Samuel and the returning (finally) Andy Kelly yammer about Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, the name of which Samuel forgot, which is highly embarrassing. In a quiet time for big releases, they also touch upon The Sexy Brutale, Resident Evil 7 and Mad Max, the latter of which Andy has slowly become obsessed with. Download: Episode 50: Other cities are available. You can also subscribe on iTunes or keep up with new releases using our RSS feed. Discussed: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, The Sex

Sundered, the “replayable Metroidvania” with giant boss battles, is out now. And when that happens you’ll be hauled back to a central hub and have to set off again. It’s available on Steam, GOG, and Humble Store for £13.49/$17.99, which includes a 10% launch week discount. I’ve been trawling through the early Steam reviews and the two most common words seem to be “beautiful” and “frustrating”. That might just sum it up: if you don’t mind dying an awful lot then it will reward you with some gorge

TrueMove3 will be exclusive to the Sensei 310 and the Rival 310, which Steelseries is also announcing today. Left: Rival 310. Right: Sensei 310. The Rival 310 is slightly smaller than the Rival 300 and has the same new textured grips as the Sensei 310. Both the Sensei 310 and Rival 310 are launching today at $60.

Garrosh, the son of famed Horde warchief Grom Hellscream, is the newest character to join the Heroes of the Storm cast. In Heroes of the Storm, Garrosh is a strong solo-tank that gets harder to kill as he takes more damage. His Q ability, Groundbreaker, deals AoE damage in a cone and pulls in enemy heroes that are hit by the outer edge. Warlord’s Challenge is an AoE taunt that silences nearby enemy heroes and forces them to attack Garrosh for 1.5 seconds. Meanwhile, Decimate is a 360-degree Clea

Here’s the super, super short version: you can now play some problem games, like the Metroid Prime trilogy, with zero stuttering, thanks to a new “ubershader” mode. Dolphin has to translate those effects into shaders, and shaders have to be compiled, which takes time. Dolphin can cache shaders, so once a game has compiled a shader, it shouldn’t cause stuttering again. That’s why as you play games like Metroid Prime in Dolphin, the stuttering becomes less common. That last problem is why, even th

The multiplayer online battle arena is not the easiest genre in the world to dip a tentative toe into. To help ease new Dota 2 players into the action, Valve recently made a couple of changes to the game that it says are intended to help them “face as few barriers as possible” when they start playing. “This introductory group consists of heroes that we’ve learned are very successful in helping new players learn and enjoy the game,” the Dota team explained. The International Dota 2 Championships,

The GTA5 mod ‘Grand Theft Space’ was revealed to the world, quietly and very prosaically, back near the start of the year. “I’ve heard little rumblings in the past of people wanting to make space mods. But nobody seems to have ever made it so you can actually go in space,” developer Sollaholla wrote at the time. “So I said, ‘Screw it, I’m gonna make a space mod.'” In a way I feel like it almost doesn’t matter if the Grand Theft Space mod never makes it to release: The video is so good that it’s

Now we likely know what “that card” is going to be for Knights of the Frozen Throne. The most kleptomaniacal of all Hearthstone’s classes can now steal every single card in your deck at once. I decided to ask Brian Kibler , popular Hearthstone streamer and no stranger to greedy Priest decks, what he thought. What plenty of players also fail to realize is that in a card deck more does not necessarily mean better. Which also begs the question, what kind of Priest deck wants to dilute its potential

When Acer asked me if I wanted to test out the Predator 21 X, a ridiculously excessive laptop with a 21-inch curved widescreen display, full-size mechanical keyboard, and a pair of GTX 1080 GPUs, I had to say yes. What I didn’t expect was for it to be delivered in a gigantic box so large that we were able to fit Maximum PC editor-in-chief Tuan Nguyen inside. While Tuan’s off stopping Metal Gear with Solid Snake, join us as we unbox this behemoth gaming machine.

