the last few months. Earlier today, HotS lead game designer Travis McGeathy posted that the Hanamura map is being removed from the battleground rotation for all normal game modes while the team works on improving and fixing the map’s problems. “We’re continually trying to push the boundaries with Heroes of the Storm

If you could find the exact Venn diagram intersection of my cultural interests, it would probably be Destiny-themed Hearthstone cards. The cards even use the new Lifesteal effect from Hearthstone’s new Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion, which arrives on Thursday this week. Though these cards are just a bit of fanmade fun, there is some potential for crossover between Bungie and Blizzard’s titles. As we discovered earlier this year, Destiny 2 will be the first non-Blizzard game to live on Bl

Tell me you don’t want to see what a ‘multi-scale model for simulating liquid-hair interactions’ looks like? Not everything at SIGGRAPH has to do with gaming or real-time graphics specifically, but I’ve included anything I thought was cool. Just because our games don’t currently include ‘multi-species simulation of porous sand and water mixtures’ doesn’t mean they won’t in the future. I’m tired of sub-par porous sand and water mixtures in games and I think it’s about time someone said it. You ca

A remake came around in 1994 called Tempest 2000, developed by Jeff Minter, followed by another Minter-made version in 2000 entitled—you might notice a pattern here—Tempest 3000. In case there was any doubt that Minter is a Tempest fan, he thereafter released the Tempest-like Space Giraffe in 2007, and TxK in 2014. A planned release of TxK on the PC (it was originally made for the PS Vita) was canned because Atari accused the game of violating its copyright on Tempest 2000—a game Minter created.

Her talent caught the eye of Andrey “Reynad” Yanyuk, another early Hearthstone pioneer who was was breaking ground on his own esports brand called Tempo Storm. No one on Tempo Storm practices more Hearthstone than she does—sometimes 12-16 hours a day—and it shows with her results over the years,” he says. —FrodanFrodan demurred when I asked if Tempo Storm had any significant concern with chat’s relationship with Eloise. Eloise with Tempo Storm owner Reynad (left) and team mate VLPS (right), via

Among the more interesting products is its Inspiron 15 7000 line with gaming grade GPUs tucked inside. It features a 15.6-inch 1080p display (IPS) powered by an Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor, 16GB of DDR4-2400 RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU. The cheapest setup with a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU costs $850 and pairs an Intel Core i5-7300HQ processor with 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. For $100 less, you can get the same setup, but with a non-Ti GeForce GTX 1050 GPU. We think it’s worth the

“As of Aug 08, 2017, we have 196 providers with data caps in our database,” BroadbandNow reports. So if looking at the glass half full, you could say that more than 2,300 ISPs do not impose data caps. “Data caps have emerged in recent years as a way for Internet providers to police bandwidth usage on their networks. “Statements from Internet providers suggest that data caps are a necessary step to combat network congestion. Opponents of data caps believe that the motivation for data caps has mor

Destiny 2 scented candles have finally arrived. Breathe deep, hold it, hold it, hold it—and exhale. In partnership with Activision and Bungie, Numskull is releasing a series of official Destiny 2 products, including a set of scented candles, and the perfect instrument for murder: a tiny Ghost candelabra. Second up is the Destiny 2 bathrobe, which I fully intend to play Destiny 2 in. Mars – Relic Iron: Fresh and sappy green cactus layered with a warm floralcy of white flowers, tuberose, jasmine a