We took a pre-release build of Star Citizen alpha 3.0 for a spin earlier this month, and it sounded pretty great: Chris landed on the moon of Daymar, got out and wandered around, and even completed a mission. Because of this we have pushed back the Evocati and subsequent date ranges to reflect the additional time needed to get Star Citizen Alpha 3.0 ready for prime time.” “It’s also important to consider that what 3.0 meant a year ago is a shadow of what 3.0 means today. We’ve learned that we ca

We are not sure where the information was obtained from, but if it is accurate, Coffee Lake will initially consist of of the Core i5-8400, Core i5-8600K, Core i7-8700, and Core i7-8700K. According to the leaked specs, it will have a 3.2GHz base clock and 4.3GHz Turbo clock on all cores, and a 4.6GHz single-core Turbo speed. Four cores will be able to hit a Turbo of 4.3GHz as well, while the Turbo clock for engaging two cores tops out at 4.5GHz. It is the fastest of the bunch with a 3.7GHz base c

Sega showed off a VR mode for the first-person horror game Alien: Isolation, running on an early version of the Oculus Rift way back in the summer of 2014. It never evolved beyond the prototype stage, but the files that enabled the VR mode were still present in the game when it shipped. So with that in mind, their VR support was actually pretty good for the time,” he said. He also warned on the MotherVR Github page that Alien: Isolation VR is designed for seated play only. A video of the Alien:

That is also the price of AMD’s flagship ROG Zenith Extreme, one of three new socket TR4 motherboards the company announced for Threadripper systems. You can install up to 128GB of DDR4-3600+ (OC) memory on the ROG Zenith Extreme, which isn’t really trendsetting among competing boards. Where this motherboard starts to separate itself is with 4-way SLI and CrossFire support, rather than stopping at 3-way support. And to make use of all those PCIe lanes that Threadripper supports, the ROG Zenith E

As long as we’ve had wireless electronics, we’ve had the dream of wireless charging. With its new PowerPlay wireless charging mousepad, Logitech has not only solved the final inconvenience of wireless gaming mice, it’s created the first wireless charging solution I’ve preferred to simply plugging a damn thing in. Pictured: charging pad with soft pad and mice, empty plastic puck with weight, and magnetic charging puck. Corsair’s charging pad uses industry standard Qi charging, which will also all

Twitch Plays Battlegrounds is simultaneously one of the most brilliant, and most absurd, ideas I’ve encountered in a long time. As the name suggests, it enables a PUBG character to be controlled by an audience of Twitch viewers. All with the ultimate goal in mind of sharing a chicken dinner with all of you.” Alas, a chicken dinner was just out of reach—and death, when it came, was hilariously inglorious. Still, third place is a hell of a lot better than many “real” players manage.

Magic the Gathering isn’t a difficult game to play, yet I’ve still had it explained to me half a dozen times. Some have swords, others wield magic, but Cyber Kitsune has the greatest power of all: tasteful LED lighting. Cyber Kitsune is not sentient, it’s a computer. For more pictures and information on Cyber Kitsune, check out the official build log . Cyber Kitsune components:Chassis: Cooler Master Elite 110RAM: HyperX Savage DDR4 16GBCPU: Intel Core i5 6600Cooler: Water Cooler Seidon 120VSSD:

Earlier this year, Hearthstone game director Ben Brode succumbed to community pressure about the lack of an accompanying theme song for the Journey to Un’Goro expansion and agreed to record a rap. The song tells the origin story of Arthas, the tragic paladin who provides the big bad in the expasnion. In addition to a surprisingly solid flow, Brode’s Arthas rap does a great job summarizing the events of Warcraft III, in which Arthas turns from golden boy of the Alliance to the Lich King himself.

Are you looking for a cheap headset with 7.1 Dolby surround sound? If you’re willing to take a chance on a model we haven’t tested yet, Tanga has a seemingly good deal on the Platronics Gamecom 788. The Gamecom 788 uses 40mm drivers. It has built-in volume controls on the headset, a noise cancelling microphone, and 7.1 Dolby surround sound support. You can grab the Plantronics Gamecom 788 on sale here.

The new AIO coolers come in three sizes—Mercury 120 with a single 120mm fan, Mercury 240 with two 120mm fans, and the Mercury 360 with three 120mm fans. There are three LEDs on the pump block that allow users to gauge temps at a glance. Blue indicates temps below 48C, green means temps are between 49-60C, and red indicates temps above 60C. Antec announced pricing of €69 for the Mercury 120, €99 for the Mercury 240, and €125 for the Mercury 360. We could not find US pricing at this time, though a

Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard has some bad news, but also some good. “We’re deeply apologetic for those who were negatively affected by the delay; it sucks, it wasn’t what we had wanted, nor planned but where we currently stand,” the studio explained in a weekend update. “We wanted to address this sooner but did not want to make any statements until we were completely sure of what was going to happen.” The delay also impacts the release of a planned update for the Ragnarok expa